JOYRIDE
DIGITAL PROGRAM
JOYRIDE: A DRIVE FOR GOODYEAR ARTS
Saturday + Sunday, June 6-7, 2020
Camp North End
If you are moved to tip the artists for their work tonight, they have asked that you direct these “tips” with a donation to Charlotte Uprising’s Bail Support fund.
Or via PayPal: ashwilliamsCLT@gmail.com
#1
EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE
THE WATCHERS
Created and Performed by: XOXO
Duration: About 6-Minutes
Instructions: Tune radio station to 87.7 FM. Windows up.
The Watchers is experimental animism, a performance grounded in deeply focused listening and a de-centering of the Individual narrative. It’s aimed ultimately at a kind of invisibility. We are aware that this runs counter to the “look at me, look at me, please please PLEASE look at me!” that you’ve come to expect from theatre people. Our therapists recommended it. And so the performers of XOXO have taken as their task an immersion into the rhythms of the natural world, creating a performance that hopes ultimately to serve as an exquisite frame for what has always/already been there: our miraculous and wholly sentient living planet.
XOXO members include: Kadey Ballard, Laura Scott Cary, Matt Cosper, Cody Frye, Ethan Holtzman, Katherine Lim, Jon Prichard, Will Rudolph. Written and Directed by Matt Cosper. Sound Design by Kadey Ballard. Light Fabrication by Will Rudolph. Line Producer: Katherine Lim.
#2
VISUAL ART
CONTEMPORARY AFFIRMATIONS
By: Renee Cloud
Instructions: Drive slowly, absorb the message
Contemporary Affirmations is a collection of words we could all use to digest and move through our days in this extraordinary time. This work is part of The Shiny Language Project, made possible with the support of the Knight Foundation.
#3
POETRY
POETRY
Written and performed by: Amy Bagwell and de’Angelo Dia
Duration: About 11-Minutes
Instruction: Tune radio station to 89.7 FM. Windows up.
Amy Bagwell
trying to be quietnew poems from a chapbook-in-progress
+
de'Angelo Dia
Pestilence: The Fatal Epidemic of Being Black in AmerikkkaA short segment of a longer performance in-progress, Pestilence is a poetic response to the public execution of Black men and women since March 3, 1991.
#4
MUSIC
LYMARS, CARNATION, LESSONS IN RENUNCIATION, STATION KEEPING
By: Ghost Trees
Duration: About 6-Minutes
Instructions: Roll your windows down and enjoy.
Ghost Trees (Seth Nanaa and Brent Bagwell) will be playing one of four tunes for each group of cars. Ghost Trees try to keep the lantern lit in a world where jazz music is consistently sapped of its original power as a folk form. Their most recent effort - recorded at the legendary Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ - will be released later this year.
#5
VISUAL ART
+ MUSIC
AS THE BOUNDARY PULLS APART
A collaboration by: Matthew Steele and Ben Geller
Duration: About 4-Minutes
Instructions: Tune radio station to 88.7 FM. Windows up.
What does change sound like? What does change look like? These questions were the impetus for Matthew Steele (art and animation) and Ben Geller (score, performed and written) as they began this project, roughly one month ago. A few short video animations set the tone for Geller’s score, then the short film was animated around the finished piece of music. This volley back and forth between artists was accompanied with conversation about seismic shifts in our culture, parallels to geologic phenomena, fears, and hopes for our future.
#6
MUSIC
MUSIC FOR 2 CARS
A collaboration by: JM Askew and Casey Malone
Duration: About 8-Minutes
Instructions: Roll your windows down and enjoy.
A four part suite arranged within the confines of the COVID-19 pandemic, JM and Casey’s first collaboration together was almost completely recorded, mixed and arranged in isolation from one another. Music For 2 Cars was composed to test the limits of organic collaboration and composition while exploring the malleable nature of physical spaces in relation to physical sound properties such as echolocation and stereophonics.
#7
MOVEMENT
ENOCH
Performed by: Eric Mullis and Joy Davis
Duration: About 7-Minutes
Instructions: Tune radio station to 90.7 FM. Windows up.
This is an excerpt from a dance duet including in an evening-length work entitled The Land of Nod. We are grateful for the opportunity adapt the piece to this unique setting. It has encouraged us to reimagine the choreography with the audience at a distance, with specialized lighting, and a new sound score intended to be played through car radios.