Rivington School's Shalom Neuman returns to NYC for a solo exhibit at Van Der Plas Gallery, and we're giving a performance for the opening!
Friday September 15 5:30 PM - Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC!
From Rebecca Migdal:
The Third Reich of Dreams: Burning Down the Night (featuring Doll Hospital, Shalom Neuman and Ladi Kolsky)
In Nazi Germany a Jewish journalist, Charlotte Beradt, secretly recorded the dreams of guilt, fear, ambivalence, denial and resistance recounted to her by acquaintances suffering under the fascist totalitarian state. The dreams were later published in the book The Third Reich of Dreams.
The potent and disturbing dream images Beradt collected serve as the textual component of The Third Reich of Dreams: Burning Down the Night, a sound experience weaving together spoken word, spontaneous vocals and music. With guttural catharsis, the work channels an apotheosis of evil, accompanying and culminating in the ultimate act of desecration, the burning of books, performed by Shalom Neuman. This performance functions as a symbolic, apotropaic redemption, defying censorship and hate through the re-appropriation of the destructive act into the chthonic realm of alchemical renewal.
Doll Hospital is an experimental noise/art/poetry experience featuring Andy Laties, Rebecca Migdal, Eric Blitz and Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz. The ensemble will be joined by guitarist Ladi Kolsky.
Doll Hospital have appeared at Otto’s Shrunken Head and The Pyramid Club, among other venues.
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