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de:Compose, Shadow Puppetry and Four-Channel sound

Concept, Design, Puppetry Performance: Niki Schultz

Collaborator Nikki Schultz created and performed an intricate and haunting montage of projected light and shadow with layered silloutte landscapes and animated figures, evoking a narrative of destruction and growth. The four-channel soundscape scored, among other things, the inside of a human body, it’s disintegration and a gradual, sinking burial.

Excerpt 1: Body 1

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Excerpt 2: Body 2

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Excerpt 3: Peeling Skin

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Excerpt 4: Descent

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