Acting Out: Words that Connect

ACTING OUT: WORDS THAT CONNECT

March 29th – July 27th, 2014

A series of performances of original works written or composed with the art in mind. The first set of performances is on March 29th and 30th with a play by Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter and Lori Toppel and a performance by Lisa Karrer with David Simons.

FIRST SHOWS: SATURDAY MARCH 29TH, 7 – 9PM AND SUNDAY MARCH 30TH, 5 – 7PM

The following works will be performed both evenings

Under the thirty foot wings of Jeffrey Schrier’s installation Unfinished Flight, Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter, and Lori Toppel present Still Here, a performance piece adapted from their collaborative memoir, “Still Here Thinking of You: A Second Chance With Our Mothers” (Big Table Publishing, 2013). Like the artwork — a powerful assemblage of more than one million aluminum can tabs, transformed into a cohesive work. Still Here is a collection of bits and pieces transformed into a cohesive work.

Lisa Karrer with David Simons | Meeting Chen Zhen: Drum as Doorway between Worlds

Multimedia performing artist Lisa Karrer creates a theatrical duet with live and sampled voice, drum, and video in collaboration with percussionist and MAX/MSP programmer David Simons; the artists will interact with artist Chen Zhen’s large drum sculpture Traitment Musical/Vibratoire. To “meet” Chen Zhen, Karrer and Simons will treat his drum as a supernatural doorway, physically interacting with its surfaces and spatial area, and triggering visual and sonic events with digital software design.