Vertical Sprawl {2010}
Vertical Sprawl looks at how we have faith in our next breath but are disassociated with the extreme changes in the environment around us.The work asks what spaces have we abandoned in ourselves? While we build skyscrapers as island temples of a consumer based society. How could the earth possibly support a mall the size of a planet? Abundance, consumption, scarcity, conflict, collapse, new order, or start cycle again.
Choreography Heather Maloney
Composer Juan Carlos Espinosa
Dancers Joanne Barrett, John Beauregard, Carlota Pradera, Heather Maloney
Lighting Design Thomas Aratanha
Writing
on Vertical Sprawl by Elizabeth
Doud
Vertical Sprawl
I can’t describe physics of a vertical sprawl, which has something implicitly
architectural; directed and chaotic, but unstoppable like a flood.
And also lazy but epidemic in its weight.
There are images of careful
construction and collapse that feel gingerly crafted, then smashed down.
When intimacy is present, it’s not the same intimacy again and again, but an
arrangement of different kinds of closeness, of support, tolerance—willing and
begrudged—and necessary, but also fragile cooperation. I can see the work
it takes to build something, and therefore understand that when one component
is missing, or deliberately retracted, I might have to suffer watching a
collapse. Just knowing that makes the strength of each placement an
effort of interest.
There is work, not struggle: labor. It’s the labor of artisans;
bricklayers, or weavers or sharecroppers… forklifts? Efforts towards an
important building up of something that will get unloaded, cracked, blown over
inexplicably, or inevitably.
Length of full work 60 min For more info contact heather@inkub8.org