These performances came from a series of performance art nights at Eva Mueller Studios on W. 37th street in New York City. The later music in the first segment was from Lillspree. The other music was mostly anonymous. Using the framework of Shakespeare's The Tempest, I presented the various performances.
In Part 1, Erica Gabrielle was a nymph and I was the fairy Ariel. The giant light box was created by J. Carlos Diaz. The text was a created language, the beginning of each word was English the end was Portuguese. It was Ariel's first monologue in The Tempest. In Part 2, Tania Sterl, wearing a wig by Tamara Saffioti, played the cello and represented Miranda, Prospero's daughter. Prince Ferdinand, Kirk Peterkin, seduced by her music, created a sensual dance. Later in Part 3, J. Carlos Diaz, who was body painted by Joanne Gair, was the pendulous Caliban in his drunkard scene. In Part 3 & 4, I came in as the sickened island, where all have been shipwrecked.
This was presented at Dixon Place, New York, in the Summer of 2002. Later Eva Mueller for Sketch Gallery in London created the video installation Submergence, March 2003. In the Dixon Place performance, Eva Mueller was an important visual adviser.