Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  March 25, 2008
Contact:     

Production Manager, Ann S. Graham
(512) 914-8096
annsgraham@gmail.com

Artist, Jaclyn Pryor
(512) 947-7137
jaclyn.pryor@gmail.com

floodlines 2008
Conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, floodlines is a site-specific performance installation mapped onto the landscape of Austin, Texas. The audience travels through the piece by car, while the performers appear en route, along a three-mile stretch of land on the streets, lawns, and sidewalks of Austin’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood.

As the performers disappear, reappear, and disappear again, the audience is asked to consider the relationship between presence and absence, memory and loss, history and ghosts.

floodlines is presented once a year for seven years, ending in 2010.

floodlines will be performed within the North University and Hyde Park neighborhoods on Sunday, April 20th starting at 2pm.  The performance begins in Eastwoods Park.  Seating is limited to 32 individuals and tickets will go on sale Monday, April 7, 2008 for $30 @ at http://www.jaclynpryor.com

A Community Dialogue will immediately follow the event and is an opportunity for the director, actors/participants, audience, and members of the general public to engage in a discussion about the performance/experience. The Community Dialogue is free and open to the public and takes place at Eastwoods Park.

Performance:        Sunday, April 20, 2008 @ 2:00 p.m.
Duration:               90 minutes

Community Dialogue:  Sunday, April 20, 2008 @ 3:30 p.m.
Duration:               60 minutes

Ticket Price:           $30; advance purchase required.  Tickets available online beginning April 7th at http://www.jaclynpryor.com and at AusTIX:   512-474-TIXS (8497)

Start location:       Eastwoods Park, 3001 Harris Park Avenue
(1/2 block north of Dean Keeton/1 block east of Duval), Austin, TX

Information:          http://www.jaclynpryor.com

floodlines
Conceived and directed by Jaclyn Pryor
Production Management by Ann S. Graham
Stage Management by Sean Jenkins

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Affairs Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

artist biography:
Jaclyn Pryor is a multidisciplinary performance artist living in Austin.  She has worked with various companies and collectives, including Redmoon Theatre, CollaborAction, Stage Left Theatre, SCRAP Mettle SOUL, The Bailiwick, and Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago); HERE Arts Center, New York Theatre Workshop, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (New York); and Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre, Austin Script Works, Refraction Arts, Theatre Action Project, The Austin Project, The Creative Research Lab, UT Dept. of Theatre and Dance, and and First Night Austin (Austin).  She has also trained with the SITI Company, The Center for Movement Research (New York), Plasticene Physical Theatre (Chicago), and Soujourn Theatre (Portland), as well as collaborated with world-renowned independent artists Mary Overlie, Tina Landau, Anne Bogart, Ann Carlson, Laurie Carlos, Charles Mee, Daniel Alexander Jones, and Sekou Sundiata.     

In 2005, Jaclyn was commissioned by First Night Austin to create BREAD, for which she won a First Night International "Creative Programming" Award.  In 2006, she conceived and directed PINK: A LOVE COURIER SERVICE, also commissioned by First Night Austin, underwritten by the Still Water Foundation, which traveled to Portland last summer and is on tour to Chicago and Minneapolis in 2008. In 2006 she also collaborated with a collective of visual artists, poets, fiction writers, musicians, performance artists, and media artists to create a performance journey called MOVABLE FEAST. 

A company member of Refractions Arts, she and collaborator Julia M. Smith will be presenting a short work, THE ILLINOIS PROJECT in miniature, as part of this year's Fusebox Festival.  In addition to her artistic practice, Jaclyn has also published essays and reviews about other artists' work, including Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, Deb Margolin, Carmelita Tropicana, Marga Gomez, and Alain Buffard.  She currently teaches writing for the Free Minds Project, and is pursuing a PhD in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas.