“Wacky and wonderous”
—The Portland Oregonian

--pink: a (love) courier service

Welcome To Pink: Are You Familiar With Our Services?
Pink: A (love) Courier Service is both a real-life courier service and an interactive, site-specific art installation. Visitors are invited to visit pink’s temporary love factory, where they can type a message of affection to someone they love.  Notes are bottled by pink’s love factory workers and delivered by bicycle by pink’s love couriers anywhere in the city. Factory locations have included Austin, Texas (2006), Portland, Oregon (2007), and Chicago, Illinois (forthcoming, 2008).  Pink: We (Deliver) Love (For) You.

--Austin

Acknowledgements

Pink was commissioned by First Night Austin, underwritten by The Still Water Foundation, and took place between December 15-December 31st, 2006.

Production Team
Director: Jaclyn Pryor
Production Assistance: Jeni Wischmeyer
Technical Assistance: Thomas Graves, Michael Camacho, Krissy Mahan
Dramaturgy: Karen LaShelle
Photography: Fadi Skeiker
Videography/Editing: Krissy Mahan, Molly Sullivan

--Portland

Acknowledgements

Pink Portland was presented in part by Pedalpalooza Festival, and took place between
June 7-June 23, 2007.

Production Team
Director: Jaclyn Pryor
Touring Crew: Abe Burickson, Leanne Zacharias, Christopher Stanton, Lily Matthews, Orion Garcia, Jeanette Olivas
Music: Orion Garcia, Leanne Zacharias

--Chicago

Hello, Chitown!

PINK: A (LOVE) COURIER SERVICE, an art & cycling project on tour from Austin, Texas, is setting up shop in Wicker Park, July 25-August 15!  Visit our factory headquarters @ the St. Paul’s Cultural Center (2215 W. North Ave.) to send love notes to friends, lovers, coworkers, and strangers . . . we bottle the notes and deliver them by bike all around the city!

Want to volunteer as a messenger or love factory worker?  Send us an email: pinkontour@gmail.com, or just stop by the factory in Wicker Park.

chicago: we (deliver) love (for) you.  (pass it on!)

Acknowledgments

Pink Chicago is presented in part by the Near North West Arts Council and will take place between July 25-August 15, 2008.

Production Team
Director: Jaclyn Pryor
Touring Crew: Abrah Dresdale, Orion Garcia, Dustin Wills, Jacob Wilson, Jeanette Olivas, Michael Camacho, Simon Evans, Emily Jantzen, Timothy Baron, Jaclyn Pryor
Music: Orion Garica

“ . . . has the feel of a waking dream, making the familiar unfamiliar, drenching the known in mystery and opening one to wonder and change.”—The Austin Chronicle

“Hauntingly lovingly, melancholic, and unexpectedly funny . . .”—The Austin-American Statesman

“Floodlines is art form onto itself.” –The Austinist

floodlines

Conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, floodlines is a site-specific performance installation mapped onto the landscape of Austin, Texas. The audience travels through the piece by car, while the performers appear en route, along a three-mile stretch of land on the streets, lawns, and sidewalks of Austin’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood. As the performers disappear, reappear, and disappear again, the audience is asked to consider the relationship between presence and absence, memory and loss, history and ghosts.

Floodlines is presented once a year for seven years, ending in 2010.
floodlines 2010 will mark the final year of the seven-year cycle of floodlines.  Performance date TBA.
Floodlines 2009 will take place on Sunday, April 19 at 2pm, and begin and end in Eastwoods Park.  Tickets will go on sale in April, 2009. 
Floodlines 2008 took place on Sunday, April 22.

Acknowledgments

Production Team
Director:  Jaclyn Pryor
Production Manager: Ann S. Graham
Stage Manager:  Sean P. Jenkins
Assistant Stage Manager:  Marissa Flores Machado
Photography:  Blake Gordon, E Lotsey, Leah Ross
Film/Videography: Lisa Kaselak, Kai Mantsch,
Lucas Millard, Billy Wood, Blake Gordon
Sound design: Karen LaShelle, Jaclyn Pryor, Julia M. Smith
Postcard Design: Arlen Johnson
Logo Design: Karen LaShelle

Floodlines 2007 took place on Sunday, April 22.

