It's an Earthquake in My Heart
(2001-2003)
We began by studying immobility. We pretended our bodies were cars, and imitated the patterns of a chase and an accident. We pretended we were dancers, and imitated the patterns of a dance. We pretended we were machines, and people learning how to behave like people. We collected words about phantom childhoods. We fashioned a narrow performance space, angled askew, with no parallel in the world: part Chevrolet insignia, part Libeskind passageway. We have discovered a performance by making it, with the following ideas at its heart: the construction of memory, the aftermath of historical destruction, the place of nature, the way one might learn to love the world, the way one might say to oneself, "I am not afraid."
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Mark Jeffery, Matthew Goulish (in air), Karen Christopher, Bryan Saner
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Mark Jeffery, Bryan Saner
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Bryan Saner, Karen Christopher, Mark Jeffery, Matthew Goulish
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Bryan Saner, Mark Jeffery
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Bryan Saner, Karen Christopher, Mark Jeffery
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Matthew Goulish, Karen Christopher
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured: Mark Jeffery
It's an Earthquake in My Heart Photograph by Rebecca Groves
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001
Pictured left to right: Mark Jeffery, Matthew Goulish, Bryan Saner, Karen Christopher It's an Earthquake in My Heart - roll over images to view slideshow
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