SPECIAL EVENT | Borders and Boundaries: An Art-Fueled Screening + Conversation with On the Boards.tv and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Date: November 21, 2019
Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Location: CUB Auditorium
Join On the Boards Executive Director Betsey Brock and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Executive Director Robin Held for a screening of TEATRO LÍNEA DE SOMBRA’s performance Amarillo, with an introduction by Brock about the innovative platform OtB.tv, which brings the world’s best contemporary performance films by provocative artists to anyone with a device and an internet connection.
How can art get us closer to what really matters? To our families, our heritage, our communities? In our current era, where identities and origins are under great scrutiny, a work like Amarillo tells a story that can make a difference.. Brock and Held will conduct a post-screening conversation about the film, about art as a launch pad for civic discourse, about trends in performance and streaming technology, and about other opportunities to engage with contemporary performance art.
ABOUT | THE PERFORMANCE FILM:
Director Jorge Vargas and Teatro Línea de SombraAmarillo, 201260 minutes
A man departs for the U.S.–Mexican border and vanishes before reaching his destination: Amarillo, Texas. Through stunning projected images, bilingual monologues and a sea of displaced objects and natural elements, this renowned company reconstructs his journey in a multimedia performance that travels imagined landscapes of both geography and cultural identity. The absent man takes on multiple faces and names as he comes to symbolize the thousands of disillusioned travelers who have suffered a similar fate. Amarillotouches on the complex nature of individual and national identity in a time of exodus—both for those who leave and those who are left behind.
