Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester (2025 Creative Capital Awardee) works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn by actors in Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, Drinking Brecht is a live, illustrated essay that explores the past and present of genetics, synthetic biology, economics, and theatre history.

A documentary that you can drink, the work ingests worn-out scientific narratives and turns them into a new ritual for our future, and a celebration of science for the people.

As part of the experience, audience members will be offered an alcoholic beverage therefore only 21+ attendees will be served.