On May 10 at the Clocktower Gallery, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Marcia Moraes, Lisa Lie, and Jeremy Woodruff presented a site-specific performance excerpted from their pop opera The World Is Bigger Than You Think. Developed as part of a residency at the Watermill Center, The World Is Bigger Than You Think explores issues of personal crisis and societal pressure as a general state of being. Moraes and Sæbjörnsson created a live recording for ARTonAIR.org of additional selections from their visual pop opera music developed during their Watermill residency. Joining them was Jenny Schlenzka, Assistant Curator for Performance, Department of Media and Performance Art at MOMA, to discuss their practice and this project.
Moraes & Sæbjörnsson have collaborated on several projects such as The Mind, which toured institutions including the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark, and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Their last production, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, was a commissioned work by Freunde Guter Musik for their series Musicworks by Visual Artists and was presented at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin.
This work is supported by the Icelandic Arts Center.
This performance is free and open to the public. The Clocktower Gallery is located in a City-owned building at 108 Leonard Street between Broadway and Lafayette, so please, remember to bring you ID for security. Enter through the grey door under the scaffolding and take the elevator to the 12th Floor. Take a left, enter through the red staircase B door, and walk up to the 13th Floor. The AIR offices and studios are down the corridor.
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