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Charles Atlas at Judson Church and Light Industry

Cinema / Dance / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Charles Atlas at Judson Church and Light Industry

“New York City 1988. Raging homophobia. A killer on the loose. Disco dancing till dawn. Performers struggle to survive. Delilah seduces Samson in song. Gender illusionists go shopping.” Samson and Delilah, 1991. Charles Atlas at Judson Church January 25th, 8:30 – 10:30 PM -Filmmaker in Person- Dirty Looks presents an...

Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

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Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

by Scott Kiernan

Ministry live at Exit in Chicago, IL on December 20, 1984 By: Scott Kiernan Setlist: Intro All Day Do You Even Like It? Cold Life The Nature of Love Revenge (Everyday Is) Halloween I Will Do Anything For You Work For Love Here We Go Ricky’s Hand (Fad Gadget cover)...

Finissage and video screening with Boris Groys at e-flux

Exhibitions / Video

Finissage and video screening with Boris Groys at e-flux

Boris Groys, Religion as Medium, 2006. Still from video. Boris Groys Religion and Medium and Iconoclastic Delight January 14, 2012, 4–6 PM e-flux 311 East Broadway 2nd Floor New York NY 10002 212 619 3356 Boris Groys will introduce a screening of his video essays Religion and Medium (2006) and...

Mute to Release 'Transverse'

Music / Performance

Mute to Release ‘Transverse’

Transverse is an experimental collaboration between Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti (TG) and Nik Void (Factory Floor) created especially for the Mute festival at the Roundhouse in 2011. Late last week, Mute Records announced they will release the recordings of the project this March. The tracks were prepared in the...

Music Vids 2011

Music / Pop Culture / Video

Music Vids 2011

Class Actress- Weekend 10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra- “Ffunny Ffrends” 9. Anika- “Terry” 8. Grimes- “Vanessa” 7. Austra- “Beat and the Pulse” 6. Badd Energy- “Third Eye” 5. HTRK- “Synthetik” 4. Young Boys- “Bring Em Down” 3. Street Chant- “Less Chat More Sewing” 2. Throwing Up- “Mother Knows Best” 1. Friends-...

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Sacred Bones Records at Spectacle

Cinema / Music / Video

Sacred Bones Records at Spectacle

by R. Kellie on 01/25/12

Thursday, January 26th, 8pm Brooklyn-based label Sacred Bones Records will present a selection of material and a rare-screening of Jacqueline Castel’s Twelve Dark Noons at Spectacle Theater. Expect an unearthed collection of underground weirdness, music videos, short films, works-in-progress. The evening will conclude with the presentation of a secret feature film. Expect a response to... [ Read More → ]

Somedays are Colored but Monday is Grey

Somedays are Colored but Monday is Grey

by R. Kellie on 01/23/12

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Artist Book/ Not Artist Book

Artist Book/ Not Artist Book

by R. Kellie on 01/17/12

Boo-Hooray Gallery 265 Canal St. 6th Fl. 1/18/12-2/12/12 Opening Night: 1/18 6pm-9pm Boo-Hooray presents an exhibition featuring books that are, and/or, are not, artists’ books. The exhibition (entitled ARTISTS’ BOOK NOT ARTISTS’ BOOK) was conceptualized by Johan Kugelberg and Jeremy Sanders. ARTISTS’ BOOK NOT ARTISTS’ BOOK will incorporate work by Chris Burden, Ira Cohen, Richard... [ Read More → ]

Trust-TRST

Music / Performance

Trust-TRST

by R. Kellie on 01/17/12

Trust’s first two singles “Candy Walls” and “Bulbforms” on Sacred Bones were among my favorites from last year. Their debut LP entitled TRST, is slated for release at the end of February on the Canadian label Arts & Crafts. Trust will tour this spring in support of the record, stopping in NYC March 8th at... [ Read More → ]

