&Now 2015: Blast Radius

Improvisation, one could say, is vital to the act of making. Radical improvisation implies a act of extreme participation and/or intervention. In three acts, participants in this presentation/ workshop will examine acts of radical improvisation in collaboration with the detritus that forms around us in our lives. These are the things we might look or walk away from, the things we might not notice - the torn bedspread, the stuff on the table at the yard sale, the wig in the hallway,  found objects, the bits of glitter left on the windowsill, unnamed unlabeled keys. The abandoned bodies somewhere out of our immediate sight, the shrapnel in the wall of someone’s house, the unexploded bomb, the noise, the newscaster so loud we turn off the television. We will ask why or why not these examples demand our attention. We will ask how do we stay present with them? How do we engage with them, make them necessary and perhaps impossible to walk away from? 

Participants are asked to bring something to the workshop they would walk or look away from. Or something they would otherwise throw away.