ON THE OTHER SIDE
Saturday 2/23 at 7 PM
in collaboration with Paul Outlaw and Vaneh Assadourian
at Automata, 504 Chung King Court, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice for this Development + Research Residency work-in-progress showing. Admission is free and if you’re so inclined, donations toward our residency program are warmly appreciated.
Part of Marike Splint’s D+R Residency
February 11-24, 2019
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY //
Humans are territorial beings. We mark lines that divide the world, delineate territories, divide property. We are in a continuous state of redrawing the map of the world. But how do these lines affect our bodies, our thoughts, our memories?
On the Other Side is a documentary performance, challenging notions of borders and bordering in our present era by theater director Marike Splint, with performers whose lives have been directly impacted by different borders at different times. They are currently developing this new work in February, during the D+R residency at Automata. Their work at Automata will focus on ensemble building and finding a shared vocabulary through composition exercises. It will lay the foundations for the documentary self-representation performance style, in which the performers are present on stage as themselves, rather than as a fictional character. The second week of the residency will be dedicated to working on the performers’ own border stories. Listening to them, asking ourselves how they compare, trying different forms of conveying them, juxtaposing scenes to start to get a sense of the tone of the work, generating a lot of material collectively – a first attempt at a framework for a theatrical deconstruction of the notion of borders, navigating between the personal, the political and the poetic.
ABOUT THE ARTIST //
Marike Splint is a theater maker from the Netherlands based in Los Angeles, specializing in creating work in public space that explores the relationship between people, places and identity. She has created shows in sites ranging from a bus driving through a transitional neighborhood to wide open meadows, taxicabs, train stations and hotel rooms. A few past presenters include Urbane Kuenste Ruhr (Germany), Oerol Festival (The Netherlands), GeoAIR (Tbilisi, Georgia), Anciens Abattoirs de Casablanca (Morocco), La Jolla Playhouse and the Los Angeles Exchange Festival (USA). She was also the curator of the 2014 edition of the Winters Binnen Festival in Amsterdam. Recent collaborations include an audio play for Trucks Track Ruhr with Rimini Protokoll, and research and text for the smartphone app Remember the Good Times with TG Space. She has been invited to the Internationales Forum at the Theatertreffen, and to the Rencontres Internationales at the Festival TransAmériques. Marike received her BA in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and her MFA in directing from Columbia University. Among other awards, she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Hellman Fellowship and a Columbia University Merit Fellowship. She currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Theater at UCLA. www.marikesplint.com //
Image provided by artist.
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Collaboratively offered by Los Angeles Performance Practice and Automata, and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
