The Movement Lab presents: the Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival
The Ae/eI Festival features work-in-progress installations and performances in the Movement Lab every day during the week of February 21-28, all of which are free and open to the public. It is guided by the question, what happens when we close the loop on the constructed binary of nature and technology?
Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival Night 4:
Wonder/Land
Created by Eliza Ducnuigeen & Hannah Rubenstein
Saturday, February 24th | 7:30pm
Curiouser and curiouser! Follow us down the rabbit hole to explore our individual and collective relationships with our natural and built environments. Lose control and embrace chaos in this multimedia, interactive performance piece that will tackle such timely themes as Mary Oliver to bird suits to volcanoes. Remember, to WONDER is to ask questions, not to find answers.
Doors open at 7:00 PM and showing begins at 7:30 PM
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but you arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in-person before the event.
Eliza Ducnuigeen (she/her) is a 2021 graduate of Barnard College and an actor, dancer, vocalist, designer, and women’s basketball nerd. Favorite theatrical work includes Stupid F*cking Bird (on Zoom!) and Men on Boats (performer, both BC Dept of Theatre), Victor/Victoria (Cotuit Center for the Arts, lighting design), and The Effect of Gamma Rays... (Columbia University Players, lighting design). Eliza believes that there is no substitute for the power of human bodies working together in space. By day, she works in the general management office at Manhattan Theatre Club. She profusely thanks her frequent collaborator in art, household chores, and cat parenting: Hannah.
Hannah Rubenstein (she/her) is a New York City-based poet, playwright, and essayist whose work explores themes of nature, childhood, grief, humor, and community. Her poetry, essays, and journalism have been published in Michigan Radio, Juilliard Journal, Meliora, Laurel Moon, and Communicator, among others. Later this spring, Hannah’s play, We Drift In and Out, will be featured in the Elif Collective’s new work reading series. She has worked with organizations including the MAP Fund, the Juilliard Drama Division, Theatre for a New Audience, the New York Neo-Futurists, the Public Theater, and Michigan Radio. Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Hannah graduated from Barnard College (where she received the Helene Searcy Puls Prize in Poetry) and completed an intensive creative writing program at the University of Oxford. She is beyond excited to be back at Barnard to create this piece alongside her co-parent (of Ralph the Cat), Eliza. Please reach out at hannahirubenstein.com!