The New Dreamz

The New Dreamz

Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Rose Luardo work together as the duo The New Dreamz. In their work, which is primarily expressed through the mediums of video and performance, they explore identity, class, pop culture, beauty, sexuality, and even the process of art making itself. Blending a myriad of eclectic influences they re-contextualize their source material and create a dense and vibrant landscape that takes the audience into a total mind and body experience. They bend reality with an eye towards illumination. What they yield is a mix of visual poetry, identity art, and the trying on of body comportment. Wright and Luardo find creative fodder in the materials they have amassed over years of friendship. They use a stockpile of wigs, costumes, curiosities, lot store items and the like--to transform themselves.

Concert & Open Studios: Hess Is More (& More)

Mikkel Hess & the Hess Is More Ministry of Integration perform My Head is a Ballroom?. a work in progress developed at the Clocktower, plus Oyama Enrico Isamu Letter reveals his mural room (also in progress), and The New Dreamz give a mini-show in their project room. 6pm. No admit after 7pm. RSVP to events@artonair.org. Details below. Throughout the month of May Mikkel Hess and his fellow musicians of Hess Is More Live have been working in the studio at the Clocktower Gallery to develop and arrange new material. This process has yielded a repetoire investigating relations among Folk, Disco, Pop, Afro, Punk, Jazz and more... This evening the ensemble will play an intimate "work in progress" concert in the upper gallery - live testing this new music for the very first time. A selection of photographs by "stupidface" will be on view in the studio along with other elements from the process. Hess Is More Live: Michael Hanf - Vibraphone Pavel Kogan - Guitar Rasmus Bille Bahncke - SH101 Chris Berry - Electric Drums Matt Parker - Horns & Keys Mikkel Hess - Drums & Vocals

The New Dreamz: The Idea

A live show at the Clocktower with a performance by The New Dreamz and open studios from the New Dreamz and Oyama Enrico Isamu Letter's Aeromural. 6pm. No admission after 7pm. Bring an ID. RSVP required to events@artonair.org. In The Idea, The New Dreamz travel through the 4th wall, the 5th wall, the 6th wall, and then they create new walls, they travel into them, explore, and then break through them. Creating maximal movements in a minimal space, The New Dreamz are the paint brush and they are also the canvas. Pre-show in Studio 8: The New Dreamz will have an open studio installation giving the The Clocktower Gallery Tuesday night event attendees a unique perspective into The New Dreamz's process. With influences as diverse as horror films, modern dance and New Age mysticism, The New Dreamz mismatch disparate aesthetics and cultural references, creating absurd new narratives. Variations are created from both simple and complex dialogues between each other while performing on stage, creating video and in the writing process. .