SUNDER: Studies in Grief and Ease
Created & Performed by Mary Prescott
October 18, 2025
1pm & 8:30pm
LUMINARY ARTS CENTER
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Sunder is an ongoing process of study in Grief and Ease connecting the artist’s present day lived experiences with those inherited from her ancestral feminine, transmuting Asian mythologies, spirituality and cultural rites. Sunder is an interdisciplinary performance involving music and sound, word, movement, installation and video.
Approximately 90 minutes.
Credits
Created and performed by Mary Prescott.
Music and sound, video, text, movement, installation, direction and design by Mary Prescott.
Media captures by Mary Prescott, with the exception of the ‘Mary in the Field’ video, which was captured by Bill Phelps and Drew Hill.
Stage Technicians:
Sasha Blinnikova
Jeremy Ellarby
Riley Rosalie
About the Artist
Mary Prescott is a Thai-American interdisciplinary artist, composer and pianist based in Minneapolis and New York City who explores the foundations and facets of identity and social conditions through experiential performance. She aims to foster understanding and create pathways for change by voicing emotional and human truths through artistic investigation and dissemination.
Featured in “21 for ‘21: Composers and Performers Who Sound Like Tomorrow,” The Washington Post describes her work as “a bright light cast forward... uncompromising,” and “masterfully envisioned.” Prescott is an awardee of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Music; McKnight Composer Fellowship; the Princess Grace Award for Theater; the National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund; a National Performance Network Documentation and Storytelling Grant; a New Music USA Project Grant; an American Composers Forum Create Commission; The American Opera Project Composers and the Voice Fellowship; an Opera America New Works Forum Grant; a Puffin Foundation Grant; and several state and regional awards. She has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Roulette Intermedium, The Great Northern Festival, The Schubert Club, Living Arts of Tulsa, Public Functionary, White Snake Projects, Chautauqua Opera, The American Opera Project, Piano Teachers Congress of NY, Shepherdess Duo, Metropolis Ensemble, and Duo Harmonia. She has held artist residencies with Loghaven, The Bogliasco Foundation, The Camargo Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Roulette Intermedium, Lanesboro Arts, Hudson Hall, Areté Venue and Gallery, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, The League of Independent Theater, Arts Letters and Numbers, and Chautauqua Opera. She has been a Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Artist, and a Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist.
Mary currently sits on the board of the National Performance Network.
She holds piano performance degrees from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and Manhattan School of Music.
Mary Prescott is a Steinway Artist.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Development support provided in part by Loghaven Artist Residency and Mabou Mines.
