LAETITIA HUSSAIN
INSTALLATION OF 1,000 SCULPTURES: CLOSING WEEKEND
image taken by Vincent Bilotta
If you haven’t had a chance to stop by and see the wonderful winter installation of 1,000 Sculptures by Laetitia Hussain we encourage you to do so! The space will be open this coming weekend, February 18th and 19th from 4-7pm.
LAETITIA HUSSAIN
INSTALLATION OF 1,000 SCULPTURES
OPENING RECEPTION 11 FEBRUARY 2012
Basilica Hudson is excited to announce our very first one-woman winter exhibition, an installation of 1,000 sculptures by Laetitia Hussain on Saturday, February 11th. The opening reception will take place from 5-8 pm that night at 110 South Front Street, just south of the Hudson Amtrak station.
Invoking the venue’s industrial heritage of mass production, Hussain has cast the 1,000 sculptures over recent months from HydroCal (a form of plaster) from molds made from an original, 10-sided mahogany prototype. These are numbered and stamped with a special mar before installation on the floor of the Main Hall or suspended on glass and metal from the building’s steel structures.
The installation will also include 10 paintings, light and film projections, and sound by the artist in the 6,000-square-foot, 40’-high Main Hall.
Additional information may be found at the artist’s website: www.laeti.org
HAPPY 2012 & 2011 HIGHLIGHTS
“Basilica Hudson party: This was an event I DJed over the summer up in Hudson, NY at a new art space called Basilica…There was a really great laser show and amazing sound system and every walk of life you could imagine on the dance floor…70 year old couples, children, kids from the projects, local punks, weirdo artists, Warhol factory people still taking photographs…everybody having such a sincerely good time with a completely open musical mind.” -Brian Degraw (GANG GANG DANCE), Pitchfork “Guest List: Best of 2011”
The winter months have slowly begun to set in and as we prepare for another Hudson Valley winter and hatch our plans for our second season at the Basilica Hudson, we wanted to take a moment to review 2011 and all that has happened at Basilica Hudson over the past year.
From bathrooms to ballrooms, modern dance to dance parties, book readings and film screenings, exhibitions of all mediums and methods – BH has been host to several ‘brand new’ and ‘first annuals’ this past season and we look forward to many more to come in 2012.
2011 EVENTS RUNDOWN:
Ramp Fest , Columbia County Young Democrats present a screening of ‘March On’ with panel discussion, Free Columbia, “This is Hudson, Not L.A.” punk rock reality film with a live performance by Dez Cadena and the Broke Down Bitches, Preservation Hall Literary Event, Nautical Almanac and Bunnybrains, Columbia and Greene County Chamber of Commerce Buy Local Business Expo, Kinema Nippon presents Nippon Re-Read, Hudson Opera House: In Black and White 18th Annual Gala, Troublemakers with Sam Buck Rosen, Ryder Cooley and Alphabet, WGXC presents Nosferatu with live accompaniment
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SLOW FADE: AN EVENING READING WITH RUDY WURLITZER AND WILL OLDHAM: APRIL 28TH
Slow Fade: An Evening Reading from Basilica Hudson on Vimeo.
This was our grand opening event, a perfect first step forward! An evening reading of renowned novelist and screenwriter, Rudy Wurlitzer’s 1984 novel Slow Fade by folk music legend, Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) accompanied by guitar player Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) with photographic projections by acclaimed photographer Lynn Davis. Connecticut based artist Elisa Ambrogio, of noise rock band Magik Markers, opened the evening with her own reading.
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HUDSON RAMP FESTIVAL : APRIL 30TH
The first forageable green, spring delicacy, wild onion of myth and mystery. Abundant in the Hudson Valley, the ramp was at the center of original dishes created by chefs from upstate New York and New York City. Their pungent and therapeutic pleasure were surely indulged in at the first annual Ramp Fest in Hudson.
