Krüger, Glenn, and Skapek are three New York City-based artists and performers, and the primary collaborating members of exit strategy. exit strategy creates genre-blurring work using found and devised text, live recording, and bodies in performance. Our work explores voyeurism, surveillance, and loneliness in an age of compulsive-connectedness. We investigate the desperate ways humans attempt connections through, or in spite of, technology. We draw on our respective backgrounds in dance, martial arts and visual composition to shape work that combines these elements with rigorous dramaturgy and athleticism in performance. exit strategy seeks to use the immediacy of live performance and the living physicality of human bodies in space to contrast the dehumanization of a modernity that promises, and so often fails, to connect us.
Our current work in development, sema--meaning both "sign" and "tomb" in its original Greek-- lives in the liminal spaces between our flesh and our screens, between our authentic selves and the selves we become in the presence of Another, between our morality and our pull towards conformity. sema grew out of an exploration of the scientific principle the Observer Effect, which proposes the idea that all particles and people behave differently when watched. Our research eventually became a triptych of found text, immersive / interactive performance, and movement. sema confronts the audience with thematics of voyeurism, complicity, joy, grief, alienation, and human legacy in the Anthropocene.