All Time Stop Now

Anna Luisa Petrisko’s experimental opera, All Time Stop Now, is a contemplation on listening, impermanence, and kinship. A chosen family invokes a spell to stop time. In this suspended reality, they grapple with their existence in a time-based world as they search for ways to rest, heal, and feel joy. The stage morphs into a “spacetime playground.” Hypersaturated video, projection mapping, sculpture, dance, and new original music from Petrisko’s latest release on Practical Records transform the senses. Her signature prism of mutant pop yields spiritually infused anthems that encompass beauty, sorrow, and discovery. 

Each movement is framed by recorded conversations between Petrisko and her best friend, a Buddhist nun who was living in a monastery in Myanmar. The vulnerable exchanges run in parallel to the story, serving as a larger meditation on the need for human connection. All Time Stop Now asks, “How can we reject the scarcity of time and just be present? How can we accept grief, while also experiencing joy? Can we stop time and just listen?” 

Collaborators

Written and Directed by Anna Luisa Petrisko
in collaboration with performers Mark Golamco, Peter Hernández and Josephine Shetty

Projection mapping and interactivity design by Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero

Costumes by Anna Luisa Petrisko and Athena Lawton

Photos by Angel Origgi

About Anna Luisa Petrisko

Anna Luisa Petrisko (She/Her) is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist working in experimental opera, video art, performance, interactive theater, sound design, costume design, and immersive media. Her work explores future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo, creating built environments that are as much invested in the sacred as they are in technological speculation. Collaborating with many artists, she sees shared work as a way to form relationships and cultural communion.

Anna Luisa’s work expands on themes of diaspora, colonialism, and time, through an experimental multidisciplinary practice that reflects her intersectional identities. Built on creating collaborative and inclusive opportunities between people of color, women, gender non-conforming, trans, queer, and disabled individuals, her work redistributes the means of design and thought around cultures, futures, and bodies.