JOBSITE
Directed by Theo Langason
Filmed and edited by Serena Violet Hodges & Adam Foster Jacobs
A space in process, process in space. JOBSITE is a video series chronicling the process of Red Eye’s new theater as it is under construction. A diverse collection of artists across multiple disciplines performing in a space unfinished, JOBSITE juxtaposes artistic work with an active construction site. Artistic work is work. Artists build and labor. The stage, rehearsal room, the page, the canvas: these are where the work happens. These are the JOBSITE.
Special thanks: Peter Morrow, Flannery Construction
"Welcome to Your Show"
by The Controversial New 'Skinny Pill'
Skyler Nowinski of 'Skinny Pill' shares:
"hello! i am very honored to be invited to present some material for the JOBSITE series, and to break in the possibilities of "The Back Room"!
with this performance i get to address the JOBSITE theme and tie together my 3 main 'JOBS': 1) sound designer 2) 'local pop musician' and 3) analog media conversion technician.
the tape machine you see here is an item i use almost daily at my JOB-JOB, digitizing reel-to-reel audio from 9-5, so i get to bring a bit of my everyday work equipment to my ""JOB"" of creating original music for my project 'the controversial new skinny pill'* and my ~SOMETIMES-JOB~ of generating content for Red Eye: the first theater to give me a paycheck for sound design (some of the rackmount gear you see in this video is audio gear from the old space!). all this is framed by my very first job i had as a teenager: bar mitzvah dj [not radio dj, that's just me having fun])
that being said, is the song 'site specific' or something? that's up for interpretation, but it's mainly a song i made and hope you enjoy. "making songs people MIGHT enjoy hearing, presented in ways people might enjoy watching" is a humble and plausible job description for "local pop musician"
thank u 4 watching and reading this!
*band members include alana horton, dan dukich, mariel oliveira, and jared hemming"
“Minutia”
by Aby Wolf
Aby Wolf shares:
"Life ground to a solid halt for me in 2020.
Days and weeks became seasons with no path forward yet apparent. I was panicked by the white out static of each structureless day.
No big brush strokes, no footholds.
'Minutia' came out of that deep, dark autumn halt.
When we lose all sense of motion and direction, we must invite ourselves to remember that life moves around us and through us as long as we're alive.
A sun may seem fixed in place, but out in space, tiny bodies tethered in orbit soar with impossible speed, no destination needed.
The butterfly effect seemed a poetic approach to such an interim devoid of big-picture understanding - any little choice I make now would spin air into a much larger future.
One moment at a damn time.
With these images in mind, the tiny movements of one afternoon became myriad stepping stones I could set foot upon.
Life is a zillion bitty steps anyway, just sometimes we forget about the big power in the bitty shit."
"Zone 3"
By Vie Boheme
Vie Boheme is a Motown native, blossomed creatively in Pittsburgh and refined in Minneapolis. She is a multimodal artist; a dancer, singer, actress, poet, writer and producer of her own works. She brings athletic agility to her vocal performance by singing and dancing in unison, eliminating the boundary between the visual and audio experience. Her sound is a fusion of Soul, Funk, Jazz, R&B and Pop. Her lyrics mix vulnerability with authenticity that beautifully snaps the listener back to reality.
She is a former vocal artist, choreographer and co-creative director for Stokley Williams, front man of Mint Condition gone solo. She is also a former dance artist with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, TU Dance and a founding member of The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (Top 25 to Watch, Dance Magazine, 2012). She has choreographed and performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Guthrie Theater with The Moving Company and she has also choreographed for The Children's Theater in Minneapolis, MN. While with The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble she traveled with The US Embassy to teach and perform in Suriname in South America. Vie was trained at Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts and The Ailey School. Over the course of her career she performed the works of Kyle Abraham, Gregory Dolbashian, Dwight Rhoden, Uri Sands, Darrell Grand Moultrie and Sidra Bell. She is also a soul, funk, jazz vocalist and has opened for international acts Little Dragon, Bilal and J*Davey.
Deon
Written and performed by Antonio Duke
“Creating ‘Deon’ gave me the opportunity to express my own grief. The great gift of being an artist is that if you’re going through a dark time you can reveal it through your work which can provide a catharsis. ‘Deon’ shows a poet remembering bearing witness to a moment of trauma in his community. I’m grateful for Red Eye Theater for providing me space where I could illuminate some of the dark.”
- Antonio Duke
“Grown Ass Woman” by Kiss the Tiger
“Grown Ass Woman” is a song from Kiss the Tiger's LP, "Vicious Kid". Now available. The song is a tribute to the strength and resilience of Women.
Contained, Alive [solo] + VATWC
Conceived and performed by Pedro Pablo
Sound and projections by Joyce Liza Rada Lindsey
Stagehand: Samie Johnson
"Cyclical processes, gaining momentum, energy is recycled, constantly changing. Contained. Rising and perishing. The human desire to stay alive, to thrive, constantly reminded of its containment. Migrant concentration camps, private prisons, gender as a binary. Contained bodies, transgressors of the 'state.' Uncontainable.
This is an ongoing research that has manifested in two forms so far, this is the third instance. The audiovisual piece is VATWC : Violence Against Trans Women of Color created by Joyce Liza Rada Lindsey (JayLinZ); Joyce also created the soundscape for the first entry of Contained, Alive, October 2020."
– Pedro Pablo
Estelle
"I enjoy spending time away, travelling, getting lost. I wrote this song during an extended road trip on the East Coast. While visiting friends in New York City, I met a French woman named Estelle, a dancer living in Belgium. We spent the day visiting the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, wandering around the Museum of Modern Art, hopping subway trains. The next week I was off to rural Maine to visit fellow AD Rachel Jendrzejewski, who was spending the summer at Red Eye artist and photographer Theo Goodell's family summer home. One afternoon, with Rachel's father’s ukulele, I wrote ‘Estelle’ in half an hour—reflecting on the summer and the beauty of impermanence.”
– Theo Langason