Organs of Love

Organs of Love

by R. Kellie on 01/12/12

Glasgow duo James McKinven (organs, love) and Alicia Matthews (vocals, love) comprise the band Organs of Love. “Organs of Love is a veritable behemoth of lo-fi weirdness that sounds like it’s come oozing straight out of some seedy swamp dive on Saturn.” –the band Optimo Music will release the “Bone EP” next week. Listen: Face... [ Read More → ]

Burning Star Core practice tapes from 2008 Uploaded

Music / Performance

Burning Star Core practice tapes from 2008 Uploaded

by R. Kellie on 01/12/12

Burning Star Core ‘Practice April 4th 2008′ at the Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati OH Burning Star Core ‘Practice April 4th 2008′ by Dronedisco for Burning Star Core: C. Spencer Yeh – violin, voice, electronics, objects Robert Beatty – electronics, objects Mike Shiflet – bass, electronics, objects Trevor Tremaine – percussion, voice, objects Official recordings featuring... [ Read More → ]

Dispatch from Aoteara #1

Music / Performance

Dispatch from Aoteara #1

by Joe Stumble on 01/11/12

Joe Stumble ran my favorite blog, Last Days of Man on Earth for five years, before moving to NZ from the [American] Midwest in 2010 to pursue his Masters degree at Auckland University. He will be writing regularly for Straight To Video about life in New Zealand, primarily with regards to the arts. –KM... [ Read More → ]

Graham Lambkin's new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

Graham Lambkin’s new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

by R. Kellie on 01/10/12

For nearly two decades, Graham Lambkin has been redefining our concept of domestic disturbance. From his time in The Shadow Ring to his solo ventures (2003’s Poem for Voice and Tape and Salomon Run, from 2007) to his collaboration with Jason Lescalleet (2008’s The Breadwinner), he has continually transformed everyday atmospheres and the mundane into... [ Read More → ]

‘TG’s Desertshore- The Final Report’

‘TG’s Desertshore- The Final Report’

by R. Kellie on 01/5/12

The New Year finds Chris and Cosey in the studio working on TG’s ‘final’ studio album ‘Desertshore’ a reinterpretation of Nico’s third solo album from 1970, produced by John Cale and Joe Boyd. The front and back cover of Nico’s Desertshore feature stills from Phillippe Garrell’s 1972 film, La Cicatrice Intérieure (The Inner Scar) which... [ Read More → ]

What's Up Matador, 1997 VHS

Music / Performance / Pop Culture

What’s Up Matador, 1997 VHS

by R. Kellie on 01/5/12

The beloved video comp. Come on collectors out there, I know you’re harboring some gems. Digitize this stuff or send it to me, and I’ll run the transfers for you! Released in VHS format in 1997 as “A Matador Records Instructional Film & Music Video Compilation”, What’s Up Matador has found its way to the... [ Read More → ]

The Unsinkable GBV

Music / Performance / Pop Culture

The Unsinkable GBV

by R. Kellie on 01/4/12

By now, most GBV fans are probably tired of all the chatter on the interwebs about how Greg Demos fell on his ass on Letterman. The Dayton vets played a track from their forthcoming post reunion LP, Let’s Go Eat the Factory. Another LP by the “classic” lineup is slated to be released this May.... [ Read More → ]

Exhibitions 2011

Exhibitions 2011

by R. Kellie on 01/2/12

Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames- Microscope Gallery Per-son-age-Famous Accountants Chris Kraus: Films- Real Fine Arts Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely- PS1MoMAB. Wurtz-Works 1971-2011- Metro Pictures Dara Birnbaum: Arabesque- Marian Goodman Irving Feller: Monochrome Drawings- Cleopatra’s Gary Hill: of surf, death, tropes & tableaux: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment-Gladstone Christian Marclay: The Clock- Paula Cooper Paul Sharits- Greene... [ Read More → ]

