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MAINTENANCE
Sunday Dec 6th, doors at 6:30p for installation, expanded cinema performance starts at 7:00p
Mark O’Donnell Theater in Downtown Brooklyn
Part of MONO NO AWARE XX, celebrating the 20the Anniversary of Cinema Arts Exhibition
Free to attend! RSVP required!

Integrating live dance and Super 8mm projection, MAINTENANCE emerges from an observation by Kurt Vonnegut: “A flaw of human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Saving wool family heirlooms from clothing moths, MAINTENANCE collapses monotonous actions into a choreographic score, cataloging the labor required to take care of our personal archives. Inspired by Trisha Brown and Robert Whitman’s dance film project HOMEMADE presented at Judson Memorial Church in 1966, MAINTENANCE nurtures a creative practice that embraces effort to preserve connection. MAINTENANCE was commissioned by and received full production support from Mono No Aware. The film was captured by the artist using a Minolta XL601 on Super 8mm color reversal Ektachrome film supplied by the organization and edited with a Kodak Presstape Universal Splicer. It was rehearsed at Topaz Arts in Woodside, Queens with test performances run at the Mono No Aware Mirco-cinema. Archive is courtesy of Trisha Brown Dance Company.