About the Artist

Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim are conceptual artists exploring urgent questions around the social value of art, digital labour, and the political potential of games. Mixing their backgrounds in performance, philosophy, psychology, and digital media, their collaborations have manifested in video games, participatory installations, digital archives, and card games.

In addition to their asses.masses, Patrick and Milton are also the co-founders of the Canadian national video archive of performance (videocan) and the co-creators behind a performing arts economy trading card game (culturecapital), a role playing game about cultural design (FARCE), and an escape room intervention in a German museum (FUNFUG FORUM). Their projects have been presented across Canada, as well as in Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, the United Kingdom and the USA, in English, French, Italian, Catalan, German, and Spanish.

Their next project, dam.nation, follows the true story of twenty Canadian beavers acquired by the Argentinian government in 1946.

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for ages 13+

Nudity

Adult Language

Strobe/Flashing Lights

Audience Interaction

Access
Wheelchair/Limited Mobility Seating and Sensory Kits Available. Venue social narrative is available online. Check PhillyFringe.org for additional services for specific shows.

asses.masses includes flashing lights, audience participation, violence, crude language, simulated donkey sex, simulated human sex, and references to drug use, suicide, and police brutality. We recommend it for audience members ages 14 and up. This is not a performance that is suitable for young audiences.

Participation and active spectatorship is a central part of asses.masses. We invite you to be part of our Herd in any way you can.

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn