The Living Installation
@thelivinginstallation @michaelalanalien
Up next: Messyme Street (full video of live performance, premiering Sat January 18th)
Available now: Female Joker (full video of live performance)
Coming Soon: Art Family (movie) sign up or donate now!
Messyme Street
Premiering Saturday January 18th, available to watch for 2 weeks
Watch the full 4 hour video recording of the live performance
$40 suggested / $20 minimum. Select which works best for you. We are not for profit. We do this project because it is needed in our culture now! Please allow some time for us to email you back with the online view link.
Jadda Cat and Michael Alan Alien art duo become Messyme Street! Live voices, sounds, mutations, endless puppets, a paradox on your childhood happy sesame street. Watch them make a whole new world on the spot, everything happens live. Every single thing you see is being treated on the spot no CGI, no special effects. This is pure back alley love.
Watch them dance, vogue, puppeteer, splash, sing, fairytale a whole world in set. Picture this. You’re watching an empty screen and then all of the sudden Messyme Street is created live before your eyes acted out, narrated, and built. An adult kids dark happy fun satire . It’s a living painting. It’s a living sculpture. It’s a living installation.
Tickets minimum twenty or you can donate as much as you like. Suggested is $40. This gives you unlimited view time for two weeks with the premier on Saturday January 18th at 8pm. This includes a free digital mp3 download of three new songs by Michael Alan and Jadda Cat, valued at fifteen dollars. If that’s not enough, if you sign up early they will send you photos of their process and behind the scenes look into Messyme Street.
Why would I want to see this ? Cuz its fun and silly. A lot of art has become not fun and too tactical. Watch these two kids be fools inspiration happiness. This marks the twenty year anniversary of the Living Installation. Be a part of art history. Be a donor and keep the charm of New York City from fading away.
Female Joker
Watch the full 4 hour video recording of the live performance
$40 suggested / $20 minimum. Select which works best for you. We are not for profit. We do this project because it is needed in our culture now! Please allow some time for us to email you back with the online view link.
Female Joker. A 4 hour emotional journey into a theatrical production as Jadda the clown transforms into multiple characters. She transforms her face and costume as part of the act, altering states between human and a living sculpture. She uses simple tools such as paint, glitter, silly string, makeup, plastic wrap, balloons, paper, and collaged imagery, and turns herself into intense sculptural creations that live breathe as art. She makes puppets and toys as her backup villains. There is nothing like what Jadda is doing in NY as she takes performance art into a deep trance like level as if you’re watching a very vivid dream.
The Joker has always been a male role, but it’s time for a female to take the part. This is the Joker in 4D staring at you and changing your perspective on theater, performance, and live art. Don’t worry, Jadda’s Joker isn’t about mental health or the crisis of America… Or is it? This is fun night in a chair staring at wonderful transformative art.
Jadda works side by side with her partner Michael Alan. They bring you back to a time period in NY when art was raw, mom and pop, and down a side street. Art in America has changed. This is a refreshing non-snobby view into grassroots do-it-yourself creative freedom. Wake up the next day with a tarantula in your pocket.
If you’re tired of fancy art ass kissing this would be for you. If you’re looking for a posh experience then this is not for you. This is an authentic experience. Help keep NYC punk going! Feel free to donate as we are not sponsored, represented, and we run only by ourselves and Pirate the Cat but she requires special treats. Meow.
Art Family
Performance art meets dark twisted art house cinema. A full length HD movie in production, coming soon to rent or on DVD. DVDs are signed and limited.
Rental $20
DVD $50
or donate to support production!
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“Art Family” is dark comedic satire with tripped out twisted visuals that defy the laws of cinema. The movie’s basic premise is about Jadda Cat and her partner Michael Alan Alien, and how their art practice comes to life while they stay at Michael’s mother’s home directly after his father’s passing. Part of this movie is based on true events. The film will touch on grieving, the grief process, and how it manifests in different ways . It is a deep character study of an art family. Michael, Jadda, his mom and Pirate the cat, and what becomes of them.
Michael Alan (aka Blob Ross) a grief stricken artist raised and living in NYC is on his last kicks. He’s losing it after his father Buddy’s sudden death. He puts what energy he has left into a new direction of his art career, deciding to start teaching odd art classes online with goofy kid voices.
Jadda is a daydreaming performance artist, the central figure, the sad clown girl 🤡 who begins to dresses up around the house daily to cope. Alan, his cat and his mother are amused by Jadda and her actions. She becomes the psuedo hope as the family becomes obsessed with her games and plastic glued to her face rituals.
Natural and authentic, filmed at their actual home 🏡 Michael Alan and Jadda Cat try to keep their mom Joan in happy spirits as Buddy’s spirit has now emptied the house. A family, fantastically paired together by oddness, love and grief.
Backround 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
Michael Alan Alien Bandcamp
PHOTOGRAPHY RULES
• Images are intellectual property of The Living Installation. Photos and videos are for personal and documentation use only. They are not to be sold, repurposed or reproduced.
• Sharing on social media is welcomed with artistic credit to Micael Alan and The Living Installation IG @michaelalanalien @thelivinginstallation
• We encourage sharing images and videos captured with us (via Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) The Living Installation is allowed use of all images, and will attempt to, but is not required to credit the photographer.
• No flash or large cameras please
THE LIVING INSTALLATION GUIDELINES
• Come to experience, not to expect. The Living Installation is a small scale creative session, not a class or party.
• Space is limited. Please be kind to the studio and aware of others around you.
• Address is provided with confirmation of ticket sale. All tickets must be obtained before the session and are non refundable. Click “add to cart” PayPal artisticrevolution@gmail.com or Venmo @Michael-Alan-5
• No drugs or alcohol.
BECOME A PATRON!
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!
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
