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This weekend some rad folks threw a clandestine box truck party at a secret location. Everyone made really cool environments in their box trucks. Laura and Robyn made a campfire box truck and I presented some of the stories that Todd Chandler and I collected and edited with audio selects from the inimitable Annea Lockwood.
Check out her sound map of the Hudson River: http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd2081.html
You can hear some more of the stories we recorded while floating with the Miss Rockaway Armada in 2006 and 2007 down the Mississippi River here: http://thebirdinmyheart.com/2009/01/storyboat/
Here’s a video of Miss Rosa Sparks’ story at the event. Very dark!
Much of the crew has created art pieces for this retrospective of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima journey. If you’re in NYC, please join us Friday or come see the show until January 1!
UPDATE: Just listed in Time Out NY, Please RSVP to rsvp@anonymousgallery.com
Keeping it militaristic, a ragtag band of punk soldiers invades Anonymous Gallery after successfully taking Venice. Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima (169 Bowery between Broome and Delancey Sts; 646-238-9069, anonymousgallery.com; 6–9pm, free with mandatory R.S.V.P. to rsvp@anonymousgallery.com) is a retrospective of artist Swoon’s expedition across the Adriatic Sea. She sailed with 30 others on three DIY vessels from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, making a splash at the Venice Biennale.
PANKABESTIA
Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities
A retrospective of “Swimming Cities of Serenissima”
Anonymous Gallery 169 Bowery New York, NY
Opens Nov 20 6-9pm
As the 53rd Venice Biennale enters its last days and the world’s art community reflects, Anonymous Gallery, curator Spy Emerson and the artist SWOON provide a glimpse of what critic Jerry Saltz called “…The most moving moment I had at the Biennale…”
“Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” is a retrospective of artist Swoon’s “Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” her recent invasion of the Venice Biennale. Traveling from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy, Swoon and 30+ artists braved the waters of the Adriatic Sea and navigated a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels. Continue reading ‘PANKABESTIA OPENING: SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA CREW SHOW FRIDAY 11/20/09′
insane pillow fight, originally uploaded by antlered.
This was the most wonderful party dreamable. I’m so so amazed that Jeff was able to pull this off. Leave it to Jeff Stark and nonsensenyc.com. This pic is from the awesome pillow fight inside. Check out the rest of the pics here.
THE CREW HITS PHILLY: I LOVE YOU GUYS, originally uploaded by antlered.
Phillly this weekend for a Miss Rockaway Armada planning session. Pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/antlered/sets/72157622477436522/
me & rubes walking home, originally uploaded by antlered.
This was the best week ever because Rubin visited me from Canada and James and Seb were here from Wales on their way home. It’s good to have visitors because it gets you out of the house. On Monday Dark Dark Dark played at Zebulon and so many people I love to bits came through. Ben Mortimer and Kara Blossom even showed up fresh off the plane from Berlin. Yesterday was the first gathering of a new raft project. SO good to see everyone in one place. I even got to see Governor’s Island AND Katharine AND Laura AND Duncan. Governor’s Island has an amazing installation by Anthony McCall.
This was Dark Dark Dark’s encore of Trouble No More with everyone singing along:
Also, some very important squirrel-related updates HERE. Marc the squirrel man is verifying that he is indeed the feeder and friend of Columbia University squirrels, though there are some who would claim he is a liar. This would, however, be proven wrong as of late. Note the proof below:
AND:
From the creativetime.org website
Anthony McCall
Anthony McCall’s work encompasses three distinct sets of practices: the sculptural, the pictorial, and the cinematic. Consisting of two elegantly simple light projections, Between You and I expands on the two basic components of cinema-time and light-in order to create a spectacular, immersive environment. As the projected light beams slowly travel through mist, they begin to carve out sculptural shapes in space. The fields of light interact with one another, the visitors in the space, and the striking architecture of historic St. Cornelius Chapel. Though the two shapes never meet, they are in a constant play-suggesting that, like two human companions, they attempt to comprehend themselves in relation to one another.
I’m back in New York from an awesome float on the Swimming Cities of Serenissima and I took lots of pictures! Check them out here. In the time I was there we set out for Venice on the Adriatic Sea and got caught by the Bora, a crazy ancient wind that has been wrecking boats since time eternal and can blow up to 125mph. The video of Alice (the boat) getting through the waves doesn’t do it justice, but you can kinda see them getting tossed around toward the end of it.
MULTITUDES
Miracle of birth
XOM
Hess
Saturday, March 28
8:30
$free
Coco 66
(66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn)
Come to our final soiree before we cast off & and float on to Italy. With our ships already sent overseas, our build crew has transformed the triangular shaped Market Hotel into a party-boat complete with portholes, lines, and a crow’s nest. Last chance to snag some Serenissima designs from our live silkscreening table. Shimmering blue light disco magic courtesy Mr. Stachemaster. Earn your sea legs trying to keep afloat on our rocking ship.
Dance your way down with the drunken ship!
