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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)
“In every way, this was a successful and genuine collaboration, one I hope will continue in the future, not only at Luther, but also in other colleges and universities that maintain and support multiple arts units (theater, dance, and music).”                 
- David Gomper, Associate Professor of Composition, U of Iowa

In the year 2000, Garibaldi and Zmolek collaborated with new music, visual/digital arts, economics and theatre design/technical faculty at Luther College, Iowa to create the multi-media performance installation In God We Trust, inspired by the article "The Market as God" by economic theorist Harvey Cox. 

This project, supported by a $12,500 grant from the Iowa College Foundation, included an interactive website, a labyrinth installation with video and slide projections, a computer rendered 3D animation of Alan Greenspan, an original score composed, digitally mastered and performed live by artist John Morrison, and direction and choreography by Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek.

 
In God We Trust examines the metaphor of the Free Market as the omnipotent, omniscient, and- omnipresent godhead for a newly dominant global religion with a fully developed theology and tenets of orthodoxy. Building upon the remnants of ancient religious forms, this religion recontexuralizes the sacred to serve the capitalist god. Initiates are taken through the labyrinth before facing the Bull and the Bear in the Pit where entities are dismembered and consumed so they may be resurrected in transformed state to heights of perfection.  

Audience members enter the performance arena through a labyrinth, encountering audio, image and video projections and a live performance installation before descending into the theater to witness a dance/theatre ritual of the laborers, traders, and boardroom that invokes the bear and bull icons, virgin gold and the crone. Dancers vault with eight foot poles, perform on stilts and animate larger than life puppets to the original score by composer, John Morrison.
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