June 13 - June 22, 2025
ANIMAL calls to the parts of you that hide behind language. It asks you to sense the rebellion in sensing. To feel the resistance in body borne focus. To stop with the doom scroll and stop with the chatter and hear what the animal in you knows.
Conceived as an underground listening gym, this boundary-pushing encounter with sound takes over an expansive concrete basement underneath the historic MacArthur Building, a site with startling acoustic properties that houses a massive empty pool.
ANIMAL [the underground] features a sea of subs and speakers that ripple through this building as a resonant force and a custom rig of full-bodied sonic machines that spread throughout the site like stations at a gym. The listening gym functions not to force participation but to up the ante of body investment, to blur the line between doing and watching, agent and witness, alone and together. It's a social proposition for bodies in sound that is bigger than words and wider than self.
Prying open space for sound-fueled focus that is body-amped and adrenaline-tuned, ANIMAL interrogates the social force of sound and the primacy of listening to our power as a herd.
Dive into the deep end June 2025.
ANIMAL [the underground] is a co-production of The Industry and OXY ARTS.
Official dates & tickets to be announced this spring.
Creative Team
Ash Fure | Sound/Concept
Xavi Aguirre | Scenic Architecture/Concept
Sunder Ganglani | Dramaturgy
Barbara Samuels | Lighting Design
Daniel Neumann | Audio Engineer
Diana Wyenn | Producer
