For more information on our mission statement and the content of our first issue, please see www.thegiganticmag.com.
Events for the night to include three-minute readings
from Gigantic contributors Justin Taylor, Anya Yurchyshyn and others;
a Muji-note presentation by Opium Magazine’s Todd Zuniga; free books
and CDs appropriated from places where we work; live music from The Five
Cents; DJs; dancing; and other delights yet to be revealed.
Media Inquires please contact: giganticmag@gmail.com or
(864) 617-8910
Founding Editors:
Ann DeWitt
James Yeh
Lincoln Michel
Rozalia Jovanovich
Our second issue opens with the editors' customary reflections on the artistic life, followed by two polemics on related themes: a pseudonymous piece on PR's ubiquity in the artworld and Christoper Hsu's self-explanatory "The End of Carnality is the Beginning of Facebook."
The essays begin with Jessica Slaven's "Sculpture in the Expended Field," which chronicles recent attempts to defile exhibition spaces. Next, Jen Schwarting's "You Dirty, Worthless Slut" argues that Laurel Nakadate's lineage and motivations have both been misunderstood, and Keith Gessen's "Russia" offers a timely report on the possibilities of cultural resistance under Putin.
In "Camera Vacua," David Giles categorizes the catastrophically empty photos he's been seeing recently, and in "WeTube," Mark Greif describes the present state of amateur video. Finally, Naomi Fry illuminates the chatty text-drawings in Amanda Trager's Brooklyn studio.
In our reviews section, Andrew Berardini watches Gilles Deleuze alphabetically at a bar in LA, Loretta Staples remembers her love affair with design, and Gregory Warner test-drives Lonely Planet's unlikely Guide to Afghanistan.
We also happily present four full-color portfolios made especially for Paper Monument: a quartet of Kerstin Brätsch's serial collages, Alex Klein's unfolding take on The Greening of America, plus a surfeit of James Howard's internet ads, and four variations on the art of make-up from Noah Sheldon.
Contact: info@papermonument.com
Kria Brekken
Kria Brekkan is Kristin Anna Valtysdottir formerly of the band múm amazing voice, amazing sounds.
Skint is a performance group that uses scores in their live improvisations of dance and music. Members of Psychic Ills, NFP, Telepathe, Effi Briest.
"they attained a sort of trailer-park chic: simultaneously ugly and beautiful. It all added to a general feeling of female domesticity run amok"
--Claudia La Rocca Brooklyn Rail Review
www.myspace.com/skintskinting
Plus: DJ's Taka (Dance Hall)
and Corinne of Effi Briest
More info about:
Triple Canopy
New Humans
Orphan
Press inquiries: peter@canopycanopycanopy.com
MIRROR MIRROR
In celebration of their new album, "The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness" (Cochon Records), MM bring their unpredictable live show to Starr Space, combining video, healing and movement. Folky sing-alongs, sinister rock songs, robotic choral pieces, and utopian dance rhythms.
More info about:
Mirror Mirror
The Judy Experience
Omega Jarden
Nathaniel Whipple
We are the World
Cobain in a Coma
Cinema 16 will feature three short films by innovative animators the Brother Quay. Often employing broken dolls as puppets their stop motion animations are characterized by their moody and dark quality. A Brooklyn-based musical project based band, Darkbloom, will provide the live musical score.
Cinema 16 recreates the experience of the silent film era in which live music would accompany black and white 16mm projections. These monthly screenings, curated by Molly Surno, modernize the tradition of silent films by pairing contemporary musicians with vintage shorts.
Molly Surno, the producer of the series, is an emerging photographer and curator living in Brooklyn. Her passion for the arts and her community inspired her to create this vibrant multimedia event. Combining efforts with Starr Space owner and artist Jules de Balincourt, they bring the silent film tradition back to the heart of Bushwick.
For all inquiries please contact Molly Surno at molly@mollysurno.com
Cinema 16 will feature two short films by two distinct filmmakers, an animation by Harry Smith and the Occurrence at Owlcreek Bridge by Robert Enrico.
The two films evoke at Americanism and its early expressions of identity and self-expression. The Occurrence at Owlcreek Bridge tells the tale of a captive soldier during the Civil War, based off of the powerful Ambrose Bierce short story. When fantasizing about his own survival, the prisoner looks at the surrounding American landscape with the eyes of a newborn, evoking the magic and beauty of the terrain. The opening animation employs an avant garde and whimsy that embodies the early abstractions of American animations. Critically acclaimed Artanker Convoy will provide the live musical score. Doors open at 8:30pm and the screening begins at 9pm.
Cinema 16 recreates the experience of the silent film era in which live music would accompany black and white 16mm projections. These monthly screenings, curated by Molly Surno, modernize the tradition of silent films by pairing contemporary musicians with vintage shorts.
For all inquiries please contact Molly Surno at molly@mollysurno.com
Catch, everyone's favorite* multidisciplinary performance and video series, presents rough and ready short works from emerging and emerged artists, curated and hosted with reckless delicacy by Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie.
