Social Practices Art Network

In Nov. 2011 (SPAN) will begin to work with The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) to iterview artists that are working in conjunction with The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL).

The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is a performance collective formed in 2006 by librettist/director/video artist Esther Neff and composer/musician/sound artist Brian McCorkle. PPL’s hyper-structural performance art projects are developed in collaboration with individuals from many different walks of life, and through community workshops, interviews, and other engaged practices. They often examine complex systems and trace epistemic, emotional, and socio-political viewpoints held by individuals and groups. Using home-made technological set-ups, multiple languages, video, interactive and participatory elements, field-recorded sound, and found materials, PPL works operate across many disciplines, born out of a trajectory of multi-media opera influenced by the work of Robert Ashley, Laurie Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, and other work in experimental music, theater, and performance art. PPL has performed in New York City at Dixon Place, University Settlement, University of the Streets, The Brick Theater, Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, ABC No Rio, The West End Theater, The Hudson Guild Theater, the Manhattan Theatre Source, Judson Church, Surreal Estate, Studio Maya, IRT, The Brecht Forum, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Battle Ranch, 14 Wall Street (Workforce/Forced Work through Swing Space in 2009) two chashama spaces, in a pop-up gallery through QMAD, at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Columbia University, and other educational institutions, in bars and parking lots, on the Theresienwiese where the Oktoberfest is held in Munich, Germany, above a mall in Goshen, Indiana, and many other spaces and sites elsewhere. PPL has created the operas On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians, and The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All, the trilogy The Transformational Grammar of the Institutional Glorybowl, the installation/software/ performance/video The Silviculture Museum, the film In the Company of Eshu, and many other plays, videos, and performances.

www.panoplylab.org
www.vimeo.com/panoplylab
www.facebook.com/panoplylab

Current and Past PPL collaborators include:

Alejandro Acierto
Jason Anastasoff
Georgiana Avram
Loren Barnese
Mikey Barringer
Gelsey Bell
Jessica Bathurst
Ella Joyce Buckley
Chiasui Chen
Michael J. Connolly
Megan Cooper
Ian Dunn
Kristen Elliott
Danielle Faitelson
Daniella Fischetti
Kate Garfield
Herbert Go
Matthew Gonzalez
Cat Gilbert (Gratuitous Art Films)
Michael Hanf
Melissa Heller
Anna Heinl
Tess Jamias
Katie Johnston
Joseph Keckler
Dina Keller
Ashley Kelly-Tata
Meredith Kitz
Brian McCorkle
Natasha Missick
Marisa Merrigan
Hyatt Michaels
Esther Neff
Michael Newton
Ellen O’Meara
Adrian Owens
Paul Pinto
Brian Rady
Erin Rogers
Dave Ruder
David Tam
Alexis Thomason
Aaron Thompsen
Anika Solveig
Matthew Stephen Smith
Ariel Swan
Tom Swirly
Andrew Whipple
Liam White
Jeffrey Young