icarus project

 

The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

"The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is an evening-length, media-performance project which considers the
Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus in relationship to the historical development of NYC, and its landscape in
relationship to the skyscraper and the economics which culminated in David Rockefeller's project to build the
World Trade Center.

Inspired by Pieter Brueghel's 16th painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," this installation/performance
project explores the ideas of ambition and progress in relationship to human legacy, Daedalus' invention of
human flight and Icarus' mythic fall, seeking to understand and contextualize Icarus' suicide.

Room-sized projection installations lead the viewer into a central live performance environment, where two
performers, in dialog with the media projections (live video mix intermingles with pre-recorded media) and each
other, provide physical, aerial and historical perspectives – a context for understanding the legacy of the human
ambition to transcend our physical limits.

 

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