Thank You For Coming: Space
Faye Driscoll
Faye Driscoll returns to On the Boards with a piece that’s well worth the wait!
Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is the final performance in her celebrated Thank You For Coming series. Driscoll considers theater one of the last secular social spaces, where the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnection is made palpable. Space unfolds within an intimate installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, voice, and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the human body and conjures a world that is, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable.
DATES:
Thursday, January 19, 8pm
Friday, January 20, 8pm - followed by conversation with the artist
Saturday, January 21, 8pm
Sunday, January 22, 5pm
Duration: 1 hour and 15 mins
More About This Piece
Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is the final performance in her celebrated Thank You For Coming series—which includes Attendance and Play. Driscoll considers theater one of the last secular social spaces, where the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnection is made palpable. Space unfolds within an intimate installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, voice, and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the human body and conjures a world that is, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. The trilogy summons the unnamed forces that surge between the artist and the viewer in order to create a communal realm where our experiences are heightened and questioned.
Thank You For Coming: Attendance (2014), the first work in the trilogy, is featured on OntheBoards.tv.
Funders
Commissioned by Peak Performances as part of the Performing Arts Residency Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University, New Jersey; and co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund; and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through the Wexner Center Residency Award Program.
The work was made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Program and the Jerome Foundation, and developed with residency support from Camargo Foundation, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and the Rauschenberg Foundation.
Thank You For Coming: Space is a project of Creative Capital.
Photos by Maria Barinova and Pierre Ware
About the Artist
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