May 20, 2013
FLASH POINT is a live performance improvisation by five NYC-based writers and a composer. We work in short forms and new music. We write flash fiction, micro fiction, prose poems and improvisations for strings – transdisciplinary pieces that converge and diverge to cross genres, provoke tradition, and explore the territories ahead.
www.flashpointnyc.com
FLASH POINT performances are always site-specific and invariably unique. Each artist arrives with an internally-curated stack of pieces – no text more than 500 words in length, and some a mere sentence or two. When one artist chooses a selection to read at random, the textual jazz begins. We listen to the reader. The next artist up finds a piece that creates a conversation with the first one. The link might be a sound, an image, a mood. A comic piece may trigger a sad response on a similar theme.
Meanings leap across the borders of the pieces as we create a larger, collaborative work that builds without a pre-arranged plan.
The process of listening and responding creates the form. Each session lasts about 30 minutes.
FLASH POINT is Matthew Daddona, Sarah Dohrmann, George Michelsen Foy, Brandon Judell, Arthur Kell, and Quintan Ana Wikswo.