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.
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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.
Book Talk at CUNY
Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
“WE STARTED A NIGHTCLUB” BOOK EVENTS A VERITABLE LOVE FEST
More than 500 people came to the HA/HA opening and 350 more to the sold out Homecoming show celebrating “We Started a Nightclub.”
Some Serious Business Presents the Portland Theatrical Premiere of TIPPING POINT What The Portland Protests Tell Us About The State Of America Thursday June 15 / 8 PM / Alberta Abbey Filmmaker Q+A And Musical Performance by Mic Crenshaw TICKETS In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, the largest civil rights protest in recent…
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Lost Time to Abiquiu: SSB Away is pleased to host Lost Time, a Santa Fe based improvisational collective of Chris Joans, David Forlano, Edie Tsong, and Red Cell who use acoustic and electric sounds, vocalization, and text. They played at the Peaceful Sky benefit in Tucson, AZ and will perform at form and concept gallery in Santa Fe on March 25th.
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Curator, artist, arts facilitator, and musician Red Cell reveals his secret knack for ferreting out interesting and sub-rosa of “anything-is-permissible” talent.
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Interdisciplinary artist/writer Tsong explores her love of music, her creativity and her quiet joyous moments in our #FiftyQuestions series.
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Composer, saxophone player, and video artist, Jonas is like a whirling dervish of creativity and collaboration. Here, in our #FiftyQuestions series he talks about the concept of disambiguation of the creative mind (open mind), the value of criticism, and the central role of collaboration in his multivalent practice.
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A Santa Fe musician, and visual and performance artist, Forlano explores the permeable boundaries between the arts and the role of improvisation in his answer to our #FiftyQuestions.
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“Made right after Covid lockdown, my art gave me an opportunity to rejoice, grieve and sonically face impermanence via sounds and a Chicken Dance I’ve been performing for decades.”
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A New Year’s offering by urban shaman Donna Henes discovered in the SSB Collection at the Archives of American Art.
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Laurie Anderson letter from 1978 discovered while foraging in the SSB Collection at the Archives of American Art illustrates her wit and storytelling chops early in her artistic trajectory.
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