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MO-RES is a collaboration between Ray Oppenheimer and Meghan Moe Beitiks, exploring the tension between human ecological experience and the mediation of technology.
Meghan Moe Beitiks works with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and their own body in order to produce work that examines relationships with the non-human. The work emerges as video, performance, installation, writing or photography depending on what arises from their process of research and improvisation.
They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where they studied playwriting, acting, movement and scenic design. They have an MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they studied Bio Art, Social Practice, Environmental Chemistry, and performance methodologies.
They have presented work in California, Chicago, Brooklyn, Wales, London, Latvia, Australia and Russia. They have been a Fulbright Student Fellow in Theater to Latvia, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, an OxBow LeRoy Neiman Fellow, a Bemis Artist in Residence, Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Principal Investigator, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recipient for the Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists.
Ray Oppenheimer is a San Francisco Bay Area based lighting designer, educator, scenographer, technologist, and creator who has been bringing his boundless curiosity, chimerical aesthetic, and Sisyphean perseverance to performance design and education since 2005. Ray graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in lighting design from San Francisco State University in the Fall of 2017.
As a lighting designer, Ray has worked with Word For Word, Z Space, piecebypiece productions, ACT, The Magic Theatre, Mugwumpin, Shotgun Players, Center Rep, New Conservatory Theatre Company, Crowded Fire, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Company, Debutants and Vagabonds, David Herrera’s Performance Company, and Red Rooster. He has created the original lighting designs for the world premieres of A Tale of Autumn by Christopher Chen, Grandeur By Han Ong, Pen Man Ship by Christina Anderson, Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon, The Virgin with 10k Arrows by Jason Tremblay, Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World by Yussef El Guindi, and Blockbuster Season and In Event of Moon Disaster by Mugwumpin.
Ray has pursued many avenues of creative expression. learning new skills and making an ever-expanding menagerie of artifacts. Some of his artifacts include electrified props, hand embroidery, 3D printed objects, woodworking, and metal casting using a lost pla technique.
