Michael Alan’s Installation 2.0:The Rebirth
Its going over over over over the top. Not sensational, not sexy, silly, serious, and for the seldom selfless laughers of joy and gibble gabble. If life is going to have it’s hard moments, the show will be that place were we will disappear in jokes for 7 hours. After that 7 hours, I will clean off and work on my paintings but I feel compelled that this is part of my raison d’etre.
You’re walking into my live ridiculous wild painting and drawing as I turn myself and the objects upside down. If you want to go on a wild ride and have a sense of humor, this is the show for you. If your tight and have strong beliefs that stop you from having a good old laugh, then this is not the show for you. The world around me will be sculpted and transformed into a living installation. Composed of creating everything from scratch, including the brave cast, which will be painted props, sculptures, masks, things, objects, everything. There’s a good chance I might burn part of the room, hose it down, turn it into a sculpture, chainsaw a bunch of books, slap a pie on my face while simultaneously tickling your nose, turn one of the cast members into ice cream, hose em down and turn em into a velvet cake, I might even make you play Scrabble with a stranger, singing, dancing, smashing. Its not punk, its not a play, every second changes so quickly there is no valid description for it. So is life
Using materials such as ribbon, twine, paint, sculpty, party hats, confetti, papier-mache, rocks, blankets, fabric, sparklies, marijuana, plastic gloves, ricochets, beads, bees, honey, cake, clonozopam, saran wrap, rubberbands, beds of spikes, water, dresses, brassieres, jockstraps, lipsticks, toys, fake guns, real guns, police, tree bark, flowers, shards of glass, dirt mcgirt, megaphones, woood, projection, toy cars, owls, mini-tvs with mini-shows, football helmets, packing tape, plaster of paris, spray paint, house paint, acrylic paint, permanent markers, suitcases, books, ducks, blow-up dolls, tarantulas, kitty cats, woof woofs, flying birds, traintracks, rooms, sound machines, saws, car parts, special lighting, flash lights, no lights, silly string, hot wax, encaustics, zippers, elastic, my mom and dad, your mom and dad, milk crates.
This is my public art project that runs between 5-70 hours depending on the show. It is about the act of creation and invites the audience to be a part in the special way. There is a splash-zone where audience members can be turned into sculptures, paintings, objects. A viewing zone, an interacting zone. If you’re dressed to impress, maybe sit in the back.
There is a musical component composed with various musicians like Japanther, Renaldo and Loaf, The Krays, Yuppicide, WLWL, Geneva Jacuzzi.
Richard Gere: “Michael Alan is a master in helping and healing the body. He has taught courses in India, Tibet, Mercury Grammar School, in Uranus. He is a self proclaimed diabetic who is able to heal at the power of playful disaster, trickery and flames.”
New York Times intern: “Michael Alan is a raving madmen who saved my boring life. I now have a permanent tattoo of a meat sandwich. Everyday before work, I feel better about my job”.
Art in America: “Michael Alan is doing what basic criminals are doing but he’s turning it into pure abstraction.”
ODB: “Oh baby I like it raw”
Miss Bricker, Michael Alan’s Grammar School Principal: “The games and tricks you play on me and your fellow students will be accounted for by daily detention until the day you graduate. You’ll amount to nothing and your extra curricular activities will melt in front of your eyes.”
Cast:
David Modello: Body-building master of stillness, harmony and peace. Professional male model, graceful.
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This is a special engagement that happens about two or three times a year. Come be a part. No photography or video. For all ages. If you’re happy and you know it zap your hands.
Upcoming shows: The Gymnasium
Pop in a Box
Dinner for Three
View a recent video featured in Marie Claire Italia
Read a strong article on the Living Installation, “Michael Alan’s Living Installation: The Revolutionary Art Event That You Are Probably Missing” by Emily Colucci in 22 Magazine.
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the Music of Michael Alan Alien
Through The Living Installation, Michael Alan has returned to using music as a soundtrack to his art, making an album Sound Drawing. The music that is made has a direct connection to The Living Installation from echoing the movement in his drawings to influencing the actions of the performers to affecting the experience of the audience. Connecting the performers and the audience, the music of The Living Installation helps create a complete sensory installation.
Buy Michael Alan Alien’s album Sound Drawing. Shipped to your house for $17.