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Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store's Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

Exhibitions / Music / Performance / Pop Culture

Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store’s Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

Musician, fashion designer, model, stylist and overall creative force-to-be-reckoned with, Royal Trux and Black Bananas‘ frontwoman Jennifer Herrema will participate in an Artist Residency at the New Museum Store in New York next week. The New Museum Store presents “She’s Crafty,” featuring a spectrum of projects by inventive women tasked...

New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

Auckland’s Powertool Records, the same label to thank for releasing new works by Sandra Bell, The Puddle, Robert Scott, Bill Direen, ( I could go on) and generally speaking– the label that actively releases a diverse range of ex-Corpus Hermeticum, Xpressway, and Flying Nun artist’s material; has a new compilation...

HOLY BALM...(holy shit!)

Music / Performance / Video

HOLY BALM…(holy shit!)

Holy Balm is Anna John, Emma Ramsay and Yoni Hochman. I was stoked to read on their Tumblr that they will be coming to the states this fall. Their live sets sound and look super fun. CTI meets Wax Trax vibes renders their post-house post-synth party jam haze. Holy...

Times New Old Friendship Video

Music / Performance / Video

Times New Old Friendship Video

New Video for an old song, with re-purposed footage

HENNE$$EY YOUNGMAN UP IN HERE

Criticism / Straight to Youtube / Video

HENNE$$EY YOUNGMAN UP IN HERE

HELLO WWW, THIS YA BOY HENROCK ALLAH AND IT’S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. WE ALWAYS SEEM TO MEET IN PLACES LIKE THIS. ANYWAYS, THIS PARTICULAR ART THOUGHTZ IS MORE OF LIKE A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT OFFERING A PAID SERVICE TO YOU AND YOURS. BUT IMA LET MY VIDEO DO...

Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

Cinema / Exhibitions / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

Dirty Looks: On Location is a month-long series of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, Dirty Looks, a roaming series– which typically hosts screenings on the last Wednesday of the month–will install film and video work in queer social spaces and former sites of...

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7" Pre-Order + Interview

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7″ Pre-Order + Interview

I can’t say enough how great Street Chant are– as a band, as people, as artists. I, for one have been waiting for these two songs to be released since hearing them live months ago. And now these two videos (comprising a double A-side 7″ available via Arch Hill soon)...

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus 4/18/2012 @ Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn 8PM A screening program of live performance footage, music videos, and cable access appearances with bands from the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. Featuring bands/artists such as: V̶-̶3̶, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, True Believers, Mike...

ESAD Production's History of Bloomington Music

ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music

Somewhere between video diary and music nerd tribute jerked on video–like Bill Nye, but cool– this gem of a CATV special maps out and documents the somewhat subjective, vastly complicated network of musicians and bands in the Bloomington Music Scene from 1977 through 1993. ESAD Production’s History of...

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute will cease activities due to lack of funding at the end of 2012. A result of the Ministry of Culture’s decision to terminate funding, an announcement was made yesterday that the Institute will receive no further financial support, and will vacate its present premises on the...

Moron Movies and Len Cella

Moron Movies and Len Cella

Initially aired on Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ in 1968, Len Cella’s Moron Movies became a regular feature between 1983 and 1985, then eventually surfaced on ‘TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes’ as Len Cella’s Silly Cinema a title which he allegedly despised. Curiously available in every video store in North America...

Bruce Russell on 'Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86'

Bruce Russell on ‘Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86′

Really can’t say how stoked I was to stumble 15 minutes late into work today, coffee spilt, phone forgot in bed, and log onto the interwebs to find that Bruce Russell contributed the following piece to Volcanic Tongue on the genesis of the NZ Underground on the occasion of the...

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Exhibitions / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith Team gallery 83 Grand Street March 29th – April 28th 2012 Reception on Thursday March 29th at 6:00PM Team presents a collaborative installation by New York-based artists Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith, featuring their rarely shown public access show which ran between 1994 and 1997....

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

Exhibitions / Video

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

bitforms gallery presents an exhibition on video artist Beryl Korot. Featuring her landmark video installation “Text and Commentary” (1977), the show also includes two of Korot’s more recent investigations into the medium,“Florence” (2008) and “Yellow Water Taxi” (2003). Recognized since the early 1970s as a pioneer of video art and...

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Performance / Video

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Jud Yalkut is easily one of my favorite video pioneers. In conjunction with many other events around NYC celebrating John Cage’s centennial, Anthology will screen Yalkut’s 1973 video 26’1.1499” FOR A STRING PLAYER; a recorded video manipulation of Cage’s composition of the same title. Performed in 1973, the video features...

