GAle GAtes et al.
GAle GAtes et al. was a visual art and performance company active in New York City from 1995 to 2003. The company was co-founded by director, designer and visual artist Michael Counts, performer and producer Michelle Stern and scholar and Butoh performer John Oglevee. The company is widely regarded as a pioneer of immersive theater[1].
GAle GAtes et al. was notable for the epic quality and visual sophistication of its productions, all of which were directed and designed by Counts. The sets were constructed by resident artists and through-composed scores created by a resident composer.
In the first two years, GAle GAtes et al. productions were mounted in multiple indoor and outdoor locations in New York, Prague, Thailand and Japan ranging from the vacant floors of skyscrapers to the side of a mountain at Min Tanaka's Body Weather Farm. In 1997, the company took up residence in a 40,000 sq ft warehouse space at 37 Main Street[2] in Dumbo, Brooklyn[3] for which the owner, David Walentas of Two Trees Management, offered an affordable lease in return for the company attracting visitors to what was then a forbidding neighborhood. At the warehouse, the company produced five large-scale performance installations and presented numerous visual art installations[4], gallery exhibitions and performances by guest artists. In 2002, the company once again began to present works outdoors, including a video installation in the DUMBO Clocktower with a radio simulcast[5], a performance installation in a corporate lobby on Park Avenue, and live performance installations in the windows and parking lot of a restaurant in the Hamptons.
The company closed in 2003 due to a combination of the economic fallout of 9/11 and the resident artists pursuing an increasing number of independent projects.[6]
GAle GAtes et al. received grant support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, Heathcote Art Foundation[7], The Greenwall Foundation[8], Andy Warhol Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Resident Artists
Michael Counts, director and designer
Michelle Stern[9], performer and producer
Michael Anderson[10], collage artist
Joe Diebes[11], composer
Tom Fruin, sculptor and installation artist
Jeff Sugg[12], technical artist
Critical Reception
Peter Marks of the New York Times called GAle GAtes et al. "an adventurous troupe with one foot in the world of post-modern art and the other in downtown performance" and Counts a "mad genius"; he described the experience of attending The Field of Mars as “a little bit like chasing a two-year-old around an apartment[13].” Douglas Davis of Art in America described The Field of Mars audience as “dazzled witnesses to a cosmic event.[14]” In PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Michael Rush described Counts' staging of Tilly Losch as "akin to diving into a hypertext on the internet, but he’s doing all the clicking and controlling. It’s also like cruising through a fun house at the carnival, but the creatures popping out of the darkness aren’t just screaming, they’re reciting oblique texts from classical literature, art criticism, Fellini movies, and Dada playlets.[15]."
Productions, Presentations and Exhibitions[16]
- 1995 The Making of a Mountain
- 1995 90 Degrees from an Equinox? Where are We? And Where are We Going?
- 1996 To SEA: Another Mountain
- 1996 Departure
- 1996 Ark
- 1997 Oh… A Fifty-Year Dart
- 1997 wine-blue-open-water
- 1997 I Dug a Pit a Meter Six in Either Direction and Filled it Full of Sake. I Mixed in Honey and Milk and Poured It Over Barley and Pine Nuts and Rice and Onion and Fruit and Blood and Stopped
- 1997 To SEA: Another Ocean
- 1997 The Field of Mars
- 1997–9 Sonic Adventure Series (curated by Joe Diebes)
- 1998 Tilly Losch
- 1999 1839
- 1999 Size Matters (curated by Mike Weiss)
- 2001 So Long Ago I Can’t Remember[17]
- 2001 Strange Birds (opera by Joe Diebes)
- 2001 Still Life With Microphone (conceived and performed by Todd Reynolds with Evan Ziporyn, Theo Bleckmann, and David Cossin, designed by Michael Counts)
- 2001 Return (choreographed and designed by Julia Mandle)
- 2002 Looking Forward
- 2002 Avalanche Thoughts (directed and designed by Julia Bardsley, music by Andrew Poppy, Tania Chen, piano)
- 2002 Transparent Architecture (curated by Anne Ellegood)
- 2002 superlounge (curated by Andréa Salerno and Mari Spirito)
- 2002 Mimic (curated by Robert Boyd)
- 2002 The World: An Immersive Installation Performance
References
- ↑ Collins-Hughes, Laura (July 7, 2016). "From Dante to 'Walking Dead,' He's a Master of Immersive Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "GAle GAtes et al". Theater Mania. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ Marks, Peter (October 10, 1997). "As It Turns Artistic, A Noirish Enclave Steps Into the Light". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Superlounge". Undo.net. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Looking forward. Images". Undo.net. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ Simonson, Robert (May 28, 2003). "GAle GAtes et al, Pioneering Brooklyn Theatre Company, to Shut Doors". Playbill. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Heathcote Art Foundation Inc". ProPublica. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "GAle GAtes et al. - A Letter from Kit Baker" (PDF). The Greenwall Foundation. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Michelle Stern". New Music USA. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ Becker, Noah (November 17, 2010). "Pop and Chop: Michael Anderson". Art in America. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ Diebes, Joseph. "Faculty". The New School. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Jeff Sugg Biography". Broadway World. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ Marks, Peter (24 December 1997). "Carnival for the Senses in a Huge Warehouse". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ↑ Davis, Douglas (1998). "Drama on the Move". Art in America. 86 (9): 67–9.
- ↑ Rush, Michael (Jan 2000). "Italicized Monsters and Beached Whales". PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 22 (1): 91–94. doi:10.2307/3245916. JSTOR 3245916.
- ↑ Vinitski, Daniella. "Field of Mars Revisited: The Opera-Installation-Performance of GAle GAtes et al". CU Scholar. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (April 20, 2001). "It's Strange and Unsettling, Adrift Amid Hellish Images". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
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