Long awaited by many, this is the video that sparked the Two Loops and a V performance. Collaborator Michael Eckblad and composer Jordan Parker more than made this piece possible. I am deeply endowed to them and look forward to more creative projects in the future by their sides.
Two Loops and a V from Damaris Drummond on Vimeo.
Kindred soul, illustrator Laura Carmelita Bellmont, agreed to team up with me and create a beautiful take away piece for the Two Loops and a V shows last weekend. Below is her representation of the performance and video.
I am so happy to have her artwork involved in the evening. Bellmont is incredibly talented, having done work for John Fluvog and Irregular footware, as well as Nylon Magazine. Check her.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Amber Martin in WigShop
&
Two Loops and a V by Damaris Drummond
WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 8-10pm
Friday, March 27, 8-10pm
WHERE: Dactyl
64 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
www.dactyl.org
Doors at 8:00 PM
Dactyl Foundation is pleased to present 2 evenings of
supreme duality:
Amber Martin in… WigShop
“Amber has turned that Big Apple into a quivering pool of applesauce.
Listening to her sing is like aural saline.” — Dina Martina
“Like watching Ruth Draper after she’s come back from an acid trip
during which she thought she was Janis Joplin… Fight for a ticket.”
– Willamette Week
“She’s like Lucille Ball meets Audra Lindley” — Cathy Cervenka
“I was truly moved.” — Michael Stipe
In the footsteps of comic character monologists such as Lily Tomlin,
John Leguizamo, and Whoopi Goldberg, acclaimed comedic performance
artist Amber Martin brings her award winning chops to Dactyl
Foundation (2003 Portland Drammy Award for Best Solo Performance).
Created and performed by Martin, WigShop is an intimately
mind-altering hour of meticulously chosen musical and comedic
vignettes from Amber’s strange and fascinating toybox of characters
(including new work).
Blending music, video, monologues, movement, and acid-capped comedy
with a pristine, multi-octave range singing voice, WigShop is Amber
Martin’s own serio-comic multiple-personality trip.
The tale, a melodramatic skewering of pop & music culture (and many
wig changes), occurs in a small town WigShop during business hours.
But it’s what happens after closing time that crawls under your skin
like a renegade scabie in the night. Throughout the performance, Amber
seamlessly morphs from character to character introducing us to a bevy
of personalities on a journey towards salvation. Some are on the
outside, looking for quarters and maybe a job behind the wig counter,
while others are trying for some way to cover the bald spots without
resorting to hair plugs.
Noted as a performer of many faces and voices with boundless energy to
burn, performer Amber Martin has left such celebrity audience members
as Joan Rivers, Joyce Dewitt, Michael Stipe, Karen Black, Chuck
Palanhuik, Todd Haynes, Dina Martina, and John Cameron Mitchell,
howling in ecstasy. So put on your new thinking caps for an old school
downtown-style late-evening art house performance by one of the next
sensations of thought-provoking musical comedy… Miss Amber Martin.
www.AmberMartin.net
www.myspace.com/houseofcunt
Also, seek Amber Martin on facebook.
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Two Loops and a V by Damaris Drummond
Watch performance artist Damaris Drummond as she unravels, melding
fine art, new media, and woolen string…Two Loops and a V is a video
installation/performance piece that stitches the audience into
a counter reality.
The video depicts a girl unraveling: her hurt stems from a need for
affection and belonging– the want of want. Working through her
heartbreak she weaves her own cathartic web. Ultimately, the girl
takes solace in the emotional commonalities that bind humans from one
to the next. Be ready to intertwine and come undone in Damarisland’s
haunting bricolage of image and sound with collaborators Michael
Eckblad and Jordan Parker.
Having graced such spaces as Red Rocks Amphitheater, The Denver Art
Museum and the occasional Red Hook sidewalk, Drummond’s work sublimates
experience into live performance and film, come be a part of her phase
change.
www.damarisland.com
Press Contacts:
ambymartin@yahoo.com
damarisland@gmail.com
The skies are overcast, a deep purple palate, windy yet strangely warm. The air dry and eggshell broken.
A new friend of mine helped with the art direction of this music video. The work as a whole resonates with me. Sigur Rós makes whimsical and haunting music. I cannot express how lovely this imagery is. I feel my childhood was a bit too similar. Perhaps it simulates how my current childhood is in Damarisland.
