Vested Nexus

I have two exciting events this weekend. The first is the opening of my first group show at NEXUS gallery. Where It Was There I Shall Be is an installation of sculpture, octophonic sound, photography and video. The second is an all weekend show of VESTED SOULS, a modern dance work for which I composed a 45 minute score of electronic and chamber music.

April 8 - May 8. Opening reception Thursday April 8, 6-9 pm
Where It Was There I Shall Be

A group show by composer/sound artist, Michael Reiley McDermott (Mikronesia) , musician/mixed media artist, Megan Cauley and filmmaker, Derek Moench.

Through an eight channel audio sound scape, looped video installation, constructions and photos, the viewer/listener is taken through a exploration into the Shadow Self. As described by Carl Jung, the Shadow Self is the hidden dissociative part of oneself. Often the dark and hidden places in our self we hate, are projected onto others and viewed as their short comings. Visually and audible the viewer is confronted with subconscious photos, sculpture, video and sound that all work in tandem in this elaborate installation.

“Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”

Also coming up at NEXUS

Thursday April 22 - 8pm

An evening of lecture and sound with mathematical biolists, Todd Parsons discussing Bifurcation, Hysteresis, Catastrophe and psychologist Sean Duffy discussing the Shadow Self. Also, sound artist, Mikronesia will perform a set of improvised and processed
harmonium through his custom built octophonic eight speaker system from Where It Was There I Shall Be.

NEXUS is located in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St, Suite 102. 2 blocks north of Girard Ave, between 2nd and 3rd streets.

Friday and Saturday, April 9-10 at 8pm and Sunday, April 11 at 3pm
VESTED SOULS

The CEC/Community Education Center is proud to present the final New Edge Resident Artists performance of its 25th Anniversary Season.  Nora Gibson, director of Nora Gibson Performance Project, unveils her evening length work entitled VESTED SOULS at the CEC where she has been a resident artist for the last nine months.  For more information call 215 387-1911 and/or see our website http://www.cecarts.org/.  Tickets are $12, $10 for students and seniors and may be purchased online at Brown Paper Tickets

VESTED SOULS, depicts “the elegant struggle of the Everyman in five vignettes.”  Gibson’s work reflects her post-modern sensibilities and her roots in classical ballet.  Evading categorization, one will see dancing in both bare feet and en pointe.  Always focused on contemporary, socially relevant themes, Gibson’s message is conveyed through a style that is formal, abstract, structural, and minimal.  VESTED SOULS was inspired by a period in Gibson’s life when she worked as an attorney and delves into a world of people who are dedicated and expert, yet deeply ambivalent about their lives, and are in a perpetual state of disconnect.  For this project Gibson has enlisted two collaborators, Michael Reiley McDermott and Clifford Greer, Jr.  McDermott has created an original music score with a wide-ranging sound palette including classical strings and piano as well as digital and mechanized sounds and lighting designer Greer lends his expertise to sculpt just the right texture and mood for the work.  Nora Gibson, Jeffrey Gunshol, Eiren Shuman, and Jessica Warchal-King will dance VESTED SOULS.

CEC
3500 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215 387-1911
www.cecarts.org