PRESS
"The idea is a beautiful inefficiency: a tiny but infinitely more affected audience...an Odyssey Works production doesn't scream 'art' so much as whisper it into the subconscious retroactively."
-A Waking Dream Made Just for You
"Each Odyssey is part monthslong surprise birthday party, part love letter written in every conceivable language–and all just for you."
-Elaborate Plays for Audience of One
"[Odyssey Works] hopes to create sweeping, awesome experiences for audiences, affecting them in ways that no normal art piece could."
-Designing for Misuse
"People have been changed by the performances. They've quit their jobs. They've ended relationships."
- Studio 360:
A Play Where You’re the Star, But There’s No Script
"Instead of a mediated mass experience measured by critics or box office...why couldn’t art be more like a love poem, built on intimate understanding?"
-Who Staged a Months-Long Performance Piece Just for Rick Moody?
“The border between the quotidian and the performative became inapparent."
-Immaterial: When I Left the House it Was Still Dark
“For Odyssey Works, the city is not just a stage, but is an environment rich with significance, individual to each of us. Each performance mines these personalized landscapes to create a profound, transformative experience.”
-Odyssey Works: The City for an Audience of One
ADDITIONAL PRESS:
Archinect: Art of Intervention
The Alcalde: And You May Ask Yourself... How Did I Get Here?
Antro Positivo: Visitando Odyssey Works
ArtInfo: Odyssey Works Produces Weekend-Long Theater for an Audience of One
BEAT Festival: Interview with Abraham Burickson, Odyssey Works
Baltimore City Paper: Audience of One
BOMB: The Artificial Life
The Brooklyn Rail: Radical Empathy: A Manifesto for the 21st Century
Hyperallergic: Immersive Artistic Journeys for an Audience of One
Jubilat: The Necessary Angel
KALW: A Performance Crafted for You, Starring You
Magenta: This Art Collective Wants to Help You Be a Better Person
Radio Tania: Locating the Borderlands
The Rumpus: Rick Moody Interviews Abraham Burickson
San Francisco Magazine: Sunday in SF: Casting Call for the World's Strangest Play!
The Stanford Storytelling Project: Episode 403: How to Give
Tn2 Magazine: In Close Quarter