Things Were Different Then
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
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SSB Celebrates 50 Years
SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA
A Sonic Architecture of Experimental Performance and Sound
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.
Some Serious Business and Site Santa Fe Present: 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
SSB and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Present “We Started a Nightclub”
Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
Save the Ugly Music Festival
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
Incentivizing Humans to Think More Critically About Our Relationship With the Environment
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.
BOOK TALK: Village Preservation
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
Finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s “The Electronic Lover” Premieres
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
Pyramid People Podcasts
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…