A Season in Hell September 17, 2010

Friday September 17th 2 & 8pm, Saturday September 18th 2 & 8pm, Sunday September 19th 2pm

Created by Randall Packer, A Season in Hell (2010) is a historical portrait of political and social turmoil in the post-9/11 era, a hallucinatory spectacle of America as a vision of Hell. The work is a collaboration with tenor Charles Lane, director Melissa Weaver, and designer Gregory Kuhn. A Season in Hell chronicles an artist's journey through the Underworld of America as told by his doppelganger, the rogue government official, Secretary-at-Large of the US Department of Art & Technology (USDAT). The forerunner of A Season in Hell was the creation of USDAT in 2001, which gave sociopolitical voice to the artist in times of crisis. A Season in Hell is a ground-breaking multimedia performance work that integrates a complex electronic musical score and vocal performance with multiple forms of digital media, video projection, surround-sound, objects, and storytelling to fuse live performance, installation, and sculpture into an otherworldly theatrical experience.

This event is a part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial: http://01sj.org/

Official Website: http://01sj.org/2010/artworks/season-in-hell/