Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising emerges from a phenomenological excavation of language. The performance positions the body as a volatile site of discourse, a place where meaning is made, unmade, and transformed through movement. Incorporating multiple sign languages, and created for all audiences – including Deaf and hearing audiences – the work addresses the complexity of human communication on the brink of a paradigm shift. While inviting its audience to decipher an abundance of signs, Mercury Rising also explores the slippery nature of interpretation and ultimately releases us from the need for the literal or the explanatory. What we share, in the end, is not certainty but the impossibility of full understanding, and the urge to connect nonetheless.