Extreme Scenes: Where Hedonism and Artistic Radicalism Both Go for Broke by Alison Pearlman
Inspired by “We Started a Nightclub,” Alison Pearlman unpacks the elements that go into making radical moments that transform the course of cultural history.
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Things Were Different Then
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
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.
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,…
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…
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…
NYP PLANT SALE & SEED EXCHANGE Saturday, May 12, 2018 / 10 AM – 2 PM at the Northern Youth Project Garden, off of Highway 84 in Abiquiu, across from Bodes and behind the Rising Moon. Celebrate Spring with teens, families, and friends! Bring your seeds to exchange and share, and get a jump on…
Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. #FiftyQuestions was created especially for SSB by Quintan Ana Wikswo. “It is clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my…
Clement Hil Goldberg’s, Our Future Ends is a multidisciplinary satire about near-extinct lemurs and the long-lost continent of Lemuria. Our Future Ends connects the threat of wildlife extinction to the “wild life.” Visually stunning—with animation, music, and electrifying performances—this imagined queer prehistory links species loss with contemporary cultural shifts in a metaphoric and poetic live…
All I remember is Elizabeth repeating over and over again: “they’re so funny, they’re so funny.” Not all of us were into “funny.” But, as the name implies SSB was always at little irreverent, so respecting each other and trusting the artist, if one of us—SSB founders, Nancy Drew, Elizabeth Freeman or me—was excited, then…
33- What do you suspect is your most powerful artistic blessing? Or blessing in general? I have no fear when it comes to creating art. Not even a fear of failure, because I don’t believe that failure exists in art. If something doesn’t work the way I had envisioned, I see it as an opportunity…
Artists are always in the forefront of social and political innovation. In a world gone mad with commodification and greed, they are generous and unafraid—inspiring and goading us to have agency in the world. One such artist is Darryl Lorenzo Wellington. SSB is proud to highlight a poem from Darryl’s new book of poetry, Life’s Prisoners.