NERVOUS/SYSTEM

MIT CAST (Center for Art, Science & Technology)

Friday evening's performance is currently sold out, although a very limited number of seats will be available at the door (first come, first served). There are tickets available for both the Saturday and Sunday performances.
Please arrive to the theater 10 minutes before the start of the performance. At 5 minutes after curtain, your ticket will be released. There will be no late seating.
 
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NERVOUS/SYSTEM is the third project in a triptych of new performance works by OBIE award-winning performer, writer and interactive-electronics artist Andrew Schneider and and Company with a core ensemble of collaborators (following YOUARENOWHERE and AFTER) that create rapid-fire existential meditations using physics lectures, pop culture and personal revelations to dissect subjects ranging from quantum mechanics and parallel universes to missed connections and AA recovery steps. Using an array of complex visual and aural effects to produce a fluid, shifting landscape of sensory overload, these three projects transform the physical performance space and warp linear time to short-circuit preconceived notions of individual perspective and what it means to be here now.
NERVOUS/SYSTEM specifically follows the trajectories of seven individual and entirely disparate narratives throughout the history of the planet and explores how interconnected all events truly are. Borrowing concepts from physics and philosophy like loop gravity, eternalism and block time, the narrative structure of NERVOUS/SYSTEM attempts to collapse linear time, putting effect before cause and pushing us to think about our realities and how we as humans affect one another in profoundly new ways.
The Friday night performance will be followed by an artist Q&A moderated by James P. Stanley, Artistic Producer of Theater, Dance and Media at Harvard.
We invite you to make a weekend out of exploring the intricacies of the human brain and how it shapes our experiences. NERVOUS/SYSTEM ticketholders can present their ticket stubs at the <A HREF="https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MIT Museum</A> for one free visit between November 9 and 12, where you can see their exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
 
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Credit: NERVOUS/SYSTEM with Alicia ayo Ohs and Andrew Schneider. Photo by Andrew Schneider.

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