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NADA : JULY 30 – 31ST
The New Art Dealers Alliance invited members and affiliates to address the historic Basilica Hudson, over 50 galleries furnished over 6000 sq. ft with contemporary art. Over 3,000 people made the trip and experienced the only Free event of this kind in the Hudson Valley. Read all about it in NY Magazine!
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MUSIC – DJs – ART – FOG – LASERS: AUGUST 13TH
In conjunction with the first annual Hudson Music Fest and Hudson Black Arts & Cultural Festival: Basilica Hudson was thrilled with the outcome our first official MUSIC-DJ-ART-FOG & LASER Night – Saturday August 13th, 2011 with Live performances by Dischord and Thrill Jockey recording artist, DANIEL HIGGS and Brooklyn Based (Part-time Hudson Valley-ians) multi-tasking duo BUKE & GASS. Followed by DJ sets by acclaimed wild card NYC DJs BRIAN DEGRAW (GANG GANG DANCE) and JD SAMSON (MEN and LE TIGRE). Accompanied by a Basilica Art Gallery show and Video Installations by TV CARNAGE and lights by LuminaTek. As quoted above, Brian Degraw described it best in his Pitchfork picks of 2011 – this event represented what we hope Basilica’s music events will be for years to come.
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MEASURED IN SOUND GALLERY SHOW: AUGUST 13-27TH
The Basilica Art Gallery invited multi-tasking /artist-action man Brian DeRan from Leg Up! Management to curate our inaugural art show. He collected an amazing range of work from NYC area artists, who’s lives and work are intertwined with music and sound. This group Art Show was created in tandem with Basilica Hudson’s first annual Music Event in conjunction with the Hudson Music Festival.
Andrew Kuo
Spencer Sweeney
Leo Fitzpatrick
Brian DeGraw
Daniel Higgs
Melissa Auf der Maur
Brian DeRan
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THE MARRIAGE OF JEFF AND FARIHAH : SEPTEMBER 3RD
This was our first wedding booked at the Basilica and what special wedding it was, a traditional Halal wedding in a non traditional industrial setting, made for a spectacular event and photo opp for a great team of wedding photographers. See photos by Weddings By Two :: Click Here to See More from their Basilica Hudson Wedding!
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PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: OCTOBER 7TH
New Works by Kris Perry – Including “Post Industrialism in the Pre-Apocalypse” – A collaboration with musician Gideon Crevoshay.
It was a great pleasure to have local welder, artist and friend Kris debut his experimental sound machines with us. It has since lead to a exciting and ambitious project to build monster sized versions and bring it to our main hall this coming summer. There is a KickStarter fund where you can see the machines in action and help support this artists mechanical visions!
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AN EVENING OF DANCE WITH JONAH BOKAER & NINA WINTHROP AND DANCERS: OCTOBER 8TH
We hope to make this an annual collaboration with these great talents in contemporary dance. The Main Hall was a perfect space for the beautiful and minimal dance pieces.
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Thank you to everyone who worked with us, shared their talents and came through our many doors and spaces. We hope to see you again and again in 2012.
- BH
WGXC TAKE OVER!
Although Basilica Hudson officially closed its doors for the season this past weekend…it seems our transgressive transmitters at WGXC have planned a coup on the Basilica SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd 2011 with an especially hair-raising screening of NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR. This chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker’s Dracula directed by F.W. Murnau is a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend. Screening accompanied by a live symphony of horror including local musicians Jeremy Thal, Jeremy Kelly, Gideon Crevoshay, Brian Dewan and Meshell N’Degeocello. Blood-curdling and spine chilling guaranteed [DRESS WARM!]. $10 + suggested admission – All proceeds benefit WGXC – Doors at 6 PM.
WGXC: HANDS-ON RADIO is the new community radio station for Greene and Columbia counties, NY. WGXC transmits 3,300 watts at 78,000 potential listeners in the two counties, and southern Albany County, on 90.7-FM. WGXC is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation with special exhibitions and events, media training for our community’s youth and adults, a news blog, and a local calendar of events. Tune in or turn out with WGXC.
