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ARC 2: Your Ghost Body
OPEN HOURS: JUNE 2, 12-5pm; June 3, 12-8pm (with Workshop and Artist Talk)
ARC 2023 DETAILS HERE
OPEN HOURS: JUNE 2, 12-5pm; June 3, 12-8pm (with Workshop and Artist Talk)
ARC 2023 DETAILS HERE
Your Ghost Body
Karinne Keithley Syers
June 1-3
Open to the public:
June 2, 12-5pm; June 3, 12-8pm
WORKSHOP, June 3, 3-4:30pm:
A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Memory Landscapes in Twine
(ideally bring your own laptop but you can also work on paper)
RSVP HERE for Twine download
ARTIST'S TALK, June 3, 6-7pm:
A Story is Made of Movement through a Landscape
Your Ghost Body (or California in the 20th Century) is a memory palace in the form of a playable junkyard, both as videogame and live game show. Played through three avatars for the author, looking from middle age back at childhood and the cusp of adulthood, Your Ghost Body wonders how memory functions as a medium to rejoin absent people and places that our lost to us and yet somehow also a part of who we are.
For the ARC residency, game-maker and playwright Karinne Keithley Syers and set designer Sara Walsh lay out each level of the game in progress for play-testing to further explore what engages a player here at the cusp between performance text, interactive fiction and maze-puzzle game.
In addition, Syers will give a public artist talk and workshop on writing memory games in Twine.
Karinne Keithley Syers is an artist and teacher based in Amherst who makes works in text, song, dance, sound, bookmaking, essay, video, game design, and points in between. Her work has been produced or published by McSweeney’s Quarterly, National Sawdust, Chocolate Factory Theater, the Ohio Theater, Danspace Project, P.S. 122, Here Arts, Dixon Place, Surf Reality, Incubator Arts Project, SoundProof, and Ur, a dance palace she co-founded with Chris Yon. She has been a fellow or member at New Dramatists, The MacDowell Colony, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, LMCC Groundwork, and Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse. She founded 53rd State Press, co-hosted (with Jason Grote) the Acousmatic Theater Hour on WFMU and made an experimental sound podcast, the Basement Tapes of the Mole Cabal, from 2006-2014. She collaborated as a performer, librettist, sound and video designer, and choreographer, with artists including Big Dance Theater, Sara Smith, David Neumann, Young Jean Lee, Sibyl Kempson, Theater of a Two Headed Calf, Chris Yon, The Civilians, and Talking Band. She teaches independently through the Pelagic School.
Karinne Keithley Syers
June 1-3
Open to the public:
June 2, 12-5pm; June 3, 12-8pm
WORKSHOP, June 3, 3-4:30pm:
A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Memory Landscapes in Twine
(ideally bring your own laptop but you can also work on paper)
RSVP HERE for Twine download
ARTIST'S TALK, June 3, 6-7pm:
A Story is Made of Movement through a Landscape
Your Ghost Body (or California in the 20th Century) is a memory palace in the form of a playable junkyard, both as videogame and live game show. Played through three avatars for the author, looking from middle age back at childhood and the cusp of adulthood, Your Ghost Body wonders how memory functions as a medium to rejoin absent people and places that our lost to us and yet somehow also a part of who we are.
For the ARC residency, game-maker and playwright Karinne Keithley Syers and set designer Sara Walsh lay out each level of the game in progress for play-testing to further explore what engages a player here at the cusp between performance text, interactive fiction and maze-puzzle game.
In addition, Syers will give a public artist talk and workshop on writing memory games in Twine.
Karinne Keithley Syers is an artist and teacher based in Amherst who makes works in text, song, dance, sound, bookmaking, essay, video, game design, and points in between. Her work has been produced or published by McSweeney’s Quarterly, National Sawdust, Chocolate Factory Theater, the Ohio Theater, Danspace Project, P.S. 122, Here Arts, Dixon Place, Surf Reality, Incubator Arts Project, SoundProof, and Ur, a dance palace she co-founded with Chris Yon. She has been a fellow or member at New Dramatists, The MacDowell Colony, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, LMCC Groundwork, and Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse. She founded 53rd State Press, co-hosted (with Jason Grote) the Acousmatic Theater Hour on WFMU and made an experimental sound podcast, the Basement Tapes of the Mole Cabal, from 2006-2014. She collaborated as a performer, librettist, sound and video designer, and choreographer, with artists including Big Dance Theater, Sara Smith, David Neumann, Young Jean Lee, Sibyl Kempson, Theater of a Two Headed Calf, Chris Yon, The Civilians, and Talking Band. She teaches independently through the Pelagic School.