CONTEMPORARY/\PERFORMANCE
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BAT MITZVAHA!
JUNE, 2018
Presented at The Wythe Hotel in association with Queer/Art, Brooklyn, NY
A community ritual combining performance, archival family videos and sheet cake, Justine reconstructs and re-imagines her 1989 Bat Mitzvah ceremony with the help of the audience and her collaborator, Eva Peskin, who steps in to play the role of Rabbi, scholar, provocateur and BFF.
Presented at The Wythe Hotel in association with Queer/Art, Brooklyn, NY
A community ritual combining performance, archival family videos and sheet cake, Justine reconstructs and re-imagines her 1989 Bat Mitzvah ceremony with the help of the audience and her collaborator, Eva Peskin, who steps in to play the role of Rabbi, scholar, provocateur and BFF.
QUEER SCOUTS
2015 - 2017
Created in-residence at Dixon Place and through the support of the 2015-2016 Queer/Art/Mentorship program. Queer Scouts was a group-in-residence at Abrons Arts (Spring/Summer 2017), and first presented their work at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Project Space, NYC.
A queer scout troop / performance troupe convenes for regular meetings, performances and social actions. Queer Scouts is an ongoing civic performance project that takes up the histories and practices of American Scouting, exploring questions around self.group determination, social accountability, and survival strategies now and for the future.
2015 - 2017
Created in-residence at Dixon Place and through the support of the 2015-2016 Queer/Art/Mentorship program. Queer Scouts was a group-in-residence at Abrons Arts (Spring/Summer 2017), and first presented their work at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Project Space, NYC.
A queer scout troop / performance troupe convenes for regular meetings, performances and social actions. Queer Scouts is an ongoing civic performance project that takes up the histories and practices of American Scouting, exploring questions around self.group determination, social accountability, and survival strategies now and for the future.
QUEEN OF EVERYTHING
2015-2016
Co-writer and director. Premiere: Creative Arts Alliance, Baltimore, Spring 2016.
Queen of Everything draws from Alpine fairy and folk tales to craft an avant-garde burlesque / feminist fairytale. With music by psych-mambo quartet, Gato Loco, and original video by B.A. Miale. Conceived by and featuring comic performer and Burlesque superstar, Trixie Little.
2015-2016
Co-writer and director. Premiere: Creative Arts Alliance, Baltimore, Spring 2016.
Queen of Everything draws from Alpine fairy and folk tales to craft an avant-garde burlesque / feminist fairytale. With music by psych-mambo quartet, Gato Loco, and original video by B.A. Miale. Conceived by and featuring comic performer and Burlesque superstar, Trixie Little.
THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE
2014 - 2015
Created in-residence at Brooklyn College and through a space grant from Gallim Dance Space, Brooklyn. Presented at Gallim Dance Space May, 2015.
Responding to contemporary cultural narratives that depict climate change disaster, systemic economic collapse, zombie apocalypse and the end of human kind as we know it, collaborators, Justine Williams, Eva Peskin and Vanessa Gilbert, present a civic performance project that convenes groups to consider, compose and build spaces together using creatively sourced materials from the urban landscape and from people's everyday lives. Part art installation, part performance and part exploratory workshop, There's Nothing to See Here invites groups of audience-participants to examine their relationships to one another, to materials, resources and spaces, and to re-consider how we prepare the way for a more exuberant future-present.
WWW.THEREISNOTHINGTOSEEHERE.ORG
PRESS: "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Construction and Deconstruction in There's Nothing to See Here", CultureBot
2014 - 2015
Created in-residence at Brooklyn College and through a space grant from Gallim Dance Space, Brooklyn. Presented at Gallim Dance Space May, 2015.
Responding to contemporary cultural narratives that depict climate change disaster, systemic economic collapse, zombie apocalypse and the end of human kind as we know it, collaborators, Justine Williams, Eva Peskin and Vanessa Gilbert, present a civic performance project that convenes groups to consider, compose and build spaces together using creatively sourced materials from the urban landscape and from people's everyday lives. Part art installation, part performance and part exploratory workshop, There's Nothing to See Here invites groups of audience-participants to examine their relationships to one another, to materials, resources and spaces, and to re-consider how we prepare the way for a more exuberant future-present.
