This SATURDAY on Oddities. The Science Channel. 9PM Record it and send it to me because I don’t have the channel. 1 min and 30 seconds of pure awesome entertainment. I will surprise you and wake you up with mystery.
On MAY 8TH 2013, centered in Washington Sq Park, the PEP (Parks Dept police) will be giving out an FAQ sheet describing in detail the rights (or lack of rights) of performers in all NYC Parks. The Parks Dept has assured performers there will not be any enforcement actions taken against them. Depending on what it says on this FAQ synopsis of the revised park rules, performers will have either officially won their rights or begun a new struggle to regain them.
Performers should make it their business to show up in Washington Sq Park in particular on May 8 in order to participate int his event. Please do not use amplification on this day. Bring a camera, tape recorder or video camera and use it. Sign this Petition and send it to ten people. Make people aware of May 8th. The Bloomberg Administration, just snuck this one up on us, so please share this petition, so it spreads like wildfire!!!!!
PETITION BY ROBERT LEDERMAN
Mayor Bloomberg and Parks Commissioner White: Repeal the park restrictions on performers, musicians and artists.
Artists, musicians and performers are exercising their basic First Amendment rights in parks. The expressive matter rules violate these rights. The US Supreme court has ruled that: “Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights and liberties of citizens.”
THE STORY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER,
includes links to articles, video and documents. Summarized by Robert Lederman.
4/16/13 – Parks Dept Lying About Performer Ban
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
5/1/13 Parks Department Can’t Get Its Story Straight
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
So today I decided I’m going to be consistent about going out on Union Square again. If my life is nothing else, at least I can be happy that I made people laugh, its simple. Life doesn’t need to be complicated anymore. I have made this choice.
This is the game that you thought you were in. Well it doesn’t matter if its a game or not. because love has no opposites. Now eat a cookie with me. We will share it to all the people. Yayyyyy cookies.
A. The artist.
B. The humanbeing
C. The One.
We are all meant to achieve our purpose. Life is short, in this amount of time, this is when you create everything you ever dreamed of. I’d say take it to the max in all directions of love. As silly as that sounds, its not silly. Love is a very real thing. Actually forget about love and just go into your heart. The heart chamber glows brighter when connections are being bounded. Everything in our lives is meant to be. There are infinite directions you can taken it, it doesn’t matter, relax. The only thing that matters is the heart and its health. Your heart is your game piece, it is also your survival. Me I use my heart everyday. and then I started to realize everybody uses their heart everyday. Your always using your heart. Use it to harness love and connections again. Wake it up like an ancient magic tool. YES I BELIEVE IN THE HEART!!!!! Wake the things up god damn it!!!! The TIME IS NOW!!!!!
MATTHEW SILVER’S GBM PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
-March 14, Thurs., 11pm
-March 28, Thurs., 9pm
-April 4, Thurs., Midnight
-April 20, Sat., 11pm
-May 2, Thurs., 10pm
-May 29, Wed., 9pm
-June 12, Wed., 11pm
-June 28, Fri., 8pm
You will be surprised, I finally got to the point where I can say, I’m good enough to be entertaining. So if you want a show that will scare you into laughter, I’m your man! Wink wink wink boing, Yatzeeeeee. It was me all along, The hairy Guy, here to help you understand the power of Enlightenment, and my Mashooganaaa!!!!!!!
Watch One of his performances HERE:
The Cocoon Project / CocoonNYC-
is a collaborative art endeavor that documents and performs the hand-crafted Cocoons with dancers, video projections, sound and music in site-specific performance-installations. CocoonNYC was created by Sherry Aliberti, an architect and performance artist based in New York City.The Cocoon Project creates interactive performance art and colorful temporary installations with the Cocoon. Performers use gestures, poses and noises to express ideas about form, shape and movement in space and memory. Utilizing sound, projections and fragrances, the experience is different every time. Influenced by Martha Graham and Ernesto Neto a fabric enclosure provides freedom for the performer/muse to become a morphing sculpture. Structurally, these postures represent a scale model of an architecture and materiality based on the forces of the body.
@CocoonNYC on twitter
Allison Brainard is an artist working mainly in performance and sometimes in video. She has been focusing on developing a process of structured improvisation that allows for performers to make independent choices within a given set of parameters. She is looking for collaborators and you should email her.
