Archives are Under the Table: Performance & Screening
About this Event
The Compound’s Multidisciplinary Arts Program is pleased to present Silver Baits, Silver Archives, a culminating multi-chapter series unfolding across exhibitions, performances, screenings, and site-responsive interventions from June 20 – July 25, 2026. Through installations, moving images, sound, performance, and spatial choreography, this project explores surveillance, collective memory, mistranslation, and the unstable relationship between witnessing and control. Across three interconnected chapters, participating artists collectively examine how self-surveillance and archives under the table deform, echo, conceal, and rehearse power.
Chapter 2: Archives are Under the Table
Multi-site Performance & Screening Event
Sunday, June 28, Doors at 5PM
Featuring theatrical performance and live collaborations by Claire Alrich, edgy body movement performance by Anh Vo, and film screening of ‘Foot Stretcher” by Inbar Hagai
In this chapter, the archive refuses containment. It slips off the table, dispersing into movement, sound, and embodied encounter. Rather than a site of preservation, the archive becomes a live circuitry—activated, distorted, and redistributed across bodies, space, and time. Claire Alrich’s theatrical participatory performance unfolds as a through-space fabric embodiment, treating the body as both carrier and rupture of recorded experience. Anh Vo will carry megaphones over the queue barriers' obstructions, leading to a reckoning with the invisible power that looms over us and penetrates our very flesh.The screening of Foot Stretcher by Inbar Hagai extends this logic into a durational, intimate discipline: a year-long, near-impossible attempt to become a ballerina, where the body is subjected to regimes of aspiration, failure, and transformation. The archive here is a force that molds—stretching flesh, rehearsing desire, and exposing the violence embedded in ideals of form.
5:00–6:00PM: Claire Alrich
Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist living in Washington DC. A trained dancer, Claire’s art practice centers the body and the somatic experience even as it moves across mediums to include: installation, dance production, 2-D art, and sculpture. Based in DC since 2014, Claire’s work has been seen at Dance Place, ‘but, also’ gallery, RhizomeDC, The Kennedy Center, The Capital Fringe Festival, The Source Festival, and the Performatica Festival in Puebla, Mexico. Beyond her individual practice, Claire is a consummate collaborator and an active part of the DC art community. Career highlights include co-founding the performance collective Area Woman, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery, performing as a company member with darlingdance, and creating costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Claire is also the Field/DC site coordinator, regularly leading workshops in the Fieldwork feedback method. Her work is supported through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship.
6:15–7:00PM: Anh Vo
Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and ghostly forces that cut across flesh. Their work emerges from the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez's unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess, Moriah Evan's speculative commitment to the depth of interiority, Julie Tolentino's durational poetics of intimacy, Tehching Hsieh’s existential sense of time, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). Vo is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Cooper Union.
Photo Credit: Tony Krash
7:15–8:30PM: Screening of "Foot Strecher" by In bar Hagai
Inbar Hagai is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and moving-image programmer whose work spans video, virtual reality, kinetic sculpture and sound, installation, and experimental documentary filmmaking. Hagai gained her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her films and media installations have been exhibited internationally at venues including Silver Eye, Miller ICA Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Center for Digital Art Holon, and Manifesta 11, and in film and media festivals such as PrintScreen, DocAviv, Antimatter, and On Art Warsaw. Most recently, she received a New Work Grant from the Prospect Art Organization and was selected as an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 25.00
