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High Winds at LAX Performance Festival

  • Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles 1345 West 1st Street Los Angeles, CA, 90026 United States (map)
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High Winds Performance
Monday, October 9th
8pm
LAX Performance Festival
Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
For more info: www.performancepractice.org

Part modern-day pillow book, part picture book for adults, and told in an associative, elliptical style, High Winds takes readers deep into a dreamlike Western landscape. Jessica Fleischmann’s atmospheric imagery amplifies the words on every page, referencing 1980s graphics, net art, and something yet unseen; Sylvan Oswald’s text inhabits and draws meaning from this visual environment. Gas stations, local legends, and unlikely rock formations become terrain for explorations of fear, fantasy, masculinity, medication, spatial structures, and bodily functions—inspired by the author’s experience of gender transition, insomnia, and moving to Los Angeles. Text written and performed by Sylvan Oswald; images by Jessica Fleischmann; live electro-acoustic score performed by Jerome Ellis with projection design by Shawn Duan. Directed by Ellie Heyman.

Tickets here.

Earlier Event: September 25
High Winds Performance at Abrons Arts Center
Later Event: October 22
Book launch: The Words of Others