S P I L L
Daria Kaufman
Friday, August 30 2024 at 8pm
S P I L L is a sound and performance installation that culls audio, tableaus, moods and moves from early motherhood. Mixing séance vibes with sonic distortion, performer/creator Daria Kaufman evokes the surreal undercurrents of domesticity, using vocalization, the amplifications of a modern breast pump, a 1974 vinyl featuring sounds recorded inside a mother’s womb, 60 square feet of verdant wallpaper, and thrifted home décor.
S P I L L is supported by: Los Angeles Performance Practice (R+D for Parents/Guardians, ACCELERATOR), and Automata (AIR Program).
Tickets:
$15 Students, members, seniors, underemployed
$18 General Admission
Seating is extremely limited, advance reservations strongly encouraged
About the Artist:
Daria Kaufman is an interdisciplinary performer/choreographer working at the intersection of movement, text, and media, to make the familiar strange. From phone-based audio performance to domestic object scores, to immersive media installation, her work is rooted in the body – its mutability and capacity for (un)making meaning. Spare, evocative, and hard-hitting, Daria probes the construction of female identity. Eschewing message-making and linearity in favor of the non-sense that erupts from fragmentary narrative, she explores themes of sexuality, representation, language, and pain.
Daria’s work has been presented throughout the US and Europe, including: NAVEL (as part of LAX Festival), Pomona and Scripps Colleges, ODC Theater (SF), Cutting Ball Theater (SF), Joe Goode Annex (SF), NOHspace (SF), Mills College (Oakland), The Milkbar (Oakland), KQED Spark TV (SF Bay Area), RAAK – Transport Artspace (The Netherlands), Curtas de Dança - in scope of Festival Dias de Dança (Porto), Encontro Bianual de Artes Performativas - (Re)union (Lisbon), Biblioteca de Marvila (Lisbon), Zaratan Contemporary Art Gallery (Lisbon), and FAKI Festival (Zagreb). In 2015, she was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award (the “Izzie”) for Individual Performance. Her work has been supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, GDA Foundation, European Cultural Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation. Daria recently took part in Directors’ Lab West, hosted by Pasadena Playhouse. She holds a MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Mills College.
Tapetail is Automata’s new experimental sound series, launched in October 2022.
Tapetail presents live events and sound installations featuring the work of experimental sound artists.
We are currently looking to present shows and installations that deal with "liveness" where something about the experience is best presented live, whether through improvisation, special acoustic treatment or audience experience. There’s been a lot of great art happening in the virtual and digital world so now we’re turning our focus back towards bringing people together for sound experiences that are best experienced in a live setting.
Automata’s Tapetail series
is curated by Cassia Streb.
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