TECHNICOLOR GUIDE TO THE END OF TIME

A multi-media performance. 2025.

Technicolor Guide to the End of Time is a chaotic and urgent response to an increasingly absurd world. Blurring the boundaries between expanded cinema, video art, and performance, the work takes the form of a 45-minute live improvisation—part ritual, part reckoning. At its core, the piece is a reactive feedback loop: performers wield everyday objects—yardsticks, flowerpots, desk chairs, and Pop-Tart™ wrappers—as instruments, creating a cacophony of resistance set against a shifting, feedback-driven video landscape mediated through a live camera and Panasonic WJ-AVE5 Video Mixer.

What emerges is a surreal instructional manual for collective survival in the face of fascism, xenophobia, and systemic collapse. Born out of a shared emotional rupture, Technicolor Guide insists on play, cooperation, and joyful defiance as political acts. It rejects language as the primary mode of communication, opting instead for embodied improvisation, reciprocal listening, and absurdity as tools for subversion and healing.

This is a guide without a map, a transmission from the edge of sense—offering viewers an unstable but vividly saturated space in which to imagine otherwise.

Made in collaboration with Liv Arnold, Shawn Bailey, and Con Ray.

Logo design by Liv Arnold

Screening preview of Technicolor Guide to the End of Time. 3m00s. 2025.

The inaugural performance was held at The Orbit Room in Bloomington, Indiana on May 2nd, 2025. Poster design by Liv Arnold.