CHEAP

CHEAP is an art collective founded in Berlin in 2001 by Daniel Hendrickson, Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel. Permanent member: Vaginal Davis. Frequent collaborations with, among others, Phil Collins, Wilhelm Hein, Hannah Hurtzig, Bruce LaBruce and Xiu Xiu. CHEAP has presented performances, installations, festivals and club events at such venues as Volksbühne Prater (2001), Podewil (2002/03), Ujazdowski Castle Kino-Lab, Warsaw/Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow (2002), HAU (2003–2012), Theater an der Parkaue (2005–2010), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2006), Berlinale/Forum Expanded (2006/2007), Theater an der Gessnerallee, Zürich (2007), Kaserne Basel / FFT Düsseldorf / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (2012), 80WSE Gallery, NYC (2015), Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, Prag (2016), and Arsenal – Institute for Film and Videoart (2006–2017). CHEAP was included in the Top 10 Art of 2015 in the “New York Times” for their production of “The Magic Flute. An Opera in Six Steps” at the 80WSE Gallery in New York. They are currently touring with “Original Sin. A Concert by Susanne Sachsse and Xiu Xiu”. Since 2017, CHEAP contributes the monthly radio show “CHEAP Funk” to the Berlin art radio project reboot.fm.

As of February 2019