SUPER VISION (2005-2006)

Conceived and created by The Builders Association & dbox. SUPER VISION explores the changing nature of our relationship to living in a post-private society, where personal electronic information is constantly collected and distributed. The data files collected on us circulate like extra bodies, and these “data bodies” carry stains that are...

AVANTI (2003-2005)

A Coproduction of The University of Notre Dame and The Builders Association AVANTI is a ghost story about the 1963 demise of the Studebaker automotive corporation and the effects on its hometown, South Bend, Indiana, a microcosm of mid-century industrial America. In a ghost story, it is usually an individual...

ALLADEEN (2003-2005)

The Builders Association and motiroti ALLADEEN is a large-scale cross-media performance created by The Builders Association and the London-based company motiroti. ALLADEEN draws on the lives of citizens living in the hybrid, global cities of New York, London, and Bangalore—each a city where many cultures collide. Aladdin’s story is a perfect...

XTRAVAGANZA (2000-2002)

XTRAVAGANZA draws on the history of multi-media entertainment, ranging from the film exhibitions of the 1910’s to the Busby Berkeley dance numbers of the 1930's. XTRAVAGANZA mixes these early forms with current spectacular musical entertainment, including trip-hop music and video. XTRAVAGANZA “samples” fragments of the theatrical past through the language...

JET LAG (1998-2001)

A collaboration between The Builders Association and Diller + Scofidio. JET LAG is a cross-media project developed collaboratively by The Builders Association and the architect/media artists Diller + Scofidio. Our shared interest in combining the presence of live performers with the electronic presence of new technologies prompted the two companies to begin this project. JET LAG is...

JUMP CUT (Faust)(1997-1998)

JUMP CUT (Faust) is an archaeology of two layers of the Faust myth, F.W. Murnau's 1926 film and John Jesurun’s contemporary rendering of the story. JUMP CUT (Faust) moves between these two worlds, creating a “live film” of Faust. The story of Faust is the story of transformation: from old...

IMPERIAL MOTEL (Faust)(1996)

IMPERIAL MOTEL (Faust) is a cross-media performance which encompasses several versions of “Faust”, including a new version written for the company by John Jesurun, as well as many past versions. Set in a motel room surrounded by cameras, the performance revolves around a latter-day American Faust, “wrestling with his demons”...

THE WHITE ALBUM (1995)

A rock n’ roll band is working in a recording studio on fragments of some songs drawn from the Beatles’ “White Album.” In a neighboring studio, actors are recording voice-overs for a television version of Noel Coward's classic British play, “Blithe Spirit.” The two worlds overlap and collide. THE WHITE...

Master Builder (1994)

MASTER BUILDER, a large-scale production used Henrik Ibsen‘'s classic play, The Master Builder, as a point of departure. Ibsen‘'s play is a nineteenth century study of family life that charts the disintegration of the ideals of love, security and fidelity. MASTER BUILDER explores what binds a family together and what drives...