2019: PAUL PINTO IS SSB AWAY
“SSB Away” is delighted to host composer, writer, and multi-disciplinary performer Paul Pinto for an artist residency this June on Plaza Blanca in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
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SSB PRESENTS OUR 2019 TUSCANY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: MICHIE GLEASON
Filmmaker Michie Gleason has been awarded SSB AWAY’s 2019 residency with a proposal to research a screenplay on the life of Balthus, the controversial artist, in Tuscany, where he experienced his deepest inspiration through the works of Piero della Francesca.
Happy Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti
On March 24 Howl! Happenings will celebrate the hundredth birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
#FiftyQuestions with Ahjo Sipowicz
Ahjo is a neuro different, gender queer, pansexual, elemental creature, residing for more than 25 years on Tewa land at O’gha Po’oge—White Shell Water Place—now called Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ahjo’s ancestors, primarily Lithuanian and Norwegian, migrated to the Chicago area.
A Shift in Perspective: Allison Evans on Her Residency in Tuscany
On a visit to MoMA last March, I paused inside a small room of De Chirico paintings. Surrounded by a suite of his mysterious compositions, I was struck by the specificity of the light—it was unmistakably Italian. The room itself felt like a much-needed escape from New York and triggered memories of my first experience…
2018: SAM ROSNER SSB AWAY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ABIQUIU, NEW MEXICO
SSB welcomes artist Sam Rosner for a two-week SSB AWAY artist residency in Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu, from October 13–27, 2018. Her project while in residence at the space (affectionately nicknamed The Mudball) responds to the trans-historical landscape of northern New Mexico, with a particular focus on the rock formations of Plaza Blanca, the cave dwellings…
HEATHER ACS MULTI-TASKS: STARRING IN OUR FUTURE ENDS AND DIRECTING FLU$H
The multitalented Heather Ács—who stars with Siobhan Aluvalot and Brontez Purnell in SSB’s co-production of the 2018 Outfest Platinum Centerpiece Our Future Ends by artist and filmmaker Clement Hil Goldberg—is also the director of Flu$h, a short film selected to be screened at this year’s Outfest. In Flu$h, Roxy, a high-femme punk, multitasks between a…
LET’S GO EXTINCT: BETT WILLIAMS ON CLEMENT HIL GOLDBERG
Clement Hil Goldberg has returned to my house in the Southwestern desert yearly to develop the hybrid art event Our Future Ends. I recall quite clearly when they sat lemur-like on my couch and explained how “lemur” is a word that means ghost. They were sitting with their knees to their chest, arms gesticulating wildly,…
ALLISON EVANS—AWARDED 2018 SSB AWAY TUSCANY RETREAT—ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
Some Serious Business is pleased to announce that artist Allison Evans has been awarded a three-week SSB AWAY Residency at Podere Malabiccia in Tuscany, Italy, this June. Evans received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City. Evans’s work has been exhibited at The…
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat Curated by Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, Mary-Ann Monforton and Howl! Happening Exhibition: May 13 – June 10, 2018
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to announce Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, a group exhibition focusing on the artists and scene around Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teen-aged, pre-fame years. Curated by Howl! Happening, Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, and Mary-Ann Monforton, Zeitgeist complements and amplifies the theatrical release of Sara Driver’s film BOOM…
As an Igbo-American sound and video artist, kelechi’s work recalibrates, dismantles, and animates the conventions of performance spaces, culminating in amplifies it, doubles, trebles it.
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kelechi agwuncha envisions and constructs a new framework for restaging sound artists through public activations—drawing on experimental spatial approaches found in genres like experimental music, disco, punk, and Jamaican dub
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Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
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SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
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Whether transforming textile waste into beautiful handmade paper and journals or walking across the US collecting litter and connecting with people and communities, Chauncey Foster, co-founder of We Grow Eco, is a visionary—facilitating interactive science, art, and community programs built upon small, unified actions that lead to habitual, social, and systemic change.
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July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
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The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
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In honor of the publication of “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It, co-author Kestutis Nakas talks with key players in the book who tell their stories recalling their friends and collaborators and the culture of the East Village in the early 80s.
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Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
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More than 500 people came to the HA/HA opening and 350 more to the sold out Homecoming show celebrating “We Started a Nightclub.”
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