Projection, two digital clocks set to the time of the performance and local time of exhibition, sound, 7hr 1min
Installation View at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conneticut, USA.
Photo Credit: Gloria Perez
Video Series
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut
2024
Video Series
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut
2024
Rope
2022
Single Channel Video, Sound
Installation View at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conneticut, USA.
Photo Credit: Gloria Perez
Table Games
2021
Projection, two digital clocks set to the time of the performance and local time of exhibition, sound, 7hr 1min
Installation View at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conneticut, USA.
Photo Credit: Gloria Perez
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut
August 19 to September 8, 2024
Curated by Eduardo Andres Alfonso
Eva Richardson McCrea stages encounters between actors who are performing scripted lines and improvising within set guidelines. Centered around moments of deal making and financial risk, Rope and Table Games frame the banality of high stakes transactions.
In Rope, 2022, three men eat food from takeaway containers and drink champagne in a derelict room. They chat about holidays and hobbies, have a conversation about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, and discuss property development, among other things. The scripted parts of their conversation were developed from online reviews of Hitchcock’s Rope; the interviews and writings of Daniel Doctoroff, New York City's economic-development czar under Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class; and quotes from Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects.
In Table Games, 2021, six characters are playing poker. They played for real money which the winner received at the end of the performance. Each player was given a score of gestures, sentences and actions that they activate over the course of the game. Initially live-streamed, Richardson McCrea and her collaborator, Nina Nadig, live-edited the four camera recordings over the course of the seven hours.
Text by Eduardo Andres Alfonso
Rope
2022
Single Channel Video, Sound 14m 6s
Installation View at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conneticut, USA.
Photo Credit: Gloria Perez
Table Games
2021
Projection, two digital clocks set to the time of the performance and local time of exhibition, sound, 7hr 1min
Installation View at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conneticut, USA.
Photo Credit: Gloria Perez
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut
August 19 to September 8, 2024
Curated by Eduardo Andres Alfonso
Eva Richardson McCrea stages encounters between actors who are performing scripted lines and improvising within set guidelines. Centered around moments of deal making and financial risk, Rope and Table Games frame the banality of high stakes transactions.
In Rope, 2022, three men eat food from takeaway containers and drink champagne in a derelict room. They chat about holidays and hobbies, have a conversation about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, and discuss property development, among other things. The scripted parts of their conversation were developed from online reviews of Hitchcock’s Rope; the interviews and writings of Daniel Doctoroff, New York City's economic-development czar under Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class; and quotes from Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects.
In Table Games, 2021, six characters are playing poker. They played for real money which the winner received at the end of the performance. Each player was given a score of gestures, sentences and actions that they activate over the course of the game. Initially live-streamed, Richardson McCrea and her collaborator, Nina Nadig, live-edited the four camera recordings over the course of the seven hours.
Text by Eduardo Andres Alfonso