WWW.THEREISNOTHINGTOSEEHERE.ORG
PRESS: "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Construction and Deconstruction in There's Nothing to See Here", CultureBot
METAVERSES
2013 - 2014
Developed in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Media Lab. Presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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September 2015
The Westbeth Gallery, NYC
A multi-media performance tour and "artist hack" of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Following prompts from digital and live guides throughout the museum, Metaverses pairs strangers to navigate the museum's collections -- developing deeper kinship with objects and one another along the way. Conceived and developed by artists Justine Williams, Jason Schuler, Patricia Faolli and Vanessa Gilbert, and created in collaboration with artists from the Westbeth Artist Residency. www.metaverses.org
PRESS: "Metaverses: Merging Time, Space, and Content Through Augmented Reality", Digital Underground, 2015
2013 - 2014
Developed in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Media Lab. Presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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September 2015
The Westbeth Gallery, NYC
A multi-media performance tour and "artist hack" of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Following prompts from digital and live guides throughout the museum, Metaverses pairs strangers to navigate the museum's collections -- developing deeper kinship with objects and one another along the way. Conceived and developed by artists Justine Williams, Jason Schuler, Patricia Faolli and Vanessa Gilbert, and created in collaboration with artists from the Westbeth Artist Residency. www.metaverses.org
PRESS: "Metaverses: Merging Time, Space, and Content Through Augmented Reality", Digital Underground, 2015
THE DAVID LUNCH MOVIE TRUCK
Spring 2012
Developed and presented for Lost Horizon Night Market, Brooklyn.
"a small theater for sublime and bizarre entertainments. If Joseph Cornell were alive today, he would invent something like this…”
-- NY Times, April, 2012
A cine-phile family ushers audiences inside the world of The David Lunch Movie Truck, a live/cinematic performance experience housed inside a seemingly ordinary box truck. Measuring 11 by 26 feet, a moving truck is transformed into an intimate theater-cum-movie house (equipped with seats, concession stand, movie screen and Wurlitzer piano). The cine-philes present Key to a Mystery, a screening of film auteur David Lunch’s final work. Cbbled together from found footage, they enlist the audience to complete dialogue, scenes and live foley. As the cine-philes delve deeper into the mystery of Lunch’s lost oeuvre, live and filmic worlds interact and collide; cinematic texts and tropes are mashed up and made over. The performers, their characters and the audience look for themselves inside these cinematic worlds, eventually taking them over to tell their own stories.
PRESS: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, EVEN IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK, NY TIMES
Spring 2012
Developed and presented for Lost Horizon Night Market, Brooklyn.
"a small theater for sublime and bizarre entertainments. If Joseph Cornell were alive today, he would invent something like this…”
-- NY Times, April, 2012
A cine-phile family ushers audiences inside the world of The David Lunch Movie Truck, a live/cinematic performance experience housed inside a seemingly ordinary box truck. Measuring 11 by 26 feet, a moving truck is transformed into an intimate theater-cum-movie house (equipped with seats, concession stand, movie screen and Wurlitzer piano). The cine-philes present Key to a Mystery, a screening of film auteur David Lunch’s final work. Cbbled together from found footage, they enlist the audience to complete dialogue, scenes and live foley. As the cine-philes delve deeper into the mystery of Lunch’s lost oeuvre, live and filmic worlds interact and collide; cinematic texts and tropes are mashed up and made over. The performers, their characters and the audience look for themselves inside these cinematic worlds, eventually taking them over to tell their own stories.
PRESS: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, EVEN IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK, NY TIMES
GOOGLE CHAT THEATER
November2013
Light a scented candle, make a cup of tea and put on your special pajamas. Intimate, live performances created for small groups of homebodies, viewed in the comfort of your own home. Developed and performed by Dennis Shafer, Monica Carillo, Eva Peskin and Justine Williams
November2013
Light a scented candle, make a cup of tea and put on your special pajamas. Intimate, live performances created for small groups of homebodies, viewed in the comfort of your own home. Developed and performed by Dennis Shafer, Monica Carillo, Eva Peskin and Justine Williams
TINY DANCE FLOOR THEATER
June 2013
Developed and present for ArtShO at Brody House, Budapest, Hungary.
A pop-up performance space is created by the surprise appearance of a 3' x 4' checkered dance floor. Intimate performances inspired by art in the gallery are played for audiences of one or two people. Created and performed by Drae Campbell, Eugene Ma and Justine Williams.
June 2013
Developed and present for ArtShO at Brody House, Budapest, Hungary.
A pop-up performance space is created by the surprise appearance of a 3' x 4' checkered dance floor. Intimate performances inspired by art in the gallery are played for audiences of one or two people. Created and performed by Drae Campbell, Eugene Ma and Justine Williams.
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