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 the Simons Foundation.The MAXlive Festival and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by the Ettinger foundation.
In this irreverent live motion capture theatrical performance, creator Matt Romein plays a tyrannical disembodied head, leading performers and the audience through a series of increasingly violent and over-the-top scenarios.
Inspired by video game modding and body horror, Bag of Worms considers the human body as something that can become possessed, deformed, and broken, eliciting discomfort and questioning how we should treat bodies in digital and physical spaces.
