Jun 17, 2022
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Jun 26, 2022

Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3

By Object Collection
Directed by Kara Feely
Text and Music Composed by Travis Just

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June 17 – 26, 2022

The Downstairs
66 East 4th Street, basement level
New York, NY 10003

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Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show
Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show
First 10 tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)

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La MaMa in association with Collapsable Giraffe presents the World Premiere of Object Collection’s Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3

Brooklyn-based ensemble Object Collection, “one of the essential voices in New York’s contemporary theater scene” (BOMB), returns to La MaMa with its newest work, Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3, based on legendary French film director Éric Rohmer’s 1980s film cycle Comédies et Proverbes about love and desire. Directed by Kara Feely, with music and text composed by Travis Just, Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3 reignites Object Collection’s signature maximalist aesthetic in a kaleidoscopic surge of 21st-century disembodied romance.

Following two streamed, filmed episodes, Episode 3 features a cast of live actors maneuvering among hallucinatory projected bodies. Its dizzying text derives from applying music composition techniques to the original film scripts, creating a dialogue of bizarre innuendo and mysterious word formulae as hilariously absurd as it is resonant. Let’s talk about love, again, again, and again.

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Two people in a dark, cluttered room read music, the nearer plays a keyboard, and the farther holds a trumpet
A person in a long, dark, curly-haired wig with a black mark on their nose holds up a pink hand mirror, whilst sitting at a table with a wine bottle and glass. Someone else arranges projections onto the far wall.
A green light on a table illuminated three people, one laying on a towel upon the table, one sitting on a chair, and one standing behind the second with a fabric over their upper body and head. All three people look to the distant left.
A green light on a table illuminates two people standing behind a table, both of whom wear sunglasses and touch the sunglasses of the rightward person, who holds and reads paper
A person sits on a wicker chair reading a book titled “My Life,” and another person stands next to them, shirtless, with a blue and white towel over their shoulder, looking to the right
A person in a tank top hold round pieces of glass over the lens of a lit projector, staring intently in the direction of the projection
A person in a black ski mask, glasses, and formal wear seems to speak, standing left of a person in a tank top, who stares intently to the left
A photo of Kara Feely (left) and Travis Just (right) leaning on a stone wall
Photo by Hunter Canning

Directed by Kara Feely

‍Text and Music Composed by Travis Just‍

Performed by Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Alessandro Magania, Daniel Allen Nelson, Nicolás Noreña, James Oldham, and Timothy Scott‍

Musicians: John Hastings (processed piano) and Travis Just (woodwinds and computer)

Film performers: Elena Russo Arman, Francesco Gagliardi, Alenka Kraigher, Alessandra Novaga, and Fulya Peker

Scenic Design by Peiyi Wong

Lighting by Kate McGee

Film and Video by David Pym‍

Stage Manager Emily Bubeck

Assistant Director Britt Berke

Object Collection was founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer/musician Travis Just. The Brooklyn-based group operates within the intersecting practices of performance, music, and theater. They are concerned with simultaneity, complexity, and radicality, combining dense layers of text, notation, objects, and processes. They work to give audiences unconventional viewing experiences through a merging of theatricality and pedestrian activity. The company’s works upset habitual notions of time, pace, progression, and virtuosity, and value accumulation above cohesion.

Object Collection performances can take the shape of large-scale performance projects, experimental operas, and duo performances. Object Collection has premiered six original operas. Their work has toured to Norway, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Canada, Italy, and the US. Object Collection’s pieces have appeared in New York at La MaMa, Performance Space 122, Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church, National Sawdust, Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Invisible Dog Art Center, Roulette, and Issue Project Room, among others. Albums have been released on Slip Imprint, Infrequent Seams, and khalija. Object Collection has received extended profiles in Frieze magazine, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Wire, BOMB, and on BBC Radio. www.objectcollection.us


Object Collection's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Object Collection is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council and by The Mental Insight Foundation.

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