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CVRTAIN

CVRTAIN is a virtual reality (VR) experience starring you. Placed center stage in a beautiful theater, the curtain parts to reveal an audience of thousands teaming with adulation. Do you freeze in the spotlight, or bow graciously? Every action produces a different reaction in your audience: thunderous applause, feet stomping, cameras flashing, maybe even booing. An entire audience’s emotions are at your virtual command, but only until the curtain closes.

Emmy award-winning experiential director Yehuda Duenyas dives into his fascination of subverting the audience/performer relationship by putting you at the center of the CVRTAIN experience. Using a VR headset, sensors, and headphones equipped for haptic feedback, Duenyas draws on the tools of gaming and immersive theater in a personalized, celebratory experience for one.

“the journey left me exhilarated, and ever so slightly altered.” – Ariel Kaminer, The New York Times (on The Ascent)

Commissioned by PS122
Presented in partnership with Wallplay

Jan 3 – 5-7pm
Jan 4-7 – 12-6pm
Jan 10-15 – 12-6pm
EXTENDED:
Jan 17-19 – 2-8pm

5-10 minute interactive experience
Tickets are individually booked in cycles of 10 minutes

at 151 Gallery, 132 West 18th Street in Manhattan

$10

Coil Pass Holders:
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More info: cvrtain.com

Video

Credits

Creative Director: Yehuda Duenyas
Lead Designer: Ben Kato
Lead Programmer/Producer: Christopher Romero
Digital Lighting: David Lobser
Creative Technologist, Programmer: Owen Bell
Pop-up set designer: Chris Skeens

About the Artists

Yehuda Duenyas is an experience designer and is the Founder of Mindride, an artist-driven company specializing in next-generation experiential entertainment. Bridging the gap between the physical and the virtual, Duenyas is a visionary artist who creates immersive encounters and interactive events, playful environments that sensuously evoke the mythic, the intimate, the ridiculous, and the sublime. His techniques emerge from his passion and experience working in immersive theater, interactive technology, ride design, reality television, large-scale events, gaming, and physical computing.

Yehuda was the Designer of the Ad Council’s Love Has No Labels campaign, and his company Mindride designed the custom motion capture pipeline behind that powered the experience. The most viewed campaign of 2015, Love has no Labels has earned over 1 billion media impressions, has been viewed over 110 million times online and won 8 Cannes Lions, 11 Clio Awards, 2 Facebook awards, and the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Commerical. His company Mindride developed the live motion capture pipeline behind the spot. Duenyas and his team also created The Ascent, the first mind-controlled ride/game, which was called the largest EEG bio-feedback machine in the world by the New York Times. Duenyas has created experiences and productions for Google/YouTube, Audi, the Ad Council, R/GA, Disney Imagineering, Logan & Sons, Alpine Labs, MGM/UA among others. He consults on new forms of interactive experience design for the entertainment industry and advertising. Currently, Duenyas is a Producer and Creative Director of a new format Zombie Reality Experience, created for YouTube Red. www.mindride.co

See full credits and bios in our online program

About our Partners

Wallplay is a creative network & curatorial consultancy that transforms virtual and physical spaces into storytelling channels for multimedia installations & exhibitions. We specialize in pairing creative projects with corporate sponsorship. Gallery 151’s program is managed by Wallplay and sponsored by Alfa Development, New York’s premier green building development company. www.wallplay.com

Yehuda Duenyas’ CVRTAIN is commissioned by Performance Space 122 with an implementation grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the Building Demand for the Performing Arts Program.

Partners:

Skullcandy
M ss ng P eces
De Boer Media
Mindride

PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival

PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival
January 3 – 22

Performance Space 122’s Coil Festival explores the vitality of live performance in New York City through contemporary artists from diverse genres, cultures, and perspectives. Full of inquisitive and dynamic work created locally, across the US, and around the world.

“We don’t present objects, static fixed ideas. These are living, breathing, complicated, flawed and wonderful experiences. Profound and unpredictable. Difficult.

There’s a rightful push for the work that we do to better reflect the society of ideas and people from which we spring. Sometimes we get this right, and sometimes we also push back when we’re told to make the work do something predictable, something certain. The potency of the work that PS122 presents comes from the fact that it should give you back the power to create its impact.

