11.13.15 Two Performances - Elliot Reed and Gema Galiana / Andrea Tzvetkov

8-10:30PM

Running The Gauntlet (sections I-III) - written and performed by Elliot Reed in the exhibition HR

Long Distance is a project that explores live performance created by members of The Syndicate across great distances. Long Distance Los Angeles is created and performed by Gema Galiana and Andrea Tzvetkov as a physical response to HR, a solo exhibition by Sabrina Chou.

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Elliot Reed is a visual artist and musician from Chicago, IL where he attended The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has given presentations at The University of Minnesota and Macalester College, in addition to performing at Northwestern University, The Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, The Gene Siskel Film Center, FOKL Arts Center Kansas City, The Bijou Theater, and other venues in Baltimore, Nashville, Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Tuscon, Los Angeles, Marfa, and Austin TX. His album ‘Anxiety Magic’ was recently listed in ‘The Wire’ magazine, and his video short ‘Out Now’ is featured in issue #2 of the Video!Video! VHS zine project.

In 2014 Elliot Reed created Elliot Reed Laboratories (ReedLabs), where he currently serves as Founder, Director of Lab Operations, and sole employee. Due to the scale of the operation, Elliot occasionally uses the name ‘Corporate Headquarters’ while making public appearances. ReedLabs holds a Library of Congress registered copyright.

Elliot will debut an ongoing performance titled, Running The Gauntlet (sections I-III).

Long Distance November 13th, 2015 is a play created by The Syndicate in which members from Austin, Brooklyn, Chicago, Myrtle Beach, and The Hague provide material to be performed in Los Angeles by Gema Galiana and Andrea Tzvetkov. Over the next 6 months, it will be performed in each of the above named cities in a new configuration with different members.

Andrea Tzvetkov is a Los Angeles based artist and founding member of The Syndicate. Most recently she directed Memory Palace at The Pico House and Bobrauschenbergamerica at The Semel Theatre. Among others, she has performed in My New Friend Su, a collaboration between Robert Wilson and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Cube and The Watermill Center. Training includes the SITI Company Conservatory in NYC and BFA from Emerson College.

Gema Galiana is a performer, specializes in physical theatre, training with Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Isabel Ubeda (Odin Theatre), Gabriel Gawin (Song of the Goat), Raúl Iaiza (Regulam contra Regulam), Olivero Pavi/Kate Perry (Obra Theatre Company, Au Brana). She is one of the eight founding members of Studio Matejka at The Grotowski Institute, creating her solo performance The Woman Decomposed, directed by Matej Matejka. Invited by the dancer Vivien Wood, Gema took part in the project EXILE commissioned by Dance City, UK. Gema has trained eight years in Karate Do Goju-Ryu. She is a movement consultant for film and theater.

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