Straight to Video Mix
When I first started this site, it began as a blog used as a warm-up for the academic writing that I was doing at the time as a grad student at NYU. I used to give myself 10 minutes and force myself to write about something. Even if I didn’t have anything particularly pressing to say,... [ Read More → ]
TJSA ‘s Straight to Video to Be Released on Wax in March
It’s been a long time coming. Since 1997 to be exact– a record that was slated for release via Onion records once upon a time, eventually comitted to the vicissitudes of the CD, will finally get the vinyl treatment after nearly 20 years. True, that the CD is not a particularly rare one, or that... [ Read More → ]
Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store’s Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012
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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 Balm was initially put out... [ Read More → ]
Liliane Lijn: Collected Film and Video Works 1970-2012
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 → ]
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 queer sociality (like shuttered bars,... [ Read More → ]
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. The weekly cablecasts were twenty-nine-minute... [ Read More → ]
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 Charlotte Moorman and Nam June... [ Read More → ]
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 a year ago. Tantrums, riffs,... [ Read More → ]
Carter Tutti Void premiere video
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. This is mandatory because the medicine needs some time to really giving sildenafil order secretworldchronicle.com this some thought. For those who fall into the riskier categories, making... [ Read More → ]
Velvet Underground: Under Review and Recently Released Super 8 films
The Velvet Underground Under Review is a documentary reviewing the influential collective, a band that Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features performances as well as “obscure footage,” interviews and photographs of and with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale. I keep falling asleep watching it, personally–but maybe someone out... [ Read More → ]
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 check this well-executed documentary out!... [ Read More → ]
FG.Ft: Three Part Project Series, A Tribute to Fad Gadget and Frank Tovey
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March 1st - April 8th
FGFt commemorates the late Frank Tovey's musical and artistic endeavours with a multi-part exhibition including an art exhibition, a screening of Morgan Tovey-Frost's 'Fad Gadget By Frank Tovey' and musical performances by Xeno and Oaklander and Ike Yard(amongst others). [ Read More → ]
Sympathetic Materialism: An Evening with Allan Sekula
Sunday – 02.12.12 – Sympathetic Materialism – An Evening with Allan Sekula Contents: 1. Introduction to Sunday 2. A note on sympathetic materialism 3. Untitled preface to Waiting for Tear Gas 4. Lottery of the Sea: Prologue and Ending 5. The Forgotten Space – screening at MoMA, Monday, 02.13.11 6. Related readings/viewings 7. Filmography 8.... [ Read More → ]
Happenings: New York, 1958-1963
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Charles Atlas at Judson Church and Light Industry
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Trust-TRST
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 → ]
Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984
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Burning Star Core practice tapes from 2008 Uploaded
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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 regards to the arts. –KM... [ Read More → ]
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 current medical approach to treating gallbladder illnesses is: levitra order... [ Read More → ]
What’s Up Matador, 1997 VHS
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The Unsinkable GBV
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 → ]
Favorite LPs, Reissues, Performances, and Singles 2011
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 → ]
Oneohtrix Point Never at MoMA
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Chris and Cosey at the Diogenes Club, Holland 1988
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Kuchar and MoMA
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
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 → ]
Nunvember NYC
So, I recently re-formatted this site, and for whatever reason– I lost a significant amount of content. One of the missing posts listed the details about the Flying Nun 30th Events in NYC.So I will re-post the latest below. Here’s the latest: 11/8: Open Deck DJ Night at Daddy’s Bar, BK. Bring yr favorite... [ Read More → ]