Abstract:
As lateral means to a dramatic end, the early solo initiatives What Happens When Your Mind Goes Blank?, Pecu, Privattheaters (i,ii,iii), and Opæan defined a coherent project to provide material and direction for all subsequent collaboration. Primarily, I would lead Psychological Art Circus to create a body of theatrical work guided by three seers: Anna O., Olive Pixley, and in Illusions of Reference, the Oracle, Pythia.
After Illusions, I began to discover the conceptual framework for a three-ring circus by an exploration of the Occitan Persian mystic Fin' al-Mantiq. The findings of this sustained research — visual, sonic, and systematic — now form the subject matter for a series of hybrid lecture performances.