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Automata presents Kyle deCamp's URBAN RENEWAL

Automata presents award-winning New York theater artist Kyle deCamp's Urban Renewal is a meditation on perception, public policy, and the significance of the buildings we live in, from a child's rigorously unsentimental point of view.
"BESSIE"-award winning performer Kyle deCamp maps an experience of growing up in Chicago in the chaotic '60s, caught in the crosshairs of power and history.

In a multimedia environment of projected space, Urban Renewal maps a piece of land in Chicago, drawing world history into a clash with individual lives. deCamp vividly spotlights her experience of growing up on a block razed by the last demolition of urban renewal in Hyde Park in 1963.

The work exploits simultaneity of perception: extremes of scale, animations, multiple narratives, locations and timeframes create portals for the audience's own memories, both private and public, individual and collective.

"Smart, feisty, imaginative solo performer"
The Village Voice