NORD HAUSEN FLY ROBOT to Play The Brick in November

A paranoid rant? A schizophrenic's tragic delusion? An internet troll's computer-generated word salad? An underground history of the battle between pop culture and the military-industrial complex? All of the above?

NORD HAUSEN FLY ROBOT is an investigation by Gemini CollisionWorks (Ian W. Hill: Arts/Berit Johnson: Crafts) into a 55-page anonymous online comment left on a political website that at first seems nothing more than an incomprehensible, stream-of-consciousness tirade, but on repeated examination suggests a poetic, albeit confused, summary of US History post-WWII from a marginalized voice - making it part 3 in GCW's Invisible Republic series, following 2006's That's What We're Here For and 2008's Everything Must Go.

There has been much online discussion as to whether or not the text was even actually written by a person, or if someone had entered some search terms into an online random word generator, and posted the results. Those who believe it to have actually been written by a person generally agree that the author is probably schizophrenic, or certainly neuroatypical in some form.

Gemini CollisionWorks sees it as written by one anonymous author, confused and obsessed, with clear themes, structure and through-lines, and while not exactly traditionally "coherent," having no small amount of beauty and poetry in its portrait of the USA past and present (think: Whitman, Stein, Ginsberg). We are working with actors, musicians, and dancers to expand, annotate, elaborate, and celebrate this American voice into a disturbing, surround, multimedia portrait of a world that is possibly spinning out of balance just as much as its author believes, even if his bizarre (but not inaccurate) conclusions come before his distorted (but not inaccurate) perceptions.

Ian W. Hill has been part of Indie Theater in NYC since 1989, creating theatre as Gemini CollisionWorks since 1997, and working in collaboration with Berit Johnson since 2000 - including their landmark productions of Even the Jungle (slight return), Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and the noir fantasia World Gone Wrong. Besides original plays and collages, GCW has produced productions of works by Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Clive Barker, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eugene Ionesco, Shakespeare, John Whiting, Trav S.D., Marc Spitz, Jeff Goode, and Dean Haspiel, among others, and is known for a dense mise-en-scene colliding text, light, music and sound, projections, and multiple art forms in an attempt to heighten awareness through sensory oversaturation as well as a tortuous, drunken obsession with the supposed battle between order and chaos.

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