NightActs 1: TRANSFIX
an ongoing collaborative series between the ASU Art Museum and ASU School of Theatre and Film
Friday, March 28, 2008, 7-9pm

Image credit: Vessel performs Transfix at Bell Rock in Sedona, Arizona (2007). Courtesy of Bruce Bowditch. Performed by Cathan Borden, Caitlyn Conlin, David McCormick, Rachel Bowditch, Alex Smith, and John Tzelepis.

JOINT RECEPTION
Friday, March 28, 7-9pm
Joint reception at both the Main Museum
and Ceramics Research Center
locations for the exhibitions:

JOSH GREENE: SOCIAL STUDIES
SUSAN BEINER: SYNTHETIC REALITIES
CARL ANDRE / TIM HAWKINSON
MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS

TRANSFIX
Artistic Director of Vessel, Rachel Bowditch and multi-media artist Jacob Pinholster will collaborate on a multi-media performance installation Transfix. Created in 1996, Transfix has been performed in over thirty site-specific locations in New York City, Philadelphia, Sedona, and France. In an interactive silent atmospheric performance, fourteen performers will move slowly throughout the museum, both inside and outside, transforming the unique architecture of the museum into a poetic theatrical landscape. Performers break out of the traditional theatrical arena into a public space where the audience becomes part of the performance, coming and going as they please. Shrouded in white, the performers bind the permanence of urban architecture with the ephemerality of performance revealing the poetry and beauty of the mundane. Transfix is a collaborative, interactive intervention where the passerby, not expecting to see a performance stops in their tracks, transfixed.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Bowditch and Pinholster are faculty in the School of Theatre in the Herberger College of the Arts.  ASU students will perform the work.  For more information, visit www.vesselproject.org

TRANSFIX is part of Night Series: An Ongoing Series of Collaborative Evenings

More information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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