3-Legged Dog Theatre Presents WHY AREN'T YOU NAKED? Exhibit 9/4 - 10/3

3-Legged Dog presents WHY AREN'T YOU NAKED?, a multimedia exhibition of an array of provocative still and moving imagery generated from 3LD's prolific experimental Theater Productions over the last 13 years. WHY AREN'T YOU NAKED? is raucously imaginative, sexually perverse, highly theatrical, and intimately introspective. The collection includes HD panoramic video projections, multimedia sculptures, large format prints and high-resolution video installations. The exhibition runs September 4 - October 3, Tuesdays - Saturdays from noon - 10:00pm. It free of charge and open to the public. Please note that some material may be inappropriate for persons under the age of 18. 3LD Art & Technology Center is located at 80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street -- accessible from the 1/R/W trains at Rector Street).

3-Legged Dog stands out in the world of experimental art by virtue of its technical and artistic rigor, as well as the superb craftsmanship of the work. 3-Legged Dog's art grows out of everyday experience through a comprehensive, aesthetic process toward final creation that explores complex structures of thought, emotion and action. These multimedia works are built in such a way that no element or discipline dominates. And while each element integrates into the whole, each is a complete work of art in itself. Our projects express ideas that are beyond spoken or written language, often examining the contradictory multi-valent experiences of our image-stuffed world. Recent work is deeply immersive, and characterized by groundbreaking technological innovation. The quotidian source experiences that underlie the work have caused critics to comment on its humor, its lack of pretension and its "all-encompassing, thrilling" beauty. 3-Legged Dog's media works are things unto themselves-objects expressing the shape of time-meant to encompass the viewer in an intimate union.

For more information and to view the online catalog (after August 15) please go to www.3leggeddog.org/naked.

Among the works featured are:

Losing Something (Web) 2007, color, no sound
Footage originated from Losing Something
Projection Image: 10' x 18' onto panoramic screen
Losing Something (Web) displays four nude bodies writhing like babies within a rectangular web of surgical rubber lit by atmospheric computer-generated clouds.

Head 2008, color, sound
Mixed footage from kampuchea/loisaida, Fire Island and Paris Orgy
Projected Image: 5' x 5'
Comically oversized heads rave at you from all sides as you enter and exit the space.

The Party 2008, color, sound
Footage originated from Fire Island
Projection Image: 9' x 28' onto panoramic screen
A quiet summer day on the deck. Fire Island swoons and tips out of control and into the drink, drowning finally in its own wanton pleasure.

Priest Circle 2001, black and white, no sound
Footage originated from kampuchea/loisaida
Projection Image: 9' x 16'
Priest Circle gives the viewer an insect-like view during confession, revealing what surrounds each subject as they stare straight ahead; the wrinkle in the priest's shirt, the placement of the confessor's hand resting after a gesture, the hairs on the back of their necks.

300 Dishes 2008, color, sound
Footage originated from Fire Island
Projection Image: 9' x 9'
A 6' tall little girl, demurely dressed in white, throws 300 plates at the camera. As they thrillingly break, her excitement flows from shrieks of delight to guttural yelps of despair. "300 Dishes" is utter destruction, innocently violent, forcing the idea that physical release can cause self-degradation to rage out of control.

3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group was founded in 1994 by a group of artists working at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. It has rapidly become one of the leading experimental arts groups in New York. Since its inception, 3-Legged Dog has performed and exhibited at the Kitchen, the Ontological, PS 122, La Mama, the Signature Theatre, the Venice Biennale, and at our home, 3LD Art & Technology Center. In 2010, we are scheduled at Cena Contemporanea Festival in Brazilia and Sundance Festival New Frontiers program.