How Light Enters My Home: A Projection Series

Free

Waitlist starts 30 minutes before curtain and is called 5 minutes before curtain.

Weekend 2: A Workshop Performance

"Miss You, Desert Rat"

by Brooke Harbaugh with Gavati Wad and Olivia Xing 邢淅璇

Miss You, Desert Rat is a love letter to a relationship that warps over time, changing from the fears of attachment, commitment, and intimacy and eventually leading towards a journey of selective isolation. These two lovers’ stories are laid out with shadow puppetry and object performance using two overhead projectors and one video projector. In this workshop presentation, the artist invites the audience into the devising process and to mingle afterwards to share their observations and questions...and to play with a puppet or two.

Duration 30 minutes.

A note on process: Having dove into recycling bins, picked over her lawns, and scavenged through her closet, Brooke repurposes discarded paper, used cardboard, gel samples, Eucalyptus bark, California pepper tree buds, fresnel lenses, an old slip, and a ping pong paddle as props for shadow play. She uses iPhone footage for all pre-recorded content. The artist turns to locally sourced and widely available materials to explore more affordable, minimally wasteful production and to play with what is naturally found around us.

Seating is limited.

Masks required for all audience members, regardless of vaccination status. We appreciate your consideration of our outdoor front of house staff. Please wear a mask when checking in with our usher.

Miss You, Desert Rat is part of the "How Light Enters My Home" Projection Series, a group of works by six Los Angeles-based artists who pair film/video with an element of liveness, merging pre-recorded work with the spontaneity of a moment. View the full Series program HERE.

To RSVP for Weekend 1 (April 16-April 17), see HERE.

PARKING

On Yale Street west of W College Street is inexpensive 4-hour metered parking, as well as some free street parking.

There is a $5 Public Parking lot on W College St. between N Hill and N Broadway, by the Shell gas station.

Bamboo Plaza Parking Garage on Bernard Street between N Hill and N Broadway offers off-street parking for $8 /day max.

Street parking is free on Sundays in Chinatown.

The Series is supported by California Institute of the Arts School of Theater and the California Institute of the Arts Interdisciplinary Project Grant.

For any questions, please reach out to automataarts@gmail.com

AUTOMATA

504 Chung King Court

Los Angeles, CA 90012

info: automataarts@gmail.com

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How Light Enters My Home: Weekend 2 Workshop Performance