Yes! I am here for the queer edgy theater pipeline. What are you most excited about during this upcoming month? You start at the Brick and then head to Ant Fest at Ars Nova honestly the ideal queer edgy theater pipeline. So Tiresias has been my attempt at alchemizing a degenerative circumstance into a source of generative power. Tiresias was this deliciously liminal figure, a blind visionary who transgressed all the boundaries and the binaries - between gods and mortals, the living and the dead, man and woman, blind and seeing. After I was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition, I became enchanted with Tiresias, the blind prophet of Greek mythology who lived as both a man and a woman.
I have long been fascinated by myth, and that fascination has been the foundation for most of my theatrical work. Tiresias’ beginnings feel as cosmic and stellar as the Big Bang itself. HYPERFANTASIA became a nonfiction creation myth whose world of fantasy and wonder was our own. So it sparked the question, what vision did I have to share? And I envisioned an extravagant and ecstatic queer utopia whose laws were proliferation and abundance and whose gods were quarks and ancestral bacteria. As a visually impaired artist in the process of losing my sight, I have become obsessed with the question of inner vision. What is the origin for this piece?Įvan Silver/Tiresias: The inception of the piece was actually an article about a medical condition called hyperphantasia, which refers to an apparent over-abundance of mental imagery. Greenpointers: A “drag cabaret about the proliferation of matter in the universe and life on planet Earth” sounds really, really cool. Here, Evan Silver (Tiresias’ creator and alter ego) discusses their upcoming show, HYPERFANTASIA, and how their personal experience informed the creation of this cosmic character.
#Nowhere prophet concept art series
Tiresias pops up in other mythological settings, and now he’s appearing in a queer, drag form for a series of shows at The Brick in Williamsburg. Known for his clairvoyance, Tiresias understood the mad king’s fate even if Oedipus did not.
Perhaps you remember Tiresias from your high school reading of Oedipus.
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