About This Show

Fulton Rib
Sarah Mendelsohn & Fred Schmidt-Arenales

Fulton Rib explores the public gestures made by strangers moving through politically contested spaces in Lower Manhattan, and, in parallel, the process of interpretation between deaf and hearing collaborators. Fulton Rib addresses Lower Manhattan as a memorial, a swamp, a police state, and a burial ground, in which we find ourselves at the receiving end of language. As in a conversation with someone whose language you can’t fully understand, you pick up recognizable signs, and fill in the gaps in narrative. As interpreters, we are running close to failure.

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Welcome to the Doll Den
Electric Eye Ensemble

In Memphis, Tennessee we meet the first all-girl’s radio station, WHER. It’s 1968 and they play ‘‘music for women,’’ broadcasting from their studio, the Doll Den. But with the sanitation workers on strike, protesters in the street, and the garbage piling up all around them, the pristine glass box that is their studio shatters under the weight of realization. Everyone wears a facade, some are just thicker than others.