Alix Pearlstein: INVENTORY-2
August 7–10, 2025 John Little Barn
Performance: 2-6pm Thursday - Sunday

Artist Alix Pearlstein directs a group of actors to present a continuous live performance titled INVENTORY-2, ongoing throughout open hours at Duck Creek. A running list of objects, structures, poses, gestures and characters derived from her inventory of previous works will form the script, which will evolve over the 4 day / 16-hour duration, in response to site and the moment. A wide range of performance activity and approaches will be evident, as passages of narrative and psychological drama occur simultaneously along with task-based actions, choreographed movement, and play.

Alix Pearlstein’s multidisciplinary practice spans performance, video, installation, sculpture, and collage, using mise-en-scène and ensemble dynamics to explore subjectivity, behavior, and social constructs. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Kitchen (NYC), and Ballroom Marfa, and in performances at the Aspen Art Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, and The Park Avenue Armory. Group exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Biennale de Lyon. A recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, Pearlstein is co-chair of Skowhegan’s Board of Governors and lives and works in New York City and Orient, NY.

All images: INVENTORY (2023), Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, photos by Paul Chin.