photo by Chad Heird

Undercurrents & Exchange (2010)
and The Drifting Encyclopedia
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Project Descriptions:

"Given the current economy, we imagine that lunchtime down on Wall Street isn’t the entertaining, three martini affair it once was. Enter Zach Morris and Tom Pearson of Third Rail Projects..." – Flavorwire [Read the full article about last year's series]

Undercurrents & Exchange

July 12 - 16 & July 19 - 23
12:00-12:10pm & 1:00-1:10pm (repeat)

July 23, 7:00-8:00pm Evening-length full performance
World Financial Center Winter Garden, NYC


photo by Chad Heird

Click here to visit Arts World Financial Center website

Undercurrents & Exchange is a rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation and connection in modern America, manifested in a series of lunch-hour performances. Each day artists present a new dance grappling with improbable relationships and unearthing the hidden, interpersonal undercurrents of our daily routines. These daily dances are episodic and will culminate on July 23 when they are performed together to reveal an underlying web of meaning. Undercurrents & Exchange is created in correspondence with The Drifting Encyclopedia, an art exhibition in the WFC Courtyard Gallery.

Created by Tom Pearson & Zach Morris with choreography by Pearson, Jennine Willett, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, and Tara O'Con. Performed daily by Pearson, Willett, Nielsen-Pincus, O'Con and guest artists.

Featuring music by:
Kris Bauman: thedang-itbobbys.com
Mark DeNardo: markdenardo.com
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside: sallieford.com
Jeff Palmiotti and the Hey Rube: myspace.com/theheyrube
Sharon Van Etten: sharonvanetten.com
Annette Hanshaw & Antonio Vivaldi 

Download press release HERE

The Drifting Encyclopedia

July 12 - September 3, 2010
Monday - Friday, 12:00- 4:00pm
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, NYC


photo by Will Femia

Click here to visit Arts World Financial Center website

The Drifting Encyclopedia is an assemblage of American oddities, scientific and historical ephemera, questionable accounts and implausible representations thereof. Part Victorian cabinet of curiosities, part roadside attraction, this immersive art installation houses exhibits that echo the themes of unlikely connections and contemplates the actual, illusory and anomalous nature of love. The Drifting Encyclopedia is created in correspondence to Undercurrents & Exchange, a series of performances in the WFC Winter Garden.

Created by Zach Morris in collaboration with Lizzie Carena, Tom Pearson, and Kryssy Wright.

Original music created by:
Meiko’s Starlight Orchestra
 
Additional fabrication by:
Chris Cummings
Dani Garcia
Jesse Green
Barry Weil
 
Special thanks to:
Liam Barber, Kris Bauman, Ian Corbett, Andrea Dohar, Kat Green, Tara O’Con, James Pearson, Thomas Pearson, Lior Shavherdi, Ben Slotnick

Visit The Drifting Encyclopedia website HERE

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Press Coverage:

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Credits:

Undercurrents & Exchange and The Drifting Encyclopedia are presented by Arts World Financial Center and the River To River Festival, and made possible, in part, by Materials for the Arts/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs/Department of Sanitation, The Lucky Star Foundation, and by Third Rail Projects with support from individual and institutional donors.

About Arts World Financial Center
Now in its 22nd season, Arts World Financial Center is the East Coast’s largest presenter of free, year-round performing and visual arts. A leading showcase for visual and performing arts, the organization makes the artistic process accessible in a free, open and interactive manner to workers, residents and the broader public of cultural consumers.

About River to River Festival
The River To River Festival is presented by a collaboration of Lower Manhattan’s major cultural event producers including the Alliance for Downtown New York, Arts World Financial Center, Battery Park City Authority, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and The Seaport. All partners are firmly committed to using the arts as a tool for economic revitalization and the development of new audiences for the arts.

Free admission to River To River® events is underwritten by a wide range of funders led by the Festival's Founding

Sponsor, American Express.