Ten crew open to encounters. Four thousand miles from Tucson to Tucson. Twenty days. A Chevy van. Sonoran, Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. Knowns and unknowns.
mobile desert performance
17 June – 7 July 2013
journeyTen crew open to encounters. Four thousand miles from Tucson to Tucson. Twenty days. A Chevy van. Sonoran, Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. Knowns and unknowns.
landingWe need your help to give SHUTTLE grounds from which to explore! 5.30pm Monday 17 June at Exploded View, Tucson.
encountersOpen creative practice investigation en-route.
intervalBreakfast performance installation over four days at Stanford University during the Performance Studies international conference, 26-30 June 2013.
elsew/here blogWriter/performance-maker David Williams is blogging Shuttle daily from London.
remote crewArtists onboard in other locations: Annalea Beattie, Neal Haslem, John Vella, Alex Von Bergen, David Williams.
crewTen international artists, designers, performance makers and researchers aboard.
returnsone-night performance installation event at the Tucson Museum of Art 5pm 5 July.
shuttle baseShuttle to base, shuttle to base. Over.
A collection of international artists, designers, performance makers and researchers journey through the deserts of the American south-west performing an exploration of the aesthetic, political, cultural and environmental resonances of desert ecologies. As a temporary travelling community interested in movement, environment, and performance, the project crew intend to generate new creative practices and works that shuttle between registers of knowing and unknowing by exploring performances of mobility.
In a journey through seminal land art works, ancient settlements, desert conditions, and transit spaces, SHUTTLE will perform daily processes of creating ephemeral conditions and generating encounters. An initial landing event and a subsequent returns event in Tucson, Arizona, welcome public interaction – including collecting offerings from Tucson residents for SHUTTLE to carry forth. SHUTTLE presents an interval at the Performance Studies International ‘Now Then’ Conference (PSi 19) at Stanford University in Palo Alto, and will inform the development of PSi21 ‘Fluid States’ globally distributed events planned for 2015, in particular the Australian project ‘Movement Forms of an Island Continent’.
reviews
Luis Carrión, “Performance Explores Themes of Mobility and Environment”, Arizona Public Media video
Eric Magrane, “Environmental Resonances, Performance, and an Unconventional Summer Road Trip”, Proximities – University of Arizona Institute for the Environment online magazine review
Yasmine Jahanmir, “Shuttle”, Performance Studies International #19 conference blog response
Alison Dorf, “A Work in Progress”, Tucson Weekly article
Mick Douglas Beth Weinstein and crew
We gratefully acknowledge the support of University of Arizona, Tucson Museum of Art,
Exploded View, RMIT University, University of Melbourne, PSi Performance Studies international