DIRECT ACTION COMMITTEE: fight like an artist.
A few years ago, our eccentric band of experimental performance artists decided to do something we’d never tried before: We decided to make political action part of our collective work. This was a new idea for us. We’d always described ourselves as a theater company with radical politics, making political art. But we’d never really […]
COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING
While the primary, public facing elements of Applied Mechanics are the creative art we make (and you perhaps have seen), behind the scenes there is a vital, non-hierarchical administrative structure which we co-create. Applied Mechanics makes art and manages this art as a collaborative- where our seven company members share all the leadership, executive, and […]
New Community Project in Point Breeze and an Interview with collaborator Nia Benjamin
This spring Applied Mechanics partnered with Women’s Community Revitalisation Project (WCRP) and some of their community partners in order to work with young people in Point Breeze to make a piece of theater about their experiences of life and maintaining community in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Due to closing of school districts and businesses in order […]