Unidentified Subject

Interdisciplinary Arts Collective

LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah

SYNOPSIS: Interdisciplinary Arts Collective presents Unidentified Subject, an operetta in one act.
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Inspired by the works of Roberto Bolaño, Sophocles, Richard Strauss, and Don Boyd, UNSUB is an experimental foray in the archive - living and past, personal and communal. Through movement, sound, and light, the opera explores what it means to witness, what it means to wait, and what it means to navigate exile, power, violence, and fate.
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"Sometimes she felt like Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, wandering in disguise through the streets of Mycenae, the killers mingling with the plebes, the masses, the killer whose mind no one. understands, not even the FBI special agents or the charitable people who dropped coins in her hands." (Bolaño)

GENRE: Dance, Music, Avant-Garde/Experimental

CONTENT RATING: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)

ARTIST BIO: We are a collective of artists, anti-artists, musicians, dancers, poets, and multi-disciplinarians dedicated to creating and exploring the boundaries of art together.

IAC began in 2017 as a group of musicians, dancers, poets, and visual artists based out of Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Our goal was to build a collaborative network between the students in the school’s different art programs and among the wider Salt Lake community - fostering partnerships, play, and experimentation.

Our work focuses primarily on exploring the creative and communicative potential generated by the intersection and subversion of artistic disciplines, particularly within the context of experimental and contemporary performance practices. Among those practices, we have worked with free music improvisation, dance contact improvisation, performance poetry, and avant-garde and experimental music repertoire, and we continue to explore new ways to ask questions and create.

We owe our most significant influences to Fluxus, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and Deep Listening sound practices.

Past performances include Fluxconcerts in and around Westminster and shows at the Utah Arts Festival and the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. You can also catch IAC artists in outside collaborative projects, such as the local performance series Salty Showcase, an upcoming 36-hour performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations, and Indigo Cook’s ongoing Fluxus project Performance Calendar (2019-present).

ARTIST DEMOGRAPHICS: LGBTQ+ Artists, Women Artists & Artists of Marginalized Genders

WEBSITE: http://interdisciplinaryartscollective.com

OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: Interdisciplinary Arts Collective, IG: @performance_calendar