Ryan Weiss w/ A/V Kids Experiment

Ryan Weiss w/ A/V Kids Experiment
Saturday, May 30. Noon - 6:00PM.
Biddle Gallery
2840 Biddle Avenue
Wyandotte, MI 48192
www.biddlegallery.com

Ryan Weiss paints while his friends perform out on the sidewalk in front of Biddle Gallery as part of "Wu Wei Saturdays" .

Wu-wei refers to behavior that arises from a sense of oneself as connected to others and to one's environment. It is not motivated by a sense of separateness. It is action that is spontaneous and effortless. At the same time it is not to be considered inertia, laziness, or mere passivity. Rather, it is the experience of going with the grain or swimming with the current. Our contemporary expression, "going with the flow," is a direct expression of this fundamental Taoist principle, which in its most basic form refers to behavior occurring in response to the flow of the Tao.

Ryan says, "I'm not a hundred percent on the our roster/line up of who will be participating in it right now because we just confirmed the date between each other but I think we're going to ask Brian to come out again and Jason has two other people who he thinks would float the vibe well musically". Wu Wei!

In November 2008, Ryan had this real need to find a way to blend art and music together into one solid medium. This was sort of an experiment in that idea. So what he did was he took genius musicians Jason Rohler and Brian McGuire and surrounded them with all different kinds of instruments on the sidewalk of Biddle Gallery and let them go off. He also took Tom Jenkins and surrounded themselves with material and canvasses and went off. The idea was a complete collaborative effort using improv as the base. The images were fueled by the music and the music was fueled by the images.

This proved to be not only interesting on an audio level but also on a visual level. Seeing musicians playing two -three instruments at the same time is not something that happens often. There was amazing amounts of creative energy flowing; they could have worked all day, non-stop. Unfortunately they ran out of sunlight.

Ryan and the A/V Kids Experiment are back! You should come!