Mixed-media installation with drawings, objects, garments, props, sound and video responding to the military history of Governors Island in the New York Harbor. Suggestions of post-military violence and flight filled two stories of this family home on Colonels Row. Open birdcages exhibited throughout the house echoed the military prisons once located on the now public island. Recorded names of women and children from cemetary records resonated through the bedrooms, along with other recorded texts. 7 days of duration performances were staged amidst the installation, wherein 32 goose feathers were stitched into my skin. The final performance occurred in a tree, located in front of the house

Curated by the Robert Wilson Watermill Center for the New Island Festival, Governors Island, NYC. 2009. For additional images see: http://carolynrydercooley.org/performance.html, or http://todseelie.com/rydergovernorsisland/index.html

Mixed media drawings mounted on found wood with teabags, video, sound and other objects. Installed at Pan American Art Projects, Miami FL. 2008, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA 2006 & SUNY Art Museum, Albany NY 2006.

Site specific installation with murals and rose window alteration at historic St. Anthony's Church, Albany, NY. Installed in conjunction with a 3 hour performance suspended in the church bell tower (see performance page)

Installation and performance with Jessi Rose Vala at Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose CA.

Riverbird Serenade, installation performance. Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA. 2005 A carved wooden chair was suspended from a metal bridge above an industrially distressed river. Musical serenades were performed in the chair 10 ft. above a river with cars driving overhead and birds flying by. Suspended chair could be viewed through the gallery windows, located in a former garment factory. Concurrently, an indoor installation consisted of four chairs suspended in 4 window wells. Beneath each chair was a nest of rocks collected from the river. One empty window invited viewing the external chair. During non-performance hours, video of the serenades could be watched on monitor with performance garments hung alongside.

Deliverance, video installation with sound, drawings, medical gown & architectural objects. Installed at Photo New York, NYC.

Domes and Steeples, site specific installation performance. Cesta Artist Center, Czech Republic Using a screw driver and a nail, drawings from local architecture were carved into the walls of a 10 by 11ft room revealing layers of paint dating through the Nazi and Communist occupations. Installation included on-site field recordings and a musical performance. Created during an artists residency.

Phantom View of the Mancuso Furniture Showroom, site-specific installation performance created at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco CA. July 2005. A wooden chair was suspended in a stairwell where the original floor used to be when the building was a furniture shop. To the right of the chair a mattress was suspended referring to the mattress storage area that once occupied that space. Video of the San Francisco earthquake superimposed with brances and crows was projected behind the chair. A six hour performance occured in the chair, dangling over a 10 ft, two storey stairwell. Viewers entered the stairwell through an installation of architectural windows, wood and hand carved signs.

Memory Parlour, mixed media installation. 12ft. by 11ft. by 10ft. cabin, filled with drawings and architectural objects, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bay Area Now 3, San Francisco, CA. 2002/2003