Director: Xavier Cha
Project Title: Audition, 2011/2023
Location: Miriam, 319 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Dates: June 1 and June 28 from 7–9PM EST
Format: Live performance, video
Audition: By appointment for applicants; audition process open to a public audience
Call: Xavier Cha and Miriam Gallery seek performers to audition for two roles, described below. Auditions will be no more than 15 minutes apiece and will be open to the public. During the audition, actors will perform a one-minute screen test, to be incorporated into a video installation that will be on view at Miriam from June 8–July 29, 2023.
Roles
1. The camera is shooting over your shoulder as you stare at your reflection in a mirror, moving through expressions of inquiry, doubt, and searching, ending with a look of dejection. You make an attempt to pull yourself together, mustering a sense of composure and donning a mask of confidence.
- Auditions to take place on June 1, 2023 between 7–9PM; specific call time to be determined upon invitation to applicant
2. Still shot in which you look up to meet the gaze of another person off screen. You read and understand their expression and silently respond with a look of hollow but reserved disappointment.
- Auditions to take place on June 28, 2023 between 7–9PM; specific call time to be determined upon invitation to applicant
Compensation: $50 flat fee per audition
Applicants: Please submit your CV, headshot, and optional reel to hello@miriamgallery.com, with the subject line “Xavier Cha, Audition," followed by your full name.
Application Deadlines
For role one, May 19, 11:59PM
For role two, June 16, 11:59PM
- Applications for role one are closed. We invite you to attend the June 1 audition as an audience member and apply for the upcoming round of auditions for role two.
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Xavier Cha, Audition, presented at the de la Cruz Collection, 2011.
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An actor walks into the camera’s frame, and they become someone else. For the duration of their performance, they inhabit a new persona that collides memory, empathic imaginaries, and socially constructed behavior. In Audition—in which the audience is invited to watch the trial that precedes selection for a role—Xavier Cha focuses our attention on the craft and material of acting, allowing us to see many interpretations of the same character in quick succession and emphasizing the changes of affect that signal that the actor is playing a part under the camera’s gaze. This is an adaptation of a work originally performed at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, in 2011. The 2023 iteration comprises two events, at which footage will be shot for a video installation to be presented in Miriam’s front gallery.
Xavier Cha: Audition
Events: June 1 and June 28 from 7–9PM EST (Open to the public)
Exhibition: June 8–July 29; opening reception, June 8 from 6–8PM EST
Miriam, 319 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This email is presented by SCREEN_ in conjunction with Body Double, a series of events that explores presence, virtuality, and transference. Body Double is organized by Nicole Kaack in partnership with Dunes (Portland, ME), Miriam (Brooklyn, NY), and Parent Company (Brooklyn, NY).
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