About this Event
ENDOFTHEBENDER is the debut performance by Failure Egg. This story tells the story of urbanization from the perspective of the emergent ecosystem that survives in its fringes. Using motion-capture we animated a cast of characters within our virtual world: a radiation-consuming bacteria experiences an existential crisis, an algal bloom sings a love song about living at the expense of others, a treehopper insect exists in a perpetual state of mutation, an unspecified spore on an infinite journey, and a gasoline dissolving bacteria grieves a future age when all the petroleum oil is gone.
Failure Egg are a mutli-disicplinary collaborative group co-founded by 3D digital artist Rob Ruth, musician/multimedia artist Jack Helfrich, and performance/land-artist Jemila MacEwan. We tell stories about interspecies acts of resistance and survival within traumatized ecosystems. We look to vulnerable yet enduring survivors of planetary transformation who testify how improvisation, mutation and hybridization dissolve notions of hierarchy, species distinction, and individuality. This ethos is the foundation to our collaborative process for creating multimedia works that intermesh digital animation, film, dance, writing, music, fashion and motion capture technology to tell stories of life and evolution on the frontlines of ecological catastrophe. Nuclear exclusion zones, feral urban ecosystems, doomsday vaults, and islands of trash are all in our conceptual and creative crosshairs.
Cumulatively members of Failure Egg have been invited to perform and exhibit internationally including at; ARoS Museum (Denmark), The Australian Consulate-General, Pioneer Works, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, ZeroSpace, T293 Gallery (Italy), SOF:Art (Italy), SXSW, Skaftfell Center, (Iceland), and KZM Center for Art Media (Germany).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grace Exhibition Space, 182 Avenue C, New York, United States
USD 10.00