In the years that multi-disciplinary conceptual artist Carol Syzmanski supported her family with a day job as a corporate banker she was (a) obliged to maintain a wardrobe of designer suits by the likes of Valentino, Jill Sander and Alexander McQueen and (b) able to keep a portion of her mind focused on artistic creativity by means of a daily email practice that generated crowd sourced poetic synonyms arranged according to the categories of Roget’s Thesaurus—her “Cockshut Dummy” series. “He Said I Thought” is a dense, intertwined installation consisting of text pieces, 8-channel video, textual wallpaper, sculpture (mesh reworkings of those suits) and a schedule of live performances of a full-blown drama in which her suits and found poetry find themselves folding into a set of narratives of a distinctly #MeToo variety. Pictured here is poet and visual artist Simone Kearney who plays the “Jill Sander” suit character. Sardonic commentary is interjected by a misogynistic boss, a disembodied Wizard of Oz voice  in the gallery office, performed, in his NYC acting debut, by artcritical editor David Cohen (me). The cast and crew almost numerically match the cheek by jowl seated audience in this shoebox venue, echoing perhaps the tense and unsolicited intimacies described in the drama itself. But that is speculation on my part, as behind my wall I can’t see a thing. DAVID COHEN

Exhibition on view through November 17 at Signs and Symbols, 102 Forsyth Street, between Grand and Broome streets; remaining performances on November 8 and 10 strictly seated via RSVP, info@signsandsymbols.art