Rubicon

Rubicon was a site-specific performance work with outdoor sets that was designed to be filmed and viewed in a theatre with spoken voice narration. The work was highly collaborative. Three choreographers were central to the making of Rubicon: David Beadle, Julianne O’Brien, and Kristi Spessard. Filming took place in southern Ohio forests, and along the Olentangy River, in  Columbus, Ohio. The completed work was screened in Sullivant Theatre at The Ohio State University in 1994. 

Rubicon was part of my MFA work at The Ohio State University. Theories about the new internet provided grist for many ideas for my art work and writing at that time. Rubicon and Live in the Hive! both, addressed the liminal status of borders between notions of interior and exterior and between the real and the virtual. Among the themes I addressed in Rubicon were: tents as sexual metaphors; tents as home; tents as permeable, portable protection from, and as a conduit into nature; and tents as accoutrements of warfare.