:: displacement travels: moving boxes ::
performance begin Steel Yard :: 5.28 10a
documentation CUBE2 :: 5.19 - 6.4
website www.wavelady.com
Inspired by the myth of Sisyphus this performance uses Providence as its stage. It spans a 6-mile round-trip path traversing three rivers, two hills, two green-spaces and burrows under one mall.
The act of dragging boxes lined with reflective material is both an absurd and poetic intervention into every day life. The reflective boxes connect to the landscape physically and visually while the act of dragging them is in contrast with the ease of modern day transport.
Reflections within the boxes capture reality and distort it causing real-time displacement. This toilsome act is metaphorical of any, journey or move, internal or external.
about the artists
Anna Shapiro had a studio in Somerville MA, but recently moved to the woods of Lincoln, RI. She is an artist-in-residence at the Steel Yard and is the director of Boston Sculptors Gallery. Her work, Place Between name and Space, was featured at last year's Psy-Geo Provflux.
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