Www.cargocollective.com/allisonbrainard
2 Shea -
Normally found in the tropical region of Florida. Unknown origin. Member of the Non Grata performance collective. Member of Thank you, Illegal Trouble, Young Rectums. Performed in NYC, Brooklyn, Florida. Fond of pizza, palm trees, and DMT.
Ouija -
Ouija began life as a normal Floridian earthling until her parents bartered her off to an alien hive mind (based out of Brooklyn, NY) for scientific research where they taught her how to knit beer koozies and grow hallucinogens. She managed to escape the mothership and joined the Non Grata performance collective and is now a professional slacker.
Nathaniel Sullivan -
makes performances in the guise of lectures, tours, and seminars that satirically address contradictory meanings embedded in popular culture. He has tackled subjects as varied as former French president Francois Mitterrand’s last meal, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain’s sex life and banker Jamie Dimon’s letters to his estranged wife. Most recently, he has been staging performances within existing spectacles, like a seminar in the back of a limousine driving around Wall Street, and a one on one performance at an NBA game.
He was a recipient of the special mention prize at the Montreal Film Festival, a recipient of the Jack Long award from the National Film Board of Canada, a festival prize at the FilmWinter in Stuttgart, Germany and an audience award at The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. He has presented works at CONFLUX festival, Flux Factory, and Art Connects New York. His recent work has been written about on Hyperallergic. www.nathanielsullivan.net
Whitney Hunter -
I am an artist who consistently questions the purpose and function of art. I have a genuine interest in hybrid forms and works that cross artistic boundaries. Working from a Shape (the rediscovery of perception) philosophy, I am engaged in creating live performance and mediated works based in the act of ritual as a medium of artistic expression towards the ignition of the imagination through contemplation.
My African American heritage, African diasporic identity, and spiritual beliefs provide a context for my work, and facilitate my role as an artistic medium. My performance works are ceremonial in nature and have an intention towards the construction of new tradition and rituals. My body is the object, material, and site utilized to physically explore and experiment with socio-cultural issues.
I am truly a seeker and a wanderer in constant search of my primal identity, and my contemporary art practice is with the effort towards exploring the transformative potential of art. http://whitneyhunter.com/
Hector Canonge -
is an artist based in New York City. His work incorporates the use of New-media technologies, physical environments, cinematic and performative narratives. In his work he explores and treats issues related to construction of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration. His performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes as well as the interaction with the public. Canonge’s visual arts projects and performance art work have been presented in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Exhibitions to his credit include: GAYLERIA (2011), ABSENCE at Queens Museum of Art (2010), BABEL at Space 37 (2010), FRAMING AIDS – Positive I (2008) for Queens Media Arts Development, and Queering Bodies for VISUAL AIDS (2007). He organizes the monthly artists’ program A-LAB Forum at Crossing Art Gallery, directs the monthly independent film series CINEMAROSA, and organizes ITINERANT, the annual Festival for Contemporary Performance Art in New York City. Canonge’s work has been reviewed by The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, Hispanic Magazine, by major networks ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, UNIVISION, etc., and by online art publications such as Art Experience NYC, NYRemezcla, Turbulence, ART CARDS Review, NYFA Classifieds, and HYPERALLERGENIC among others. After living for seven months in various regions in South America -where he created and exhibited a new body of work- Canonge returned to the USA this past February to start working on LAB.ORAL, his Franklin Furnace Award 2013 project, and to present new works at various venues and programs in New York City. More information: www.hectorcanonge.net
Jon Konkol -
His transgressive work seeks to open road windows with questions, as opposed to closing ladder doors with answers. He lives in Brooklyn. Go there; knock on his door and you’ll see. JK has performed at University of Cincinnati. Museum gallery gallery museum, semantics gallery, 424 gallery, blue gallery, and fountain square. Panoply Performance Lab, English Kills Art Gallery (unauthorized), and participates regularly at Grace Exhibition Space. He also performs in the streets and transit lines
Courtney Leigh Novak - “I experience life through emotion, I remember the past based on smell and the mood. Creating new moments consciously, constantly, while playing a synopsis of all that came before back silently for only my eyes, behind my eyes. I insist on connection and on commonality, I relinquish all roles I agreed to unconsciously in some other life I lived before I was the me I am now awake to be. I am noticing our differences & dancing with the devils within all of us. I am enjoying my human-form in all of it’s fallibility. I am on my way and I am here. I am en route to this primordial animal place where we all admit to our shit and our blood and our beauty and we are still as love.”
Esther Neff - is the founder and co-director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), a space on 104 Meserole and a flexible collective organized with Brian McCorkle to make durational and collaborative performance art operas. Framing performance as acts of theorization, Esther’s performances realize social and relational structures, involve analogic use of found materials, and emphasize conflicts between the material body and its cognizing selfhood(s). She has most recently performed at Culture Fix, IV Soldiers Gallery, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics, Gowanus Ballroom, and Glasshouse Gallery in NYC, in Chicago at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery and MANA Contemporary. As a curator/organizer, her projects include PERFORMANCY FORUM platform for performance art, the LUMEN Festival on Staten Island, and the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) currently in the works for July 2013. www.panoplylab.org/estherneff
Florence Nasar - is a nyc-based choreographer/dancer/performance artist originally from the jersey shore. She studied dance and creative writing at Hunter College, where began creating and performing in multiple student and repertory works. She has recently collaborated with artists Fortune Chalme, Ariel Krupnik, Sandra Levykh and Marti Flicker. Currently, she is interested in exploring Judaism and Feminism through performance – taking movement from her cultural & religious upbringing and questioning ideas of ritual, invisibility, and space.
Christen Clifford - has performed at Joe’s Pub, SoloNova, PS 122, HERE, Classic Stage Company, Irondale, cultureproject, and on The Moth mainstage. Her work has also been seen at Bushwick SITE fest, Grace Exhibition Space, Postmasters Gallery and the Itinerant Festival. She is a core member of the NO WAVE PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE. Her solo about maternal sexuality, ”BabyLove” premiered at the Mesto Zensk festival in Ljubljana and won Best of Fringe at The San Francisco Fringe Festival, and the Audience Award at the NYFF, and was named a Critic’s Pick by New York Magazine and Time Out. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Smith Magazine, the Huffington Post and Truthdig. She won a NYFA for Nonfiction writing, is a Visiting Professor of Performance Art at SUNY Purchase in Spring 2013, curates Experiments and Disorders at Dixon Place, was an interpreter in Tino Seghal’s This Progress at the Guggenheim and is the mother of Felix and Vera and partner to Ken. Find her at http://christenclifford.tumblr.com/ and @cd_clifford
Katie Donut is a Brooklyn-Based performance artist who pushes personal boundaries to communicate (both her experience with and reaction to) mental illness, along with the social stigma of it. Often toying with masculinity-versus-femininity, in pieces ranging from lighthearted and comedic to dark and masochistic, Katie Donut hopes to open up dialogue about mental illness in order to initiate and reinforce the bond between the “mentally ill” and the “healthy” members of the community.
Baxton Alexander – Although a harpsichordist and musicologist by training, Baxton Alexander’s primary focus is the art of story telling. Whether traditional or experimental, rational or absurd, he often expands narrative beyond the aural fixation – He often includes tactile elements, visual developments, sometimes you can smell it, sometimes you can taste it.
Hilary Sand - Hilary Sand is an artist, writer, and theorist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Sand relocated to New York to study Arts Politics at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2010, where, under the mentorship of Karen Finley, her work focused on gender and identity construction and she was awarded her M.A. in 2011. In New York, Sand’s work has been shown at Dixon Place, the Affordable Arts Fair, Concrete Utopia, Grace Exhibition Space, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics, and on various streets throughout the city.
Kris Grey/Justin Credible -
My current projects investigate the transition and translation of experience
into history and vice versa. I am particularly interested in
inter-generational trauma, masculinity and vulnerability. My body is often the object of my work as well as the vehicle for its display. Performance is the tool I most often employ to make visible that which usually remains
shadowed, to challenge power dynamics between surveyor and surveyed, and to produce new models of being and doing gender in the world.
These live and performance works contend with the past and the present in the gallery, theater, and public space.
Kris Grey/Justin Credible is a gender queer artist whose work combines strategies of communication, activism, community building, education, lecture, and studio production in mediums two dimensional, three dimensional, and time based.For upcoming performances, lectures, and events visit
Every other Wednesday 2/27, 3/13, and 3/27 (9-11)pm
Circus of Dreams is a showcase of exciting & exhilarating, strange & sexy performance artists. Straddling lines of classification, blurring boundaries between dream and nightmare, entertainment and Art, every other Wednesday night at Bizarre in Bushwick, BK featuring four new artists each time plus titillations from the endlessly titillating, Matthew Silver.
