PPL is Brian McCorkle, Esther Neff, and a flexible group of artists and organizers often including Valerie Kuehne. PPL is organizational activities, actions, social projects, and live situations across “art” and “non-art” spheres. Practices are in flux between the collective's artistic work, the practices of involved individuals, and “organizational/curatorial” initiatives defined through relationships with public and private institutions, organizations, individuals, and sites. Our project space is located in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

 

PPL as a collective and as the performance duo Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle works in site-and-context-specific performance modes that construct and deconstruct common sensoriums, modes of production, and epistemic geneologies via actions, relational systems, images, and the most problematic of subject-object relationships. Often communal and created in the moment with implicated, catalyzing audience members, PPL performances swing violently between the hyper-structural and the indeterminate, dealing with causation, reaction, conception, cognition, and active human practices of knowing, being, sensing, and reality-forming.

PPL acts have been realized at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery and MANA Contemporary in Chicago, Leibig12, AquaBit, Gruntaler9, ACUD, KuLe, and etc. in Berlin, the Pumpehuset in Copenhagen, and in NYC at Glasshouse Project, Grace Exhibition Space, IV Soldiers, CultureFix, Flux Factory, Industry City, and many other galleries, venues, public sites, and spaces. Residencies through LMCC, University Settlement, LPAC, chashama, and elsewhere have also framed our practices.

 

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