SAY I WAS ORANGE

What is it to witness, to experience, or participate in art? What does it mean to do so in a period defined by its saturation with information, documentation, and image? Documentation becomes distortion, and as the objectivity of language is replaced by the sensation of aesthetics in our methods of experiencing truth, entrances open to new forms of myth-making.

SAY I WAS ORANGE, a night of performance by students of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, invites audience members to experiment with this new version of history making, placing the viewer in the crux of the present and offering them the chance to create the past tense others will hear. Across an architectural playground, the audience may explore and discover pits of wildly divergent energy, constructed by performers whose unique skills and inquiries are made manifest by every inkwell available in historic and contemporary performance art. From audience interaction, to live body art, to new media installation, to musical performance, all will be available. Performers and viewers alike will adapt and respond to critical moments suspected and unsuspected; along pathways both habitual and innovative, all are asked to experience, witness, remember, and go on to say what they will.