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Carriage at Battery Mendell
This site-specific performance of Carriage at Battery Mendell is special and intimate. We have rented a 15-person passenger van to shuttle attendees from San Francisco (meeting at Crissy Fields) to Battery Mendell in the Headlands, where the performance will take place, promptly at 7:15PM.
If you would like to attend, but prefer to drive yourself or arrive at Battery Mendell via other means, you are most welcome to join us, free of cost. If you will be joining us for the shuttle ride, please meet in the parking lot at Crissy Fields at 6:15pm. We will depart promptly at 6:30pm. Please note that the shuttle requires a $10 deposit, which will be returned upon the performance's end. We will email you a separate note with details.
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Carriage is a site-responsive performance created by Matty Davis and Ben Gould that radically explores control and empathy, motored in part by the raw energy of Goulds Tourette Syndrome.
This performance is informed by evolving senses of the bodyinjury, trauma, healing, and growthand offers a unique opportunity to create a work that draws from the variance of Davis and Goulds distinct physicalities. The result is an intense, viscerally and sonically charged experience, where empathy is a physical tool, resistance offers stability, and we are all cast out into a space that levels us, brings us real fear, awakening, new vocabularies and physical structures.
One of the most profound experiences in contemporary performance. Frustration, desolation, sadness and love are embodied in a wide-ranging programmatic structure both rawly virtuosic and tastefully sparse. Truly stunning physicalities, reminiscent of the sculpture of Henry Moore and Anthony Caro, create moments of austere isolation that are subsumed into a vital emotional unity. Clifford Allen, Director of Archives, Watermill Center, NYC
Carriage was performed for the first time on March 29th at Queenslab in New York City, a new space founded by artist Jim Hodges.
"Visually stunning, with a movement language that is uncannily harmonic, touching, and embodies and expands our notion of empathy." Holly Shen, Director and Curator of Visual Arts, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Following this performance at Battery Mendell, Carriage will be presented at Creative Growth in Oakland on May 4, and then journey to LA for a performance at Human Resources on May 6.
This year, in collaboration with curator/producer Jade Thacker, the work will be shared at various venues and locations throughout the United States, responding to and recomposing itself according to the the various demands and nuances of the light, sonic quality, surface, kinesthetic possibility, and historical context unique to each site. The work continuously evolves.
At this time, Carriage will also be presented in Detroit at Lightbox on June 9th following a week-long residency on site, and on the Chicago River later in June in collaboration with curator/producer Peter Taub. Jim Hodges and Queenslab will also present Carriage again in September.
Carriage has been workshopped in New York City at Judson Church, the Watermill Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Philadelphia School, and Queenslab. It was supported through a residency at the Kickstarter Headquarters in NYC, and has received support from a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
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LocationBattery Mendell (View)
Fort Barry, Mendell Rd, Northwest Marin, CA 94950
Northwest Marin , CA 95950
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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