Brooklyn, NY
Negative Liberty / Positive Liberty
a socially distanced karaoke-based performance installation
Negative Liberty / Positive Liberty asks a single viewer, in an 8-minute performance, to lend their voice to an artistic distillation of Isaiah Berlin’s 1958 lecture, Two Concepts of Liberty. In this lecture Berlin argues that when concepts of liberty are used rhetorically to control and repress individuals in the name of liberty itself - it will inevitably lead to violent conflict. Negative Liberty / Positive Liberty is created by Christopher McElroen, the Founding Artistic Director of the american vicarious, and was developed in collaboration with Performers Sarah Ellen Stephens and Olivia Gilliatt; Scenographer Troy Hourie; Video Designer Adam J Thompson; Sound Designer Andy Evan Cohen; and Lighting Designer Lucrecia Briceno. Each audience member will be required to wear a face mask and surfaces will be disinfected between viewers.
Audience Role
You will be promoted to engage with the installation. Participation is not mandatory.
Ages: 16 +
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