hannah dougherty

Famous Actors

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FAMOUS ACTORS is a performance/installation that re-defines the history/practice of acting within the lexicon of experimental music. Featuring an intricate arrangement of rhythmically notated gestures and conversations, live sound processing, and actors who build, cook, litter, and clean, the theater becomes a dense and vibrant living space.

Writer/Director: Kara Feely
Composer/Sound: Travis Just
Production Designer: Hannah Dougherty
Lighting designer: Miranda k. Hardy
Performers: Ross Beschler, Avi Glickstein, Daniel Allen Nelson, Jessica Grace Pagan, Zuzanna Szadkowski

FAMOUS ACTORS is published in Play a Journal of Plays

June 2007: Ontological Theater, NYC

photos by Danielle Colburn

Jesus Club

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The combination of music, dance, performance, visual art and food made JESUS CLUB more than an ordinary night out. The organisers’ goals were to engender an open network of creatives who work in different fields, to provide a place for encounters and exchange, and to be a collision point between art and life. It stressed the club’s challenging intention to eliminate the boundary between artists and viewers. JESUS CLUB was a search for new presentation forms beyond that of ’stage-and-stalls’, in an attempt to bring back the fun, risk-taking element of the artistic process.

www.clubjesus.de

Creature Feature #13

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As part of the Tanz im August festival’s opening on August 12, 2011, Jeremy Wade curated the final 13th episode of Creature Feature. Creature Feature was a power house queer performance event, previously held at Basso Berlin. The event has been based on group participation. This celebration was the last event at the opening of Tanz im August at the Hau 2 theater in Berlin, Germany.

For this performance, a series of hand-painted billboards of inspirational, positive motivational messages were installed in the upper foyer of the Hau 2 Theater. Additionally, an edition of 300 hand printed pennant flags were distributed to the audience for an audience participation performance choreographed by Jeremy Wade.

Creature Feature #13 featured Jeremy Wade’s “Group Warm-up”, Florentina Holzing + Vincent Riebeek, Isabel Lewis, Jenn Joy, Dani Brown, Eike Wittrock, and Visual Artist Hannah Dougherty. These Artists exhibited raw unfinished works in progress, improvisations and lectures.

http://www.jeremywade.de/

Himmelfahrtskommando

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:28:21 +0000

Wolves, rainbows, cannibalism and animatronics: Himmelfahrtskommando is an installed visual opera. sprawling over 200 square meters, this work brings together the elements of stage design, exhibition, performance, and sound installation.

Himmelfahrtskommando is a celebration of the failed ambition of a group of German pioneers traveling across America during the westward expansion in 1846. While the journey of these pioneers might have ended in disaster and failure and ultimately cannibalism, we celebrate their ambition and drive. Aim high, young dreamers!

We begin with an empty gallery space. The performance consists of the installation of hundreds of objects made of wood, fur, electronics, etc, installed over the course of 4 hours on the evening of the opening. Loosely based on the first hand diary accounts of the Donner Party and their rescuers, the exhibited opera is accompanied by a libretto as well as composed sound installations, both interactive, performed, and stationary. Collaboratively, this work has been produced and performed by Hannah Dougherty Brendan Dougherty, Laura Bruce and Guido Henneböhl.

Problem Radicals

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Problem Radical(s) is an experimental opera mixing everyday radical acts, a sprawling sculpture, massive inflating tarps, industrious performers, and hardcore noise. Each night, the performers navigate an ever-expanding, unstable installation. Musicians and singers reassemble the modular electronic and instrumental score, evoking American radical thinkers, civic activists, and maneuverable personal blimps.

Writer/director: Kara Feely
Composer: Travis Just
Installation: Hannah Dougherty
Video: Daniel Kötter
Costume Designer: Peter Ksander
Lighting Designer: Miranda k. Hardy
Stage Manager: Sarah Nerboso
Associate Producer: Morgan von Prelle Pecelli
Performers: Karl Allen, Sarah Dahlen, Francesco Gagliardi, Caitlin McDonough Thayer
Musicians: Kevin Farrell, Travis Just, James Moore
Design Assistants: Peiyi Wong, Stacey Berman, Sara Patterson

April-May, 2009: Performance Space 122, NYC
July 2008: Artist Residency at Abrons Arts Center, NYC

2010

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Houses

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Big State

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The project, Big State, began at the Royal College of Art in London, England, in 2008. As an exploration of modularity in installation, this piece developed from a series of paintings, to an enclosed structure, to a free standing wall exhibited in the Institute for Contemporary Art in Annemasse, France.

2005-8

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The Settlement

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Works from exhibition ‘The Settlement’ at Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2008.