Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
People who missed the original production in October 2014 attended this re-staging. Recruited new members to Skewed Visions from attendees. Positive feedback expressed via word-of-mouth, written personal response, and/or critical review. We will examine audience count, post-performance feedback, and count the new members recruited from this performance. Also we will hold a series of post-performance evaluation meetings: one with each of the artists involved, and one with the Skewed Visions Board.
The focus of this project was on both the quality of the artistic event and the process for the artists involved. The three artistic goals of remounting EX were to: intimately engage audiences in a casual setting by foregoing confessional or memoir formats to explore themes of family, memory, and loss through an unusual structure based on a contemporary alternative song, provide our audiences with a local opportunity to engage with challenging, meaningful, interdisciplinary devised work, and to provide the artists involved with the challenges of adapting a site-based work to a new site. These artistic goals were achieved. The necessarily small houses (limited to 20 audience members) allowed an intimacy that aligned with the "sharing" nature of the performance, and in part due to the performance's more abstract structure, the audience reported empathy and understanding rather than embarrassment or awkward discomfort. The adaptation of a site-created piece for a different site was successful in that we allowed the new site to shift and change the performance, rather than attempting to imitatively recreate the original production. No changes needed to be made. Audiences who hadn't seen the original production came to this production, along with many who had seen the original and were interested in either seeing it again, seeing how it had changed, or both. Given that this was our first performance in our new shared space, in a new neighborhood, our audience didn't reflect the local demographic as much as we had hoped. More preparation and outreach would help in the future. Standing at the door and welcoming everyone who came by helped both to foster a real accessibility and sense of inclusion as well as to begin the performance's intimate exchange. There were some audience members, however, who found this openness uncomfortable and avoided the contact as much as possible. Primarily, the overall outcome of this project was the knowledge and experience of remaking an earlier piece, developed from a particular site to a new one. Both artists and audiences (new and familiar alike) found this successful.
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