Conceived/Directed by Janie Geiser, and developed with Automata and an ensemble of designers and performers, Fugitive Time is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by dual histories of illness and health, optimism and exclusion in 1920’s/1930’s Los Angeles. Promoted as the land of eternal sunshine, LA became a haven and (often final) destination for sufferers of tuberculosis and chronic diseases. Fugitive Time integrates puppetry, film, miniatures, performance, and live-feed video, and centers on the life of a fictitious 1930's TB patient. Janie Geiser: "From a photograph I found of a 1920's TB tent clinic in the east Los Angeles mountains, I began to follow down the compelling, sometimes disturbing history of TB in LA, finding a record of illness, hope, voluntary and forced hospitalizations, exclusionary measures, politics, class, and race. Tuberculosis, before antibiotics, was one of the leading causes of death. New ideas for cures abounded, notably that fresh air and sunshine could have a beneficial effect. Rest cures and sanatoriums sprang up. Los Angeles, with its sunny climate, became a locus of the migration for a cure. Illness can be isolating, debilitating, and obliterate identity; it can instill fear in those not afflicted. Alternately, illness and caretaking can be the site of sublime human interaction. In approaching this history with compassion, we hope to bring to the surface a largely forgotten piece of Los Angeles history. " Fugitive Time was also presented at The Yard (Martha's Vineyard, 2015) and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2014)