Survival In Ruins
Survival In Ruins is a memoir that contemplates grief, parenthood, and slowness. Inspired by the recent birth of her second son, a father with Alzheimer’s, and mycelium networks – a body moves forcefuly slow confronting the reality of the making and unmaking of a life. Lost, forgetful, in need, revealing its triumphs and tribulations.
How does one submit to falling forever?
A falling that moves us to pieces.
Survival In Ruins asks us to sit inside growth and loss, stillness and silence, and what it means to be called into extreme presence.
During this performance, a large hand-knitted scenography will encompass the space mimicking forms of fungal organisms. A body moves in extreme slowness tending to the passage of presence to absence and absence to presence. An observation of how the time spent in making and losing life defies the logic of capitalist labor, productivity, sociality and forces an encounter with profound unpredictability. When moving and being with slowness, we come closer to modes of preparation for the irreconcilable, the unknowable, the unpredictable.
Credits:
Choreography/Performance Katie Vickers
Sound Grant Cutler, Philip Glass
Sound design Katie Vickers
Sound editing Michael Kiley, Albert Quesada
Set design Margot Becker
Lights Albert Quesada
Supported by Threshold Collective
Premiere:
October 15 2023: 7pm
October 16 2023: 8pm
MAAS Building: 1325 N. Randolph St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
*Pay what you can tickets at door
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Work In Progress Sharing:
September 12th 2022: Cannonball Festival
Image credit: @AlbertQuesada