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I don't think I'm going to be in the city this weekend, but there are a few interesting things going on.
From the nonsense nyc mailing list...
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Touch and Go
Interactive art and live music event. Come and play! Over 30 NYC and international artists, musicians, and DJs will come together for one day. Interactive installations, video, affordable art (really, like the kind of cash you'll have in your wallet, not the "under $500" range, or some wack knockoff oil painting bazaar at a hotel in Jersey), small press books, and live electronic music and DJs.
Each artist has been commissioned to created an affordable artwork in multiples to be priced between $2-10, which will also be available at the event. Spit and Duct Tape Collective promotes accessible and affordable art.
94 9th Street, between 2nd Avenue and the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn
F,G trains to Smith-9th Street station
Noon to midnight; $5
http://www.spitandducttape.com/
New Maps of Hell
A group show of science fiction and futuristic art, curated by Randall Mastel and David Wolin. Featuring Micah Moses, Ryan Sanchez, Andrew Hunt, Donald O'Finn, Erik Stein, Bill Byrne, and Simon Jansen. Special performance by Alex McDonald, aka Paranoid Larry, at 9p.
M3 Projects Gallery
70 Washington Street, Suite 700, Brooklyn
7-10p; $free
info@mastelgallery.com
http://m3projects.org/
Loft show party
With charm school grads Shychild, plus Dynasty. a hypnotic tour de force, and Blarvuster, high-caliber musicianship celtic-metal-avant-pop, with bagpipes. Cheap libations.
76 Rutledge, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9p; $3
http://www.newsonic.com/directions.html
parinaz123@aol.com
XLR8R presents
The Living Magazine
Music: LFO, Rob Sonic, Crack W.A.R., Mathematics, JT Donaldson and Tim Shumaker, DJ Language, Lindsey, Duane, James F%#$^@* Friedman, DJ Anna. Live Painting: David Choe. VJs: Honeygun Labs, Esquared.org, Quanteye, Werkaround
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street, Manhattan
9p-4a; $10
http://www.xlr8r.com/ten
Newyorkfuckincity
Afrika Bambaataa, TC Izlam, Pal Joey, Onionz, Chris Love, Billy Belmont, Sleepyface, Boo, DB, Greg Poole, Kech, Drae 192, Bagel, Mariano Airaldi, Alex Itin, As1, Skribblz, Serf, Mint, Ted-E, Funk Taxi 1533, Ursula M, Jeremy Paskell.
Lunatarium
10 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
10p-6a; $free, but you must RSVP to sebastian@dumboluna.com to attend
http://www.lunatarium.com
Sex-tember
A benefit for Collective Unconscious to save the space. Hosted by Gecko and Will Lee, other Art Stars performing include: Missy Galore, Sara Delphine, Big Mike, Maux Faux, Carmen Mofungo, an all girl accordion band, Boni Joi, Velocity Chylld of Vulgaras, Porno Jim, Katherine Chronis' Naked films, a video mix by Feedbuck Galore, and a special sneak preview of Joe Gallant¹s Butt Bong Water Babes. You won't want to miss that!
Collective Unconscious
145 Ludlow Street, between Ludlow and Stanton, Manhattan
8p; $10
212 254 5277
http://www.weird.org
Deep Dish Cabaret
Variety show with eight performers. Featuring Zeroboy, Magic Brian, Neal Medlin, and Reverend Jen.
675 Hudson, buzzer 3N, at 14th Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan
9p-2a, first set 10:30p, second set midnight; $10
21 and over
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
StareMaster
Film screening and contest.
StareMaster (documentary, 2003)dramatizes to absurdity the final night in a weeklong tour by the StareMaster project, a live-action game show in which combatants attempt to stare one another down through a barrage of distractions. The action unfolds in the sleepy southern town of Pensacola, Florida, where the filmmakers follow eight participants as they compete against one another for the title of StareMaster2002. With a deadpan sense of seriousness and purpose, the film delivers a riotous critique of popular entertainment. Without resorting to heavy-handed polemics, it calls into question the increasingly arbitrary distinction between spectators and the spectacle.
"The film is about watching, what watching means, and as such, it gets to the very heart of cinema. It's also very funny." -- Rick Moody
Pianos
158 Ludlow Street, Manhattan
7:30p; $5
212 505 3733 x 3
countercommons@hotmail.com
http://www.pianosnyc.com
http://www.staremaster.com
I Am Not a Freak Show
The enigmatic I Am Not a Freak Show is something of an anomaly in today’s politically-correct theater world. The show began its life in 1998 when Missouri philanthropist Randolph James Miller was literally moved to tears by a performance (by future cast member Kevin Kip Nevin) in a passing sideshow and saw the possibility of creating a new kind of performance: one part confessional, one part therapy, with a dash of drama and comedy. He teamed up with practicing drama therapist Don Purgin, forming the HEAL Therapy Program with a handful of afflicted volunteers. The first performances were held in April, 2002 at the Westport Coffee House Theatre in Kansas City, MO.
Described as the first show to actually give voice to the thoughts and opinions of the mesmerizing people we commonly call freaks, the I Am Not a Freak Show takes the idea of the traditional carnival freak show, turns it on its head, then reflects its twisted fun-house mirror image back at a voyeuristically curious audience. The result is a cross between the social monologues of Spalding Grey and Todd Browning’s 1932 movie Freaks.
Each of the seven cast members suffer from various birth defects or diseases. This physically compelling cast of freaks are afflicted with such physical deformities as Proteus Syndrome, Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism, Elaphantisis, Cushing’s Syndrome, Phocomelia, Scoliosis, and Idiopathic Neoplastic transformation of the mouth.
The PIT Theater
154 West 29th Street, Manhattan
8p; $15
Continues SUNDAYS through October 26
http://www.iamnotafreakshow.com |
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