Courtney Leigh Novak – Sanguine SorceressCourtney Leigh Novak is a sorceress and a multi-media artist exploring within her work issues of relationship, connection, sexistential crisis, mind-spirit-body-earth balance, transcendence, humor, and death, often through a feminist lense. She brings varied life experience to her work, having worked as an Residential counselor with adults of differing abilities, Organic vegetable farmer, Stripper, Nanny, Holistic Health Coach, Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, and Reiki practitioner. She brings language in the form of spoken, sung or written word to her performance as well as ritual, movement and costume. She receives visions and is excited and grateful to share them.
AKA James Blonde from Jugger-nut. Ladies and Gentlemen, a man who has no boundaries. Lays on glass, stick nails up his nose, lets people staple him with a staple gun. Wacks a mouse traps on his tongue. And makes animal balloons. Variety performer, comic book artist, comedian and musician.
A translator and performer from New York City. She has performed in vaudevilles, stairwells and theaters from Oregon to Eastern Europe. Her work is inspired by ventriloquism and the Puerto Rican Day parade. A book of her love poems for abandoned lots, entitled Vacant Love, was recently published by Power Plant Press.
Adam Ende – Quixotic Puppet Show Maker
Adam’s Jawbone Puppet Theater is proud to present “Genesis, Chapter 38,” the story of poor Onan. What’s this? You’ve never heard of Onan? That’s because his story is too embarrassing for the sunday school set. In this short, educational piece, our potty-mouthed biblical scholar lectures about patriarchal biblical lineage, telling the story of what happens to one man who rejects that lineage and takes matters into his own hand, as it were. Funny, dirty, scholarly, and short–what more can you ask? Be forewarned–this show contains scenes of graphic puppet on puppet sex, extreme wrath of god, and violence. www.adamende.com ”What are you wearing? Why a cape with your pants tucked into your socks?”
Rush Aaron Hicks The world’s most extreme contortion, fire eating/spitting, sword swallowing, bed of nails, glass dancing, human blockhead, human pin cushion, burlesque, boylesque, tarot card readings and many many other acts and stunts of pure madness!
Georgio Carpet
Matthew Silver
Erik Hokanson
Darlinda Just Darlinda
Heeran LeeYoo
Davon Rainey
Jill McDermid
Lopi LaRoe
Hiroshi Shafer
The Ending
The people gather, they are collaborating to create the Cosmic Narf NOoop
Village Idiot Matthew Silver DECLARES The Brain an illusion!!!
Killy Killer Dwyer shows us why we’re all becoming robots, Smart phones are just the beginning.
Solomon the Peculiarist does magic behind a newspaper. She’s probably up to no good.
Uniska Whala Kano brings confusion to the audience. Using the power of Boo Juuu. She’s a superhero.
Uniska brings it wacky style with Jacob Cohen on cello.
Master Lee Enlightens the audience with his two crazy compadres.
Amazing amy takes us into a world of crazy Contortion. Called Yogi – Idiot!
She makes farting sounds with Matthew Silver!!!!
Cal Folger Day brings us into a deeper meaning of Music Romance!!!
Johnny Bizarre gives us lips!
Photo taken by Ken Yapelli
Matthew Silver has been performing @ Union Square, Astor Place and Washington Square Park as the Village Idiot, getting people to act silly. You may have heard about him on the Gothamist, Timeout NY, The Village Voice, Brooklyn paper and Papermag or infamous sites like diehipster and Normalbobsmith. Just recently he made his TV debut on Discovery’s Science Channel show called Oddities and now he’s ready to perform at Dixon Place.
Matthew Silver plays an enlightened idiot that has nothing to teach anybody, except the moment, he makes fun of the brain for being too serious, for creating polarities, dualities, causing some humans to have mental breakdowns and forget about love. It’s interactive performance art meant to make people laugh by creating awkward moments, emphasizing the present moment and how important it is. He parodies excessive seriousness by playing with taboos, rules, and social norms. His inspiration comes from his heart. He performs for smiles and laughter, loosening people’s armor, and opening up a portal for imagination, creativity and love.
The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during and after the show for drinks.
A documentary About my work @ Washington Square Park, Created by Faulkner Allocco. Very well done and entertaining.
Monthly Performance Art Show. Last Sunday of the Month @ Muchmore’s!!!
Boundaries between Audience and Performer will be CONFUSING. Vulnerable states will be PRESENT. The performer’s arsenal, FEAR, LOVE, LAUGHTER, Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Raptors
Matthew Silver MCs
This Month’s MARKS:
Myk Henry - His performance work often requires the participation of the public. Henry considers it important that both the artist and spectator be directly involved in the questioning process. He is especially interested in the thin divide between public and private space and through his live work he investigates the gauge of this boundary.
Felix Morelo - Performance Artist, Sculpture, painter and street artist. He creates chalk faces all around Union Square, East Village and other spots. Hundreds to thousands!!! For casual admirers and fans of Morelo’s work alike, his chalk faces are often a source of amusement and encouragement. His performances usually display a manic sense of humanity. Come “love me! I love you!” and then “I hate you!! Go away!” Very typical of moody New Yorkers.
David Lagaccia - David researches and writes about performance art as a journalist in New York City. He also practices it having had performances at Glasshouse, Grace Space, Panoply Performance Laboratory and as a member of the Estonian based performance art group Non-Grata @ Art Basil in Miami, part of the 2012 Fountain Art Fair. His interests lie in the failure of communication of an idea or intention between artist and viewer, and the failure to communicate through action, text or speech from person to person.
- “When I see that someone is affected or changed by the kind of communication that happens between performers and audience in a dance. It brings me joy to throw my body around, be off vertical and upside down, move in every way possible, and it brings me joy to work hard on something and see it develop to the point where it can have a positive impact on the world, on the people around me.”
Miles Pflanx – Performance Artist, Experimental musician, and filmmaker. Part of the Fitness collective, we he curates art, performance and music. Pflanz’s work combines public action (dragging meat to Riker’s Island, going through garbage in search of clothes) with conceptual performance (stretching barbed wire through the audience, nailing fruit to a wall) and disturbingly well-planned and executed cinematography.
Meg Williams - Has just got her feet wet in performance Art. Her work makes fun of social isolation, communication through new technology, and pop-culture. Originally she has been doing Improv comedy and poetry.
Sindy Butz - Her art works are pure; fragile; perfectionist; sometimes radical and questioning. They have the ability to engage the audience and give an invitation to reflect, dream and hope. They also encourage thinking profoundly about morals and ethics in modern society. Some works show a spark of Humor or Sarcasm.
Muchmore sells coffee and drinks.
$3 Buds and Tecates
Check out last performance Heart HERE:
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Our mind plays a game. It always wants One answer to everything. Well the truth is you’ll never receive that one answer because it doesn’t exist. So knowing that you don’t know the answer, and that you’ll be ok being confused means you WON THE GAME!!! according to Matthew Silver, but if it was according to Bill Cosby, he might think I’m wrong. If I let that effect my mood, then I lost the game. If I don’t give two poops but everybody listens to Bill Cosby and not me. Well I don’t have any followers, but I still won the game, unless I need followers. Does Matthew Silver need followers???? Please answer that question on your own time.
Or just watch this video Clip of his last performance:
Matthew Silver was almost born on Valentine’s Day. He was born 30 minutes before midnight on the 13th. He found out he wasn’t born on Valentine’s day because the doctor gave his mother a pill to speed up the pregnancy. Matthew keeps on wondering what life would be like, but than realizes he should stop thinking because this is how it’s meant to be. This is how it’s always meant to be.
Watch His last performance HERE:
Matthew Silver, your Idiot Host!!!!! 
Is He teaching everybody about love again???
And then scaring everybody by throwing around a reindeer???? What an Idiot, pretentious, Performance Artist Hipster shmuck!!!!!
Watch Awesome Video to see How pretentious Matthew Silver really is!!!
A weird play on love. Mixed with dance and performance. Gabriel takes photos during his performance.
Watch as Intimacy……..
……………Ends up on the floor. Out of control!!!
A spontaneous performance.
With intense dramatic Reflections!!!!!
Lindsey demands everybody and everything come onto the other side of the room.
Then she goes into deep thought while the room quietly stares at her.
Then she Dances as everybody is squooshed on the stage.
Amber commences a witch ceremony.
She gets everybody to write on her body.
And then she finalizes the enchantment by light the candles of Enlightenment.
August stretches a metal tube throughout the room and has everybody hold it.
She drops a ball inside.
She initiates team work, everybody helps roll the ball to the other side of the metal tube.
The metal spiral gets tangled around August’s body. What a mess? Please somebody help this woman!!!!
Screams cheese.
Shows everybody a picture of cheese.
Sings about how cheese makes you crazy!!!!!
