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EXPERIMENTAL TEXT FESTIVALAn experimental text to stage festival and workshop May 10-13, 2007 The Ontological is proud to present the Experimental Text Festival, a four-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of notation and unorthodox methods of making and presenting work. The festival will feature short form works by established and emerging artists who have gathered over a few months to discuss issues around working with experimental texts. Featuring new work by Bronwen Bitetti, Karinne Keithley, Rachelle Knowles, Tan Lin, Johanna Linsley, Ruth Margraff, and Jason Szalla. Thursday, May 10 7pm All shows performed every night. Run time is 90 minutes. For tickets and full schedule, click HERE (in alphabetical order, by writer) Casting Off Bronwen Bitetti is a playwright whose work combines text, sound, installation and theater. Her work has been produced in New York at HERE Arts Center, the InterArt Annex and on the lightship Frying Pan, as a site-specific performance for the Mabou Mines Suite Resident Artist program. Her plays have been published in The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies and in Play: A Journal of Plays . She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Jeremy Wilhelm is from Iowa and is based in Minneapolis. He performs, directs and creates music for theatre, performance and dance. He works primarily with Thaddeus Phillips and Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, whose current project, Flamingo Winnebego , premieres at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in Late August. Casting Off is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. __________ Do Not Do This Ever Again The Text Fest will feature a video adaptation of a freestanding operetta from Do Not Do This Ever Again , a play created from a collecting procedure, whose closest analogue is a windmill made out of coke cans - a delicate, humane, singing windmill. The operetta materializes Marie Antoinette and Esme the Cat in Maine, as they wander about nothingness and listen to the deer sing. Karinne Keithley has been working in interdisciplinary performance for about a decade. Her main areas of investigation have been writing, choreography and sound-assembly. In addition to live performance, she maintains a treasury of sound and video pieces at www.fancystitchmachine.org. She has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Mac Wellman, and is about to begin a Ph.D. program in English at CUNY's Graduate Center. She is currently performing with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company. __________ __________ Disco Eats Itself A text transforms into a disco, with its seamless flow of all-night, 4-to-the-floor grooves. Poet Tan Lin conjures a theatrical synaesthesia as a disco video track plays against live performers and an animated text. Tan Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe and BlipSoak01 . His writing has appeared in numerous journals including Conjunctions , The Boston Review , Cabinet , Hambone , and Purple . His video and LCD work have been shown at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, Yale Art Museum, Sophienholm Museum (Copenhagen), Drawing Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art's Soundcheck Series. Lin is the recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant and Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer's Grant for 2007. He has just completed a sampled novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand . He teaches at New Jersey City University. A blog of what he read last week is available at http://ambientreading.blogspot.com Danielle Aubert (B.A., University of Virginia; M.F.A. Yale University) has worked in New York, Moscow, and Detroit. She teaches at the College for Creative Studies and collaborated on the journals Detroit, i.e. Infrastructure and Detroit: Imaginary Cities . Her book Sixteen Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel was published by Various Projects in 2006. __________ Learning Skills Program Learning Skills Program provides a gently insistent overview of one current approach to Particular Algebra. Objectives include: lightly drifting from categorized levels of abstraction, observing mathematical operators and intuiting concrete solutions. All levels welcome. Johanna Linsley is a performance artist and writer. Her work has been seen at the Volksbuhne Theater (Berlin), the Rhode Island School of Design, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, HERE Arts Center and the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. She is a founding member of the documentary arts collaborative UnionDocs. Johanna graduated from Smith College and in Fall 2007 will begin an M.A. in Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. Katrina Bugaj has worked with companies/schools abroad and in NYC including; Soho Thinktank, Women's Project and Productions, Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center, The Players Theatre, and The Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Katrina is a graduate of Grinnell College and The Jacques Lecoq International Theater School. She has also trained at The National Theater Institute, The RSC, Playwrights Horizons, and with Anne Bogart/SITI Company. Over the Garden Wall Over the Garden Wall : a drawing-room theatrical version with the whole of the stage business built right in OR high art for amateurs. Guaranteed performable by any amateur anywhere with text inspired by an American "Jonathan" play from 1807, minstrel shows, bird novella maladies, pocket beauty books, and parlor drama burlesques. No rehearsal necessary. Ruth Margraff, a leader in the new opera movement in America, has had her work produced widely at home and abroad. She is the recipient of many awards including a fourth Rockefeller Foundation commission for BAM/Apollo, a Fulbright lecture/research award to Greece, a McKnight/Playwrights' Center national commission with ongoing collaborations in India, Afghanistan, Slovenia, and Serbia. She writes most often with her Café Antarsia Ensemble and rebellious alamkara (because unadorned is not enough). www.RuthMargraff.com Brooke O'Harra is the artistic director of the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf. __________ Copy 8852 Copy 8852 is an alcohol fueled, candy flavored transcribed, circum-conversation about River Phoenix, Pop Culture, and Contemporary Art. Anonymity will be the new celebrity. Now and then in the Viper Room a museum can be found . . . This is Jason D. Szalla's directorial debut presenting a new work in progress, Copy 8852 . A New York-based artist, Jason has been exhibiting his paintings in Germany, Czech Republic, England, and Scotland. His theatrical experience includes designing for Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. Copy 8852 is based on and inspired by his recent and on-going work, Ideas and Observations , a series of lists, which has been featured in every Daily Constitutional publication including the forthcoming issue, to launch at the Art Basel, Switzerland this summer. In this project, Jason continues to explore the meaning of existence and how and why he's necessary as an individual artist in the 21st century. Visit www.szalla.com.
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