Robin Bell and I are bringing our first performance collaboration to the new Arlington's new cultural center kick-off event, Creative Briefs. The event will also showcase "briefs" by: Synetic Theater - Washington Shakespeare Company - Anthology of Booty DJ Crew - Hoop Dance - X Live Design Competition - Rosebud Film & Video Festival - Los Quetzales Mexican Dance Ensemble - Video Art Curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin - and Visual Artists Brandon Morse, Alexandra Zealand & Henrik Sundqvist
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Our piece, Monuments of Future Nostalgia, is a collaborative public performance engaging mobile technology, crowd sourcing, and auditory projections.
PREVIEW:
Hope masquerades as a vision, where the passion and insecurity felt by people become part of a call for national unity and identity, part of a community sentiment and future ideal of what we imagine ourselves to be. It is a kind of future nostalgia, a 'fantastic hope' for national unity charged by a static vision of life and the exclusion of difference. When, for the benefit of our security and belonging, we evoke a hope that ignores the suffering of others, we can only create a hope based on fear. This hope lies in the heart of terror. 
October 10, 2009, 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
New Arlington Cultural Center
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA