How We Spend Our Days

June 2023

A wholly original, freewheeling and fully fledged production meditating on the titular question as well larger questions regarding the creation of art, the need for play and the inherent value of collaboration. Presented at CounterPulse.

Evan Johnson as the Cave Boy. Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Klanghaus Forever Seminar

September 2019

A full length play created by the Klanghaus ensemble in Detroit and performed in Oakland. A performance featuring an unhinged and semi-cursed powerpoint, guided meditation and a sing along with loved ones.

Willie Caldwell freshly washed. Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Barn Owl

June 2018

Created with Evan Johnson and performed at Counter Pulse. A full length play exploring gender, aliens and the new age featuring an ensemble of 13 cosmic elders. Below is a nice featured article: 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/performance/article/CounterPulse-artists-forge-agency-with-Barn-12945549.php

Jupiter’s Great Moon. Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Ambient Disco Karaoke

2017

A new age spoken word disco karaoke booth installation created by Teddy Hulsker. Shake Shake Shake Your Booty.

The Booth of Wonder

Office of Certain Things 

2017

A full length experience conceptualized in Berlin performed in Oakland’s Oakland Secret and LA’s Union House. A blend of installation art and immersive theater about community, spirituality and blood sacrifice developed in Berlin and performed in Oakland and LA. 

Audience prior to blood sacrfice.

Falling off The Map

2016

Developed and Performed in Los Angles in the backyard of DIY venue the Union House and a spiritual sequel to our prior work A Play About Leaving. A play about leaving home to create art and a new identity. Featuring the first appearance of the high-heel wearing Showman and an alternate ending featuring a talking car. 

Teddy Hulsker as the Showman

A Play About Leaving

2015

Our first production developed in residence at the Light Box in Detroit Michigan and then performed at Fixed Freedom in San Francisco. A partially autobiographical play exploring art making in the Bay Area, the Robot Sex Police and getting an audience to move an entire refrigerator up on stage. 

Trailer
Robbie Bruens at the Oracle

Klanghaus Events

2015-2019

Between 2015 and 2019 we hosted an eclectic and eccentric series of events at around the Bay Area. Venues ranged from homes to East Bay DIY spaces like Oakland Secret and Martial Arts to more formal venues like Pro Arts Gallery and Z Space. Each event had a theme such as Clownhaus, Fashionhaus, Fleahaus, and Quiethaus that dictated the types of art featured and the format of the event. We collaborated with over a hundred artists during this period and had a dedicated audience from all of the Bay Area’s various scenes.  

Images from our immersive events
Our original wedding ceremony