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THIS WEEKEND: MUSIC ART + DANCE
BASILICA HUDSON: CLOSING THE SEASON….
It seems, we hope, that the glorious season of Autumn has finally set in, despite the lingering amazon bayou climate that’s been haunting the Hudson Valley these past rainy weeks. We are excited to announce our last big weekend of the year at Basilica Hudson in tandem with Arts Walk and some fun Waterfront festivities across the tracks. Our weekend of diverse programming unfolds like this….
THURSDAY: Troublemakers, Sam Buck Rose, Ryder Cooley & Alphabet: Local alternative music and performances.
FRIDAY: Putting the Pieces Together: Art & Sound exhibit in our Gallery, by Hudson’s favorite Fantastic Fab welder Kris Perry.
SATURDAY: Modern Dance Performance in the Main Hall, featuring the work of international choreographers Nina Winthrop and Jonah Bokaer
It has been a great first season for us as the new team at the Basilica Hudson and we’d like to thank all of you who came out to support our efforts, use our new bathrooms and spread the word around the Valley and beyond. Hope to see you this weekend.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 6th 2011 – 8 PM (Doors at 7 PM)
Vanessa Haroutunian joins Lauren Schaeffer for the BIG DEBUT and EP Release of their new band TROUBLEMAKERS. Think queer/riot_grrl/xxx/punk mayhem—
w/ SAM BUCK ROSEN
RYDER COOLEY
+ ALPHABET
xxx Bring your friends.
All ages. $5-10 (sliding scale)
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 7th 2011 – 6-8 PM
Basilica Hudson Gallery presents…
PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
New Works by Kris Perry
Including “Post Industrialism in the Pre-Apocalypse”
A collaboration with musician Gideon Crevoshay
KRISTOPHER PERRY was born in Berkeley, California. Kristopher studied under sculptor Edgar Harris, illustrator Chuck Pyle, and with master foundryman Don Rich. He attended California College of the Arts. He has also worked with artist David Best on numerous large-scale installations.
Kristopher currently lives in Hudson, NY.
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 8Th 2011 – 7:30 PM (DOORS AT 7PM)
Basilica Hudson presents….
AN EVENING OF DANCE
RECESS BY JONAH BOKAER
& THREE LIVES AND SOMETHING BY NINA WINTHROP
ALL AGES – $10 ENTRY
Basilica Hudson is honored to host this wonderful evening of dance on October 8th, 2011 in conjunction with the Columbia County Council on the Arts annual Artswalk. The evening will feature works by incredible choreographers, Jonah Bokaer and Nina Winthrop.
JONAH BOKAER is an award winning International choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a short lifetime to expanding possibilities for live performances through choreography, digital media, cross-disciplinary collaborations and social enterprise. Recruited for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the unprecedented age of 18, Bokaer also holds a degree in Visual & Media Studies from The New School and pursued additional studies in media and performance, digital media and 3D animation. These studies led to the development of a rare, multi-disciplinary approach to choreography, addressing the human body in relation to contemporary technologies.
The work RECESS, a collaboration between Bokaer and artist/architect Daniel Arsham is a constantly evolving and fluid dialogue between the two, exploring movement, representation, temporality, memory, and space. While never the same performance from venue to venue, each iteration of RECESS looks at the historical work of art, dance and architecture through the combined solo and collaborated work of Bokaer and Arsham. Through conversation, video, and performance, ideas and statements are built upon utilizing still and moving images of both artists’ work, as well as each of them explicitly and implicitly performing for the audience. With measured movements, intentional ellipses, improvisational performativity, the artists seek to engage the audience into a deeper relationship than that of either a strict performance or lecture.
NINA WINTHROP formed her company, Nina Winthrop and Dancers, in 1991. 1991. Winthrop’s work is a layered blend of abstraction and narrative. Her unique style has been described by the New York Times as “darkly expressive” as well as
“stunning” and “seductive” by On & Off.
