[Frameworks] Exhaustion Laments at The Industry Lab 2022 DEC 17

[Stephen Anker]

Congratulations, Mariah!
Let me know if you perform this again in LA in case I will be visiting, or
in San Francisco where I'm currently living.
My best wishes, Steve

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 9:59 AM mariah garnett <mariah.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Everyone!
>
>
> I’m excited to announce a new performance piece I have been working on for
> some months now, *Exhaustion Laments *is coming up in LA for *one day
> only, *as part of *The*  <https://theindustryla.org/projects/lab-2022/>*Industry Lab
> 2022 <https://theindustryla.org/projects/lab-2022/>*
>
>
> *Saturday, Dec 17th*
>
> *performances at 1:00 PM and 2:30 PM*
>
> Festival Pass tickets
> <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lab-2022-tickets-428036969097> are
> currently on sale, single tickets will go on sale Dec 1.
>
> email me for a discount code.
>
>
>
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> *Exhaustion Laments*
>
> LA-based artist and filmmaker *Mariah Garnett
> <https://theindustryla.org/profiles/mariah-garnett/>* and a cohort of
> close collaborators – Holland Andrews,
> <https://theindustryla.org/profiles/holland-andrews/> eddy kwon,
> <https://theindustryla.org/profiles/eddy-kwon/> Raphael Khouri,
> <https://theindustryla.org/profiles/raphael-amahl-khouri/> Jessika
> Kenney, Todd Moellenberg, Breanna Sinclairé
> <https://theindustryla.org/profiles/breanna-sinclaire/> and Christopher
> Paul Craig – will present material that is part a new body of operatic
> works responding to diaries and a never-realized score written by her
> great-great aunt Ruth in Cairo in 1935. The diaries insinuate that the
> opera was written in collaboration with a spirit, and a picture emerges of
> an isolated and talented woman artist plagued by fear, trauma and illness,
> who found a measure of healing through music and spirit communication.
> Garnett and her collaborators not only resurrect fragments of the original
> score, but collectively create new works that examine the condition of
> being an artist operating at the margins today. The project asks of all its
> participants, “where do you find the spiritual fortitude to continue as an
> artist in the face of financial precarity, institutional racism, gender
> bias, multi-level capitalist extraction and the exhaustion that all of this
> foments?” In response, they attempt a kind of alchemy, weaving together
> different configurations of love, empowerment, survival, and familial and
> human connection through music and film. In the rescoring of these works,
> Garnett delves into questions around legacy and dealing with the impact of
> colonial violence on place within her own family history.
>
>
> *The* *Industry Lab* is The Industry’s performance platform supporting
> experiments in opera. Curated by The Industry’s artistic directors, Ash
> Fure, Malik Gaines, and Yuval Sharon, LAB will feature three creative teams
> in a week-long workshop of new material by Mariah Garnett, Richard Kennedy,
> and H Sinno. Moving fluidly between the opera and visual art worlds, this
> year’s LAB artists explore challenging migrations, revolutionary
> insurrections, and the body-politics of voice. Audiences can witness all
> three works-in-progress in an all-day mini-festival on December 17 at Los
> Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown Los Angeles.
>
>
> Hope to see you all at this amazing event!
>
> MG
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