2019

Multimedia music theater for voice, Cantonese opera vocalist, electric guitar quartet, live electronics, cherry-picker cranes, crane operators, costumes (silk-screen print on canvas), animation; 65 mins

Music, Musical Arrangement, Lyrics, Animation, Costume
Samson Young

Vocal Performance and Lyrics
Eliza Li

Vocal Performance, Improvization, and Musical Arrangement
Michael Schiefel

Guitars
DITHER Quartet - James Moore, Taylor Levine, Brendon Randall-Myers and Liz Faure

Costume Fabrication
Kwok Hang Lin
Cheung Chi Mau
Wong Kam Fai
Paola Sinisterra
Gabrielle Wong
Essa Lin
Kristy Chan
Kimmie Pang

3d modeling and printing
Sortica@CGTrader and CG-Studiox@CGTrader; Andrew Crowe@Metaobjects

Additional 3d assets
Tjarie, iljujjkin, HDPoly, NiceModels, San Roman Matias Gabriel, tkozodaev, cayo_bi, Bone07 @Turbsquid

Producers
Esa Nickle and Maaike Gouwenberg

Technical Producer
Sascha von Oertzen

Assistant Producer
Sheridan Telford

Sound and Lighting Consultation
ARUP

Technical Production
Crossfire

Boom Lift Operators
Graham Anderson
Nicholas Buckalew
Louis Mastrangelo
Aaron Peart
Ian Wessman

Cantonese Opera Costumer
Wu Lan Fong

Research Assistant
Christie Wong

Production Assistants
Vvzela Qu and Homer Shew

Curated by RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Chief Curator, Performa and Kathy Noble, Senior Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Performa. Special thanks to Meredith Johnson, Governors Island, Jonathan Belson, National Parks Service and the Park Rangers of Castle Williams. The Immortals is supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Spring Workshop, and the Performa Commissioning Fund. Co-produced by Trust for Governors Island, and the Center for Heritage Arts and Textile.