Sue de Beer and Andy Comer collaborate on ghostly mystery at the Kitchen
The Kitchen
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
October 29-30, 8:00
Tickets: $10
212-255-5793
www.thekitchen.org
Video installation artist Sue de Beer and musician Andy Comer, formerly of such bands as the Prosaics and Tel Aviv, have collaborated on a multimedia adaptation of German writer Friedrich Schiller’s “The Ghost-Seer; or, Apparitionist, an Interesting Fragment, Found among the Papers of Count O*****,” a ghost story about a Venetian prince who “avoided all kinds of diversions, and though he was but thirty-five years old he had resisted the numerous attractions of this voluptuous city. To the charms of the fair sex he was wholly indifferent. A fettled gravity and a profound melancholy were the prominent features of his character.” De Beer, whose work includes PERMANENT REVOLUTION, THE QUICKENING, THE DARK HEARTS, and HANS AND GRETE, creates immersive environments through avant-garde video and sets; for example, her 2005 piece BLACK SUN consisted of a multichannel video shown in a homey screening room, with two comfy beanbag chairs and pictures and cutouts of cats, trees, and horses both inside and outside the space. For RADIO PLAY, de Beer has created the set and written the new text, which she will perform live onstage, accompanied by Comer’s original music, which to us sounds like a great way to kick off the Halloween weekend.