Thank You For Coming is a series of works which heighten how we experience ourselves in relation to other bodies, other stories and the spaces we all inhabit, as a company of performers, designers, supporters and audiences is built around a long-term creative endeavor. Each iteration of Thank You For Coming—Attendance, and Play and Space—forms a unique lens onto how we subvert social experience to prove that we do not exist in a vacuum and are made toward the creation of interdependent societies, whether it is the creation of a connected body, a connected story or a connected space. Together, they form a contemporary ritual in which we experience and inhabit the interconnectivity and culpability of ourselves in a heightened arena, in an irreverent and rigorous effort to create new bodies, new stories and new forms. Along with a company of performers and collaborators who will be involved in making and supporting the creation of this series over the next several years, Faye Driscoll asks: How do we perceive ourselves as participants in the co-creation of our reality? Through performance can we collectively, in some small way, create a new vision of society? Ultimately, the works will exist in vibrant, dissonant relationship to one another, while forming an ambitious exaggeration of scale, duration, archive and community.

The final installment of the trilogy, Thank You For Coming: Space, took place in Los Angeles, CA at REDCAT from September 15–17, 2022.