“Knockout dances…ordinary moves performed with such investment they might be sacred dance”
-The Village Voice
Throughout THREE LIVES AND SOMETHING, a work first performed in 1998, the dancers move back and forth in four parallel lanes. As they perform movements derived from everyday activities we catch a glimpse of their physically separated, yet thematically connected, lives. Don’t miss this very special and exciting evening at Basilica Hudson!
CCCA ARTSWALK LITERARY KICK OFF
SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 2011 – 6-8 PM
THE COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: AUTHORS EVENING
NY Times best selling authors will present brief readings and discuss their current work.
Join us in honoring newly invited and returning authors.
Come “Meet and Greet” our honored guests, other writers, and like-minded lovers of literature.
Featuring local wines from Tousey Winery, micro-brewed beer from Chatham Brewing, Columbia County’s best hand-made cheeses selected and procured by Michael Harris and the famous breads of Hudson’s Loaf Bakery to compliment the evening.
Door entry is a $30 contribution the night of the event.
Advanced Tickets $25—You Save $5! Click Here
NIPPON RE-READ: RADICAL FRAGMENTS + ABSTRACTIONS FROM JAPAN
Kinema Nippon and Basilica Hudson presents NIPPON RE-READ: RADICAL FRAGMENTS AND ABSTRACTIONS FROM JAPAN at Basilica Hudson on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8 pm (doors 7:30). This program was curated by Aily Nash and Nine Yamamoto-Masson and is part of a series of programs in the Kinema Nippon benefit project. Aily Nash will be present to introduce the program and for a Q&A after the screening.
NIPPON RE-READ: RADICAL FRAGMENTS AND ABSTRACTIONS FROM JAPAN:
A spectrum of experimental moving image works from Japan, ranging from late-60s to contemporary works, are presented in Kinema Nippon’s two-part program. Although varying greatly in their formal and aesthetic concerns, the works all rigorously reexamine the everyday through their respective experiments and innovations in their medium.
The works in this program offer a poetic investigation into the fragmentary experience of the quotidian by eschewing narrative and rendering cultural images and references to unveil the uncanny within the familiar. Tomonari Nishikawa’s in-camera manipulation of bustling metro hubs in SHIBUYA-TOKYO and TOKYO-EBISU (2010), as well as Kano’s pensive meditations on quintessential Japanese subjects, form a counterpoint to Toshio Matsumoto’s split-screen filmic hallucination of the late-60s underground, FOR THE DAMAGED RIGHT EYE (1969), which was made in conjunction with his seminal feature FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969).
NIPPON RE-READ: Screening to begin at 8 PM
Tomonari Nishikawa SHIBUYA – TOKYO (2010, 10 minutes, 16mm)
Tomonari Nishikawa TOKYO – EBISU (2010, 5 minutes, 16mm)
Eriko Sonoda KAGI (2005, 7 minutes, 8mm)
Toshio Matsumoto FOR THE DAMAGED RIGHT EYE (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm)
Shiho Kano SHINONOME OMOGO ISHIZUCHI (2008, 15 minutes, DV)
Shinkan Tamaki ONE RECORD ON DECEMBER (2007, 6.5 minutes, 16mm)
Daisuke Nose TIME FOR RADIO EXERCISE (2003, 11.5 minutes, video)
Total running time: ca. 67 minutes. Screening to begin at 8 PM.
Ticket prices for this special benefit event will be $5 minimum donation, more encouraged (all going to Japan Society’s Earthquake Relief Fund).
LOCAL BUSINESS EXPO FINDS NEW HOME AT BASILICA HUDSON
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2011 – 4 to 7 PM
Historic architecture and a cutting-edge space, found together at Basilica Hudson, provide the new venue for this year’s Buy Local Business Expo - Co-produced by the Columbia and Greene County Chambers of Commerce. “The Expo did very well at Columbia-Greene Community College, with over 500 attendees,” said David Colby, president and CEO of the Columbia Chamber. “But we wanted to try something different this year, and the unique space of the Basilica offered that change.”
