Washboard Leo & Me (2007)

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"Washboard" Leo Thomas is an electric washboard player from Manderville, Louisianna, a small town across the bayou from New Orlearns. In this interactive dance performance Bayou Bennett, his daughter, uses a Wii remote to manipulate audio and video clips that explore her personal relationship with her father and the impact that Hurricane Katrina had on the town of Manderville.

PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:
- Decompress, The Queens Museum of Art (w/ the Glass Bead Collective), 2007
- Tomkins Square Park (w/ the Glass Bead Collective), 2007
- Monkeytown, NY, 2007
- Pure Project Space, NY, 2007
- Texelextronica, University of Noth Texas , 2006

UPCOMING

§ The first installment of Techniques of the Observer, an experimental screening series I'm curating, will play at Arthouse Mocha, New Delhi on 16 January, 2010.

§ Foto Cache will be featured in the 23. Stuttgart Filmwinter between 21–24 January, 2010

§ The Liminal Space exhibition put together by the folks at F(r)iction Project is opening on January 22, 2010 at THE LAY-UP in Brooklyn, NY. BOMBAY_RGB is part of the exhibition, so do stop by if you're in the neighborhood.

§ Utsav Mela is playing at the Oxford Film Festival on February 7, 2010.