Marchland (2010)
60 minutes, no intermission
The Marchland project was spurred by an animation by Fraser Taylor from 2007 – "Crevice". This film, produced with Nicholas O'Brien, was made by drawing directly onto 16mm clear leader, a very minute surface that compressed the gesture required to make marks on the filmstrip. These miniature inscriptions took on a capricious visceral shift when projected, producing an agitated bombardment of images and terrains.
Crevice became the visual and conceptual point of departure for a broad, opening conversation between the collaborating artists, leading us eventually to think about spatial politics – the designation, negotiation and claiming of space.
Marchland refers to a border region – the threshold between two places. We looked at this in-between space as variously remote and undisturbed, or disorderly and potentially violent. Many different types of physical or psychological boundaries are invoked here – barriers between individual bodies, actions between groups of people, and constructions built to delineate these boundaries. The incessant shifting of images or marks in the original Crevice is felt in Marchland as a ceaseless reconfiguring and reordering of alliances and territories.
Credits
- Choreography & Direction: Carrie Hanson
- Additional Direction: Doug Stapleton
- Animation & Set Design: Fraser Taylor
- Costume Design: Lara Miller
- Percussion/Sound Design: Tim Daisy
- Video & Sound Design: Nicholas O'Brien
- Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
- Set Consultation: Joel Huffman
- Performance: Paige Cunningham, Philip Elson, Christina Gonzalez-Gillett, Damon Green, Amanda McAlister, Bruce Ortiz, Cara Sabin, Trevor Szuba-Schneider