Eternal Oyster’s event scores cultivate intuitive psychedelia, sensory attunement to the environment, and ceremonial play.
Each score, named by its performance date, site, and curatorial program, comprises a sequence of modular activations. The respective site and community shape the flow of the event score.
event scores
Port Drip: Durational soundscape loop by Eternal Oyster.
Reflection Procession: Participants slowly walk a mylar pathway set in a green space. PROMPT: tread lightly. gaze down at the distortions in your reflection pressed by your weight and force unto the earth. gaze forward out at the horizon. and gaze upward at the sky.
Clay Seed: Participants receive small clay “seeds” to shape for the duration of the score. They choose their seed from a humid glass sphere.
Rain Drum: The artist waters a drum tongue drum as tribute to the rain, finishing by watering themself.
The Hive: Participants scan one of three QR codes, each linked to a different sonic drone. The three channels comprise the full mix for the track Port Drip. Participants play the tracks on their phone speakers for the duration of the activation.
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Clay Seed: The audience receives small clay “seeds” to shape for the duration of the performance. They choose their seed from a humid glass sphere.
Reflection Procession: The audience treads lightly down a mylar pathway between trees and shrubs, from one concrete circle to another. PROMPT: tread lightly. gaze down at the distortions in your reflection and the sky made by your weight and force unto the earth. gaze forward out at the horizon. gaze upward toward the sky.
Rain Drum: The artist waters a tongue drum.
Larval Dance: The artist mixes water from the drum with powdered calcium carbonate (chalk)— a significant element in seashells, eggshells, and snail shells. Participants paint this mixture onto the concrete with EO in a partner dance. The resulting lines create a communal dance map, akin to the feeding trails left by fly larvae on snakeroot.
July 14, 2024 at Three Circles of Cashmere in Prospect Park, Brooklyn presented by Center for Psychic Technology + Momenta
EVENT SCORE — Clay Seed > Reflection Procession > Rain Drum > Larval Dance
Set near the Vale of Cashmere in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, this event score for the DIY-focused Center for Psychic Technology and Momenta community and any public passersby, mylar bridge, clay, glass vessels, tongue drum, hydrophone, water, watering can, calcium carbonate, broom, bells, and soundscape.
Larval Dance: The artist mixes water with calcium carbonate (chalk)— a significant element in seashells, eggshells, and snail shells. Participants paint this mixture onto a public space (outdoor concrete or asphalt) with the artist in a partner dance. The resulting lines create a communal dance map, akin to the feeding trails left by fly larvae on snakeroot leaves.
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The Hive: Participants scan one of three QR codes, each linked to a different sonic drone. The three channels comprise the full mix for the track Port Drip. Participants play the tracks on their phone speakers for the duration of the activation.
Reflection Procession: The audience slowly processes a mylar pathway through the Abrons Art Center garden. PROMPT: tread lightly. alternate between gazing down at the distortions of your reflection—feel the force of your weight against the ground; think of those who live beneath: mycelium, root systems, decomposing microorganisms. then gaze upward through the canopy to the sky; think of those above— the birds, the clouds, the soltice moon, weather systems, and feel yourself as the point of reflective contact between both worlds.
Rain Drum: EO waters a drum with a metallic tongue head as tribute to the rain, finishing by watering themself.
Larval Dance: EO mixes water from the drum with powdered calcium carbonate (chalk)— a significant element in seashells, eggshells, and snail shells. Participants paint this mixture onto the concrete with EO in a partner dance. The resulting lines create a communal dance map, akin to the feeding trails left by fly larvae on snakeroot.
July 20, 2024 Emily Johnson & Catalyst’s Kinstillatory Fire at Abrons Art Center, NYC.
EVENT SCORE — The Hive > Reflection Procession > Rain Drum > Larval Dance
An offering for Emily Johnson’s Kinstillatory Fire for the Catalyst and Abrons community with soundscape through cell phones via QR codes, mylar bridge, tongue drum, watering can, water, calcium carbonate, broom, bells. The event score moves throughout the Abrons Art Center garden.
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Squish Dish, pt 1: One participant and the artist playfully hand-mould pieces of clay in a mirroring exercise. The participant places a flower into the clay. The two combine clay, squishing it into one clump clasped between their palms.
Clay Tango: While keeping the clay smushed within their hands clasped together, the artist leads the participant through a garden trail. Their forward movement, led from their clasped hands, resembles a tango-style partner dance. They observe the surrounding flora. At the end of the trail.
Larval Dance: The dancers obtain a broom from a bucket of chalk-water. They paint-dance the mixture onto the street. The resulting lines create a communal dance map, akin to the feeding trails left by fly larvae on snakeroot.
Squish Dish, pt 2: The dancers unclasp their hands and observe the clay, which is shaped by the shared impression of their handprints. The participant places the clay on a cake stand adorned with a bouquet of carnations.
The score repeats with new participants whose collective clay contributions gradually form a community sculpture.
September 29, 2024 Domingo World at Edgemere Farm, Rockaway, Queens, New York.
EVENT SCORE — Squish Dish > Clay Tango > Larval Dance
Event Score for two dancers, clay, carnations, broom, calcium carbonate, water, cake stand, mylar, and candles. Set at Edgemere Farm in Rockaway, Queens, a community hub and art space, the score moves from the veggie stand, through the “wild side” garden, out onto the street, and back to the main entrance.
Burn Bouquet: Participants are invited to make a wish and blow out a candle on a generative community sculpture of carnations, beeswax candles, clay, copper cake mould, and cake stand. It’s giving the nostalgic glimmer of birthday wishes and bouquets received from loved ones after the school play.
EVENT SCORE — Squish Dish > Clay Tango > Larval Dance > Burn Bouquet
Event Score for Hex House community, two dancers, clay, carnations, broom, calcium carbonate, water, cake stand, and candles, set within a verdant audiovisual installation, featuring “Port Drip” soundscape by gushes, bubbles, tinsel chandelier, waterfall video, and plant design in collaboration with Miss Philip.
Squish Dish, pt 1: One participant and the artist playfully hand-mould pieces of clay in a mirroring exercise. The participant places a flower into the clay. The two combine clay, squishing it into one clump clasped between their palms.
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Squish Dish, pt 1: One participant and the artist playfully hand-mould pieces of clay in a mirroring exercise. The participant places a flower into the clay. The two combine clay, squishing it into one clump clasped between their palms.
Clay Tango: While keeping the clay smushed within their hands clasped together, the artist leads the participant into a…
Larval Dance: The dancers obtain a broom from a bucket of chalk-water. They paint-dance the mixture onto the street. The resulting lines create a communal dance map, akin to the feeding trails left by fly larvae on snakeroot.
Squish Dish, pt 2: The dancers unclasp their hands and observe the clay, which is shaped by the shared impression of their handprints. The participant places the clay on a cake stand adorned with a bouquet of carnations.
The score repeats with new participants whose collective clay contributions gradually form a community sculpture.
September 9, 2024 THREE FLOWER FREAKS at Hex House, Brooklyn, New York.
