Prelude Festival, 2018
New York City
Dixon Place, 2019, New York City
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On the Boards, 2018,
Seattle
World Ecology Resource Network Conference, 2019, San Francisco
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In 2016, Elon Musk gave a speech in Guadalajara, Mexico outlining his plan to build rockets that would transport colonizers to Mars. His plan, he argued, would make humans a “multi-planetary species” and save humankind from a pending, inevitable doomsday event. Will They Play Golf on Mars? interrogates the tropes of space exploration, Manifest Destiny, American Exceptionalism, and colonization. As climate change becomes a lived reality and liberal democracy finds itself in crisis, what happens to our ability to dream collectively as a society when so much wealth has been consolidated in the hands of so few?
Show as initial works-in-progress at On the Boards in Seattle, Washington and Prelude Festival in NYC as a solo show. Janine Renee Cunningham performed speeches from Musk and other “Space Barons” word-for-word, interspliced with sound, video, and other found texts. This solo show was encored again at the World Ecology Research Network's (founded by Jason Moore) annual conference in San Francisco in 2019. It was directed by Andrew Goldberg.
The piece was then developed further and expanded and performed at Dixon Place in NYC in December of 2019. It featured Amy Ingram, Johnathan Silver, Liz Charky, and Catherine Correa. It was directed by Dara Malina and designed by Jon DeGaetano.
Show as initial works-in-progress at On the Boards in Seattle, Washington and Prelude Festival in NYC as a solo show. Janine Renee Cunningham performed speeches from Musk and other “Space Barons” word-for-word, interspliced with sound, video, and other found texts. This solo show was encored again at the World Ecology Research Network's (founded by Jason Moore) annual conference in San Francisco in 2019. It was directed by Andrew Goldberg.
The piece was then developed further and expanded and performed at Dixon Place in NYC in December of 2019. It featured Amy Ingram, Johnathan Silver, Liz Charky, and Catherine Correa. It was directed by Dara Malina and designed by Jon DeGaetano.
