The Exponential Festival Presents: I Prefer To Die In This Moment

The Exponential Festival presents I Prefer To Die In This Moment by Iris McCloughan

A simple theory: The greatest pleasure is to disappear, and the most pleasurable way to disappear is to be desired. I Prefer To Die In This Moment is a performance about sex, desire, power, and who gets to have it.

Written, directed, and choreographed by Iris McCloughan
Performed by Arewà Basit, Peter McNally, and Han Van Sciver
Set and Lights by Krit Robinson
Costumes by Vincent Tiley
Sound design & original music by Ryan Gamblin
Stage Managed by Emilie Osborne
Produced by Olivia Mermagen
Photo and design by Iris McCloughan
Photo Credit: Ethan Lindhout

Find them: @immcclou

​​A model becomes a French theorist. A photographer walks through a door that wasn’t there before. A businessman disappears with a smile. In three interconnected stories, three people consider their bodies, what their bodies want, and how they might be transformed by each other.

Inspired by a 1995 series of Calvin Klein ads so controversial that they sparked an investigation by the Department of Justice, I Prefer To Die In This Moment is a new show from Iris McCloughan about looking, wanting, and the pleasure of disappearing into someone else’s desire.​​

I Prefer To Die In This Moment was developed with support from SUPR OMEN, Coffey Street Studio, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Mercury Store, and New York Theatre Workshop, with additional support from Clubbed Thumb, made possible by Venturous Theater Fund.

Runtime: 70 min

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org