Category: PS122 Artists

Last night was a proud moment for everyone here at PS122, as many of our artists and friends were recognized with Obie awards!

COIL 15 walked away big with:
CATCH winning an Obie and giving a moving speech that made us all realize why we’re here in the first place AND Andrew Schneider being awarded a special citation for YOUARENOWHERE at the Obie Awards!

Commissioned by PS122 and presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center, YOUARENOWHERE took COIL 2015 by storm. Schneider battled across unknown and glitchy virtual territories, warping linear timelines, transforming physical space and challenging any preconceived notions of the here and now.

Schneider has been creating original works for theater, video and installation since 2003. Rooted at the intersection of performance and technology, Schneider’s work critically investigates our over-dependence on being perpetually connected in an always-on world.

Big things are lined up for this whiz kid as Schneider and his techno savvy team are now getting geared up for a week at Mass Live Arts and PS122 GLOBAL touring in the Fall. But for now, some well earned celebrations are to be had! Congrats Andrew!

Here is Peter Musante, collaborator, accepting the award while Andrew is off in Belgium with The Wooster Group.

CATCH on the red carpet with photo by Ben Gansky.

If you missed last week’s performance of LYFE you can live stream it on Lincoln Center’s streaming portal: https://watch.lincolncenter.org/pages/live-stream-lyfe

LYFE is an interactive music performance that explores the intersection of technology and the self with music created by Brooklyn band Glass Ghost.

If you missed dataPurge in COIL the team will be streaming from The University of Buffalo Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies on Friday March 27. The Colloquium features a keynote speech by another PS122 alum, Annie Dorsen. The full lineup is listed on Techne’s site. 31 Down’s dataPurge streams at dataPurge.me.

RAMP 2014 artists Glass Ghost just released their full length album LYFE, which ties into their conceptual new media performance which PS122 will be presenting in Spring 2015. Check out this video for The Sound of Money, created entirely in the virtual world Second Life:

Claire Danes was on the Mark Marin WTF Podcast this week discussing her career, jogging, and what’s its like to be a mom. Her story of how she got into acting started with dance and at age 6 she performed on PS122’s stage “I was a duck, and I quacked.” She also performed two evening-length shows when she was a bit older, Christina Olson, American Model and Edith & Jenny both by choreographer Tamar Rogoff.

Thanks to Joe Donahue for sending this along to us. You can listen to the entire episode on the WTF site.