PROJECTED WORLD PREMIERE: SPRING 2027 OAKLAND
This multidisciplinary interactive performance provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by discrete moments of performance by e. Franklin and self-selecting participants. The goals of the project are to heighten participants’ understanding of intersectional healing/repair and to build practical skills in advancing this notion through role play and experiential learning. *This project is supported by a grant from the MAP Fund* Photo by: Trevor McKay. Other project supporters include:
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
OMNI Stewardship Pilot Residency NOV 2025 – FEB 2026
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency AUG 2024 – JUL 2025:
Week Four (of Four): July 14 – 20, 2025
Week Three (of Four): April 21 – 27, 2025
Week Two (of Four): January 6 – 12, 2025
Images show the next physical iteration of the analog algorithm, the largely sustainable materials used to create it, the basic tech set-up, and the artist in the studio. The video sample features the artist doing a studio teaser with a test audience on January 11, 2025 during an “Art Party.”
Week One (of Four): August 27 – 31, 2024
Images show the initial physical iteration of the analog algorithm, a bucket-bot, and the artist in process. The audio sample features the artist using looping technology to create an improvised fugue with simple questions.
Weisman Museum Residency: August 2019
Images show a draft of an analog algorithm created during a residency at a museum, in which five artists lived at the institution for three days in August 2019. This proof-of-concept sketch was created with tape, paper, sharpie, and participation.
e. Franklin 