The Glass Theater: Phantom, 2013

The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk Virginia

Featured Artists:
Act 1: Robin & Julia Rogers
Smoke, steam and projection are combined to create an illusionistic space where a mystery unfolds.

 Act 2: Bohyun Yoon & Kishi Bashi
Musician and visual artist come together to create an experimental and ethereal performance using glass instruments.

 Act 3: Jocelyne Prince
19th century illusion and hot glass come together as Jocelyn Prince creates a hot cast, glowing doppelganger.

An evening of glass, illusion and sound.

The Glass Theater is a theatrical space for invention, discovery, and experimentation.  Using the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio Hot Shop as stage, artists, writers, performers, and glassblowers are invited to come together to expand on themes in contemporary art and culture.  The Glass Theater fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and aims to break down boundaries between craft and performance art.  The unique space of the Hot Shop allows participants to be informed by hot glass.  Likewise, the culture around hot glass will be informed, and even transformed by this cross pollination of the arts.

The inaugural production of The Glass Theater is titled Phantom. The definition of phantom is twofold—it may refer to a ghost, the manifestation of the soul of a deceased person, or, alternatively, an illusion or distortion of the senses.  Each featured artist is creating a 20 minute performance that responds to the idea of the Phantom through experimental sound, molten glass, and visual illusion.