NYAB Event - Panoply Performance Laboratory "The Silviculture Museum"

Panoply Performance Laboratory "The Silviculture Museum"

chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. )

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A miniature museum about tree farming, colonialization, immigration, and cultural identity is opening October 13th in midtown Manhattan. Featuring rows of miniature pine trees, video in Mandarin and English, and a conceptual, interactive sound installation, the Silviculture Museum is the result of a collaborative, transnational effort. Renowned Filipino director and performer Herbie Go, Taiwanese film and stage actor, pianist, and translator, director and visual artist Esther Neff, composer and sound artist Brian MCorkle, visual artist Shawna Ferrato, and other members of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) have come together during the 100th Anniversary of the Taiwan. The Silviculture Museum is supported through chashama’s hallmark Windows Program, and the Internationalists Directors Collective.

Karina Bes (Artistic Director, Superbia SBP in the Hague, Netherlands) and Lauren Keating (U.S)
WRATH: An exploration of public suicide as an act of social rage and revenge, six dancers express the pressures that force unthinkable acts.

Ana Margineanu (Artistic Director, Green Hours in Bucharest, Romania) and Ashley Kelly-Tata (U.S)
ENVY: The emotions of an audience as a single body are exploited by experimental staging in this formal interpretation of the concept of envy.

Michel Melemed (Creator of Regurgitophagy curated for the Public's Under the Radar Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Tamilla Woodard
GREED: An outrageous performance piece about capitalism and the literal value of coins and bills as objects.

Dina Keller (Artistic Director of Exploratorium in Munich, Germany) and Esther Neff (U.S)
PRIDE (fallstudies): The "fall" aspect of pride is emphasized in this series of performance experiments.

Matteo Tarasco (Best European Director 2005, Italy), Vanessa Soto (Puerto Rico/U.S) and Doug Howe (U.S)
LUST: The origins of this sin and its biological causes are explored through movement and found texts.

Athina Kasiou (Co-Founder of Collision in London and Cyprus) and Jake Witlen (U.S)
GLUTTONY: A woman is trapped by technology and a man is confined by his enormous weight in this internet collaboration.

Visible and Audible from the street at all times.

The Panoply Performance Laboratory is an open co-operative for artists working transnationally and across disciplines. We are dedicated to non-hierarchical dialectical and aesthetic exchange, collaborative creation of projects, and co-apprenticeships (mutual exchange of discipline and craft skills) in performance and Performative art. Our collaborative works are multi-lingual, pedagogical, scientific, epistemological, mathematical, environmental, public, and free when possible. Visit us at www.panoplylab.org. about Panoply Performance Laboratory

Media

• Installation
• Performance Art

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