Close out the summer season at the museum and join us for Inside Out Night, a special 21+ party under the stars!

STAYCEE PEARL dance project and Soy Sos will turn the Sculpture Court into a dubstep discotheque as they produce for musical guests hailing from Philadelphia; emcee Queen Jo (Ciarra Lambert) and Interna$ional Bounce.

A cash bar serving local drinks and Caribbean Vybz Food Truck will be on site.

Inside Out events are free and most events are open to audiences of all ages. Make a day of it and reserve your timed tickets to visit the museum before or after you enjoy Inside Out!

The Warhol Museum’s Sound Series is partnering with PearlArts on a monthly summer series focused on the reggae offshoots/evolutions of dub, roots, dancehall, sound system culture and beyond. Each collaboration will be a different take on these elements, drawing from prepared materials and improvisations.

Soy Sos (aka Herman Pearl) and and collaborator PVKVSV (aka Hussein Pwono) will join for a special site specific performance, Dub Corridor, developed with their renovated side alley, Silver Street, in mind. The duo will experiment with the unique acoustics of this intimate urban alley turned patio/beer garden, with an exploratory, electronic, beat-driven, and dub-inspired set for a relaxed, outdoor summer evening. This performance is an extension of PearlArts’ SYNCHRONIZED: with Soy Sos series.

PVKVSV (aka Hussein Pwono) is a Congolese-American artist, beatmaker, DJ and emerging producer from Pittsburgh, PA. He expands on jazz and hip hop roots & incorporates electronic elements and samples from music that moves- bossa nova, flamenco, and Italian film scores are just a few sources of inspiration, but influence can be found anywhere, and the artist leaves no stone unturned.

Herman Pearl/Soy Sos is a sound designer, audio engineer, and producer. He sees sound as an actual physical force, literally moving the air around and through us. This was impressed upon him in his early encounters with Jamaican sound system, dub and bass culture in the late 80s. It informs everything he does from the composition, production, and mixing of the music to the design and configuration of the playback systems for performances.

• Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

• This performance is primarily standing room only. Limited seating is available upon advance request. We are committed to offering inclusive, engaging experiences for people of all abilities. To request accommodations to enhance your visit, please contact access@warhol.org or call 412.237.8354.

Co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum.

The Warhol Museum’s Sound Series is partnering with PearlArts on a monthly summer series focused on the reggae offshoots/evolutions of dub, roots, dancehall, sound system culture and beyond. Each collaboration will be a different take on these elements, drawing from prepared materials and improvisations.

Soy Sos (aka Herman Pearl) and collaborator Gladstone Deluxe will come together for a special site specific performance, Dub Corridor, developed with their renovated side alley, Silver Street, in mind. The duo will experiment with the unique acoustics of this intimate urban alley turned patio/beer garden, with an exploratory, electronic, beat-driven, and dub-inspired set for a relaxed, outdoor summer evening. This performance is an extension of PearlArts’ SYNCHRONIZED: with Soy Sos series.

Gladstone Butler is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. His work takes the form of recorded media, installations and performance. While percussion is often only tied to the act of striking an object, Gladstone sees percussion as an expressive manifestation of time architectures that bind humans, framed by the larger rhythmical walls of sun-rise and set. In Gladstone’s work, musical rhythm becomes a unique tool for celebrating nonlinearity, asymmetry and difference in society.

Herman Pearl/Soy Sos is a sound designer, audio engineer, and producer. He sees sound as an actual physical force, literally moving the air around and through us. This was impressed upon him in his early encounters with Jamaican sound system, dub and bass culture in the late 80s. It informs everything he does from the composition, production, and mixing of the music to the design and configuration of the playback systems for performances.

• Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

• This performance is primarily standing room only. Limited seating is available upon advance request. We are committed to offering inclusive, engaging experiences for people of all abilities. To request accommodations to enhance your visit, please contact access@warhol.org or call 412.237.8354.

Co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum.

On Saturday, June 17, meet us in the Sculpture Court for Inside Out at the Carnegie Museum of Art for their free summer event series, and experience INTERIM: Amplified Ecoustics, an immersive performance by STAYCEE PEARL dance project and Soy Sos.

A cash bar serving local drinks and Hermes Food Truck will be on site.

Inside Out events are free and most events are open to audiences of all ages. Make a day of it and reserve your timed tickets to visit the museum before or after you enjoy Inside Out!

