"Cupola Bobber carry their home, their universe, on their backs - a cosmology part kaijin [Japanese film effects monster], part Buster Keaton. They make a place for performance in the twenty-first century." -- Matthew Goulish

Cupola Bobber is a collaboration between Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers. Founded in 1999 they have created three evening length performances; 2001's Subterfuge, 2004's Petitmal, and 2007's The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment. They have performed at the PAC/edge festival, The Spareroom, and Links Hall in Chicago, Performance Works Northwest in Portland, OR, The CUE Art Foundation in New York, and toured to many venues in the UK. Alongside the evening length performance work they have made video, durational performance, and published writing. They were the recipients of an International Fellowship at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University, UK for the 07/08 season, they have served as visiting artists for SAIC's First Year Program and for Goat Island's Summer School, and have conducted unique and successful collaborative performance devising workshops. Petitmal received a Best of PAC/edge award, and they won a pair of Nelson Raymond Fellowships from The School of the Art Institute with their BFA's in 2001.

Their current performance, Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me was commissioned by Links Hall, PS122, and the NPN and will debut in Chicago at Links Hall in April, 2009 before traveling to Austin for Fusebox and then PSS122 in NYC.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Cupola Bobber is creating a new aesthetic using a process of collaboration, research, and rehearsal. We work slowly out of our studio on Chicago's northwest side, mixing basic materials with homespun engineering, bumbling wit, and a fascination for the tension in a beautiful moment to make delicate work that focussed on detail, humor, and integrity. We aim to use this simple aesthetic to explore the world for an hour or two, look at it from arms length, creating a new system for the audience to discover meaning. Intimacy, delicacy, and confusion are important; exhaustion is deployed to dramatize minutia. It's important to us for our performances to effectively slow down - make a moment a monument.

ARTIST WEBSITE

http://cupolabobber.com/