Sage Molasky

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ARTIST STATEMENT:

“Touch Me Not/Zeus fucked me and I liked it” is an exploration of gender, sex, food and religion in a series of monologues written by Sage Livingstone Molasky and Sally Falls. Drawing inspiration from our womxn actors and collaborators, as well as the oral histories we have shared with womxn from our pasts and present, we hope to tell stories about what it means to eat, to be eaten, to consume and be consumed. Originally conceived of as a re telling of our personal relationships to the divine and the secular, to god and to sex, to the cosmos and the corporeality of our bodies, we hope this presentation is a stepping stone to share more testimonials from a variety of womxn as they have navigated the scaffolding of religion and gender that define the way we move through the world.”

BIO:

Sage Livingstone Molasky is a Junior at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University concentrating in Food, Religion and Sexuality in the Early Modern Era, focusing onthe literary arts, art history, theatre and dramatic writing. She is a writer and a theatre practitioner whose work is primarily rooted in the intersection of food, gender and religion in Early Modern art history, literature and the dramatic arts. As a playwright, she draws inspiration from her deep connection to place— from the red rocks of Nevada and the mountains of Colorado to the green spaces of the Hudson Valley and New York City— to make clear the very potent relationships between the gods, the earth, religion and sexuality, as they manifest in gendered bodies. As a scholar, she is interested in depictions of Christ as breast-feeder, Aphrodite as a sex symbol, and Shakepseare’s women as an allegory for the the Bible. Sage hopes to tell embodied tales and to lift up other voices through the practice of storytelling.