Never and Both on the High Line
Audiovisual performance featuring projected animation, animatronic sculptures, music, and movement.
Never and Both on the High Line
2019
Concept, paintings, animations, sculptures by Yuliya Lanina
Solo exhibition at Xposed gallery comprised of hand-painted animations expanding six projectors and animatronic sculptures.
Projection measurements: 75’ (H) x 400’ (W) x226’ (D)
The show can be experienced from The High Line and inside the gallery. Showcased in a unique, off axis immersive CAVE system, 9027x1080 pixels looping animation was wrapped around the gallery walls, inviting the viewer to enter the Bosch-like fantastical paradigm of bizarre creatures and landscapes. The music is by composers José Martinez and Vladimir Rannev.
Also featured are animatronic sculptures made from dissembled parts that have been restructured with other found objects. Appealing and disturbing, they "gaze" back at the viewers passing on the High Line.
The show could be seen from The High Line @19th street, New York, NY daily for the duration of three weeks. Over 1,000 viewers daily.
Photos by Olya Schechter and Fred Hatt
Performance photos by John Dill
Donned as one of Yuliya Lanina's feathered creatures with antlers, Yuliya Lanina and Yuu Fujita performed for one hour within the projected animations, illuminated solely by Lanina's projections and anthropomorphic sculptures - skeletal birds with human baby heads and phosphorescent eyes. The performance explored the themes of connection and isolation, seeing and being seen.
Two channel animation version
Two channel projection at LuminariaSA 2021
Middle channel animation excerpt
Performance excerpt