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Music / Performance

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Beloved Brits Throwing Up are coming back to the States to play some shows. In NYC, it is a rare treat to see the London-based three piece rip it up live, but I can say that I was blown away after seeing them play at Bruar Falls with Blood Orange...

Screaming Urge in the New Age

Screaming Urge in the New Age

On the occasion of Sing-Sing Records’ reissue of Screaming Urge’s 1980 “Homework” single earlier this year, I touched base with Myke Rock and Michael Ravage about the Screaming Urge days and the beginnings of Columbus Punk. Since I spent a decent chunk of my 20′s in the Columbus music scene,...

TV Party Documentary

Dance / Music / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

TV Party Documentary

In true democratic spirit of cable access TV and DIY ethics so associated with the revolutionary NYC show TV Party, some excellent person has shared the recent documentary of the show on Youtube. Much has been written on the now iconic show, so we’ll leave that at bay for now–but...

Purple Pilgrims Video and Spring Tour Info

Purple Pilgrims Video and Spring Tour Info

Purple Pilgrims.- s/t 8″ It has been said that ex-Christchurch now Hong Kong based sister duo of Clementine and Valentine Nixon is really a live act, with their haunting, heartfelt, carefully layered drone; pure enough to summon goosebumps. This outsider marble-fuzz project has reproduced the same wide eyed simple magic...

Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

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Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

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)...

Dispatch from Aoteara #1

Music / Performance

Dispatch from Aoteara #1

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...

Graham Lambkin's new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

Graham Lambkin’s new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

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...

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Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store's Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

Exhibitions / Music / Performance / Pop Culture

Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store’s Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

by R. Kellie on 11/29/12

Musician, fashion designer, model, stylist and overall creative force-to-be-reckoned with, Royal Trux and Black Bananas‘ frontwoman Jennifer Herrema will participate in an Artist Residency at the New Museum Store in New York next week. The New Museum Store presents “She’s Crafty,” featuring a spectrum of projects by inventive women tasked with transforming the Store’s window... [ Read More → ]

Autonomy and Deliberation: New Film Starring the UV Race

Autonomy and Deliberation: New Film Starring the UV Race

by R. Kellie on 10/15/12

AUTONOMY AND DELIBERATION Official Trailer from Johann Rashid on Vimeo. [ Read More → ]

C'est Normal?

Music / Pop Culture / Straight to Youtube / Uncategorized

C’est Normal?

by R. Kellie on 10/10/12

Can we talk about this video for a quick second? I mean what the FUCK is going on here, exactly? A better version is here, but it has some lame intro which kills the delivery. [ Read More → ]

Videofreex Symposium on Portible Video

Criticism / Video

Videofreex Symposium on Portible Video

by R. Kellie on 10/9/12

Changing Media and Social Change from Portapak to Smartphone November 1, 2012, 4–9pm SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street New York, NY Free and open to the public www.sva.edu School of Visual Arts presents We’re All Videofreex: Changing Media & Social Change from Portapak to Smartphone, an evening symposium on the genealogy of portable video... [ Read More → ]

The Club is Open at The Library is On Fire

Exhibitions / Music / Video

The Club is Open at The Library is On Fire

by R. Kellie on 10/5/12

Earlier this week, Brooklyn Vegan posted a story on the melange of happenings in the world of Bob Pollard. Calling him a “multi-media hit-making machine” the post focused on his new solo record and tour dates, and also discussed his visual art practice, which mainly consists of collage. Bob’s zine, EAT Magazine illustrates these collage... [ Read More → ]

Introducing...Video World!

Criticism / Pop Culture / Video

Introducing…Video World!

by R. Kellie on 10/4/12

It comes as fantastic news that Leah Churner has a new weekly column on the Sundance blog, called Video World! Leah is a regular contributor to the Austin Chronicle and Reverse Shot. Her writing has also appeared in the Village Voice, Film Comment, Moving Image Source and the L Magazine. Her curatorial career is another beast all together!... [ Read More → ]

New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

by R. Kellie on 10/3/12

Auckland’s Powertool Records, the same label to thank for releasing new works by Sandra Bell, The Puddle, Robert Scott, Bill Direen, ( I could go on) and generally speaking– the label that actively releases a diverse range of ex-Corpus Hermeticum, Xpressway, and Flying Nun artist’s material; has a new compilation out called Bulletholes 4: Exploring... [ Read More → ]

From Tony Caro & John to Forever and Ever: An Interview with Tony Doré

From Tony Caro & John to Forever and Ever: An Interview with Tony Doré

by R. Kellie on 09/29/12

By Rob Hatch Miller On the occasion of the forthcoming reissue of Blue Clouds, here is a recently unearthed interview with TC+J’s Tony Doré, as interviewed by Rob Hatch-Miller. Primitive drum machines, early EMS Synth and lo-tech –but well thought out– four track production make this collection of unreleased (minimal psych?) gems one of my... [ Read More → ]

HOLY BALM...(holy shit!)

