CANCER: A LOVE STORY Christen Clifford

About This Show

In March 2016, in the midst of the political sideshow that has transformed our culture, I was diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancers.  I knew that I couldn’t fuck or drink my way through this so I documented everything. Cancer: A Love Story is a show about rape, illness and the crazy things I did to heal.  I hope it is proof that our darkest moments are the most illuminating. And I hope it shows that humans will do almost anything to heal themselves.

About the Artist

Christen Clifford is an artist, writer, mother, professor and is making her first film. Currently, her installation INTERIORS: We Are All Pink Inside is on view in the group show Curriculum at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space. She teaches at The New School and curates at Dixon Place. She is the co-chair, with Jasmine Wahi, of The Feminist Art Project’s CAA Annual Conference Rape, Representation and Radicality. In 2018, she was an IFP Screen Forward Fellow and a Feminist-In-Residence at Project for Empty Space. She lives in Queens and online @cd_clifford , more at www.christenclifford.info


Lucy Sexton is a Brooklyn born choreographer, producer, and administrator who works in the fields of dance, theater, film, and advocacy. She is Executive Director of the cultural advocacy organization New Yorkers for Culture and Arts, and the Executive Director of the NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies. She works with Anne Iobst creating and performing the dance performance duo DANCENOISE. Born in the East Village club world in 1983, DANCENOISE had a retrospective exhibit and performance at the Whitney Museum in 2015, and premiered a new piece at NY Live Arts in 2018. In theater, Sexton directed the off-Broadway plays Spalding Gray; Stories Left to Tell and Tom Murrin’s The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic; served as dramaturge for Heather Litteer’s Lemonade, and Nora Burns’ David’s Friend; and she produced the Charles Atlas documentaries The Legend of Leigh Bowery for the BBC and TURNING with Ahnoni(formerly Antony) and the Johnsons, and was Associate Producer for Madeleine Olnek’sCodependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same.

Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7:00pm
Friday, March 22, 2019 at 7:00pm

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Credits

Writer

Christen Clifford

Director

Lucy Sexton

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