Bosko Hrnjak and Truus de Groot’s multimedia project The Salton Sea is a bleak but beautiful escape into decay featuring Music, Video and Photography.
FILM
THE GODDESS BUNNY – Transexual Polio Superstar
The Goddess Bunny is a transsexual polio victim with a rabid, underground GLBT fan base from before there was such a term.
FILM
NOVA EXPRESS – “CRAB NEBULA” – Andre Perkowski’s Eternally Shifting Film
An excerpt from draft 5 (Crab Nebula) of Andre Perkowski’s eternally changing and shifting film, “NOVA EXPRESS” based on the writings of William S. Burroughs.
KULTURE
VOINA GROUP’S LATEST ACTION- Vaginal Liberation of Food
Russian radical art group VOINA perform “How to Snatch a Chicken: A Tale of How One Cunt fed the Whole of the Group Voina”
ART
BRION GYSIN EXHIBITION – Dreamachine Opens at New Museum
by Red Cell Brion Gysin Dreamachine 7 July – 3 October 2010 New Museum – NYC From the New Museum’s Press Release: The New Museum will present “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously [...]
DRUGS
Karpo Godina : “Pupilias Ferkeverk Brain Au Gratain”
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilia Ferkeverk (1970), Karpo Godina’s banned short film featuring the Slovenian poets of the collective Pupilia Ferkeverk.
ART
EPICUREAN ARCHITECTS – Bompas & Parr Bring Absurdity to Food
Bompas & Parr create astonishing edible worlds crafted to make the stingiest art lover stare in wonderment.
MUSIC
TRUUS DE GROOT – Listen to Rare Cassette & Read Truus’ Thoughts on the Album!
Listen to a rare, out-of-print, 1980 cassette album from the legendary underground musician Truus de Groot, and read a letter about her memories of the tape!
ART
HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF
The Hyperbolic Coral Reef takes Dublin by storm in a ball of yarn and mathematics. Plus, learn how to make your own — if you can understand the math.
MUSIC
HANATARASH – Venue Destruction as Music
Amazing photo document slide show of Hanatarash destroying a venue as part of their Nerima, Tokyo performance in the mid 1980s.
MUSIC
MUSIC FOR DOGS — Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed
Your dog is going to fall in love with Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed at a free concert that’s so high-frequency you won’t be able to hear it.
ART
CITY OF ABACUS — Music and Words
Music and comic books keep colliding as out senses lose focus and we seek to rebel. Even better, this one’s helmed by two women and a man, so it’s not just big boobies and guns everywhere. Yay.
ART
UNEARTHING — Alan Moore, Mike Patton, Justin Broadrick
Alan Moore + Mike Patton = Dreams Do Come True (and other notes on the new world of media-mixtures). In other words, OMG! We can’t wait to read/listen to this awesomeness.
FILM
VIRGINIA’S PARTY (Restored) – Short Film by Ken Volok
Ken Volok’s 1998 experimental, MTV-esque make-out-orgy film where everyone is fair and pleasurable game. Made with the help of Virginia Williams, Aubrey Anable, Justin O. Silverman and Jesse Phelps.
FILM
DEAD ELEPHANTS and THREAD – Two New Vids by Lily Taylor & Estacia Huddleston
Lily Taylor has two new videos out, Dead Elephants and Thread, filmed by the increasingly interesting Esatcia Huddelston.
MUSIC
JESSICA RYLAN – Video of Awesome Talk at MIT
Watch this great hour long talk with Jessica Rylan at MIT from back in 2007. Rylan is so full of ingenuity and ideas.
KULTURE
THE BEGINNING OF BEING by Damon Griffith – Part I of II: Juiceball
Damon Griffith of Bull Seal! dives deep into our inner “Juiciness” in search of why we all do what we do. This is Part I of II in the Beginning of Being series.
ART
THE COMING INSURRECTION – The Invisible Committee
The insurrection is coming! The insurrection is coming! The insurrection is…probably not actually coming.
ART
ZIMOUN – Soundsculptures and Installations
The Sound Sculptor and Installation Artist Zimoun recently caught my attention with his small objects attached to a table that vibrated wildly, always promising to break free and sputter away under an end table somewhere.
LIT
PEACE, LOVING and HORAFLORA – @ The Santa Fe Complex
Peace, Loving have performed compositions for aromatics (w/ 3 professional chefs), dances for hand-held tape recorders, as musicians, worked as set designers, video artists, performance poets, instrument builders, and have become infamous for having a rotating cast doing all these things at once.
ART
CHARMED — Avant-Rock Aviary
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s avant-rock aviary, which takes its cues from the everyday life of birds, sounds like early-Sonic Youth and serves as a reminder that hope is the thing with feathers.
KULTURE
KALKI – and the End of the World
Gore Vidal’s end of the world epic is true to the Hindu mythology of Kalki and a weird romp into political science fiction.
ART
VIRAL WITNESSING – David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz used the mediums of collage, music, painting, performance, poetry, prose and video as a means of witnessing. Revisioning and recontextualizing the American dream, Wojnarowicz was a potent American artist who refused to be silent, a radical historian of outsider culture and a fierce activist for pleasure and freedom.
FILM
THE PINK HOTEL – Trailer
What looks like the perfect integration of new and stock film (but is actually all newly shot work!) are sewn together to make a stunning and haunting trailer for Chris M. Hefner’s new full length movie, The Pink Hotel.
FILM
LEIGHTON PIERCE – 2 New Films + Trippy New Year
Links to two NEW FILMS, plus a unique New Year’s greeting from master filmmaker and teacher, Leighton Pierce.