tanthemNYC is hosting a consciousness-expanding experience featuring a live painting performance, sound bath meditation, and more surprises

About this event

Join tanthemNYC as we welcome the summer with (U)NION, an event exploring the relationship between the body and the mind. This experimental night is meant to be experienced within, so please come prepared with an open mind and a yoga mat, pillow, or blanket.

Please consider donating. All proceeds will be given to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization focusing on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.

(U)NION

While often perceived as separate entities, the physical, mental, and the spiritual come together to form an individual. When these three aspects of a person are unified in their direction, a person is able to move closer to understanding. When this unity goes beyond the individual and encompasses a community, a truly magical and transcendental experience is had. 


(U)NION is an attempt at bringing us closer to this phenomena with experiential art. This night we are featuring a live painting performance, sound bath meditation, and a special visual show and Dj set to end the night.

The Performance

Conceived and realized by Clara Jeanne Reed and Alexa Cardamone, the performance is a psychedelic, sapphic, painting ritual, where the performers will paint each other bodies. With this act they create a link of mind and body not only within themselves but with each other, while questioning established practices and conventions of art history.

The work is a reflection and a response to the process of art making in general and painting in particular. Historically woman’s position in painting was that of the object rather than subject. One can look at the female nude, which in many cases was a representation/embodiment of a beauty and desire assigned to it by mostly straight male artists.

In this performance the aforementioned structure is challenged as both women are simultaneously the subjects and objects of the painting, and are independent of male desire or gaze within their actions. Moreover, the performative invites the audience to consider these social relations in art making and not solely in the finished work.

Sound Bath Meditation

When you sink into a Sound Bath and guide your awareness to your listening, you allow your brain waves to slow down, shifting from a more active state to a more relaxed state, or even a dreamlike state. The sounds introduced during a Sound Bath are an invitation into a deeper state of consciousness, an opportunity to unplug from external stimuli and to gain perspective on what’s going on within you. The goal of the experience is to invite deep rest and relaxation, and explore self-inquiry and self-discovery.

The sounds are created by a variety of instruments, including quartz crystal bowls, gongs, chimes, rain sticks, ocean drums, and more to create a sound healing experience that will vibrate and activate every cell in your body leaving you relaxed, refreshed and rejuvenated!

Bring a yoga mat, a pillow, a blanket, and an eye mask. Create your most comfortable space, lay down and let the cosmic vibrations wash away stress that no longer serves you

Tickets are donation based and you may pay what you wish. All proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated to the Trevor Project, a non profit organization focusing on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.

Perfromers

Alexa Cardamone is an artist and art historian based in NYC. She is a recent graduate from New York University with a BA in both Anthropology and Art History. She has worked as a gallery and archival and curatorial assistant including cataloguing high end works of art, curating exhibitions, and working alongside sales teams, artists and curators. She is committed to community-based artists to create conversation and agency within our society.

Clara Jeanne Reed is an artist and historian from Twin Falls, Idaho who is based in New York City. As an artist, her work centers around creating a narrative that is specific to the female experience, one that showcases ideal beauty in all its forms of glory and consequence, by exploiting the violence within the gaze. Much of her research pertains to performativity, explorations of gender, queer theory, and body politics among contemporary female identifying artists. As a queer, female artist, it is important to her to be at the forefront of these endeavors and to investigate ways education can be reformed to be more interrogative, intersectional, and inclusive.

Kaitlynn Tassone, also known as KT the Alchemist, is riding a new age wave. A full time sound healer, with a background in coaching & entrepreneurship. Her dream is to share the healing power of sound with the world.

Her journey began in 2018 when she decided that change was needed, breaking away from the continuous, and often, intertwined lessons of addiction and self suffering that plagued the beginning of her life. she discovered sound healing. This was life changing for KT who came from a background of being a fast paced, overworked, and overly accessible entrepreneur, to creating boundaries that gave her space to finally be able to relax and “shut the mind off” through creating a range of frequencies that would become her passion. Her purpose is to share this relaxation cheat code with others. Before this transformation, meditation felt nearly impossible…