The Living Installation

@thelivinginstallation @michaelalanalien

What if you decided to make your birthday a joke for everyone because everything sucks right now? Smashing cakes and paint on your head live on video making sculptures and masks on your face? Taking the tension down a bit. Some classic clowning.

A NEEDED wacky hysterical BREAK for everyone to view online. Funny, silly, messy, cheerful. Do you need some new content AT HOME?

Native NYC punk mask making Michael Alan takes his birthday to an odd place. We are all in a situation, trying to survive wearing masks, making huge adjustments, this PERFORMANCE takes our new reality of mask making to a ridiculous level uniting and unifying through internet VIDEO! He will create mask after mask, full head sculptures, made from scratch, one after the other to the backdrop of NYC.

Tune in and Join NYC artist Michael Alan as he makes a joke of his birthday, creating a marathon of comedic relief, to be viewed online. Recorded live, he smashes paints, toys, cakes, sculptures, and even his own drawings onto his own head, turning himself into multiple living works of art. He becomes his own paintings, changing and changing into thousands of characters nonstop, all to a soundtrack of his own music that he has created over the years.

Needed FUN for everyone, giving you some laughs, as this time period that is distressing. Laughter is healing!

Watch online at its premiere, or catch it afterwards, even rewatch through July. All ages. Bring the family together, or grab some alone time to celebrate LIFE!

PROJECT UPLIFT!

Low-fi DIY art movie from a live recording!

View the full month of July

MANHATTAN ROOFTOP Skyline SANITY!

A NEEDED BREAK FOR EVERYONE TO VIEW something funny, silly, cheerful AT HOME. View worldwide.

Native NYC punk mask making PERFORMANCE. A uniting and unifying VIDEO! Mask after mask, full head sculptures!

Sign up here. We email the video link that can be viewed via Vimeo. We are a NOT profit so all proceeds help keep this going!

$20 discounted / $40 suggested

Living Installation video

Everyone is feeling the times. Our heart is with you. We decided to have THE LIVING INSTALLATION ONLINE for a peaceful worldwide view. We feel it’s important. Silly is important. We all need a break. Laughter is healing!

If you want to cheer up, or just take a break from the news, or view something OTHER, something not political, something creative, it’s all ages, something to view with the family. We will be turning ourselves over and over and over into various living works of art with the NYC skyline as the backdrop, focusing on unity as the materials and intensity of the acts of change will resonate!

You can also make art from home while viewing, or make a poem, or just watch and have some time away. You can watch part, the whole, or rewatch this movie.

We were close to ending the project, as continuing not profit for 20 years is insane. We feel at this point in time that this kind of work is needed. I keep thinking of the word OTHER. Hope you all can join, take a break.

Peace out you all!

Emergency FUN needed!

This video was streamed live, and is viewable online!

This 20 year running DIY performance is non profit. All tickets help it continue. We understand that some are currently in a very difficult situation. If you’d like to choose a different donation please click the donate button above and we will sign you up that way ❤️

The Living Installation invites you to view a special experience from their home to yours. Watch online worldwide, from the safety of your home on any device. Let’s connect with technology in a positive way. Please join in and watch us create art, bring you happiness and inspiration. Michael Alan and Jadda Cat create a provocative bizarre uncanny fun performance CHANGING FACES. The physically and emotionally transform their faces non-stop for four hours, becoming living facial sculptures, making masks, face contortions. They create a thousand different faces with layers of distortion using makeup, liquid latex, silly putty, paint, glitter, collage, replicas of her own teeth, origami, silly string, yarn, rubber duckies, slinky, fake nose, etc.

Jadda Cat for President Video

This video was streamed live, and is viewable online!

This 20 year running DIY performance is not for profit. All tickets help it continue. We understand that some are currently in a very difficult situation. If you’d like to choose your own donation please click the donate button and we will sign you up that way ❤️

Female Joker Video

This video was streamed live, and is viewable online!

Background info

The Living Installation is an 20 year running established not for profit museum and gallery performance. The concept behind holding the shows at Michael Alan’s private studio is to break the void between the artist and viewer. It brings people in a behind the scenes private process. people are usually pushed back out contemporary art in 2019. The studio shows play on the notion of privacy, space, and the climate of art now.From the studio of Michael Alan, visionary native NY artist born 77′. World renowned, highly collected, NYC’s wild child. His work has been exhibited in major museum shows (MET, New Museum, Sprit Museum), over 15 solo exhibitions, in over 400 museum articles, Art Walk, Village Voice Best in Show, The New York Times video, Brooklyn museum permanent collection, and at AFA Gallery duo exhibition with Dali. He has made music with Tommy Ramone, The Residents, Ramsey Jones, Tim “Love” Lee, Kenny Scharf, Japanther, The Krays, Geneva Jachuzzi, and Jello Biafra.

The Living Installation is a live expressive surreal mediative experience, a living movie acted out. The four-hour performance is broadcasted live worldwide, with limited availability to attend in person. Come to Bushwick, Brooklyn for an authentic, intimate view of an old NYC happening at Michael Alan’s private studio.
Artist couple, Michael Alan and Jadda Cat constantly morph materials, light, color, sound, and costume with their bodies mind and spirit to create ever-changing living sculpture. Michael Alan’s art comes to life! Jadda Cat’s energy transcends throughout eternity!
The Living Installation is a refreshening low-fi look into the essence of creation. It is a behind the scenes presentation of art rather than a gallery setting. The evening consists of wacky performance, body art, video projection, live music, and punk sounds, with comedic satirical elements, endless inspiration, and so much more. Over one hundred works of Michael Alan are on display.
This ongoing living art human project, has been going strong for close to 20 years in NYC, founded by Bushwick-born Michael Alan. He has been creating live shows in NYC since the 90s. He believes in preserving the raw essence of old New York.

Can’t make the show but wanna hear the sounds? Download the discography
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Please consider donating to keep the Living Installation going. We are a DIY, not for profit, 17 year old NYC grassroots project with endless expenses, no funding, no staff. Help keep the spiritual public art going! Sign up and donate and receive behind the scenes videos, photo, virtual shows, and more! We run on donations! Keep the mom and pop show glowing! Thank you!

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Press pick: BUST Magazine’s preview of VAMPIRA!

http://bust.com/arts/193593-join-the-she-devils-in-a-bushwick-art-studio-this-weekend.html

Short film by Alan Ket, an amazing look into Alan’s work! Check out what its like to visit the studio!https://vimeo.com/214250577A few selected works out of over 50 publications about Michael Alan’s work and The Living Installation

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