Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera

Part of Stick In the Mud: MFA Spring Exhibition and Performance Series Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts May 4th and 6th, 2017 Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is an investigation into experimental methods of object animation, driven toward an object-oriented ontology of performance. Part theatrical puppetry, part kinetic noise orchestration, Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is a series of living images that seek unexpected connections between body, sound and object. This work aims to question what is animate and what is animated. The objects become the players. Noise becomes the score. A storm gathers at the edge of the light, threatening to engulf the stage. Collaborators: Patrick Blenkarn, Meaghan Cate, Shauna Griffin, Haylee Marx, Ian McFarlane and Jordan Zanni