[artinfo] the geography project

[5x5 group]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


5x5 presents
the geography project
a performance installation inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée, 
the psychology of loneliness, and the architecture of airports.

created by Kelly Cooper
sound by Brian Klein
lighting by Jan Kordylewski
production management and additional movement by Bridget Kies

featuring:
Cory Schiffern and Jeanne-Patrice Dohm

produced by 5x5

on view at atc space
Flat Iron Arts Building
Suite 352, 2nd Floor
1579 N. Milwaukee
in the heart of Wicker Park

Friday, August 16 and Saturday, August 17, 2002

The performance installation is open for viewing on Friday between 7-10pm 
and on Saturday between 12-2pm.

Suggested Donation: $5.00

5x5 is a multi-disciplinary arts group committed to exploring and engaging a 
continuum of media to create technically progressive, fundamentally 
experimental, visually and physically rigorous work housed in both 
site-specific and prepared spaces.

Bridget Kies has worked with Kelly Cooper on several performances and 
installations.  She has also stage managed several theatrical productions, 
including Blithe Spirit at Bowen Park Theater in Waukegan, Ionesco’s Jack, 
or the Submission/The Future Is In Eggs for the Hypocrites, and Samuel 
Beckett's Happy Days.  The latter was at Lake Forest College, where she 
recently graduated with a self-designed major in Experimental 
Theater/Performance and where she directed several one-acts (most recently 
Cocteau's The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower) and written several pieces.  
Bridget has been a dancer for ten years and recently studied dance and 
movement at The Kitchen in New York this past summer, participating in 
workshops with Elizabeth Streb, Ralph Lemon, Ann Carlson, David Gordon, and 
Deborah Jowitt.  She also held an internship in public relations at Theatre 
des Champs-Elysees in Paris and was the stage management intern on the new 
Mary Zimmerman/Philip Glass opera Galileo, Galilei at the Goodman Theatre in 
Chicago this past May.  She is also a member of the multi-disciplinary arts 
group, 5x5.

Jan Kordylewski was born in Krakow, Poland.  His Lighting Design credits 
include most recently several productions at Lake Forest College including 
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, several productions for the Bowen Park 
Theater in Waukegan including Dangerous Liaisons, and The Melody Lingers On 
for Prologue Theater Company at the Theater Building in Chicago.  He has 
also designed set and lights for The Comedy of Errors, and Chad Eric 
Bergman’s production of The Blue Room.  In addition to his design work, Jan 
has several directing and playwrighting credits, as well as photography, 
performance art, and installation art projects in his artistic portfolio 
including most recently Imag-e Tim-e Escap-e an installation in the 
Sonnenschein Gallery at the Durand Art Institute.  He is also a member of 
the multi-disciplinary arts group, 5x5.

Kelly Cooper received her Master’s degree in Performance Studies from New 
York University and completed her undergraduate studies at Lake Forest 
College (Chicago, Illinois) where she majored in English (writing track - 
playwrighting) and Experimental Theatre and Performance (a self-designed 
Independent Scholarship Major).

Her directing credits include Gertrude Stein’s What Happened, Sam Shepard’s 
Tongues, Marguerite Duras’ The Malady of Death, and Beckett’s Happy Days and 
Come and Go.  Her performance installation credits include smile (NYU PS 
studio, NYC), union this ego lies here (SAIC Gallery 1926), anatomy/self 
(Durand Art Institute), and document (Lake Forest College).   Recently, she 
created a performance installation based on Gertrude Stein’s mexico a play 
for the Blueprint Series at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre 
in New York City.  Dramaturgical work includes the upcoming prodution of 
Score (Ann Bogart and The Siti Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music – 
Brooklyn, NY), The Lady From the Sea (Ivan Talijancic and WaxFactory at XO 
projects – Brooklyn, NY), and Penthesilea (Joanna Settle at Bard College - 
NY).  Kelly has worked as an assistant director to Joanna Settle of DIVISION 
13 on several productions, including Beckett’s Play, Duras’ The War, and the 
award-winning Bloodline: The Oedipus/Antigone Story, and was most recently 
the dramaturg to Joy Gregory on Lookingglass Theatre’s Midwest premiere of 
Charles Mee Jr.’s Summertime.  Kelly is an Artistic Associate of DIVISION 13 
and is a member of the multi-disciplinary arts group, 5x5.

Brian Klein is an electronic musician, sound designer, and sound engineer 
from Chicago, Illinois.  Previously he has worked in the theatre as a sound 
op for Garrick Player’s production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan 
and sound designer/performer for Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, directed by Jan 
Kordylewski.  Brian’s remix of "sediert und zufrieden" by store, was 
featured on the cd store matrix available on Retinascan Records and his 
remix of "cake" by caiius is featured on the cd care 1.  Some of his other 
work can be heard at http://www.zebox.com/ea/.  Brian also has a forthcoming 
3" cd ep on Retinascan Records.

Cory Schiffern Bio unavailable at this time.

Jeanne-Patrice Dohm Bio unavailable at this time.


MEDIA CONTACT:
								Bridget Kies
								847-477-8970
								hello5x5@hotmail.com


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:::::5x5 is a multi-disciplinary arts group committed to exploring and 
engaging a continuum of media to create technically progressive, 
fundamentally experimental, visually and physically rigorous work housed in 
both site-specific and prepared spaces.:::::


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