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On 25 July 2019, Paul McCarthy’s expansive virtual reality work C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve will be presented at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, marking its premiere in the Netherlands. First exhibited by the Faurschou Foundation during the Venice Biennale in 2017, this work revisits McCarthy’s ongoing project, ‘CSSC Coach Stage Stage Coach.’ Encompassing a wide range of media, McCarthy’s project pulls from mass culture, fusing high-brow and kitsch references to evoke a range of feelings, from intense familiarity to deep disgust. This work includes a recent film that gleans inspiration from John Ford’s 1939 Western ‘Stagecoach’ that stars John Wayne. Taking the form of a spin-off, a phenomenon associated with the entertainment industry, this virtual reality work builds on an existing scene by McCarthy that stars his two characters, Mary Magdalen (played by Rachel Alig) and Eve (played by Jennifer Daley).
Using virtual reality to fully immerse viewers into its world, C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve requires viewers to choose from eleven scenes wherein Eve and Mary Magdalen interact. This work was featured at Art Basel Unlimited last month prior to Amsterdam premiere at Eye Filmmuseum.
Director:
Paul McCarthy
Cast:
Mary (Red) - Rachel Alig， Eve - Jennifer Daley
Production:
Alex Stevens, Naotaka Hiro, Jody Joyner
Special Thanks:
Karen McCarthy, Damon McCarthy, Dylan Huig, and Luisa Aguilar
From 25 July through 11 August, daily in the Room at the Top. www.eyefilm.nl/xtended
McCarthy’s recent video, DADDA Donald and Daisy Duck Adventure (2018) will also screen for the first time in the Netherlands. Inspired by Fassbinder’s Whity (1971), DADDA Donald and Daisy Duck Adventure is part of an expansive roster of additional films that will screen in conjunction with CSSC Coach Stage Stage Coach.
Additional programme in the cinemas
CSSC – It Begins – The Coach The Skull (Paul and Damon McCarthy, 2017)
In CSSC – It Begins – The Coach The Skull, six passengers travel on a stagecoach through a Western landscape moving in a continuous loop. The assengers are Ronald Raygun, Nancy Raygun, Mary Magdalen, Jesus Chryst, Adam and Eve. McCarthy’s characters constantly drink whisky and threaten each other. The conversation in the coach is repetitive, absurd, and abusive – repeating clichés of dentification that are used by authority figures and tyrants; “What’s your name? Where do you live?”. The action between the passengers progresses to sexual abuse primarily directed at the two innocents, Adam and Eve. The performance is a form of abstracted appropriation, a tool to critique, to peel the onion of what is.
Cast
Paul McCarthy as Ronald Raygun
Kerry Wieder as Nancy Raygun
Jennifer Daley as Eve
James Skinner as Adam
Rachel Alig as Mary Magdalen
Johnny E. Lee as Jesus Chryst
25 July 21.00 + 29 July 19.00 + 4 August 19.00 + 7 August 21.15
DADDA – Poodle House Saloon (Paul and Damon McCarthy, 2018)
DADDA – Poodle House Saloon is the first of 5 feature-length episodes shot in the saloon set. The saloon is the skull, the characters stay in the saloon as they kill and abuse on another repeatedly. They reanimate in each new scene. The characters depict iconic individuals, yet perhaps more critically, types of human caricatures ever present in society and media. The performers are involved in an action of pretend. The characters are in a state of delusion, often a dark, violent, and insane state of being. Both men and women are caught in this trap: the skull, the set, the saloon.
Cast
Paul McCarthy as Donald Duck
Rachel Alig as Daisy Duck
Jennifer Daley as Bonkers
Kerry Wieder as Nancy Reagan
James Skinner as Andy Warhol
Honey Lauren as Ivana
Natasha Estrada as Heidi
Lillian Solange as Minnie Mouse
Jesse McBride as John Wayne
Jose De Jesus Martinez as Cowboy/Pancho
Bernhard Schütz as Ben Cartwright
Michael Villar as Hoss Cartwright
Dave Vescio as Adam Cartwright
Sebastian Fernandez as Little Joe Cartwright
Paul McDade as Bartender/Paul Ryan
Jack Spralja as Cowboy
10 August 21.15 + 13 August 19.15
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
26 July 19.15 + 2 August 16.00
The Hateful Eight on 70mm (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
28 July 15.30 + 8 August 21.00
Whity on 35mm (Fassbinder, 1971)
31 July 19.15 + 11 August 21.15
About Paul McCarthy
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.
Xtended
C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve is part of Eye's Virtual Reality programme Xtended, which has featured work by the artists and filmmakers Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Laurie Anderson, Marina Abramović and Tsai Ming-liang, as well as an ode to Oskar Schlemmer.
With thanks to: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Fonds 21; Powered by Beam Systems
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