How to Make a Monster
(2015)
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Presented at Highways, 2015 and The Hammer Museum (in excerpts), 2016
A performance and sound installation. The work reckons with the monstrous in midsts: The monster of relationships, the monster of industry, the monster of time.
How to Make a Monster is a curated tableaux in 12 scenes based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The IPCC Climate Change Synthesis Report, Agnes Varda’s DAGUERREOTYPES, Meredith Monk’s Book of Days, and The Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Cafe Muller.
How to Make a Monster by Linda Ravenswood
Originally workshopped from 2014-2015 with the support of The Schkapf Arts Incubation Centre (Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova) and Liminal L.A. (Brian Sonia Wallace, founder)
How To Make a Monster
A Performance Workshop Manuscript
And Process
Catalogue
Script, Scene Notes,
Stage Directions, Recipes,
Image Reliquary
Concept, Workshop Iteration, Text, Music Written by Linda Ravenswood