Spirit in a Waste

Spirit in a Waste
by Adrian Jevicki and Matthew Mahler

266 W 37th Street (between 7th and 8th Ave)
Performances: April 21-23, 2011 @ 7pm

Spirit in a Waste is a multi-media dance installation examining the language of image-based relationships in an environment of media immersion. The performance, structured as a series of media rituals, inhabits a constantly evolving space that consists of dancing bodies, closed circuit video projections, vcr's that play videos on various surfaces, hundreds of VHS cassettes and both pre-made and immediately assembled sculptures made of cassettes. Using the VHS cassette as a symbol of the first tool of popular control over mass-media, choreographer/diector Adrian Jevicki and visual artist Matthew Mahler address how we use images to satisfy our personal fantasies, whether they be fantasies of connectivity, productivity, or sexual gratification, in respect to our ever-changing physical relationship to media.

Bios:
Adrian Jevicki is a Brooklyn based dance and theater artist whose genre-bending work with his company Movementpants Dance explores the complexities of life with wit and a nod toward scientific inquiry.  Mixing conceptual art with humor and highly rhythmic choreography, his work rejoices in the multifarious nature of his subjectivity.  Of Serbian and Croatian decent, he holds a fascination for classical Eastern European folk forms, both musical and physical, and weaves these rhythms and aesthetics into his work.  He has presented work at Dixon Place, Jacob's Pillow, University of Chicago, Galapagos, and various other bars and clubs across the greater metropolitan area.  He is also a teacher.

Matthew Mahler is a visual artist working out of Brooklyn NY.  Mahlers' work explores the space between the analog and digital world through the creation of fantastical psychadelic inspired imagery and sculptures.