We've deemed Catch 33 "ladies night" in honor of this fine line-up of female performers:
Paige Collette & Tatiana Pavela
Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson
Half Straddle as featured in SINTESI
The Ontological
Hannah Heller
Juliana May
MGM Grand
Nellie Tinder
Noopur Singha
Founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2003 by Jenny Seastone Stern, Catch is a home for the emerging avant-garde and has become an integral part of the downtown community. Catch presents a stunning array of emerging artists, giving them an opportunity to share the stage with an expanding galaxy of downtown luminaries. This makes everyone's work more exciting, raising the stakes for young creators and encouraging experimental freedom in our more accomplished artists.
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Cinema 16 will feature Elia Kazan's first film "Pie in the Sky" and Edwin S. Porters' "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend." Both American films explore a whimsical sense of humor in the post WWI era. As early American pioneers in the film industry these shorts satire elements of society such as religion, machismo and belligerence. Porters', once an electrician, uses trick cinematography to tell the tale of a drunken man on a lush quest that turns into a nightmare. Written, directed, and starring the Puvlic Theater, "Pie in the Sky" is a depression era comment on religious values and life in the U.S.'s economic crisis. Critically acclained band,
The Wild Yaks, will provide the live musical score.
A night of performances by:
TRYCRYTRY
GUTTY AND MOIST
ASTROID AND EGGY WEGGY
TORTURE
PHEOBE JEAN AND AIR FORCE ONE
Catch, everyone's favorite multidisciplinary performance and video series, presents rough-and-ready short works by New York's most exciting artists, curated and hosted with reckless delicacy by Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie. Founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2003 by Jenny Seastone Stern as a home for the emerging avant-garde, Catch has become an integral part of the downtown community.
Featuring:
Dirty Power (Weena Pauly/Katy Pyle/Katie Workum)
Jeff Larson
Linas Phillips
Jason Schuler
Laura Berlin Stinger
Van Cougar
Larissa Velez
"It's hard to justify seeking any other form of entertainment on your Saturday night."
--Claudia La Rocco , New York Times
Want more? We'd be delighted to hear from you:
catchseries.org
catchseries@gmail.com
An evening of international women, men and cats of mystery. Let down your borders and share in the love. An evening of short experimental performance, video and music pieces.
Works by Laryssa Husiak, Josh Hoglund, Shonni Enelow, Sunita Prasad, Chris Giarmo, Amelia Saul, Mitsu Salmon and ryotaro (from Japan).
Mitsu and ryotaro are visiting from Japan and have brought back some refreshing beverages of rain, tears and of course sake. Laryssa is drinking incessantly so she can love you all the time. Amelia, Josh, Mitsu all used to live in Berlin and brought back some brochen and a piece of the wall.
Organized by curator Joseph Whitt, the presentation will feature solo performances by:
- Fischerspooner
- Andrew W.K.
- Gavin Russom
- Lizzy Yoder
- Phiiliip w/ Omega Jarden
- International Fiction (Ford Wright and Nick Demopoulos)
- Alex Eiserloh’s "Kinda Like Monkeys"
- Angela Di Carlo
- Smelling Salt Amusements (Heather Romney and Peter Redgrave)
- The Jewish (Jeff Jensen)
Performance artist Adam Dugas will serve as Master of Ceremonies, and a finale featuring the reunion of once-upon-a-time darlings of the Williamsburg underground, Sweet Thunder, will conclude the night!
Sweet Thunder was a band formed in 1997 in NYC with Alex Eiserloh, Lizzy Yoder, Casey Spooner, Kelly Kuvo, Gavin Russom, Heather Romney, Peter Redgrave, and Jodie Mechanic. The group formed to sing songs exclusively about Niagara Falls. Sweet Thunder lasted two years, debuting in February 1998 at a Chelsea venue called The Cooler, and later offering its swansong at Starbucks, Astor Place (NYC) in August 1999. In the summer of '98, the band recorded thirteen songs with producer Bobby Conn at Rubulad, an art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. None of these songs have ever been officially released, and little documentation of the band’s actions exist. Many members of Sweet Thunder have gone on to enjoy great success as solo artists, and the SWEET THUNDER TALENT EXPO 2009 brings the original group together for the first time in ten years!
A limited-edition Sweet Thunder 7" 45 RPM record has been pressed especially for the occasion, and will be offered for sale at the show! It features 'The Museum,' an original Sweet Thunder track, written and mixed by Gavin Russom, and a Sweet Thunder Megamix by Phiiliip.
Projections:
Amy Granat
Silent Painting Auction
Ann Craven
Jules de Balincourt
Jacob Kassay
Jesse Cohen
Jeffrey Perkins
Special DJ Set
(soul-doowop-oldies)
Kate McNamara & James J. Williams III
as: "the shit lick boot club"
Benefiting the publication of issue 2 with entirely original contributions by Adrian Piper, Slavoj Zizek, Vito Acconci, Alvin Curran, Avital Ronell, Sophie Calle, Joelle Leandre, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacques Ranciere, Art Zoyd, Stephen Willats and Christian Marazzi.
Can ya smell it? Spring is in the air! Mark your calendars and dig out your canvas shoes 'cuz next Saturday Hidden People are throwing an old fashion dance party.
