Mary and Sarah and You and Me: A Series of Tiny Spectacles, 2007-2009
in Collaboration with Emmy Bean
Video, 16mm, Sound and Video Installation, Overhead Projections, Puppets, Toy Theater, Performance
Mary and Sarah and You and Me: A Series of Tiny Spectacles offers a topsy-turvy chronicle of the lives of Stagecoach Mary Fields, and Mother Sarah Amadeus Dunne through their legendary lives in 19th century rural central Montana. These real life pioneer women, a black cowgirl from Tennessee and a white nun from Ohio, serve as co-conspirators, foils, and elusive historical tricksters to collaborators Naima Lowe and Emmy Bean. This project has taken on many forms, but has continually asked audience and authors alike to consider race, spectacle, power, ambition and destiny in the best way that we know how: With Puppets.
More at http://tinyspectacles.blogspot.com
2 Channel Video Installation as part of a Performance and Installation at The Parlor in Philadelphia, PA, August 1 & 2, 2008
Single Channel Video at The Parlor
Video Documentation of an Interactive Puppet Play as installed at Judson Memorial Church in New York City, June 22-29
