UNBOXING party
What stories do we pack away?
bareportland acquired a 20×20 ft storage unit piled from floor to ceiling with items someone packed away. We invite you to unpack, honor and discover unit 5549* with us on May 2.
UNBOXING party is the first act in our 2019 performance project, Storage. You can help craft the narrative of this evolving piece by unboxing and exploring with us. What items should take center stage? What shouldn’t see the light of day? What stories do objects tell, and how are they silent?
Bring a friend. Dig through forgotten goods. You might even walk away with an artifact or two.
About Storage: a story of stuff.
Storage is a 3-part exploration and performance project by bareportland. The local performance collective acquired an abandoned storage unit and, alongside a team of writers and performers, will generate a piece inspired by the contents of the unit as well as the stories of the many stakeholders in the self storage industry. Storage is a story of stuff, of transience and permanence, of decadence and deficiency, of inventory and memory, of place and displacement and more. Storage is a work in progress and full of moving parts. Join us for a workshop performance in Fall 2019. www.bareportland.org
*to protect the identity of individual s this is not the actual unit #.