When the Show Comes Home … Performance Artifacts: Delaware Contemporary Art Center

Photo Credit: Jauhien Sasnou

History / Description

From the exhibition wall-text: This exhibition includes more than 55 artifacts including puppet and props from performances spanning 20 years of Mundheim’s career. Objects are made from paper, wood, fabric, and a lot of trial and error.  These characters and stories have been performed in places including:  Kimmel Center, Theatre Exile, Ballet X, the Arden, the Lantern, Clark Park, on the stage of the Mann Music Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, MassMOCA, the Stonington Opera House, Baltimore Theatre Project, even on small stages in Ireland. They have been performed by ballet dancers, puppeteers, actors, adults and children. They bring us through the Henri Rousseau’s Paris, Guna’s World War Two Latvia, Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia, Dylan Thomas’s Wales, Giorgio DeChirico’s Italian Piazza’s, and Siddhartha’s encounter with his petulant and materialistic son … and much, much more. In addition to the objects installed, there is video of past performance work, and a thoughtful, delightful audio tour. (which you can also experience below). 

Delaware Scene: When The Show Comes Home.

Philadelphia Inquirer: A band of magical puppets are moving out of their South Philly home.

Events

Opening Reception: February 2, 2024: 5pm-9pm
Artist’s Talk: April 28, 2024: 2pm
Studio Performance and Talk: Kea and the Ark: May 18, 2024: 11pm, 2pm, 4:30pm

Media

Video Credit: Fox News

Video Reels

Compilation Reel of Performance Work 2005-2024

First Interdisciplinary Work: The Chess Set 1984

Audio Tour

This audio tour was created to accompany the exhibition.
The general reflections can be listened to anywhere.
The sequential tour reflections are connected to specific object clusters.

GENERAL REFLECTIONS

JEENU AND THE UNDERSTUDY

SEQUENTIAL TOUR REFLECTIONS

SEA OF BIRDS

THE SIDDS

PARIS WHEELS AND THE READY MAIDS

THE JUNGLE BOOK

THE ARCHIVE

THE MISERABLE CHILDREN

THE TRUCK, THE DOGS, ANEMIC TREE…

KEA AND THE ARK

THE CHESS SET

DE CHIRICO

A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

JEREMY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

GILGAMESH

Stills

Photo Credit: Jauhien Sasnou

Photo Credit: Peter Jacobs