Lizzy Wetzel: The Medicine Show June 6, 2009

Women & Their Work is pleased to present
The Medicine Show,
a new interactive installation by Brooklyn/Texas based artist Lizzy Wetzel
Opening this Saturday, June 6th.
Get a haunting sneak peek at http://www.themedicineshow.info

Come enter the spiral of Black-black water!
Come enter the blinding white desert!
Listen and Feel a heartbeat to restore truth and beauty

Drawing from alchemy, mysticism, acid rock, supernatural phenomena and indigenous cosmology, installation/performance artist Lizzy Wetzel explores the concept of sacred space and the boundaries between one world and the next in The Medicine Show. In this interactive, multisensory sculptural installation, Wetzel transforms the gallery into two dreamlike realms, featuring an ambient desertscape giving way to a shrouded spiral chamber. Outside the chamber, the desert scene seems haunted by the sounds of drumming. Inside the chamber, visitors cross into a separate, black-lit world to experience a geodesic drum ritual performed by Wetzel and masked attendants. Ceremony, sand, cloth, mandalas, enshrined objects, lights, smells and sound all converge in The Medicine Show to forge a sensual, tactile interactive experience that places viewers in a heightened state as they cross the threshold between two mystically charged realms.

Official Website: http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/