Music / Performance / Video

HOLY BALM…(holy shit!)

by R. Kellie on 08/29/12

Holy Balm is Anna John, Emma Ramsay and Yoni Hochman. I was stoked to read on their Tumblr that they will be coming to the states this fall. Their live sets sound and look super fun. CTI meets Wax Trax vibes renders their post-house post-synth party jam haze. Holy Balm was initially put out... [ Read More → ]

A Different Kind of Bats

A Different Kind of Bats

by R. Kellie on 08/13/12

To those who wake up every morning to well worn copies of the Raspberries' "Go All the Way," this one's for you [ Read More → ]

Times New Old Friendship Video

Music / Performance / Video

Times New Old Friendship Video

by R. Kellie on 07/31/12

New Video for an old song, with re-purposed footage [ Read More → ]

Liliane Lijn: Collected Film and Video Works 1970-2012

Cinema / Exhibitions / Performance / Video

Liliane Lijn: Collected Film and Video Works 1970-2012

by R. Kellie on 07/31/12

Liliane Lijn: Collected Film and Video Works In a two program retrospective, Straight to Video and Spectacle are proud to present the film and video work of visual artist, Liliane Lijn. Widely known for her Poem Machines (invented in 1962 alongside Burrough’s and Gysin’s Dreamachine,) in which Lijn stirred a conversation more relevant now than... [ Read More → ]

HENNE$$EY YOUNGMAN UP IN HERE

Criticism / Straight to Youtube / Video

HENNE$$EY YOUNGMAN UP IN HERE

by R. Kellie on 05/16/12

HELLO WWW, THIS YA BOY HENROCK ALLAH AND IT’S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. WE ALWAYS SEEM TO MEET IN PLACES LIKE THIS. ANYWAYS, THIS PARTICULAR ART THOUGHTZ IS MORE OF LIKE A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT OFFERING A PAID SERVICE TO YOU AND YOURS. BUT IMA LET MY VIDEO DO THE TALKING, BECAUSE IF YOU... [ Read More → ]

Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

Cinema / Exhibitions / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

by R. Kellie on 05/15/12

Dirty Looks: On Location is a month-long series of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, Dirty Looks, a roaming series– which typically hosts screenings on the last Wednesday of the month–will install film and video work in queer social spaces and former sites of queer sociality (like shuttered bars,... [ Read More → ]

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7" Pre-Order + Interview

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7″ Pre-Order + Interview

by R. Kellie on 05/14/12

I can’t say enough how great Street Chant are– as a band, as people, as artists. I, for one have been waiting for these two songs to be released since hearing them live months ago. And now these two videos (comprising a double A-side 7″ available via Arch Hill soon) enhance the potency of the... [ Read More → ]

Notes from MoMA and Frieze

Criticism / Exhibitions

Notes from MoMA and Frieze

by R. Kellie on 05/4/12

A turbulent 72 hours, making the rounds at three NYC art events Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Personally, I try to keep my phone at bay for the most part in an attempt to socialize with old friends, and meet new ones. But I would be lying if I said that the urge to rip... [ Read More → ]

Harry Dodge's Recent Videos and Solo-Exhibition

Uncategorized / Video

Harry Dodge’s Recent Videos and Solo-Exhibition

by R. Kellie on 05/1/12

Made with urgency over the course of a six-month period, the video trilogy of Ipse Dixit (2011), Unkillable (2011), and Fred Can Never Be Called Bald (2011) explores the space in between language and image, as well as the inexorability of narrative progress or momentum itself in different tonal and formal registers. [ Read More → ]

Carmelo Bene Retrospective at Anthology

Carmelo Bene Retrospective at Anthology

by R. Kellie on 04/26/12

By Troy Swain THE FILMS OF CARMELO BENE Beginning this weekend, Anthology will present this retrospective encompassing all five feature films (as well as a couple shorts) directed by the vanguard filmmaker, actor, and playwright Carmelo Bene, one of the greatest figures in Italian avant-garde culture. Renowned for his work in the theater, Bene turned... [ Read More → ]

