Pitchfork

My, Cat Power, how you've changed. Just a year ago you were breaking down at shows, mumbling, weeping, and skittering off stage prematurely. Now you're looking like the bee's knees on the cover of the latest Magnet, hawking Chanel, and projecting your likeness onto the sides of buildings! It's a new leaf, and we're all about it.

Chan "Cat Power" Marshall joins musician/actor Seu Jorge and silver screen stars Tilda Swinton, Donald Sutherland, and Ryan Donowho as part of multimedia artist Doug Aitken's new installation piece sleepwalkers. A large-scale video projection, sleepwalkers graces an outside wall of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a whole freaking month, "enlivening the building's architecture with the nocturnal journeys of five city dwellers" (thus spake the press release). Indeed, you can see it right now, or tomorrow afternoon, or anytime before February 20.

Aitken-- whose name you might recognize from videos for Interpol, Fatboy Slim, and Sponge(!)-- will host a museum "Happening" celebrating his piece on February 2, featuring a performance by Cat Power herself. The event is part of the MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's PopRally series and also includes live music from street drummer/sleepwalkers co-star Ryan Donowho (with Hisham Bharoocha), storytelling by Melissa Plaut, a public viewing of sleepwalkers, and more surprises. Tickets go on sale January 22 and attendees even receive a swank poster designed by Chicago-based Bird Machine artist Mat Daly.

As previously reported, Cat Power plays both the Langerado Music Festival in March and the Dirty Three-curated All Tomorrow's Parties shindig in April.

Power to the people:

02-02 New York, NY - Museum of Modern Art (sleepwalkers Happening)
03-11 Sunrise, FL - Markham Park (Langerado Music Festival)
04-27 Minehead, England - Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties)