The Forever Project

Piacenza’s 30-year professional performance career and her history as a sex worker become an embodied tapestry of artistic material, a thematic entanglement of sex labor, the pursuit of freedom, and ageism. Piacenza’s personal and artistic movement archives are deconstructed and exaggerated with dark humor through a satirical ecofeminism lens, in a quest to answer how we find connection with others while undergoing the never-ending project of self-growth and the search for purpose. Larger-than-life characters originally performed by Piacenza in works created and directed by Dayna Hanson (Gloria’s Cause, Improvement Club, and The Clay Duke) are embodied within a single identity, combined with personal lived experience, and reimagined to explore touch, ironies of capitalism and labor, and tensions between safety and materialism. Within The Forever Project, the body emerges as a container for the sacred and profane, a site for memoir and fiction to coalesce as the blurred lines between the real and artificial are explored. The Forever Project is supported in part, by a grant from 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and Base: Experimental Arts & Space.