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The first 6 images/video are from The Realness of Things, a crankie about my experience studying abroad in Indonesia and the curious things that happened while I was there.
The next 10 images/video are from a theater performance involving a crankie and a Japanese form of screen puppetry called Dogugaeshi. The piece is called For The Future and is a piece about living through the pandemic in which the future is put on trial in a court room.
The Space Between Two Hands is a mini crankie made as a prototype of a poem Emily wrote in college.
The final video is a compilation of 4 meditations Emily wrote and made short puppet performances for as part of a lambe-lambe theater project.
Teatro Lambe-Lambe is a form of miniature puppet theatre created by two Black women, Denise di Santos and Ismine Silva, in Brazil in 1989. This form of street theatre is now prevalent throughout South and Central America and practiced in more than thirty countries worldwide. Performed for one person at a time, traditionally the audience member views the performance through a peephole of a camera obscura-style box resting on a table.
This Lambe Lambe theater and the four puppet based meditations contained within, were written and produced as part of a residency with Montana Open A.I.R. on the former site of the Rattlesnake Creek Dam. The dam was removed in 2020, and is one of the fastest dam removal projects in the country to date. When it was removed a wild river was reunited for the first time in over 100 years. The space is now an active ecological restoration site awaiting the return of native species.