The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures (Conrad Cheung, Assistant Professor in Studio) presents its inaugural program series, A Countercommons (The Trouble with Trouble), featuring performance programs from April 1–5 by Chicago-based artist Seamus Carey, Richmond-based artist Adrian Wood, and LA-based writer-director Jayme Kusyk. Converting the second-floor terrace of the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Hall into an experimental, modular stage, A Countercommons (The Trouble with Trouble) pairs the participatory, social demands of alternative theater with the site-oriented, spatial politics of institutional critique. How can a temporary, fragmented, and self-aware proscenium facilitate modes of moving, dancing, gossiping, criticizing, and otherwise making noise and trouble that the paradigmatic liberalism of the art institution can tolerate and endorse only insofar as it can make sense of “making trouble” as a properly creative, intellectual, and civic activity?
Check, Check, programmed by Seamus Carey, will feature performances throughout the day on Mon, Apr. 1.
Battle Royale for the Soul of Our Country, programmed by Adrian Wood, will feature performances at 5 pm on Tues, Apr. 2 and 6 pm on Wed, Apr. 3.
Selling C-Ville, programmed by Jayme Kusyk, will feature performances at 5 pm on Thurs, Apr. 4 and 5 pm on Fri, Apr. 5.