Me and 13 other artists challenge this question by creating 11 short events/experiences that are, by purpose, completely ephemeral, non-replicable, and unique to the group of people who live through them on Tuesday, September 28th.
There will be no material residue of this experience, only our individual and collective memory of it.
Is memory located in your brain? In your muscles?
Inside of place? Inside of an event?
Inside of place? Inside of an event?
Will we remember it?
Is memory stronger than material? Does memory become material?
And what do artists create when confronted with these questions?
The full details from co-producers Kelly Writers House and Philadelphia Dramatists Center:
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MATERIAL V. MEMORY
a walk through 11 perishable events
with GREG ROMERO
Tuesday, September 28, at 6:34 PM in the Arts Café
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk
No registration required - this event is free & open to the public
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Organized by playwright and former ArtsEdge Resident, GREG ROMERO, MATERIAL V. MEMORY is a guided walk through eleven perishable writing events, each designed to be experienced by a unique traveling audience for three to five minutes, and then to disappear forever. Site-specific, un-replicable projects created by playwrights, poets, dancers, architects, fiction writers, designers, musicians, and performance artists explore questions of space, place, birth, loss, and our infinite/intimate relationship with memory.
Creative Artists include:
MIKE AGRESTA
BRIGHT LIGHT THEATRE COMPANY
BIDISHA DASGUPTA
PAULA DIEHL
NICOLE GARMAN
BRIAN GRACE-DUFF and WALLY ZIALCITA
CLIFFORD HALL
SHANE HANSON and ALICIA RODRIGUEZ
GREG ROMERO
JEFFREY A. STANLEY
MICHELLE TARANSKY
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Big thank yous to the wonderful group of artists collaborating on this project, The Kelly Writers House, and Philadelphia Dramatists Center.
rock on,
ROMERO