The Warhol Museum’s Sound Series is partnering with PearlArts on a monthly summer series focused on the reggae offshoots/evolutions of dub, roots, dancehall, sound system culture and beyond. Each collaboration will be a different take on these elements, drawing from prepared materials and improvisations.

Soy Sos (aka Herman Pearl) and collaborators Bri Dominique and Ras Maisha will join for a special site specific performance, Dub Corridor, developed with their renovated side alley, Silver Street, in mind. The trio will experiment with the unique acoustics of this intimate urban alley turned patio/beer garden, with an exploratory, electronic, beat-driven, and dub-inspired set for a relaxed, outdoor summer evening. This performance is an extension of PearlArts’ SYNCHRONIZED: with Soy Sos series.

Bri Dominique is a multi instrumental songstress originally from Westchester, New York. She currently lives in the Pittsburgh area, where she studies music therapy and composes as well, mainly in orchestral form. Through experimental song writing and raw exploration of ideas, Dominique continues to evolve into different interests constantly. While exploring electronic, baroque pop, alternative, and soul genres, she stays true to her roots in classical performance, mainly on viola.

Ras Maisha is a rastafari reggae musician, fine artist, graphic designer, and farmer born in Falmouth, Trelawny, Jamaica.

Herman Pearl/Soy Sos is a sound designer, audio engineer, and producer. He sees sound as an actual physical force, literally moving the air around and through us. This was impressed upon him in his early encounters with Jamaican sound system, dub and bass culture in the late 80s. It informs everything he does from the composition, production, and mixing of the music to the design and configuration of the playback systems for performances.

• Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

• This performance is primarily standing room only. Limited seating is available upon advance request. We are committed to offering inclusive, engaging experiences for people of all abilities. To request accommodations to enhance your visit, please contact access@warhol.org or call 412.237.8354.

Co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum.

This performance is SOLD OUT. Thank you for your support!

Co-Artistic Directors of STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, Staycee and Herman Pearl share an evening of multi-disciplinary collaborative explorations. The evenings include new works-in-progress and finished works by SPdp&SS and guest artists Marvin Touré, Barbara Weissberger, slowdanger, and Jil Stifel.

INTERIM is presented as part of the PearlArts @ KST Mutual Aid Residency. Learn more here.

About the Artists

Marvin Touré is an Ivorian-American interdisciplinary artist who uses fictional narratives and the objects of innocence as a vehicle to interrogate themes of love, loss, and memory. In 2014 he received a B.A. in New Media Arts with a minor in Architecture from Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) in Marietta, Georgia. In 2016 he received an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Marvin has also completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016), the Franconia Sculpture Park (2018), and SVA MFA Fine Arts’s Life on an Island on Governors Island, New York (2019). His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The AC Institute in New York City (2018), and Haul gallery in Brooklyn, New York (2019 & 2021). In 2020 he was awarded both a Black Artist Fund grant and the Peter S. Reed Foundation grant for Mixed Media/Sculpture. Marvin was also awarded one of two 20th anniversary commissions for the I-Park Foundation’s 2021 Site-Responsive Art Biennale(East Haddam, CT). That same year he was named the inaugural artist-in-residence at Alma|Lewis located in Pittsburgh, PA. Marvin joined Protohaven (Wilkinsburg, PA) and the University of Pittsburgh's Architectural Studies program in the fall of 2022 as a Teaching Fellow and Architecture Instructor, respectively.

Barbara Weissberger is an artist who stages photographs and works with textiles to consider bodies, objects, the weird, and the everyday. Weissberger’s work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous artist residencies in the US and abroad including Yaddo, MacDowell, Camargo, and Bogliasco. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as Silver Eye, PS1/MoMA, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, The Drawing Center, The Mattress Factory, ADA Gallery, and The Missoula Art Museum.  She is currently on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

taylor knight & anna thompson are co-founding artistic directors of slowdanger, a multidisciplinary performance organism based out of Pittsburgh, PA. slowdanger uses a systematic approach to movement, integrative technology, found material, electronic instrumentation, vocalization, physiological centering, and ontological examination to produce their performance work, which utilizes ritual practice to delve into circular life patterning including effort, transformation, and death. 

