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Ralph Lemon (NY)
Living Legacy
March 28 - April 18, 2010
Work in Development: How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
Collaborators in Residence: Jim Findlay [sets/projection designer], Roderick Murray [lighting designer], Djedje Djedje Gervais, Darrell Jones, Gesel Mason, Okwui Okpokwasili, Omagbitse Omagbemi and David Thomson [peformers] Lemon imagines the work as a multimedia theatrical performance/installation/video in three parts: Sunshine Room, Wall/Hole and No Room, involving professional performers as well as residents, young and old, of Bentonia and Yazoo City, MS. Described as a “speculative fiction epic,” the project bridges the personal and the universal in an exploration of the possibilities of intercultural collaboration, the allegiances of race, and the power and unreliability of memory. This work has evolved from Lemon’s five-year collaboration with centenarian Walter Carter, a former sharecropper who has lived his entire life in Bentonia, MS. This residency, focused primarily on Wall/Hole will precede the premiere of the second section, Wall/Hole, at Dublin Arts Festival in May 2010. |
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