CONSTRUCT

Saturdays March 17 and 24, 2007 8PM

Performances by Trickster Theater

Directed and conceived by Papo Colo

An evening of new performances by Trickster Theater exploring ideas of building and layering.

ARTISTS

Rob Andrews, Eduardo Cintron, Boryana Rossa, Oleg Mavromatti, C. Ryder Cooley, Saeri Kiritani, Jolie Pichardo, Pasha Radetzki, Rafael Sanchez, Aki Sasamoto, Mark Stafford, Eun Woo Cho.

DIRECTOR

Papo Colo

“The Trickster performance theatre is an experimental approach to presenting performance art in which unique individual voices make up a collective work. The artists develop a specific shared subject. The group performs simultaneously inside an exhibition of the same subject. The curve of performance art is the collective theatre”.

Papo Colo, Director

PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTIONS

Eduardo Cintron’s Santo Concreto performance demonstrates the artist’s endurance and faith. Cintron will walk back and forward between a pole and an altar. The spectators will be constantly moving the pole. Once Cintron reaches the altar, he will kneel and give offerings of food, flowers and alcohol to Santo Contreto. After finishing his praying, a new spectator will move the pole. Every time the pole moves it represents a change in faith.

In Red Skirt Project Eun Woo Cho reinterprets the traditional Korean game Moo Gung Hwa Cco Eat Pea Ut Seup Ni Da." Wearing a traditional Korean skirt upside down to reveal her undergarments, Chu performs a quiet protest for the Korean women who were forced to serve Japanese invaders during WWII.

C. Ryder Cooley performs with her collaborator, a disembodied deer who once hung as a trophy on a hunters wall. Together they will construct a third body, a post-gender antlered being who hovers chimerically in a space betwixt forest and civilization.

Jolie Pichardo performs Constructing Venus with Andrew Hoepfner. Working as a sculptor, Hoepfner will cover Pichardo’s body with a second skin. As this clay dries, Pichardo is transformed into a Venus-like image; transfixed and motionless on her pedestal.

Pasha Radetzki creates a series of sculptural actions in a performance setting.

Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti will perform True Love in reference to the wedding portrait of the wounded vet Ty Ziegel with wife Renee Kline.

Using footage of the 1967 Newark riots, Rafael Sanchez questions the existence of decaying landscapes by burying himself alive.

In Conduct/Judge Mentals, Aki Sasamoto presents two solo works on nothing and everything. Sasamoto will obsessively collect and inflate imagination over objects so common as plastic bags. She then wonders about childhood bullies, empathizing with each end of a sad incident. Both sides of a wall are serious, painful, and yet full of life. In covering the wall with her cosmology, she promotes being judgmental.

Mark Stafford works and assembles wood stick structure creating his human body as a model.