Let Me Tell You About The Dream I Had
The Miss Rockaway Armada

Parade and Variety Show: Saturday, September 10th, 2011
5 pm: Parade starts at Coral and E York Streets
7 pm: Variety Show at FLUXspace

Courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance:

Let Me Tell You About The Dream I Had will present a newly commissioned installation by The Miss Rockaway Armada throughout the galleries of the Philadelphia Art Alliance along with musical and theatrical performances, and a mobile outdoor component with events that will be held prior to the exhibition. While the project does relate to previous work by the Armada and their first organized project on the Mississippi River, it does focus specifically on Philadelphia and what is unique to the City. The outdoor events will address the unique features of the waterways, the communities that they engage with during their performances, and the gallery space at the Art Alliance.

The project for PAA was conceived to include three overlapping components. The first component will be the construction of a flotilla for the traveling aspect of the exhibition, which will begin with an outdoor launch along the Schuylkill river. This will be followed by two events that include traveling the flotilla through the streets to Clark Park in University City and the local artist collective FLUXspace in Kensington.  Two themes, fire and water, will be presented through costumes, hand made banners, the repainting of the flotilla as a land float and will be expressed through music. The culmination of the construction and these performances will evolve into the final component, which will be the exhibition in the Art Alliance building.

Specifically for the parades, the collective will work with Spiral Q Puppet Theater and FLUXspace to reach the residents who are served by these organizations directly in their neighborhoods. At each event, various improvisational performances will take place, including Shadow Puppet theater events and musical performances. To expand the audience for this project, the procession and event at Clark Park will be scheduled as part of Philly Fringe, which is an annual performing arts festival that features performance art events free of a selection process.

The final stage of the exhibition will be the installation that will take place at the Art Alliance building. Using the materials from the land boats, the collective will then reshape these materials to create an installation for the PAA galleries. This installation will be accompanied by documentation from the outdoor performances. While certain portions of the building will be designated for the installation, other galleries will contain the documentation in a format based on traditional late 19th century museological practices of display, stemming from the period in which the Art Alliance was built.

Click here for a map of the Parade Route!

Find out more about The Miss Rockaway Armada here!

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For more information on this show, contact info[at]thefluxspace[dot]org.