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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


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^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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Intercruising (excerpt) Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germany. February/ July 13  2019. Arranged by Chip Chapin.
Performers: Caroline Alexander, Agnė Auželytė, Chelsey Becher, Nicola Bullock, Shelley Etkin, Lara Rosa Hartmann, Kata Kovacs, Ursula Marcussen, Aoibhinn O’Dea, Aurora Diana Prelevic, Samira Stöckli, Julcsi Vavra, and Katja Wie., Stephanie Maher, Yoshiko Chuma, Nicole Nigro, Naomi Beth Rogers, Emily Bartsch, Shelly Etkin, Robert Steijn, Annegret Schalke, Alicia Grant, Adi Brief, Kata Kovács, Doreen Markert, Mark Lohr, Jane Reike, Aviv Sheyn, Diana Thielen, Hu Ja, Saliq Savage, Sarah Young, Calder Savage Young, Poocho.
Sound: 'Make it Rain' Yaeji, 2018. 'Galileo' by Brecht read by Stephanie Maher. 'Capital' by Marx read by Amy Sillman.

Hay Bales. July 10, 2018. Route 79. Ithaca, NY.  

Chip Chapin and Elliott Elliott

Videography by Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik



Far From Hot Baths. March 24th, 2018.  Gauntlet, NY

Curated by Jashin Friedrich and Rachel James, in a program w Ishmael Houston-Jones 

Choreography  by Chip Chapin

Videography by Spencer A. Moore and Sam Bornstein

Paintings by Amy Sillman

With thanks to Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Moyra Davey, Exo Kunsemiller, and Anna Gurton-Wachter. 



The Other Day II. May 1, 2014.  

Kincainya Gallery, Portland OR. 

Choreography + Set by Chip Chapin

Sound by Owen Hutchinson and Adrian Macbride

Cast: Morgan Ritter, Katy Knowlton, Caley Thompson, Fashion Poon, David, and Kyle. 




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