This play is a reflection on the (im)possibility of accepting diversity and the other. The fragmented body of the neoplasm—the fruit of unstable conditions—overcomes barriers, loves and denies itself and others, wanders around, forgetting its profession. It frequently and with pleasure divides, goes through dangerous palpation, questions the possibility of contact with the experience of the other. Poorly brought up but very successful, it invites us to a trans-species transition.
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Surmatants – Mars Rising is an elegiacally visceral response to the CV19 pandemic in three acts — informed by Pittsburgh’s Slavic immigrant labour history, and 13th century bubonic plague imagery — through a release of dance. Tenants of Russian Cosmisim and transcendence are evoked through Jesse Gelaznik’s musical compositions, paired with renowned choreographer – Željko Jergan and John Harbist’s dances performed by the Tamburitzans. The installation is structured through a physical ascent, connecting three spaces (the white room, red room, and black room) — crescendoing to three channel circular video projection transmitting a human resurrection on Mars from the future. I would like to thank and acknowledge with the greatest admiration everyone involved in the realization of the SMR installation, while navigating the CV19 pandemic. Thank you all. Surmatants – Mars Rising (Three Channel HD Video) Director Co-Director Music Composer Producers Choreography Production Designer Cinematographer Tamburtizans Dance Performers 4th Horseman Animal Trainer White Horse Second Camera Drone Camera Still Photography Production Supervisor Costume Design and Wardrobe Hair/Makeup Set Operations Video Editor CGI Animation Musicians Sound Engineer Sound Editing and Design Slavic Culture Consultant Location Final Sound Mastering
Andréa Stanislav
Denise Mustafa
Jesse Gelaznik
Danny Bracken — for the Mattress Factory
Andréa Stanislav
Denise Mustafa
Željko Jergan
John Harbist
Andréa Stanislav
Rafael Abreu-Canedo
Milan Bajich
Stevan Bajich
Arianna Burns
Sam Caloiero
Sofia Caloiero
Charles Cubelic
Libby Cubelic
Victoria Cubelic
Anka Gataric
Alex Hersh
Alex Hrishenko
Isabella Husnick
Dusan Karas
Nick Keleschenyi
Alena Kucan
Karsyn Kuhn
Iryna Luchynyn
Sarah Melio
Austin Miller
Courtney Mireles
Madison Mustach
Anna Steen
Mira Steen
Natalia Stee
Emma Tome
Carmen Wilson
Victoria Cubelic
Danielle Ashley
Hank
Andréa Stanislav
Ryan McIntyre — Perspectrum LCC
Josh Ice
Alyssa Bushunow
Merle Pastrick Linn
Victoria Cubelic
Josh Ice
Denise Mustafa
Andréa Stanislav
Jacopo Mazzoni
Benjamin Louis Brody – French Horn
Mark Broschinsky – Trombone
Jesse Gelaznik – Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer
Heather Green – Soprano Vocals
Herb Harris – Autoharp
Christopher Johnson – Bass
Jesse Gelaznik
Jesse Gelaznik and Denise Mustafa
Joe Bielecki
Carrie Furnaces – Rivers of Steel, Pittsburgh, PA
Eric Elterman – Boomtown Studio, Brooklyn, NY
When
Factory Installed: March 12, 2021 - November 14, 2021
Where
500 Sampsonia, 4th Floor
Andréa Stanislav is an American artist based in New York City and works in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Bloomington, Indiana. Her hybrid practice spans sculpture, video, immersive multimedia installation, and public art. Stanislav’s work is anchored in a collision of beauty and horror — dualities that intimate sublimity, through equations of site + scale. Andréa’s work often excavates constructs and devolution of civilizations and empires —merging the past and present, while proposing questions of the future. In the Duchampian sense, the viewer becomes a participant who completes the work. Stanislav’s installations erode the boundary between subject and object in a literal “physicality of ideas” — manifested experientially through an immersive experience. Stanislav’s work has been exhibited internationally at museums, contemporary art centers, galleries, biennials, site-specific public locations and art fairs.
