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Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas
Sound/Light Installation now showing through November 21, 2008

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 98105 USA
Phone 1 (206) 634-0919
Email jsp @ jackstraw.org

Creative Team

Sound Byron Au Yong
Light Randy Moss
Video Jean-Stephane

Audio Engineers Tom Stiles, CJ Lazenby

Librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks

Singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz

Percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel

Project Manager Pike Pin
Costume Designer Emily Carlsen
Videographer Eric Rockey
Research Erica Howard
Logo Wing Fong

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is thankful for support from Creative Capital's Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; 4Culture's King County Site-Specific Performance Network; Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts; and Jack Straw Productions

32 Duration

恆 Héng ¦¦|||¦

I.C.E.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE: Securing the  homeland.

Hielo.

Alarmed by tales of disease people drop sterilization pills into the frozen blocks of yellow ice.

Hielo. Hielo.

Rana ate imported ice cream, explaining that she did not eat the local ice cream for fear of nuclear contamination in the milk.

Hielo. Hielo. Hielo.

It is forbidden to sell ice because the Prophet Muhammad had no ice in his lifetime.

Hielo. Hielo. Hielo. Hielo.

Four ice creams for 20 cents. You can’t get a better deal. It didn’t really cost me a thing because I used the money I had taken from the enemy and dead people.

Hielo. Hielo. Hielo. Hielo. Hielo.

Each refrigerator holds about 25 bodies when they are fully stacked.

Hielo. Hielo. Hielo. Hielo. Hielo. Hielo.

Operation 31 Flavors: Having ice cream is a reward for our handiwork. It shows that our leaders are paying attention and care about us.

Hielo.


Libretto by Edisa Weeks