projects

SLCTD WRKS
(for list of complete works, click---> CV)

The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen
In this installment of Performance Thanatology’s ongoing research in death and performance, a solitary figure performs all his old songs and dances despite the loss of his partner, the loss of his dancing shoes, and the loss of his teeth. Somewhere between Krapp’s Last Tape and Artaud’s Spurt of Blood, this is what really became of vaudeville.

Dark Cabinet of the Strange Weird. Ric Royer and G. Lucas Crane take the art of the scary story to new dimensions and extremes as they combine Royer's surreal tales of the darkly humorous macabre with Crane's intensely terrifying soundscapes.
This special vinyl release comes in a box designed by Baltimore artist Erin Womack and includes other scary secret inserts.
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There Were One and It Was Two; Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum.
A performance, book and cd. Initially a solo performance piece, the cd/book was published Narrow House Records and features a soundtrack by John Berndt. Twins, decoys, shadows and other variations of The Double, providing companionship throughout life and chasing you until death.
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Transmodern Festival (Live.Art.Action)
Co-organizer, performance festival in Baltimore. Transmodern is a festival of provocative works by cultural experimenters from Baltimore and the World. The artists of Transmodern defy traditional genres and embrace radical innovation through transmedia, clashes of organic vs. artificial intelligence, psychogeography, dislocation of consensus reality, real politic and collective cultural action.

Hystery of Heat
Ensemble performance piece with Bonnie Jones, Jackie Milad, G Lucas Crane and Paige Shuttleworth. Performed at Ontological Hysteric Theatre, DC Arts Center, and Baltimore Theatre Project.

The Weather Not the Weather.
A full-length serial poem about the inability to go back. Published by Outside Voices. Cover design by Justin Sirois.
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Anthesteria
"In the traditions of the high romance of Shelley and Byron, Ric Royer, a Hermes of the 21th century, weaves wreaths of a re-imagination of the becoming of spring with his Dionysian poetic, and myth skin, veiling and teasing throughout - most ethereal moon worshiping, and where words are born Worbs of wine drink this drunk where poetry begins hovering over and around the silky bulbs pushing blossoms up through the pages of myth." -- from review by Michael Basinski.

Everyone I Meet
An ongoing self-explanatory project.
I write down everyone that I meet, according to certain criteria. Sometimes I forget to add people; sometimes I forgot who people are that I added. Everyone is a exercise in futility.