location: Pittsburgh Cultural District
date: April 2004
with: Carolyn Lambert and Robin Hewlett

Welcome to the C District was a mobile performance that approached the city as a theater in which to explore intersecting uses of contested urban space. In contested spaces power structures become evident as some desires gain priority over others, dictating the subtle codes of exclusion and inclusion that define public space. Welcome the C District involved scripted scenarios, video projections, and sound installations to conflate factual and fictional versions of Liberty Avenue.

The performance involved 16 performers and ran for 60 minutes. It was performed for small groups of scheduled and spontaneous audience members. Dispersed over four city blocks and two indoor locations, the performance wove in and out of the everyday activity of the street.

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