performance-happening Tuesday March 6

The Cocoon Project is an ongoing interactive performance art project bringing together photographers, dancers and other artists to perform and document the Cocoon's colorful temporary installations and the public's reaction. Performers use gestures, poses and noises to express ideas abut form, shape and movement in regards to site and moment. Influenced by Martha Graham, Ernesto Neto and others, a fabric enclosure abstracts the figural form and provides freedom for the performer/muse to become a morphing sculptural entity. Structurally, these postures represent a scale model of an architecture and materiality based on the forces of the body. The Cocoons have been featured at FIGMENT NYC, Art in Odd Places and other NYC art festivals. 

A choreographed performance Happening takes place on Tuesday March 6th 6-9pm, where visitors and performers will interact with the installation and Cocoons. Utilizing lighting effects, unique beats and movement, everyone is welcome to participate.   

SET Gallery

287 3rd, Ave. in Brooklyn

between President and Carroll. 

http://www.setgallery.org/

FOLLY's  freestanding fabric enclosure features webbed fabric walls to cocoon within.  Performers incorporate light effects and movement in collaboration with a community's participation through movement, experience and memory.  Cocoons will interact with a separate projection and the gatherers. 
Sounds by DJ TBA will make you want to move, but this gathering is not a "dance party."
all movement will be expressed

some inspiration.


but it should be a little more fun and playful:

AND EVERYTHING  AiOP:RITUAL


and the creation of a video collage

with some extra parts thrown in

In 2011, Project 59, Inc. initiated its new program BRURAL, a series of events, based on collaboration between artists and curators from Brooklyn, NY and Ural region (Russia). Both Ural region and Brooklyn are experiencing an evident transformation from relatively “rural” places into hubs of contemporary art. Offering artists and curators an opportunity to present their works, BRURAL is examining two worlds, their relations and juxtaposition, providing a platform for interaction and partnership. The first part of BRURAL is Art/&/of/?/vs./or/Design, an exhibition curated by Agata Iordan, an art historian and curator from Ekaterinburg. It investigates, criticizes and is inspired by the symbiosis of art and design, their boundary and attitude. Art and design projects by each artist are in one space.

BRURAL: Art/&/of/?/vs./or/Design
February 26th – March 24th 2012
Friday – Sunday 1–6 pm

Curator: Agata Iordan

Sherry Aliberti, Sasha Chijhikova, Anton Curbatov, Anna Daminova, James Eads, Ruslan Khasanov, Ben Knight, Monobrow, Natalia Pastukhova, Ryan Pelter, Radya, Jennifer Revit, Natalie Ross, Sasha Saltanova, Ben Shechter, Olya Zovskaya

Opening: February 26th 6–9 pm
Performance by Sherry Aliberti: March 6th, 6 pm

Art/&/of/♥/vs./or/Design

FOLLY 4. Architecture . a whimsical or extravagant structure built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to a view, commemorate a person or event, etc.: found especially in England in the 18th century.

This architectural intervention appears to be a giant dancer caught in webs of fabric. It is a freestanding structure that is immersive and sensory. Colorful webbed walls morph with visitor participation. Choreographed performances and public interaction/reaction will be documented but the Experience inside is the art.  

Soft seating and fabric textures mingle with fragrances and the light to create a transformative environment for visitors and performers. This iteration is a particularly "dusk sky" structure in the use of color and fragrance.  The first of many future architectural "follies,"  this is a crucial step in bridging the Cocoons and architecture.  A series of collage renderings accompany the installation.  These document the larger future of the project where scale and program engage the city as bathhouses, healing centers and dance studios and more.

SET Gallery

287 3rd, Ave. in Brooklyn

between President and Carroll. 

 

February 26th – March 24th 2012

Friday – Sunday 1–6 pm

Opening: February 26th 6–9 pm
Performance by Sherry Aliberti: March 6th, 6pm

A choreographed performance Happening takes place on Tuesday March 6th 6-9pm, where visitors and performers will interact with the installation and Cocoons utilizing lighting effects and movement. Everyone is welcome to participate.   

it ended up looking a lot like the drawings after all

Project 59, Inc. is pleased to announce BRURAL and it’s inaugural show, Art/&/of/♥/vs./or/Design, curated byAgata Iordan, an art historian and curator from Ekaterinburg. It investigates, criticizes and is inspired by the symbiosis of art and design, their boundary and attitude by placing artist's art and design projects side by side.

