#13. 9/23/11, 8pm. Object Collection presents Actua 1
The new season of the Sound Series at Presents Gallery begins on Friday September 23, 2011 at 8pm.
Object Collection presents:
ACTUA 1
a new performance piece from Object Collection
Written by Kara Feely and Travis Just, Performed by Eric Magnus, Tavish Miller, Kara Feely and Travis Just
ACTUA 1 constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film—Godard’s favorite—from a lost non-revolution. Performers pace restlessly in the narrow confines of the hallway, adjacent to Presents Gallery as they spout slogans for a missing revolution. Actors propel themselves out of stagnation and boredom through complex object procedures and mental tasks. Speeches, music, activities, and radio are projected into the gallery space via video cameras and microphones. The action is both intimately proximal and telepresent. ACTUA 1: an absent performance for four performers—the soldiers from “Les Carabiniers” performing Allan Kaprow on public access.
Object Collection comprises theater director and playwright Kara Feely and composer/performer Travis Just. Since their founding in 2004, the group has been authoring, directing, and performing large-scale productions conceived as multi-media operas, performance installations, and evening-length concerts. Coming out of traditions of the experimental performing arts, the group’s background includes substantial knowledge of the work of Robert Ashley, Christian Wolff, and Richard Foreman, though they cite equally as influences the Volksbühne Berlin, John Cage, the Situationists, and Swiss-German visual artist Dieter Roth. Superfluities Redux/George Hunka states: “Object Collection is a rarity, marrying cutting-edge new music with cutting-edge theatrical performance practice.” About their most recent opera Innova the Huffington Post wrote “…this is work that eviscerates itself in front of you, and doesn’t apologize for the blood that stings your eyes. It’s not for the faint of heart, but it is for those tired of being tired at the theater.”
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