SAT JUN 7, 2025 7:30 PM An Evening with Paul McCarthy: A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve $17.00 (member) ; $22.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Aero Theatre | Screening of new ‘A&E’ performance films, Cooking Show Kitchen and Mother. Conversation with Paul McCarthy. Moderated by filmmaker John Hillcoat. Program begins with NPP1P2, WAR PIG, Drawing Session. No one under 18 admitted. ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 4’ Checking Event Status... *This is an RSVP which means first come first served. This RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILMS: NPP1P2, WAR PIG, Drawing Session, 2CH, 2025 2 channel 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 16:50 min An animated image flow of the absurd actions of male tyrants. Images of the world of male madness. The performance of drawing while in character was video recorded then later processed two separate times in collaboration with the machine, altering the range between the video recording of the performance and the written prompt – increasing and decreasing the hallucination. A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Cooking Show, Kitchen, 2022/2023 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 1hr 47:14 min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve make soup and talk to the camera while drinking Champagne. Adolf Adam is the American fat pig-artist and Eva Eve is the German actress, daughter, pretend Marilyn. Fun and games in the kitchen, on the floor, a love-frolic on the slippery kitchen counter, ending with Eva Eve’s sick head in the soup pot. A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Mother, 2022/2025 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 45:26min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve are under a dead pine tree. Eva Eve’s back is against the tree. Adolf Adam lays on the ground, his head in her lap. Adolf Adam is the buffoon boy child. Eva Eve is the mother. She feeds him with her mouth like a bird. She leaves him in the dirt. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Paul McCarthy is widely considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artists. Born in 1945, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he first established a multi-faceted artistic practice, which sought to break the limitations of painting by using unorthodox materials such as bodily fluids and food. He has since become known for visceral, often hauntingly humorous work in a variety of mediums – from performance, photography, film and video, to sculpture, drawing and painting, utilizing a range of materials. Playing on popular illusions and cultural myths, fantasy and reality collide in a delirious yet poignant exploration of the subconscious in works that challenge the viewer’s phenomenological expectations. His subversive works create a dynamic mix of high and low culture to provoke an analysis of our fundamental beliefs. His characters and objects critique the worlds from which they are drawn: Hollywood, politics, philosophy, science, art, literature, and television. McCarthy’s work, thus, locates the traumas lurking behind the stage set of the American Dream. Never before has this trauma been so keenly enacted than within McCarthy’s new transgressive ‘A&E’ performance films, Cooking Show Kitchen and Mother, a fearless collaboration between Lilith Stangenberg, the renowned award-winning German stage and film actress, who plays ‘Eva’ and Paul who plays her ‘Adolf.’ Paul McCarthy with Lilith Stangenberg A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Cooking Show, Kitchen, 2022/2023 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 1hr 47:14 min Video performance stills © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photos: Alex Stevens.