A
strange, funny and chilling fugue about art, architecture and technology,
using
video projections, live music, song, sock puppets, poetry and monologue.
Using
Pieter Brueghel's painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
as a jumping off point, performer Samuael Topiary impersonates six
characters: Pieter Brueghel, Henry Hudson, The Wall Street Minotaur,
Amelia Earhart, David Rockefeller and Icarus to explore the epic rhyming
schemes of the history of empire, questioning the human compulsion
to escape our physical limits,
tempt fate and reach for the unattainable.