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"Cupola Bobber carry their home, their universe, on their backs - a cosmology part kaijin [Japanese film effects monster],
part Buster Keaton. They make a place for performance in the twenty-first century." Matthew Goulish
BIO
Cupola Bobber is a collaboration between Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers. Founded in 1999 they have created three evening
length performances; 2001's Subterfuge, 2004's Petitmal, and 2007's The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment. They have
performed at the PAC/edge festival, The Spareroom, and Links Hall in Chicago, Performance Works Northwest in Portland, OR,
The CUE Art Foundation in New York, and the Nuffield Theatre at Lancaster University in the UK. Alongside the evening length
performance work they have made video, durational performance, and published writing.
They were the recipients of an International Fellowship at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University, UK for the 07/08 season,
they have served as visiting artists for SAIC's First Year Program and for Goat Island's Summer School, and have conducted
unique and successful collaborative performance devising workshops.
Petitmal received a Best of PAC/edge award, and they won a pair of Nelson Raymond Fellowships from The School of the Art
Institute with their BFA's in 2001.
STATEMENT
Cupola Bobber is creating a new aesthetic using a process of collaboration, research, and rehearsal. We work slowly out
of our studio on Chicago's northwest side, mixing basic materials with homespun engineering, bumbling wit, and a fascination
for the tension in a beautiful moment to make delicate work that surprises viewers with its detail, humor, and care.
We aim to use this simple aesthetic to explore the world for an hour or two, look at it from arms length, creating a new
system for the audience to discover meaning. Intimacy, delicacy, and confusion are important; exhaustion is deployed to dramatize
minutia. It's important to us for our performances to effectively slow down - make a moment a monument.
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