Guided Meditations with Teena Geist

Video works adapted from ‘The Stairwell Symphony’, one of a trilogy of performances featuring Teena Geist. Loosely inspired by Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical trilogy (‘A Boy’s Own Story’, ‘The Beautiful Room is Empty’, ‘The Farewell Symphony’), the performances interrogate the narrative and stylistic tropes of coming-of-age stories as well as conventional representations of queer bodies and desires. Performances have been presented both in Philadelphia (Space 1026, Vox Populi, Institute of Contemporary Art) and elsewhere (The Collapsible Hole, Brooklyn; The Den, Chicago; Whole Gallery, Baltimore).