 

Featuring:

Sherry Aliberti, Sasha Chijhikova, Anton Curbatov, AnnaDaminova, James Eads, Ruslan Khasanov, Ben Knight, Monobrow, NataliaPastukhova, Ryan Pelter, Radya, Jennifer Revit, Natalie Ross, Sasha Saltanova,Ben Shechter, Olya Zovskaya

 

SET Gallery

287 3rd, Ave. in Brooklyn

between President and Carroll. 

 

February 26th – March 24th 2012

Friday – Sunday 1–6 pm

Opening: February 26th 6–9 pm
Performance by Sherry Aliberti: March 6th, 6pm

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BRURAL (BRooklyn-URAL) is a Project 59, Inc. initiative for collaborations between artists and curators from Brooklyn and Ural Region, two relatively "rural" areas developing into booming centers of contemporary art. BRURAL is designed as a series of collaborative projects, investigating and reflecting on transforming environments in Brooklyn and Ural.

Project 59, Inc., a Brooklyn based not for profit artorganization, was founded in 2010. It organized and has been curating SETGallery.

Ural Region is special for Project 59, Inc. since the only intersection of 59th longitude with 59th latitude on land is northeast of Perm. Three others are on the bottom of the oceans. BRURAL was also inspired by two prominent figures from Ekaterinburg: Tamara Aleksandrovna Galeeva, dean of Art History department at Ural Federal University, the pioneer of propagation of contemporary art in post-Soviet environment and her former student, Alisa Prudnikova, a director of the Ural Branch of  National Center forContemporary Art in Ekaterinburg and founder and commissar of Ural Industrial Biennial.

SHERRY ALIBERTI 2012

Folly at SET Gallery

My next big art endeavor is building a giant Cocoon.  "Folly" will be on display at SET Gallery opening Sunday February 26th at 6pm. The exhibition is up until March 24.
The inspiration for this installation comes from the body's form and structure in a posture abstracted by the fabric cocoon.  This iteration will take over this whole window area and 12' into the space.  You will be able to walk into, lounge inside of it and experience it.  It can be touched and smelled.

fol·ly

 noun, 4. Architecture . a whimsical or extravagant structure built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to a view,commemorate a person or event, etc.: found especially in England in the 18th century.

A performance-interaction Happening will occur on March 6th from 6-9pm.
My strategy is to create a sensory environment that is inclusive and surprising, tactile and moving.


SET Gallery
287 3rd Ave 
Gowanus

MORE DRAWINGS
FABRIC

a quick rendering (it probably will not be green, although i love the bright/fresh/jungleness of the green. Not quite this shape, either)

some touching allowed.  visitors are invited to lounge and arrange the water jug web.

Then of course, smells.  They will be invisible.

MORE ABOUT THIS SHOW

SHERRY ALIBERTI 2012
interactive fabric sculpture, fabric architecture, fabric structure, participatory art, interactive art, performance art, interactive fabric


some current, relevant projects
"Cicade" by Marco Casagrande
Christophe Laudamiel

windows to imaginary places at littlefield nyc

littlefield performance + art spacehttp://www.littlefieldnyc.com/exhibit/

“Windows to Imaginary Places” is a series of large-scale frameless collages, splicing Cocoon forms into the cityscape. They suggest free-standing sculptures and installations at a large, inhabitable scale. Some as Bathhouses or museums, others as community centers and performance venues.

Sherry Aliberti's background in architecture and yoga inspires her to study the body as a structure. Influenced by Martha Graham, Ernesto Neto and others, a fabric enclosure abstracts the figural form. Structurally, these postures represent a scale model of an architecture based on the forces of the body. The Cocoon is her performance-installation work which involves physically entering a Cocoon constructed of sheer, stretchy fabric and playing inside. Each one is different in its size, opacity, subtle texture and smells. The public's response contributes transportive memories and emotional reactions.The role of the performers is to interpret the body’s structural form and power through athletically choreographed or spontaneous postures. Collaborating with dancers and photographers develops the project continually.

Sherry Aliberti has her Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and uses it to explore this idea of body and structure, curate interactive art events, travel and photograph cities and absorb as much of NYC art and culture as possible.


