AN AGGREGATION
A parts-work durational performance piece
Presented by The Deep Play Institute
Saturday July 15th, 6pm-2am, $5-10 NOTAFLOF
Two friends, colleagues, therapists, artists - Netta and Aaron - will use a co-created method drawing from Circling, Psychodrama, and Internal Family Systems Therapy to concretize the fragmented and fragile nature of their friendship and collaboration. The process will excavate their relationship as it unfolds in the here-and-now in an eight-hour durational performance.
By attending to what’s present moment to moment between each of their parts-of-self, Netta and Aaron invite viewers to encounter their relationship as a microcosm of cultural dynamics that unfold during the performance: dynamics of power, privilege, race, gender, sexuality, and ability, among others. In this way, the performance will offer an embodiment of Netta and Aaron’s emergent, transitory selves within a network of relations that extend outward into the socio-cultural-political spheres they inhabit.
The score will also invite performers’ and audience members’ reckonings with grief and remorse regarding the challenges of loving: one another, others, the planet, their own and each other’s lack and neediness. This close-up on the tenderest relations of the performers’ loves, hates, friendships, and cultures allows viewers to review their own endless dependencies on one another and on the planet, as they position themselves in relation or repulsion to the performers.
There will be opportunity for reflection by viewers through writing and drawing in tandem with the performance.
Netta and Aaron have been developing containers for this kind of exposure of the here-and-now for five years together through collaborations with The School of Making Thinking, The Relational Experimentation Guild, and The Deep Play Institute.
Artist Bios:
Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue. He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI). His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play. With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and group sessions inspired by these practices. Finbloom has presented works internationally at venues which include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 151 (New York), Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei (Berlin), UNAM (Mexico City), and MainLine Theatre (Montreal). He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities & Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and is currently teaching Philosophy at the City College of New York and The University of Portland.
Netta Sadovsky is an artist and therapist living in Philadelphia, PA, and the assistant director at The Deep Play Institute (DPI). They provide individual and relationship therapy specializing in Internal Family Systems (IFS), working with kink, polyamory, the hardships of artmaking, and healing from relational trauma at West Philly Therapy Center. They also specialize in using IFS with Ketamine Assisted Therapy. Netta is level 1 trained in Internal Family Systems, small group consultancy trained in Tavistock Group Relations, and is a student of Relational Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindful Facilitation, Theater of the Oppressed, and Psychodrama. They make artwork that borrows from and experiments with these practices in the mediums of video, performance, and audio installation, usually under the moniker Suso Phizer.