a tunnel year
Above: From the original iteration of A Tunnel Year, a walk-though comic book paired with a live radio play at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens, NY. Credit: Karinne Keithley Syers
A Tunnel Year
by Karinne Keithley Syers
Tickets on Sale February 23
Duration of Project: Until 100 books are sold
Germinated in the bardo of parenthood, A Tunnel Year, first performed as a walk-through
comic book and live radio play with take-home ephemera, now takes the form of a book.
more about the project
A Tunnel Year is a play built from a few years’ worth of interrupted thoughts crammed into one-line scenes voiced by animals. Germinated in the bardo of parenthood and compelled to work in the form of the fragment, it asks: Did I escape? Or am I lost? It was originally installed as a walk-though comic book paired with a live radio play at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens, NY. For Post Theatrical, it changes scale to become a book. comes with audio link to a recording of the 2016 live radio play.
details for participation
A Tunnel Year is a play in the form of an artist book with audio extras, in a limited edition of 100.
A ticket will get you a book in the physical mail (US shipping included), a small trail of audio pieces delivered by email that precede the arrival of your book, and a link to a read-along section for the central segment of the book.
The first audio files will be sent upon purchase of your ticket; please read and respond to your ticket confirmation email for details. First books will ship mid-March, and will ship on a rolling basis after that.
lead artist
/creator
Karinne Keithley Syers
is a writer and teacher whose work spans plays, songs, sound, dance, animation, video, bookmaking, essay, and points in between. She teaches writing through the Pelagic School. She was the founding editor of 53rd State Press, cofounder of the dance palace Ur, co-host of the Acoustic Theater Hour on WFMU, co-instigator of posses Joyce Cho and Machiqq, and is currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
