Moholy-Nagy: The Electric Stage
The Electric Stage was commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the exhibition Moholy-Nagy: Future Present. The Electric Stage creates an immersive experience combining shadow puppetry, vintage overhead projectors, cinematic techniques and a lice music ensemble to explore the life and work of László Moholy-Nagy.
Created by Manual Cinema
The Electric Stage weaves together a series of vignettes, which emphasize Moholy-Nagy’s restless and wide-ranging practice and presents the artist as a pioneer of abstraction for the industrial age. An artist who believed every citizen could be creative, and every viewer could educate his or her senses by studying effects of light, transparency, and motion in common materials of everyday modern life.
Credits
Commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago
Created by Manual Cinema
Production
Visual Design by Lizi Breit and Drew Dir
Music and Sound Design by Kyle Vegter
Production Manager/ Sound Engineer Mike Usrey
Puppetry Performed & Devised by
Kara Davidson
Lily Emerson
Michael Hamilton
Sarra Jahedi
Myra Su
Musicians
Peter Ferry (percussion)
Zachary Good (clarinets)
Deidre Huckabay (flute)