Doorika was a performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

s collective based in Chicago and New York City from 1990-1999. It was a collaborative group with a mix bag of visual artists, performers, non-actors and musicians who worked on developing multi-media

Multimedia

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 theater projects. It was co-founded by John Dooley and Erika Yeomanshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm1156767/ in 1990. Some of the artists that contributed and worked on the shows were: Eric Koziol, Jon Langford

Jon Langford

Jon Langford born October 11, 1957, Newport, Monmouthshire is a Welsh-born musician and artist who is presently based in Chicago. He is the younger brother of science-fiction author and critic David Langford...

, the Aluminum Group, Casey Spooner

Casey Spooner

Casey Spooner is an American artist and musician. He was born in Athens, Georgia and resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Spooner is openly gay. While attending the Art Institute of Chicago he met Warren Fischer. The two went on to cofound Fischerspooner in New York in 1998.Spooner has submitted...

, Lisa Perry, Doug Huston, Amy Galper, Ford Wright, Marianne Potje, Deborah Shirley, William F. Wright, Tamara Wasserman, Jim Skish, Celia Bucci, Mot Filipowski, Magica Bottari, Ken Weaver - among others.

Doorika made a benefit CD entitled DIG THIS in 1996 by Sweet Pea Records.

They performed at PS 122

Performance Space 122

Performance Space 122, generally known as P.S. 122, is a not-for-profit arts organization and one of the longest standing venues dedicated to contemporary performance art in New York City. Founded in 1979 in the abandoned Public School 122 building at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street in the East...

, Ontological-Hysteric Theater

Ontological-Hysteric Theater

The Ontological-Hysteric Theater was founded in 1968 by Richard Foreman. According to his website, his aim was-Total Theater:According to his website,-Production history:...

, Chopin Theater, Ohio Theater's Ice Factory Series, Vineyard Theater, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre

Bailiwick Repertory Theatre

The Bailiwick Repertory Theatre is a theater company in Chicago founded in 1982 that produces eclectic works. It stages productions at the Bailiwick Arts Center , its home since 1995.In 2007, it presented the American premiere of Jerry Springer - The Opera....

, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, Downtown Theater Festival among other venues in New York and Chicago.

Works

• In A Way It Was A Crisis
• Parlando
• North of the Lake
• Hardhead Flair (also exists as a short art film
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• Dear
• Throes
• Akogare No Pari (the Paris of Our Dreams)
• Bathe Me
• Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights! (http://www.ontological.com/INCUBATOR/artists.html)
• The Forgery (also exists as experimental video and shot by video artist Ken Kobland of The Wooster Group
  The Wooster Group
  The Wooster Group is a New York City-based experimental theater company known for creating numerous original dramatic works. It gradually emerged during 1975-1980 from Richard Schechner's The Performance Group and took its name in 1980...
  
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