Airplanes & Skyscrapers British Premiere
Airplanes and skyscrapers have always been an obsession for artist, designer and performer Ricky Seabra. The observation deck on the 110th floor of the World Trade Center was his favourite place to visit during his 7-year stay in New York. But with the attacks, everything he held as glamorous, romantic and futuristic was now synonymous with terror and vulnerability. In this performance, which is directed by Brazilian choreographer Andrea Jabor, Seabra tells stories and manipulates images of airplanes and skyscrapers with his own hands live on stage, re-contextualising memories through a mixture of live-action animation, music and storytelling. Airplanes & Skyscrapers is a journey through stories of disappointment and hope; stories that run deeper than an attack on a symbol of financial might, deeper than patriotic tales in red white and blue.
Ricky Seabra is a Brazilian-American artist born in Washington DC and raised in Brazil. Seabra graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City and has a Masters in Design Research from the Design Academy Eindhoven in The Netherlands, where he has lived for the past 8 years.
Produced by Kunstencentrum Nona, Mechelen, Belgium and Gasthuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands