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NYC Premiere: Animalia June 20
Posted May 29, 2009
Note: Posted as received.
A lyrical-aerial performance by C. Ryder Cooley with Natalie Agee, Todd Chandler, and Rachel Winard
Also showing: Sunset Scavenger, video installation by Bill Daniel
Animalia: Stories of Collapse, Calamity, and Departure is an inter-species fairytale that combines aerial movement with live music on singing saw, accordion, and strings. Performed within a landscape of mesmerizing video and archival film, Animalia invokes visions of secret bee societies and haunted circus scenes.
This 50-minute multimedia performance offers metaphors of flight as departure points from environmental collapse and the hallucinatory effects of war. By appropriating the masculine power symbol of the buck 'rack' and reinserting it onto feminine characters, the narrative blurs the divisions between masculine/feminine identity and human/animal forms.
Created by performance and installation artist C. Ryder Cooley, Animalia will premiere on June 20 at House of Yes/The Sky Box, a new aerial space in Brooklyn, NY. The show will include stunning performances by aerialist-dancer Natalie Agee of Ruby Streak Trapeze Studio, and musicians Todd Chandler and Rachel Winard. This project was developed in part at the Byrd-Hoffman Watermill Center and with the support of NYFA, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
Bill Daniel's Sunset Scavenger is an outdoor video installation in which Noah's Ark meets Hubbert's Peak. Based on ideas concerning the end of the oil age, the two-screen video program—a collage essay on ecological catastrophe, sustainability, and self-reliance—will be projected onto 20 ft. sails built on a 1984 van thats converted to run on veggie oil. From post-Katrina New Orleans to the Flying Nutrinos ocean-faring rafts (built from garbage collected on the streets of New York), this 45-minute program stars hippie houseboaters, punk back-to-the-landers, rubber tramps, off-the-gridders, desert rats, and a homeless street preacher who relates Noah's story to our times.
C. Ryder Cooley is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and performer. Weaving together chimeric images with found props and forgotten objects, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces. Ryder has participated in a wide range of public works, educational projects, and international shows. Awarded Best Performance Artist of the NY Capital District in 2006 & 2007, selected works have been performed and installed at locations including: White Box and Exit Art galleries in NYC, Yerba Buena and Theater Artaud in San Francisco, Proctors Mainstage Theater in Schenectady NY, Pan American Art Projects in Miami FL, and Watermill Center in Long Island NY and via public art projects in Indonesia, El Salvador, France, and the Czech Republic.
For more information, see carolynrydercooley.com
Bill Daniel (b. 1959, Dallas, Texas) is a self-trained itinerant filmmaker and photographer. He began documenting American subcultures starting with the Texas skate/punk scene in the early 1980s. His film Who is Bozo Texino? has screened in over 350 venues. He has been a participant in the underground film scenes of San Francisco and Portland and is currently based in Braddock, PA. He has received awards from Creative Capital, Pioneer Fund, and Film Arts Foundation and had residencies at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow.
For more information, see billdaniel.net
When:
Saturday, June 20
Doors 8:30, show 9pm
Where:
House of Yes/The Sky Box
342 Maujer Street
Brooklyn, NY
Admission:
$10–15 sliding scale
Contact:
C. Ryder Cooley
rydercooley@yahoo.com
518-429-0046
More Information:
theskybox.org
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