I am very proud that in my final year of Coil, PS122 again shows off its artists’ interdisciplinary chops – from the entirely constructed world of VR through a theater created purely of object, light and sound to visceral, confronting and raw movement.” – Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director

DOWNLOAD:
PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival Brochure
or download the calendar + map page

Click an artist or project for more info:

Yehuda Duenyas (USA)
CVRTAIN
Virtual Reality | World Premiere
PS122 Virtual Commission | Presented in partnership with Wallplay
EXTENDED January 3-21

Antony Hamilton and Alisdair Macindoe (Australia)
MEETING
Dance | US Premiere
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 4-8

Forced Entertainment (United Kingdom)
Real Magic
Theater | US Premiere
PS122 Commission | Co-presented with La MaMa
January 5-8

Pavel Zuštiak / Palissimo (NYC)
Custodians of Beauty
Dance, Performance
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 5-8

Kate McIntosh / SPIN (Belgium)
Worktable
Live Installation | US Premiere
Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center
January 5-9

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith (NYC)
Basketball
Dance | World Premiere
PS122 Commission | Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center
January 7-10

Britt Hatzius (United Kingdom / Belgium)
Blind Cinema
Film, Performance | NY Premiere
Co-presented with SVA Theatre in partnership with East Village Community School
January 9-12

Nicola Gunn (Australia)
Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster
Theater, Dance | US Premiere
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 11-14

Bobbi Jene Smith in collaboration with Keir GoGwilt (NYC)
A Study on Effort
Dance | NY Premiere
Presented by ArKtype / Thomas O Kriegsmann
and The Invisible Dog Art Center
in partnership with PS122
January 12-14

Daniel Fish (NYC)
DON’T LOOK BACK
(previously untitled)
Time Based Art
Co-presented with The Chocolate Factory Theater
January 12-20

CATCH COIL III (NYC)
Dance, Theater, Performance | One Night Only!
January 15

Yara Travieso (NYC)
La Medea
Interdisciplinary | World Premiere
PS122 Commission | Co-presented with BRIC and Dance Film Association
January 20-22

Book Your Tickets Early:

Single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 212-352-3101, or in person at venue box offices except where otherwise noted. Single ticket prices vary per event.

PS122’s Coil Pass is always the best ticketing option that allows you to see everything: 8 tickets for $122.
*Some restrictions apply. Questions? ps122.org/support or call 212-477-5829 x.302.

To redeem tickets using your PS122 Coil Pass:

1. Click here to log into your account: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/account/203
2. Login with the email and password you used to purchase the Coil Pass. If you don’t remember your password, click the “I don’t know my password” to reset.
3. Once you are logged in, click “redeem ticket packages” towards the bottom of the screen.
4. Choose the shows you wish to see!

For questions regarding accessibility, please contact our box office at boxoffice@ps122.org or at 212-477-5829 ext. 313

Emily Johnson/Catalyst (NYC)
Umyuangvigkaq: PS122 Long Table and Durational Sewing Bee

January 8 – 11:30AM-6PM

at Ace Hotel New York, 20 West 29th Street, Mannahatta (Manhattan)
Co-hosted with Emily Johnson/Catalyst and Ace Hotel New York
FREE; Reservations Recommended

Let’s create a just and equitable world. Let’s spend some good time together doing so. Let’s chew our words, share them, listen. Let’s be okay when we don’t know. Let’s be supple and brave in our questions and our findings.

Umyuangvigkaq is a place to gather ideas. Here we will recognize and celebrate indigenous people, artists, art, methods, and audiences. We will stitch together a quilt of conversation, ideas, and fabrics. We will acknowledge indigeneity as we work to indigenize the performing arts world and the world at large.

Come with ready hearts. Come all day or for a stitch. Every 2 hours we’ll shift a conversation to a new critical topic engaging the intersections of the Indigenous with contemporary American culture. This durational sewing bee underpins a large-scale experiment in public engagement and sewing culminating in an all-night, outdoor performance event in 2017, Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars, created by Emily Johnson/Catalyst.

