The Living Installation
@thelivinginstallation @michaelalanalien
Upcoming performance: Sat Nov 23rd Female Joker
Coming Soon: Art Family (movie) sign up or donate now!
Available now: Brainwashed (full video of live performance)
Female Joker
Saturday November 23rd
8pm–midnight
At Michael Alan’s private Bushwick studio or join online and watch a live feed, also viewable for 2 weeks afterwards
$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!
Studio address provided with RSVP. Please reserve your spot ahead of time so we can accommodate you! Please allow some time for us to email you back with the address or online view information.
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!
or Paypal
“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.
BRAINWASHED
Watch the full 3 hour recording of the live performance
Tickets $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!
Venmo (recommended method)
or Paypal
Brainwashed.
Jadda Cat {HUMAN} and Pirate the cat {ACTUAL CAT} are test subjects for the internet, social media, the newest TV shows, commercials and Twits. Yes twits. They sit and STARE into their studio visual modulator, trapped by the new world order. They are absent from the now, absorbing images projected on TV, Instagram, advertisements via a computer, projection installation, TV screen, and even printed propaganda. Jadda and Pirate become contaminated and act out the image contents for your viewing pleasure. You are the viewers. This show is for your speculation, determination, note taking, documentation, and understanding of how the mind is altered under such harsh conditions. Not to mention this is for your amusement and relaxation and viewing pleasure. Welcome to the Living Installation! xo
Enough is enough. Let the madness begin. The ladies are pressured and pre drugged with Code 77, a new drug being put out by Walgreens in partnership with the Food and Drug Administration aka the MoMA. …..All test subjects are not to be accountable for their actions, yet are to be learned from, hated or adored.
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
