The Art of Performance in Irvine: merge

The Art of Performance @ UCI 8th Edition
presents two new works

merge

By Body Weather Laboratory with Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg

The Open: a collaboration project with participants from Art 100

Directed by Simon Leung, Assisted by Zack Benson

Thursday, March 9, 2023
7:30 p.m.

Free Admission - no reservations necessary

Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
Curated and produced by Deborah Oliver

merge is a new work…  “Aspiring to share presence, working with light, shadow and darkness, we dance at the border of the time-space continuum in “merge”.

The Open: a collaboration project:  In a time when perpetual states of emergency enabled by the global neoliberal capitalist machine that feeds them dominate our reality, how do we respond critically to the chaotic demands of an off-kilter outside and still remain steadfast to the difficult project of working on, caring for, as well as revising assumptions of “the self” as a relational openness to “the other?” Using "radical juxtaposition” as a guiding aesthetic principle, The Open is the culmination of ten weeks of being together (i.e. a class!) in which study, discussion, research, skill acquisition, and rehearsal are devoted to the development of an aesthetic ethos and method for collaborative performance.

An annual performance event dedicated to experimentation in live art and pedagogical research in the Experimental Media and Performance Lab (xMPL).

Support for this performance is provided by the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts and Department of Art, 21C Arts Research and Innovation Grant.

Image credits: (top) photo by Simon Leung, (bottom) Oguri, photo by Moses Hacmon

 

Dates: 
March 9, 2023 - 7:30pm