Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson: Easternsports

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Longtime friends and first-time collaborators Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson create a major new commission for ICA. Featuring lesser-known strengths in their practices—video for Da Corte and language for Musson—Easternsports is a four-channel, multilingual soap opera starring the artists, both of whom have deep Philadelphia roots. A vignette-driven update of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town—equal parts Peter Greenaway and Jim Henson, David Lynch and Duck Amuck—the work will be presented as an in-the-round video installation. Scripted by Musson and directed by Da Corte, this institutional telenovela will be developed and filmed in the summer of 2014.

Organized by Assistant Curator Kate Kraczon. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
Opening and Walkthrough: Fall 2014 Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson in Conversation with Michael Smith Screening at IHP: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover ICA Presents: Blue Velvet at the Philadelphia Film Festival2014–15 Exhibitions“Philly artists branch out to collaborate for first time”—Peter Crimmins on Easternsports for WHYY A rapt audience: Penn Art and Culture captures fall 2014 members walkthrough in pictures VICE calls Easternsports “a baroque, surrealist masterpiece”Inspired by Our Town: Huff Post on Easternsports Cultural comedians: Philly.com on Easternsports Play Your Stripes: Alex Da Corte and Blood Orange collaborate on a GAP video Inspired by Edna Andrade: The Easternsports aesthetic “Narcissus’ Reflecting Pool” — Easternsports Review in The St.ClaireICA Annual Appeal—support exhibitions with a year-end gift!Video: Dev Hynes performing Easternsports score live at ICA “Philly’s Rock Star of Art:” Alex Da Corte Profiled in Philadelphia Magazine

Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson: Easternsports

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