Acknowledgments

Production Team
Director:  Jaclyn Pryor
Production Manager: Ann S. Graham
Stage Manager:  Sean P. Jenkins
Photography:  Larry Freilich
Film/Videography: Merek Johnson
Sound design: Karen LaShelle, Jaclyn Pryor, Julia M. Smith
Postcard Design: Ann Graham & Arlen Johnson
Logo Design: Karen LaShelle

Ensemble (in order of appearance):
Jaclyn Pryor***, Alyssa Harad, Emily Rodgers,  Jack Steiner*+, Madeline Marabella+, Eric Hassell, Molly McCommons, Derek Young+, Arlen Johnson+, Orion Garcia, Ricardo Cruz, Gwen Lewis+, Margaret Powis*, LaDonne Lloyd+, Doug Simmer+, Karen LaShelle***, Robby Gonzalez, Abraham Burickson, Jacob Zivin, Zip Zivin, Aimee Zivin**, Julia Smith***+, Sarah Myers**, Fadi Skeiker*, Leanne Zacharias, Rozalyn Mandola*, Jeni Wischmeyer, Valerie French, Suzanne Becker, Sam Schonzeit+, Carole Metellus, Zeke Barbaro+, Cameron York+, Lucas Overath, Christian York+, Stanley Shavers III, Christopher Stanton, Meg Sullivan*+, Kristen Gerhard, Benjamin Summers, Steve Moore, Sam Moore, Dustin Wills**+, Liza Eyster, Timothy Baron, Laura Moss, Elizabeth Cole, Omid Ghorashi, Kristen McConnell**, Jessica Scheick+, Zoe Freilich**+, Nate Zivin***

*     2nd year in floodlines
**   3rd year in floodlines
*** 4th year in floodlines
+  Hyde Park resident

Click to read more:
http://floodlines2006.blogspot.com/

Floodlines 2006 took place on Saturday, April 22.

Acknowledgements

Production Team
Director:  Jaclyn Pryor
Producer: Refraction Arts/FuseBox Festival
Production Assistance: Nat Miller, Karen LaShelle, Katie Piggot, Sarah Myers
Photography: Sonnet Blanton, Larry Freilich, Iga Figula
Film/Videography: Krissy Mahan, Luciana Castro, Bob Byington
Sound design: Karen LaShelle, Jaclyn Pryor, Julia M. Smith
Logo Design: Karen LaShelle

Ensemble (in order of appearance):

Jaclyn Pryor, Jordan Abrams, Scott Tankerley, Margaret Powis, Iga Figula, Patrick McKelvey, Chase Crossno, Chase Bringardner, Jerry Lord, Julia Smith, Angie Kreuser, Dulani, Fadi Skeiker, Shana Merlin, Elizabeth Keeney, Kelly Howe, Adam Wilhite, Megan Sullivan, Greg Romero, Stacey Marie Garza, Nat Miller, Ron Berry, Shannon Bivens, Carrie, Latisha Cooper, Dustin Wills, Kendra Jewell, April Perez, Dwayne Shorter, Zoe Freilich, Todd Zivin, and Nate Zivin.

Floodlines 2005 took place on Saturday, April 16.

Acknowledgments

Production Team
Director:  Jaclyn Pryor
Producer: Refraction Arts/FuseBox Festival
Production Assistance: Karen LaShelle
Photography:  Larry Freilich
Film/Videography: Mocha Jean Herrup
Sound design: Karen LaShelle, Jaclyn Pryor, Julia M. Smith
Logo Design: Karen LaShelle

Ensemble (in order of appearance):

Jaclyn Pryor, Abe Louise Young, Abi Basch, Sarah Myers, Max Steiner, Patrick Lombeida, Carrie Keeney, Ameer Mobarak, Alex Villareal, Kristin McConnell, Patrick McKelvey, Shannon Baley, Chase Bringardner, Jerry Lord, Karen LaShelle, Julia Smith, Elizabeth Keeney, Katie Piggott, Holly Hughes, Chibbi Orduna, Angie Kreuser, Marla Fisher, Greg Romero, Stacey Marie Garza, Kevin Hodges, Dustin Wills, Rebecca Hewett, Katie Dawson, Jeffrey Dyke, John Fleckenstein, April Perez, Lucy Walters, Kendra Treichler, Eli Catalan, Zoe Freilich, Aimee Zivin, Nathaniel Zivin

Floodlines 2004 took place on Friday, April 16.

