TICKETS:
May 4-14, 2011
The Brick Theatre, Brooklyn
BOX OFFICE: 718-907-6189
"Break something. Reassemble it, a piece at a time, until it is only one piece away from completion. Break it again. Reassemble it until only two pieces away. Repeat process until you are left with only one piece."
Theater company Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) and experimental music ensemble thingNY construct a vast, subjective map of ideas, a documentary about time itself. The absurdity of completely explaining the subjective histories, cultural role, and science of time is balanced with the earnest attempt to do just that. This musically-driven performance art piece features performers of radically different backgrounds working together to create a form of performance that exists simultaneously in and outside of time, expressing and describing through video, web-based durational media and an accompanying printed book that extends the performance beyond the duration of the live performance.
The work is influenced by the chance-based and aleatoric modes of the
music of John Cage and Gerard Grisey, the durational modes of the
performance art of Tehching Hsieh and Bas Jan Ader, as well as the
philosophies and science of Husserl, Einstein, William James, Heidegger,
and many others. All of it mashed into pop song, art song, monologues,
stories and lectures.
