COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO poster
APP Professor Karen Finley will present a new performance work, “COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO” from April 8 – May 6 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre!
“In COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO, Finley reflects on our pandemic era traumas, politics, and world events, as well as our coping strategies to deal with isolation, loss, and a culture overwhelmed by anxiety. Finley looks back at a time of Zoom discos, bingeing on animal videos, and pandemic hobbies like baking. This look back while trying to look forward to reimagine a new future creates the framework for this passionate, vulnerable, and often comical new work.
During the pandemic, Finley has been creating hand-painted ink script over found book pages as an act of graffiti. Videos and slides of these works intertwine within COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO as a moving montage. The piece also features a brief sound installation using gathered voices expressing pandemic emotions.”
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