The Cocoon Project is a NYC-based collaborative that documents and performs the hand-crafted Cocoons with dancers, video projections, sound and music in site-specific performance-installations. The Cocoon is a sheer, stretchy enclosure made of colorful spandex and a zipper. Movement is based in yoga and expressive, creaturely dance. The fabric enclosure provides freedom for the performer/muse to become a morphing sculpture. Structurally, these postures represent a scale model of an architecture and materiality based on the forces of the body.

 

The 1-day collaborative performance residency invites a collection of artists to create pieces live with the Cocoon Project in inter-disciplinary, multi-sensory mediums of performance, video projection mapping, animation and experimental sound from electronic and traditional instruments. Additionally there will be an interactive panel discussion in regards to the current, groundbreaking state of "performance art" featuring organizers and artists crucial in implementing the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival.

Find more info and the Facebook event here.

 

 Saturday, September 21 Schedule:

 

11am-12:30pm Interactive Workshop // outside all day & inside

12:30pm-2pm Collaborative Multi-media Performances

2pm-3:30pm Panel Discussion: "The Now/Future of Performance Art,” Moderated by Sherry Aliberti

3:30pm-6pm Collaborative Multi-media Performances

Surprise pop up performance with collaborating teen program Star Lab NYC

 

Saturday, September 21 Collaborating Artists

 

- Geraldo Mercado //The Cocoon Project// executive jack-of-all-cocoon-trades 

- Lorraine D. Glover //The Cocoon Project// executive jack-of-all-cocoon-trades  

- Wild Torus //video/soundscape/performance/ cocoon-trades 

- Hiroshi Shafer// video/ The Cocoon Project// event manager  

- Gregory Paul // soundscape  

- Rob Cerrato // video projections 

- PAS Musique // soundscape 

- Devlin Goldberg // CocoonNYC performer

- Star Lab NYC // Cocoon NYC performers 

- Judith Barnes // CocoonNYC performer

- WashMachine // video + soundscape

- Jonathan Phelps // video + soundscape 

- Remote Control Tomato // video + soundscape

- Arianna Furfaro // CocoonNYC performer

- Natalie Walters // CocoonNYC performer

- and more, possibly you!

 

Spread Art is an artist-run creative incubator designed to foster new works through residencies and collaborations with artists, curators and organizations worldwide. www.spreadart.org