the projector series 1-5
This culminating installment of the multimedia Projector Series is a standalone piece that synthesizes and consolidates the concepts and forms touched on in the Series from its origin year of 2011 to present day, building upon those explorations in a dynamic and critical way dawning the movement installation with constant and consistent current events. The Projector Series 1.4 premiered at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT on January 28th, 2016, followed by performances on the 29th and 31st, all sold-out. The Projector Series 1.5 was then seen in Philadelphia at Vox Populi with 6 shows June 22-24th 2017 with a talk at Little Berlin on June 21st 2017. PS is the first multimedia project show ever created by TNMOT AZTRO that features film, photo, projection, a hip hop electronica score, and movement from diverse traditions -- ballet, modern, contemporary, b-boying/breakin, gaga, West African, jazz, krump, popping. The piece is driven by the concept of sensory overload, in which our brains and bodies are stimulated through receiving information from multiple sources simultaneously. The projectors around the room transform the physical boundaries of the space: gallery walls become windows and mirrors and vortexes, looking outward at the world beyond, looking inward at the performance. The audience passes through the lens and the digital processing software, the filters and reflectors adds information and removes immediacy.The Projector Series is a manipulation of time and space, disrupting the viewer’s focus and shifting the context of the movements center stage. In the Projector Series, the audience is bombarded with images, clips, music, lights and movement. The work engages its audience over the idea of viewer responsibility. Should the artist shoulder all the heavy lifting, condensing a vision into a neat and palatable product? The lights and sounds cascade around the audience and performers continuously; resulting in a seemingly infinite game of digital telephone. This piece is fitting for our times politically and socially as it explores ideas of critical thought, media-created leadership and influence, rhetoric, technology, control, sexual energy and dogma.
The Projector Series 2016 Real Art Ways
The Projector Series 2017 - Vox Populi
TNMOT AZTRO "The Projector series 1.5" at Vox Populi by Tnmot Aztro Performance Art and Dance Installation LLC is the first fully-self funded tour exhibition series by the CT-based artist, Arien Wilkerson. Art collectives like Little Berlin and Vox Populi, while almost totally unfunded, are still well-suited for creating opportunities and growing audiences for motivated, intrepid artists in the experimental stages of their growing careers. Kudos to Jim Strong and Eric Preisendanz for co-curating this exciting project with Arien!
Vox Populi, 319 N 11th Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia PA
June 22-24 2017
Photos by Eric Preisendanz
Special Thank you to Little Berlin & Vox Populi for Co Curating this event with TNMOT AZTRO.
CAST:Henry Olivo, Joseph Heitman, Lauren Horn, Erica Nelson, Kailah King, Arien Wilkerson,
Greg Deavens II ( Wrex Mason ) - Live Composer and performer
Domenic Pellegrini - domsentfrommars - Performer and Installation Operator
