THE ARTIST ALWAYS COMES FIRST

Artists have always been in the forefront of social and cultural innovation—and active instigators of change. SSB is a hub for resources to incubate, germinate, and present new projects. Consulting on strategies to support the artist’s ultimate vision for their work, SSB’s supple approach is meant to bolster the creative process. Rather than “bricks and mortar,” SSB exists in a space of limitless imagination and possibilities. SSB Away residencies and a network of sites, environments, partners, and virtual platforms encourage artists to look inside and beyond conventional choices in production, outcomes, and audiences.

SSB presents culminating productions of new performances, works in progress, and intimate, focused interludes and salons that foster dialogue about the intersection of art and social practice, and the artist’s role as a catalyst for evolution: internal, societal and political. SSB broadens the audience for artists’ work through promotion that is intrinsically aligned with artists’ values.

Liveness is prized. Knowledge and understanding rooted in direct experience is the connection we cherish.

SSB PRESENTS

Founded at the height of the Conceptual 70s, Some Serious Business incubates emergent expression in the arts, germinates intrepid new works and ideas, and presents diverse projects that celebrate audacity, experimentation, and surprise. Our core artist-driven programs and partnerships are both catalysts and sanctuaries that sustain visionary creators and thought-leaders.

Based on the principle that the artist always comes first, SSB supports hybrids and chimeras that traverse performance, literature, theater, dance, visual art, moving image, music, architecture and design, social practice, and fields of unforeseen possibilities.

Guided by eggheads and free spirits who value collaboration, SSB is as much about process as outcomes. From the ridiculous to the sublime, SSB revels in the creative process—embarking with artists and fellow travelers to explore the puzzles, mysteries, messiness, challenges, dialogue, and peak experiences along the way.

ONGOING

PAST

Book Talk: Village Preservation

Finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s “The Electronic Lover” Premieres

Book Talk at CUNY

A PYRAMID HOMECOMING at Baker Falls

Opening Reception at Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive

Sola Bamis: Salon Performance

Lost Time Collective Comes to Abiquiu

Noria Cafe Screening: “The Magnitude of All Things”

Amy Hills in Concert

DDAT IN CONCERT

¡Estas invitado!

GIVING TUESDAY

Kenny Fries, SSB Away 2020 Tuscany Artist in Residence

Steve Jansen’s Sick-Ass Techno

Elegy for Jean Genet

SSB Presents FeMaLe GEniUs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe

SSB and Corpus Arts presents
Christen Clifford, Liz Howdy and Emily Hutchings

SSB Celebrates Stonewall with Two Events @ Howl! Happening

Scooter LaForge Homo Eruptus

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Tenemental (With Sighs Too Deep for Words)

SSB AWAY HOSTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SAM ROSNER IN ABIQUIU, NEW MEXICO

NORTHERN YOUTH PROJECT’S GARDEN OPEN HOUSE & SALSA CONTEST | ABIQUIU

Chris Tanner Here’s Looking at You

SSB PRESENTS THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF CLEMENT HIL GOLDBERG’S SATIRE OUR FUTURE ENDS

Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat

Northern Youth Project Plant Sale & Seed Exchange

Mad fabulous cabaret performance of Our Future Ends at the Stud

Epilogue for Our Future Ends: Justin Ebrahemi Interviews Clement Hil Goldberg

Comrade Truebridge | An Artist-to-Artist Salon

NOT THE SAME OLD SHIT: #SSB HOSTS A REUNION PARTY IN L.A.

SSB AWAY RESIDENT ARTIST KRISTOFOR GIORDANO OPEN STUDIO IN ABIQUIU

NORTHERN YOUTH PROJECT’S HARVEST BRUNCH

JOHN KELLY and JOSEPH KECKLER TO PERFORM AS CLOSING OF LOVE AMONG THE RUINS

Love Among the Ruins: 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s New York Coming to Howl! Happening in September

Jackie Curtis’ Glamour, Glory and Gold A Staged Reading Directed by Brian Butterick

Panel Discussion with Bill Stelling, Alex Fiahlo, Kimball Higgs, Mary-Ann Monforton, Adam Rolston, Barbara Braathen, and David Pace

HOWL! HAPPENING Presents PIERRE HUYGHE SLEEPTALKING (D’APRÈS SLEEP)

CASTING CALL FOR THE LEAD IN GLAMOUR, GLORY AND GOLD

SSB Presents | FORGET ABOUT THAT SWEET FUCK BABY: A tribute to Arleen Schloss at Howl! Happening

LYDIA LUNCH and UMAR BIN HASSAN | NO WAVE OUT | With Don Babatunde, Tim Dahl, Shaun Kelly, and Weasel Walter

LYDIA LUNCH | Dust and Shadows at Meow Wolf

Quintan Ana Wikswo & Arthur Kell | Madrid Hungers | October 25 at Madrid General

NEVER RECORDS AMMAN JORDAN: CULTURE NOT CONFLICT | Ted Riederer

LITERARY INTERLUDE |With Authors BETT WILLIAMS & ARTURO VIDICH | August 23, 7-9 pm

BLACK NIGHT, BLACK KNIGHT | Mike Tyler

STREET HEROINES | Fundraising Event |April 26,2016

SO REAL IT HURTS: Lydia Lunch

THE HOPE OF FLOATING HAS CARRIED US THIS FAR| Quintan Ana Wikswo

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