Performance & Video

Mekas Told Me To (2020-2022)

Mekas screenshot

Started at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mekas Told Me To is a series of phone videos capturing a recurring enactment of ‘Instruction’ (1996) by Lithuanian-American filmmaker Jonas Mekas:

"Do it…

move your finger

up and down for

one minute every morning."

I. Mekas Told Me To (2020)

II. Mekas Told Me To (2021)

III. Mekas Told Me To (2022)

Parts I & II premiered 15 October 2021 at Mengi (Reykjavik, IS)

Reconfigured as temporary video installation at Mengi, 20-24 November 2021

Mengi inside
Mengi outside 1
Mengi outside 3
Mengi outside 2

II (2016)

Zach Rowden II

for solo performer & double bass

II is an hour-long monodrama for solo performer & double bass. Commissioned and performed by American experimental musician Zach Rowden, II explores the experiential effects of glacial physical movement, in combination with quiet, unsettled sounds and prolonged silences.

Aesthetically aligned with Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Mauricio Kagel and various strands of twentieth century performance art, II ultimately occupies its own space, generating a decaying and dejected environment through the subsurvient relationship between the performer and the double bass, between a servant and master.

Performances

5 August 2017 - Mengi (Reykjavik, IS)

29 April 2017 - Hartford Art School (West Hartford, CT)

10 April 2017 - Ely Center for Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT)

28 February 2017 - Hartt School of Music (West Hartford, CT)

Zach Rowden floor bass
Zach Rowden bolts
Zach Rowden bass bows
Zach Rowden audience
Zach Rowden standing bass