The Book 2011
- Erika Tsimbrovsky
- Feb 5
- 2 min read
10 minutes excerpts of 5 performance-installation
The Book (2010–present)
A Multimedia Story-Sharing Project
"The number of pages in this book is exactly infinite. No page is the first; none the last..."— The Book of Sand, Jorge Luis Borges
We allow our personal stories to enter the performance space and leave behind an intimate message using any art media, creating a collective public diary.
The Book is an ongoing series of multimedia performance installations initiated by Erika Tsimbrovsky (a choreographic artist) in 2010. This durational project blurs the boundaries between artists and audiences, transforming performance spaces into living, evolving public diaries. Each iteration of The Book invites guest artists to disrupt and reshape its structure, generating new layers of meaning through movement, sound, and visual traces.
In 2011, Tsimbrovsky and Vadim Puyandaev were awarded the Commons Curatorial Residency at SOMArts, where The Book unfolded over a month-long installation. Five performance-installations, each lasting 2–3 hours, accumulated evolving marks—diary-like traces of memories, videos, colors, and sounds—mapping the dynamic interplay of personal narratives in a shared space.
Every performance was a random page from The Book, each uniquely shaped by the presence of invited guest artists, including Carol Swann, Jesse Hewit, Philip Huang, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, PC Muñoz, Tommy Shepherd, Ken Ueno, and Matt Ingalls.
Key Dates at SOMArts (2011):
July 1 – Opening Reception with Carol Swann
July 7 – Featuring Ken Ueno & Matt Ingalls
July 14 – Featuring Jesse Hewit, PC Munoz & Tommy Shepherd
July 21 – Featuring Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, Philip Huang & Paul Clipson
July 29 – Closing Reception with Avy K Productions
Collaborators & Performers:
Erika Tsimbrovsky, Paul Clipson, Daisy Phillips, Lucas Krech, Justin Morrison, Grundik Kasyansky, Kristen Greco, Izmail Galin, Daniel Bear Davis, Sean Feit, Andrew Ward, Elena Zhukova, Ronja Ver, Aleksey Bochkovsky, Kristina Kirshner, Rob Kunkle, Vitali Kononov, Mihyun Lee, Vadim Puyandaev.
More about The Book: www.avyk.org/the-book-2010-11
Video by Loren Robertson Productions - www.lorenrobertson.com
Excerpt from The Book # 5 (a multimedia performance-installation) is not edited 3 minutes from a 3-hour long performance/installation
Collaborators/Performers Include:
Erika Tsimbrovsky, Sean Feit, Daisy Phillips, Kristen Greco, Mihyun Lee, Ronja Ver, Kristina Kirshner, Andrew Ward, Daniel Bear Davis, Vitali Kononov, Justin Morrison and Vadim Puyandaev.
Lighting designer: Lucas Krech
Videography: Loren R. Robertson Productions (lorenrrobertson.com)
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