Radius of Transmission
A three-part, multidisciplinary, site-specific translation of the strangeness being-in-grief
(objects): PART I
(objects): Part I is a museum of magical thinking, an interactive installation of extra-ordinary objects-of-grief collected from over forty community members. These objects form an uncanny phone-booth where visitors can both hear voice messages about the objects from those who contributed them, as well as use an arduino-modified telephone to dial a number and record a message of their own, one that will be translated into ultrasonic frequency and played continuously but never heard. Part I was made in collaboration with Memphis-based installation artist, Robin Salant.
PHOTOS BY NICHOLAS CAPUTO
(absent): Part II
(absent): Part II is a roving, site-specific experience that enters through the ether and over the airwaves. Audiences witness the action--and hear the transmission--from inside their cars and through their car radios. Part II begins with the small audience of twenty cars driving into a field, and it continues as the audience progresses down a dirt road, through city traffic and along Boulder's backroads to the location of Part III. It is a sunset procession, a radio broadcast, and a quiet and still contemplation of the weight of empty space, of absence as presence inverted--not negated.
SOUND DESIGN BY MAX BERNSTEIN, VIDEO DOCUMENTATION BY KEVIN SWEET
(abraded): Part III
(abraded): Part III uses dance to translate the strange, halting, dislocating work of grief into a work of movement, one that marks grief as seemingly incompatible with our lives, yet intimately tied to our liveness. Shifting the frame from “those gone” to “those who go on,” eight dancers construct ways to still be here/to be still here, as their bodies reverberate in constellation inside the warehouse-turned-theatre.
Parts II & III occur in sequence, as Part II carries the audience into Part III.
SOUND DESIGN BY MAX BERNSTEIN, LIGHTING DESIGN BY REED OTTO, VIDEO DOCUMENTATION BY KEVIN SWEET