No Way Out But Onward
The Disembodied Theater Corporation brings you an evening of dispatches, news, songs, and fragments from the Ghost City: the skeletal remains of industry, railways, and graveyards that stand as remnants of a lost society. Filmmaker Ross Lipman joins this odd assortment of media artists, musicians, and performers in presenting a haunting assemblage of ruins, rants, and shards of memory that paint a collective portrait of dystopia.
Featuring works by:
Jodie Baltazar
Marit Brook-Kothlow
Kerry Laitala
Bruce Landick
Katherin McKinnis
Ross Lipman
Laura Steenberge
Konrad Steiner
Anjali Sundaram
featuring:
NO WAY OUT BUT ONWARD: An adventure in psychogeography through New York's High Line
PowerPoint performance written and narrated by Ross Lipman Suite for Bass, Viola, and Trombone by Laura Steenberge Photos by Leigh Evans, Ross Lipman, Nina Mankin.
The High Line is the abandoned freight rail that runs through the west side of Manhattan. Recently designated the future site of an undetermined public space, it for the moment remains a haunted paradise above the city--a verdant wasteland inhabited only by occasional taggers, wanderers, and police. In October 2004 a ragtag group of us ventured up to explore. As we were to learn, it's a space with its own internal logic, interacting with its visitors in a way unique to each.
THE DISEMBODIED THEATER CORPORATION
is a newly created performance group founded by filmmaker Ross Lipman to realize temporary manifestations of non-filmic cinemas.
