OBJECT COLLECTION PRESENTS A STAGED ADAPTATION OF ROBERT ASHLEY’S SEMINAL 1979 COMPOSITION, AUTOMATIC WRITING May 21-23 [Thu-Sat], 8pm, May 24 [Sun], 5 pm The Brooklyn-based performance group Object Collection, acclaimed for its invigorating blend of music and theater, will remount its live, staged adaptation of Robert Ashley’s seminal studio composition, Automatic Writing (1979). On a stage strewn with television monitors, video cameras, and dim pools of slowly shifting light, Object Collection evokes the four characters – or parts –while crafting an environment that aims to heighten the enigma and melancholic mood of the original.