A DEVOTION TO FAILURE
November 20, 2025
presented by CPR – Center for Performance Research as part of OPEN AiR
Brooklyn, NY
Images courtesy CPR. Photos by Elyse Mertz.
A DEVOTION TO FAILURE is a compilation of scenes, dances, vignettes, costumes, and set pieces that failed to make the cut for 2025 AiR Kat Sotelo’s premiere A DEVOTION TO SERVICE (at Abrons Art Center on September 26-27, 2025). A weaving of B-sides and rarities, this piece will further explore themes of eroticism and servitude from a Filipino American sex worker lens. It will also further interrogate failure and embarrassment as generative forces, vehicles for surrender, ego dismantling and reassembly — ultimately locating absurdity not as an accident but as a radical strategy within art-making.