For
the past two years we have been engaged in a critical and curatorial
dialogue with each other; Investigating similar issues and achieving
individual results. Our work most often finds its voice through
performance and sculpture. Through this ongoing process and collective
processing, we have found common ground in our collaborative endeavors,
which is sustained by a shared research base. Research feeds the use of
material and the body. Performance and sculpture then become a
formalizing of the inquiry. Aesthetic form develops from our involvement
with 'the search'.
This
project is now different. For Escape Group we have begun by digging
into the writings of cultural theorist and urbanist, Paul Virilio (b.
1932). By first reading separate texts by Virilio (Crepuscular Dawn and Grey Ecology) we started a conversation with each other that has since blossomed into this shared project.
Escape Group seeks to explore Virilio's ideas surrounding Apocalypse and
its (mis)unse as an instrument and metaphor for civilization's shared
image of finality through a series of lectures and spacial-audio
interventions which ask, what is revealed by Apocalypse?
Escape
group is a collaborative endeavor by Anthony Romero, Jillian Soto, and
any number of past, present, and future participants.