Golden Gallery is pleased to present a performance by Marissa Perel in conjunction with the current group painting show, The Magic Flute.  Embodying the prince Tamino from Mozart's The Magic Flute, Perel creates a contemporary singspiel with original and borrowed music, dance, and poetry.  Re-shaping the gallery into a landscape with tape, fabric, a record player, microphone, and shruti box, the artist creates discreet zones for performance within the exhibition.  Paying tribute to Kimber Smith, who was known to have dressed in all blue, and borrowing from the song, "Boy Blue" from Cyndi Lauper's True Colors album, Perel channels the figure of the artist.

The performance will be a durational piece; visitors are welcome any time from 7 - 9pm.

Marissa Perel is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer whose work spans performance, video and text-based installation. Her installations and performances have been presented internationally, including Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), The Chocolate Factory Theater (NYC), The D.I.V.O Institute (Prague, C.R.), Medium Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Chicago Cultural Center. Perel writes the column, "Gimme Shelter: Performance Now" for the Art21 blog, and is co-editor of Critical Correspondence, an on-line journal of Movement Research, for which she has curated interviews and performances at Judson Memorial Church (NYC) and New Museum (NYC).