Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
Self Tape for Soap Opera
MariposaAsher Hartman, Karl Holmqvist, Jasmine Johnson, Klein, Ken Okiishi, Colin Self, Amalia Ulman Mariposa and New Theater Hollywood present Self Tape for Soap Opera, an exhibition of eight videos by seven artists who have staged, or will stage, plays at New Theater Hollywood. Each video work takes the form of a remake or re-representation, often as performance documentation, but they plunge deeper: channeling spirits, historical figures, and grief for what is lost in the capture. The show’s title comes from Klein’s eponymous video, in which she re-enacts all roles in a fifteen-second trailer for the British soap opera EastEnders, submitted as an actual audition tape for an acting school. The self tape is a stand in for a body, a promise of more to come—a ghost ready and willing to be plied with narrative. New Theater Hollywood is a theater in Los Angeles founded by artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff in 2024. Operating out of a 49-seat black box on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood’s Theatre Row, New Theater Hollywood commissions, produces, and stages experimental plays by visual artists, theatermakers, musicians, writers, and filmmakers. It follows the original New Theater, a storefront theater run by Henkel and Pitegoff in Berlin a decade earlier.