Transported

Last night I walked through:

A birthday memory on an airplane; an exhausting of Kelly Writers House; a shared memory of water, chalk, and bodies; an offering of grapes; a continual search for family and trains; a stranger picking up a cougar; a dream-filled trolley with the best martinis on the beach; a message written in pennies/wishes, stolen from a bridge; a cigarette-filled rant full of gods; a candle-lit dance in the gravel and under the stars; and a message written in sand, leading to wine underneath my feet.

Thank you, Material v. Memory artists, for transporting me.

And thank you for those of you who took the journey with me.

I hope we can all travel again together.

sincerely,

ROMERO

Material v. Memory

Which is more real?

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?

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

tokafi Article on Vernusky/Romero collaboration

International music journal (based in Munster, Germany) tokafi serves up some awesome coverage and contemplation about the work me and electronic music composer Mike Vernusky are collaborating on.

Album cover for Mike Vernusky's Music for Film and Electro-Theatre

Slammin.

You can read the article by Tobias Fischer by going HERE.

Big thank yous to tokafi for the words, and for all the awesome people who worked on "Dallas" and "Under My Coat is the Truth" with me and Mike.

rock on,

ROMERO

Someone Stabs Me While I Explore Space

Earlier this year The Kelly Writers House invited me to participate in the annual "Seven-Up" project, in which seven "experts" gather to discuss/question/explore a common topic. In 2010, the topic was "SPACE", and I posed the question "what is a performance space?".

The video below captures my 7-minute attempt, which, if you listen closely enough, you can hear the people heckling me.

Is this a performance space?

Big thank yous to Jessica Lowenthal and the Kelly Writers House for continuing to offer such a lively, fun community to participate in, to the six other space experts (including Kate Watson-Wallace), and to the friends (Megan Slater, Rachel Gluck, Tyler Woods, and Kate Raines) who came to heckle and stab me.

rock on,

ROMERO