01/11/2015 7:30
Triskelion Arts
118 North 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Sunday, January 11
Jesse Phillips-Fein
Mei Yamanaka Works
Jesse Phillips-Fein‘s new work, blur, traverses interwoven layers of the virtual, corporeal, technological, and racial to disrupt the correlation of sight and knowledge. By disorienting the mechanisms of visuality, the piece excavates states of presence, absence, and witness. With quiet urgency, subtle danger and surprise, this dance aims to decompress societal obsessions with security. Made with two casts who do not meet until the performances, blur is an unpredictable world created by acts of co-discovery.
Mei Yamanaka Works’ new piece addresses the 2011 earthquake that hit Japan and is the final chapter of a three-part series on the subject. Why is there such a proliferation of nuclear power plants in a country that is constantly threatened by natural disasters? Yamanaka questions how our society operates, and if its rules intentionally mislead us into maintaining the status quo. She stresses that it is the responsibility of the public at large to take action in order to effectively change such an illogical system.
Ticket $16
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