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.
Presented by:
REDCAT Studio, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles (2017)
Direction: Kestrel Farin Leah / Music composition & sound design: Yiannis Christofides / Choreography: Brigette Dunn-Korpela / Visual design: Dasha Sur / Costume design: David Moyer / Lighting Design: Katelan Braymer / Video Design: Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
Cast: Bailey Edwards, Marguerite French, Craig Gibson, Sadie Kuwano, Lisa McNeely, Anthony Nikolchev, Nathan Nonhof, Jenapher Zheng
Project developed in residency at The Watermill Center with the support of New Music USA.
