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  • the past in the future tense
  • Borrowed Scenery
  • Flat Matter
  • Leap Après la Souris
  • Revised Sequence
  • Negative
  • A Faithful and Convenient Machine…
  • Lacock Abbey
  • Idleness (Field Well)
  • Antenna (Miscommunication)
  • Research
  • Old Money
  • Town/Country
  • The Moon
  • I come from a serious place
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Chewing the Scenery Opens at the Icebox Project Space

Added on March 6, 2016 by James Johnson.

Curated by Jonathan Santoro and Meredith Sellers

Featuring:
Gideon Barnett
Michael Ciervo  
Micah Danges
Will Haughery
James Johnson
Sharon Koelblinger
Paul Koneazny
Lauren Pakradooni
Paul Salveson
Jon Weary

(With quavering voice)
(In a lower tone)
(In an even lower tone)
(Leaving her abruptly)
(As before standing opposite him)
(In an exalted high-pitched voice)
[In the same high-pitched voice)
(Silence. There is a noise as if an immense wheel were turning and moving the
air. A hurricane separates them. At the same time, two Stars are seen colliding
and from them fall a series of legs of living flesh with feet, hands, scalps, masks,
colonnades, porticos, temples, alembics, falling more and more slowly, as if
falling in a vacuum: then three scorpions one after another and finally a frog and
a beetle which come to rest with desperate slowness, nauseating slowness)
(Crying with all his strength)
(He looks at the sky)
(He pushes the Young Girl before him)
(Screaming in high-pitch)
(Plunging her hands deep into her pockets which are as big as her breasts)
(She throws his papers at him)
(He gets up and from each paper he takes a huge hunk of Swiss cheese.
Suddenly he coughs and chokes)
(With full mouth)
(He runs out)
(Like shadows, a Priest, a Cobbler, a Beadle, a Bawd, a Judge, a Peddler, arrive
on stage]
(In different tones)
(Tapping his forehead)
(He runs out)
(As if confessing someone)
(At this moment night suddenly falls on stage)
(With the sigh of one having an orgasm)
(In a terrible voice)
(Boldly and gaily)
(She lifts up her dress. The Young Man wants to run away but he is frozen like a
petrified puppet)
(As if suspended in the air and with the voice of a ventriloquist)

March 10th – 27th

Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 10th, 6:00 pm
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