Pamela Z: Baggage Allowance

San Francisco-based artist Pamela Z presents her latest solo performance for voice, electronics, and interactive video that considers “baggage” in all its literal and metaphorical permutations. She is best-known for her signature style of experimental music-theater pieces that meld sampling technologies and live electronic processing with operatic bel canto and extended vocal techniques. Drawing from her own extensive traveling as well as other travelers’ experiences, this new work contends with the ball-and-chain-ness of dragging one’s belongings all over the world, as she manipulates layers of visual and sonic material through various custom controls and devices live on stage.



This program is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Amphion Foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Photo: Valerie Oliveiro

September 16–September 18, 2010

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