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The
Cocoon Project/CocoonNYC is a collaborative art endeavor that
documents and performs the hand-crafted Cocoons with dancers, video
projections, sound and music in site-specific
performance-installations. CocoonNYC was created by Sherry Aliberti,
an architect and performance artist based in New York City. She
earned her Bachelor of Architecture at Pratt Institute with honors in
2008. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA she grew up as a competitive
gymnast and developed a dance and yoga practice upon moving to New
York City. The Cocoon Project presents at exhibitions in New York
City, most notably Project 59/SET Gallery, House of Yes, the Living
Gallery, and alternative spaces like FIGMENT NYC and Art in Odd
Places. Exhibitions include photo, video or collage installations to
dance and theater performances. Further collaborations have expanded
the project nationally and internationally. Documentation of the
project has appeared at Mocada Museum and published in Sculpture
Magazine, among many blogs and social media. The Cocoon Project
creates interactive performance art and colorful temporary
installations with the Cocoon. Performers use gestures, poses and
noises to express ideas about form, shape and movement in space and
memory. Sound and video artists sculpt the final outcome of the
piece. Utilizing sound, projections and fragrances, the experience is
different every time. Influenced by Martha Graham and Ernesto Neto a
fabric enclosure provides freedom for the performer/muse to become a
morphing sculpture. Structurally, these postures represent a scale
model of an architecture and materiality based on the forces of the
body. This idea is explored further
in Aliberti's collages, where Cocoon forms are spliced into
cityscapes from her travels. These larger-scale, inhabitable places
could be dance studios, museums, a bathhouse or healing center.