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         March7^th 2008

Gallery727, Los Angeles                                March15^th 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.

http://www.sarawookey.com