SSB AWAY TUSCANY RESIDENCY RESCHEDULED FOR THE FALL
On a 40-acre working olive oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, SSB and artist Carey Maxon offer artists a tranquil sanctuary.
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Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction*
As Creative Consultants for Howl! Happening, SSB works with a talented group of people who are artists and innovators in their own right. We’re happy to showcase two members of that multi-dimensional team.
SSB AWAY: Residency at Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu
In a rugged desert environment in northern New Mexico, SSB AWAY offers a 2-week residency on Plaza Blanca (“the white place”), memorialized in countless paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Edificio Mercurio – A New Poem by Ariana Reines
Vomit-colored curtain | A little ripped | No air | Cameras | Screen behind the judges | The killers’ combed white heads
#FIFTYQUESTIONS: Paul Pinto on Sincerity, Coffee, Loss, Joy, and Being a Shape-Shifting Space Creature
Paul Pinto takes on six of SomeSeriousBusiness’s #FiftyQuestions.
CHRISTEN CLIFFORD ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
My work really shifted after my daughter was born ten years ago. I was walking down Bedford in Brooklyn and a young woman stopped me on the street to compliment me on a performance she had seen me do. [That’s when] I realized my audience was mostly younger women.
SSB Presents FeMaLe GEniUs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe
FeMaLe GEniUs will appear in Albuquerque on August 1 and in Santa Fe on August 3.
2019: FEMINIST ARTIST CHRISTEN CLIFFORD COMES TO PLAZA BLANCA
Some Serious Business is pleased to host multidisciplinary artist, writer, mother, professor, and curator Christen Clifford as part of SSB AWAY’s artist-in-residence program in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
MICHIE GLEASON ANSWERS A DOZEN OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
As Michie starts her residency in Tuscany, we asked her to answer a few of our signature #FiftyQuestions that probe the intentions, emotions, and practices of artists, writers, and thinkers.
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.
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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The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.
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