Escalator Maintenance Society
Where to start. The Escalator Maintenance Society show last night at the gallery was phenomenal. I spent the afternoon painting and mopping and setting up while Jason and Tim were rehearsing and I figured either the whole thing was going to be super cheesy or totally amazing based on what I was hearing. Well, the verdict is it blew my mind.
The brilliance of the show was not just the music itself, which is oddly haunting and melancholy, but the raw, artistic theatre in which it was communicated. I laughed out loud at one point at the alice-in-wonderland way in which Jason and Tim were hunched over two tiny toy pianos with Chris Youmans, the looming cello player, between them like a performance at Tim Burton’s dueling piano bar. More pictures are on the gallery site. photo credit: me.
I’m happy beyond words at how both the halls of the machine installation went as well as this one. Thank you to my dear, dear friends for trusting me enough to try something besides the same-old-same-old in the space. Daniel made recording of the night and an announcement of the details of its release will be made shortly.
