Sunday September 13 * 7pm * REGISTER to receive Zoom link
Katie Macyshyn’s M(vs+ic)TV is not just a television channel but a way of life. In Macyshyn’s M(vs+ic)TV karaoke lounge (first performed at Arlington Arts Center), guests dress up, sing, and dance, becoming stars by way of intergalactic costume karaoke - now from the comfort of your own home! Fabulous prizes awarded for best dressed, best dance moves, most creative interpretation, and the A for effort award.
Featured Karaoke Menu:
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Blue Moon - The Marcels
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - The Carpenters
Cosmic Dancer - T Rex
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
Eclipse/Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
Englishman in New York - Sting
Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The Fifth Dimension
Lucky Star - Madonna
Rocketman - Elton John
Shining Star - Earth, Wind, and Fire
Starman - David Bowie
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
The Final Countdown - Europe
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
M(vs+ic)TV 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.