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Jon Brunelle and Daniel Vatsky are back as The Psychasthenia Society, next Wednesday at the Cornelia Street Café in the West Village. Yes, while so many of your New York friends and coworkers are vacationing out of town, sipping cool drinks by the pool, flirting with hotel staff, having affairs with the moneyed divorced, you wisely have remained behind in the asphalt jungle to avail yourself of a splendid opportunity: seeing Jon and Dan deliver their complete post-2005 repertoire. That's right — we'll present everything we've developed since The Nanolove Report of two seasons ago, in our patented blend of satiric storytelling and mesmerizing video mixes. Imagine your friends' envy when you tell them you saw The Psychasthenia Society at a famed West Village venue while they were wasting their time and money on fleshy pleasures. Details below; see you there.
— Jon
The Psychasthenia Society
at Cornelia Street Café
Wednesday, July 9, 6:00 pm
29 Cornelia Street
west of Sixth Avenue, between Bleecker and 4th
West Village, Manhattan
(A, C, E, D, B, F, or V train to 4th Street)
map and directions
Cover: $10 (includes one house drink)
About
The Psychasthenia Society presents satiric storytelling blended with remixed vintage movie stills, live video, and electronic music. Founded in 2003 by author and storyteller Jon Keith Brunelle, its other members are video artist Daniel Vatsky and deejay / composer Mad EP (Matthew Peters). For two years they mounted multimedia story programs in collaboration with renowned guest musicians at Brooklyn's Galapagos Art Space; other engagements include Monkey Town and P.S. 122. Their first theatrical production, The Nanolove Report, enjoyed a successful run at Collective: Unconscious Theatre in Manhattan.
The Psychasthenia Society is dedicated to the performance of political and cultural satire as digital spectacle.
Psychasthenia (sy-kas-theen-ya):
- A perceived confusion between self and surrounding space.
- A cultural condition of mass identification with images and technology.
- Waking up feeling like the unfortunate fellow you see here.