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Highlights from @tom_thayer’s CIRCADIAN PLAYS 🐆🐫🦒

Over three days in residence at Blank Forms last week, Thayer activated a suite of durational videos and sonic objects, combining animation, collage, computerized graphics, and light design to stage what he calls scenographic plays.

Next up in 1D: Stefan Tcherepnin’s (@through_a_fork) SONGS FOR THE LIVING on Saturday, November 1, and Sunday, November 2.

🎞 @joey_damore
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“With a sweet redolence of Alexander Calder and his ‘Circus,’ the soulfully playful painter, collagist, and puppeteer Tom Thayer performs manipulations of his paper birds and other creations.” –Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

“Tom Thayer’s reddish room of puppets and crane paintings makes him a modern mythographer by way of William Kentridge and Balinese shadow-plays.” —Jerry Saltz, New York

“There’s an uncertainty around what’s animate and what isn’t, what may have once been alive and what in some sense still might be.” —Domenick Ammirati (@the_no_bird), Spigot

This weekend, multimedia artist @tom_thayer activates a suite of durational videos and sonic objects, combining animation, collage, computerized graphics, and light design to stage what he calls a scenographic play. 

Link in bio to learn more. Tickets still available for Thayer’s Friday evening concert, as well as his Thursday and Friday afternoon durational works. The limited Saturday morning performance is sold out.
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Thursday, October 9, 2pm–5pm: “A Farmer’s Eye Tied to a Horse by a Silk Rope”
Friday, October 10, 3pm–6pm: “Let’s Get Higher Educated”
Durational works; audience members will be permitted to exit and re-enter as they wish throughout each three-hour session.

Friday, October 10, 7pm doors; 7:30pm performance: “Supposed to Be Happy”
Larger-scale presentation; 45 minutes with no intermission.

Saturday, October 11, 6am: “Counterdoses for the Home”
Extremely limited capacity; no predetermined program exists for this special set.

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Over a three-day residency—featuring three smaller sessions and one larger-scale presentation—Tom Thayer activates a suite of durational videos and sonic objects, combining animation, collage, computerized graphics, and light design to stage what he calls a scenographic play. Working from a pedagogical and philosophical interest in childlike play, Thayer strives in each live performance to access an unmediated and unrepeatable mode of expression. Yet he often repurposes his found materials across events and mediums, generating motifs—spindly, animalistic forms, undulating sheafs of pixels—almost by accident, as an artifact of his intuitive process. Across these dreamlike recurrences, an unconscious selfhood coheres, disaggregates, and succumbs again to the ephemeral. As in lineages of experimental theatre, like Jerzy Gartowski’s intentionally aimless collectivities, the material output of the performance is always secondary. It is the intangible psychic force generated in the room that takes primacy.

Blank Forms is located on the first floor of 468 Grand Ave in Clinton Hill. There is one step down from the entrance to the building. If you require help accessing the space or would like to use our wheelchair ramp, please contact izzy@blankforms.org.
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