ABYSS is an evolving exhibition with 3 weekends of shifting durational performances. You are invited to come inside and to return again for different extreme and subliminal experiences in an encounter with dark and alien depths.

Jan 26 & 27, Feb 1 anytime between 6-9pm at ChaShaMa 320 W 23rd St. FREE Walk In/Walk Out. Rotating cast of dancers include Nicole Alvarez April Amparo Alli Berowski Alex Blaha Solange Buon Olivia Brown Peggy Cheng Rina Espiritu John Gutierrez Elena Loyacono-Bustos Graziella Rose Murdocca Joshua Pacheco

The installation & performances include reclaimed plastics, low frequency sound, dancers and darkness to create a submerged world where the realm of final decomposition is a respite from production, a gateway to repose and contemplation, a chance to find stillness and to amplify the silence within you. Here at the limits of perception, we invite you to heighten your senses, feel free to dance and join us in becoming nothing or find an inflatable raft and skim across the edges of your consciousness. Sleep, dream and dissolve with us. The idea is to float, as if in the deepest, darkest, most alien realm, amidst the silence of the abyss.

Here at the very edge of fullest decay, we begin again. Amidst the dark and the quiet, viewers are invited to transform their fear into wonder. There are figures shifting near you, can their sounds sooth instead of agitate. Can the majesty of a dark ocean offer a soothing lull, a hypnogogic nap zone wherein we all exploit Salvador Dalia??s method of a??slumbering with the key.a?? The Viewer can stop looking too hard, can instead coast at the edges of sleep where thoughts flow freely and associations require no logic other than the dream. When fear melts, one can inhabit a pool of curiosity.