Exhibitions/Grants
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| World Stage Design 2005 an international exhibition of set, costume, lighting and sound design Toronto, Canada
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Prague Quadrennial International Exhibit of Scenic Art Included among US designers Exhibited.
Photo right: Rendering for The Coronation of Poppea. |
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US Institute for Theatre Technology
Biennial Scenography Exhibitions 1990 Milwaukee The Normal Heart 1988 Long Beach: The Adding Machine Cloud Nine 1986 Oakland: Coronation of Poppea 1982 Denver: The Unknown Soldier 1980 Kansas Cuty: The Rimers of Eldritch City of Voices Photo left: The Normal Heart |
Bravo Award Albuquerque Arts award for scenery and lighting design for MARAT/SADE
Marat/Sade Design Concept Statement
Peter Weiss' s The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat
as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of
the Marquis de Sade is that kind of strange mix of philosophy, politics,
sex, violence and pure shtick that makes for simply good theatre. Radical
politics and pop tunes, Büchner meets Bye Bye Birdie!
Research into the asylums of the period reveals that the progressive mental
health practitioners of the time had hit upon water treatment as the therapy
of choice for the enlightened sane; as if the actual cleansing of the body could
effect the metaphoric purification of the mind. Never mind that, from a contemporary
perspective, the therapy looks more like torture than treatment. Weiss
placed the action of the play in the bath house precisely for this reason and
the result is theatre that would make Artaud jealous.
The central image is the bath house itself, cavernous, antiseptic, familiar
and threatening. Seen from the perspective of the inmates, the incongruous great
culverts promise access to the primal mysteries of the unconscious and at the
same time presage a pending catastrophe of the scope of the great flood. Guarded
by Gargoyles, the hard white tile surfaces of the space offer the inmates all
the comfort and the same inevitability as a tomb.
In the end, with the alarm sounding, the machines of healing in shambles
and an ominous red light pulsing from the depths of the sewers, we the
audience, can only stare in awe and envy at the inmates bold rebellion against
the forces of life, fate and death itself.
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New Mexico One Percent for the Arts Grant Globe model for the Center for the Theatre Exhibit.
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UNM Presidential Lectureship1988
Grant: Application
of Computer and Digital Sampling Technology to Sound
Design for Dance Performance
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Application of Neon to Dance Design. Conceived, directed and designed:
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