Red Zone | Rae Red

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Red Zone (or Red Crypsis)

Safety is arbitrary right now in quarantine as we are navigating a city (and country) where there is no agreed upon standard to stay safe, let alone agreed upon threat to that safety. Red is a color associated with risk taking, it is the color used on maps to mark where COVID cases are surging. Red is the color of greatest danger. For my current pod  family, the Shelter Elsewhere Fellows (Kinari Council, Christian Lee, Thea Cohen, Avery Rose, Kelsey Sharpe, and Ash Bautista) Red Crypsis provides bold camouflage to create a sense of shelter and familiarity within the danger. We are camouflaged in this red haven of precarious vibrancy. Hiding in plain sight, each moving portrait is unique to the person. Each red environment a new configuration of objects, a labor of love and an offering to them, an act of care to help them find comfort in the Red Zone.  

This unique configuration of red Elsewhere objects is now for future elsewhere residents. May they find crypsis in the Red Zone.

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Rae Red
Rae Red

Rae Red (they/them) encourages the radical act of laughter in the face of darkness by translating everyday realities into performance and play. Their work exposes the magic and wonder within our daily functions, from the wizardry of sight and color theory, to the way water invisibly keeps our lives flowing smoothly like a ghost within the walls. They explore subjects that are universal like blood pumping through veins, while bringing light our own mortality and to the death that is continuously occurring around us. Through performances across the United States Rae Red investigates topics that unite viewers by exposing commonalities while examining the disparate facets within them. They have presented their work in every type of space imaginable from dive bars and the backs of donut shops to The Museum of Human Achievement, High Concept Labs, Cucalorus Stage Festival, and The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. They received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Towson University’s Theatre Arts Program.

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