'Synesthesia' Performance Piece Returns April 2-6

This April, Electric Pear Productions presents the second round of Synesthesia, the ambitious performance piece that takes an unforgettable look at how artists influence, inspire and steal from each other. It is a peak inside the dirty work of creation through the schoolyard game of telephone...with art.

Synesthesia is the culmination of five months of work by over a dozen breakout artists spanning 9 different genres including film, dance, comedy, photography, music and spoken word; this year's presentation will be held April 2, 3, 5 and 6 at the historic Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South).

In the fall of 2007, the first artist chose a fortune cookie and used the enclosed fortune to inspire his film. After a few days of furious work, he passed his work off to a writer, and in turn, the writer created a piece that was passed on to the next artist - and so on, and so on…

The evening at Judson will be a tightly woven trip that jumps between documentary footage of each "hand-off" in the series, and the resulting live performance or artistic product. Audiences are given the opportunity to trace not only the overall development of the five-month game of artistic telephone, but also each individual artist's point of attack – and what they generated from their given circumstances.

Synesthesia 2008 includes:

    * Filmmaker, Gregory Stuart Edwards – Spleen, Independent Feature Project
    * Author/Playwright, Damian Lanigan – Dissonance, Williamstown 2007
    * Photographer, Peter Hapak – New York Magazine
    * Comedians, Nathan Phillips and Joe Schiappa - Project:Projekt
    * Artist, Brian Whiteley – 717 Gallery
    * Spoken Word Artist, Shanelle Gabriel – HBO's Def Poetry Jam
    * Author/Playwright, Clay McLeod Chapman – The Pumpkin Pie Show
    * Dancer/Choreographer, Jo-anne Lee - Brian Brooks Moving Company
    * Singer/Songwriter, Leah Siegel – Little Mule
    * DJ, JayCeeOh – The Masters, Special Teamz
    * Filmmaker, Avriel Hillman
    * Music by Zac Lasher - U-Melt

Please visit our website for tickets and a look back at Synesthesia 2007. www.ElectricPear.org

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