PS122 presents Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE), a musical priesthood
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Last week of RAMP 2015: Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
Throughout June, PS122's residency program, RAMP, has been providing artists Jillian Peña and Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble with time, space and invaluable production assistance in the creation process for their new works. We close it out with ROKE showings this Sat + Sun at 6pm. Join us for a work in progress and stay for a cold beer plus conversation. $10. Details below.
Residencies & showings take place at
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway, Manhattan
Details & Tix
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
Multimedia, Performance
Residency dates: June 16 – 29
Public Showings: June 27 & 28, 6pm at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway, Manhattan
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE) is a musical priesthood that explores the metaphysics and mythologies of love, desire and courtship at the end of the 20th century. Appropriating strategies of installation art, opera, and theater, ROKE creates multimedia performances with original music to create modern-day rituals from found text and video sources. In Starbucks Infinity, the Ensemble finds themselves inside of a trans-dimensional space made from images of Starbucks as featured in popular romantic comedies and YouTube videos. By rebuilding the popular retail store with digital tools, the Ensemble will create an ever-shifting psychedelic wormhole in which characters from different films and commercials interact over a cup of coffee. By appropriating the most generic of meeting-places, the Ensemble will reconstitute the psychic landscape of the Experience Economy and confront the question of what it means to be truly #basic. - See more at: http://www.ps122.org/roke/#sthash.wnhJ1Aqc.dpuf
