Title. On What Scale?

Description. A performance work for glass harmonica and plastic by P.A. Skantze of Four Second Decay.

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Are all things grown out of season, forced early, made to produce in the semi-dark, cloudy, cold of spring an imbalance in scale?  On what scale can we continue to thrive, to nourish ourselves and others in collaborative farming?  Thinking about the collision now of the crisis of plastic and the wreckage of destroyed greenhouses at the Northbrook site this performance will produce scales inviting participants to measure out the greenhouse borders in ascending and descending notes.

 

As things forced come to fruition early so things kept out through chemical means or closed borders or closed ports or closed islands require policing and premature winnowing.  On what scale can we welcome the foreign [like the tomato]? How can we balance the care of what Henze in his opera The Raft of the Medusa invokes as ‘the many too many’?  How can we with the filmmaker Agnes Varda in her The Gleaners and I learn a method of generous recycling of goods, of care, of love.  This performance proposes a work of singing in and as scale to explore these questions.

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[20 minutes performed both Saturday and Sunday]

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