When I first met Arleen, I was little known outside of what I had exposed of myself within the downtown art scene of Lower Manhattan. I was a Black queer kid stalking Buster Cleveland and living with Tim Greathouse, my roommate. As I grew into some renown and celebrity in the 80s, as co-director of…
After presenting at our most recent Comrade Truebridge Santa Fe, SSB asked Marya a few questions. SSB: How do you describe your field and what you do, and how does it interconnect? MEJ: I am a performing artist. I create works of theatre that come from my dreams and curiosities. I work in politics for a living but even…
Above: Stephen Sprouse, photo by Mark Sink Love Among the Ruins A Short History of 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s NY Presented by Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project September 9–October 6, 2017 Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and…
HOWL! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project Gallery | Performance Space | Archive “Paying homage to both the old and new, the gallery can sometimes feel like a heady party…the shows also prove that the East Village isn’t dead.” —Michael Musto, The New York Times, March 9, 2016 Since its inception in March 2015, Some Serious Business…
Please support this incredible duo so they can continue making the essential work they produce. CLILCK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION About Dignidad Rebelde Dignidad Rebelde is a graphic arts collaboration between Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. We believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions. Following the principles…
Hey Santa Fe Comrades, SSB will be hosting another Comrade Truebridge on February 21st.Our upcoming presenters are Marya Errin Jones and Warren Montoya. Please let us know if you are interested and we will add you to our mailing list, contact Matthew Contos at matthew@someseriousbusiness.org if you would like to join us. For our NYC comrades, stay…
At first blush, Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan make for strange bedfellows. She’s the matriarch of the short-lived no wave scene, having scandalized and negated punk-era Manhattan with the jarring dissonance and minimalist caterwaul of her late-’70s band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In a few eventful years, she evolved from an adolescent malcontent…
Some Serious Business generously afforded me the opportunity to escape the city and to ponder life in the desert for two weeks. I am so grateful to Susan Martin, Quintan Ana Wikswo and Matthew Contos for choosing me to participate in SSB Away and their gracious welcome. I also thank Alex for allowing me to…
Hello from Rachel Levitsky at Podere Mallabiccia, Petroio, Italy, SSB’s first Tuscany Residency I choose this one above of the many photos I’ve take to begin to tell about the wonders of the casina at Malabiccia. I don’t like describing what is better being seen or as I wanted to write on a post on Instagram (I’m at…
THE ARTIST ALWAYS COMES FIRST Your gift supports audacious, intrepid, and visionary artists’ works DONATE NOW Some Serious Business has a 40-year legacy as a unique and vital force that incubates emergent expressions in the arts, germinates new works and ideas, and presents diverse projects that traverse performance, literature, theater, dance, visual art, moving…
Inspired by “We Started a Nightclub,” Alison Pearlman unpacks the elements that go into making radical moments that transform the course of cultural history.
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA
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.
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
Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
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.
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
