(n,vs) (1) release (discharge) from prison; exit; point of departure; time to take action
Title: Dedokoro
Date: Sunday, June 3rd
Time: 6:30 pre-show photo exhibit in the Experimental Theater
7:00 performance (there will be no late seating.)
Location:UC Santa Cruz’s Theater Arts Department’s Experimental Theater
Cost: Free (seating limited)
Contact: Alan Tollefson: ABTOLLEF@UCSC.EDU
05/21/07 Santa Cruz, California.
New Media Artist Alan Tollefson is presenting his masters thesis performance that uses, as its text, haiku poetry written behind barbed wire during WWII. The unlawful detention of 120,000 Japanese Americans was a grave injustice. Is history repeating itself?
Bio: Alan Tollefson is a graduate student in the Digital Art and New Media program at UC Santa Cruz. He received his bachelors degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on performance. In the last ten years he has written several short plays and produced a short two-act play entitled Mk Ultra. He has also worked as a carpenter, properties master and scenic designer in theaters in Sacramento and has been the master carpenter for the Theater Arts Department at UCSC. As a graduate student, Tollefson has focused on performance research and digital technologies on stage. Specific areas of research include Japanese American internment camp haiku, rhetoric and intersubjectivity. Research trips in the course of his graduate studies consisted of traveling to the historic internment camp locations of Heart Mountain, Tule Lake, Rohwer, and Jerome. In the last three years while conducting research, he has taken over 5000 digital images and conducted over ten hours of videotaped interviews.
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