Culturemart 2018

CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA & JIM DAWSON – Find Me

A HARP Alum Presentation
A multispeaker sound installation that explores the liminal space between getting lost and finding one’s way. Find Me is an immersive 3D cinema-for-the-ear that triggers personal memories and associations, manipulating the internal mapping sense that shapes our perception of where we are. Audiences can listen from a fixed position or move throughout the multi-tiered landscape of speakers, surrounded by sound.

GISELA CARDENAS & MILICA PARANOSIC / INTANDEM LAB + PARACADEMIA – HYBRID SUITE No.2: The Carmen Variations

An opera of seduction and eroticism, HYBRID SUITE No.2: The Carmen Variations is as classical as it is current. An archeologist curates an exhibition around the elusive but provocative figure of Bizet’s Carmen that plunges her into a world of animalistic impulses that threaten to consume her.

XIMENA GARNICA & SHIGE MORIYA / LEIMAY – A Meal

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya of LEIMAY share a study for their project A Meal. In this study a ritualistic parade of love, sympathy and desire transforms the theater into a open landscape of bodies in constant state of offering. A Meal is a contemporary ritual of offering, sharing, and eating on a stage delicately framed by dancing bodies, crafted foods, music, and light. A poem for the senses to endow a meal with meaning.

SPENCER LOTT & MAIKO KIKUCHI – 9000 Paper Balloons

In a sleepy American town, a cloud hovers above the post office. Soon after, a red bicycle and an old mailbox go missing. Then the entire town goes missing. This original ghost story is the result of a collaboration between Japanese artist Maiko Kikuchi and American artist Spencer Lott. A bilingual theatrical presentation, 9000 Paper Balloons explores the relationship between Japan and America.

SULI HOLUM – THE BAKKEN

A HARP Alum Presentation
THE BAKKEN is an investigation of the Bakken Shale, a rock formation roughly 350 million years old sitting deep below the surface of North Dakota. In a theatrical fugue of intertwined narratives focused on women in the region – indigenous and immigrant, teachers, bartenders, strippers, frackers, farmers – THE BAKKEN unearths hard truths about how the extraction economy functions on a human and a geological scale.

ZOEY MARTINSON / SMOKE & MIRRORS COLLABORATIVE – The Black History Museum… According to the United States of America

THE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM… ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA delves into the fraught relationship between Black bodies and the value America has placed on those bodies. Starting from the founding of this country traveling through modern day this production will explore ‘Blackness’ from its constitutional conception to its currency.