This Everlasting Ocean
Meredith Bove
This Everlasting Ocean is a study in absence, using minimalist structure and barebones tech as a way to account for blind spots in historical narratives. This work is a monument to the lost, the forgotten and the invisible, in which the performer attempts to witness appearance and disappearance in each passing moment. She relinquishes the task of trying to maintain a record, or of connecting traces into something that resembles history - what results is a submission to forgetting, and a performative document that is full of holes and empty spaces in the hopes of allowing room for sensation, experience and imagination to thrive.
Meredith Bove hails from a small town in Vermont. From 2008-2011 she lived and worked in Berlin, where she presented work at adastudio, Salon Bruit, K77, Die Kunst Apotheke, and with the Gruntwork collective. Within the US her work has been seen at the Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD), the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), and at the Cultivate Festival (Bethlehem, NH). She has performed in the work of Jérôme Bel, Zinzi Buchanan, Sarah Dahnke, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jillian Peña, Erica Rebollar, and has enjoyed collaborations with dancer/choreographer Andrea Jenni and conceptual artist Luke Munn. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.
Meredith Bove
This Everlasting Ocean is a study in absence, using minimalist structure and barebones tech as a way to account for blind spots in historical narratives. This work is a monument to the lost, the forgotten and the invisible, in which the performer attempts to witness appearance and disappearance in each passing moment. She relinquishes the task of trying to maintain a record, or of connecting traces into something that resembles history - what results is a submission to forgetting, and a performative document that is full of holes and empty spaces in the hopes of allowing room for sensation, experience and imagination to thrive.
Meredith Bove hails from a small town in Vermont. From 2008-2011 she lived and worked in Berlin, where she presented work at adastudio, Salon Bruit, K77, Die Kunst Apotheke, and with the Gruntwork collective. Within the US her work has been seen at the Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD), the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), and at the Cultivate Festival (Bethlehem, NH). She has performed in the work of Jérôme Bel, Zinzi Buchanan, Sarah Dahnke, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jillian Peña, Erica Rebollar, and has enjoyed collaborations with dancer/choreographer Andrea Jenni and conceptual artist Luke Munn. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.
