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Pamela Z
BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE
installation:
solo gallery exhibition:
Krannert Art Museum
Champaign, IL, USA
January 2010 - May 2010
new york premiere:
The Kitchen
New York, NY, USA
September 16-19, 2010
composer, performer, concepts, video & sound design:
Pamela Z
produced in collaboration with:
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
lighting designer / visual director:
Elaine Buckholtz
fabrication & technical design:
Bill Ballou
interactive video programming:
Pamela Z, Ian Winters, Carole Kim
camera:
Sade Huron
photo: Valerie Oliveiro
multi-media performance world premiere in San Francisco:
Z Space @Theater Artaud
San Francisco, CA, USA
May 20 - 22, 2010
press kit:
Baggage Allowance is a sonically and visually layered work focusing on the concept of baggage in all its literal and metaphorical permutations. Through vocal performance with electronic processing, found text, and recorded interviews, multi-channel sound, interactive video, and sculptural objects, Baggage Allowance scans and inventories the belongings (and memories) we all cart around.
Baggage Allowance is being developed as three interconnected components– a large-scale solo multi-media performance (premiering at Theater Artaud in San Francisco and The Kitchen in New York), a gallery installation, and an interactive web portal – all with shared content and materials.
The Gallery Exhibition opened at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois on January 28, 2010 and will run through April 2010. The performance will have a bi-coastal premiere at Theater Artaud (San Francisco) May 20-22, 2010 and The Kitchen (New York) September 23-25, 2010. An interactive Baggage Allowance web portal will go live on the Internet in late 2010 and will remain active indefinitely.
Drawing from Ms. Z’s extensive traveling and cartage experiences, text from found sources, and interviews with travelers who speak poetically about their memories of train travel and flying and their numerous baggage-related stories, the work will features episodes that touch upon the ball-and-chain-ness of dragging one’s things all over the world.
The installation consists of multiple audio, video, and sculptural elements including a weeping steamer trunk, a mock X-ray machine that reveals secrets when bags pass through it, and a vintage suitcase inside of which lies a woman sleeping and worrying. The solo performance includes a series of vignettes and episodes relating to the cartage and attachment performed with live voice, electronic processing, and interactive video. This work will explore the concept of baggage in its many senses– physical, intellectual, and emotional – baggage as impediment and baggage as treasure.
Pamela Z says about
the piece:
"As a touring artist working with technology, I spend a substantial portion of my days carting a curious and ever-changing collection of objects around the world with me. I’ve become a nomadic creature, always needing to have certain possessions at the ready – and always in some stage of packing or unpacking. I have amassed countless stories and an interesting perspective on the subject of baggage, and the experience has lead to a lot of self-examination and general curiosity about the attachment we develop for things we feel the need to keep with us."
Baggage Allowance is being produced in collaboration with Bay Area Video Coalition
and is made possible in part by grants from the Haas Foundation’s Creative Work Fund
and Multi-Arts Production Fund (MAP).
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