FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Diana Cwerenz, Executive Director
[email protected]
March 4, 2014
Future Tenant presents:
“Trespass Residencies” - three weeks of new work from emerging artists.
Who: Future Tenant
What: Trespass Residencies
When: March 10 – 29, 2014. Performances 7PM March 14th, 21st, and 22nd, 2PM and 7PM March 15th.
Where: 819 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15222
Tickets for Shockheaded and The Rosie Rogers Cowgirl Show available at www.brownpapertickets.com
Pittsburgh, PA, March 4, 2014 – Future Tenant presents its bi-annual Trespass Residency series with three weeks of new work from emerging artists. Selected artists are provided with 24 hour access to Future Tenant’s 819 Penn Avenue Space to create and present never-before-seen performances and visual art.
Trespass Residency Week 1 - Shockheaded
Felicia Cooper, a senior at Point Park University presents an original ensemble based theatrical piece combining storytelling, post-modern movement, and paper sculpture. The piece, which explores several stories of Stuwwelpeter, grapples with the question of why we are so uncomfortable with messiness and ambiguity in the stories we tell, and why we gravitate towards logic and patterns.
Trespass Residency Week 2 - The Rosie Rogers Cowgirl Show
Inspired by Rosie Trump’s three-year stint as a resident of the lone star state and recent dive into matrimony, “The Rosie Rogers Cowgirl Show” melds contemporary dance, video collage, and narrative to tell the tongue-in-cheek story of Rosie Rogers. With her trusty mare Pony Grrrl by her side, Rosie will spin tales of her home on the range and “teach ya’ll a two-step you’ve never seen this side of the Rockies.” Following its run at Future Tenant, the piece will be featured at the Prague Fringe Festival.
Trespass Residency Week 3 - The “Take a Painting” Project
March 24-29, Open to the public all week. March 28 Reception from 6 to 9PM
Erika Stearly presents a re-mount of her graduate thesis at Indiana University, an interactive painting installation made up of several hundred small paintings on paper. Viewers are invited to help themselves to a complimentary painting and to participate in the creation of works that will be incorporated into the installation. With the goal of maximizing community involvement, this project is designed to level the boundaries between artist, viewer, and collector.
Future Tenant is a non-profit art space located in downtown Pittsburgh at 819 Penn Avenue dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging artists through exhibitions that offer a cutting edge perspective on the Pittsburgh art scene. For more information about the residencies and other Future Tenant programming, please visit www.futuretenant.org, www.facebook.com/futuretenant, or follow @futuretenant on Twitter.
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