Cupola Bobber

Cupola Bobber is collaboration between Stephen Fiehn and Tyler Myers. Founded in 1999, they have created three evening-length performances; 2001’s Subterfuge, 2004’s Petitmal, and 2007’s premiere of The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment. They have performed at the PAC/edge festival, The Spareroom, and Links Hall in Chicago and Performance Works Northwest in Portland, OR. They also performed a durational work, Light Curve, in Chicago’s Millenium Park as part of the Great Performers of Illinois festival, in a curated durational event titled Intimate and Epic. In 2002, they made a video installation, Study For a Performance, in the salt flats just east of Wendover, UT. Published writing includes A Conversation in 50 Jumps Using a Trampoline and a Cliff in JUMP, an anthology on jumping, and Internal Monologue for One Performer Taking One Step Slowly in SLOW. They have served as visiting artists for SAIC’s First Year Program and for Goat Island’s Summer School. Petitmal received a Best of PAC/edge award, and they won a pair of Nelson Raymond Fellowships from The School of the Art Institute with their BFA’s in 2001. Stephen Fiehn also plays in the band Fessenden. Tyler also makes work with the Chicago art collective Lucky Pierre.