Acknowledgments

Production Team
Director:  Jaclyn Pryor
Dramaturgy: Abi Basch, Dan Basila
Photography:  Sarah Cross
Film/Videography: Sarah Cross
Sound Design: Karen LaShelle, Jaclyn Pryor, Julia M. Smith
Logo Design: Karen LaShelle

Ensemble (in order of appearance):
Jaclyn Pryor, Abe Louise Young, Max Steiner, Patrick Lombeida, Carrie Keeney, Raymond Gomez, Kristin McConnell, Abi Basch, Nicolas Sanderson, Molly Evensky, Jerry Lord, Karen LaShelle, Julia M. Smith, Erin Hill, Angie Kreuser, Marla Fisher, Greg Romero, Stacey Marie Garza, Bradley Griffin, Susan Todd, Aimee Zivin, Nathaniel Zivin

“I have to say that this was one of the most inspiring, wonderful and moving experiences I've had in a long time.”— Simone C. Fuselier

“You are wonderful. You have been chosen.”  Every time I thought about these words on Saturday, I felt an inward lilt of joy.”—Bethany

“It was such a joy to explain the idea to [my son], with all its energy, randomness, and open-hearted generosity. I saw his eyes take fire and felt that he'd seized the deeper understanding of it . . . Thank you for that. It was a gift far greater than the bread.”—Steve Moore

Click to read more:
http://www.bread2006.blogspot.com/

--BREAD

Receive.  Gather. Share. Resolve.

BREAD is inspired by the Jewish New Year’s traditions of feasting, fasting, and renewal.  In the pre-dawn hours of December 31st, 2005, two thousand and six (2006) round loaves of bread were left on the doorsteps of randomly selected homes throughout the city of Austin.  Each loaf contained an invitation to march with BREAD artists and artisans in First Night Austin’s New Year’s Eve parade, to lead the greater community in a BREAD-Breaking Ceremony at City Hall, and to participate in a ritual BREADcrumb Release at Town Lake.  Over three-hundred friends and strangers gathered that evening, costumed in white, as encouraged, and bearing uneaten loaves to share with the greater public.

Acknowledgments

BREAD was commissioned by First Night Austin 2006, and took place throughout Austin on December 31, 2005.

Production Team
Director: Jaclyn Pryor
Production Assistance: Jeni Wischmeyer
Poet: Abe Louise Young
Photography: Tom Wald, Iga Figula, Markus
Music: Los Klezmeros

Ensemble:

Dania Heffington, Andrea Heffington, Nakeesha Heffington, Clare Croft, Dustin Wills, Flavia Leite, Heather Davis, Iga Figula, Jeni Wischmeyer, Mahala Guevara, Mocha Jean Herrup, Mary Frances Despres, Michelle Ludwig, Nicolas Sanderson, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Ginny Williams, Rebecca Hewett, Sandra Wegmann, Simone Fuselier, Susan Clark Lazarus, Thomas Graves, Will

First Night

In the night: bread begins rising.
Yeasts chat to each other, & crusts grow golden.
In the night, across the world, bread

begins perfuming alleyways & blocks
with honeyed aroma,
baking & singing a dark sweet song.

Bread appears on doorsteps,
in mailboxes, on car seats, boats & trees.
We walk into the street with the mystery.

Clarinets play & flour falls like snow.
There is enough for all!
Loaves are torn open like love letters.

Strangers pass bread hand to hand.
We cross the river of wishes,
& fish dart up for falling crumbs.

poem by Abe Louise Young - Austin | 2005

collaboratively devised projects
Dress Like A Docent

Dress like A Docent asks the audience to look at ordinary objects, sites, and actions as works of art.  Inspired by Smith’s experience as a volunteer docent at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, Pryor and Smith lead the audience to various local sites in an Austin neighborhood—a bakery, a field, a bridge, a tree. Describing the sites as if they were sculpture installations, the docents encourage the audience to see and experience their physical landscape as art and to imagine the ordinary as extraordinary.  In the final moment of the piece, audience members are led to a large tree, with tiny manila envelopes stuffed into its vines, each holding a small, white, square frame.  The audience is left with this frame through which to continue to look at their world.