On September 22, contemporary businesses from Greene and Columbia County take over the space from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. The public is welcome to check out local companies and sample food, beer and wine, all of it locally grown or processed.
Business Expo is the largest collaborative business-to-business trade show in the area, with more than 60 exhibitors. It gives companies the opportunity to display their products and services to the area’s key decision makers, buyers, and business leaders in a professional yet relaxed atmosphere.
Thursday September 22, 2011 – 4 to 7 pm
@ BASILICA HUDSON
110 S. Front St.
Hudson, NY 12534
MEASURED IN SOUND GALLERY SHOW – CLOSING!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27TH – OPEN NOON – 5 PM
This group Art Show was created in tandem with Basilica Hudson’s first annual music event on August 13th, featuring performances by Dischord recording artist, DANIEL HIGGS, Brooklyn based duo, BUKE & GASS and DJ sets by DJBDG (BRIAN DEGRAW of GANG GANG DANCE) and DJ JD SAMSON (MEN and LE TIGRE). The night was a great success and hosted many in and out of town-ers a like. The local laser show complimented by Brian DeGraw’s video projections (created on the train ride up the Hudson River that day!) transformed the 6,000 square foot Basilica Main Hall into quite a spectacle and installation piece in itself. Thank you all for participating and ringing in the fun.
The Basilica Art Gallery invited multi tasking – artist – action man Brian DeRan from Leg Up! Management to curate our inaugural art show. He collected an amazing range of work from NYC area artists, who’s lives and work are intertwined with music and sound.
Andrew Kuo: Click Here for Charlie Rose Interview
Spencer Sweeney: Click Here for Art in America Interview
Leo Fitzpatrick: Click Here for Huh Magazine Article
Brian DeGraw: Click Here for More Info
Daniel Higgs
Melissa Auf der Maur
Brian DeRan
If you are in Hudson or the area this Saturday August 27 please stop in and see the work.
110 Front street
Hudson NY 12534
(Just steps from the Hudson Amtrak station)
Open Noon – 5pm
BH
MUSIC-DJ-ART-FOG & LASER NIGHT : UP NEXT
In conjunction with the first annual Hudson Music Fest and Hudson Black Arts & Cultural Festival: Basilica Hudson is excited to announce our first official MUSIC-DJ-ART-FOG & LASER Night – Saturday August 13th, 2011 with Live performances by Dischord and Thrill Jockey recording artist, DANIEL HIGGS and Brooklyn Based (Part-time Hudson Valley-ians) multi-tasking duo BUKE & GASS. Followed by DJ sets by acclaimed wild card NYC DJs BRIAN DEGRAW (GANG GANG DANCE) and JD SAMSON (MEN and LE TIGRE). Accompanied by a Basilica Art Gallery show and Video Installations by TV CARNAGE and lights by LuminaTek.
DOORS : 7 PM
ART GALLERY SHOW : 7 PM
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY DANIEL HIGGS + BUKE & GASS : 8 PM
DJS – FOG & LASERS : 11 PM
LIVE PERFORMANCES :
DANIEL HIGGS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BUKE & GASS – 8 PM
DANIEL A.I.U HIGGS, Interdimensional Song-Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the Harbor City of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millenium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band LUNGFISH, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hinderance of collaborative influence.
www.dischord.com/band/danielhiggs
www.myspace.com/danielaiuhiggs
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BUKE & GASS are a Brooklyn-based two-piece Arone Dyer on the “buke” (a self-modified sixstring baritone ukulele) and Aron Sanchez on the “gass” (a guitar-bass hybrid of his own creation). Both of them play double duty mobilizing a small army of foot percussion. These instruments are then filtered through various pedals, amplifiers and other homemade inventions to create a surprisingly complex sound. Arone’s supermelodic vocal lines weave through the beautiful yet sometimes unwieldy musical matter, balancing light and dark, calamity and control. Their musical multi-tasking makes for live performances that are both visually unexpected and sonically explosive.
