Video, Performance Art Hybrid Walks Through Walls at Highways
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Walks Through Walls have expired.
The last date listed for Walks Through Walls was Friday June 4, 2010 / 8:30pm (and June 5 at 8:30).
More Information About Walks Through Walls
Website
http://www.highwaysperformance.org/
Quotes & Highlights
- "Caleb Hammond (is) the only actor to ever physically frighten me from the stage." --Time Out New York
Description
Walks through Walls a collaboration with an ensemble of L.A.-based performers and designers, is a transcendent installation / performance piece investigating the human condition as an expressionistic landscape of continually disappearing experiences of agony and ecstasy. A portrait in motion of the ephemerality of memory and desire created by boldly physical actors enmeshed in a canvas of beautiful theatrical imagery and sound. Performers careen and slide through space, accompanied by a mesmerizing mantra-like fugue of poetic text that is spoken, projected and heard echoing in the sound design.
Moments of exquisite stillness play counterpoint with impassioned gestural action, Walks Through Walls is part sound and video installation piece, part performance art, part poetry made flesh.
Hammond's work as a performer, director and visual artist has been presented at various venues internationally, including the Public Theater, NYC, The National Theater of Hungary in Budapest, The Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, ATA Gallery in San Francisco, The Copley Society in Boston, Visual Research in New Haven. Hammond has taught Video Art and Installation at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut.
About Rise Industries:
Rise Industries is a forum for exchange between artists and a starting point for interdisciplinary collaborative projects. The Rise Industries project was founded in 1999 by Jeremy J. Quinn and Michele Jaquis.
Jeremy J. Quinn is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, graphic and architectural designer. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Jeremy provides architectural, graphic and sound design services, produces fine art in many media, and is an award winning architectural designer.
Michele Jaquis is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who examines the complexities within personal relationships, identity, language and communication. Her work has been exhibited internationally in alternative spaces, galleries, museums and film festivals. She holds an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, Jaquis is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Artists, Community and Teaching (ACT) Program at Otis College of Art and Design.
About the Ticket Supplier: Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.