Nearing is a 20-minute performance influenced by early Sci-Fi movies like The Blob and Body Snatchers. Audiences were made to witness the origins of seemingly friendly non-human beings with unknown intentions and a very visceral obsession with the viewer individually, in this interactive performance. The soundscape was created in collaboration with Elise Anderson and played lived. Nearing included claymation animation projected onto a dome that had puppet appendages controlled by two performers dressed in pink hidden inside the dome. Both wearables open to expose their insides to the audience while speaking to them in a dissonant tone, saying things like “We want to be just like you... just like you,” using repetition to create a haunting verbal monologue. These wearables represent being approached by a sentient embodiment of depression/anxiousness.

Soundscape created by Elise Anderson

2017, OFF Site Performance Series, commissioned by Girls’Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale FL