/-Music by-/
Holy Hail /- (Dickies dig 'em, and we dig Dickies)
Mahi Mahi /- (visiting us from Providence, RI)
Hidden People /-
Ribbons /-
Iyaxia /-
/-Visuals by-/
Paris, outpt, & vade :: (they do crazy things with software and old nintendos!)
More details:
www.hiddenpeople.net/springparty/
ORPHAN
chaos in all its precision and wonder
www.myspace.com/orphannyc
ANTIETAM 1862
from Richmond, VA, the "Sons of Southern Darkness"
www.myspace.com/antietamrva
DJs Rose Kallal and Bob Nickas
Lone Wolf Tribe is an award winning contemporary puppet theatre ensemble blending history, sociology and psychology into brutally poetic contemporary narratives. Since 1997, their visceral and fantastical productions explore the edges of theatrical style and human experience. Artistic Director, Kevin Augustine and his company, combine a hybrid mix of theatrical mediums, including their unique style of foam-rubber puppets. LWT's most recent production, BRIDE, was recently voted a "Top Ten of 2008" by TimeOutNY. Proceeds of the event will benefit LWT's upcoming work, The Hobo Grunt Cycle. www.lonewolftribe.com.
For Settings, curator Michael Capio is working under the notion of "micro-exhibition," which takes the function of display as a medium for exploring the conflation of artistic and curatorial initiatives.
While imposing limited time constraints on the curatorial process, the micro-exhibition concept introduces a working model for observing the relationship between interdisciplinary projects, sound and design in the installation environment.
Accordingly, the time frame for Settings will encompass an evening-length period, which will include performances by Michael Capio, an in-situ sound performance by Keiko Uenishi [o.blaat], late night DJ set, texts, screenings and projections.
Cinema 16 will feature three distinctly surrealist short films that echo Mexico's surrealist art history with live musical score by Lazaro Valiente. The films include Jan Svankmajer's Meat Love, Slavko Vorkapich's The Furies, and Roger Barlow and Harry Hay’s Even as You and I. Meat Love uses stop motion to tell the story of two pieces of steak that fall in love, ending in tragedy; The Furies is a dark tale of haunting banshees that prowl the streets of New York committing crimes without passion; and Even as You and I shows the grueling and extensive creative process as three young filmmakers try to produce a surrealist film. All are silent.
Lazaro Valiente's music is composed of both sounds and silence from daily life. Composed of a rhythmic background and the memory of melody, all is overthrown by any/all possibility of sound production and its distortion. Instruments and arrangements include the use of hands, feet, mouth and body. From experimental-made folk to rhythms made by police cars, a gentle voice, blow dryers and handmade percussion compose a simple sing-along type of music.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer
wonder about the cruelty of pirates
-James Russell Lowell
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
8:30 PM
$5
Starr Space presents “The Cruelty of Pirates,” a collaborative
performance by Fever Theater and
artist Jenny
Vogel, followed by the music of PERFVGIVM.
THE CRUELTY OF PIRATES
“The Cruelty of Pirates” is a story of low-resolution encounter that
offers an intimate reading of contemporary loneliness. Live-streaming
video projections in the stutter-step language of webcameras result
in a display of light signals that suggest an unknown code, some unknown
message. The story is old: a man and a woman and the innate desire
for love.
PERFVGIVM
“Instead of the glow of friendly Americana, PERFVGIVM gives us a sort
of afterglow, the kind that manifests itself in the gloomier corners
of the mind...
These tracks manage to trouble our ears at the same time as they reassure
us that history and music, influence and originality, may all cohabit
the same few minutes of song."
– Dossier Journal
OTK Discipline
Over The Knee Discipline! One Nite Only!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Doors at 8, Show at 9
$5 at the door
OTK (Over the Knee) Discipline! is bringing together as many local nyc artists
and friends for one classic night of artistic freedom, collaboration, experimentation
and debauchery.
Organized by Gio Black Peter & Brian Kenny with Videos, Live Performance,
Music, Dj sets & Art by:
Alex Sedano • Billy Miller • Bruce LaBruce • Daniel McKernan • Desi Santiago
• Fixx Invictus • Jared Buckheister • Josh Bloom • Lady Fag • Leif • Luigi
y Luca • Lyndsy Welgos • Michael Magnan • Micki Pellerano • Max Steele •
Noah Lyon • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • PRICKIMAGE • Richie Rent & JJ • SPANK
Zine • Stuart Standford • Superm • Bec Stupak & Malcolm (SUPER A LOT)
• Tha Pumpsta • Scott Hug and many more.
OVER THE KNEE DISCIPLINE
YOU MUST SUFFER FOR YOUR BEAUTY
DISCIPLINE IS THE ONLY WAY
YEAH THAT'S HOT
OVER THE KNEE
DRESS CODE: CASUAL FISTING
I THINK BEAUTIFUL BOYS SHOULD SUFFER
We want to serve a round of discipline, over the knee. A night where there is plenty of opportunity to exhibit art, create more, freak out, and spank away your sins!