THEATRE WORKERS FOR A CEASEFIRE
COMING UP/ONGOING
Forthcoming 2027:
OUR STUDIES SHOW: Practices and Methods for Practical Neurodissidence, a report on the thinktank and sessions of the project OUR STUDIES SHOW, official publication announcement coming soon (late 2026). Workshops in "practices and methods for practical neurodissidence" are ongoing.
WIP:
We are working on a new operetta for spatialized sound, tentatively called The Demon Opera, (or Settlers Surrender) will premiere in Feb-March 2027 in Montréal. Excerpts and workshop versions, tests of some of the scores, are available.
Ongoing:
PAL (Performance Action League): social support task force for those working in public and direct actions and public performance (email panoplylab@gmail.com if you are interested)
"Operating Manual" for the opera-of-operations Embarrassed of the (W)Hole, available from Ugly Duckling Presse! Or access the book on archive.org
Read a review here: https://overexposedlit.uvic.ca/issue1/embarrassed-of-the-whole/
PPL is a flexible performance collective, thinktank, and organizational entity. PPL was founded as "Panoply Performance Laboratory" by Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle while the two were students at the University of Michigan. Today, PPL is a flexible collective which is constituted by those present within its social formations. PPL has taken forms of project site (2009-2012 at Surreal Estate, 2012-2018 at 104 Meserole St in Brooklyn, 2018-2023 in St. Louis, MO, currently Kingston, NY), including curatorial committee/self-organizing entity, temporary autonomous university, the onoing platform for performance and social arts practices PERFORMANCY FORUM, natural history museum, greasy spoon diner, theatre company, scientific laboratory, oracle. thinktank for auto-research into neurodivergence, and so on. PPL's operas-of-operations, art, and broad spectrum sonic, sculptural, textual, institutional, theoretical, political, and social performances have been materialized multiplicitly in many different contexts, from gas stations, basement, bowling alleys, and public libraries through museums and academic conferences, in collaboration with intersecting collectives No Wave Performance Task Force and Social Health Performance Club, as well as many galleries, museums, and community gathering sites.
Listen to operas here
Portfolio blog here
organizational projects (PERFORMANCY FORUM) (Brooklyn International Performance Art Foundation)
CONTACT: panoplylab@gmail.com
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