MEDIA ARTIST
“Metal Skeletons and Lost Lands” is an interactive immersive installation involving live dance, song and projected time-lapse films.
The work explored an emotive psychological response to growing up in a polluted environment and questioning the contradiction of home being both a place of comfort and riddled with potential public health concerns. In the very simplistic sense, the work is a coming of age story, where the viewers are positioned as the protagonist and the performers function as the protagonist’s internal dialogue. The work pulls on nostalgic themes of American folkloric storytelling and horror-film inspired Victorian set and costume design. The scene is cinematic, yet the installation theatrics are non-linear and provided as a choose-your-own-adventure movement play.
Credits:
photography by: Chelsea Shilling
Technical Director: Justin Botz
Music: Darkest Wonder
Performance guide: Kellen Walker
Dancers: Tee Mayo, Rachel Nadler, Danielle Gilmore, Melissa Pillarella
Singers: Sid Branca, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero*
Storytellers: Sid Branca, Daniel Scott Parker, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero, Julynn Wilderson.
Letterpress Printing: Jillian Bruschera
Carpentry: Peter Reese
Prop Assistance: Brent Koehn
“Metal Skeletons and Lost Lands” is an interactive immersive installation involving live dance, song and projected time-lapse films.
The work explored an emotive psychological response to growing up in a polluted environment and questioning the contradiction of home being both a place of comfort and riddled with potential public health concerns. In the very simplistic sense, the work is a coming of age story, where the viewers are positioned as the protagonist and the performers function as the protagonist’s internal dialogue. The work pulls on nostalgic themes of American folkloric storytelling and horror-film inspired Victorian set and costume design. The scene is cinematic, yet the installation theatrics are non-linear and provided as a choose-your-own-adventure movement play.
Credits:
photography by: Chelsea Shilling
Technical Director: Justin Botz
Music: Darkest Wonder
Performance guide: Kellen Walker
Dancers: Tee Mayo, Rachel Nadler, Danielle Gilmore, Melissa Pillarella
Singers: Sid Branca, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero*
Storytellers: Sid Branca, Daniel Scott Parker, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero, Julynn Wilderson.
Letterpress Printing: Jillian Bruschera
Carpentry: Peter Reese
Prop Assistance: Brent Koehn