In the littlefield gallery from Dec. 28th - Jan. 30th

Please contact the artist directly about prices and future exhibitions.

sherry.aliberti@gmail.com
BIGGER IMAGES

happy birthdays !!!

the MISSING ORANGE cocoon

and what it was up to in October for Art in Odd Places.  Alex Gryger photographed these moments.  KGo and Sherry Aliberti

SHERRY ALIBERTI 2012


happy new year!  this is my first post of 2012..............

windows to imaginary places

join me for the opening reception of my exhibition of giant collages, "windows to imaginary places."

Saturday January 14th from 6pm-9pm

at littlefield

Celebrate my birthday and a few other January birthday kids following the reception at this cool venue with a fun DJ!

http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/artists/

this show is up until the end of January

“Windows to Imaginary Places” is a series of large-scale frameless collages, splicing Cocoon forms into the cityscape. They suggest free-standing sculptures and installations at a large, inhabitable scale. Some as Bathhouses or museums, others as community centers and performance venues.
complete installation about 15' x 8'
adhesive wall mural material

SHERRY ALIBERTI 2011

a peek at what's really going on

i send these applications into shows every couple weeks.  just like all the cover letter + resume + work samples that i send out to potential employers.  here is one of the more interesting ones. especially because they invited me to make an installation!  (and i've got myself a job again)SET Gallery is pleased to announce an Open Call from guest curator Agata Iordan for the show
BRURAL:Art/&/of/♥/vs./or/Design

Brooklyn artists with formal design education and/or who work as designers are welcome to apply.

The exhibition will examine the nature of art and design, their
boundary conditions, similarities and juxtaposition. It will include art works and samples of design from each artist. The art work in
any media will be installed in the gallery, and the design project will be shown as documentation (sketches, drawings, photos, screenshots).

Please, include in your submission:

ARTIST STATEMENT

My background in architecture and yoga inspires me to study the body as a structure. Influenced by Martha Graham, Ernesto Neto and others, a fabric enclosure abstracts the figural form. Structurally, these postures represent a scale model of an architecture and materiality based on the forces of the body. The Cocoon is my performance-installation work which involves physically entering a Cocoon constructed of sheer, stretchy fabric and playing inside. Each one is different in its size, opacity, subtle texture and smells. A collection of them together, for pairs or small groups create an interactive Playground.The Cocoons have been featured at FIGMENT NYC, Art in Odd Places and other NYC art festivals as both participatory and performance art. The public responds with transportive memories and emotional reactions.The role of the performers is to interpret the body’s structural form and power through athletically choreographed or spontaneous postures. Collaborating with dancers and photographers develops the project continually. Past installations have relied on existing structure like sprinkler pipes and stairway banisters to create an interactive environment that visitors must touch and smell. These environments function as colorful static pieces until inhabited by participants. Incorporating lighting effects, projections and other textures further explore an immersive environment. My collages splice Cocoon forms into the cityscape to suggest free-standing sculptures and installations at a large, inhabitable scale. Some are designed as Bathhouses or museums, others as community centers and performance venues.

