the woman who drops all of her paint brushes every day

the woman who drops all of her paint brushes every day

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GENERATION SHIP
Curated by Caitlin Baucom
Mana Contemporary | Jersey City
February 25, 2017

Inspired by Mana’s distinct industrial landscape, GENERATION SHIP constructs a vision of sanctuary within a near dystopian future. Artists from a performative community in Bushwick, Brooklyn colonize the vast architecture with site-specific works, distilling what resources they have–themselves–into new ways to survive, create, communicate, nourish, and destroy. The audience is invited to tour this future, with its developed tools and sited memorials. The artists were chosen for their holistic use of physicality and sound, attention to politics embedded in our bodies, and ability to source healing out of bleakness and fear. As creators, they move in and out of each other’s work, developing common performative and emotional languages. GENERATION SHIP envisions this lived collaboration as a future closed culture with its attendant folk beliefs, ethics, and shared psychological realities on display.

DIRECTED BY Caitlin Baucom with
SITED ORIGINAL PERFORMANCES BY Alexandra Drewchin, Kathleen Dycaico, Sarah Kinlaw, Hayley Martell, and Tara-Jo Tashna
VIDEOS BY Jerome AB, Sigrid Lauren, and Colleen Marie
SCORE BY Caitlin Baucom and Nathanael Gettings
INSTALLATIONS BY Ben Gazsi and Colleen Marie
CLOTHING BY Merritt Meacham
BODYWORK by Christiana Cefalu
TOUR PERFORMED BY Jerome AB, Caitlin Baucom, Gina Chiapetta, Sharleen Chidiac, Patrick Estabrook, Gabriella Garcia, and Quenton Stuckey
PRODUCED BY Charlotte Gettings
A TREVORSHAUS production