Object Collection believes in so much going on at once, and while You Are Under Our Space Control features noisy, desperate music, the visuals are so gosh-darned appealing that you never let your inner critic find too much fault with the spectacle. Alessandro Magania provides stellar movement sequences, designed to slow the flow of an otherwise tumultuous world. He is dwarfed and Christ-like under the weight of Time, holding his fate and his future. On the stage, each performer of the ensemble (Steven Ali, Avi Glickstein, Yuki Kawahisa, Annie Kunjappy, Alessandro Magania, Daniel Allen Nelson, Nicolás Noreña and Fulya Peker) takes their space. The video never takes away from the width of Peiyi Wong’s set design, with the total stage picture adding in parts slowly. A whirling globe, covered by bits of torn paper, is projected on sides of the stage. Direction by Kara Feely really allows you to see each part separately, appreciating each snippet of performance and momentary interaction. A thin performer sits under an egg, or is it an enormous hairdryer? They create their own dome, under which to perform their feat of magic. Dark, occult leanings are made humorous with the addition of slinkies around the eyes, perfectly placed helmets, sequins wraps, and black and white striped pants. You get the sense that Object Collection created You Are Under Our Space Control after researching astral projection, cryogenics, and, of course, 1950s television. “Culture is so wigged out, debased, abstracted from its own centers…or re-approaching with all the maimed, tawdry self-conscious desperations of the converted, inducted, signed on…” Traveling back in time can be a difficult struggle, with some pathways absolutely refreshed, while others treading so deeply that their traces are undeniable. While so many crowded around their TV, I traveled to one of my favorite theaters, La MaMa ETC, located at 66 East 4th Street, to see a team of performance artists that I hadn’t seen in five years. Superbowl Sunday was a perfect day to do this. Object Collection wants you to engage in the work – See it. While ideas on the page, like the ones above from Kara Feely, are a starting point, they are really a map to creating the dramatic action. I have had a fit of despondency in consequence of being obliged to renounce my own observations as too rough for use.” “I began to recompute for the comet, with observations of Cambridge and Washington, today. With a smattering of words, carefully grouped to alert the scholar that collectivism and collaboration go hand in hand, Object Collection sparked some new ideas with You Are Under Our Space Control, inviting the spectator to consider the importance of space and the wicked world beyond.