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.
Cultural Commentator Anthony Haden-Guest fills us in on his creative process, the art world, and his sense of humor in this episode of our signature #FiftyQuestions.
Presenting two free events for the community to meet SSB Away artists Elæ Moss and Amy Hills.
Amy answers some of our #FiftyQuestions and shares her music and journey from broke, single, pregnant, east village musician to Southern, suburban wife and mother of three with a new album.
Thought-leader Elae Moss speculates on human, institutional and ecological systems through the iteration of open-source strategies for social change.
SSB launches But Seriously—a benefit print series featuring artists that use humor to shine a light on the cultural, political, and emotional temper of our times.
Yoga teacher Deborah Wolk and artist Kim Reinhardt investigate the relationships between the structure of the human nervous system and the energetic systems of the natural environment in this collaborative SSB Away residency and book project.
SSB is proud to showcase a new exhibition by Evans, who was 2018’s SSB Away artist in residence in Tuscany, Italy for 3 weeks.
Composer, performer, and improvisor Mariel Roberts embarks upon an SSB Away artist residency in Hawaii where she’ll work on a new solo piano piece commissioned by New York based pianist Conor Hanick.
We’re pleased to share this article in Hyperallergic about the influence of Alternative Spaces in 1970s LA. Founded at the height of the Conceptual 70s and LA Punk, in 3 short years, SSB presented close to 50 performances and events with wide-ranging creators—many at the earliest stages of their careers.
SSB is proud to support the immersive music video cantata “Whiteness: Part One” by Paul Pinto + Kameron Neal.