COMFORT GIRLS

An ASIAN pop-up bar installation set in 2049

duration: 240min (walk ins)

Setting

Pop-up Bar titled CLUB ASIA

Plasma screens and plastic plants

Order a special local beer with one of our girls

One of our COMFORT Girls

We promise

We will comfort you until your beer has run dry

Feel free to order another one

We’ll be there, once again –until the beer has run dry.

Feel free to order another one

COMFORT Girls is being preceded by a 7 days live research in the KARAOKE OM bars of VIETNAM (Karaoke Hugging). A dissection and celebration of the hospitality and sex workers industry, a setting to place the Dutch-Asian actor in the main seat and an offering of intimacy, without having to do the deed.

The whole LIVE research in Vietnam can be followed from July19-July26 as vlogs on:

http://www.JASONgwen.com

Concept/Production/Direction: JASON GWEN/arnhems work (nl/ca/vn)

Production/PR Extension: BILGE DEMIREL (nl/tr)

PR Strategy: CLAIRE VAN DER HALL (nl)

Performance: TAMARA MARKUS (nl/it), ESZA THICKEMS (nl/id/am), BEYONCÉ VAN VREDEN (nl)

Photography: DENISE KLEVERING (nl)

Videography: Mr. FL (cn/nl)

Campaign/Graphic Design: DANA DIJKGRAAF (nl)

Art Direction: HANS HUTTING (nl)

Fashion Design: HEDWIG VERVOORT (nl)

Advisor: DIANE ELSHOUT/researching bodies (nl)

With the financial support of GEMEENTE ARNHEM and many others

And the support of FRINGE FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM, THEATER OOSTBLOK, DE NIEUWE OOST/THEATER AAN DE RIJN & STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM