The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft: LIVE

For three years, Angela Washko has been creating performances as The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft inside the most popular multiplayer online video game of all time. Instead of killing enemies and getting badass equipment like she used to, she started traveling to major towns to discuss the ways in which women are treated in the game-space with other players. This most recent evolution of the project includes additionally recruited council members and audience participation – as three players-turned-performers (Washko with Maj Anya DeBear and David Lublin) discuss feminism with players and audience members situated simultaneously in Dixon Place, New York and Orgrimmar, Area 52.

The event will feature an opening performance by artist Nathaniel Sullivan. "Good Morning to My Inbox, My Penis, My Impending Demise" is a multi-media performance about a day when Sullivan received a flurry of penis enhancement emails at work that called out his deepest and darkest fears. The story mashes up corporate verbiage with carnal desire, peels back the layer of saccharine pop to reveal the heart of darkness in the music of The Beach Boys, and calls him out on his frequent missteps in his journey to define masculinity.

This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation; the Lambent Foundation, The SHS Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.