HARRISON ATELIER’S VEAL PREMIERE
FEBRUARY 7–10, 2013, 7:30pm performances at The Invisible Dog Art Center
VEAL
is the newest work from multidisciplinary design collective Harrison Atelier
(HAt). HAt principals Seth and Ariane
Harrison and
their collaborators have created a large-scale sculptural and sound
installation, featuring a contemporary dance performance, exploring the
development of the ecology of the industrial animal as man competes with nature
to form and control the environment. To create VEAL, HAt has partnered with
dancer and emerging choreographer Silas Riener and composer Loren
Dempster, who previously worked with HAt on the innovative
dance-installation Pharmacophore:
Architectural Placebo, at New York’s Storefront for Art & Architecture
in 2011. In performing his choreography, Riener will be joined by Rashaun Mitchell and Cori Kresge.
The VEAL installation comprises five spaces: four in the Invisible Dog’s main
gallery, and the fifth in a second gallery. In each, multimedia sculptures
double as musical instruments and are intertwined with the performance in the
second gallery.
Concept and Design by Seth and Ariane Harrison of Harrison Atelier; Harrison
Atelier team: Jeremy Steiner, Christos Bolos, Sierra Cobb, David Backer
Choreography by Silas Riener performed by Riener, Rashaun Mitchell and Cori Kresge
Choreography by Silas Riener performed by Riener, Rashaun Mitchell and Cori Kresge
Original Score by Loren
Dempster, performed by Julie Haagenson (soprano), Biraj Barkakaty
(counter-tenor), David Watson (bagpipe), Geoff Gersh (lyre), Joshua Kohl
(conductor)
The VEAL installation will
be on view 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM from Thursday, February 7 through Sunday, February
10.
