Odyssey Works
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Odyssey Works is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by Abraham Burickson
and Matthew Purdon in San Francisco in 2001. The group, composed of artists practicing in various disciplines (writers, composers, designers, actors, performance artists etc.), creates 24hr performances for very small audiences, usually just one person.
The performances, which are site specific and highly participatory, are part of the relational aesthetics movement in performance and art and find their roots in the situationist movement of the 1960s and the work of such directors as Jerzy Grotowski
and Peter Brook
.
Odyssey Works is currently directed by Abraham Burickson
.
Miriam Bird Greenberg
Matthea Harvey
Clarinda Mac Low
Matthew Purdon
Henry Rosenthal
Travis Weller
Sasha Wizanski
Leanne Zacharias
Abraham Burickson
Abraham Burickson is an award-winning American poet and conceptual artist.-Life:Burickson attended Cornell University, receiving a BA in architecture. In 2002 he moved to San Francisco where with actor Matthew Purdon he founded the conceptual art and performance group Odyssey Works...
and Matthew Purdon in San Francisco in 2001. The group, composed of artists practicing in various disciplines (writers, composers, designers, actors, performance artists etc.), creates 24hr performances for very small audiences, usually just one person.
The performances, which are site specific and highly participatory, are part of the relational aesthetics movement in performance and art and find their roots in the situationist movement of the 1960s and the work of such directors as Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....
and Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
.
Odyssey Works is currently directed by Abraham Burickson
Abraham Burickson
Abraham Burickson is an award-winning American poet and conceptual artist.-Life:Burickson attended Cornell University, receiving a BA in architecture. In 2002 he moved to San Francisco where with actor Matthew Purdon he founded the conceptual art and performance group Odyssey Works...
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Current and Past Members
Abraham BuricksonAbraham Burickson
Abraham Burickson is an award-winning American poet and conceptual artist.-Life:Burickson attended Cornell University, receiving a BA in architecture. In 2002 he moved to San Francisco where with actor Matthew Purdon he founded the conceptual art and performance group Odyssey Works...
Miriam Bird Greenberg
Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published three collections, most recently, Modern Life , which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book...
Clarinda Mac Low
Matthew Purdon
Henry Rosenthal
Travis Weller
Sasha Wizanski
Leanne Zacharias
External links
- http://www.sfbg.com/37/38/x_culture_shocked.html
- http://austinist.com/2007/04/27/the_movable_feast_wants_to_blow_some_minds.php
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDVXRou0z_8
- http://vimeo.com/15400589