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Purple Electric Play!

Purple Electric Play! is the latest production by Machine Project friend and psychic Asher Hartman

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Purple Electric Play!

Purple Electric Play!

Purple Electric Play!

Purple Electric Play!

Purple Electric Play!

Purple Electric Play! is the latest production by Machine Project friend and psychic Asher Hartman

Purple Electric Play! is the latest production by Machine Project friend and psychic Asher Hartman

Purple Electric Play! is the latest production by Machine Project friend and psychic Asher Hartman

Purple Electric Play! is the latest production by Machine Project friend and psychic Asher Hartman

Machine Project
Machine Project
Machine Project
Machine Project
4 Campaigns |
Los Angeles, United States
$8,007 USD 83 backers
80% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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SUMMARY!
Over a year in the making, Purple Electric Play (PEP!) is Machine Project’s newest collaboration with visionary playwright and psychic Asher Hartman. Commissioned specifically for the Machine Project’s 17 seat underground theatre, PEP! will delight and bewilder the audience with performances of mind-melting intensity. 

In a mix of black light theater and black magic, PEP! follows two underground entertainers, THE VITAL ORGAN and THE STAR, as they step in and out of rough and ridiculous political histories, assisted by their pals, THE AUDIENCE, four naive and playful puppets, LO-PHAT, DONKEY, SALAD BAR and STARVATION luring their live audience deeper into the morass of questions and confrontations that arise from memories of injustice and revolt.  

PEP! explicitly leverages an audience’s expectation of diversion and excitement to explore the relationship of the creative class to privilege and power, both as resistors and provocateurs.

Are you the kind of person who wishes Machine Project was just a little more intense, overwhelming and delirious? Have we got a play for you!

WHAT WE NEED AND WHAT YOU GET!
With a combination of this campaign and Machine Project funding, our goal is to raise $20,000 for the entire production of PEP!.  The largest portion of the budget is our cast and crew. Funds will go directly to support an extremely talented team with many artist collaborators who are equally dedicated to Asher’s vision. The most colorful budget items are also the most over the top features, for example:

Music70's lighted disco weardiapers
50 yds of red sparkle fabric
Puppets
Black light
Comedy
Levitation
Black Art Magic
Elaborate dance moves

Machine Project has invested $10,000, we only need $10,000 more - think of your donation as the magic sparkle that will make this production as over-the-top as possible. Our past three collaborative productions with Asher have sold out within days of tickets being released, your donation, at higher levels, assure a ticket to the show!

SAVE THE DATE!
The show runs October 30th – December 13th, 2014: 
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:30pm  

PEOPLE!

THE CAST:
Philip Littell
Jasmine Orpilla
Kalean Ung
Joe Seely
Drew Thataussie
Chelsea Rector
Joseph Faragher

THE CREATIVE TEAM:
Asher Hartman
Caroline Kim
Ellen McCartney
Jasmine Orpilla
Philip Littell
Ken Weiler
Joe Seely
Nina Caussa and Aubree Lynn
Adam Frank
Chris Candelaria
Carol Guidry
Patrick Ballard
Winona Bechtle
Candice Lin
Rose Strasen
Aaron Hagen

ABOUT ASHER HARTMAN:
Asher Hartman is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and psychic based in Los Angeles. His practice centers on the exploration of the self in relation to Western histories and ideologies. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Beijing Open Performance Festival, Beijing; Hayward Gallery, London; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila; Recontres International, Paris and Berlin; Torrance Art Museum, CA; MIX, New York; London Underground Film Fest and Images, UK; and in a number of Los Angeles venues including Machine Project, LACE, Sea and Space Exhibitions, Monte Vista Projects, Human Resources, and The Hammer Museum. Hartman received his BA from University of California, Los Angeles, and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.

For more information, please visit:http://www.asherhartman.com/

ABOUT MACHINE PROJECT:
Machine Project, an informal, non-profit, educational institution located in a storefront space in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, is a group of people working together to create, study and share new forms of culture and ways of living. We collaborate with artists, thinkers and local communities to produce non-commercial projects that investigate art, performance, technology, science, music, literature and new ideas for creative engagement. We believe an organization can exist as a machine for thinking together.

For more information, please visit: http://machineproject.com/


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Shout Out!

$25 USD
Your name in the program.
3 out of 1000 of claimed

Shout Out Via Puppet!

$30 USD
Personalized puppetgram: We will have a puppet from the play read you a special thank you and put it on social media.
8 out of 250 of claimed

Hot Ticket!

$50 USD
(1) Ticket to PEP!, the hottest show in town. You get priority choice of show day.
Estimated Shipping
October 2014
24 out of 50 of claimed

Hot Ticket x 2!

$100 USD
(2) Tickets to PEP!, the hottest show in town. You get priority choice of show day.
Estimated Shipping
October 2014
32 out of 50 of claimed

Would you like a poster?

$150 USD
Hand printed poster for the show.
3 out of 50 of claimed

Porcelain Body Part with that?

$500 USD
A Candice Lin porcelain object (toes, eyeballs, or teeth)
0 out of 7 of claimed

Private Show

$1,000 USD
Private showing of PEP! with you and (15) humans of your choice, or you can totally come alone.
1 out of 5 of claimed

Dinner w/ Felt Special Guests

$2,500 USD
Dinner with all four puppets at Taix in Echo Park.
0 out of 2 of claimed
sold out

We Read Your Mind!

$250 USD
5 out of 5 of claimed
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