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  • Current & Recent
    • paulyrhythms
    • Gozo 2023
    • Mission Street Arts
    • Cagevent 2{020}2
    • The Sable Project 2021
    • Runescores (2020)
    • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
  • Intermedia Projects
    • Artists in Residence >
      • Gozo 2023
      • Mission Street Arts
      • The Sable Project 2021
      • Buinho Creative Hub
      • SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
      • Vanha Paukku, Lapua Finland
      • Cowwarr Art Space 2016
      • Fulbright in Riga, Latvia
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Arte Studio Ginestrelle
    • Intermedia Performance >
      • Cagevent 2{020}2 >
        • Cagevent sound scores
        • Cagevent original texts
        • Cagevent mutated texts
      • Runescores (2020) >
        • Runescore 1 Mannaz
        • Runescore 2 Gebo
        • Runescore 3 Ansuz
        • Runescore 4 Othila
        • Runescore 5 Uruz
        • Runescore 6 Perth
        • Runescore 7 Nauthiz
        • Runescore 8 Inguz
        • Runescore 9 Eiwaz
        • Runescore 10 Algiz
        • Runescore 11 Fehu
        • Runescore 12 Wunjo
        • Runescore 13 Jera
        • Runescore 14 Kano
        • Runescore 15 Teiwaz
        • Runescore 16 Berkana
        • Runescore 17 Ehwaz
        • Runescore 18 Laguz
        • Runescore 19 Hagalaz
        • Runescore 20 Raido
        • Runescore 21 Thurisaz
        • Runescore 22 Dagaz
        • Runescore 23 Isa
        • Runescore 24 Sowelu
        • Runescore 25 Odin
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • Buinho Stop Motion Videos
      • LPL Modular Play >
        • LPL MP Process
        • LPL MP Text
        • Performance Iterations >
          • reactivating exquisite corpse
          • Virtually Real
          • Clusterflock Ritual
        • LPL MP Collaborators
      • SERDE Istabas
      • Time the great unleveler
      • Aizpute stop-motion videos
      • Nameless, but in sight
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • The Place Where I Start
      • Ghost Town: Pareidolia
      • Laptop Performance Laboratory
      • Global Corporeality
      • Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn't
    • InterMedia Installations >
      • Illuminating Site Birdsong >
        • Illuminating Site Birdsong Lanterns
        • Illuminating Site - Birdsong Window Gardens
        • Illuminating Site Star Pasture
      • Illuminating Site - Messejana, Portugal >
        • Illuminating Site Lanterns
      • House of Morgado in a Jar
      • Birch Loops
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Appartengono-Ginestrelle
      • Altars - Ginestrelle 2011
    • Site Specific Works
    • Site Specific Festivals >
      • Kontaining/Ptarmigan
      • Big Dance/Little Space
      • Headlines
      • Train
      • SiteWorks 2009
      • SiteWorks 2006
    • Photo Essays >
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • Cobblestones, Riga 2014
      • The Birds of Kuldīga, Latvia 2014
      • Soil, Finland 2012
      • Bogs, Finland 2012
      • Ice Rink, Finland 2012
      • Birch Grove, Finland 2012
      • Understory, Finland 2012
      • Orange Poles, Finland 2012
      • Birch Close Up, Finland 2012
      • Wall Blur, Finland 2012
  • Theatrical Works
    • Joint Theatrical Works >
      • Stories from the Park
      • Grass is Green
      • Rue for Ophelia
      • Double Blind Sided
      • The Rule of Life
      • Landscaping for Privacy
      • Shaking the Yoke
      • XY
      • On the Backs of Our Mothers
      • Migrant
      • Grudge Match
      • Grudge Match: ReMatch
      • Subcutaneous
      • Zaum: Beyond Significance
      • In God We Trust
      • world forgetting by the world forgot
      • Mystical Bedlam
    • Garibaldi Repertory Works >
      • Realm of Shades (2014)
      • Masquerade (2013)
      • Suits (2012)
      • Forbidden Fruit (2011)
      • Push (2010)
      • At the Threshold (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Anticipatory Illumination (2004)
    • Zmolek Repertory Works >
      • InDecision (2016)
      • Alone Together (2016)
      • Songs of Europe (2015)
      • I hear the noise of many waters (2014)
      • Tombo e Guerreiro (2013)
      • Zaum Etude #7 (2012)
      • They Stole a Necklace of 5 Million Pearls (2011)
      • Home is Where You Are (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Not Yet Become (2006)
      • virtually At this moment In real time (1999)
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Julie Leir-VanSickle and Bridget Close blessing an altar built outside a coal mine in Sego with an improvised dance.

