After Hours: C Ryder Cooley

An interview with C Ryder Cooley at the Clocktower Gallery several years before her performance as part of Cabin Fever: An Alpine Fantasy, an evening of music and movement with Kimisin Kreft, Ryder & Hazel, and The Drums at the Aspen Social Club. 157 W 47th Street in Manhattan. in June 2013.

C. Ryder Cooley is an artist, musician & performer. Hazel is a disembodied (taxidermy) ram. As hybrid-performers they create site-responsive/durational performances and installations, as well as aerial acrobatics and bittersweet ballads on accordion, singing saw and ukulele. In her collaborative afterlife, Hazel is re-embodied and trans-gendered as Ryder’s spirit animal. Their new album, XMALIA, was released in March 2013.

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