Their work has been presented by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Usine C, Dance Place, The Warhol Museum, and more. slowdanger was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” and has been supported by The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NPN Creation Fund, NDP/NEFA, and The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Their upcoming work, SUPERCELL, will premier in fall 2023 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Jil Stifel is a choreographer, performer and interdisciplinary collaborator. Her work has been supported by The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Heinz Endowments, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, The New Hazlett Theater and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Jil has performed for many years with various companies and independent choreographers, she continues to present her choreography and collaborative pieces in Pittsburgh, virtually, and beyond. Jil holds a BFA in dance and a MS in clinical exercise physiology. 

RSVPs for the VIP Reception are now closed. Thank you for your support!

Join us for an intimate pre-performance reception before INTERIM! This reception includes a cocktail hour along with an exciting new announcement. If you attend the reception, you'll automatically have access to the show at 8:00pm. 

INTERIM VIP Reception
Friday, May 12, 6:30-7:30pm
KST's Alloy Studios
Tickets: $50

INTERIM: Props Prompts Play is an evening of multi-disciplinary collaborative explorations. The evening features new works-in-progress and finished works by STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos and guest artists Marvin Touré, Barbara Weissberger, and slowdanger. 

Join Soy Sos and musical guests for an intimate, immersive sound experience with modular synths, electronics, and a mix of traditional instruments! Using synchronization-based ensembles, Soy Sos collaborates with contemporary sound artist PVKVSV to create live, improvised sound-scapes as STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos dancers move throughout the space. Audience members are welcome to move throughout the space!

PVKVSV, Hussein Pwono is a Congolese-American artist, beatmaker, DJ and emerging producer from Pittsburgh, PA. He expands on jazz and hip hop roots & incorporates electronic elements and samples from music that moves- bossa nova, flamenco, and Italian film scores are just a few sources of inspiration, but influence can be found anywhere, and the artist leaves no stone unturned.

Sync’d with Soy Sos is in collaboration with Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers and is presented as part of the PearlArts @ KST Mutual Aid Residency. Learn more here.

Two events in one! PearlWatch showcases dance for camera films at different stages of development expanding our perspective of choreographic storytelling and expression. charrete is an incubator series that facilitates discussion within creative process. Artists share 5-15 minutes of a work-in-progress after which a panel of multidisciplinary artists respond to their work.

PearlWatch/charrette is presented as part of the PearlArts @ KST Mutual Aid Residency. Learn more here.

Join Soy Sos and musical guests for an intimate, immersive sound experience with modular synths, electronics, and a mix of traditional instruments! Using synchronization-based ensembles, Soy Sos collaborates with contemporary sound artists to create live, improvised sound-scapes as STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos dancers move throughout the space. Audience members are welcome to move throughout the space!

Sync’d with Soy Sos is in collaboration with Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers and is presented as part of the PearlArts @ KST Mutual Aid Residency. Learn more here.

Join Soy Sos and musical guests slowdanger for an intimate, immersive sound experience with modular synths, electronics, and a mix of traditional instruments! Using synchronization-based ensembles, Soy Sos collaborates with contemporary sound artists to create live, improvised sound-scapes as STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos dancers move throughout the space. Come for the vibes, sound discussions, and dance.

slowdanger is a Pittsburgh based, multidisciplinary performance entity founded in 2013 by co-artistic directors taylor knight and anna thompson. They use electronic instrumentation, vocalization and choreographic, improvisational and contemporary dance/performance frameworks to create work at the intersection of movement, sound and technology. Their performance work largely centers the body and researches its relationship to other bodies, the environment, sensory information, technology and the unknown/unknowable. The name, slowdanger, was inspired by the road signs that signify a demolition of old surfaces to build upon the remnants. They continue to return to this overarching concept cyclically in performance creation; rebuilding, slowing down to examine the remains and re-imagine new futures. slowdanger’s performance work has been featured across the United States and Canada in venues ranging from proscenium theaters and galleries to nightclubs and dive bars. From directing music videos to scoring  plays, slowdanger transforms its shape to adapt to a variety of different containers. They use sound as a physical extension of their bodily practices, to further embody and connect with their audience. More info at www.slowdangerslowdanger

slowdanger Photo credit: Anita Buzzy Prentiss

Synchronized: with Soy Sos is in collaboration with Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers and is presented as part of the PearlArts @ KST Mutual Aid Residency.

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