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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of conversation\, craft\, and play. Accl
 aimed puppeteer and director Lake Simons offers an animated way of experie
 ncing Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?\, in conversation with curator P
 eter N. Miller. What can we learn about objects when we bring them to life
  through puppetry? This is a question that Simons has explored in workshop
 s with a mixed cohort of high school and graduate students\, who will—as p
 art of this evening—stage puppet performance interludes based on Richard T
 uttle’s writings and using exhibition objects. Proof of COVID vaccination\
 , photo ID\, and the use of masks are required of all visitors to BGC Gall
 ery. Please see our visitor policies for all up-to-date COVID policies.Abo
 ut the Artists:Lake Simons is a director\, designer\, puppeteer\, physical
  performer\, and a maker of things.  She has collaborated with a wide rang
 e of artists creating theater productions that utilize puppetry\, movement
 \, and live music. Most importantly she relies on make-believe. Simons has
  received multiple Jim Henson Foundation grants in support of her original
  puppetry productions. She has created performances for various institutio
 ns including Miller Theater at Columbia University\, Texas Woman’s Univers
 ity\, and Dixon Place. Most recently\, Simons assumed the role of managing
  artistic director for her family’s 46-year-old company\, Hip Pocket Theat
 re in Fort Worth\, Texas. For more than 25 years she has contributed to Hi
 p Pocket as a director\, performer\, and designer. Simons is a co-director
  of the Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. She teaches puppetr
 y in the theater department at Sarah Lawrence College.John Dyer (Papertrum
 pet) is a New York-based -songwriter\, -composer\, musician\, theatre and 
 visual artist. His primary instrument is guitar. He has been writing\, rec
 ording\, presenting\, and performing original work since 1990. Dyer was th
 e founder of the Texas-based rock group Drama Tiki (1992-1998) and served 
 as music director for North Carolina’s Paperhand Puppet Intervention (1999
 -2001). In New York he has performed / presented at The Knitting Factory\,
  Tonic\, Living Room\, American Folk Art Museum\, St. Ann's Warehouse\, HE
 RE\, Dixon Place\, La MaMa\, St Marks Church\, and Theatre For The New Cit
 y. Independent album releases include One Among (2000)\, Phantom Fire (200
 3)\, and Independent Music Awards’ Best Album Finalist - GoStayPlay (2004)
 . His song Hot Owl received an Honorable Mention (for Best Song/ Performan
 ce) in the International Songwriting Competition. He is the recipient of n
 ine consecutive ASCAPlus Awards\, two Meet The Composer grants and multipl
 e Dallas Fort Worth Theatre Critic's Forum Awards. Theatrical collaboratio
 ns with physical theatre / puppetry artist Lake Simons\, include Alice's A
 dventures in Wonderland (2003)\, White Elephant (2009)\, Wind Set-up (2011
 )\, Moby Dick (2012)\, A Tempest (2013)\, Tree Pop (2015)\, Don Quixote (2
 016)\, The Land Of Oz (2017)\, Loop The Loop (2018)\, Arcadia Darling (201
 9)\, and Pixie Posy (2021). Marcella Murray is a New York-based theater ar
 tist from Augusta\, Georgia. She is a playwright\, performer\, collaborato
 r\, and puppeteer. Murray’s work is heavily inspired by the observed ways 
 in which people tend to segregate and reconnect. Her work tends to focus o
 n themes of identity within a community and forward momentum in the face o
 f trauma. Performances include The Slow Room\, a piece directed by Annie D
 orsen at Performance Space New York\; a workshop of Ocean Filibuster which
  was co-created by the team Pearl D’Amour (Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl) w
 ith composer Sxip Shirey at Abrons Arts Center\; I Don’t Want to Interrupt
  You Guys which was created in collaboration with Leonie Bell and Hyung Se
 ok Jeon during RAP at Mabou Mines\; New Mony created by Maria Camia\; and 
 Shoot Don’t Talk at St. Ann’s Warehouse / Puppet Lab created by Andrew Mur
 dock. Along with David Neumann\, she recently co-created Distances Smaller
  Than This Are Not Confirmed (Obie Special Citation for Creation and Perfo
 rmance) which opened at Abrons Arts Center\, co-produced by Chocolate Fact
 ory\, in January of 2020. She is currently one of four curators of the Obj
 ect Movement Festival at the Center at West Park.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: What Does the Object Say?
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