The Hole
312 Bowery
Thursday, August 17, free with advance RSVP, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00
Exhibition continues through September 3
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Wisconsin-born, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Jaimie Warren will activate her twisted fairy-tale installation at the Hole on August 17, promising that “you will witness vomiting deities, epic love ballads, and multiple beheadings.” Warren, a photographer, performance artist, filmmaker, and codirector and cofounder of the traveling community-oriented, child-friendly fake public access television show Whoop-Dee-Doo, will stage, with more than twenty collaborators, One Sweet Day, a half-hour musical at 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00 for no more than fifty guests at a time, in the medieval cave/castle/forest/mountain she has built in the back of the Bowery gallery, consisting of, among other elements, giant saints with glowing red eyes, an open wall casket with three somewhat familiar bodies, and a pair of video stations where visitors can watch “One Sweet Day: Self-Portrait as Shepherd, GG Allin, and Prince in Re-Creation of Studio Reconstitution of the Thebaid by Fra Angelico,” a cracked tale of good vs. evil vs. weird that mixes in Punky Brewster with all the madness. The exhibition itself, which continues through September 3, also includes the music videos “I Got My Mind Set on You: Self-Portrait as George Harrison in Re-creation of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Painting of Ma’at and Isis,” “Somebody to Love: Self-Portrait as Freddie Mercury in Re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75),” “I Just Called to Say I Love You: Self-Portrait as Stevie Wonder in Re-creation of Primavera by Sandro Botticelli (1482),” and “You Are Not Alone: Self-Portrait as Michael Jackson in a Re-creation of the Genealogical Trees of the Dominican Order,” featuring characters dressed up as pop-culture icons; the works were made at residencies at the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan, Artspace in North Carolina, American Medium in Brooklyn, and Helmuth Projects in San Diego. Advance RSVP is strongly recommended.