Favorite LPs, Reissues, Performances, and Singles 2011

Music / Performance / Pop Culture

Favorite LPs, Reissues, Performances, and Singles 2011

by R. Kellie on 12/30/11

Here is a ridiculously long year-end list. Nothing is “ordered” for the sheer fact that it would have taken twice as long to post. Favorite Live Performances TNV and Feelies- Prospect Park You- ESP TV Regal Degal- Flying Nun 30th Deaf Wish at Death by Audio Factory Floor at ATP Popstrangers at Lit Lounge The... [ Read More → ]

2011 in Video Art

2011 in Video Art

by R. Kellie on 12/28/11

Angela Bermuda- Ruined Maps Bangwash- Retinaball Penny Siopis, Communion Christian Jankowski- Casting Jesus- Lisson Gallery Sexy Sax Man Yemenwed- Pharma from the No Image, Commercial Breaks Series Liz Wendelbo- ‘Sets and Lights’ Series, but #1 is probably my favorite: Dara Friedman- Dancer- Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Hennessey Youngman- Art Thoughtz Series Christian Marclay- The Clock-... [ Read More → ]

Oneohtrix Point Never at MoMA

Music / Performance / Video

Oneohtrix Point Never at MoMA

by R. Kellie on 12/19/11

Oneohtrix at MoMA Oneohtrix Point Never played MOMA last night, as part of a multimedia performance with SF visual artist Nate Boyce. Russian Mind (scored by Oneohtrix Point Never) Nate Boyce is represented by Altman Siegel in SF. Photos by Erez Avissar. [ Read More → ]

2 Different Ways

2 Different Ways

by R. Kellie on 12/14/11

I realize that these two videos have absolutely nothing to do with each other; BUT they represent the cream that has risen to the top of my mush-brain for the day, and that’s reason enough to post. [ Read More → ]

New Popstrangers Vid

Music / Pop Culture

New Popstrangers Vid

by R. Kellie on 12/14/11

My favorite of the new Flying Nun bands. These guys came over for CMJ and played a handful of really brilliant shows. Hoping they come back soon, so more people in the states can check them out. They are pressing a double a side to vinyl in the new year before the album comes out,... [ Read More → ]

Wolf Vostell's "Dé-Coll/age Musik" reissued

Wolf Vostell’s “Dé-Coll/age Musik” reissued

by R. Kellie on 12/12/11

Originally released in 1982 on the Italian avant-garde label/gallery/publishing house Multhipla, one would be hard-pressed to find Wolf Vostell’s Dé-Coll/age Musik. (Or anything else released via Multhipla) Thankfully, Berlin-based collective “Tochnit Aleph” has reissued the work, but only on CD– which is kind of a bummer. Especially bc they have done LP’s. Taking after... [ Read More → ]

Cable Access XMAS Video Mix

Pop Culture / Video

Cable Access XMAS Video Mix

by R. Kellie on 12/12/11

When I saw Miss Velma’s Christmas in America a coupla years ago at Light Industry, I was elated. Miss Velma preached “The Miracle of God’s Youth”. She was a messenger of life, hope, faith, and miracles– for old people. Her later telecasts provided live testimonies of people who have allegedly had the aging process reversed... [ Read More → ]

Chris and Cosey at the Diogenes Club, Holland 1988

Music / Performance / Video

Chris and Cosey at the Diogenes Club, Holland 1988

by R. Kellie on 12/11/11

Creative Technology Institute (now called Institute for Creative Technology) Diogenes Club Diogenes Club, Arnham Holland Set list: Sleeping Stephen Arcade Vengeance Beatnik Club Workout Confession Obsession Dancing On Your Grave Beatbeatbeat More Chris and Cosey posts by Straight to Video: Here Here and TG Reissues Here [ Read More → ]

