DELIRIUM is a multi-channel film installation that explores the making and unmaking of meaning within hierarchical systems of desire and control. Featuring M Lamar, Lydia Lunch, Christeene, Shannon Funchess, Sigrid Lauren and Monica Mirabile.

Michelle Handelman and Shannon Funchess perform along with a live screening of Michelle’s These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves (The Pandemic Series) video compilation. Originally live streamed on PARTICIPANT AFTER DARK.

A video trilogy created during the COVID pandemic that remixes Michelle’s prior works with found texts into a video essay about isolation and fear.

A multiscreen installation and live performance that looks at transgression as a form of survival. Featuring Shannon Funchess, John Kelly and Viva Ruiz inhabiting historical hustlers through a contemporary queer, feminist framework.

Expanding from Michelle’s Hustlers & Empires video work, the live performance version features a multi-channel screening along with an active live stage full of performers, including the original cast of Shannon Funchess, John Kelly and Viva Ruiz.

A multiscreen installation about queer criminality and living in the shadows. The iconic silent film character Irma Vep is imagined as a transgender figure, featuring Zackary Drucker and Flawless Sabrina.

A multiscreen, queer adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray featuring Flawless Sabrina, Sequinette, Armen Ra and K8 Hardy.

A permanent video installation at Eastern State Penitentiary about the lives of trans inmates. Based on lived experiences, Becca Blackwell and Michael Lynch perform stories recalling the 1969 Stonewall uprising and carceral abuse.

A participatory performance around laughter inspired by the Laughing Clubs of India and the German cult film Kamikaze 1989, including Tori Sparks, Robert Appleton and Quin Charity.

Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is the inspiration for this collaboration between Michelle Handelman, fetish designer Garo Sparo, Italian noise band Larsen, composer Lustmord and a cast of characters.

Expanding from Michelle’s This Delicate Monster video work, the live performance version includes active characters in the gallery.

Performers recreate scenes mined from daily life in New York’s Bryant Park.

Michelle riffing on Bruce Nauman’s early performance work through a hypnotic ritual of self-loathing.

An audio installation in DUMBO, New York about real estate, gentrification, and an endangered species—artists.

A live performance where Michelle repeats a line from David Cronenberg's Videodrome into the camera over and over, assaulting the lens, collapsing in frenzy.

A series of performance videos and large-scale photographs that embody the overwhelming power of desire.