Bread-making is the process, physically and metaphorically, through which ingredients combine to create material of dynamic potential.This performance aims to recognize the importance of unifying communal actions despite the societal trend towards extreme individuation and isolation. In the process of this piece we hope to transform our collaboration from a questionable position of power, to a mutually orchestrated tension of boundries. The audience is confronted with three performers who emerge from the darkness, each with different aspects of bread-making. They meet, in the middle of the floor and make dough. The dough is cut out of cookie-cutters, the shape that is the size and shape of each performer's hand. The audience is asked to complete the process by taking the dough back home and baking it at 365 degrees. This performace is on May 1st: International Workers' Day, to commemorate the events in Chicago that lead to workers' rights and an eight hour work day.May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day. 
with Charles Kremenak Medium: performance, sound mix, flour, water, dough, flyer, customized cookie cutters, slides, flash lights Date: 1992 |
