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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.
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.
Carey Maxon reveals her artistic intentions in #FiftyQuestions to celebrate the publication of her lithograph No no, Non Sola Sola in SSB’s But Seriously benefit print series.
SSB is pleased to present Trey Speegle’s answers to some of our #FiftyQuestions in honor of the publication of his lithograph in SSB’s “But Seriously” benefit print series. “New Happy Now still holds up for me,” he says. It’s one of those ubiquitous phrases I employ in my work.”
Karen Finley talks about humor and joy of being alive.
SSB Publishes 3 new lithographs by artists Karen Finley, Trey Speegle and Carey Maxon in the But Seriously benefit print series.
Virtual screening of Tipping Point documents eye-witness footage and perspectives of local protesters, police, activists, live-streamers, historians, and civil rights advocates.
SSB is proud to announce the NYC Premiere of Street Heroines by director Alexandra Henry on September 14th at the Nitehawk Cinema. Second show added on Sept. 20th.
SSB is pleased to welcome Canadian documentary filmmaker and media artist Jennifer Abbott and to present her visionary thoughts and personal recollections in our #FiftyQuestions series.
On Saturday, August 20th , SSB and Únashay invites you to a screening of Jennifer Abbott’s prescient film, The Magnitude of All Things in collaboration with Únashay’s first Noria (grief) café.
Join us for a concert by SSB Away singer/songwriter Amy Hills as she shares her life’s transformative journey in words and music.