“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
- David Gomper, Associate Professor of Composition, U of Iowa
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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.
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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