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

by R. Kellie on 04/16/12

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus 4/18/2012 @ Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn 8PM A screening program of live performance footage, music videos, and cable access appearances with bands from the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. Featuring bands/artists such as: V̶-̶3̶, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, True Believers, Mike Rep+the Quotas, J̶i̶m̶ ̶S̶h̶e̶p̶a̶r̶d̶, Tommy... [ Read More → ]

ESAD Production's History of Bloomington Music

ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music

by R. Kellie on 04/16/12

Somewhere between video diary and music nerd tribute jerked on video–like Bill Nye, but cool– this gem of a CATV special maps out and documents the somewhat subjective, vastly complicated network of musicians and bands in the Bloomington Music Scene from 1977 through 1993. ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music was hosted, taped,... [ Read More → ]

NZ's Real Groovy Records will release a Toy Love: Live at the Gluepot 2XLP for Record Store Day

NZ’s Real Groovy Records will release a Toy Love: Live at the Gluepot 2XLP for Record Store Day

by R. Kellie on 04/10/12

Epic Auckland record store Real Groovy Records announced they will be releasing a double LP by NZ favorites, Toy Love in honor of Record Store Day 2012. The recording captures the band’s legendary –and one of last live sets at the famous Gluepot in Auckland, September 12, 1980. Transferred and prepared for vinyl mastering from... [ Read More → ]

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

by R. Kellie on 04/4/12

Netherlands Media Art Institute will cease activities due to lack of funding at the end of 2012. A result of the Ministry of Culture’s decision to terminate funding, an announcement was made yesterday that the Institute will receive no further financial support, and will vacate its present premises on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam in the... [ Read More → ]

Moron Movies and Len Cella

Moron Movies and Len Cella

by R. Kellie on 04/2/12

Initially aired on Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ in 1968, Len Cella’s Moron Movies became a regular feature between 1983 and 1985, then eventually surfaced on ‘TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes’ as Len Cella’s Silly Cinema a title which he allegedly despised. Curiously available in every video store in North America in the mid 90s, even... [ Read More → ]

Bruce Russell on 'Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86'

Bruce Russell on ‘Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86′

by R. Kellie on 03/27/12

Really can’t say how stoked I was to stumble 15 minutes late into work today, coffee spilt, phone forgot in bed, and log onto the interwebs to find that Bruce Russell contributed the following piece to Volcanic Tongue on the genesis of the NZ Underground on the occasion of the latest FN comp he organized.... [ Read More → ]

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Exhibitions / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

by R. Kellie on 03/27/12

Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith Team gallery 83 Grand Street March 29th – April 28th 2012 Reception on Thursday March 29th at 6:00PM Team presents a collaborative installation by New York-based artists Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith, featuring their rarely shown public access show which ran between 1994 and 1997. The weekly cablecasts were twenty-nine-minute... [ Read More → ]

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

Exhibitions / Video

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

by R. Kellie on 03/22/12

bitforms gallery presents an exhibition on video artist Beryl Korot. Featuring her landmark video installation “Text and Commentary” (1977), the show also includes two of Korot’s more recent investigations into the medium,“Florence” (2008) and “Yellow Water Taxi” (2003). Recognized since the early 1970s as a pioneer of video art and of multiple channel work in... [ Read More → ]

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Performance / Video

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

by R. Kellie on 03/20/12

Jud Yalkut is easily one of my favorite video pioneers. In conjunction with many other events around NYC celebrating John Cage’s centennial, Anthology will screen Yalkut’s 1973 video 26’1.1499” FOR A STRING PLAYER; a recorded video manipulation of Cage’s composition of the same title. Performed in 1973, the video features Charlotte Moorman and Nam June... [ Read More → ]

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Music / Performance

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

by R. Kellie on 03/7/12

Beloved Brits Throwing Up are coming back to the States to play some shows. In NYC, it is a rare treat to see the London-based three piece rip it up live, but I can say that I was blown away after seeing them play at Bruar Falls with Blood Orange a year ago. Tantrums, riffs,... [ Read More → ]

Carter Tutti Void premiere video

Music / Performance / Video

Carter Tutti Void premiere video

by R. Kellie on 03/7/12

Transverse, the exclusive collaboration project between Factory Floor’s Nik Void and Chris and Cosey will be out on Mute Records March 27, 2012. Earlier post on Transverse here. 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... [ Read More → ]

First David Lynch solo show in NYC since 1989

First David Lynch solo show in NYC since 1989

by R. Kellie on 03/6/12

…and it looks pretty good! The show opens today, but the reception for Lynch is on March 16th–and he’ll be there. No events planned, sadly- but you never know what impromptu shenanigans the maven might craft between then and now, time and schedule permitting. Most Lynch fans already know that he began his career as... [ Read More → ]

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