CURATION
INUA ELLAMS | Volatile Space
Inua Ellams + Erik Ehn | FAll 2020
Join playwrights Inua Ellams and Erik Ehn for a conversation about (im)migration, the search for empathy, and connections across generational spaces. The two will explore such varied topics as risk-taking in writing and performance; analogue vs. digital worlds as spaces for art; and the state of theatre now.
Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer.
BERT & NASI | Palmyra (Photo by Alex Brenner)
NASI VOUTSAS & BERTRAND LESCA | SPRING 2019
PALMYRA is an exploration of revenge, the politics of destruction and what we consider to be barbaric, inviting people to step back from the news and look at what lies beneath, and beyond, civilization.
RICARDO DOMINGUEZ | Digital Disturbances, Then and Now
RICARDO DOMINGUEZ RESIDENCY | FALL 2019
The disturbances created by Electronic Disturbance Theater 1.0 (EDT) in the 1990’s were bound to the aesthetics of radical transparency as part of a wide area investigation of electronic civil disobedience. After 9/11 EDT 2.0’s disturbance gestures shifted their research into the use of radical translucency as part of the core of their project the Transborder Immigrant Tool.
ENGINE | Un Día Más Sobre La Tierra
ENGINE RESIDENCY | SPRING 2017 & 2018
Engine is a concert of violent and sophisticated guitars, overlapped by the raw voices of three actor-musicians. The songs woven by Latino-American rhythms and rock dynamics, punched by simple and powerful theatrical ruptures, poetically tells the story of an ancient device floating unseen over the skies of the world.
CHIARA GUIDI | The Land of the Earthworms (Photo by Nicolò Gialain)
CHIARA GUIDI (SOCIETAS) RESIDENCY | SPRING 2019
The Land of the Earthworms is inspired by the classic tragedy Alcestis by Euripides. Earthworms, blind and deaf, turn over and sift the earth day after day. From the depth of the ground, bringing to surface little heaps of earth, they lift the earth, they transform the landscape and they preserve the many old objects they bury.
RIDICULUSMUS | Give Me Your Love
RIDICULUSMUS RESIDENCY | FALL 2017
The second in a trilogy of plays, Give Me Your Love looks at the healing potential of altered states of consciousness and the use of psychedelic drugs, in particular 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) for patients traumatized by combat stress.
DECOLONIAL GESTURES | Spring 2016
Decolonial Gestures | A Symposium on Indigenous Performance is an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and intertribal symposium intended to both present and stimulate contemporary indigenous expressive forms. Taking cue from the recent theoretical unfolding of decoloniality, the symposium will both enact and examine decolonial praxis, which resists the perceptual and discursive strictures of colonial matrices of power.