You Are Under Our Space Control

Marcus David
February 2020

A loud angst-filled psychedelic freak out from the future, You Are Under Our Space Control pulsates with fast-paced visions of things to come, and also manages to raise some serious questions like:What do you get when you cross Liquid Sky with The Far Out Space Nuts? And who says sci-fi has to look perfect to be effective? I don’t know about you, but I get pretty annoyed when sci-fi becomes all about looking perfect.

You Are Under Our Space Control describes itself as a utopian space-opera, a homing signal cast into an empty universe, a beacon for an aesthetically radical future; and is brought to us by the Brooklyn-based Object Collection group founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer/musician Travis Just. Operating within the intersecting practices of performance, experimental music and theater, the piece draws on the idea of space travel, transhumanism, astronautics and the resurrection of the dead. A total re-envisioning of everyday life and totally unrecognizable with the exception of the occasional mundane dialog.

Raging with futuristic fervor, You Are Under Our Space Control forces one to wonder how to make sense of any representation taking place out of own present moment, especially one showing the distant future. Does the future have to make sense to us? It makes sense to them. Perhaps the present only makes sense to us. That would not be surprising.

Photo by Theo Cote

You Are Under Our Space Control

World Premiere
By Object Collection
Written & Directed by Kara Feely
Composed by Travis Just

La Mama
January 23 – February 02, 2020

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