"Collinsport" by Geodesic Gnome, Connor Kizer and Stephanie Barber. The Final Scene...

John Berndt, Stephanie Barber, Ric Royer and Connor Kizer's COLLINSPORT is an inquiry into the structural anomalies of Dark Shadows (1966-1971), the American gothic-occult soap-opera famous for its unstable cast, momentum-less plot, and unusually over-elaborate dialog.

In this multimedia production of COLLINSPORT performed by Geodesic Gnome, all these elements and more are made to spin faster and faster in a test-tube until a precipitate of pure, undiluted reason drops onto the floor and shatters along with the known universe. Carved from the molten ice of popular-culture-as-psychedelic-logical-modality, the piece is a direct expression of your greatest fears about misunderstanding, enthused lethargy, and, well, vampires. Add to this the obscure theory of 'paradox paradoxes' which threatens to consume all of semantics and what have you got?

A ROLLICKING GOOD TIME HAD BY ALL, THAT'S WHAT.

With the immortal talents of:

Connor Kizer
Stephanie Barber
Lexie Mountain
Peter Blasser
John Eaton
Samuel Burt
Ric Royer
Sarah El Jallad
John Berndt
Mike Muniak
Melissa Moore
Peter Blasser
Kate Porter
Liz Meredith

Geodesic Gnome is Baltimore's meta-conceptual super-group, performing boundary-defying philosophy and paradoxes-as-structure, lead by John Berndt. In this case the group is joined by Baltimore geniuses Connor Kizer and Stephanie Barber for this unique tribute to the Dark Shadows of Dark Shadows.

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• geodesic gnome
• dark shadows
• barnabas collins
• experimental muisc
• collinsport
• collingwood
• victoria winters
• Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard
• Burke Devlin
• Roger Collins
• Jason McGuire
• Man in The Iron Mast
• 2640 Space
• Red Room
• High Zero
• Baltimore
• Theatre of The Absurd

[aratkorga]

So strange really. Though it seems as if I have just now watched this video clip, I feel as if I have been reading these lines and walking these movements all of my life. It is indeed odd, strange really how unusual this feeling is! One could almost say that I have never felt this weird before and still, I feel as if I often have indescribable reactions to stimuli. I mean my back! My shoulders! My dandruff!

[onesownthoughts]

I never watched "Dark Shadows" but they were watching me - no matter where I went, the dark shadows followed & Ric Royer was a plant, unobtrusively planted, as plants often are, nearby, always nearby. Distinguished cast, hard to make out splint.

[ricroyer]

Yo, this is weird. Who are these people? I guess this is "art", but dude, I dunno. This is like something in a some weird tv show, like Wizard Hunt. Maybe Im missing something but this is weird. Who are these people?