Arturo's Moving Castle...

...and Aki's sock-draw puppetization continue tonight at The Chocolate Factory and, though you might have a hard time getting a reservation due to the limited space for this show, you ought to try.

Domestic Partner consists of two simultaneous installation/performance works: Secrets of My Mother's Child by Aki Sasamoto and A New Theory of Biology by Arturo Vidich. The latter includes a sound/video program by Howard Huang, and the whole thing concludes with a music set (tonight: the band of Matt Bauder and Aram Shelton).

Show up in comfortable shoes; you'll mostly be moving around and dodging the oncoming performers and their unruly props. The look and atmosphere is more hip gallery opening than dance concert. And if you don't immediately warm to this roughly blended fantasia of personal and global, micro- and macro-obsessions, put it in the pickling barrel.

Tonight, 8pm at The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
(718) 482-7069

Listen to my Body and Soul podcast interview with Sasamoto and Vidich here.

Learn more about these artists here.