Materials
Video, Internet, Humans, Some Pets, Chairs, Apartments, Houses, Various Locations, Various Emotions, Objects, Dance Moves.
Locations
MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Art Lords Gallery, Kabul, Afghanistan (in association with Art Lords)
Blitz - Bazar & Gallery, Lyon, France
Gallery 707, Hudson, NY, USA
Art Spaces, Katowice, Poland
COLLISION SHOP is a collaborative project, created, produced and presented by MIT Music and Theater Arts, with a cohort of students from the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Elaheh Ahmadi, Cecilia Esterman, Kellie Everett, Victoria Longe, Pranav Murugan, and Shannen Wu), Brain And Cognitive Sciences (Daniel Estandian), Chemistry (Aniket Dehadrai, Madeline Holtz), Chemical Engineering (Mat Medina), Health Sciences and Technology (Claudia Varela), and Music and Theater Arts (Peter Tone). The international contributors came from Art Spaces-Dance, Poland: (Daniel Leżoń) and Norwegian Theater Academy (Albert Greve Rasmussen, Anna Rauhala, Clara Random, Karol Broski.) The production was facilitated by Dan Safer, with co-deviser Wil Petre and dramaturg Ogemdi Ude. The instructions soundtrack is by the award-winning composer Christian Frederickson. Aniket “Ani” Dehadrai is the Assistant Director. The production features valuable life hacks by Sara Brown and video installation design by Joshua Higgason. Video editing and the website design are by GLITCH | Attilio Rigotti and Orsolya Szantho; WikiHow design by Tolu Akinbo. Miguel Flores is the Production Manager for the project.
Original music scores by Todd Reynolds, Ada Westfall, José Ignacio Benítez, Elisheba Ittoop, Luqman Brown, Julia Kent, David Shane Smith, Javier Peral V. Jeffrey Smith, Louis Dulac, Ben Tyree, Jared Michael “Dr. Bubbles" Nickerson, Robert M Johanson, Micah Gaugh, Sxip Shirey, Dimitri Manos, Alison Clancy.
Presented in association with October Octopus.
Created with the support of The DeFlorez Fund for Humor.
The project begins with a set of audio instructions participants film themselves following and submit their videos. In presentation, every viewing is different – videos are randomly paired every time, nothing is predetermined. Music is randomly selected as well. The more videos submitted, the more possible permutations of the presentation there are.
YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT A VIDEO! Go to www.collisionshop.org to do so!
About MIT Music and Theater Arts
Established as an official program in the School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences at MIT in the early 1990s, MIT Music and Theater Arts invites students to explore these disciplines as artistic practices and as cultural, intellectual and personal avenues of inquiry and discovery. It has evolved as a performance and design program with a mission to engage new (and used) technologies and think deeply about the civic implications. Interdisciplinary in its philosophy and humanist at its core, these programs are committed to a rigorous and innovative course of study across a diverse spectrum of creative forms — scholarly practices coincide with acting, directing, design and production. Students are offered the opportunity to engage in classes, workshops, prototyping sessions, exhibitions, symposia, and performances as well as take advantage of MTA’s broad network of national and international institutional collaborators. Most students pursuing a course of study in Theater Arts at MIT go on to become great scientists, engineers, and technologists who bring a rich experience in performing arts practices to the solving of important problems. Aside from offering undergraduate and graduate study courses in Theatre and Music, the MTA runs its own Performance wing. Among the artists whose work was presented as part of this program were such artists as Elizabeth Streb, Ayesha Jordan, Otto Pena, Pedro Reyes, Renée Green, Michel Gondry, Sarita Choudhury, Suzan-Lori Parks, Robert Wilson, The Wooster Group, Samuel Beckett, Joan Jonas, Miranda July, Coco Fusco, and many others.
On View
May 6–9, 2021
Admission
Free
Location
The window of The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen St.
Gallery Hours
Thursday–Saturday: 1–7pm
Sunday: 1–5pm