Details
| First Name | Eulàlia |
| Last Name | Comas |
| Username | eulaliac |
| Bio | Laia (she/her or they/them) is an interdisciplinary writer-director, composer, and teaching artist who also conducts experiments in multimedia art and bookmaking. They have previously appeared as an actor on stage at The Wooster Group’s Performing Garage (Manhattan, 2019), The Brick Theater (Williamsburg, 2019), and Wesleyan Center for the Arts (Middletown, 2020); have directed several plays including Life (Charles Mee, STC 2018), God’s Ear (Jenny Schwartz, Second Stage 2019), Stupid Fucking Bird (Aaron Posner, AOP 2020), Things are Afoot (Devised, AOP 2020), and The Book of Chrysanthemum (Laia Comas, AOP 2022); and have published writings in The Dillydoun Review, The Lavender, and at the Eleventh International Conference for Food Studies. As a composer, she had a sound piece show at La Mama Galleria as part of a limited run group exhibition with The Fool Volk in August, 2022. In addition, she was nominated for Best Original Music at QIFF for the short film “A Month Apart” (Reformat Studios, 2020), and her debut soundtrack album is out this year for the film “Understory” (Reformat Studios, 2022).
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| Country of residence | United States (US) |
Statement
| Statement | I feel that art is about finding somewhere—literally somewhere, a place—to reliably get yourself lost in the flow of argumentation. The quickest route to these places is, in my experience, accumulation. Art—the accumulation of ephemera—is the site where logic can only get us so far, that we return to over and over as a way to remind ourselves that it is important to not know, and it is precisely the limit of logic that allows for the serendipity of emergence out of accumulated assemblages. My work lies not in the production of new things but in engaging with what is already there, in looking around and noticing, in world-building, in sculpting an affect of inevitability and a place for things to occur, and in the embodied construction of forms so that they may be tested. So that things might emerge beyond the limit of our control and our presuppositions. Meu trabalho não está na produção de coisas novas, mas no envolvimento com o que já está lá, em olhar ao redor e perceber, na construção do mundo, em esculpir um afeto de inevitabilidade e um lugar para que as coisas ocorram, e na construção corporificada de formulários para que possam ser testados. Para que as coisas possam emergir além do limite de nosso controle e de nossos pressupostos.
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Exhibitions
| Exhibitions | Selected works / Trabalhos selecionados: The Fool Volk (sound designer) – La Mama Galleria 2022
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