Someone died and now you have their things, or maybe just one thing. It might not even be valuable, an old spoon, a glove...but you can’t bring yourself to throw it out.
You can leave it here.
Musician & multimedia artist Dudley Saunders is asking for images of such relics to create a “social media cemetery” and a localized live performance.
To take part, post your photos to Instagram with the hash-tag #InTheseBoxes. Or send them directly to Dudley@DudleySaunders.com.
These keepsake-...
Someone died and now you have their things, or maybe just one thing. It might not even be valuable, an old spoon, a glove...but you can’t bring yourself to throw it out.
You can leave it here.
Musician & multimedia artist Dudley Saunders is asking for images of such relics to create a “social media cemetery” and a localized live performance.
To take part, post your photos to Instagram with the hash-tag #InTheseBoxes. Or send them directly to Dudley@DudleySaunders.com.
These keepsake-photos will be incorporated into the video used in the Houston performance of IN THESE BOXES, which you can see July 27th at the QFest presentation at 14 Pews. Additionally, they will live in perpetuity online at www.InTheseBoxes.com.
ABOUT IN THESE BOXES
IN THESE BOXES combines video, song and stories to imagine the lives of lost people through the objects they left behind. In the piece, Dudley takes 12 objects left behind by the dead and weaves each of them into a video hallucination of the missing life. As he sings their stories at the front of stage, the world of the vanished comes to life on the screen behind him.
The piece is inspired by his own AIDS-era history: “In the fall of 1991, my two ex-lovers died within two months of each other. But what made it worse was realizing that everyone who remembered us together was also dead. Their few objects were the only evidence that they had existed, and had meaning no-one else could understand: how can you explain why an old spoon is important?”
For the 14 Pews performance, Dudley and QFest ask Houston residents to take photos of the objects they have inherited and can’t let go, and contribute them to the project. They will become part of the video projections at the QFest/14 Pews performance as well as have an ongoing life online at http://www.InTheseBoxes.com/
A post-performance talk-back will follow immediately after.
Dudley's songs won the Out Music Award for Best Album and his last solo performance piece was named "Best Musical" by New York Press.
To learn more:
Read KCET's ArtBound feature story:
http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/dudley-saunders-in-these-boxes.html
Or Listen:
Title Song: http://dudleysaunders.bandcamp.com/track/zero-out-in-these-boxes
KPFK Radio Interview:
https://soundcloud.com/dudleysaunders/kpfk-radio-interview-dudley
