Big Art Group: The Sleep April 15, 2010

Transgressing the formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts, Big Art Group is an internationally acclaimed, New York-based experimental performance ensemble. To celebrate 10 years of innovative work, they take over all three Abrons performance spaces with projects past, present, and future.

The Sleep mixes early cinema techniques, magic lantern performance, concept album and Big Art Group's Real Time Film technique into a live see-though movie adapted from M. P. Shiel’s 1901 story The Purple Cloud, in which a lone explorer races to the North Pole while a poison purple cloud covers the earth. His subsequent return to the remnants of civilization drives him into a crisis of being, in a classic “last man” adventure that eerily presages contemporary catastrophic climate change. Live music by Theo Kogan, Sean Pierce, and Jemma Nelson. In the Experimental Theater.

In the Abrons’ Underground Theater, two four-channel video installations, SOS-Animals and The Imitation, will loop daily from noon to 10 pm.

Official Website: http://www.abronsartscenter.org