Ghost Town:
Pareidolia


/ˌpæraɪˈdəʊlɪə/
noun

1. the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features


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A collaboration with Another Language Performing Arts Company with their online, project Ghost Town.  Installations inspired by and created in three Utah ghost towns
- Cisco, Miners Basin, and Sego.

Ghost Town prompted a week of primitive camping by four members of Callous Physical Theatre. Directed by husband and wife team Paul Zmolek and Joséphine A. Garibaldi, long-time collaborating members Julie Leir-VanSickle, Bridget Close, Garibaldi and Zmolek spent the week exploring and experiencing the living artifacts of three Utah ghost towns, Cisco, Miners Basin, and Sego.
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Paul using chance operations to develop prompts for "dialogic devising" while Joséphine documents.

"Our work is based in dialogic devising, a collaborative methodology for creating original performance installations. Julie and Bridget have worked with us for seven years and they each direct – Julie with her Creative Moves company and Bridget with Old Town Actors Theatre – so it is such a pleasure to create with them," reflects Zmolek. "When we got to each of the sites we didn’t say anything." Garibaldi adds, "We intuitively dispersed, each of us exploring whatever attracted us." Armed with still and video cameras, audio recorders; pens, pencils, crayons, journals, and pads; sunscreen and a Ouija board, Bridget built altars out of found materials; Julie took rubbings of surfaces of all sites and journaled her impressions; Paul recorded audio; and Jo shot the scenes.

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Joséphine documenting Julie’s dialogically devised dance in Sego installation created by Callous Physical Theatre.

Movement was created in response to text prompts generated while taking a hike in Sego canyon. From this, phrases developed and were structured into choreography, which was performed for video within an installation created by the company members at the Sego site.
Sego Ritual (rough cut)
"This project was extremely important for Paul and I. We love the desert and Utah deserts offer an especial diversity. Weeks prior to our trip, we spent a lot of time discussing the topic, the concept of Ghost Town. Our operating subtitle was Pareidolia, that is, according to Wikipedia, 'a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) which is perceived as significant'," Jo recalls. "Somehow the idea of imposing a Ouija board at each of the sites became a starting point with which to make work. Once at the sites, however, the idea of the Ouija board was ditched. Clearly it was contrived, nearing pastiche."
Zmolek added, "The theme of Ghost Town hits close to home for us. We have moved a lot in our careers together, planting trees both metaphoric and actual, hoping to find fecund soil to bring a rich harvest. A few years ago on our Train project in Washington I created Migrant, which was inspired by the hoboes of the Great Depression who hopped freights in search of work. We, like many of our friends whom are performing artists, long for home, a place to put down roots. This seems not dissimilar to the yearning of the pioneers of the ghost towns.”
Cisco Glass
Cisco Bottle Caps
Sego Graveyard
Miner's Basin Altar Dance
Bridget and Julie are very, very dear to us. To be able to share this experience with these two remarkable women impressed upon us a deep, lasting, and intimate relationship that is difficult to mark in words. Each of us are devoted to process, the space that allows for a revealing, an unfolding of that which is yet to be discovered.
Sego Coal Mine Altar Dance
Each of us revels in discovery because each of us is a life-long learner: we are open to accepting that our work takes us where we need to go and accept that knowledge offers itself in many unexpected manifestations. Sharing this together, while individually and privately, was really powerful.
Dewey Bridge
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