Whether it takes the form of thematic costuming, compulsive eating, or dance-floor group choreography, RITUAL is an ongoing motif of CHERYL’s work. During the residency at Islington Mill, CHERYL will be using the Royal Family’s age-old traditions as inspiration for exploring new possibilities of ritual and ceremony. The first floor gallery will be transformed into an immersive environment throughout the residency; visitors will be engaged through participatory performances, video shoots and other interactive events.

CHERYL will hold special events open to the public on three Wednesdays: 9 May, 16 May, and 30 May at Islington Mill. These events will explore the themes of transformation, ritual, and general insanity. CHERYL will hold their culminating event in conjunction with the Royal Highness’ Diamond Jubilee on Sunday 3 June, wherein they will take over the entire mill and create an explosion of glitter nonsense the likes of which will be previously unseen or imagined.

In addition to the events in Manchester, CHERYL has two parties planned in Glasgow and London:

Friday May 25, 2012 in Glasgow at SWG3 (facebook event page)

Saturday May 26, 2012 (CHERYL: SECRET DAZZLER) in London at The Shacklewell Arms (facebook event page)

VIDEO PROMO HERE
In celebration of MoMA’s Cindy Sherman retrospective, PopRally invites you to an interactive dance party hosted by the artist collective CHERYL. CHERYL will create an immersive experience inspired by ideas of transformation, celebrity, and artifice, themes crucial to Sherman’s work. Guests will have the opportunity to engage in this unique group metamorphosis either as direct participant or captivated spectator.

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 over-the-top happenings. Through themes ranging from topical to bizarre, CHERYL revels in the joyous power of dance-induced psychosis/euphoria.

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Bringing together more than 170 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present and will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity.

Admission includes an exclusive exhibition viewing and a cocktail reception.

TICKETS ($15 in advance, $18 at the door) are available online at this link

You must be twenty-one or older to attend this event.

PopRally is supported in part by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art.

Special thanks to Sud de France Wines. Beer for this event has been provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

Related links:

Cindy Sherman (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170)

PopRally (www.moma.org/poprally)

Watch the VIDEO for ULTIMATE RETRO here! (created from footage/shoots in England and Portugal)

Watch the VIDEO PROMO for the European leg of our Ultimate Retro tour HERE!

Jan 21, 2012 – LONDON – CAMP Basement – facebook

Jan 27, 2012 – PORTO – Plano B – facebook

Jan 28, 2012 – LISBON – Musicbox – facebook

Feb 11, 2012 – BROOKLYN – The Bell House – facebook

Feb 19, 2012 – SAN FRANCISCO – Public Works – facebook

Feb 23, 2012 – LOS ANGELES – Los Globos – facebook

Hello, hipsters. What happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics? CHERYL: ULTIMATE RETRO.

Let’s take it back…waaaaaaay back. Not the 90s, or the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s, like, seriously not even the 1800s. When industrial-era Victorian won’t cut it, and Greco-Roman chic is oh so tired. When we’ve laid our giant turkey legs to rest in the dust of the last ironic Renaissance fair…where will we go? In 2012, at the dawn of the collapse of American Apparel, hipsters are taking back fur, stone, fire, and prosthetic Cro-magnon foreheads like it is 80,000 years ago. Let’s go clubbing. With actual wooden clubs. At this super-underground venue we know about. It’s so underground, it’s a cave.

A 2012 magazine article in “Hipsters Ruin Everything” described the latest “ultimate retro” hipster trend as thus: “Take your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother’s saber toothed cat shawl and Ötzi the Iceman’s copper axe, add irony, set them astride a fixed-gear stone wheel bike in the face of continental drift and bam — you’re really interesting and popular and attractive and you live in Brooklyn.”

We will be shooting the official ULTIMATE RETRO party video during the first two hours of each of our London, Porto and Lisbon tour dates. Participants in the videos will get into the party for cheap.

Then we come back to the US, edit the footage, and premiere the video at our Brooklyn ULTIMATE RETRO event, followed by tour dates in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The answers to these questions and more will be revealed at CHERYL for DUMMIES.

Customer Testimonial:
“Dancing always seemed impossible to me – I’d be lucky to get out on the floor at all, and no one understood my wild thrashing – basically, unless someone really loved me, they probably wouldn’t dance with me for more than 2 minutes. Until now! With CHERYL for DUMMIES, all that has changed. I now can whip out the Perocolator, the Roger Rabbit, and the Cabbage Patch with ease. I can’t say enough about the handy tips on HOW TO BE ALIVE that CHERYL includes, I’ve found them extremely useful with other aspects of my life as well. I’m finding that there is great peace of mind in dancing like you are about to DIE. Thank you CHERYL for RUINING MY LIFE!”
- Terri G

Friday January 13, we’re hosting a FREE dance party at Le Poisson Rouge in the gallery, complete with participary video shoot. Come drink, dance, and get on camera with us. WE NEED YOU. Costume inspiration = Mannequins. Crash Test Dummies – the actual objects, the ad campaign, the band.

DJ Nick (CHERYL resident DJ) and DJ Stacher aka Stacheroni aka James Mulry will be spinning a mix of electro, new wave, italo and disco that will make you say HMMM and be all like, DUH.

CHERYL for DUMMIES
FRIDAY 1.13.12
FREE aka NO COVER
10pm till 4am – 21+
$5 Well Drinks and Select Beers 10p-11p

facebook event page