Correspondences
In ‘Correspondences,’ individual performers wearing gas masks are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. As the performers repeatedly try to stand atop the sand, machines attached to the chambers intermittently trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to sink back down to the ground. The sand blasts continuously occur in the chambers, even in the absence of a performer.
‘Correspondences’ is intended as a poetic microcosm in which performers, observers, machines, and natural elements of the Park can mingle in new and unexpected ways. Some of the generative questions informing the work include: How do we cope with uncertainty? What happens to our bodies when we encounter the unknown? And how are we reshaping environmental ethics?
“Its visual resonance is immediate. The performers, writhing in the sand of their dusty chambers, reflect to the mask-wearing public a kind of horror laden with the imagery of contamination and confinement ubiquitous with the events of this year.” – George Kan, Brooklyn Rail (2020)
““It’s like going to an art gallery, but more immediate…I am moved by what looks like gas masks that the performers are wearing; what might be whimsical seems darker. The human body contains more than light or heat or air.” – Marcina Zaccaria, Theater Pizzazz (2020)
“Meanwhile pieces like Correspondences could push us to not only stay connected, but imagine new ways forward.” – Joey Sims, Transitions (2020)
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