Acknowledgements

Conceived and directed by Julia M. Smith and Jaclyn Pryor
Performed by Julia M. Smith and Jaclyn Pryor
Presented by Frontera Festival, Austin

collaboratively devised projects
[assimulation]

[assimulation] sits at the intersections of autobiographical solo performance, physical theater, and conceptual art.  Its two narratives—ethnic (Jewish) trauma and sexual trama—are woven together through fragmented text, iconic objects, repetition of gesture, and eruptions of sound and music.  Performed on a 30 ft. x 30 ft. mound of white flour, with various everyday objected suspended by thin, white strings from above—a syrup bottle, a manila envelope, a library stamp, a small pair of scissors, a glass pitcher, a silver bucket, a pill bottle, a juice glass, a piece of chalk—[assimulation] makes visible the landscape of memory and asks the audience to consider the relationship between the space of the mind and the space of performance.

Acknowledgements

[assimulation] was presented at The Off Center in Austin as part of Hyde Park Theatre’s 2006 Frontera Festival. It was presented again by the 2006 Women and Theatre Conference in Chicago.

Production Team
Playwright: Sarah Myers
Director: Jaclyn Pryor
Dramaturg: Jaclyn Pryor
Sound Design: Sarah Myers and Jaclyn Pryor
Scenic Design: Jaclyn Pryor
Production Assistance: Karen LaShelle, Meg Sullivan, Katie Dawson, Rebecca Hewett, Thomas Graves, Bob O’Dair, Stephan Baley

collaboratively devised projects
Movable Feast

A 24-hour performance journey for an audience of 5, Movable Feast was conceived and created by an interdisciplinary collective of visual artists, architects, musicians, writers, performance artists, and designers, and it uses the Austin cityscape into the setting for a multi-site-specific performance that blurs the lines between art and life.  The audience members, who have previously undergone extensive interviews with the Movable Feast Collective, find themselves living a story and text and form have been generated from their own lives, transforming the way the participants perceive themselves and their surroundings.

Acknowledgments

Movable Feast was presented by Odyssey Works on April 28-29, 2007 in collaboration with Refraction Arts Project/FuseBox Festival, Austin.

Production Team
Conceived and created by: Michael Agresta, Abraham Burickson, Miriam Greenberg, Joshua Keeling, Ray Matthews, Jaclyn Pryor  Nathan Rostron, Erica Saleh,  Priscilla Sample, Jason Tremblay, Leanne Zacharias. Contributing artists: Maida Barbour, Joshua Ronsen, Michael Smith, Lee Webster.

collaboratively devised projects
correspondence+fear

Collaboratively created by Hungarian visual artist Katalin Hausel, American performance artist Jaclyn Pryor, and Canadian cellist Leanne Zacharias, Correspondence + Fear  works as a public experiment in sustainable communication in a nomadic world.  Over the course of the six-month collaboration, the three artists did not meet face to face and instead followed a pre-determined correspondence itinerary, which was broadcast live in the gallery at scheduled times.  Topics discussed included haircuts, dressing seasonally, aging, fantasies, regrets, documentation, faith and travel.

Acknowledgments

Correspondence + Fear was commissioned by the Creative Research Lab in Austin, for the Collaboration From Conception Exhibit, November 17-December 22, 2007. Curated by Jade Walker.

Production Team
Conceived by Katalin Hausel, Leanne Zacharias, Jaclyn Pryor

collaboratively devised projects
Half Breed/Southern Fried/Check One

Performed in a jazz aesthetic, Half Breed/Southern Fried/Check One is a testimonial of growing up biracial in the dirty south. The work examines what it is to have family, and wear it.

Acknowledgements

Half Breed was commissioned by the Performing Blackness Series of The Center for African and African American Studies, UT-Austin.  It was performed in the Oscar Brockett Theatre between September 8-17, 2006.

Production Team
Playwright: Florinda Bryant
Producer: Omi Osun Olomo (Dr. Joni Jones)
Director: Laurie Carlos
Stage Manager: Ana Lara
Dramaturg: Sharon Bridgforth
Assistant Director/Choreographer: Jaclyn Pryor
Music: Terrence Stith
Videography: Krissy Mahan
Ensemble: Florinda Bryant, Laura Rios, Jaclyn Pryor, Monique Cortez