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" WHAT HOPE IS THERE IN A BOOK ABOUT A BOOK?

" WHAT HOPE IS THERE IN A BOOK ABOUT A BOOK?

Veronica, Veronica

HESSE FLATOW
Curated by Andrew Gardner and Emma Safir
June 14 - July 26, 2025
68A Schellinger Road // Amagansett, New York

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My Town

In choreographer and theater director Jack Ferver’s My Town, the small town is a portal that provides special access into questions of self-expression and collective agency. Set loosely in an area of upstate New York, My Town considers the queer experience outside urban metropoles, and the ways physical geography marks the interior terrains of the mind.

Ferver has described the project as “exploring the disappearance of the femme,” taking a queer departure from the classic American play Our Town by Thornton Wilder in which the female protagonist Emily passes away. My Town is closely informed by the experience of building an art practice in the dense and intense environment of New York City, and the piece deals also with Ferver’s experience growing up in a small town in Wisconsin, and experiencing early familial tragedy.

Moving through tragicomic moments of violence, sexuality, and loss, Ferver balances the work with a playfulness and self-awareness that lifts the work into a surreal register. The fluidity of the work is echoed in the video by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Jeremy Jacob that frames the work and interacts with Ferver’s performance, enabling one scene to melt into another as if in a dream.

Ferver shifts through choreography and theatrical sketches throughout the work. As with many of Ferver’s past projects, My Town focuses heavily on constructing a persona, and also plays at the edge of the fictive and the real.

Scenic Design, Music and Video by Jeremy Jacob

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Jun 14, 2025 – Jul 26, 2025

Veronica, Veronica

Jun 14, 2025 – Jul 26, 2025

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