Nasher Sightings artist Mai-Thu Perret has spent the past 16 years making work born from a fictional feminist art commune she created called The Crystal Frontier. Set in New Mexico, the imaginary women of the commune make work that runs the visual gamut, from the painterly to the sculptural.
This Soluna Festival performance is a restaging of a work entitled "Figures," originally performed at the 2014 Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva.
In "Figures," Perret has managed to tie together the seemingly disparate identities of women throughout history through different characters that both dancer and puppet embody during the course of the performance. Singer and musician sit alongside the stage and function as the voice of the puppet, as in the tradition of bunraku.
The performance is free with advance registration.