Exorcism = Liberation is a public art project that investigates our relationship to land, self-determination, migration, and climate disaster. Through collective citywide experiences in New York City, Chicago, and the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, we invite the American public to imagine alternative futures through the lens of Puerto Rican culture and the U.S.' ongoing colonial history.
Events
“‘When they say, Come here and play and experiment and move the furniture around and don’t worry about making a mess, it really creates an atmosphere that is conducive to discovery and surprise’. As the theater settles into its new home — two adjacent warehouses that were once a tool and die factory — that ethos will likely endure, along with the founders’ cultivation of local relationships.” – Siobhan Burke, New York Times
“‘When they say, Come here and play and experiment and move the furniture around and don’t worry about making a mess, it really creates an atmosphere that is conducive to discovery and surprise’. As the theater settles into its new home — two adjacent warehouses that were once a tool and die factory — that ethos will likely endure, along with the founders’ cultivation of local relationships.” – Siobhan Burke, New York Times
Current Season
Everything Must Go is a dance theater work that emerges from satirical questioning into the consumption of experimental performance. It examines the ways in which capitalism provokes a savior complex in artists, urging us to demonstrate goodness amidst crisis.
An intimate portrait of the aesthetics of proximity and estrangement through the touch points of relationality between Black gay men.
In Spring 2025, Maria Baranova, Dahlak Brathwaite, Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Sharleen Chidiac, Jessica Cook, Ayano Elson, Ethan Philbrick, Anh Vo, and additional artists TBA will each receive access to space and financial support for early stage research into their new projects.
Offering an unordinary feeling of time, the work heightens attention to our collective rhythms and the environment we share. Sperber is joined by collaborating performers Tim Bendernagel, Mykel Nairne, Owen Prum, and Zo Williams.
S H I N E is a performance and installation using sound, video, voice, movement and audience participation to explore space as a living entity, and the delicate machinery of intentional, communal action. The work addresses the unseen mechanisms of care, the thin boundaries between call and response, and the importance of the immaterial within living systems.
Martita Abril continues her introspective work of reflecting on border life. A sense of the familiar yet distorted, always shifting and yet recognisable, the work takes on the dualities of being raised in a land divided.
