EUTROPHIA II:
A Performance-Installation by Amy Chiao
October 3-4, 2025
Automata welcomes multimedia artist Amy Chiao + collaborators for the premiere of Eutrophia II, a durational installation-performance in Automata’s main gallery.
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October 3, 2025: Performances at 7PM and 8:30 PM
October 4, 2025: Performances at 4PM and 5:30 PM
Tickets: General Admission $18
Members, Students, Seniors, Artists $15
Eutrophia II is a “performance maintenance study of alternative no foam hygienic landscapes formed by our three historically Homo Consumericus trusted stage shapes: the arena, the proscenium, and let’s not forget the trigone, the third cousin once removed from the thrust” (--Amy Chiao).
Drawing from pick-and-place logistics, extinct professions, and resting furniture materials, Eutrophia II envisions the transition of manual labor into leisure tasking; a survival exhibition of transcending displacement at automation’s door.
These spatial assignments,responding to the arena, proscenium, and trigone, are activated by performers and voluntary audience surveys. They render an insufficient narrative, mapping the birth of occupational identity through ritual material production.
Orchestrated motions unfold atop an elliptical sodium bicarbonate firm pillow, framed in institutional green Hammermill 8.5 x 11” compositions, triangulated by liquid saving plastics stationed at the apron(s). As a triage, this performance-installation explores maintenance art in our traditionally limited floorplans of performativity and spectatorship, surveying which stage forms, hard or soft, we should continue to inhabit, produce, or choose to abandon.
Audiences will enter the installation-performance in groups of 20 at designated times and have the opportunity to move around the space individually and to experience Eutrophia ll , as it unfolds, from numerous perspectives.
This is a no foam zone.
Eutrophia II is the second iteration of ‘ur already in eutrophia.’ The first development phase of this collaborative project was made possible through the CalArts Reef Residency 2024-2025. This phase is supported through the Automata Residency Project.
Conceived and Directed by Amy Chiao
Performed by Avalon Greenberg Call, Dylan Marx, and YoungTseng
Set Design by Danny Baxter and Natalie Ferguson
Lighting Design by Natalie Ferguson
Movement Direction by Alexsa Durrans
Sound Design & Music Composition by Dylan Marx
Lighting Tech by Miles Moon Karraa
About the Artists:
Amy Chiao is a multimedia artist, performer, designer, and director working in site-specific performance installation, collage, and video. From Cerritos, California, Chiao comes from a family of Cantonese musicians and composers, Opera singers, and mannequin manufacturers. Her work strives to uncover and dimensionalize the fictitious nature of society through dramaturgy, narratology, and speculative design strategies. She currently resides in Austin, Texas, designing CMF (color/material/finish) stories for industrial robotics.
Danny Baxter is a spatial designer and applied artist whose work explores the intersections of narrative, movement, and form.
Avalon Greenberg Call is an actor, filmmaker, and multimedia artist with a degree in Theatre and Digital Arts from CalArts. She has co-starred alongside Esther Garrel and Andrew Bowser, with work spanning theatre and film since childhood. Her film The Ballet of Bombay Beach premiered at the IFC Film Festival, earning the Roy Disney Sustainability Grant, while Cyber City screened internationally. She is currently filming Light Falling Down and a World War II feature.
Alexsa Durrans lives and works in Los Angeles. She creates site-specific movement landscapes and sculptural video installations by shifting movement into digital, site-specific and non theatrical environments, using already built infrastructures to explore visual hierarchies coded into bodies and spaces. She employs techniques of gestural choreographies and activates everyday technologies such as the iphone to articulate the nuances of the Post-Internet body.
Natalie Ferguson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes visual art, installation, set design, and experimental film. Natalie’s background in community art informs her work, based on human relationships and our relationship to food and nature.
Dylan Marx is a composer, musician and artist. His work ranges from experiments in recording, archival sampling, and poetry.
YoungTseng is a mime. He is curious about how perspectives may shift when paying close attention with all available senses. His interest in movement and attention comes to him through the techniques of Marcel Marceau by way of director Christina Sergeant in Singapore, and in Etienne Decroux's Corporeal Mime with Thomas Leabhart in California.
Miles Moon Karraa is a Los-Angeles based writer and lighting designer. Her work is most inspired by humor found in absurd places.