Total Styrene 7.20.11

Doors open 8:00pm

$15 ($10 if you bring some Styrofoam to recycle)

Participant Inc., 253 East Houston St.

Total Styrene 7.20.11 is an event that is both a part of and a benefit for The Total Styrene Experience (TTSE), which is a project by the artist Lizzie Scott, curated with Patricia Milder and Michael Mahalchick. TTSE is a laboratory for recycling Styrofoam into art and performance, turning the glut of empty storefronts and the glut of discarded Styrofoam into an opportunity for experimentation and collaboration across live and visual art. It celebrates the alchemy of turning toxic Styrofoam trash into a source of artistic abundance.

Total Styrene 7.20.11 presents installations and performances exploring the material relationship between Styrofoam and the body. Guest artists working in performance, visual art, music, theater and dance have been invited to use the combined resources of the space and the collected Styrofoam to create experimental work of all kinds. Lizzie Scott will present two live sculptural interactions, which will be performed by dancers Georgia X. Lifsher and Kyli Kleven. Kennis Hawkins, Max Steele, Michael Mahalchick, and Rashaun Mitchell will each be performing a new live performance piece. Mitchell will be using music by Abelhearts, aka Thomas Arsenault. The evening is curated by Patricia Milder.

On view in the gallery will be visual art by Elisa Lendvay, Keiko Narahashi, Janice Caswell, Josh Blackwell, Michael Mahalchick and Lizzie Scott. The work will be for sale, through an innovative auction, to raise money for TTSE.

The Total Styrene Expereince is a sponsored project of New York Foundation of the Arts.

Find out more about the Styrene Fantastic by following these links:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Styrene-Fantastic/157740017572959

http://thestyrenefantastic.blogspot.com/

Questions? Email styrenefantastic@gmail.com