Until it becomes total CHEESE neurotic society 101
MIAO JIAXIN AND HEERAN YOO LEE
Whips Miao Jiaxin with a leather belt.
It leaves many scar marks on his back!!!
Heeran heals Miao by put beef all over his back.
Then serves the meat for everybody to eat. Yummy!!!!
Sometimes, all you need is stupid.
Performance artist Matthew Silver has honed his improvisational “village idiot” act — including headless rubber chickens and fart noises — on the streets for years, in hopes of getting Brooklynites to stop being so darn smart and just enjoy themselves.
“My show is about getting people to use their hearts more than their brains,” said Silver, whose regular appearances around the borough include performances at Goodbye Blue Monday, Muchmore’s, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Grace Space, IV Soldiers and 3rdeyesolation.
“The brain tells you not to like things, but your heart is an energy source. My inspiration is to try to open up the love portal through performance art.”
One of Silver’s more elaborate antics includes a cigarette pancake — where he tries to convince audience members to pretend to eat a cigarette as if it were a pancake.
Making an idiot out of himself is Silver’s way of breaking through the audience’s defenses.
“He’s a true bouffant,” said “Scary” Ben Doray, one of the producers of Bushwick Burlesque, where Silver performed last week. “He plays this village idiot character and uses a childlike innocence to convey a message. He’s holding up a mirror to the audience.”
In one evening’s performance at the Bushwick Burlesque, Silver came off in turns as confrontational and touching. The artist was not listed on the bill and instead planted himself in the audience. During the show’s second set, he jumped onto the stage and launched a rant against negativity. Then he pulled out his signature headless rubber chicken and a children’s chalkboard and, as it became more clear that he was part of the show, led the audience on a chorus of fart sounds.
Silver, 33, started his career in performance art when he was an undergrad at Ithaca College — though it may not have seemed like much of a career at the time.
“One day I got stoned and put on a dress and ran around people and they were cracking up,” said Silver. “After that, I started experimenting on city streets.”
Now that he’s running his own shows, Silver scouts for interesting acts at his performance art open mics at Panoply Performance Laboratory. A few shows back, he found a woman who made Hobbit references and then cut off her body hair and glued it to the top of her feet.
“A lot of people don’t perform because they think they have to be so entertaining that they have a joke a minute,” said Silver. “But you really just have to engage the audience and push yourself through the embarrassment.”
Matthew Silver at Muchmore’s [2 Havemeyer St. between N. Eighth and N. Ninth streets, (718) 576–3222, www.maninwhitedress.com]. Jan. 27, 7 pm, free.
Reach reporter Danielle Furfaro at dfurfaro@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2511. Follow her attwitter.com/DanielleFurfaro.
©2013 COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER GROUP
Within each performance artist is the potential to create something that is beyond oneself. A godlike force that is unprecedented, from only the individual alone. In Performance Art Masterpiece each artist will use their universal life force to perform a masterpiece. Once that masterpiece is achieved, your host Master Dean Matthew Silver will give them a BFA in Nothing! Matthew has been performing as an Enlightened Idiot at Union Square, Astor Place and Washington Square Park ( Gothamist, Timeout NY, The Village Voice, Brooklyn paper and Papermag or infamous sites like diehipster and Normalbobsmith.). The purpose of this event is to make performance art accesssible to all in the community, to remove social walls that often coincide with appreciating performance art. It’s for everybody that would like to enjoy it. (Bizarre Bushwick, 12 Jefferson St., Brooklyn, j-stop myrtle-broadway, 7:30-11pm; Free)
Lopi Laroe is a multi-discipline artist and activist living in Brooklyn, NYC. Her current work primarily encompasses installation, performance and painting.Her Performance originated in improvisational dance and is rooted in theatrical performance.
Darlinda Just Darlinda - The Village Voice calls Darlinda Just Darlinda a “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” has been working as a Burlesque Performer and Producer locally (NYC) and nationally since 2003. She can be found on television, in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. She’s lectured for Yale’s infamous Sex Week. She’s crossed over into performance art with her year long “life as art” projects. Darlinda is a current faculty member at the New York School of Burlesque and BurlyCon and teaches locally and internationally. Sundance Channel made Darlinda a “Top 10 Badass Burlesque Babe,” voted in the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2011!
Davon Rainey - Creates a unique blend of body movement and facials that stimulate an emotional response. His work sometimes leads towards sexuality, dealing with repression and other complications.
