GĒR Collective (pronounced “gear”) presents their first evening length performance, Gasket, at the historic Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California. The experiential, multimedia work considers memory fertilization and its inevitable depletion. Using movement and auditory repetition, the piece questions the trust that we place in sensations of familiarity. In this two-part performance, audiences are guided through adjoining spaces and engage with fleeting memories that are constructed, fractured, and resurrected anew. Patrons first encounter an environment stuck in time that serves as a liminal holding space for memory. They are then led to an immersive performance during which the after and fore life of the previous experience is detangled, taunting participants with a recursive reality. Through the act of traversing these ecosystems, performers and audiences activate breaches of a conceptual “gasket” that seals the past and present and when worn down, may leak or rupture. With an attention to the precarious nature of recollection, Gasket confronts what is frontal and what is peripheral of memory and examines the longing brought on by the discomfort of forgetting. Ticket reservations can be made on the Highways website linked below: https://www.highwaysperformance.org/events/ger-collective-gasket-2024-10-19-20-00 For all inquiries, please contact gercollective.contact@gmail.com