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AN IMMERSIVE MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION AT THE KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTNYC-based duo Sky Creature crosses contemporary Classical music with ambient rock. Tony Orrico is a kinetic visual artist who creates life-size graphite works using his entire body. In this high-energy performance, the music progresses from sound bath to ecstatic electronic raga, while Orrico’s canvas thickens with lines.
ABOUT —
Sky Creature is vocalist Majel Connery and baritone guitarist Matt Walsh. Occupying a space between art music and punk rock, the band’s sound elicits comparisons with artists from Kate Bush to Suicide. Walsh toured for over a decade as one half of post-punk duo The Forms, sharing the stage with artists ranging from The National to St. Vincent to Hum. A former opera singer, Connery’s solo music has been featured on Radiolab, New Sounds radio, and Live from the Kennedy Center. In the summer of 2022, Sky Creature released their double EP Bear Mountain/Childworld, and toured nationally to 42 cities, concluding with a show for 4,000 at Crystal Bridges Museum. They are currently finishing their first LP with Chicago-based producer Steve Albini. Sky Creature is based in Catskill, NY.
Visual and performing artist Tony Orrico often uses his entire body to produce lifesize graphic art on the walls and floors of major museums and performance spaces around the world. His visual work is in collection at The National Academy of Sciences (Washington DC) and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC, Mexico City) and he has presented at Centre Pompidou-Metz, New Museum, and Poptech 2011: The World Rebalancing. Orrico is currently Assistant Professor of Dance and Sculpture/Intermedia at the University of Iowa.
This project is supported, in whole or in part, by the federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr SW, Knoxville, United States