The Living Installation
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.
To sign up to see the performance scroll down / PayPal artisticrevolution@gmail.com or Venmo @Michael-Alan-5
@thelivinginstallation @michaelalanalien
UPCOMING:
07/20 Rebirth
Available online this week only, video recording of Bodies! with screening Portraits of Andrea Palmer
Rebirth
Saturday July 20th
At Michael Alan’s private Bushwick studio or live online
8pm-midnight
Tickets $40 suggested / $20 discounted. 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.
“It’s everyone’s birthday!” That’s the basic motto of the Living Installation! Join our next mega happening for your unbirthday, and Michael Alan’s actual birthday! We gift you with EXTREME SILLINESS!
Visit Michael Alan’s private studio to experience a living painting, a master monkey body mash up. The Living Installation is an exploration of destruction and creation. Watch performers explode, let go of possessions, let go and become free! Break lamps, throw out your bad clothes, set your neighbors wig on fire!
This performance includes an extreme overload of all materials we can think of, obtain, and use up in 4 hours. They will be smashed on, in, and all over Michael and Jadda, with special guest Pirate the Cat and many more bodies!
After Giuliani cleaned up New York City he also cleared out all the fun and weirdness. We are one of the last true blue, wild, rock and roll, body art events. The Living Installation is old N.Y. FIRE with glue, paint, feathers, tar, screaming chickens and a baby pool! This celebratory, exploratory, extreme Living Installation will have multiple bodies sprung together, props, layers, sound, balloons, flesh and “skin paint”. It will be one of those nights you just CAN’T forget, and one of the last TRUE NYC experiences….
Puppets come to life, rules go on fire, glasses of wine with bad PBR out the window……. It’s an over the top invasion of the NOW bullshit art! Talking mannequins, slimy masks, singing balloons, and extreme amounts of paint and materials on performers’ heads. Come be a part of Michael Alan Alien studios, a behind the scenes Bushwick studio turned theater. Explore unique sounds. The uncensored projection of “The Scuzzies” will stimulate all your senses! You can also view it online!
Come view FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Bodies! with screening Portraits of Andrea Palmer
Tickets $40 suggested / $20 discounted. 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 information.
Bodies! This evening includes the special addition of the controversial independent horror film Portraits of Andrea Palmer, directed by C. Huston and Joe Rubin. The film will be projected into the installation and onto the performers. Michael Alan and Jadda Cat perform, reinterpreting the film with two medical mannequins!
This film has not reached the audience it deserves due to its controversial content. See one of its first screenings in Brooklyn!The Living Installation is always excited to have the opportunity battle censorship and judgement in art.
Read these articles on Morbidly beautiful and Bushwick Daily!
https://morbidlybeautiful.com/living-installation-bodies/
photo by David Bowles
Take a look into a world manifested by endless creativity, and body changes by Bushwick’s art couple Jadda x Michael in their studio turned pseudo theater! A four hour performance broadcasted live worldwide with limited availability to attend in person at @michaelalanalien private studio. Come to Bushwick, Brooklyn for an intimate view of this old NYC living art human project, or watch it live from wherever you are.
The Living Installation has been going strong for close to 20 years in NYC. Bushwick born Michael Alan has been doing live shows in NYC since the 90s. Jadda Cat, featured in BUST Magazine, “leads you into her world where you are digested into a world of meditative art.”
The Living Installation is a live expressive experience {a living movie acted out} by artist couple Michael Alan and Jadda Cat. The evening includes performance, multimedia body art, comedy, inspiration, live music, punk sounds, projection and so much more.. Jadda Cat, a female performance artist transports her mind and body and becomes various live sculptures, living and breathing insanity. This innovative, cutting edge project began in 2002 and continues to evolve, minute to minute. The upcoming project takes place inside their personal studio. You are invited to a raw view, a look into process. The show itself is the up-close creation and development of wacky characters with every material imaginable. Jadda Cat is the portal into the unknown. This is a fun loving performance, a multimedia creative session. Join us for an up-close and personal experience, create memories and partake in the community of connection that creates the soul and energy of art. Its like nothing else, so its impossible to paraphrase.
Performance artists transform into unique living art objects while performing live for a diverse multicultural audience. The performers interact inside of an elaborately built installation and environment with costumes and props, while acting out living theater. Art comes to life! The Installation serves as a place where people gather to have experience, make bonds and or create. The audience has the freedom to express themselves while watching an ongoing process. It is my goal to help our audience and team have new memorable experiences while developing a community wide connection that expands the soul and energy of art.
All ticket sales and donations contribute to the continuation of the sessions. We are not funded and not for profit. For easy payment PayPal artisticrevolution@gmail.com or Venmo @Michael-Alan-5
Can’t make the show but wanna hear the sounds? Download the discography
Michael Alan Alien Bandcamp
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
• Photography is welcome for personal use only. You’re welcome to document and post. Please tag @michaelalanalien and @thelivinginstallation.
• Photos and videos are the intellectual property of the Living Installation. Please no large cameras, no flash, and don’t shoot any nude models. Photos are not for exhibition and not for sale.
• 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!
A few selected works out of over 50 publications about Michael Alan’s work and The Living Installation
http://nypost.com/2010/01/20/draw-your-family-with-michael-alan/
http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/michael-alans-draw-a-thon-6262315/14
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=3991
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/22/photos_michael_alans_living_install.php#photo-1
http://hyperallergic.com/31923/michael-alan-living-installation-cosmic-cavern/
http://massappeal.com/michael-alan-artist-in-every-sense-of-the-word/