Ryder Cooley Brings New Multimedia Program ‘Revival’ to the Tavern Bar in Troy

Ryder and Hazel

Ryder and Hazel

(TROY, N.Y.) – Performance artist Ryder Cooley will present her new multimedia work, “Revival,” at the Tavern Bar and Library above Pecks Arcade (217 Broadway) coinciding with Troy Night Out on Friday, February 27, 2015, at 9pm. The program is a 20-minute live-cinema performance comprised of re-edited archival film, live music, recorded sound, projections, shadows and movement. Cooley will also perform a selection of musical numbers from her vast repertoire with her Dust Bowl Faeries bandmate Karen Cole.

Regional storyteller Richard Lovrich of Regrettable Lagniappe fame will be introducing each of the sets with a series of short story readings topically appropriate to the evening’s theme.

“Revival,” a surreal dark satire about animal experimentation and disembodiment, has only been seen before at MOMA’s PS1 Print Shop in New York City, has been described as “’Wings of Desire’ meets ‘4-H Club’.”

The show will be open to the public for a $5 suggested donation as a fundraiser for Cooley’s upcoming trip to San Francisco. Food and drinks will be available in the Tavern Bar over Pecks Arcade, in addition to the attached Grocery and The Confectionery. Call in advance for dinner reservations to Peck Arcade.

The show is produced and hosted by Corey Aldrich of 2440 Design Studio.

Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric visions with hypnotic music and projections, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories. Recent projects include XMALIA and newest, REVIVAL.

Cooley has collaborated in numerous bands from San Francisco to New York, including Fall Harbor, The Jug Stompers, The Darklings, Corner Tour, Down River and her most recent project, the Dust Bowl Faeries: a gothic-folk quartet with Sara Ayers, Karen Cole and Hazel.

Cooley has participated in a wide range of public works, educational projects and international shows. Selected works have been performed and installed at locations including: Governors Island, White Box and Exit Art galleries in NYC, Yerba Buena and Theater Artaud in San Francisco, El Visio Theater in Mexico City, the Robert Wilson Watermill Center on Long Island, Pan American Art Projects in Miami, and public art projects in Indonesia, El Salvador, France and the Czech Republic.

Cooley received an MFA in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

From 1993-2004, Cooley was an active member of the San Francisco art and music communities. Cooley currently lives in Columbia County, New York.

 

 

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