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Musicians on scaffolding with each member of the band on different levels playing a concert to a crowd on a staged draped in sheer white fabric.

Quote Unquote

Experiments in Time-Based Text
September 23, 2011—October 13, 2012
EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

Taking an existing text as a starting point, artists explode the concept of script and bring to life works that imbue music, film, theater, dance, interactive sculpture, and talks with the essence of the text.

With such varied sources as diaries of polar exploration, science fiction, ancient Roman play fragments, and an essay on shadows, this series focuses on the process of creating performance and art, sparked by a passage of words.

Main Image: Cake of the 3 Towers in Studio 1, 2011. Photo: Eric Ameres.

Event Type
Series

Season

2012 Spring
2011 Fall
Curator
Kathleen Forde
Hélène Lesterlin
September 23–24, 2011 at 8PM
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A group of six puppeteers dressed in hooded white robes on stilts working large marionettes gathered around a lit red rope.
Dance/Theater, Performance, Commission
69˚S.
Phantom Limb
September 11–12, 2011 at 8PM
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Six performers on a light purple stage with a vintage car, several tents, and other found objects. Three performers are the front of the stage, one screaming theatrically. Two performers are behind them walking hunched towards the sixth performer.
Dance/Theater, Performance, Commission
Dionysia
Poor Dog Group
Friday, December 2-3, 2011
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Musicians on scaffolding with each member of the band on different levels playing a concert to a crowd on a staged draped in sheer white fabric.
Music/Sound, Performance, Commission
The Cake of The 3 Towers
Japanther
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7:30PM
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A black illustrated whimsical tree with multiple branches, each holding different creatures, like birds, owls, butterflies, and worms set in front of a green sky.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
poemetrics
onedotzero_adventures in motion
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 8PM
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Two grand pianos among various wires, microphones, and recording devices in a black box studio in front of a projection of a tranquil green pond.
Dance/Theater, Performance
RE: Walden
Jean-François Peyret
March 5—May 2, 2012
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White text projected on to the wood hull of the concert hall that read "a hideous trumpet, a humor or a worm, a hundred of them, a kind of auditor, a kind of history, a kind of jollity, a kind of Puritan, a kind of remorse, a league of amity, a lecture of them, a parlous boy, no glory, a performance, a philosopher, no trace, a plain knave, no touch"
Installation, Commission
A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language
Ben Rubin
March 27—October 13, 2012
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A miniature model of a waterslide on a hill on a white pedestal with a cct camera pointing at it
Commission, Exhibition
Index
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 8pm
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Six dancers wearing street clothes moving throughout the space diagonally. A white woman and a Black woman stand in the foreground wearing black draped dresses. The white woman Is looking off into the distance as the Black woman hunches, looking down.
Dance/Theater, Performance, Commission
fluid hug hug: (glowing)
Kota Yamazaki
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:30pm
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A person wearing gray sweatpants and sweatshirt standing hunched over a desk with backside to the viewer working on a computer controlling the projected image of a human eye.
Film/Video, Music/Sound, Performance
Infinite Jest
SUE-C + AGF
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Three screens showing greenery and rolling hills behind a small pit orchestra on a dark stage.
Film/Video, Music/Sound, Commission
We Have An Anchor
Jem Cohen