Jen Rosenblit & Geo Wyeth: Swivel Spot (2017)

About

“The kindly way to feel separating is to have a space between. This shows a likeness.” 
 –Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914.

Swivel Spot is concerned with the indiscernible moment of change. It is clear that something is gone. Actions of preservation and maintenance suggest something routine is about to happen. There is preparation here. Haunting the performance are the remains–a skeleton of logic from something that no longer applies. Still, these things don’t just go away. Hovering in this spot, an area isolated for this specific function, likened to a dump, a graveyard for parts, or a recycling shed, but we remain, there is waiting here. In a “land-space” where things go to die, rest, pile up, and accumulate, we see what we return to, pivot on, flirt with, linger near, or even consistently resist. Can we measure or archive transformation inside of this pile, and how do we continue on without rendering it obsolete? Swivel Spot is a companion work to Clap Hands (2016).

Credits

Concept: Jen Rosenblit 
Performance and Creation: Jen Rosenblit and Geo Wyeth 
Sound: Geo Wyeth 
Lighting: Nica Ross 
Dramaturgy: Joshua Lubin-Levy 
Production and Performance Support: alexia welch 
Multipurpose Tool and Podium Fabrication: Abigail Lloyd 
Management / Producer: Alexandra Rosenberg 

Swivel Spot is a commission of The Kitchen, New York. Supported by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, supported by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Jerome Foundation; a Late-Stage Stipend grant from the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program; and residency support from Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. 

Performance History

May 18-20, 2017 | Sophiensaele | Berlin, DE
March 1-4, 2017 | The Kitchen | New York, NY [premiere]

Selected Press

"Sublime uncertainty, awkward timing, a pursuit for something ambiguous but nonetheless meaningful–– Swivel Spot gives so much of which we can make little sense of. The reward is in bearing witness to it."
– Susie Yugler, http://au-di-tions.com/    [full article]

"Meaning creeps up slowly on the audience member in Swivel Spot, as the piece moves swiftly and unassumingly between the familiar and the uncanny. ... Indeed, through the distraction littering their space at every turn, the struggle of the ultimate meeting is more triumphant than violent, a sweaty, fumbling victory over the terror of everyday minutiae."
– Sara Lyons, Contemporary Performance   [full article]

More info

for booking inquiries, contact Alexandra Rosenberg at RosieManagement@gmail.com