Cool Jazz City

Pop Culture / Video

Cool Jazz City

by R. Kellie on 12/8/11

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Barby Tangent

Barby Tangent

by R. Kellie on 12/7/11

I really got a rise out of my Austrain roommate the other night when I started watching the Kelly Family on YouTube. While I was barely familiar with the “clan” Lorenz regaled me with stories about how ubiquitous they were in his parts. A bit of internet stalking revealed that their Father-Yod-looking-leader originally hailed less... [ Read More → ]

A Glimpse at Garbage and the Flowers

A Glimpse at Garbage and the Flowers

by R. Kellie on 12/6/11

Former drummer Torben Tilly, now of Berlin based electronic duo Minit, described G&tF’s sound thusly: “There’s this crystalline structure of a song with its architecture of chords and idiomatic vocal melody. It’s something quite arcane and folkloric, owing a lot to Helen and Yuri Frusin’s song-writing and Helen Johnstones’ sapphirine voice. … These songs... [ Read More → ]

A New EVR

A New EVR

by R. Kellie on 11/29/11

What follows is a doctored press release, much of which I either disagree with, question, have criticisms about, and opinions to add. My reactions follow the press release in red. Via e-Flux: After seven years as a traveling project, e-flux video rental (EVR) has found a permanent home at Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana. Donated to... [ Read More → ]

Ken Russell (1927–2011)

Ken Russell (1927–2011)

by R. Kellie on 11/29/11

Ken Russell, the legendary British filmmaker responsible for provocative and iconoclastic films like The Devils (1971), Crimes of Passion (1984), Women in Love (1969), and Tommy (1975), has died at the age of eighty-four. He was born in Southhampton, England and attended naval college until studying photography at Walthamstow Art College. He later worked as... [ Read More → ]

DanceR(equired)

Dance / Exhibitions / Video

DanceR(equired)

by R. Kellie on 11/28/11

Pina Bausch, founder of Tanztheater was not interested in how people moved, but rather, what moved them. Like Bausch, Friedman’s new 16mm film Dancer manifests dancers’ internal monologues through self-scripted movement. Dancer is the most recent film from a new body of work that focuses primarily on performance and public space. But there’s so... [ Read More → ]

FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE & MIRABELLE

FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE & MIRABELLE

by R. Kellie on 11/28/11

Film Forum presents Eric Rohmer’s 1987 feature, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, the sister piece to his 1986 film, Le Rayon Vert (aka Summer). Over the course of four chapters, two young women –Reinette, from the city, and Mirabelle, from the country– meet when Reinette fixes Mirabelle’s flat bike tire. After bonding immediately, Reinette... [ Read More → ]

Videobytes

Exhibitions / Video

Videobytes

by R. Kellie on 11/18/11

Videobytes at Russ & Daughters: 179 East Houston Street With work that spans a fifty-year period, Videobytes features pieces by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers Robert Breer and Harry Smith, conceptual artists John Baldessari and Gordon Matta-Clark, and a younger generation of video and performance artists including Kate Gilmore, Hiraki Sawa and Susana Mendes Silva. The common... [ Read More → ]

Kuchar and MoMA

Cinema / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Kuchar and MoMA

by R. Kellie on 11/17/11

Tonight: MoMA presents A Celebration of George Kuchar: Rambunctious Rarities, Moody Masterpieces to coincide with the exhibition Pagan Rhapsodies, opening this weekend at PS1 Planned prior to the artist’s recent death, this past September, George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies includes many of the artist’s most important works, including films, videos, and works on paper. A presentation of Kuchar’s films... [ Read More → ]

Mono No Aware-2011 Program Lineup

Cinema / Dance / Exhibitions / Music / Performance

Mono No Aware-2011 Program Lineup

by R. Kellie on 11/17/11

Mono No Aware is an exhibition that will present an international program of expanded cinema performances. The program will present ephemeral works that emphasize the cinematic and phenomenological experience. Now that the internet, television, and cellphones have become an everyday vehicle for the moving image; audience experience and connectivity is significantly altered, and the basic... [ Read More → ]

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