A Fine Madness

Humans do not like being sick. At the first signs of a virus, we work overtime to kill it. Yet, as much as we treat disease as if it were unnatural, history says that viruses and plagues have always been an inevitable fact of human life on Earth. Woolly Mammoth Company Artist Justin Weaks invites us to the intersection of ‘performance’ and ‘event’ for a radical act of remembrance. Inspired by the mission of the Voyager Golden Record, A Fine Madness calls on its audience to participate in the creation of a record of shared humanity through a kaleidoscope of poetry, games, music, scientific findings and storytelling. Through retelling and reclaiming his own personal journey of navigating an HIV diagnosis, the line between performer and audience blur. What’s happening? What happens next? How do we survive what’s dissolving so that we may see what has yet to be created?  A Fine Madness is both experiment and celebration, experience and discovery, and act of affirmation in the face of erasure. For the record!