In 2019, interdisciplinary theater company 600 HIGHWAYMEN—Guggenheim Fellows Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde, described by Le Monde as “standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making”—began a visual record of life in rural New York. Each of their works takes a different form; here, it unfolds as a sustained field of moving images.
A PS21 commission, FIVE YEARS is a multi-channel performance installation built from thousands of short clips, gathered over the course of five years, in close proximity to daily life.