CHERYL and The Big Hoot

CHERYL asks you to contribute to and exist within an Otherworldly Ritualistic Dimensional Paradigm.

Don an Ego-Cleansing Smock and take a walkabout on the dusty trails of your mind. Pick up a few toadstools, dead leaves and bleached bones along the way. Take all that dark stuff and bind it together. Visit Big Hoot at the Totem Nest for a personalized consultation by way of winged mammalian interceder. Watch projections of intense vibrancy in a darkened room. And hopefully, experience collective colorful catharsis.

CHERYL is a four-member, semi-anonymous, often cat-masked artist collective based in Brooklyn, New York, known for its video art, museum installations, performances and dance parties. CHERYL has been bringing its particular brand of FRESHMAGICK™ to New York City since colonial times, and has since acquired a dedicated cult following and media attention for over-the-top happenings involving outrageous costumes, exuberant dance moves, and participatory dance floor suicide. CHERYL’s work has been featured with the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. www.cherylwillruinyourlife.info

This year CCA and Theater Grottesco launch Eventua: a series of cutting-edge performances. For Eventua’s finale, CHERYL invites audiences to “revel in the joyous power of dance-induced psychosis/euphoria” in an experimental, interactive performance that responds to CCA’s exhibition, The Big Hoot, featuring comic paintings by David Leigh and Larry Bob Phillips.

$15 Adults, $10 CCA Members & Students, $8 with a bird costume. More information at www.ccasantafe.org