Object Collection Presents CHEAP&EASY OCTOBER at La MaMa

La MaMa in association with Object Collection presents cheap&easy OCTOBER by Object Collection, Written/Directed by Kara Feely, Composed by Travis Just, October 9-18, 2015.

One hundred years after a revolution, Object Collection resurrects the dead. Phantom agitators and zombie visionaries produce a séance, a death march, a psychic wailing. "cheap&easy OCTOBER" is a live-shredding of art world criticism, an original chamber opera about the revolutionary spirit and the power of the written word.

What type of insurrectionary action is possible when words are the only weapons at hand, when the vanguard becomes the establishment? A commemoration of forgotten events where talk is cheap. To the great emptiness of a post-revolutionary society, "cheap&easy OCTOBER" is an homage, a send-up and a surrender.

With the performers encased in nets and intricate action, "cheap&easy OCTOBER" careens forward with crushing guitar, violin and drums and is filled with musical non-sequitor and ecstatic voices.

Performed by Avi Glickstein, Taylor Levine, Aaron Meicht, Tavish Miller, Daniel Allen Nelson, Fulya Peker, Andie Springer, Deborah Wallace, and Owen Weaver

Performances:

Friday 10/9/15, 7:30 pm

Saturday 10/10/15, 7:30 pm

Sunday 10/11/15, 6pm

Friday 10/16/15, 10 pm

Saturday 10/17/15, 10 pm

Sunday 10/18/15, 6pm

The Club at La MaMa // 74A East 4th Street // New York, NY 10003
For tickets: www.lamama.org or: 646-430-5374
Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors;

Ten tickets priced at $10 available for every performance, in advance only, as part of La MaMa 10@$10 ticketing initiative.

All press inquiries can be made to Samara Naeymi > samara@objectcollection.us

Website: www.objectcollection.us

OBJECT COLLECTION was founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer Travis Just. Based in Brooklyn, the group operates within the intersecting practices of performance, experimental music and theater. They are concerned with simultaneity, complexity, and radicality, combining dense layers of text, notation, objects and processes. They work to give audiences unconventional viewing experiences through the merging of theatricality and pedestrian activity. Their works upset habitual notions of time, pace, progression and virtuosity. They value accumulation above cohesion.

Object Collection's work has appeared at a variety of theaters, concert venues, galleries, art spaces, and festivals, including Performance Space 122, Issue Project Room, Roulette (New York); SPOR Festival (Denmark); Frontiers Festival, Café OTO (UK); and Art Basel (Miami).

Recent projects include "New York Girls" presented in Denmark, London, and New York; a live, staged adaptation of Robert Ashley's "Automatic Writing" on tour in the UK; and a live-dub of the Steven Seagal movie "Under Siege" in Bushwick and at WFMU in Jersey City. Object Collection has premiered four original operas: "NO HOTEL" (2013), "Innova" (2011), "The Geometry" (2010) and "Problem Radical(s)" (2009). In March, 2016 Object Collection will premiere a new opera "It's All True" at the Borealis Festival in Norway.

Their work has been profiled in The White Review, Brooklyn Rail, and New Music Box. Object Collection has been a resident/visiting artist at Abrons Arts Center, DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artist), Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Their work has received support from the MAP Fund, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, Danish International Visiting Artist Fund, Culture Ireland, and Arts Council of Ireland.

Kara Feely (writer/director) is a writer, director, designer, and performer for theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws inspiration from writing and music composition strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews and radio broadcasts. In 2004 she co-founded the theater-music performance group, Object Collection, with composer Travis Just, which presents large-scale projects and operas as well as small-scale, duo "suitcase" performances. Projects she has written and directed for the company include: "Is this a gentleman?" (Ontological Theater '05); the sound/interview installation "L-shaped, not more than seven feet" (Podewil, Berlin '05); "Evoke memories of a golden age" (Ontological Theater '06); "FAMOUS ACTORS" (Ontological Theater '07); "Gun Sale" (Prelude Festival '09 and on tour throughout Japan); "Actua 1" (Invisible Dog Art Center '13); and the experimental operas "Problem Radical(s)" (Performance Space 122 '09), "The Geometry" (Chocolate Factory Theater '10), "Innova" (Incubator Arts Project and Abrons Arts Center '11), and "No Hotel" (Incubator Arts Project '13). In 2011 she directed a live, staged adaptation of American composer Robert Ashley's "Automatic Writing" at the Incubator Arts Project, which toured to the Frontiers Festival in Birmingham, UK in April 2014. In May 2014 she received a DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artist) residency for a performance of "New York Girls" (co-written with Travis Just) at the SPOR Festival in Arhus, Denmark. Additionally, her texts have been published in Antennae, a journal of experimental writing and performance, PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS, and the Japanese imprint futow.

Kara currently teaches and advises design in the theater department at Barnard College/Columbia University. She has taught and mentored students in playwriting and design at the Women's Project in New York and the LA County High School for the Arts, and has been a guest artist at Arhus University in Denmark, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Wesleyan University, and Kenyon College. BA Barnard College 1999, MA Columbia University, 2010.

Travis Just (composer) is a composer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work often uses text, objects, and gesture in addition to instruments, voice, and electronics.

His music has been presented around the world at Performance Space 122, Roulette, Issue Project Room, NYC; SPOR Festival, Denmark; Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Café OTO, UK; SuperDeluxe, Tokyo; 'Ca Foscari University of Venice; Instants Chevirés, Paris; among others.

He has composed three operas: Problem Radical(s) (2009), Innova (2011) and NO HOTEL (2013). In 2015-2016, he is premiering two operas: cheap&easy OCTOBER at LaMaMa and It's All True at the Borealis Festival in Norway.

He has been a guest artist at Kenyon College, Wesleyan University, Brooklyn College, 'Ca Foscari University of Venice, and a Danish International Visiting Artist (Copenhagen and Aarhus). His writings on music and art have appeared in John Zorn's Arcana series, the journal Tempo (Cambridge, UK), and the Experimental Music Yearbook. He is a founding editor of What Goes On, a new journal about opera.

Travis received a BFA (composition/performance) in 1999 from the Mannes College of Music/New School University while studying with Andrew Cyrille. In 2002 he received an MFA (composition/performance) from California Institute of the Arts and studied with James Tenney, Wadada Leo Smith and Michael Pisaro. Travis was a 2003 DAAD Scholar at the Hochschule für Musik, Köln and studied composition there with Johannes Fritsch.

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