February 25–26, 2017
Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
DIRECTED BY Caitlin Baucom with
SITED ORIGINAL PERFORMANCES BY Alexandra Drewchin, Kathleen Dycaico, Sarah Kinlaw, Hayley Martell, and Tara-Jo Tashna
VIDEOS BY Jerome AB, Sigrid Lauren, and Colleen Marie
SCORE BY Caitlin Baucom and Nathanael Gettings
INSTALLATIONS BY Ben Gazsi and Colleen Marie
CLOTHING BY Merritt Meacham
BODYWORK by Christiana Cefalu
TOUR PERFORMED BY Jerome AB, Caitlin Baucom, Gina Chiapetta, Sharleen Chidiac, Patrick Estabrook, Gabriella Garcia, and Quenton Stuckey
PRODUCED BY Charlotte Gettings and Jade Thacker
A TREVORSHAUS production
Inspired by Mana’s distinct industrial landscape, GENERATION SHIP constructs a vision of sanctuary within a near dystopian future. Artists from a performative community in Bushwick, Brooklyn colonize the vast architecture with site-specific works, distilling what resources they have–themselves–into new ways to survive, create, communicate, nourish, and destroy. The audience is invited to tour this future, with its developed tools and sited memorials. The artists were chosen for their holistic use of physicality and sound, attention to politics embedded in our bodies, and ability to source healing out of bleakness and fear. As creators, they move in and out of each other’s work, developing common performative and emotional languages. GENERATION SHIP envisions this lived collaboration as a future closed culture with its attendant folk beliefs, ethics, and shared psychological realities on display.
Trevorshaus is a curatorial experiment run by Caitlin Baucom and Patrick Estabrook with Charlotte Gettings and Nathanael Gettings. It aims to provide immediacy and evolving support to its community of artists, and to expand production of events and tangibles as a means of directly funding artists' lives and work.
All photography by Walter Wlodarczyk, unless otherwise noted.
Activation I
Water / Rest
Score by Caitlin Baucom & Nathaniel Gettings
Video by Colleen Marie
We rest in the sublime.
In changing currents we find peace.
In waters where so many have drowned we find life.
Activation II
Masculine Ken On Us Defined By They
By Jerome AB
The third chapter in an ongoing video performance series of an expressionless humanoid character downloaded from unintelligible African origins residing outside of any certain time or space. Masculine Ken observes and confronts various human psychological defense mechanisms and falsified intrapersonal realities defined by interpersonal exchanges through movement and visual audio manipulation.
Activation III
+-
By Tara Jo Tashna
Music by Stephen Hill
"A fuel-burning apparatus or container for heating water, in particular.
A household device providing a hot-water supply or serving a central heating system.
A tank for generating steam under pressure..."
Post state, concrete safari. Post race race. Post male feline abundance.
Photograph by Angelina Dreem.
Photograph by Angelina Dreem.
Activation IV
Fire / Remember
Score by Caitlin Baucom & Nathaniel Gettings
Video by Colleen Marie
Earth's core burns
Heats neutral geography
Gone murderous, lit by fear
Activation V
Memory Palace
By Kathleen Dycaico
Performances by Joshua Dunn, William Fortini, Monica Mirabile, Dana Pajarillaga, Luke Shirock
Fluidly rocking around the moment of impact.
An echoing room, where memories play, repeat, and rewind,
Trapped by the split of the atom.
Aftermath culture keeps it to reflect
And remind themselves of the mistakes the past made.
Activation VI
The Woman Who Drops All Of Her Paint Brushes Every Day
By Hayley Martell
The present is now. It is now. Right now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.
Photograph by Jade Thacker.
Activation VII
Hyperbolic Chamber
By Caitlin Baucom & Quentin Stuckey
Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me
Sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up
–Sappho, Fr. 130
Photograph by Penn Eastburn.
Activation VIII
Open Chair Aux
Directed and performed by Sarah Kinlaw
This lives as psychotherapy, as an experiment in gestalt and the origins of role-play to find authentic performance.
Activation IX
Partition
By Ben Gazsi and Colleen Marie
Shadows of ourselves, stuck between simulated sublimes.
These reproductions are insufficient,
counterfeit.
Activation X
Rosemary's Choir
By Gina Chiappetta
Performances by Sharleen Chidiac and Gabriella Garcia
A crytpic ghost trajectory
"New mythologies of fragmented memory"
Trauma and euphoria folded atop one another
(Lost echoes of stabilizers : protectors : ghouls).
Activation XII
Cunter Gatherer
By Alexandra Drewchin
Video by Kofi Carson
After the collapse, the 1% of the 1% think they are the only ones alive in the safety of their lavish bunkers. I hunt the male corrupts down. I seduce them, extract their bio fluids for our banks, and kill them. I deliver their meat to our nourishment laboratory where they are frozen, cured, or smoked. I gather the complicit women and give them all their first orgasms – they do not protest my capture. Soon I will be finished and we will have enough women and enough bio fluid to continue under our own rule.
Activation XIII
Won Bridge
By Sigrid Lauren
Anywhere.
'God is often a generalization of our ignorance and unfulfilment, as "God knows" and "In God's good time" – We forget that we are the knowledge of God and his good time.
In dreamed the psychic world was a concurrent inverse devoltution; Man, failing as human, reincarnates as a caricature of the beast.
The price of identity is suffering.
Words, words, words, however used, whatever they symbolize, request, or tell, say more, showing in between, the antics of all motives. Yes, word-rendering deals the quickest of deaths to flabby ideas; and also words are the most poignant, suggestive, contagious, substitutive and lasting means to convey anything, most deadly virus, most potent abreaction of magic subtlety even your erasures reveal your believing by their persuasive influence and their magic.
O ye gods, say ye nothing? My nightmare told me ye say all things – or my translation is faulty?'
–Excerpts Logomachy of Zos, Austin Osman Spare
Garments by Meritt Meacham.