A moment from Innova. Photo: Christy Pessagno.

Opening tomorrow night and running through 22 May, Innova is the latest project from Object Collection at the Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; it is being co-produced by the Incubator Arts Project. Describing it as “an ecstatically urban opera for the 21st century,” Object Collection says of the piece:

With text collaged from gangster films, political manifestos, and plagiarized performance art, five vocalists sift through a baroque landscape of objects and tools triggering a barrage of action, images and sound. Based in Brooklyn, Object Collection deftly operates within the intersecting practices of performance, experimental music and theater, giving audiences unconventional viewing experiences through a merging of theatricality and pedestrian activity.

The five vocalists are Doug Barrett, Avi Glickstein, Eric Magnus, Fulya Peker, and Deborah Wallace, who perform a text by director Kara Feely in the English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Hebrew languages; Travis Just is the composer. Object Collection has been receiving considerable media attention of late: there’s this extended profile of the group from the New Music Box site, and they’ve even garnered attention from The Huffington Post. Tickets are available here, and below is the trailer for Innova, which gives you a brief taste of the whole: