EXHIBIT is a site-responsive participatory performance structured as a gallery tour, re-adapted for each gallery/museum. Small groups of audience members are led on what initially seems like a straightforward tour. Then gradually, a fictional story emerges, both inspired by and in contradiction to the visual artwork. Lines blur between fiction and reality, and thematic currents emerge: memory, metaphor, transformation, motion, stillness, water, and ice.
EXHIBIT
EXHIBIT: Works on Water Variation
June 2017 – 3LD Art & Technology Center
Developed through a 2016-2017 Water Residency through New Georges and premiered as a work-in-progress during Works on Water, a month-long, multi-disciplinary art event at 3LD Art & Technology Center
Director/Writer: Emerie Snyder
Performers: Elizabeth M. Kelly, Nick Lewis, Megan Melnyk, Lim Mui, and Jordan Douglas Smith
Script Assistant: Nick Lewis
EXHIBIT: Brooklyn Museum Variation
January 2017
An audio tour demo version, designed for the permanent collection gallery.
Director/Writer: Emerie Snyder
Voice Performer: Celeste Lawson
EXHIBIT has been many years in the making (and future incarnations are on the way!). Much gratitude to my early collaborators who helped develop this project, including Nick Lewis, Marissa Molnar, Bubba Weiler, and Carl Wiemann.