January 7-13, 2019
Sara Lyons' UNTITLED CONSENT PROJECT [UCP] D+R Residency
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UNTITLED CONSENT PROJECT [UCP] is a participatory, mixed reality performance project contending with so-called “grey areas” of consent and the foreignness of language in the face of immediate sensation and desire.
Work-in-Progress Showing: Sunday, January 13 // 2:30pm (free)
at
Automata
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90042
[runtime approx. 50 min]
// Join Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice for our first D+R (Development + Research) Residency work-in-progress showing of 2019. Admission is free, RSVP is recommended, and donations toward our residency program are warmly appreciated.
// LAPP and Automata offer D+R development residencies for artists creating new works of live performance. The program is designed to provide vital infrastructure for Los Angeles based artists, and places emphasis on work that reflects/connects to the unique histories, environments, communities, issues and artistic legacies that define it.
ABOUT THIS RESIDENCY //
Is there intimacy without power? UNTITLED CONSENT PROJECT [UCP] is a participatory, mixed reality performance project contending with so-called “grey areas” of consent and the foreignness of language in the face of immediate sensation and desire. What happens when we rely on language to hold that ephemeral third space between two individuals having sex? In a series of structured one-on-one analog and mediated interactions, performers and audience members will meet at intersections of mind and body, blindness and sight, me and you, and attempt to dance across these chasms. With material developed from found accounts of sexual experience and assault narratives, UCP participants must contend with the impossible task of consent: mediating physical experiences through language. UCP will deconstruct gendered problematics of one-on-one intimacy, perform the treacherous chasm between self and other, and ask what is at stake when our most vulnerable sensations must be mediated through language. UCP seeks to expand the feminist cultural conversations about consent and lay the groundwork for new frameworks for sexual collaboration.
ABOUT THE ARTIST //
Sara Lyons is a Los Angeles-based director who seeks to explode form and politic in critically embodied, interdisciplinary new theatre and performance works. Working frequently in adaptation, social practice, and new media, their work has been presented nationally and internationally by Los Angeles Performance Practice, OUTsider, SFX Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, LaMaMa, Edinburgh Fringe, and more. Sara holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is an alum of the Hemispheric Institute’s EMERGENYC program for artists working at the intersection of performance and politics at NYU. They are a features writer with ContemporaryPerformance.com. More at www.sara-lyons.com //
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Collaboratively offered by Los Angeles Performance Practice and Automata, and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Photo by Gema Galiana, "I'm Very Into You," LAX Festival, 2018.