A trio of dolls climb up from a rabbit hole. By the light of a candelabra, they explore a giant machine made of precariously placed ladders, planks and pylons. Then one burnt rope sends an old punching bag swinging…

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist who drives haunted carnival rides over tropes of titillation. She goes headlong into the muck of fantasy and fetish, augmenting her feminine presence—as an African American/Sephardic Jewish woman—with culturally debased costumes. Then she often lights things up with lo-fi magic and pyrotechnics.

For RISING, she’s here to build (and destroy) Voyage Into Infinity —a giant performance installation that pays homage to the raw punk energy of Bad Brains and the controlled chaos of Rube Goldberg machines, designed to send everyday objects cascading into mischievous states of cause and effect.

Only, in this version, it’s Narcissister who’s pulling the strings.