On February 15th, Abby Hertz will be presenting her final LUST event. After three years, she is ending the series that has fused music, fire performance, art history, and eroticism. Begun on Valentine’s Day 2015, it has more of a nod to Meret Oppenheim’s 1959 “Cannibal Feast” than to an erotic party. While guests eat a feast of food off of semi-naked actors and models, the meal is followed by a series of performances, featuring a “fire ritual”, the alternative Latin punk jazz band Gato Loco, playing music that blurs the boundaries between traditional Cuban music with Verdi’s Requiem and cartoon spy soundtracks. It’s a high-concept all-inclusive event that makes the search for ecstatic euphoria its focus, rather than the seeming acts of decadence.
This will be the last event like it in New York City for quite a while, and possibly unlike anything else in the world. This is happening at Lot 45, 411 Troutman St., Bushwick.
