Fun/Young/God, Beach Sessions, Rockaway, New York, August 19, 2017, curated by Sasha Okshtyn

Fun/Young/God reconsiders the phenomenology of the American rock and pop star and the spiritual fanaticism that lives within popular culture. Two performers have been tasked with studying and exactly reproducing the movements of multiple rock and pop legends, while attempting to channel their own divine and charismatic powers. Through mimicry and embodiment, the movements of Mick Jagger, Beyoncé, and others, become inherently ours; reabsorbed into our collective and individual psyches. Fun/Young/God is an anthem, a ritual, a placebo, a conjuring, a clinical study, and an exploitation of society's obsession with pleasure, youth, and holiness; themes closely linked by their shared intersections of rigor, danger, innocence, delusion, and splendor.

As a comment on the intangibility of celebrity and faith, this work is presented anonymously.

Performers Pierre Guilbault and Cori Kresge

Costumes by Andrew Jordan

Photography by Mavi Phillips and Andrew Jordan