Jill McDermid - “I create an installation environment, within which I make a performance. Then, I lead the audience from one environment to another, making performance in each space, which create a full story at the end. My performance are always autobiographical, but not in an obvious sense. Stories unfold from my emotions, in a way that I can hope sponds to other people. Lately, I Have been performing outside of the United States, and I occasionally create a political performance. The reaction, again and again, Is that is the hearing surprised to see an American making such a political statement, but not only that - a Woman making political work. my work ranges from simple peeling apple with onion hidden inside as a metaphor for my life, seeing my experiences in my mind as I peel in reverse to the core – and elaborate: that facility uses many media, from film to Super 8 video projections, sound and smells affects.” She also runs Grace Space, as an extension of her artistic activities.
Hiroshi Shafer - Performance artist, sculpture and installations. I was born in Tokyo. My grandfather was a secret agent for the Japanese Air Force. He tried to force me to become an air force pilot, but I have become a smart artist instead. 5 years ago I became a kindergarten art teacher, where I learned how to make my own representations of the secret emotions of children. It wasn’t surprising that this would change me. I became a secret detective of soft and misty people. I love to explore the new and unknown world of familiar surfaces and pink atmospheres.
Heeran YooLee - Creates performative sculpture, solo body-based installations, time-based durational performances, and sculptural endurance events. In her body-centered work, she explores the private and public manifestations of the female Asian body where isolated actions transform into symbol, metaphor, metonym and formal structures within the larger context of socio-cultural power relations, particularly as they pertain to imbalance, inequality, and injustice in Korean and American society. As a woman growing up in the patriarchal power structure of South Korea, her personal experiences have incited an active engagement with feminist discourse; moreover, as an alien, living an extended period away from home, my awareness as “the other” has provoked further research into the subject of cultural marginalization.
Erik Hokanson - ”The most common, stable, and reliable states of the universe are the qualities of darkness and cold. We live in a very unusual condition of relative warmth and light. We are living here (earth) -humans, spiders, grass, fish, carrots, bacteria, mice, viruses. We are all related. We need to eat each other. It’s the price of peace, beauty, security, humor, love, and hope. Our bodies, like those of all other organisms here, are communities of cells working together essentially for their own preservation. We will all become food for something someday. The sun will make our place food for itself someday. I don’t know what will eat the sun. Then it will likely become cold and dark. I take comfort in this. I like natural states.”
Bizarre Bushwick
12 Jefferson St.
Brooklyn, NY
j-stop Myrtle-Broadway
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Monthly Performance Art Show
Boundaries between Audience and Performer will be CONFUSING. Vulnerable states will be PRESENT. The performer’s arsenal, FEAR, LOVE, LAUGHTER, DAD, SALLY LENNY, GEORGE.
Matthew Silver MCs
This Month’s POTATOES:
Valerie Kuehne - cellist, dynamic performance artist, fearless improviser, songwriter, vocalist. She curates two shows monthly Smallbeast and SuperCoda combining experimental music, performance art and dance. She is also part of Panoply Performance Laboratory. If you want to sign up for her email list contact her: thesupercoda@gmail.com
Miao Jiaxin and LeeYoo Heeran - This performance is a collaboration. Miao’s works often express the ambivalent and sometimes antagonistic tension that always exists between the individual and governing or cultural authorities. Recently hosted Ventiko’s Animamus Art Salon. Wants to host more friendly events @ his place. LeeYoo Heeran creates performative sculpture, solo body-based installations, time-based durational performances, and sculptural endurance events.
Gabriel Chalfin-Piney just started performance art, studied performance in school. He has already done 7 performances these past two months, each one very different, interactive and surprising. He just curated three shows in a row!! Mixing music, film and performance art. One of the shows was called Paloozah 8. He curates under the name Knight Sweat
Lindsey Drury’s work disrupts her own choreographic impulses. She seeks to undermine the idea that one can devise systems of rules and expectations that when followed by performers will churn out a certain meaning. She is a performance artist, dancer, choreographer, curator and writer. Currently collaborating with PPL. Runs an open-platform performance event called The Generator. Founding member of The Woods Cooperative.
Anthony Wills Jr. is Artistic Director of Artistic Pride Productions an artist collective creating opportunities for artists of all genres. He has been performing, choreographing, and directing all his life. He will be curating a cabaret for February, Love is a Drag.
Lopi LaRoe is a multi discipline artist and activist living in Brooklyn, NYC. Her current work primarily encompasses installation, performance and painting.Her Performance originated in improvisational dance and is rooted in theatrical performance.
