Can you really imagine someone else’s pain?
Other People’s Pain is a multimedia performance about the way different pains – banal, chronic, traumatic – shape how we imagine ourselves and others as human. A performer, Jeremy Xido, tries to get inside a character, Ellis Defonte, a New York City video blogger, who is trying to interview the famous South African War Correspondent, Max Dros. Injured in the field, Dros, has removed himself from the world and is undergoing various forms of extreme self-medication – from pills, to alcohol, to hanging upside-down in gravity boots, to playing video games.
Flying towards and fleeing from pain, the performance winds through a mixture of document and fiction, the real and virtual, between video games for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder and war reporters smoking and watching Val Lewton B-horror movies.
break a leg