Experimental Performance
FREE!!
Saturday, September 13, 2014
at 3:00 pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia
Directions
Borneo Odyssey is an experimental performance with audience interaction based on
the 1896-1898 Penn Museum expeditions to Northern Borneo made by William H. Furness,
Alfred C. Harrison, and Hiram M. Hiller. The Museum Archives collections and Hiller’s
A Brief Report of a Journey up the Rejang River in Borneo are re-interpreted into performance
with a talking orangutan, recounting the tales of discovery.
PERFORMANCE PARTICIPANTS
Skowmon Hastanan Artist in residence at Penn Museum, Producer, Prop Maker http://www.skowmon.com Born in Thailand and immigrated to USA, Hastanan creates mixed media works relating to Diaspora experience. She has exhibited at various venues nationally and internationally. Recipient of commissions from MTA Arts for Transit, Asian Arts Initiative’s with funding by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Pennsylvania Humanities Council, NYC Percent for Art, fellowships including Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy, Urban Artist Initiative, The Lambent Fellowships, BRIO/ Bronx Council on the Arts, and Brooklyn/BRIC. Her work has been written about in Art In America and The New York Times, in publications by NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute, Bronx Museum/Fordham University Press, and San Francisco State University and in collections of Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy, and Davis Museum, MA. |
Joel Holub Orangutan, Script Writer, Stage Direction, and Prop Maker www.joelholub.com http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/003/articles/jholub/index.php Holub is a writer, visual, and performance artist based in New York City. He exhibited nationally and internationally. Recipient of Gottlieb Foundation Grant 2002, and BRIO/ Bronx Council on the Arts 1993 |
Jeffrey Steven Gottesfeld |
Theodore Kersten Principal Composer, Musician http://www.tedkersten.com/ Kersten is a musician and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in New York and nationally, and was awarded a residency at The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN in 2007. As a musician and multi-instrumentalist, he has performed and recorded with bands such as Imaginary Icons and Saucer. He is currently writing music and playing with Pepper Kings, New York City’s only autoharp punk band. |
Stephen Gauci |
Leesa Abahuni |
Karen Ostrom Video and Sound Editor http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/karen-ostrom http://karenostrom.wordpress.com/ http://www.re-title.com/artists/Karen-Ostrom.asp Ostrom is a Canadian born Brooklyn based artist working in photography, installation, video and most recently, animation. She is the recipient of MacDowell Colony Artist Fellowships, Canada Council for the Arts Grants, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the Canada Council, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. |
Punans from Bungan River, Upper Kapuas River
Katia Berg Video and Sound Engineer http://www.fluxfm.de/katia-berg Berg is a radio host, freelance journalist, and sound engineer based in Berlin and New York City |
Harrison and Tegang-Kyan Chief
Eric W. Schnittke Magic Lantern, Assistant Archivist, Penn Museum https://twitter.com/ArchivesSchnit |
Marti Cormand Prop Maker http://marticormand.com/ Barcelona born Cormand is New York City based visual artist, represented by Josee Bienvenu Gallery. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Recipient of New York Foundation For the Arts Fellowship, Emerging Artist Award from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, a grant from Generalitat De Catalunya, Barcelona, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. |
Celeste Fichter Prop Maker http://www.celestefichter.com/ http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/celeste-fichter Celeste Fichter was born in New Jersey in 1965 and holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited throughout the New York metropolitan area and been reviewed in the New York Times and Village Voice. |
Toma Fichter |
MORE ABOUT BORNEO
An Orangutan. Sintang, Kapuas River
North Borneo Historical Society
Borneo Odyssey is sponsored by