Object Collection To Present World Premiere of ‘Space-Opera’ In NYC

By David Salazar

Brooklyn-based performance group Object Collection will present the world premiere of its “space-opera” “You Are Under Our Space Control” at La MaMa in New York City this winter.

The work will be presented for two weeks between Jan. 23 through Feb. 2 and will fuse experimental music and political activism and theater. It is written and directed by Kara Feely with music by Travis Just. Peiyi Wong will provide set design, while Jeanette Yew will light design. Other major crew members include video designer Eric Magnus, assistant director Britt Berke, and production manager Liz Mielsen.

The performers include Steven Ali, Avi Glickstein, Yuki Kawahisa, Annie Kunjappy, Alessandro Magania, Daniel Allen Nelson, Nicolás Noreña and Fulya Peker, as well as live musicians Shayna Dunkelman and Taylor Levine.

Object Collection was founded in 2004 by Feely and Just and has toured internationally throughout Denmark, Norway, UK, Japan, Canada, and Italy.a

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