The Styrene Fantastic Video Remix

Edited to suit the online attention span. Includes footage of both Recessional performances at Rachel Uffner with some rehearsal thrown in for good measure. Starring Mieke Duffly and Georgia X. Lifsher

Project Description

The Styrene Fantastic is a physical exploration of the mountains of styrofoam that are both a by-product and a symptom of consumer culture. In different performances in all kinds of locations, dancers wear clothing constructed of large styrofoam-filled blobs. They collaborate with their costumes, adapting their activities and postures to them in an attempt to make the best of a ubiquitous material with little use and an endless future.

The central idea in my work is that function is excessive while frivolity is essential. I make sculptures and performances that use found materials to explore this idea in the context of the urban landscape.

Rehearsing for the Movement Research Festival performance

These moments won't make it into the Movement Research performance at Rachel Uffner Gallery on Sunday the 26th. But Mieke and Georgia look so lovely casually chatting in their styrofoam get-ups that we'll have to revisit the casual chat in Styrene Fantastic's future.