Correspondences

With Correspondences, multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya offer multiple entry points for spectators to engage with questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence. The human body (performer and observer), machines, natural elements, and the urban square mingle in an entangled poetic microcosm while opening inquiries into animate life and environmental ethics.

Single bodies are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. Bodies are donned with gas masks as they try, time and again, to rise to standing. At intervals, machines attached to the chambers trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to lose their footing, sinking them back down into the ground. This seemingly perpetual eruption repeats throughout daily performance activation periods of Correspondences, both with and without performers.

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Watermill Center, 2019

Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Alessandro Anglani, Krystel Copper*, Derek DiMartini*, Nini Dongnier, Thanos Fryda, Andrea Jones*, Suhwa Kim, Sorin Prodea*

Documentation Images:
Laura Brichta, Chloé Bellemère, Shige Moriya

Japan Society, 2019

Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Krystel Copper*

Documentation Images:
Daphne Youree

Astor Place, 2020

Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Masanori Asahara*, Ricardo Bustamante, Krystel Copper*, Ximena Garnica*, Brandon Perdomo

Documentation Images:
Paula Court, Shige Moriya

Presenting/Producing Credit:
Co-presented by HERE and LEIMAY

Development/Funding Credit:
Supported by The Village Alliance, 51 Astor Place, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation

Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, 2021

Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Masanori Asahara*, Krystel Copper*, Ximena Garnica*

Documentation Images:
Shige Moriya, Douglas Shindler

Presenting/Producing Credit: Co-presented by Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre and LEIMAY

Development/Funding Credit: Supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts and Café Royal Cultural Foundation

Socrates Sculpture Park, 2021

Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Masanori Asahara*, Krystel Copper*, Ximena Garnica*

Documentation Images:
Shige Moriya, Pavel Antonov,

Presenting/Producing Credit: Co-presented by Socrates Sculpture Park and LEIMAY

Development/Funding Credit: Supported, in part, by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Other Credits:
Jeremy D. Slater (sound composition), Irena Romendik (costume fabrication).
Correspondences was first developed at LEIMAY’s studio in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

*Core Ensemble Member