asmr4apocalypse

Doors at 7pm, Performance 7:30-8:30pm

Tickets: $15-$35 suggested. No one turned away for lack of funds. TICKETS HERE

asmr4apocalypse invites you to a collective embodied composting of a too-powerful imperialist institution: the Pentagon. Enter Vox Populi, relax into soundscape, take in performance, and let bundles of mugwort in the room facilitate your visualization of geological futures. Eons from now, the monumental disaster-producing military office complex we once created will fall apart and disintegrate back into the earth. 

Originally a solo work, this rendition of asmr4apocalypse shares new choreographic research cultivated in classes and workshops led by zavé martohardjono this Spring in Philadelphia thanks to the support of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the Penn Museum and Leah Stein Dance Studios.

About the Artists

zavé martohardjono’s works engage decolonized memory and dream up more just futures. They are a 2025 UPenn Center for Experimental Ethnography fellow, NEW INC member, and have a Mertz Gilmore Foundation Dancer Award.

Mel Krodman has a decade-long career collaboratively devising experimental and physically-driven interdisciplinary works that collide dance, theatre, video, performance art, music, and comedy.

Amalía Colon-Nava is a farmer and multi-disciplinary artist whose research and performance intersects arts and urban agriculture. She joined artist-run, cooperatively led Dirtbaby Farm in 2021.

Mike Clemow uses sound, text, images, and found objects, generative and chaotic systems, to create performances, installations, and objects as “improvised sites.”

Daphne Silbiger is a playwright, dramaturg, and musician who collaborates with the bands Go Home & MOTHERCAT and releases music as sa_phne.

Cecilia McKinnon’s work explores precarious landscapes and ‘natural’ histories through installation, moving image, and time-based materials.