Trace

NYC, April, 2008.

Setting: Experimental Neuro-imaging chamber...

...that allows access to the mind of New York City bicycle messenger who underwent brain surgery after an accident in Columbus Park.  We follow two doctors as they descend into the bottomless black well of the Messenger's memory - a place where nothing is as it seems, where the recent dead intermingle with past loves and where sea monsters roam the brittle ground.

Trace is a playful meditation on how memories and false memories are constructed and lost.  We look at the neurological phenomena that allow us to construct a "coherent" vision of the world out of the millions of bits of fragmented sensory and conceptual information we experience daily.  In an attempt to bridge the conscious divide which seemingly separates us.

First Performed at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City in April and May 2004.  It was a co-production of cabula6 and the onnotheater.