A live presentation of choreographic materials, followed by a post-event conversation with the artists moderated by MIT Theater Arts lecturer Daniel Safer. Both events are open to MIT community members on COVID Pass and the public (using Tim Tickets) with advance registration.

6:30pm: Film Screenings
Correspondences – View #1, Watermill Center (18 min)
Correspondences – View #2, Astor Place (23 min)

8:00pm: In-Progress-Showing from LEIMAY

Related:

Open Studio Prototype Exhibit: Video Installations & Kinetic Sculpture Models
December 2 – 11, 2021
MIT Theater Building W97
345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Open daily 12-3pm and 5-8pm to members of the MIT Community on COVID Pass

Public studio hours to be announced shortly.

About the artists and the project:

A performance installation exploring the juxtapositions of multiplicities and the power of rising

Conceived by multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya and performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble, this expansive project offers spectators multiple entry points to engage with questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence.

In Correspondences, individual performers wearing gas masks are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. As the performers repeatedly try to stand atop the sand, machines attached to the chambers intermittently trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to sink back down to the ground, only to begin to rise again. The sand blasts continuously occur in the chambers, even in the absence of a performer. This work reflects on “the power of rising” during these times in which many people are experiencing heightened uncertainty and political and economic turmoil. The aim is not to pin a singular meaning to this work; instead, let its power rest in the juxtapositions of multiplicities and, as the title implies, in its correspondences.