Vampire Masquerade: Happening by visual and performance artist Michael Alan

NYC Art happenings from the 60s and on have become beyond rare, the part of Art that broke open the tight discomfort. NYC has become events, parties, and high rises, join us and help spread the efforts to keep NYC raw culture alive!
VAMPIRE MASQUERADE
A Halloween Performance / happening
by NYC-native and based visual and performance artist Michael Alan

Date: Saturday, Oct 22nd, 2016
Time: 7pm-12am
Location: Teatro IATI, 64 east 4th, btw 2nd Ave & Bowery, NY, NY, near F, N & R Trains; www.iatitheater.org (212) 505-6757
Tickets: $20 Discounted on www.michaelalanart.com 'Creative Experience'
http://www.michaelalanart.com/2016site/freedom/

Hosted by Draw-Mania and Anu Annam
Cast: Michael Alan Alien staring and going to hell and back!!!!!
Live 5 Music Improv Non-stop Set by Mike by Mike Alan and Mike Ogletree
THE 'HAPPENING'
Halloween month, come experience a 'happening' that blurs the boundaries of what is real and what is life.
Themed by 80's horror/ sci fi- drama Michael Alan's solo modern day vampire work piece will invite his cast to join him and perform an epic 5 hour non-stop adventure into the surreal emotional state of life and death. Different stages of living in the present and the future will be set with simple material and body language -a scary feeling for most--with raw visuals combined with Alan's art, which will come to life on his and the cast's bodies through props, markers and costume. There will be 5 hours of deep, character-based study and performance.
Theatrics will include everything like 'eating flesh', Alan will turn one of his cast against him, vampires draining their victims, lust, clowning, transformed faces, extreme lights, experimental music, movement, bodies, and nudes, taking attendees into a surreal trip into the old American horror of the 80 and visions of the future.
Audience participation is highly encouraged! Create your own circles, costumes, get naked, draw, write, poetry, connect. No phones please. No photography (come take a break from life) we will have Anu running photography and projection so you can use our cameras and tools and join her in visuals!
Come in costume to this 'Vampire Masquerade", or just bring a mask, or get naked! get drawn on by Alan, become the art! You are art!

DOWNLOAD Michael Alan Alien's Music on Bandcamp: www.michaelalanalien.bandcamp.com

MICHAEL ALAN

With his drawings likened to Egon Schiele by Robert Shuster in the Village Voice’s “Best in Show”, Michael Alan's performances and livinig installations take the comparison to a whole new level. Immersive, wild, and abandoning almost all traditional incarnations of the human form. The participants of this VAMPIRE MASQUERADE 'Happening', are highly encouraged to be costumed and sketching as well, becoming a part of the art. With Michael Alan's live shows, a new, vibrant, kinetic style of drawing is born.
“It all starts with my line, the continual DNA through my work...I’m here to create an empathetic, honest, strong visual language, by working through every process I can, whether it’s drawing, painting, sculpture, performance or music that will touch as many people as possible. Life is short...Having the ability to create is a gift and should be shared. Touch as many as you can."-Michael Alan
A born and raised New Yorker, Alan’s art touches many genres ranging from drawings/paintings, sculptures, live performances and his music, Michael Alan Alien, collaborating with musicians such as Jello Biafra from The Dead Kennedys, Shinji Masuko from The Boredoms, Jeff and Jane Hudson and artist Kenny Scharf.-Art 21