Bands (early!):
Ana Lola Roman
myspace.com/analolaroman
Liturgy
myspace.com/liturgynybm
Ladybabymiss
www.myspace.com/ladybabymiss
DJ’s (late!):
Dirty Finger -n- J. Stacheroni (Black Label, DANCE!! ATTACK!!)
www.myspace.com/djdirtyfingers
Doors at 8pm $5 until 9pm $10 after 9
MARKET HOTEL
1142 myrtle. BROOKLYN
www.myspace.com/markethotelnyc
More info about the project here:
www.swimmingcities.org/
the chicken hut party was insane! insane! there were a gazillion people there and i didn’t get home until 8am. thanks to conrad for organizing. he is pictured above.
it was a fun-filled evening of bartending. the place was trashed from top to bottom with one computer desk collapsed and one passed out guy getting written all over and having doyle’s rice spilled on his head. dj dirtyfinger and all the bands and DJs were awesome.
i am now sick from overdoing it.
Just had an amazing snowboarding trip to Sun Valley, Idaho! We mostly shredded Bald Mountain at Sun Valley and then on the way back to Boise airport went to Bruce Willis’ awesome Soldier Mountain. Check out my new friend Gabe skiing “the burn” the scorched backside of Bald Mountain. Notable memories: my new friends Ben and Zack from Detroit showing me how to make a “dirty ashtray” on a giant apres ski tecate at Apples bar; the guy with an idaho jobkiller tat on his neck; the fluffy halfpipe shaped runs on seattle ridge; explaining to a zillion semi-pro skiiers that no i am not looking for more vert, i am from the east coast where our double black runs are equivalent to your bunny hill covered in ice.
CONGRATULATIONS JEFF!
A wonderful piece on a show I don’t have a ticket to–anyone got an extra or wanna sell me yours?
In the Subway, Moving Theater, in More Ways Than One
Earl Wilson/The New York TimesThe longest-running theatrical production in New York — it runs from Brooklyn to Manhattan — premiered on Thursday night to rave reviews in subway stations around the city.
Proving that all the world’s a moving stage, a 30-member cast and crew spent a whirlwind winter’s night performing before captive audiences aboard subway trains that served as the combined setting for “IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations.”READ ON
Title: The Geoglyph: An evening of poetry presented by Fly By Night Press and Melville House
Location: Melville House Bookstore 145 Plymouth St, at Pearl St DUMBO, Brooklyn
Description: The Geoglyph
An evening of poetry presented by Fly By Night Press and Melville House
February 3, 7pm
Melville House Bookstore 145 Plymouth St, at Pearl St
DUMBO, Brooklyn
A book party and reading for The Geoglyph by Patrick Kosiewicz, with guest poets and discussion including:
Patrick Kosiewicz
Margarita Shalina
Jon Reeve
Erich Christiansen
Matvei Yankelevich
Free Event / All Welcome
Directions
The store is on Plymouth, between Jay and Pearl Streets, in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn.
By train: F to York; or A/C to High Street/Brooklyn Bridge.
From the York Street F station: Exit on to Jay, turn right and walk three blocks. Take a left on Plymouth and you\’ll find the store at the end of the block.
From the High Street/Brooklyn Bridge A station: Exit to Adams Street. Follow Adams toward the River to Pearl Street and take a left on Pearl Street. Walk 5 blocks on Pearl and you\’ll reach the bookshop.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-02-03
Photo by Antonia Wright
Check out this awesome article in nymag!
In the article the author claims that in a tanking economy people are increasingly turning to money-saving ways of partying, like partying at home.
Jennifer Baumgardner reads from “Abortion and Life”
Q and A to follow
Open Mic beforehand
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St (Just below Houson Between Stanton and Rivington)
F train to 2nd Ave
7pm
In Abortion & Life, author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner reveals how the most controversial and stigmatized Supreme Court decision of our time cuts across eras, classes, and race. Stunning portraits by photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill of folk singer Ani DiFranco, authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Gloria Steinem, and others accompany their elucidating accounts of their own personal abortion experiences.
In this bold new work, Baumgardner explores some of the thorniest issues around terminating a pregnancy, including the ones that the pro-choice establishment has been the least sensitive or effective in confronting.
Click here to order a copy of Abortion and Life
CHIEF BODEGA : 1089 BROADWAY : THURSDAY JANUARY 8TH
SO! Yesterday was my birthday. Tianna had a potlatching party and Arielle and Adina made a yummy pie cobbler thing and sang happy bday. Bobby Dangerously helped me move boxes all day into storage (a dreadful task I spent three days on) and gave me a ride to the party. I met new people! Rory gave me a ride to the Q train. A potlatching party is like a swap. Because I was moving stuff all day I had two goodwill bags ready to go so I just brought them to the party. Pictured above is Bobby wearing a seagreen shirt that Ellery found for me on the Mississippi river. AND! Jeremy helped me get the boots I really wanted with a discount AND Porter gave me new snowboarding pants for my bday! I am a lucky goose.
Below is some modeling of the jammies shirt by Nana gave me a few years ago and the sarong I’d used for a dance class in college:
here, james and amanda flank the gentleman who modeled a grey sweater i was given while organizing a tent city supply area on the west side highway for workers going into ground zero on september 11.
BONUS! Here’s a video of a band I’m completely in love with called WOODS playing ‘military madness’ at the closing party for the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
This band is just the best.
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