How can a basketball weave drill and goodbye letters written to a site transform the energy of an abandoned space? Decommissioned Spaces: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do is a performance project designed to address the community tension and ambivalence about the historic Armory in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Situated atop a filled in portion of Lake Michigan, the Armory has been used for the storage of weapons, basketball games, Hmong New year celebrations and blood drives. For years the Armory waited in limbo without a clear path forward to which we ask, what can the Armory teach us about choreographies of indecision itself and the sleepless nights indecision can produce? This performance and video installation is the culmination of an intensive, 5 part workshop series hosted by the John Michael Kohler Art Center and led by visiting artist Indira Allegra. Performing artists include Mary Burkey, Alexandra Guevara, Marcos Guevara, Hilarie Mukavitz and Camille Staats.
Decommissioned Spaces: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
Performance
3 minutes 12 seconds
2019
Director: Indira Allegra
Videographer: Chani Bockwinkel
Edited by: Chani Bockwinkel and Indira Allegra