H U G
Helping Us Grieve
a performance installation by Julie Troost
Thursday, September 13, 2007 12-4pm
Manhattan Streets
BE A PART OF IT
Groups embracing on busy sidewalks surprise New Yorkers rushing by.
The negative memories of personal and community conflict are healed by a simple gesture of compassion.
Surprising New Yorkers in the midst of their day, H U G (Helping Us Grieve) is a city-sweeping performance installation that travels across Manhattan. Appearing and disappearing without warning, pairs embrace for a little too long at each site before dispersing. The performers have a predetermined path to travel on public transportation between locations as well as specific times to execute each installation. The pairs are arranged in site-specific formations predetermined by each location's uniqueness.
Sites were designated ahead of time from suggestions made by the public of personal and community conflict, responding to postings on craigslist and the Conflux festival website. H U G blankets scarred urban spaces that contain the memory of a momentous event of conflict while reminding observers of the ability to heal.
BE A PART OF IT - Huggers and Camera Phone Artists Wanted! --Seeking members of the public to join H U G's migration through Manhattan or meet us at an installation site posted at www.myspace.com/hugperformance beginning Sept. 11.
PARTICIPATE IN TWO WAYS (you can do both): 1) Hug someone! Add yourselves to the hugging installations. 2) Photograph what you witness with your digital camera or camera phone and text or email photos to Flickr (see instructions below).
LET US KNOW YOU'RE COMING - email your name to: hugperformance@gmail.com by 11:59pm on Wed. Sept. 12 or meet us at The Change You Want To See, 84 Havemeyer St. (off Metropolitan), Williamsburg, Brooklyn by 11:30am on Sept. 13. (L train to Lorimer stop. Walk west on Metropolitan.)
FLICKR Instructions: 5MB photos max. OPTION 1: (preferred by H U G) Text Message or attach your photos to an Email and send to action83writ@photos.flickr.com Put the location in the subject line and your name in the body of the email so you are credited. One photo per email. OPTION 2: use your own flickr account and tag your photos with "hugperformance".
H U G is directed/choreographed by: Julie Troost
performed by: Noah Damer, Johnny DeArden, Jil Guyon, Pedro Jimenez, Amy Jones, Courtney King, Renee Kurz, Omar Nasir, Melissa Sanfiorenzo, Jamie Sporn, Genevieve Sky Waltcher
costume advisor: Renee Kurz
image and design by: Jed Geiman
H U G is presented by the Conflux Festival. Find out more at www.confluxfestival.org/conflux2007/
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