Let’s talk about the weather. Let’s talk about forces of gravity, last-minute escapes, and out-of-body experiences. Let’s talk about chaotic good, Doppler radar, bad bosses, punching the clock, atmospheric conditions, near misses, desperate escape, and torrential rain. Let’s talk about flying.

Two voices in dialogue, perhaps avatars for writers Quincy Flowers and Steffani Jemison, serve as the play’s narrators. One character, obsessed with meteorology and the impossibility of accurately predicting the only thing we really want to know—whether it will rain tomorrow—discusses atmospheric conditions inside and outside institutional space. Meanwhile, the second character shares a series of near misses and desperate escapes from bad jobs, framing their professional instability as a commitment to fugitivity. Developed in conversation with diverse mythological and artistic references—from Icarus to the “flying African”—Flight Theater is an interdisciplinary meditation on the fantasy of a God’s eye view, the possibility of escape, and the enduring seduction of untethering ourselves from the earth.

Flight Theater premieres at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève as a reading by the authors. The work is commissioned by and made possible with support from the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

Image : Steffani Jemison, Sky Is The Only Roof I’ve Ever Had, Research Image, 2023