Sunday September 13 * 4pm * REGISTER
This vocal health meetup is directed at singers who would like to come together to dust off their vocal cords and sing through their third eye. The meetup will open with guided chanting, followed by extensive vocal warm ups (learned from opera choir). Finally, the floor will open for participants to lead a vocal exercise, activity, or song.
No experience necessary.
Things to consider bringing:
water bottle
an instrument (bells, bowls, drum, guitar, ukulele, whatever!)
printouts of lyrics for the group
warm tea with honey
cough drops
This meeting will take place in the backyard of Rhizome DC at a distance.
M(vs+ic)TV
Katie Macyshyn
Events
9/13 4-5:30PM Socially distanced vocal health meetup in backyard
9/13 7-8PM Intergalactic karaoke via Zoom
9/16 6-7:30PM Meditative collage/chapbook workshop/ zine launch
9/20 5-6:30PM Final performance via Zoom - participation encouraged
M(vs+ic)TV is an ongoing performative series and wellness ritual. During the residency, part of Rhizome DC will be transformed into an extra-dimensional adolescent bedroom, offering a voyeuristic depiction of an awkward extraterrestrial’s inner world.
Our alien protagonist feels different from her peers and wonders; is she flawed in some way? The project explores isolation, mental health, and self discovery through interactive multimedia programming. Various happenings will take place that activate somatic intelligence and promote (bedroom) culture building. Workshops will include guided meditation, kostume karaoke, chapbook/zinemaking, and a vocal health workshop.
Sensuous textures, colors, and light activate floor to ceiling of the gallery, which will be covered in psychedelic fabric art and paintings. Within the install, viewers will have access to the tween inhabitant’s diary, see what she does when no one is watching, and can become intimately acquainted with her favorite hobbies: picking up vintage transmissions of Earth media and worshipping intergalactic pop diva XXX Stacy.
The project will culminate in a one-womxn musical and poetic performance within the multi-sensory installation that follows the character’s story of rebirth.
At first drawn to the fictional perfection of the TV and radio broadcasts, she finds Earth’s cries for help embedded within the media. She discovers that imperialism and technological egoism destroys attention spans and self-esteem. If only Earth had a hero to rescue the lost parts of our souls and save the humble planet...
Katie Macyshyn has taught art and empowered self expression through workshops, creative group activities, and multimedia rituals in the DMV since 2013, when she graduated with honors from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. Her interactive performance work has been included in gallery exhibitions in the DC area as well as in various festivals, including ITINERANT, Staten Island, NY; PGH PAF, Pittsburgh, PA; Transmodern Festival,Baltimore, MD; and (e)merge Art Fair, Washington, DC. Katie has begun to pursue art therapy in order to deepen her practice, and holds fast that all can overcome familial or societal guilt and shame in order to live a life of integration as simultaneously sexual, spiritual, and social beings. Macyshyn currently lives in Mount Rainier, MD and is from Toms River, NJ.