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Batdorf Jukebox

Batdorf Jukebox is a series of spoken-word performances and artistic projects by Erika Batdorf. The pieces bring together a number of theatrical projects conceived and performed theatrically by Batdorf over the years. The first piece is Mr. Raisin Head, featuring a monologue by character who you could describe as a a data-entry desk jockey seeking answers to life’s big questions.

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11:52

Mr. Raisin Head wonders if you can describe the sky...

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2024/05/07

Mr. Raisin Head wants you to go look at the sky and describe it. He realizes that Empathy wants him to see people as trees. That requires doing two things at once. He experiments.

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12:46

Mr. Raisin Head goes to an artist loft party and sees...

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2024/04/30

Mr. Raisin Head resists trying to protect his patron wife from young artist vultures. He knows she can take care of herself but still… The Kiefer obsession deepens and he negotiates with a young artist to buy his book on Kiefer. It does not go well.

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10:26

Mr. Raisin Head buys some coloured pencils

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2024/04/30

Mr. Raisin Head starts conceiving art installation ideas and goes to an art store. He has a wild dream and considers drawing what is in his head. Can you draw emptiness?poll: Does consuming art really matter to your health and well-being?

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12:46

Mr. Raisin Head ponders some heavy Kiefer art

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2024/04/30

Mr. Raisin Head's wife funds an art exhibit of art books for him. He knows he is not an artist, but he does wish to someday wield an Exacto knife. His obsessions with Anselm Kiefer deepens.

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10:50

Mr. Raisin Head still has an empty head

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2024/04/30

Mr. Raisin Head wonders if philosophy is just waving thinking. He realizes he is very attached to his couch and his Mad Magazines. His grapy wife, talks him out of buying a Van Gogh tie. He doesn't get it.

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7:40

Mr. Raisin Head does the dobedobedobedobedo

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2024/04/23

Mr. Raisin Head realizes he has assumed that his buddies at work can't see virtues, but really, how would he know? He realizes that asking people 'what they do' is like asking a tree what it is thinking, kinda stupid.

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10:44

Mr. Raisin Head has uncomfortable opinions about pop art

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2024/04/23

Mr. Raisin Head starts having opinions about pop art and finds a way to convert his wife to the notion of a porch. He realizes he has to find a way to talk to people on his elevator before he gets a porch again though.

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15:10

Mr. Raisin Head goes to Europe

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2024/04/23

Mr. Raisin Head discovers pop art and it inspires him to rearrange his cupboards. Pasta packages, mustard and tomato sauce cans are arranged symmetrically. Virtues seem to be scarce, so he goes to the park a lot.

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11:12

Mr. Raisin Head moves into a highrise and misses his...

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2024/04/23

Mr. Raisin Head starts hugging trees and notices bark for the first time in his life. Bark, like wow, bark. Living in his wife's fancy high-rise appartment, he really misses his old house with the porch and his trees… he did take them for granted. Now he thinks they might be mad at him.

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7:30

Mr. Raisin Head goes on a deeper dive

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2024/04/16

Mr. Raisin Head goes to a fundraiser at the museum where he first discovered art… and things get weird. He decides to be “himself” with a bunch of Virtues and, well, he finally gets seen. It’s ugly.

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9:50

Mr. Raisin Head starts to read the book of his own soul.

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2024/04/16

Mr. Raisin Head continues to stare at himself in the mirror, determined to find his true self. He wonders about niceness — is it really a good idea? He attends fundraisers with his grape lady and meets more virtues.

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11:16

Mr. Raisin Head goes to a museum and meets a grape.

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2024/04/16

Mr. Raisin Head goes to a museum and discovers art. He becomes obsessed with that hanging lizard. He actually gets his tacky old green suit wet reading the text under the water on the floor and now will never be the same. Oh, and he meets a grape.

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15:18

Are you normal?

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2024/04/16

Meet Mr. Raisin Head, a more than middle-aged office worker who is trying to find his true self. He meets a Virtue — yup, maybe he is having some kind of awakening or is hallucinating. Don’t think about it too hard… just go with the flow.

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