Monster Mechanism
Sherwood Chen and Yuko Kaseki
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES 2016: AT HOME
Finally you have to see those ugly, mispainted eyes. You judge them. They don’t go away. Then you stop bothering to judge them, and they still don’t go away. And then they look back at you. And they don’t go away. And maybe, just maybe, you fall in love.
”Monster Mechanism” is a work in progress collaboration between Sherwood Chen (US/FR) and Yuko Kaseki (JP/DE). From the uncanny valley into terra incognita, we taste fractures in systems, devolution in evolution and tension between phobia and affection. Domestic aliens falling in endless suspension. Cheap imitations of an unknown nationalism.
Documentation
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2016.8000.102Year Created
2016Performance dates
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EnglishCurated Filters
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Premiere Venue
CAVE Home of LEIMAYOctober 8-9 2016
58 Grand St - Brooklyn, New York, NY
Direction, Choreography, Performance: Yuko Kaseki and Sherwood Chen
Sound/Music: Taku Izumi, recording of Colored Sculpture by Jordan Wolfson, Google Translate, Jajouka
Light/Sound Operator: Jack Leaky
Box Office: Mario Galeano and Julie Spodek
Artistic Directors: Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
Ensemble Members: Masanori Asahara, Krystal Copper, Dereck DiMartini, Jeff Shortt, Adi Eytan, Andrea Jones
Studio and Fellowship Program Manager: Lindsey Mandolini
Studio Administrative Associate and Bookkeeper: Polina Porras
SOAK Production Stage Manager: Dina Paola Rodriguez
Producer: Raul Zbengheci
2016-2017 LEIMAY Fellows: Terra Incognita, Lucy Kerr, Kate Ladenheim, Heeran Lee, Heidi Boisvert, Judith Barnes, Jeremy Pheiffer, Nicolas, Norena, Timothy Scott, Michelle, Irena Romendik
Honorary Board: Robert Wilson
Board of Directors: Maria Bacardi, Raul Zbengheci, Lyndley Schwab, Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Board of Advisors: Robert Beswick, Sherry Dobbin, Kristing Marting, Kimihiro Sato, Kim Whitener, Genevieve Maquinay, Mae Mougin
Leimay’s performance season is made possible, in part, by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the Merlz Gillmore Foundation.
Yuko and Sherwood would like to thank Shige Moriya, Ximena Garnica and LEIMAY staff and volunteers, Tatwerk Performance Forshchung, Dock I I, Judilee and Jana Reed, Brian Lemond, Christine Nonansea and Justin Morrison.