• Why do you make art?
• I make art to play with ideas that are hard to grasp in a drawing. I like creating an experience of something temporal in my art. For now it is nothing until someone interacts with it, gets inside to smell and touch and dance. The act of making it is necessary for me, in search of how the body functions as a structure. The ideas I have about architecture must first be worked out as Art. The physical model of the architecture is the performer's use of the fabric cocoon and I design a larger scale of it as a collage, siting the structure in the cityscape. I am working on designing the interiors and floorplans.
• i make art to help pursue my design, in its most unrestrained and romantic ability. only the rules the artist makes for herself, must she follow and my rules are based in design principles like gravity and the body, light and color. My art is about an experience, it is interactive. My art involves touching, smelling and playing.
• - Why do you make design?
• I make design because it is tough to work out all the kinks.  it takes a lot of time to fit everything the best way into the constraints. The constraints are my favorite part. Design exists in exploiting constraints and details.  Nothing is ever constant, options are almost endless. The challenge is never ending in a motivating way.  It must develop fast, it must adhere to a schedule and a budget. It needs a client and it will be built and many people will be paid for the work. Once it's finished, the designer never gets to see it anymore (sometimes.) The scale of design is comfortable in a 3-dimensional way where some aspects must make perfect, dull sense. The ability to Design from start to finish, successfully, comes from hands-on experience. You have to work at being a good designer.
• Architecture is at the base of my being. It is what feels right and I want to make crazy, time-stopping structures that appear to be just about to take off in flight or dance, of an exciting color, and with a transportive interior that might be relaxing, energizing or inspiring.
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• Shortly describe the difference and/or similarities in creative processes.
• My design is the result of my process of art. I use art to find what I am trying to design. The similarities involve materials and functionality. Both will be experienced 3-dimensionally. The shapes the body creates are expressive and powerful, even spontaneous. The cocoons and collages can suggest anything, because they are art, while the design in the process of turning them into architecture. Bringing the scale of the body back to the scale of ourselves using this space. This is a new creative process, for design. New questions about material, using concrete and water, electricity and plumbing. The difference is scale. The same is the rigor that it requires to exploit the idea.
• Design is a tough creative process, to the point that sometimes the creativity gets driven out of it, or it is presented as routine, as a script. Art can be free-form and romantic; right in an instant. Or not. Both develop over time and practice, need to be worked on with unbridled focus and engulf the creator in details that may or may not be appreciated, if not completely discarded in the next iteration. In architecture, design is sometimes compromised because the architect is so focused on coordinating countless details and people. So many pieces have to come together, and none of them have to be about “good design.” For me, design is about constantly striving to find the best way to frame nothing but an experience of that space.
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• What is the difference (if any) between art and design for you? 
• For me, the difference between art and design is gravity, tenure and money. Great art will last forever. Great architecture can and will if you just leave it alone. Something is far more powerful about an actual space, like the Pantheon, that has lasted on the earth for thousands of years. It has long outlived its architects. Something so grand, or smart, that it would persevere through generations of time and at what price of whose cost? Great design dreams of this, while art's dream must be vastly more ephemeral and ideally important immediately. Art has more reputation about it, which is part of the fun. Design is hardly ever allowed to be fun.
•  "Design" must adhere to rules implied by codes for actual legal permission, etc, to build anything. Every single step costs money and forces a lot of people to get involved, drawing, building, installing, coordinating.  Art is allowed less rules, more of a "please don't touch" idea, which i wholeheartedly disagree with.  Design, for me at least (i am excluding product designers, fashion designers....)  is intended to live beyond 30 years.  With any luck, my design will outlast my life to be classified as design, when it was only ever art to begin with, and then what? The similarities, i think are sometimes greater. measuring, studying, analyzing, experiencing firsthand other creations are part of learning for both disciplines.  Phenomenal design can be mind-bending, for me, in its ability to suck time and space away, carrying its own soul. Art rarely has that feeling at such a powerful scale.
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  - Give an approximate estimate in percentage of how much time you spend making design and art.
  It is difficult to say. I spend 40 hours a week at my architecture job. I spend all my free time making art. However, in the larger scheme of everything, I feel that the time spent at the architecture job is important experience for the future of my art. Similarly, my art at present takes many forms, whether it's the actual performing of the art or the collecting, analyzing of documentation, collaborating with other artists (including designing interactive art events) and continuing the process of creating an art-design purgatory. Constantly working, I have an installation of giant collage-decals up during January.

  
  

  2. CV(s) in art and design )
  
  3. Art works samples: up to 5 images or web addresses (to a specific work /project or detailed explanation how to find submitted 5 works) and up
  to 3 images/links for designs. 

  
  

  Art works 

  1. Cocoon Playground

  2. Art in Odd Places, interacting/installing

  3. Art in Odd Places, Union Square

  4. Art in Odd Places, at night

  5. Cocoons caught on Tape http://youtu.be/dbz5N55abas

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Design 

  1. Play, Fragments 2010 (curated show and installation) http://www.sherryaliberti.com/search/label/fragments%202010

  2. The Cloudhanger (installation project) http://www.sherryaliberti.com/2011/12/schemes-for-cloudhanger.html
  

  3. Vienna Healing Center (schematic rendering and description) http://www.sherryaliberti.com/2011/11/vienna-healing-center.html

  
  

  
  

  PLAY AT FRAGMENTS 2010

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  THE CLOUDHANGER INSTALLATION

  

  
  

  VIENNA HEALING CENTER 

  

  
  Art works without samples of design, design projects without art works will not be considered for this exhibition.
  
  

  
  

  thanks very much,

  

  
  

  Sherry Aliberti

  
  

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