kate watson-wallace anonymous bodies

HOUSE (2006)

CAR (2008)

STORE (2009)

AMERICAN SPACES is a trilogy of performance installations that take place in everyday spaces. Throughout the rooms of a house. In the backseat of a car. In the aisles of a department store. The trilogy is created in collaboration with video artist Ricardo Rivera, composer Joshua Kerr Cicetti, dramaturge Sebastienne Mundheim and costume designer Millie Hiibel.

The content of American Spaces deals with the ordinary, the day to day: riding in a car to work, being stuck in traffic, coming home, sleeping, eating, fucking, shopping. The form takes on an extra-ordinary approach. What is odd, fantastical, grotesque about these places? How can I make them magical again for my audience by taking them into the actual places (a home, a car, a store) and creating a compressed, dilated world? In American Spaces, we bring the audience close to the action: crowded in a bathroom, in the backseat of a car, in a dressing room. With this, We aim to investigate the witness-spectator relationship, relocating audiences to a house, a car, and a store.

American Spaces Collaborators:

Video Artist: Ricardo Rivera

Composer: Josh Cicetti

Dramaturge: Sebastienne Mundheim

Costume Designer: Millie Hiibel