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Links to recent press about Oil Ancestors: Metaphysical Hotline, including features from Miami New Times and the Miami-Herald’s Tropical Sunday arts.

Some quotes from performance participants:

✨The piece was very artful, with so many layers and levels to a simple question.
I don’t share shit. I’m not a sharing person, and I did anyway. That was very interesting.

✨ We often think of ancestors as the past. So the framework is impactful— am I causing there not to be a future?

✨ It was interesting sonically, like foley artist theater. I also loved the recordings, the fragments. The positioning of me as the ancestor, that was beautiful, to be the ancestor.

✨ I got drawn into the idea of the unborn… the idea of the spirit waiting to be born into a world that we are creating for them.

✨ The survey primes you to be more imaginative when you’re answering the phone. I liked that. It’s a good way to signal what your intention is.

✨ I really love this earnest interest in magic and metaphysics… it feels very smart and accessible. And it’s such an interesting circumvention of people’s defense mechanisms.

 

…in speaking with the future being in the present, the speaker is put in the position of influencing the future. It is quite an astounding observation to consider.

(Miami-Herald / Artburst)



Read more: Miami Herald / Artburst
 

This piece puts you on the hook and says, ‘Don’t give up if you are doing something, and if you’re not doing anything, what can you do?

(Miami New Times)

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“I have always been very impressed by the care (Fereshteh) puts into all of their work and so much of their work is about personal experiences, and personal encounters,” said Kathryn Garcia, Live Arts Miami’s executive director.

(Miami Today: Best of Miami edition)

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To have the roles reversed and be asked to consider ourselves as the “ancestors” of future generations was an interesting thought experiment that made Metaphysical Hotline a worthwhile experience.

(No Proscenium)

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It’s brilliant… an intimate immersive theater experience but in a remote setting. All during this pandemic, it is hard to pinpoint or imagine a better-conceived art experience.

(Jitney Books)

Read more: The Jitney