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.
Photo: Alexandra Henry and Swoon SSB is a proud supporter of Alexandra Henry’s Street Heroines. At the heart of this film is a fierce cry for gender justice. While recognizing the confluence of the patriarchy and structural racism in the world of graffiti and street art (and our world generally), the documentary celebrates the voices,…
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. 4- Describe your ideal workspace I have my ideal workspace. The first thing that I do when I get to my studio is to burn some “Gratitude” incense on my work…
SSB is pleased present Austė, a featured artist in the upcoming Love Among the Ruins Show at Howl Happening. The Vest Nectanebus—geomancer—the worst sort of Stinking heap—envious, good for nothing, Craves women, Riches, power. Has no way of making a living Except by the phrase, “Reveal your desires to God and Pray!” And, “Alas! I lost…
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. 11- What is your current guiding motivation to work and/or express yourself? Last week I opened Shadowtime, an exhibition titled after a word which I coined in 2016 with the Bureau…
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. 32- How has your years in artmaking affected or influenced your sense of self? I recently began to call myself an artist. I didn’t see my creative needs as something that…
Photo-credit for the polaroid goes to Jackson Foltz (aged 6) 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. 26- Is destruction a positive phenomenon for you? Destruction is a slippery word. Diamanda Galas recently described her process of reinterpreting…
Called an “American original” by The Daily Beast, Edie Meidav is the author of KINGDOM OF THE YOUNG (2017), a collection of short fiction with a nonfiction coda, and the novelsLOLA, CALIFORNIA (FSG) and CRAWL SPACE (FSG).
I was an unhappy biology teacher. At night I would come home and do nature and sci-fi drawings. I put up a pegboard A-frame at an art fair, and sold all of my drawings. I realized I was better artist than a teacher.
Photo credit: Josh Steinbauer 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. 19- Who has been your greatest mentor, living or dead, real or imaginary? I don’t think I could pick just one, and all of my arty heroes…
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…