The Wandering

The Wandering was an immersive, interactive pseudo-performance to be experienced by one person at a time. Under the leadership of Executive Artistic Director Jeremy Paul, a creative team of dancers, painters, filmmakers, installation artists, writers, musicians, performers, and more constructed a gallery of dream-spaces that tell the story of a group of strangers brought together under mysterious circumstances. Part art gallery, part theme park ride or haunted house, The Wandering explored themes of connection/disconnection, individualism vs. collectivism, resilience, mourning, and use of artistic metaphor to reframe our lives.

2020 Storefront Residency Program

In 2020, Maelstrom Collaborative Artspresented a 6-week long residency program showcasing physically-distant + socially-relevant work to our neighbors in the Detroit-Shoreway and Cleveland community. Each weekend, new sets of visual and performing artists took over our storefront windows to create work that could be viewed from the safety of our sidewalk. This program continued our mission to create artistic platforms for local creators even in the midst of a pandemic.

Inferno

Inferno was an immersive performance remixing and reimagining Dante’s Inferno for 2019. 30 artists collaborated on a multi-level performance in an abandoned warehouse to create this large-scale explorable interdisciplinary work. More about the Inferno can be found here.

MCA Performance Photos