Event

Collision: C. Ryder Cooley, MAG (Sweden), Christine Shields, Dj Koloni (Sweden)

Collision
The 25th Anniversary Performance Series and Mission Creek Music Festival

Doors open 7:30pm, all shows start at 8pm
$8 - 12 sliding scale admission
Thursday, July 16: C. Ryder Cooley, MAG (Sweden), Christine Shields, Dj Koloni (Sweden)

ANIMALIA: STORIES OF COLLAPSE, CALAMITY AND DEPARTURE
A lyrical performance by C. Ryder Cooley, performed with Christine Shields, Pat Kadyk, Lissa Ivy Tiegel, Marina Luna and friends.

ANIMALIA is a lyrical performance with movement, projections and live music on singing saw, accordion and strings. Performed within a landscape of mesmerizing video and archival film, Animalia invokes visions of secret bee societies and haunted circus scenes. The performance offers metaphors of flight as departure points from environmental collapse and the hallucinatory effects of war. By appropriating the masculine power symbol of the buck 'rack' and reinserting it onto feminine characters, the narrative blurs the divisions between masculine/feminine identity and human/animal forms.
more info: http://www.carolynrydercooley.com/performance.html
video: http://www.vimeo.com/5161326

MAG works with live samplings of trombone, megaphone guitar, sound and noise around her. Since 1995 she has been involved in many different bands such as Surplus People, Good Morning Sweden, Maggot and Jurassic Jesus and has toured extensively throughout Scandinavia and in Europe.