Kidnapping Water - Bottled Operas

A Sound-Light Installation by Byron Au Yong & Randy Moss

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is a sound and light installation that features footage and recordings of performances by classical and experimental opera singers and water percussionists in a ceremonial event that explores water and human migration. Created by composer Byron Au Yong, in collaboration with writers, media artists and musicians, the Bottled Operas were performed in rivers, lakes, fountains, sloughs, ravines, and other waterways as part of 4Culture's Site-Specific. During Bumbershoot, Kidnapping Water musicians found themselves in the DuPen Fountain singing and splashing through these 64 Bottled Operas that have a curious relationship to the 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas was created with 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.

Date: Extended until November 21st, 2008.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 - 5

Location: Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle 98105.

Cost: Free!