Red + White Party 2017
Sun, Jan 8 – 8pm, $10

at Ace Hotel New York
20 West 29th Street, Manhattan
Co-hosted with Ace Hotel New York, Australia Council for the Arts, and the Australian Consulate-General New York

Performance Space 122’s Coil 2017 Festival is supported by A.R.T. New York, Australian Consulate-General in NY, Australia Council for the Arts, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Barragga Bay Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, British Council, Chromocell, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, East Village Community Coalition, Flanders State of the Art, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Humanities New York, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, MAP Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Morrison Foerster Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network (NPN), New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Theatermania. See full funding and co-production credits here.

PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival is part of January in NYC is the Place to Be for the Performing Arts, celebrating the unmatched convergence of performing arts professionals, audiences and events in New York City. Every January, more than 45,000 people from around the globe flock to New York City for public festivals and industry gatherings, featuring over 1,500 performances by thousands of world-class artists of all disciplines and genres, including world music, theater, dance, jazz, and more.

Long Table: Art + Technology

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122’S LONG TABLE SERIES

Long Table: Art + Technology
Tuesday, November 29th at 6:30pm
At TED Conferences, 330 Hudson St, 11th Floor in Manhattan
In partnership with Kickstarter and TED
FREE

What is the responsibility of the arts and technology sectors in creating a richer and more equitable arts landscape? Where will we find ourselves 10 years from now as we think about the rapid development of experiential technology and beyond?

About the Long Table Series:
Performance Space 122’s Long Table Series facilitates meaningful discussions between civic-minded New Yorkers connected by the ideas and questions surrounding New York City’s generative culture. Used as a tactic by think tanks, the startup community and the cultural sector, the Long Table format was first developed by director and scholar Lois Weaver as an experiment in participation and public engagement. The Long Table format is a dinner table atmosphere where all voices are encouraged to ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen, and watch.

While the format doesn’t require a group conclusion, consensus, or action points, individual participants frequently walk away with a new perspective, a renewed direction for their work, and, most importantly, connections that foster collective growth surrounding each topic. ps122.org/long-table

Cultural Equity

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122’S LONG TABLE SERIES

Cultural Equity
Date Change: Monday, November 7th at 6:30pm
at The Loisaida Center, 710 East 9th Street in Manhattan
In partnership with Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) and The Loisaida Center
FREE; RSVP Recommended

As diversity initiatives gain in popularity, how can we ensure that equity is at the root of their focus? Together, let’s explore the landscape and ask what is needed for tangible, real success around race, gender, disability status, and artistic aesthetic in the arts and beyond.

For more information about PS122’s Long Table series and upcoming discussions: ps122.org/long-table

PS122’s Long Table discussion series

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122’S LONG TABLE SERIES

Performance Space 122’s Long Table series facilitates meaningful discussions between civic-minded New Yorkers connected by the ideas and questions surrounding New York City’s generative culture. Used as a tactic by think tanks, the startup community and the cultural sector, the Long Table format was first developed by director and scholar Lois Weaver as an experiment in participation and public engagement. The Long Table format is a dinner table atmosphere where all voices are encouraged to ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen, and watch.

While the format doesn’t require a group conclusion, consensus, or action points, individual participants frequently walk away with a new perspective, a renewed direction for their work, and, most importantly, connections that foster collective growth surrounding each topic.

EQUITY

For the 2016/17 Season, four Long Tables will explore issues of equity surrounding the arts and its intersection with other sectors such as tech, labor, small business and the larger cultural sphere. Our hope is that the Long Table format provides a radically inviting approach to insuring all voices are given the power and opportunity to be heard.

Cultural Equity
Date Change: Monday, November 7, 6:30pm
at The Loisaida Center, 710 East 9th Street in Manhattan
In partnership with Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) and The Loisaida Center

Art + Technology
Tuesday, November 29, 6:30pm
at TED Conferences, 330 Hudson St, 11th Floor in Manhattan
In partnership with Kickstarter and TED

Umyuangvigkaq: PS122 Long Table and Durational Sewing Bee
as part of PS122’s Coil 2017 in January
at Ace Hotel New York, 20 West 29th Street, Mannahatta (Manhattan)
Co-hosted with Emily Johnson/Catalyst and Ace Hotel New York

Photos by Maria Baranova

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