Princess @oneminworld

Princess, the interdisciplinary performing arts duo headed by Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill, perform @1minworld (One Minute World), their experimental Instagram video opera cycle that explores the discontents of our social media age.

Straight from their debut at the Andy Warhol Museum, @1minworld (One Minute World) features original animations and live musical performance alongside video projection.@1minworld 's primary-colored bubblegum visuals contrast one minute videos which explore the discontents of our social media age:surveillance capitalism and shortened attention spans, to name a few.

Princess is currently planning a series of live performances of @1minworld for 2023-2024 beginning at the Andy Warhol Museum in May 2022 and continuing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MCA Denver, and all nine 21c Museum locations.

Check out this trailer for the performance!

About the Performers

Princess (Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill) is a queer interdisciplinary performing arts duo that uses music as the narrative basis for their conceptual, visually dynamic video operas. Their blending of genre and medium exemplifies their ethos of fluidity; once society embraces the full gradient of identity, the richer, healthier and more beautiful the world will be. Their work often examines social and political issues, striving to understand what it means to be human in the frenetic and fragmented modern age, often through a self-reflective humorous lens. Princess has been part of art and music communities since 1999, from early DIY queer music scenes in Chicago to internationally renowned museums. Princess has performed at 21c Museums, Andy Warhol Museum, The Bass, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MCA San Diego, MIT List Visual Arts Center, MOCA Cleveland, New Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts and many other institutions.

Alexis Gideon (b. 1980) is a visual artist, composer, and performer best known for his innovative animated video operas and installations. Gideon’s novel category-defying work has been shown and performed in many prestigious institutions throughout the world including: Moderna Museet Stockholm, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors, Gideon creates interdisciplinary works that examine alienation, subjugation and the human condition. The New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with renowned South African artist William Kentridge for a joint program in January 2013. His work is in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL, The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.

Michael O'Neill (b. 1980) is a queer musician and performing artist, whose work delights in the fusion of genre and discipline. He is a founding member of the group MEN, a music/art collaborative project with JD Samson and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. MEN performed extensively across the world including performances at festivals such as Coachella and Lovebox (UK) and internationally renowned art museums such as SFMOMA, New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Andy Warhol Museum and PS1. Michael has performed with a number of other queer and indie-pop acts over the years including CRICKETS, The Ladybug Transistor, Air Waves, The Aislers Set and MAN ON MAN. He is a graduate of Hampshire College, where he created a full-scale theatrical production of his original rock opera as his thesis project.

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