In Process | Fan Letters & Brian O’Mahoney

New York based Fan Letters, an audiovisual duo collaboration between composer Dylan Neely and video artist Alex Nathanson – has played in museums, concert halls and alternative spaces throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. Their work combines sound, video, and handmade electronic instruments into playful and thought-provoking interactive multimedia performances. Shows oscillate between noise... Fan Letters will utilize their residency at The Watermill Center to develop their opera Autocomplete. In preparation for a festival premiere, Nathanson will delve into the at-scale realization of the scenic design’s video element, which involves projection mapping and audiovisual interaction. Neely will be finalizing the work’s score, written for a chamber ensemble... Read More

Brian O’Mahoney (b.1993) is a New Jersey based artist using performance, video, and humor to explore the absurdities of his personal, and our collective, anxieties. He produces work using readily available and everyday materials, mirroring how anxieties infect daily life. He has shown work at The Watermill Center (NY), Roodkapje Rot(t)terdam (Rotterdam,... TALK TO ME, by Brian O’Mahoney, explores anxieties around communication by establishing new languages based on image and gesture. Nonsensically but seriously investigating interpersonal relations, TALK TO ME is a romp through new and absurd physical dialects. Constantly finding more elaborate and obtuse ways to communicate, O’Mahoney seeks to interrogate the source of... Read More