Creative Management (2024)
public performance and video
commissioned by Mural Arts
Set in Philadelphia’s Love Park, “Creative Management” is a live public performance that uses the choreographic structure of six interconnected rolling office chairs. As bureaucratic satire, the piece explores the neoliberal co-optation of team-building exercises and methods of improvisational theater into office culture. It also attempts to dramatize the gap between bureaucratic systems of governance and the urgent environmental and everyday realities they oversee.
Director: Maia Chao
Cinematography: Ty Burdenski
Performers: Emily Bate, Julian Chehirian, Beth Formica, Khalil LeSaldo, Leslie Miller, Alyse James
Video editing: Ian Faria, Maia Chao
Fabrication: Kirby McKenzie, NextFab
Funding: Mural Arts, The People's Budget organized by Phoebe Bachman