IDP Arts Field Trip to "You Are Here"
$8 Suggested Donation, Pay at the Door
You Are Here (AKA The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio from September 10 - October 2, 2009. Emphasizing the sprawling and interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the maze offers a peak inside NYC's diy art/music scene. A meditation on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end as his or hers.
The inspiration behind the imagery in this year's Maze project includes "the six realms" from Tibetan Buddhism and other elements of Buddhist cosmological theory.
Check out this great preview in The Brooklyn Vegan.
We're asking some willing IDP folks to further participate in the installation by becoming living sculptures and doing sitting meditation in the space between the hours of 9:00pm and 11:00pm (this is by no means a requirement for attendance but if you want to sit please bring your own cushion). There will be a bar serving drinks and IDP Founder Ethan Nichtern will be doing a short reading as a part of the evening. The artists will also be available that evening for informal discussion and presentation of the work (Presentation begins at 8:00pm sharp).
RSVP! to Patrick Groneman with subject line "You Are Here RSVP" please include your name and if you plan on participating as a living sculpture.
Death by Audio
49 South 2nd Street between Wythe & Kent
Brooklyn, NY
Walking Distance from the Marcy J and Bedford L Stops
Participating Artists:
TROUBLE (Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris) // Calvin Johnson // Mick Barr // Up Died Sound // Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities // Alexis Gideon // Ty Segal // Regattas // Nine 11 Thesaurus // Sam Mickens // Dome Theater // Arp // Stars Like Fleas // Mike Pride // Extra life // Pygmy Shrews // Effi Breist // John Fell Ryan // The Coathangers // Katie Eastburn // Desolation Wilderness // Random Cutting // Excepter // Symbol // Zs // Arrington Dionyso // Dan Friel // Mega Calderos // Chuck Bettis // Pterodactyl // Normal Love // Ninjasonik // Vaz // Make A Rising // Clan of the Cave Bear // Electroputas // Hi Red Center
