happeningsintime

Ginger Wagg, happeningsintime, January 2006

happeningistime is a three-hour live installation that physically tracks time and space over a six-month period. From June 2005 until January 2006, Ginger Wagg sent over 150 letters and packages to spare room while traveling inside the US. Performing amidst this backdrop of mailings she will ask the audience to join her in looking back through time and at objects collected. 

Whether traveling or remaining in one place, we collect a trail of ticket stubs, to do lists, receipts, bus transfers, used clothing, food wrappers and much more. Objects that would otherwise be left behind, including the personal, meaningless, mundane and precious, Wagg has saved, catalogued and shipped to Baltimore. This paper trail, mailed from New York, L.A., Vermont, Oregon and other places, reflect her choice for mobility and travel versus remaining static as a resident in DC. As the letters are opened and examined by those in attendance, the objects will crystallize as artifacts depicting her specific timeline of events. The immobile state of the gallery space will be transformed into a flowing collection of these artifacts exposing time spent, distance traveled, places and people visited. This transformation will set an already mobile body further into movement. Improvisational movement, steeped in the passing of time and its aftermath, is the language for an open dialogue between Wagg and the audience.

Ginger Wagg is a dance artist focused primarily on improvisation. She performs with two DC based companies: Sharon Mansur/mansurdance and Daniel Burkholder/The Playground. She has performed with Shua Group (NYC), Amber Kendrick (DC), Marcy Schlissel (NYC), and Havana Select (DC) among others. She received her BFA in Dance from George Mason University, VA and has studied extensively at various improvisation workshops and festivals.