Quote Unquote: Experiments in Time-Based Text
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.
Arrive a few minutes early before each performance and explore texts, videos and other materials related to Quote Unquote productions in the “Context Space” off of the Main Lobby.
screening
Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:30 PM
An entertaining series of shorts that looks at expressive moving image work based on or inspired by poetic texts.
performance
Saturday, March 3, 2012 8 PM
Peyret’s melding of theater, music, live performance, and large-scale video projection. Using voice and movement, a single performer interacts with sonic and visual elements to create a multi-layered interpretation of Henry David Thoreau’s revolutionary musings on Walden.
exhibition
Monday, March 5 — Saturday, July 28
Rubin transforms our public interior into a laboratory of words and motion, projecting glowing white text from Shakespeare’s complete dramatic works (37 plays) onto walls, walkways, and other surfaces.
exhibition
Friday, April 6 — Saturday, October 13
Inspired by J.G. Ballard’s short story The Index, sprawling sculptures filmed by live cameras present a landscape of people and places that implies an overarching narrative of the 1960s to the present day.
performance
Friday, April 6, 2012 8 PM
A subtle and powerful work for six dancers that combines butoh, a Japanese dance form that embraces shadows and darkness, with traditional African dance and contemporary movement to create a scenario in which lightless vision ignites the imagination.
performance
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 8 PM
A live handmade film and electronic music event inspired by late author David Foster Wallace’s remarkable novel of the same name.
screening
Friday, April 27, 2012, 8 PM
This premiere of Cohen’s EMPAC-commissioned project, a documentary-based hybrid built from film footage of Nova Scotia, various texts, and live music featuring such stellar musicians as Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Todd Griffin, and Jim White (Dirty Three), is a visual and sonic exploration of place.