Cinema Palace

My most resent work was done here at Städelschule. I was invited by my friend Zac to help build a Cinema Palace. It began with us meeting up in Paris. We conducted research into the wonderfully extravagant theatres of past times. From Paris we came to Städel. The Palace was being constructed to show a movie series from a Stan Brakhage lecture. We viewed four Carl Theodor Dreyer films. The theater is still up and is being used by Michael Krebber for his night of serious drinking films.

Here is a link to a blog regarding the project:
http://brakhagelectures.blogspot.com/

Here are some photos to help give a feel for Cinema Palace. The images record the making of the cinema and display the beauty of the palace. There is also a video clip presented to show what the feeling would be like to walk into the theater.

Eindhoven

The Miss Rockaway art collective goes to the Netherlands. After viewing our work at the Mass MOCA, Angelique Spaninks of the MU invited our collective to participate in the Vann Abba Museum's Heartland exhibition. Over a two-week period we altered the Stroomhuis (a local squatted art space).

Here are photos of our work.

Top Gun

Top Gun started out as a way to bail our 53-year-old subway-musician roommate, Joe Crow Ryan, out of debt. It turned into a major 724 Myrtle production. It pulled together the whole house and all of our networks. It gave tribute to Tom Cruise for being a father figure to one of our friends, saved a friend's romantic relationship from ruin, and was the crowning end to our summer in Brooklyn this last year.

We did lots of research first. This included two public screenings of the movie. There was commentary given during the films and then we had discussions after the films. We viewed all of the music videos several times, looking for ways to incorporate their ideas into our performance, be it through dance moves or verbal cues.

Here are seven music videos that display the music that we used to form a basis for our performance.







With a playlist developed we then designed costumes, got together for a rehearsal, then went to our desired subway stop and brought Top Gun to Brooklyn.

Here are photos of the performance taken by a friend of mine, Tod Seelie.

This is a video recording the performance.