We’re pleased to host two unique artists on Plaza Blanca this Summer. Both offer an opportunity for Some Serious Business to reconnect and collaborate with artists we worked with in the past who continue to comment on the human condition.
Interruption is stress; it hinders creativity. For a writer in the midst of deep thought, it’s a shock to the system. You have to go back and start over. Ideas get lost.
Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to present “Izhar Patkin: The Making of The Black Paintings.”
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.
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.
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.
Vomit-colored curtain | A little ripped | No air | Cameras | Screen behind the judges | The killers’ combed white heads
Paul Pinto takes on six of SomeSeriousBusiness’s #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.
FeMaLe GEniUs will appear in Albuquerque on August 1 and in Santa Fe on August 3.
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.
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.
