Collission Shop aka The Possibility of Joy aka People Can Be F***ing Magical

MTA Spring 2021 Production

May 07, 2021 | 08:00 pm

Kresge Oval
Free and open to the MIT Community
May 07, 2021 | 08:00 pm

COLLISION SHOP is a collaborative project, created, produced and presented by MIT Music and Theater Arts, with a cohort of students from the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Elaheh Ahmadi, Cecilia Esterman, Kellie Everett, Victoria Longe, Pranav Murugan, and Shannen Wu), Brain And Cognitive Sciences (Daniel Estandian), Chemistry (Aniket Dehadrai, Madeline Holtz), Chemical Engineering (Mat Medina), Health Sciences and Technology (Claudia Varela), and Music and Theater Arts (Peter Tone). The international contributors came from Art Spaces-Dance, Poland: (Daniel Leżoń) and Norwegian Theater Academy (Albert Greve Rasmussen, Anna Rauhala, Clara Random, Karol Broski.) The production was facilitated by Dan Safer, with co-deviser Wil Petre and dramaturg Ogemdi Ude. The instructions soundtrack is by the award-winning composer Christian FredericksonAniket “Ani” Dehadrai is the Assistant Director. The production features valuable life hacks by Sara Brown and video installation design by Joshua HiggasonVideo editing and the website design are by GLITCH | Attilio Rigotti and Orsolya Szantho; WikiHow design by Tolu Akinbo. Miguel Flores is the Production Manager for the project. 

 

Original music scores by:

Todd Reynolds
Ada Westfall
José Ignacio Benítez
Elisheba Ittoop
Luqman Brown
Julia Kent
David Shane Smith
Javier Peral
V.Jeffrey Smith
Louis Dulac
Ben Tyree
Jared Michael “Dr. Bubbles” Nickerson
Robert M Johanson
Micah Gaugh
Sxip Shirley
Sxip Shirey
Dmitri Manos
Alison Clancy
Paul Pinto
Muthoni Drummer Queen
 

Presented in association with October Octopus. 

 

Created with the support of The DeFlorez Fund for Humor

 

The project begins with a set of audio instructions participants film themselves following and submit their videos. In presentation, every viewing is different - videos are randomly paired every time, nothing is predetermined. Music is randomly selected as well. The more videos submitted, the more possible permutations of the presentation there are. 

 

YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT A VIDEO!

Go to www.collisionshop.org to do so!!!