An exploration of the sonic character of alarms and the physical response they create, in collaboration with choreographer Brigette Dunn (LA) and visual artist Dasha Sur (Russia). Questioning boundaries, ownership and power as observed both locally and in the geopolitical scene, ALARM performs ideas of need, limit and transgression in the context of capitalist society, with its crises of inequality. The alarm, as a public performance of danger, sets an example for the violating body and its desire to disrupt and renegotiate the limits of its existence. Once it sounds, the divisions between self and other, between public and private, previously hidden in the background, are revealed, as are the networks and infrastructures protecting those boundaries. Amidst the city’s viscera concealing systems of protection, fear and power in infinite webs of wires and cables, ALARM implicates us in questions of difference, desire, and law.
ALARM Vignette #2 uses security alarms and the ancient Greek Sirens as points of departure to embody the act of trespassing, ownership of space, and the physical and disembodied experiences of the alarm state.
Presented by:
LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and Wild Art Group at Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles (2018)
Direction: Kestrel Leah / Music composition & sound design: Yiannis Christofides / Choreography: Brigette Dunn-Korpela / Visual design: Dasha Sur / Costume design: David Moyer / Lighting Design: Katelan Braymer
Cast: Joseph Baca, Bailey Edwards, Cristina Fernandez, Kestrel Farin Leah, Dominique McDougal, Lisa McNeely, Lizi Watt
Project developed, in part, in residency at The Watermill Center with the support of a CalArts Alumni Seed Grant
