Info on Performance
This multi-disciplinary performance work evolved from my two and a half year research project of walking in Los Angeles. It considers the perspective of the pedestrian as she facesand tries to get in touch with the city.
In the performance, aseries of photographs of blank and abandoned spaces, collected on the walks,are projected onto various surfaces of the space, becoming frames for thebodies of the performers who interact with them through movement, writing,erasing and tracing; infusing the images with meaning, humor and emotion byinscribing their figures and thoughts into them.
It is a meeting ground of documentation, narration and abstraction celebrating the subsurface layersof a city made available only to the one who walks.
Direction:Sara Wookey
Performers:Rosemary Candelario, Erick Fink
Sound:Michael Deragon
Text: Peter Nabokov, Georges Perec and Sara Wookey, in collaboration with the performers
Advice: Dan Froot, Angelia Leung, Yvonne Rainer, Edward Soja
Premiere:
Museumof Contemporary Art, San Diego March7th 2008
Gallery727, Los Angeles March15th 2008
This program is sponsored by a grant from the University ofCalifornia Institute for Research in the Arts and the Department of World Arts &Cultures at The University of California, Los Angeles. It is part of a series of performanceworks in fulfillment of my Master of Fine Arts degree at UCLA.