Everything Was Stolen
Everything was Stolen is a piece created from a variety of stolen and original (but mostly stolen) texts, songs, videos, images and ephemera in an evocation of America (which was also stolen - hey!), inspired in part by the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, and in part by something American composer John Cage once said: ‘And so it is out of this chaos, this accumulation of history and novelty, that we begin building.’
The piece was originally developed by Emily K. Harrison with students at Brunel University London, and was developed with a Colorado-based ensemble, of which I was a part, for the March 2019 professional World Premiere.
Created and directed by Emily K. Harrison with Ayla Sullivan
Production Stage Manager Rosamond Glasscock
Photos by Michael Ensminger.