Mixed Media Performance
Performance: 45-50 min.
Created with support from the St. Ann’s Warehouse, City Arts Corps. NY. , Wavefarm NY., and the Henson Foundation NY.
Presented at the Folly Tree Arboretum
Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell
Documentation by Philip Lehans
2021
The narrative of this experimental performance is a journey through time and space: zooming into a wall vent to discover a solar system, and within that, the creation of civilization. With no discernible figures, the performance is preoccupied with landscape and planetary creation. Actions that occur over cosmic and geologic time. These vistas are constructed onstage from mundane everyday materials: mountain ranges of ceramic clay, orbiting planets of rubber balls, clouds of wood glue, and pepto-bismol volcanoes.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program and Wave Farm, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Henson Foundation, and a City Arts Corps Grant.