Synesthesia at Judson Memorial Church

Electric Pear Productions presents Synesthesia, a performance art piece created by nine artists from nine different genres, at Judson Memorial Church from 2 -6 Apr 2008.

Synesthesia is the culmination of five months of work by over a dozen artists spanning nine different genres including film, dance, comedy, photography, music and spoken word

In the fall of 2007, the first artist chose a fortune cookie and used the enclosed fortune to inspire his film. After a few days of furious work, he passed his work off to a writer, and in turn, the writer created a piece that was passed on to the next artist - and so on, and so on�

The evening at Judson will jump between documentary footage of each "hand-off" in the series, and the resulting live performance or artistic product. Audiences are given the opportunity to trace not only the overall development of the five-month game of artistic telephone, but also each individual artist's point of attack � and what they generated from their given circumstances.

Synesthesia includes:

• Filmmaker, Gregory Stuart Edwards � Spleen, Independent Feature Project
• Author/Playwright, Damian Lanigan � Dissonance, Williamstown 2007
• Photographer, Peter Hapak � New York Magazine
• Comedians, Nathan Phillips and Joe Schiappa - Project:Projekt
• Artist, Brian Whiteley � 717 Gallery
• Spoken Word Artist, Shanelle Gabriel � HBO�s Def Poetry Jam
• Author/Playwright, Clay McLeod Chapman � The Pumpkin Pie Show
• Dancer/Choreographer, Jo-anne Lee - Brian Brooks Moving Company
• Singer/Songwriter, Leah Siegel � Little Mule
• DJ, JayCeeOh � The Masters, Special Teamz
• Filmmaker, Avriel Hillman
• Music by Zac Lasher - U-Melt