BRATTLEBORO — The Center for Digital Art in Brattleboro hosts Power Animal Systems, a multimedia performance ensemble known for blending experimental music, video installation, and a cast of animal-human hybrid creatures from another dimension, on Friday, Oct. 25.
Donning sporty Spandex uniforms and anthropomorphic headpieces, the Power Animals enact “species-queer” alien rituals “satirizing Earth's divisive power structures: species, gender, sexuality, religion, and hierarchy,” CDA said in a program announcement.
Created by Albany, N.Y.,-based visual artist, musician, and teacher Jason Martin, Power Animal Systems has performed regularly in New York City throughout the past decade and has enjoyed numerous collaborations with a number of artists and performers - among them Lady Starlight, a longtime collaborator of pop star Lady Gaga.
Although Power Animal Systems has toured the East Coast from Florida to Turners Falls, Mass., this performance marks the provocative project's first visit to Vermont.
Neil Young Cloaca, a western Massachusetts-based performance artist and member of Northampton's conceptual noise/rock band Fat Worm of Error, will introduce the Power Animals with his own performance.
This show comes as part of a new season of events, exhibitions, and workshops at CDA, whose mission is to present and promote new work in experimental media/digital art and video to audiences in and around southern Vermont.