Opacity ≠ Obscurity
"Opacity ≠ Obscurity Ⅰ: Home, Camouflage, and the Manzanar Net Workers"
"Opacity≠ Obscurity ⅠⅠ: Where Are the Lines of Outside and Inside?"
published by Heichi Magazine in June 2020
^A Weather of her Wake
Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition
November 2019
Performers: Chelsey Becher, Charmaine Bee, Amra Causevic, Jazmine Hayes, Staver Klitgaard, Matthias Kodat, Jessi Li, E.S. Mahler, Ursula Marcussen, Kristina Schmidt, Brooke Stoker, Leah Wilks, zaybra
Six arrangements of thirteen characters, cumulating and dispersing over the course of five distinct evenings, shared in a program with performances by Xuan (Clive) Zheng, Khari Johnson-Ricks, and Ye'ela Wilschanski.
Performance Program:
Thu, Nov.14, 6-9pm I opening reception I solo
Mon, Nov. 18, 6:30*-8pm I trio/quartet
Wed, Nov. 20, 6:30*-9pm I duet/sextet
Mon Nov. 25, 6:30*-9pm I quintet
Sat, Nov. 30, 4-8pm | closing ceremony + sunset procession to Pier 34
List of Works
1. Hay Bale
400lbs. 4’ x 4’ x 5’
alfalfa, silage wrap, farmed and baled c/o John Grunder, Covert, NY.
2. Park Bench
154 lbs, 6’ x 3’ x 2’
oak, iron, steel, brass, central park green
1939 Worlds Fair Bench designed by Robert Moses and Kenneth Lynch. Fabricated by Kenneth Lynch
3. Curtain
70 lbs, 20 yards
linen, airplane wire, steel, thread, marker.
4. Fan
32” x 14” x 29”, 2000-4000 CFM
metal vent, disco light, Grundrisse (Penguin Classics), cinderblock, Amra’s carpet fan, duct, wall interior.
5. Mound/Pit
1 ton, 5’ x 3’ x 5’
1080 lbs of 3/8 pea gravel c/o Metropolitan Lumber, 920 lbs of pebbles c/o Sandy Hook Beach NJ
plastic sandbags, 4 mil poly sheeting
6. Irrigation
weight variable, 30’
rubber hose, utility closet, siphon, 4 mil poly sheeting
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