Sofa Kingdom in the Valley of Comic Sans — An Installation by Timothy Amundson and Charlie Mylie

Friday, February 19th to Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Sofa Kingdom in the Valley of Comic Sans, a new, site-specific installation by Kansas City based artists Timothy Amundson and Charlie Mylie, opens at Urban Culture Project Space, 21 East 12th Street, Friday February 19, 6-9pm. It runs through March 6, 2010.

For this project, Amundson and Mylie, both artists in UCP’s Studio Residency Program, are generating “an interactive, performative space of play.” This multi-media environment is envisioned as a platform for improvisations, cooperations, and transformations, whereby “actors become sculptures, performative games become improvisational dance, paintings become platforms, drawings become instructions, objects become tasks, formal sculptures become architectural interventions, and viewing becomes experience.” Over the course of the evening, such array of transformations will unfold, with visitors actively engaged as participants.

Approaching such materials as wood, fabric, guitars, electric fans, fermenting wine, pedestals, lights, plants, paint, play-dough, diverse found objects, and human beings as all active players in a real-time theatrical event, the artists’ intent is to “help us remember art as rituals, as decorations, as platforms, as props, as sacrifices, like toys, like games, as altars, as offerings, and as gifts,” and to remind us of human potential. Such reminder, they hope, “will inspire a light to shine into the darkened valley of comic sans.”

Read full press release.

For photos of the event, check out our flickr.