Examining the discourse around the climate crisis, Profound Fatigue is M. Mara-Ann's newest intermedia performance piece and the fourth installment in the five-part Containment Scenario series. Utilizing all three floors of the Meridian Gallery, Profound Fatigue will present a trans-disciplinary work employing improvised music, dance, text, theater, and live-feed videography that moves and shifts between floors as the surreal audio-visual tale of environment unfolds. Hosting a cast of horses, bears, wolves, a mustache doctor, and a curly headed woman, the swirling narrative explores the language used to discuss climate change as we attempt to name and un-name the ineffable. Profound Fatigue features: Jason Hoopes (bass), Noah Phillips (guitar), Gretchen Jude (koto, voice), Julie Binkley (dance), M. Mara-Ann (voice), Alexa Hall (live-feed videography), and Melissa Lozano (live transcription).

M. Mara-Ann is a San Francisco based vocalist, writer, and performance artist whose multi-disciplinary work employs improvised music, dance, text, video, and theater to explore topics of the environment. She is the artistic director of Flying Deer Theater, which is currently producing the intermedia performance series The Containment Scenario Project. Launched in 2007 with The Global Environmental Crisis, The Clock (2008), FUEL (2009), and Profound Fatigue (2011), the Containment Scenario series is adapted from M. Mara-Ann's book Containment Scenario: DisloInter MedTextId entCation: Horse Medicine (OBooks, 2009). Mara holds an MFA from Mills College in creative writing with cross-disciplinary emphasis in music, media, and performance.