blue gomorrah is a work about us and not about us. About the lands we occupied during the height of the 2020 lockdown. About capitalism. About possibility. About land ownership. About Enya. About loneliness. About spirituality and not about religion. About the fall of man. It’s an anti-capitalist, post-apocalyptic meditation on being and being seen. About being plopped down into a burning world and grappling with the fact that this world was made for you by you because we are God and Man is 5 and the Devil is 6. (this monkey’s gone to heaven)

Premiered: March 2021
Commissioned & Presented by: freeskewl
Performers: Nattie Trogdon & Hollis Bartlett
Filming/ Editing: Hollis Bartlett & Nattie Trogdon
Music/ Sound Design: Enya “Echoes in Rain” & Hollis Bartlett


PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Center for Performance Research (CPR) / Spring Movement curated by Pioneers Go East / Brooklyn, NY / April 29 & 30, 2022
PostFuture Performance Festival  / Proteomedia virtual platform / July 2020, 2021
On the House (PREMIERE) / freeskewl virtual platform / March 6, 2021


Filmed on the unceded homelands of the Lumbee, Neusiok, Seminole, & Timucua tribal nations.
This work was created in part during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with funding from Pabst Steinmetz Foundation and 3 X 23 Campaign Donors.