The Museum of Contemporary Art presents The Seldoms with Fraser Taylor: Marchland.
March 12-14, 2010
For Marchland, Chicago-based choreographer Carrie Hanson collaborates with visual artist Fraser Taylor to create a new ensemble work about mark-making, endurance, and borders. Hanson, the artistic director of The Seldoms, was inspired by Taylor’s video, CREVICE, a frenetic animation and sound piece that he created by making minute drawings directly onto the surface of clear 16mm film, later capturing the projected film with digital video. Marchland combines video, sculpture, and costume design by Chicago fashion designer Lara Miller with idiosyncratic movement, mimicking the same flickering, erratic, and charged qualities of Taylor’s video.
“I am building two walls, which will be suspended on both sides of the stage and will project horizontally into the auditorium. The purpose is to bridge the gap between performance and audience. The constructions are based on my sculptures, which reflect my interest in such things as decaying architectures. The work occupies an in-between space, somewhere between construction and demolition. The structures will be painted black, unifying the materials used. These walls imply many different types of physical or physiological boundary, but in this case, they divide the public space of the stage from the private backstage area. This is a barrier, which the performers have to bodily navigate in order to move between both spaces. I am collaborating with architect Joel Huffman.” -Fraser Taylor
Fraser Taylor’s studio is located at the Cornelia Arts Building.