Celestial Branches

Musarra, Anderson, and Lew present a multi-media sculpture amalgamating an array of upcycled plastic trash, sound, light, and other mixed media components that are transformed into a monumental shrine in the center of the gallery. This iterative sound and sculpture project has been presented in various incarnations at the Making Time ∞ festival in the powder magazine chamber of Philadelphia’s Fort Mifflin, and is presented here traveling for the first time. The installation will be activated with a performance on First Friday, May 3rd.

The Wood Dragon (龍) springs forward in cooperation with the Water Rabbit to radiate warmth, ask questions, mend your heart, and catch dreams. After the world has dealt its cards, success, growth, and good fortune will flow freely if tempers can be kept in check. A better life and the tallest trees in the forest grow from gardens planted with humility. The small axe is lucky and sticks it out to the end. All you’ll need and more, the compatibility grid is simultaneously the best, super bad, and fairly average. 12 entertaining and convenient animals still have each other, and the great race is ongoing. There is interaction infinity, there are many paths, and you can fly higher than the weather. If you make it rain, you can be the 5th entity and be gone when the clouds come. I’ll always be your friend when the sun shines as long as you stand under my umbrella.

Frank Musarra is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist and creative technologist. He has collaborated and advised on large-scale installations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and Kunsthalle Basel. He has produced multimedia work for corporate clients such as Nike, Google, and Samsung. As a music producer (as Heart of Darknesses), he has worked with artists such as Girl Talk, Ke$ha, Kings of Leon, and A$AP Ferg. http://heartsofdarknesses.es/

Francesca Anderson is an interdisciplinary creative with experience in whole systems design, film making, and performance. She grew up in Bangor, Maine and later went on to study at McGill University in Montreal and the Institute without Boundaries Design School in Toronto. https://www.frankieanderson.com

Eugene Lew is a Philadelphia-based guide, producer, educator, and organizer primarily engaged in the performance, design, access, management, transformation, (attempted) capture, storage, and playback of shared IRL experiences – with a sound/music bias. The fleeting moment, aggregate independent decision-making, and stochastic phenomena are especially fascinating and vital to his practice and general existence. He welcomes serendipitous collaborations and treasures long-term partnerships that seek to navigate and explore the constant cycle of remembering-learning-forgetting-reconstructing. Lew is a lecturer and the Director of Sound & Music Technology for the University of Pennsylvania Music Department. https://hungrymonsters.net