roberta mosca in a film by her presented at BOAL
Best Of America Loves
Best of America Loves holds/hosts/is live working rehearsal performance events. We think of "event" under the working definition of Alain Badiou:
“An Event is simply that which interrupts the law, the rules, the structure of the situation, and creates a new possibility. An Event is not initially the creation of a new situation, the creation of a new world; an Event is the creation of a new possibility of a new world, which is not the same thing. In fact the Event takes place in a situation that remains the same, but the same situation can be seen and can be transformed inside the new possibility.”
Best of America Loves is research on display.
Best of America Loves residency series began in 2014 and was hosted by S T O R E Contemporary and PACT Zollverein
Resident collaborators included: Riley Watts, Katja Cheraneva, Roberta Mosca, David Kern, Fabrice Mazliah, Danilo Barsch, Dorsey Bushnell, Julia Mintzer, Paul Barsch, Christin Zorn, and Sad (Cyril Baldy/Josh Johnson)
Best of America Loves: Horror Edition
Best of America Loves holds/hosts/is live working rehearsal performance events. We think of "event" under the working definition of Alain Badiou:
“An Event is simply that which interrupts the law, the rules, the structure of the situation, and creates a new possibility. An Event is not initially the creation of a new situation, the creation of a new world; an Event is the creation of a new possibility of a new world, which is not the same thing. In fact the Event takes place in a situation that remains the same, but the same situation can be seen and can be transformed inside the new possibility."
Best of America Loves is research on display.
BOAL: Horror Edition was conceived and executed by Katja Cheraneva and Frances Chiaverini in June 2014 at S T O R E in Dresden, Germany as a preparation and incubation period for a future work titled Exercising Fear; Scary Piece. Over the course of 10 days, Horror Edition hosted several open events including several ghosting research rehearsal performances, film screenings, horror make-up trials, a casting call, and an interactive photography exhibit.
Collaborators included: Christin Zorn, Konstanze Schütze, Danilo Barsch, Cyril Baldy, David Kern, Patrick Lauckner, Julia Mintzer, Riley Watts, Stefanie Dimitrow, Vineeth Surendranath, Michael Tucker, Paul Barsch
Photography by Danilo Barsch, Frances Chiaverini, Katja Cheraneva
Make-Up by Stefanie Dimitrow
Exercising Fear or Scary Piece .excerpt. part ii
S T O R E 15.09.2014 9pm Dresden
Featuring David Kern, Wolfram F. Eggebrecht, Katja Cheraneva, Frances Chiaverini
Lighting: Ulf Naumann
Sound: Sebastian Rietz
Artwork by Kai Hügel http://www.klassebrandmeier.de/popup/huegel.html
Inspired by methods and devices highly representational of horror films from the 20th Century, Exercising Fear or Scary Piece is a full length theatrical performance currently in development by way of research and presentational excerpting. With each .excerpt. we get a glimpse into the ongoing embodied study which addresses the political, social, environmental, and aesthetic horror of the human life.
“In a world where the daylight hides from the night, darkness cloaks all that is sacred and disguises all that was once familiar. You can feel the heat of the body next to yours and you can smell the sweat of fear rising inside of you. All you hear is a collected breath, nervous and unsure, until….. the phone rings. What or who could be on the other side? There is no escaping the world once you’ve entered it, you might as well see who’s calling.”