ARIEL LEMBECK

brilliant you (2021)
mylar paper, video, carpet, bells

Interactive Installation
Material curation and scores: Ariel Lembeck
Sound design: Charlotte Stickles
Lighting: Matt Morris

image of a mirrored image with distorted reflections. Metallic and black spokes of mylar paper jut out from the left side of the image. A hardly detectable face hides between the spokes and blends-in with the blurred shapes and colors that comprise …

Ariel Lembeck is a dance artist and dance maker based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) whose artistic practice incorporates materials, improvisation and video. Her work has been presented by Triskelion Arts, WaxWorks, Judson Church (STUFFED), The Jack Crystal Theater (SWELL 2.0), The Footlight (MerdetheShow), Ruth Page Center for the Arts (Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival), The Floor on Atlantic (Artist in Residence Fall Festival Showing) and The Wild Project (IHRAFestival). Since graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she has worked with artists Meredith Monk, Stefanie Nelson, Douglas Dunn, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Eva Dean, Mari Meade Montoya, Steeledance, Nattie Trogdon and Hollis Bartlett, Elisabeth Motley, Jessica Gaynor and Joanna Kotze. Ariel is currently an arts worker with Creating New Futures Phase 2.
@ariellembeck
www.ariellembeck.com

Charlotte Stickles is a movement artist based in Hudson, NY. Her creative process emerges from improvisation and conversation, and her work centers around ideas of embodiment - within the mind, body, and environment. Through the interplay of text, sound, visual design, and movement, she researches how engagement with a work can ground a viewer in the experience of their human body, in the space, and in the moment. Charlotte graduated from the Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance in 2017 and currently works as a maker, collaborator, and teacher.
@lunarlot
www.charlottestickles.com

A big thank you to: Rachel Mckinstry and Hannah Wendel for their support, care, and encouragement from conception to execution. A shout out to my partner, Matteo, who has spent hours listening and offering ideas and being my rock through and through. The Field Center for bringing Charlotte and I together and fostering our budding relationship and collaboration. Thank you Charlotte for creating a beautifully immersive soundscape and being a sounding board for me. Emma, Marion, Lea, Elisabeth, Yanira, for their wisdom and feedback. My sister, Zoe, who helped me make a 100+ mylar prisms. Deep gratitude for the land of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples for which this installation and all the preparatory work for it is able to exist. Thank you to my CNF community for helping me grow as a person, for challenging me and teaching me, and to my net near and far, it takes a village.

Image of a grey cement floor lay 3 piles of cut mylar paper. The reflective integrity of the paper has started to disintegrate revealing the coating that lies beneath the shiny brilliance. The color tones of the image are stark and cold creating a m…

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