WHAT'S HERE: UNREPEATABLE EPHEMERAL ACTS

Small, ephemeral, unrepeatable acts with the intention of acknowledging and living the Anthropocene. Such gestures draw from a decade of experiences in addressing planetary-scale geologic change and the uncertain, wildly open futures that are now in the making.

When attuned to specific situations, moments in time, and assemblages of people, the gestures made could be the most vital acts for us to perform as artists in response to unfolding material and social realities.

We stage What’s Here: Unrepeatable Ephemeral Acts at sites and moments when we feel the necessity to pause within a fleeting assemblage of place, people, events, materials, and changing conditions during the hour(s) that the micro-production unfolds.

Each staging offers, simultaneously, refuge from and sheltered exposure to emerging (often alarming) material conditions of contemporary life.

The “spaces” we design, build, and/or enact function as part studio, part teahouse and part zendo. Contingent upon contexts and circumstances, they attend to the highly singular, one-time meeting of human and non-human forces composing the moment and its context.

At times, the primary gesture is architectural. Other times, it is embodied action and movement. It may also be conceptual.

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