ACTUA 1

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ACTUA 1 is a live-film performance piece by Brooklyn-based company Object Collection that constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ‘68 uprisings in Paris.

Performers pace restlessly behind a movie screen erected onstage of the Collapsable Hole as well as in all the nooks and crannies of the theater and surrounding spaces.

Spouting slogans for a missing revolution, actors propel themselves out of stagnation and boredom through complex object procedures and mental tasks. Speeches, music, activities, text, and images are projected on to the onstage movie screen via video cameras and microphones, where the audience can watch from a comfortable distance.

The action is both intimately proximal and telepresent. ACTUA 1: an absent performance for five performers—the soldiers from Godard’s “Les Carabiniers” performing Allan Kaprow on public access.

Previously presented by Object Collection as a couple of one-off, no-fi gallery performances in 2011 (Presents Gallery) and 2013 (Invisible Dog Art Center), this production has been largely rewritten and is the theatrical premiere.

PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES:

Thur 3/12, 7p

Fri 3/13, 7p

Sat 3/14, 7p

Sun 3/15, 5p

Thur 3/19, 7p

Fri 3/20, 7p

Sat 3/21, 7p

Sun 3/22, 5p

tickets $15

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Presented by Object Collection

Written by Kara Feely and Travis Just

Music by Travis Just

Production Design by Kara Feely

Video by David Pym

Lighting by Celia Krefter

Performed by Travis Just, Yuki Kawahisa, Daniel Allen Nelson, Pimprenelle Noël, Nicolas Noreña and Timothy Scott

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