As 2025 SU-CASA Artists, we are facilitating “Creating New out of the Old,” a collaborative theater project for older adults at the ARC XVI Fort Washington senior center.

An interactive performance ritual for letting go of the things holding us back. Our Jane Fonda-esque Catharty Captains guide the community through an exorcism of objects from audience members’ lives.

An interactive kinetic installation using artifacts audience members released at Let’s Exorcise! to create new beginnings for things that appear, on their surface, to have already met their end. Devised with students from three Barnard courses.

An original production about the fears, divisions, and governmental overreach shaping the lives of Americans during the 1950s Red Scare. Behind closed doors and in front of the cameras, government officials, Hollywood stars, and powerless Americans grasp for an alternative ending to a story on repeat.

mission

the after-image develops original theatrical productions collectively, guided by the voices of each contributing artist.

the after-image fuses the instruments of theater, movement, audience interaction, and design to welcome what might be possible in solidarity.

the after-image cultivates relationships of trust, reciprocity, and joy to make the art we need now.

Excerpt from HOUSE OF AMERICAN ACTIVITIES // videography by Carlos Cardona & editing by Cayla Mae Simpson

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the after-image is fiscally sponsored through Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts service organization. Your 100% tax deductible donation sustains artist pay, rehearsal space, and performance costs. Learn more.