Cover image by Eileen Meny.
Something festive this way comes
For the last several months of 2021, we were busy dreaming and scheming up our next project Christmas Mountain—a hybrid performance/installation/advent calendar that will be both location-based and accessible online, and will feature miniature sculpted dioramas, interactive animatronics, and embedded media. Through daily episodes, the project will reveal an accumulating narrative over the course of December 2022.
To start wrapping our heads around this ambitious project, we decided to prototype a single animatronic sculpture to test out some of our ideas—specifically those around connecting an interactive object with embedded media.
The result? This short teaser, which offers a little peek into our brains right now as we start to unwrap the very palimpsestuous nature of Christmas.
To start wrapping our heads around this ambitious project, we decided to prototype a single animatronic sculpture to test out some of our ideas—specifically those around connecting an interactive object with embedded media.
The result? This short teaser, which offers a little peek into our brains right now as we start to unwrap the very palimpsestuous nature of Christmas.
Free Resource: "Virtual Translation: Bringing Piehole's Disclaimer to Zoom" now available online
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Were there any moments in our recent Zoom production of Disclaimer where you thought …. “Huh. How did they do that?” If so, Disclaimer's designers presented a free technical skill-share and discussion on adaptation across mediums hosted on HowlRound! The video is archived there permanently, and a video recording of Disclaimer is available upon request. Piehole members Tara Ahmadinejad, Alexandra Panzer, Ben Vigus, and Jeff Wood and key collaborators Reza Behjat, Stefania Bulbarella, Alessandra Cronin, and Eli Schleicher presented video, audio, and software tips, tricks, and insights we learned.
An article about Elliot B. Quick
On Friday, February 19, 2021, it was one year since we lost our beloved friend and collaborator Elliot B. Quick.
Over the course of that tumultuous year, we continued to process our love for Elliot and our grief for his loss, and one way we approached that process was through collaboration. We joined forces with several of Elliot's close artistic partners on a writing project reflecting on Elliot's work as a dramaturg, in all of its glorious complexity. It's available here, on Culturebot.
Working in concert with so many of his collaborators, getting to know Elliot's processes outside of Piehole, and engaging in a collective editing puzzle (that felt like something Elliot would have made so much easier!) was an incredibly gratifying and healing experience. And in collecting these writings, we uncovered what we hope will speak to folks both inside and outside of theater, those who knew Elliot and those who did not.
Special mega-thanks to everyone who contributed, and to Culturebot for publishing it. We invite you to read it and share it with people and communities with whom it might resonate.
Read it here.
Over the course of that tumultuous year, we continued to process our love for Elliot and our grief for his loss, and one way we approached that process was through collaboration. We joined forces with several of Elliot's close artistic partners on a writing project reflecting on Elliot's work as a dramaturg, in all of its glorious complexity. It's available here, on Culturebot.
Working in concert with so many of his collaborators, getting to know Elliot's processes outside of Piehole, and engaging in a collective editing puzzle (that felt like something Elliot would have made so much easier!) was an incredibly gratifying and healing experience. And in collecting these writings, we uncovered what we hope will speak to folks both inside and outside of theater, those who knew Elliot and those who did not.
Special mega-thanks to everyone who contributed, and to Culturebot for publishing it. We invite you to read it and share it with people and communities with whom it might resonate.
Read it here.
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