The Paper Crane

Our pal Eliza Fer­nand has a new inter­ac­tive per­for­mance piece tak­ing place soon in NYC!

It’s called “Let’s Be Match­ing”. Eliza cre­ates a visu­ally iden­ti­fi­able group of peo­ple by mak­ing them match­ing acces­sories.  The acces­sories are cus­tomized to each per­son in a ten-minute fit­ting ses­sion, and are all made from two dis­tinc­tive printed fab­rics– so each piece is dif­fer­ent and the same.

Eliza will be meet­ing peo­ple in her sewing sta­tion in Grace Exhi­bi­tion Space from 1pm to 5pm on Sat­ur­day, March 6th, and will be invit­ing par­tic­i­pants to meet back at the space for a dance party on Sun­day, March 7th from 4pm to 5pm.  The dance party will bring the group together in their match­ing garb, and I will be mak­ing a playlist that includes each participant’s favorite danc­ing song.

This per­for­mance is part of SITE Fest 2010:

Arts in Bush­wick is pleased to announce SITE Fest, a two-day inter­dis­ci­pli­nary event high­light­ing the diver­sity of per­for­mance in Bush­wick. Now in its sec­ond year, SITE arose in response to the amaz­ing out­pour­ing of live art that Arts in Bush­wick receives every year for BETA Spaces and Open Stu­dios. Encom­pass­ing and blend­ing a vari­ety of forms includ­ing the­ater, dance, and music, SITE inves­ti­gates our neigh­bor­hood as an unfold­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive per­for­mance enacted in urban space.

SITE Fest is a proud part­ner and fea­tured Brook­lyn event of Armory Arts Week. (read more here)

Also, my part­ner Anna and I have been work­ing hard at new things for wan­na­make- we have new gar­ments up on the site, comfy things for your house in the works, and an upcom­ing stu­dio res­i­dency.  So, all is well with us.