Public Performance Practice in collaboration with Aurora Tabar

In June 2010, we began a weekly performance which ocurred for one year, in Chicago, beginning in June of 2010. We stood in support of solidarity, connection, and the importance of touch in our everyday lives. We hugged for one hour, in public places, described by a sandwich board and flyers, we wore red, and we wore yellow. People would hug us and sometimes people would hug each other.

We wrote about our experiences and shared these posts. Our audience, the public, they took pictures, they chatted with us, and they wrote to us online. They hugged in solidarity, and asked us for hugs more often.

The Hug Project concluded in August 2011. We are still hugging.

Directed by: Ginger Krebs

Featuring: Jose Hernandez, Adam Rose, Bryan Saner, Aurora Tabar, Sara Zalek

Myth and Continent considers how the proliferation of virtual imagery may affect our relationships - to our physical bodies, to the bodies we distinguish as “other,” and to the “body” of the land we address as landscape. How might diminishing physical space be linked to our growing capacity for extension in virtual space? The performance explores restriction - its risks and revelations – and celebrates the miraculous human capacity for creative reinvention in response to almost any kind of constraint. Movement for the piece has been inspired by the repetitive pacing of zoo animals, romantic ideas about the landscape, road trips, road rage, office cubicle culture, and the voluntary confinement of spiritual seekers, practitioners of yoga, etcetera.