A “hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones), Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant--sometimes with songs. Tatarsky experienced fleeting fame as Andy Kaufman’s daughter and used to perform as a mound of dirt. They are currently touring their falling apart bildungsroman about wanting to die, Sad Boys in Harpy Land, and their compost clown lecture-performance Dirt Trip. MATERIAL, an improvisational project about haunted objects, was featured as part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Venues include Abrons Arts Center, La Mama, MoMA PS1, Playwrights Horizons, The Kitchen, The Whitney and many bars and basements. As curatorial fellow at the Poetry Project, they organized a series on the poetics of rot. Along with artist Ming Lin, Tatarsky is one half of roving poetic research unit Shanzhai Lyric and their fictional office off-shoot Canal Street Research Association, which takes Canal Street, NYC's beloved and reviled counterfeit epicenter, as a prism through which to examine questions of authorship and ownership. @tartar.biz

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