An installation by Jesse Gelaznik and Rachel Blackwell
Tone Poems by Dirty Churches with text by Natalee Cayton
photo courtesy of Emilie Sullivan
photo courtesy of Carmen Hermo
photo courtesy of Emilie Sullivan
The Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center, Inc.’s
2013 Arts Happening Series Presents:
A Guest in the Cavern
A multi-media installation created by Jesse Gelaznik, featuring video art by Rachel Blackwell. Text by Natalee Cayton will be paired with Music for Mirrors, a series of tone poems by Dirty Churches.
The Arts Happening Series is an annual program hosted at the former Engine Co. 212 Firehouse and future home of the Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center. Since 2009, the Arts Happening Series has highlighted the works of local Brooklyn artists activating the shuttered space and showcasing the Center’s potential.
This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
For more information visit:www.northsidetownhall.org
The cavern provides a typical analogy of the projecting individual. It provides the repetition of light and shadow as a backdrop to the woman in the pyramid. Inside the pyramid she reflects up from the terrestrial world to the celestial and cosmic world. The infinite becomes newly created/birthed/banged.
The woman, the light, the constellation and the point. The woman's thoughts are reflected below the water's surface, glowing down to this world. Her exploration of the loneliness and the isolation fill the cavern with echos of the yin/yang universe, the infinite, the contained, the container. Her pyramid is distribution of mental and emotional weight. Her dress becomes a river of light that emanates out from her core past the walls of the pyramid. Once combined the elements of the video art projections, pyramid installation, performer and dress with a live soundtrack, the space will be completely transformed into a fantastical landscape of thought, sound and vision.
photo courtesy of Robert Boston
DIRTY CHURCHES is a group of Brooklyn based sound artists that perform dark and hypnotizing soundtracks for multi-media art installations. Through a merging of samples and electronics with conventional acoustic instruments, Dirty Churches creates sonic environments of haunting textures and ethereal energy. For "A Guest in the Cavern" Dirty Churches will be performing a series of tone poems composed by Jesse Gelaznik and set to text written by Natalee Cayton.
members
Jesse Gelaznik - composer/synth/guitar
Rachel Blackwell - pyramid performer/video projections
Natalee Cayton - tone poem text
Robert Boston - keyboards & electronics
Elizabeth Pulos - viola
Eric Elterman - viola
Donnie Undeen - bass clarinet
Anna Callner - cello
Justin Miller - samples/electronics/synth
Daniel Garcia - percussion/electronics/synth
Joe Robinsion - bass
