Performance Artist Tori Wranes Protests CDC Language Restrictions In Live Performances This Month

Norwegian composer-performance artist Tori Wrånes leads The Future Is Open in Washington Square Park tomorrow, January 18, and Friday, January 19, at 5:30pm, as part of the women-led Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival (featured today by the Associated Press).

The performances begin at the Northwest Corner of the Park and respond critically to the recent White House directive to the Center for Disease Control to cease using words such as transgender, vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, and science-based.

Featuring Wrånes solo vocalizations, a group of five performers, and an otherworldly arrangement of additional body parts and prosthetics, The Future Is Open proposes fluid, ever-transforming identities and a few fresh small breaths for a new year.