The Atelier Project I : (she) who was never there
Presented on March 21, 2015 at The Firehouse Space (Brooklyn, NY)
and on May 8, 2015 at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall (San Diego, CA)
and on May 8, 2015 at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall (San Diego, CA)
(s)he who was never there revolves around themes of identity, artistry and vulnerability. This event, neither pure theatre, pure opera, pure concert, nor pure reading, invites the interpreters and listeners/viewers to let go of any prior expectations and engage on a visceral, sensual and immediate level. Questions of authorship are raised through the cavalier appropriation, alteration and juxtaposition of texts (musical, visual and literary), which are used as materials to build a larger, kaleidoscopic and extremely personal meta-object.
(s)he was was never there includes work by: Iannis Xenakis, Jean-Luc Godard, Luigi Nono, Susan Sontag, Bradley Scott Rosen, Ingmar Bergman, Gilles Deleuze, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hildegard von Bingen, Michel Foucault, B. W. Grant Barnes, Carlo Gesualdo, David Shields, Kent Mackenzie, Franz Schubert, Stendhal, Alice Teyssier, and Thomas Merula among many others.
The deeds of the gods take many forms. And gods often perform deeds even beyond our hopes. Our wishes might not be granted but the gods will find ways of achieving what we never thought achievable. Such is the path of our story.