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Incidents at the 22nd Hotel

Presented by Wura Natasha Ogunji at The Off Center

August 13-August 14, 2010

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Incidents at the 22 Hotel, integrates the visual and performing arts to create a “physical” fiction experience -a future world where inhabitants live in a hotel consisting of two sky-high towers built on a plastic floating island made up of the detritus of centuries. Movement in this futuristic world requires great physical and emotional feats: humans fly and create themselves, runners run nonstop, a hotel porter carries two buildings on his shoulders...and that is just in the first act...

 Incidents takes a post-apocalyptic landscape and imagines what it is to be part of that future. The main character, called ‘Unexplained Presence,’ struggles to imagine her own existence -as an African artifact, full of ancient power, yet motionless, or to be human and imagine herself into existence in the future. This highly symbolic and evocative piece incorporates Ogunji’s performance videos in which stop motion editing techniques allow characters to fly across the land and walk on water.

This Saturday, August 7th, Ms. Ogunji will host a performance Workshop from 10 am - noon, at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. This workshop offers the special opportunity to work with Ogunji in an exploration of the critical role of the body in creating new language and narratives. Previous experience with performance not required.

Cost: $20 (includes ticket to Incidents at the 22 Hotel August 13 or August 14, 2010) To Register: info@wuraogunji.com (Space is limited.) or call 512-843-0112