Prostalgia HD is a decade-long performance collaboration between laura Hunter petree and Delilah Friedler. we create highly original works that confront and re-write dominant myths around whiteness, lineage, gender, and the state.
we believe everything is research, art is god, and our experiences are the kindling we need to burn it all down and build a better world. our performances resist passive consumption, empowering participants to act within intentional worlds ranging from imagination games to built environments.
we ‘facilitate’ rather than ‘direct’: when artists contribute autonomously, they multiply our possibilities. the experiences we make question worldviews, re-write narratives - and they’re fucking fun.
HANSeL/GReTeL
HANSeL/GReTeL is a participatory ritual performance of the classic fairytale embedded in a party at a club. As attendees enter to mingle, buy drinks, and dance, an interactive audiovisual setting invites participants to don the identity of Hansel and Gretel, who lose the “trail of breadcrumbs” to their motherland and collectively journey into the forest.
but back in the day we worked on…………………
bacchae
bacchae was an immersive rave experience performed in Palo Alto, CA in 2015. Using an original script by adaptor-dramaturg Delilah Friedler, laura Hunter petree facilitated sixty artists and hundreds of participants in building an interactive world across nine acres, integrating elements of festival culture in a queer retelling of Euripides’ ancient tragedy that illuminated relationships between liberation, ecstasy, and the state.
Selected prior works
Dizneylönd University, improvised performance involving six characters embedded in the 2014 Frost Music and Arts Festival as well as a range of parties and events.
Titus, an interactive, site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” lit by participants’ flashlights, performed in and around the dry bed of Lake Lagunita in 2013.