THE PUBLIC PRESENTATION FOR THIS RESIDENCY HAS BEEN CANCELED. One of our team members has tested positive for Covid. Given the intimacy of these experiences, we are exercising great caution in order to protect the artists-in-residence and our local community.

In 2019 Wistaria Project presented a draft of a new work, Mosh-Pit Daisies and Feast Your Famine, a 5-day festival of performance and activism, via their artist residency at The Center at West Park.

At NACL, project leader Jeremy Goren will be joined by RasBad, Timothy Edward Craig, Aaron Moore Ellis, and Amy Liou, who together will experiment with elements from the original Feast Your Famine production. Feast Your Famine confronted U.S. mythologies, looking critically at the idea of the hero/savior in Western culture and examining alternate possibilities through community and collective action. Picking up a creative thread begun before the pandemic, they will explore possibilities in collaboration in this particular, precarious social moment.

Wistaria Project began as the artistic collaboration of Jenna Kirk and Jeremy Goren.

Wistaria Project isn't a company or organization but a living intersection of artistic relationships. They've engaged in workshops and work shares at the Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht in Havana, Cuba; The Hinterlands in Detroit, MI; and XOXO in Charlottle, NC. Together they led for eight years The Seed Group, a collaborative endeavor in song and community, in collaboration with The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.

Photo: Luca Martinelli