2023: Where is My Body?

A festival of music, dance and interactive performance that intersects with technology and science in exciting, exhilarating, and provocative ways. Through beauty, humor, violence and augmented virtual realities, these interactive works open up new portals of performance.

Our Performances

A series of the works of Lisa Jamhoury, Flako Jimenez, Kate Ladenheim, Paula Matthusen and the Knights, Paul Pinto and Kameron Neal, Matt Romein, Sister Sylvester, Mike Tyus, and Luca Renzi

Good Genes

Sister Sylvester

My Body is an Instrument

Mike Tyus & Luca Renzi

COMMIT!

Kate Ladenheim

Bag of Worms

Matt Romein

Whiteness (Excerpt)

Paul Pinto and Kameron Neal

making the whole world a sky

Paula Matthusen & The Knights

Mercedes VR

Modesto Flako Jiminez

Maquette

Lisa Jamhoury

Featured Artists and Scientists

MAX aims to bring both arts and science audiences together and strengthen the production capacity of the greater arts ecosystem by providing substantive production support to artists both familiar and new to engaging with science and emerging technologies.

Graham Reese

The Knights

Paul Pinto

Kameron Neal

Sister Sylvestor

Paula Matthusen

Mike Tyus

Luca Renzi

Modesto Flako Jimenez

Kate Landenheim

Matt Romein

Lisa Jamhoury

Our MAXforum Programming

Body + Technology = Comedy?

Kate Landenheim, Matt Romein

Gathering (in the) Cloud: Digital Performance Beyond Zoom

Sarah Rothberg, Kent Bye, Florian Malzacher, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Playing With Fire

Annie Dorsen and Tal Linzen

Season 2023-24

Programming outside of the Where Is My Body? Festival

Prometheus Firebringer

Annie Dorsen

When Light Bends

Gracie Leavitt, John Lopez, Elena Araoz

The MAXlive festival is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The MAXlive festival and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation, and by the Ettinger Foundation.