Project description:
Morganville presented Fugue in 2004 at Insight Arts and Performing Arts Chicago's Edge Festival. Using trauma as a point of departure this piece combines elements of personal trauma taken from history and popular culture ranging from the book Sybil and The Wizard of Oz to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, studies of child killers and their victims, and 19th century cases of hysteria. The work questions aspects of displacing voice and complicating authorial position. How does a body and mind respond to ongoing threats and mistreatment? How do heroes function? What is too big? Does the heroine have a name? What is the legacy of war? How is it manifest in the psyche? What is an epilogue? How can you tell when a picture is lying?