Jeffrey Deitch marked his return to the New York scene over the weekend of 9 September with three nights of Eddie Peake’s performance Head at the dealer’s Wooster Street gallery in SoHo. Peake had staged a similarly eccentric performance, Endymion, in the same space—which had been taken over by the Swiss Institute during Deitch’s sojourn to the West Coast—for Performa. “I am so so so happy with how it went,” Peake told us. “Without a doubt I think it is among the strongest performance works I’ve ever made. There were lots of mistakes in each of the three performances, which I have to admit slightly crush me inside every time I spot one, even though it is probably only me and the performers who notice them, but overall the high energy and visceralness of the piece has a power that transcends all that. After the final performance, I had a distinct moment of lucid clarity in realising I was experiencing one of the happiest moments of my life.” Don’t hold back, Eddie.
