Tuesday, January 26, 2021 // 6p pacific
FREE – ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Online Screening & Conversation Co-Presented with On the Boards (Seattle, WA)
“It speaks to that loneliness, but it also speaks to the intense care people still have for people they don’t know in the midst of all this.”
– Fox Whitney, Crosscut
Join the creative team of Acting Stranger for an online screening of a selection of short videos captured in Seattle in September, along with a conversation about the work and process. Presented by Los Angeles Performance Practice, this conversation will include Andrew Schneider, Raelle Myrick Hodges, Bobby McElver, and Seattle-based artists Minna Lee and Fox Whitney.
ACTING STRANGER is a multi-layered work created to help us all collectively figure out how we will connect with each other again, in slow stages, from the drudgery of another video-conference call to a future full embrace with a complete stranger. Many short scenes are acted out between two total strangers. There are no hellos, goodbyes, directions, or second takes. The scenes are filmed in public at an agreed upon time. The scene ends, the strangers part ways. The documentation is edited into an evening length film to be shown at a later date.
Each iteration of Acting Stranger thrives on being authored within the world’s current moment, its freedoms, restrictions, inequities, debates, hardships, resilience, and humanity. Acting Stranger helps us track and understand how we meet each other across time and space as we re-connect, grieve our losses, and re-imagine community.
ACTING STRANGER will travel across the U.S. (and perhaps beyond its borders) over the next two years to experience and document these historic times. We will create a community of collaborators from city to city, as each iteration features writing & performance by local artists.
