Am singing in the chorus with my wonderful friends Waste Paper Opera

WASTE PAPER OPERA’s PROJECT:

Dead Cat Bounce is an exploration of financial alchemy and the unmaking of reality in the time of catastrophe. Staged within a sculptural installation, the performance takes the form of an oratorio, a mode of Baroque performance using instruments and voice to tell a sacred narrative. The work unfolds over five interwoven vignettes of pre-emptive catastrophe. In China (2016), five hitmen arrive in court to discover they’ve subcontracted each other to kill the same real estate developer. At the palace of Louis XVI (1788), thirty Swiss virgins are having their teeth checked to secure the national debt. In Miami (2027), an insurance broker redrafts a contract for a house that is already underwater. In Jerusalem (589 BC), the prophet Jeremiah weeps for the impending wrath of God. In aftershocked Japan (1855), a brothel-owner pays tribute to a catfish deity as she surveys the sunlit ruins of the city.