I've wanted to make a performance inside an art exhibition for a very long time. After seeing a recent production of Our Town at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, I became obsessed with the play and Thornton Wilder and decided to create a meta-art-exhibition performance. The installation will be up most of the time, so that people can use the space as a gallery, to look at the art close up. And then when the performances take place, I will perform mostly on the stage, but spectators can use the space as gallery or theater. With this work I want to explore the possibilities of theater spaces (where people buy a ticket and are pretty much locked in and leaving is considered rude) and the potential of viewing art outside of the white box galleries so many of us are familiar with. The story told in the performance is very much about father-son relationships, the continuity and importance of human creation, and a commentary on the current limits of human potential and the imbalance between the spiritual and the mundane.
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