About this project
GETTING RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE [ALL THE WAY!] HOME
We’ve made it this far: After having crossed oceans to arrive safely on home shores, our magnificent set patiently awaits us. An epic journey is just a hair’s breadth from coming to a close!
COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE
The support we’ve received from our friends and colleagues has been astounding! We are close to reaching our goal of $2325.00 and have until SEPTEMBER 28th AT MIDNIGHT to secure the rest ...and reach our final destination.
We know we’ll get there with your help!
In the Netherlands, where Red Fly/Blue Bottle played to over 850 people during its sold-out European premiere at the Noorderzon Festival last month, this multimedia music-theater work was called “An Ominous and Beautiful Dream” by the local press. In NYC, where it premiered this past spring at HERE Arts Center, it was hailed as “a complete, unique universe” (Village Voice), with “moody, driving music… lyrical monologues, otherworldly videos and an ingeniously eerie set” (The New York Times).
PRECIOUS CARGO…
Jim Findlay’s set is a tour-de-force of moving parts. Together with Peter Norrman and Mirit Tal’s video and Mallory Catlett’s staging, it is mesmerizing. But it is big! It contains singing sculptures! And tube-driven oscillators! (All part of Christina Campanella’s haunting score.) To get to Noorderzon, it was packed into a 10’ x 20’ container and shipped from the port of New York to Rotterdam. From there, it traveled north by truck, to the Romeo Tent in the Noorderplantsoen park in Groningen, where the piece sang. Now we need to get it safely into storage, ready to go back out into the world again…
…AND ITS NAVIGATION
New media performance group LATITUDE 14 performed its first two works internationally in 2009, with the promise of many more invitations to come. Touring is a gargantuan endeavor! Red Fly/Blue Bottle requires a team of 12 on the road and many months of advance planning and preparation at home. We’ve had to get our sea legs fast, and are quickly becoming a smoothly oiled producing machine! For this summer’s tour we received support from the Noorderzon Festival, the Mid-Atlantic Foundation, and countless intensely generous individuals. Now we have until Sept. 28th at midnight to reach our goal of $2,325, and we’re already more than halfway home.
Thank you all for your support!
The first 25 Latitude 14 'Kickstarter' backers who pledge $25.00 or more will get a CD of original music and songs by composer Christina Campanella and writer Stephanie Fleischmann! Plus LOTS MORE LOVE and EXCITING GIFTS for those who pledge even more!
ABOUT LATITUDE 14 and RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE:
A theatrical event that bridges concert, cabinet of curiosities, and video installation, Red Fly/Blue Bottle challenges how we listen, look, and remember. The work explores the mediating effects of time and memory and how we move through loss.
LATITUDE 14 is a diverse collective of artists based in New York City that makes work for performance that excavates the memory of objects and blurs the boundaries of concert, theater, and installation.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 28, 2009.
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Mission
Latitude 14 is a new-media performance collective whose work excavates the memory of objects and blurs the boundaries of concert, theater, and installation.
Latitude 14 provides a framework for the artist-driven projects of its affiliates. These include its founders: Christina Campanella (composer/performer), Stephanie Fleischmann (writer), Peter Norrman (video artist/filmmaker), and Mallory Catlett (director), who began working together in 2005, and were quickly joined by Mirit Tal (media designer), Chris Lee (singer & writer), Jesse Hawley (performer), Miranda Hardy (lighting designer), Matt Verta-Ray (musician/visual artist), Jeremy Wilson (sound design/engineer), and collaborating artists Sam Baker (multiinstrumentalist), Jim Findlay (set designer), Erich Schoen-Rene (cellist), Olivera Gajic (costume designer), Black-Eyed Susan (performer), and Maedhbh Mc Cullagh (producer).
History
Red Fly/Blue Bottle is Latitude 14’s second project to reach fruition. The first was Tinder, a 30-minute live-art/video installation, which premiered at the EXIT Festival in Creteil, March, 2009. Red Fly/Blue Bottle was developed via a three-year residency at HERE Arts Center, as well as residencies at Gertrude Stein Repertory’s Digital Performance Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space, The Chocolate Factory (Long Island City) and Chashama. Excerpts and works-in-progress have been presented at HERE, The Chocolate Factory, Prelude ’07, BRIC and PS 122’s Avant-Gardarama. The full production premiered at HERE Arts Center April 8–May 2, 2009.
Latitude 14 has received support from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York State Music Fund, NYSCA Individual Artists program (Film, Media and New Technology Production and Theater commissioning), the Greenwall Foundation, the Tobin Foundation, the David Bohnett Foundation, American Music Center, Meet the Composer, Experimental Television Center, and numerous individuals.
