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apogee review on Oregon ArtsWatch

COLLABORATORS & CREDITS

Choreographed by Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik

Performed by Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones

Sound design and music by Hannah Krafcik 

Videography and editing for scenic projections by Hannah Krafcik with contributions from Emily Jones

Dramaturgy by Allie Hankins 

Lighting design by Jeff Forbes 

Captions for live and virtual performances by Cheryl Green

Videography and editing of virtual performance by Evan Benally Atwood, with additional edits by Hannah Krafcik

Audio description for virtual performance by Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones with consulting by Cheryl Green

Audio description for live performance by Alyson Osborn

ASL for live performance by Jme James

Outfits feat. 8 palms, Big Bud Press, and second hand clothing

apogee was made possible through the Alembic Artist Residency at Performance Works NW and with support from the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

apogee

This interdisciplinary live performance was created in collaboration with Emily Jones and presented by Performance Works NW as part of the Alembic Artist Residency and subsequently by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part of TBA:21.

In addition to the live work, Emily and I develop apogee into a 55-minute virtual performance, which was exhibited at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art from September 17-October 3, 2021. This version of the work is available to stream HERE. It features stunning videography by Evan Benally Atwood, detailed audio description by Emily and I, and thoughtful closed-captions by Cheryl Green. An extended transcript of the virtual performance is also available HERE.

ABOUT THE WORK

this system is a living-ghost
that knows what is dead in life 
what is alive in detritus
rejecting, absorbing
repercussions of the fake-real
and layers of data to sense through 
touching truths that don’t abide by logic
awake in dreams, and online when all else is disrupted

What does it mean to have a critically engaged nervous system? What intuitive and predictive technologies do bodies hold, and how do they help us realize deep-seated personal truths (what we don’t yet know we know)? This offering is a sci-fi inspired multi-sensory stim—a personal reflection on the ways our own sensitive systems intertwine with surroundings, how they collapse time, find order, glitch and regulate. It was developed holding neurodiverse experiences in mind and includes video, sound, text, and movement collected and arranged over the course of the pandemic.

Apogee is climax at a distance.