Saturday & Sunday October 21 & 22 * 1-10pm * MASKS ENCOURAGED * TICKETS
Join us on October 21st and 22nd at Rhizome DC for a celebration of thought-provoking performance art that transcends conventional boundaries. Unravel the mysteries that lie beyond the surface as we navigate the intricate interplay between the seen and the unseen at SPECTRAL Performance Art Festival.
In the day, audience members can immerse themselves in captivating performances while browsing through a diverse range of products and offerings, including handcrafted art pieces, apparel, food, and interactive workshops. Leave with unique pieces from local DMV artists--all in time for Halloween!
Enjoy FREE performance art programming and the outdoor SPECTRAL Market from 1-6PM. Evening tickets are sliding scale for one ($15-30) or both ($20-50) nights. Pay-what-you-can tickets will be available at the door for cash or Venmo.
Detailed schedule / online program available HERE.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAM 1-6PM
Sylvana Christoper, Rock Stance
How do we gain clarity from rocks? Try summoning spirits with us and balancing by sculpting rocks into a formation.
http://sylvanachristopher.org
Katie Magician, Don’t Let Him Get Away
What happened to the cats from "Cats"?
http://www.katiemacyshyn.com/
The Fox’s Wedding, Cat Feet on the Water
In this intimate journey of aching grief and acceptance of the unresolved, The Fox’s Wedding performs a set of original compositions on electric tenor guitar, utilizing equipment and techniques inherited from her recently departed father.
https://www.little-fox-wedding.com/
Matthew Williams, Warming Up
Warming Up is a movement score examining inherited habits of urgency, perfectionism, and notions of readiness.
https://www.matthewwilliamsmoves.com
Renatchet, Routine Rituals
Routine Rituals," hosted by Renatchét, is a DIY Magic Show that invites you on a transformative journey where rituals become purposeful, and as you commit to one of your choosing, you embark on a voyage into the realm of magic, unlocking the power to achieve what you could never imagine.
http://www.reneeregan.com
Cooper Joslin, Pervasive
Pervasive is an exploration of depression, grief, and the enduring strength of human connection.
http://cooperjoslin.com
SATURDAY EVENING PROGRAM 6-10PM
Strawbalien
A performance that reflects a deep yearning for love that was never experienced, through the eyes of a ghost girl.
https://on.soundcloud.com/LuQ6gZChyqezCZsQA
Lucia Li, Mumbling Ego
A show where illusion and reality are inverted.
http://luceeyali.com
Joshua Marquez, Cutting Through Static
Cutting Through Static is a performance art piece that explores the relationship between obsolete and ubiquitous technology that reminisces about a time of recent ancestors whose language is swallowed by a digital abyss similar to my own erasure of culture.
http://www.joshuamarquez.com/
STRANGELAND, All Good Girls Go to Hell
In STRANGELAND, Bunni and Goatface's ghosts reflect on their life choices.
http://andilandart.com
Switchblade Porter
Glitchy synth punk from the dystopian future.
https://instabio.cc/SwitchbladePorter
Lucas Rougeux, Conversation with a Lost Brother
A durational performance of the futile and silent conversations with lost loved ones.
http://lucasjrougeux.com
Lu Biondi, Light of Mine
This solo performance shines a light on the darker aspects of Saint Lucia's mythology and begins to blur the boundaries between faith, superstition, and the paranormal.
https://www.instagram.com/tres.luccis/
Té, You Can Taste The Water
Recordings of stuff I say or shout in my sleep, with live musical accompaniment.
https://temakesnoise.bandcamp.com/
Durtgherl and Spark Isle
Painting, screaming, dancing, thrashing to the tune of experimental rock; fighting for peace cannot include bloodshed.
http://jlnwlsh.com/
BUKO BUKO, Happy Death Songs
Happy punk songs to cope with death and ghosts
https://bukobuko.bandzoogle.com/home
VISITORS, de l'au-delà-(from beyond)
Visitors create dark ambient sound manipulations accompanied by out-worldly visuals.
https://visitorsdc.bandcamp.com/track/september
Fracking
Death throes of the wretched american machine- despair and hope; light and dark; good and evil- seeking ultimate resolution.
https://fracking.bandcamp.com/
SUNDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAM 1-6PM
GOODW.Y.N, Labor and Rest
The proposed work is a work-in-progress currently going by the title “Labor & Rest.” This concept was devised by the creation of my thesis written and exhibited work, both which were observational and critical actions taken to examine the “place” and “purpose” of Black and Brown people in American society, in particular myself being a large Black, Queer woman.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187014276@N04/
Corina Iona Dalzell, Thomas Northrup, A Little Lost
A contemporary dance duet exploring the ground as a threshold for the body. “The dew will settle on our graves, when all the world is green.”
https://www.corinadalzell.com/a-little-lost
Nonpar & Herschel Hoover, Binary Spirit
Binary Spirit – nonpar & Herschel Hoover perform improvised music that takes as its foundation the complicated intersection of fundamental human communication and the technology that makes up the invisible infrastructure that enables such connection.
https://nonpar.bandcamp.com/
https://herschelhoover.bandcamp.com
Anetta Dexter Sawyer, La Sonnambula
Is what we perceive real, illusion, or both?
Becky Brown, Enter N/A for Not Applicable
This is a brief survey, and will only take about ten minutes of your twenty minutes of your life. Do you have do you have any questions have any do two years for me?
https://becky-brown.org
TELAS Laboratorio Teatral, City is Hungry
"City is Hungry" - A performance intervention where those forgotten invisible beings speak out against extractivism and exploitation.
http://www.instagram.com/telas_teatro
Ariel Foster, Neru Alaba Culate chom Berhtalah
Rise of the Sun from Oneness from death to new life, you Rise with the earth in heavenly Skies.
https://arielcavalcantefosterart.persona.co/
SUNDAY EVENING PROGRAM 6-9:30PM
Tomonari Nishikawa, Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 2
This is the second variation of the on-going 16mm film projector performance piece, "Six Seventy-Two Variations," for which I produce images and sound as a live performance.
http://tomonarinishikawa.com
Sarah Piepenbrink, Ouroboros
Enter the labyrinth of the Ouroboros. What lies beyond the veil separating the conscious from the unconscious?
Claire Alrich, An Assembly Line for Staying in Touch
An experiment in embodied nostalgia: passed hand-to-hand, a temporary fabric structure is built and then released – strands of guts, a clothesline of memories, a spider web of prayers.
http://www.clairealrich.com
html.hotel, Everyone Eats Spaghetti the Exact Same Way
A woman eats spaghetti.
https://www.instagram.com/html.hotel
PraxisCat
Christine Paluch will be bringing a dark ambient piece to bring a sense of catharsis.
https://praxiscat.bandcamp.com/
MK Ford, h a u n t
This performance is a blend of video and score-based dance performance that highlights the choreographer's experience of grief in their body.
https://www.mkfordart.com/
Cecelia Suhr, Humanity: From Survival to Revival
Humanity: From Survival to Revival is an award-winning interactive and experimental work that invites an audience’s participation as well as an audio-visual performance on the violin, bamboo flutes and electronics.
http://www.ceciliasuhr.com
David Klinger, Dr. Freeman’s Motivational Inspirational Pill of a Million Secrets
David Klinger will describe what is so great about the Motivational Inspirational Pill of a Million Secrets, how it saved his grandfather’s life, and how it can help you.
https://dvdklngr.com
Zee Hanna, Per Ardua
Zee’s father died ten years ago but he still visits her everyday, and she still doesn’t know how to stop him.
http://zeehannald.com