Throughout our 11 year history, Plus Gallery has been the only Denver
art gallery to regularly present experimental evenings in music,
performance and film to the public, our own way of removing the
commerce aspect from the art experience and support distinct, renowned
creative visions by artists from across the country. Our latest
in this endeavor, and one of our most highly anticipated, is this
Saturday evening's presentation of "Night Sky," a superb,
uniquely crafted experimental narrative film by California-based
artist Alison O'Daniels.
This summer we did not hesitate to confirm our position on
O'Daniel's US tour, where she will be presenting the film in a wide
array of settings from from the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA to
the Museum of Contemporary Art in both Cleveland and Detroit......from
the guild cinema in Albuquerque to the Tisch Department of Cinema
Studies in New York. It's a list we are not commonly associated
with, but one that we feel right at place in. Viewing O'Daniel's
website as well as the film itself completely solidified our
interests, by all counts she is a high-caliber, highly awarded
emerging artist who is on a notable, ambitious career path. In other
words, exactly the type of artist we like to support.
"Night Sky" is a 75 minute narrative film that enacts a
sensory experience on the bodies of the viewers with live
accompaniment and parallel, overlapping stories: two girls - Cleo and
Jay - travel through the desert while a group of contestants compete
in a dance marathon. Sound travels between locations through a
hula-hoop window hanging unnoticed in the midst of the marathon
contestants and simultaneously in the desert air. Sound bleeds
between the locations, and unique screenings with live musical or sign
language scores performed by various musicians and sign language
interpreters extends the narrative into the exhibition space or
cinema. Redefining sound and images through synesthesia and
limiting or heightening the sensory palette offers hearing and deaf
audiences a nuanced glimpse of one another's experiences without
privileging one or the other.
This performance emphasizes music within the film by Ethan
Grederick Greene, Lucky Dragons, and Evelyn Glennie with live sign
language accompaniment by Lisa Reynolds. Balloons will be
provided for the Deaf audience spectrum.
We expect this to be one of our most unique and gratifying
experiences to date, and urge you to join us this Saturday evening to
welcome Alison to Denver and view her latest work. Please share
this notice with others who might be interetsed as well.
Visit Alison's website at http://www.alisonodaniel.com
Preview Night Sky at https://vimeo.com/12865622
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