Leda

Overview

Leda is a show about cycles, transformation and property. It follows a dreamlike logic to an ambient score, featuring puppets and inflatables. Drawing from the 17th-century poem The Goose and the Commons, it is both a treatise on the perils of land privatization and a funeral for a sausage.

About the Artist

Ollie Goss is an artist, puppeteer, and performance-maker whose work blends sculptural installations, animated objects, re-tooled electronics and live performance. They attempt to achieve this through a prefigurative politic, hoping to align the means and the ends within their work. In 2016, they received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which took them to seven countries to research puppetry and collaborative performance making. Their work has been shown in places like Icebox Project Space, Temple Contemporary, the Wassaic Project, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Dixon Place and La Mama. They regularly hold performance events throughout Philadelphia.
Ollie holds an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture where they currently teach.

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