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IN THE RESIDENCY
October 2014
“I’ve been told that I take the ambiguity
of the universe very personally.”
SAM CORBIN
Canada
samanthalcorbin@gmail.com // www.samanthacorbin.com
My interest lies in the myriad gestures of language—most notably,
when those gestures begin to demand of their audiences a givingover
to the territory of NONSENSE. I believe that the irreverent,
unbounded imagination can yet find its way to symbol. In order to
find such symbols, my work often plumbs the inherent abstractions
of the metaphysical arena, playing upon reason (or lack thereof)
until it finds itself utterly afield.
Nothing lends itself to metaphor so keenly as Nature. As such, my
time in the bucolic recesses of Finland will be spent developing
site-responsive wordplay, composing expatriate parody and
translating the visual poetry of a landscape I have never known.
I relish this departure from cultural cliché. I intend to make new
meanings out of the strange humor that reveals itself abroad, and
commit myself to it like a patient to an asylum.
And finally, an ode in the third-person singular:
Sam Corbin is a force of whimsy. A multi-hyphenate arts pioneer
born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, she holds her B.F.A in
Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, via the Experimental
Theatre Wing. Sam’s creative work focuses on deepening our
human relationship to infinity, nonsense and the dreaming brain.
Her original plays, compositions and comedic ceremonies have
been presented around New York City and Brooklyn. Sam is
currently developing a play that rests entirely on Wit and Nonsense,
as a playwright with Fresh Ground Pepper’s 2014 Playground
Playgroup. She is a member of Theater Reconstruction Ensemble
(TRE).