Good Day God Damn

Stephanie Acosta

Installation Documentation Video Still by Intrinsic Grey Productions

Originally scheduled to premiere as an ensemble performance at The Chocolate Factory in March 2020, Good Day God Damn returns as a durational installation which considers multi-crisis chaos, the mundane nature of the apocalypse, and the simultaneous impossibility, myth, and violence of the American landscape – transmuting an unseen performance through the emotional landscape of 2020 in order to create a new work infused with the archive of its past experiments.

For the installation Good Day God Damn, Acosta draws from a range of aesthetic and tonal references such as theater backdrops, municipal buildings, american cinematic thrillers, cosmic near-futurism, and slow disaster. In the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new unrenovated industrial space, Acosta builds a site-specific landscape comprised of paintings that hold spatial and written echoes of performance scores and absurdist micro-plays, a sound world of cosmic opera tones, and moving-image elements that warp scale and our place within it. This environment places a viewer within Acosta’s performance-world, allowing one to receive direct transmission of sensorial elements and access a movement-driven encounter. By collapsing the temporal conventions of moving through an installation, attending an evening-length performance, and the durational nature of witnessing a landscape, Acosta attends to larger questions about the impossibility of comprehending the scale and scope of the apocalypse in all its permutations.

Alexis Wilkinson: Exhibition Curator
Rory Murphy: Sound Engineer and Design
Matt Shalzi: Exhibition Structure Design and Construction 
Shana Crawford: Lighting Designer
ALEXA GRÆ: Select Musical Score Composition
Ryan Holsopple: Projection Design