Katabasis by Cooper Holoweski at MOCAD

Detroit-born, Brooklyn-based artist Cooper Holoweski’s Katabasis is a 40-minute video landscape with live sound accompaniment. The video work, praised by Art in America as ​“infinitely watchable,” moves the viewer though an elaborately constructed virtual junkyard to explore the themes of death, limbo, and rebirth. In various world mythologies ​“Katabasis” refers to a trip to the underworld. The journey of Odysseus through Hades and the death and resurrection of Lazarus are classic examples of Katabasis. Together with the live performance of an evolving musical score, it creates multi-sensory experiences that exemplify the tense liminal space of Katabasis. The score is a collage of improvised instrumentation, field recordings, and audio loops that form a densely layered soundscape for each movement.

Katabasis by Cooper Holoweski
VIDEO + MUSIC
Friday, June 28, 8PM
Admission: Free
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
4454 Woodward Ave Detroit MI, 48201