This Very Moment New York Performances

“This Very Moment” arrives at ShapeShifter Lab as a live, small-room work that moves between comedy and art performance. Featuring Chenxi Pan, it treats the present tense as material, building meaning out of timing, attention, and the everyday logic of an audience gathered in New York. No specific NYC premiere history has been widely documented, but the piece fits the city’s long tradition of hybrid stages where stand-up, conceptual art, and improvisation share the same risk. Its restraint makes the room’s reactions part of the story.