(W)hole
Projection design & video installations (2012)
Written and directed by Thomas Riccio, staged/installed in an abandoned warehouse in West Dallas, TX
Immersive theatre/performance production by DWZ Collective
(W)hole was the second installment in a trilogy of a karmic life cycle immersion performances presented by the Dead White Zombies. Two lovers separated at the fall of Troy search for each other. Time and space collapses, folds, and spins revealing a spirit reality. Each of the many incarnations is a search to find the other and another part of the illusory self.
This production ran from November 29 to December 22, 2012.
“Taken apart, as in autopsy, it strains and fragments, laments and groans, lashes out with sexual angst and sweaty frustration. Screens scatter randomly throughout the candle-lit landscape, showing 1960’s home movie family holiday clips over and over, backwards and forwards, excerpts from a Fred Astaire dancing extravaganza and unrecognizable black and white action films. Scenes ebb and flow as the audience floats along, adrift, overwhelmed by a cacophony of images and sound. Sensate, intemperate immersion. Oddly enough, “w(hole)” weaves together with satisfying symphonic grace. Emerge refreshed, cleansed, jubilant.” —Dallas Examiner
“Scenes spark around us like a long tail of igniting firecrackers. Another room is illuminated. Next, a vignette. Soon all are available for exploration. The twisting paths feel like the unfathomable tunneling of memory storage, but the lives we're moving through are not our own. Even the sound, while anchored scene by scene, bleeds gently into the next. We're fumbling into another's databank, threading together the experiences as we travel.” — Dallas Observer
