Documentation from The Urgency of Quiet, performed at Pieter Space in Los Angeles on March 16th, 2019.

The Urgency of Quiet & Cops Are Actors are two distinct performances that converge for one night only. Circling the gaps between the body and the self–where rehearsal ends and performance begins–both pieces challenge the critical distance inherent in spectatorship. The Urgency of Quiet suggests the audience switch off one sense to amplify another, to engage with performance beyond the visual realm. Cops Are Actors asks viewers to see through metonymy, hesitations beneath a show of force. Though differing in content and delivery, both works puncture the fourth wall while forming subtle yet radical departures from preconceived notions of performance. The Urgency of Quiet is created by Barnett Cohen in collaboration with Lea Madda, Pearl Marill, Carolina Vargas, & Dre Matthews. Astral Props are a collaboration between Cohen and Eric Holbreich of House of 950.