Curators Anisa George and Gillian Osborne gave me two texts and I made two short pieces (one with a robot and one with Kate Raines).
How does the Anthropocene change what we mean by history, and how we tell stories? Theater director Anisa George and writer Gillian Osborne team up with actors from Philadelphia’s experimental theater community (Mason Rosenthal, Johanna Kasimow, Jenna Horton, Ben Grinberg, Oliver Jorgensen - to name a few) for an unruly evening of blind dates between poetry and performance staged on the Wetland boat. We’ll be playing with ideas of time: from the minutes it takes a flower to unfold in Bartram’s 18th-century garden to the millions of years fossil fuels lay buried in the earth.
The performance will take place aboard Mary Mattingly’s WetLand boat with the audience positioned on the shore. Limited seating will be available.