Dr. Super Igor

When sickness sets in, we seek refuge in small white rooms for brief and at times baffling expert advice. More familiar with our bodies than we are, the doctor knows something about us that remains illegible. In Dr. Super Igor (MD) we are repeatedly diagnosed, turned into a scene of innumerable readings. Gentle, well intentioned, clumsy, and cryptic, Dr. Igor organizes our interior life and feels "invigorated" as he does so. Borrowing from self-help culture, modernist poetry, and medical imaging, Igor is determined to help us picture our illness. When we're not patients in his examination room, we play therapist to his confessions about life as a doctor, his adamant beliefs and personal insecurities, his longing for physical contact. Performance and painting merge to explore how symptoms are read like marks and how our bodies are consequently marked by diagnoses. Dr. Igor's scientific imagination confuses empirical evidence and projection, preventative care and intervention, informed consent and blind trust.