REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.

CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.

REDCAT: The concert version of the Robert Een’s opera tells the tale of a desperado who goes on the run to flee his wicked past, only to find that there is no locale so remote that it cannot be found — nor heart so dark that it cannot be redeemed. Spanning the globe from the American Wild West to the mountains of Tibet, Een’s escapologist encounters a series of unlikely teachers who appear in the guises of laborers, lovers and thieves, and eventually lead him to one definitive, life-changing event.