a wall for the body, a circle for the soul, a fruit for your memory
a Musicircus | June 2022
Inspired by Jeanette Winterson’s novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, WALL/CIRCLE/FRUIT was a queer experiment in memory as myth-making, the scriptures we write to understand our own past, and the crossing of thresholds.
a wall for the body, a circle for the soul, a fruit for your memory took place in a steel fabrication workshop and was structured around John Cage’s Musicircus – a 1967 composition written for “any number of performers willing to perform in the same place at the same time.” The musicians, dancers, poets, actors, and artists of IAC were by turns dispersed and coalesced throughout the workshop, with the audience free to travel between the performances at will and build their own experience of the piece through their unique intersections of time, space, sight, and sound.
“a wall for the body, a circle for the soul, a fruit for your memory doesn't aim at linear logic; rather, the meaning is open to the audience's interpretation. It becomes a Rorschach test of what we choose to witness and how we link together the dots.”
- Mitsu Salmon, loveDANCEmore review
featuring Sara Caldiero, Indigo Cook, Edison Corvera, Christian Elwood, Sophia Heiner, Eliza Kitchens, Nora Lang, Dani Mendez, Jordan Reynosa, Severin Sargent-Catterton, Aaron D. Smith, Nathaniel Woolley
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works by Kaveh Akbar, Herbert Brün, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, CAConrad, Morton Feldman, Ken Friedman, Brian Harnetty, Bengt af Klintberg, Ada Limón, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pauline Oliveros, Arvo Pärt, Adrienne Rich, Alberto Ríos, Mieko Shiomi, Robert Schumann, and IAC
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Directed by Indigo Cook