Listen
www.myspace.com/bukeandgass
www.villagevoice.com
www.nytimes.com
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DJS :
BRIAN DEGRAW AND JD SAMSON – 11 PM
BRIAN DEGRAW, dance keyboardist from NYC mainstays GANG GANG DANCE, part-time DJ, and prolific visual artist was born in 1974. Originating from the same experimental Brooklyn scene as Animal Collective and Black Dice – GANG GANG DANCE boldly forged their various avant garde influences into a coherent statement. The band has cemented their position as purveyors of melodically stilted experimentations that aimed as much for the emotional as the cerebral. DEGRAW exhibited his visual works in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and in solo exhibitions: Le Confort Moderne, France (2008); BEHEAD THE GENRE, James Fuentes LLC, New York (2007).
“As an artist who likes to experiment with tweaking anything and everything possible, Live is a great tool. It makes processing and re-processing sounds extremely quick and easy which allows me to work at a fast pace without having to reconfigure much of anything. It’s freed up a lot of physical and mental space for me in the studio without a doubt.” -DeGraw
www.brooklynrail.org
http://nowarforged.blogspot.com/
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JD SAMSON is one-third of the electronic feminist punk band and performance project, LE TIGRE. JD also played keyboards and sampler with Peaches on her “Impeach My Bush” world tour, and has DJ’ed internationally since 2001 throughout many different party scenes and music genres.
JD SAMSON also created the 2003 Calendar entitled “JD’s Lesbian Calendar,” as well as “JD’s Lesbian Utopia 2006,” which launched at Deitch Projects Gallery in New York City in the fall of 2005. In 2007, MEN was begun as the DJ/ REMIX team of JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of the band LE TIGRE. Eventually, MEN became a live band focusing on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music, with lyrics speaking to issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise and demanding liberties. JD SAMSON is currently touring as a solo DJ, “Creating space for rad people to dance and smile and hold each other.” JD is a people pleaser DJ and can swing as many ways as needed to make an amazing party or club night.
blog.menmakemusic.com
www.letigreworld.com
www.myspace.com/djjdsamson
www.facebook.com/DJJDSAMSON
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VIDEO INSTALLATION PRESENTATION:
In case you don’t know: Each TV CARNAGE volume is hundreds of hours of exceptionally bad TV lovingly fused together into an hour plus; glorious cesspools of retardation. Each clip acting as a word in odes to pop culture that have been hailed as “genuine, original genius” Since 1996 these are the compilations that have been gushed upon by VICE , NME, SHARPEWORLD, FORT DRASIC, DAILY CANDY, BRAD NEELY, NEW YORK TIMES, SPIN, ADULT SWIM, EYE MAGAZINE, GEEK MAGAZINE, WIRED, TIM AND ERIC, and on and onnnnn (snore). PINKY BECKLES, FOUNDER OF TV CARNAGE, has RECENTLY been picked up by ADULT SWIM for a series HOT PACKAGE (which will include THE BEST OF TOTALLY FOR TEENS) and is co-founder of streetcarnage.com. Additionally he makes videos for various bands as well as directing commercials for weirdo companies. His current TV CARNAGE project is called “Cop Movie” and is comprised of about three dozen different cop movies. The most recent TV CARNAGE release was “LET’S WORK IT OUT” comprised of a million disgusting workout tapes and celebrated on numerous top 10 lists of 2010. PINKY is currently in his Brooklyn apartment making a shitty meal for himself.
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“MEASURED IN SOUND” : ART GALLERY SHOW
The Basilica Art Gallery will open at 7 pm, showing visual art work by…
Andrew Kuo: Click Here for Charlie Rose Interview
Spencer Sweeney: Click Here for Art in America Interview
Leo Fitzpatrick: Click Here for Huh Magazine Article
Brian DeGraw: Click Here for More Info
Daniel Higgs
Melissa Auf der Maur
Brian DeRan
+ much much more…
