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Prince Rama (previously Prince Rama of Ayodhya) is a two-piece "now age" psych-dance band based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded by sisters Taraka Larson and Nimai Larson. Discovered by Animal Collective's Avey Tare in a Texas dive bar in 2010, the band signed to Paw Tracks shortly thereafter, and have since released ''Shadow Temple'' and ''Trust Now'', which peaked at #3 and #6 on the Billboard New Age Charts respectively. In four years, Prince Rama have released six albums and toured in four of the seven continents, recording with members of Animal Collective and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Taraka recently published a manifesto on "Now Age" that puts forth Prince Rama’s aesthetic and metaphysical philosophies. ==Art Projects== "Fountain of Youth 11:11" In an off-site ruin behind the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, Prince Rama present Fountain of Youth 11:11, a mythical water installation and schizo-temporal paradise. Inspired by the Tarkovskian image of beauty and immortality, the crumbling brick walls of the roofless structure are set against the bizarrely decadent, Edenic environment, echoing the fabled chamber in Tarkovsky's Stalker where innermost desires are fulfilled. The mysterious elixir of Prince Rama's fountain of youth flows from discarded cans of Monster Energy, while two stone sculptures of Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth, flank the entrance, confronting passersby with an elusive invitation to partake in the subaqueous magic. "How To Live Forever" The first solo gallery exhibition by Prince Rama, HOW TO LIVE FOREVER ran from January 25th through February 21st at CULT EXHIBITIONS in San Francisco. With this series of immersive, multidisciplinary installations and performances, Prince Rama explore the transformation of kitsch to sublime, of time into eternity using pop music as a portal to enter a hyper-utopian future set to a soundtrack of pulsating, hypnotic dance beats of post-apocalyptic catharsis. "The Shock. The Awe. The Art." Sponsored by Monster Energy Drink. In perhaps their most controversial undertaking to date, Prince Rama curated THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2067, a multimedia survey of "contemporary art of the future" in which they envisioned the de-evolution from post-modern to post-apocalypse and installed a 24 hr pop-up "biennial exhibition" in the 2nd floor of the Whitney Museum made up of various artists, artwork, and pseudo-sponsors they fabricated themselves. Part of the Blues for Smoke Exhibition. "Neon Classical" Forty years after Philip K. Dick’s mystical experience with a mysterious pink beam of light, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art commemorates him with THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED, an exhibit inspired by his monumental work, VALIS. Prince Rama’s portion of THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED, is centered around the book's main protagonist, Horselover Fat, who envisions the suspension of history in the 1st century A.D. with the landscape of southern California 1974 being superimposed as a holographic projection over Ancient Rome. For Prince Rama’s installation, NEON-CLASSICAL, they flip the script and manifest the suspension of history in modern-day southern California with Ancient Rome employed as a simulated projection of wealth, ersatz-spirituality, and aesthetic decadence. “In our version," says Taraka Larson, " 'The Empire Never Ended' is more of a comment on the past's devolution into kitsch and subsequent haunting of the present in the form of Ghost-Modernism and Zombie Aesthetics." The exhibit contains many interactive elements, including a fully functioning jacuzzi that visitors are encouraged to swim and relax in. "Cake Basel" For Art Basel 2013, Prince Rama created a totally edible simulacra of Art Basel consisting of highlights from the fair printed onto photo-cakes and served out freely to the public as a part of Ketel One's De Nolet. The piece was divided between a workshop portion and a performance portion. The workshop portion consisting of setting up the "exhibition space"; building a temporary structure and arranging the photocakes on pedestals with corresponding placards, thus giving the public an opportunity to participate in the behind the scenes process of art fairs. The performance portion of the evening was staging the opening of the pseudo "art fair", with Prince Rama acting as the spray-tanned hyper-real Miami gallery dealers. However, instead of selling the artworks at over-inflated prices, they generously served out the cakes for free, subversively commenting on the nature of art consumption while also providing a playful alternative to the fair itself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prince Rama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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