Amber Lee has done performances in Chicago, Berlin, Paris, and The Netherlands working with several different performance groups including a European tour with Non Grata. In addition to performing, Amber continues to work in theatre, photography, video, and writing. Currently she helps out @ Grace Exhibition Space, a performance Art Space in Brooklyn.
Muchmore sells coffee and drinks.
$3 Buds and Tecates
Check out last performance Heart HERE:
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Photo by Dennis Ryan
Performance-art, clown, magic, music, STUPID HUMOR, comedy, dance, CLOWNS clowns, clowns, ….. Everything and nothing that involves a little touch of idiot!! Not your usual variety show. Designed to create awkward moments. Scary at first, but healing in the long run.
Your host Matthew Silver has been performing @ Union Square, Astor Place and Washington Square Park as the Village Idiot, getting people to act silly. You may have heard about him on the Gothamist, Timeout NY, The Village Voice, Brooklyn paper and Papermag or infamous sites like diehipster and Normalbobsmith. Just recently he made his TV debut on Discovery’s Science Channel show called Oddities and now he’s ready to make his own Idiot Show!!!!!
Famous for contortion dance Jamming. She fearlessly performs with music on the spot, in the moment! Never failed an audience! Seen @ places like Coney Island, Dixon Place. She has also made an appearance on TV, Discovery’s Science Channel ‘Oddities’ Program Season 2: The Horaffe, third segment. See it HERE!!
Master Lee began as a street performer in Washington Square Park. He went on to do stand-up comedy, appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, MTV, Showtime at the Apollo and Sesame Street. Tired of jokes, he began listening to Martin Luther King Jr. speeches, combining stream-of-consciousness, catharsis and tapping the unconscious to create his unique true stories. He is also working on a juggling piece to the six preludes of the Bach cello suites. Master Lee has taught storytelling at the Rubin Museum of Art and Performance Art at New York University.
Has made appearances in the East Village, Union Square, Time Square, Williamsburg, all around the city. Performed for Arts in Odd Places, Culture Fix, Flux Factory and 3rd Eye(sol)ation. Her performance Art is made to create a reaction out of the audience, in venues and outside in the public. She can be offensive, funny, political, non-political or Strange. She wears a different costume for each performance. Has been known to perform with Jacob Cohen, Subway Cellist .
A Mock$tar comedic performance artist and musician Named “Top 10 Women Who Rock Comedy” funnynotslutty.com, she has an album out with her band KILL THE BAND available on ITunes or at www.KILLYTHEKID.com Also, please check out My BoX, Killy’s newest experiment in sound, comedy and performance art at the NY Frigid Festival in late February – tickets available now on Smarttix.com
Is a clown, magician and variety performer, recently returned to NYC after several years in New Orleans, where she produced and hosted the Wonder Farm Cabaret. She has worked with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore, and Whirlybones Variety Arts Collective, among others, and performed at festivals in the US and Europe. Tanya is currently attending a master class in physical comedy taught by her dog Iggy.
“…a guitarist and chanteuse with jazz leanings, whose vocal control and onstage presence command attention.” (The New Yorker)
“Standing just north of five feet, hidden under bookworm glasses and heavy waves of curls, the longing within her sultry voice will bring up heartbreak memories of Janis so distinctly that you’ll wonder how its grand emotive power was so well concealed beforehand. Cal Folger Day is a presence on stage.” (Go Folk Yourself)
AKA James Blonde from Jugger-nut. Ladies and Gentlemen, a man who has no boundaries. Lays on glass, stick nails up his nose, lets people staple him with a staple gun. Wacks a mouse traps on his tongue. And makes animal balloons. Variety performer, comic book artist, comedian and musician.
| Matthew Silver wasn’t thinking and now he has become aware that most of the time he isn’t. Juggling through thoughts that don’t add to much. Like Duck Duck, Chicken, Turkey, Potato, Banana, Wacky, Toilet.
Due to this unclear stream of consciousness he will continue to wear the drum to his dying day. Not that anybody will care. But if you do care, please donate. Watch the last time he got stuck in a drum HERE!! Also Known as the Village Idiot of Union Square, watch famous interaction with bully HERE!! Yes this is for REAL!!! |
A continuation of Performance Art Open Mic. Pt.1
LAST TWO MONDAYS OF THE MONTH
A gathering of performance artists and non-performance artists get together and try to figure out what this thing is. Visual Arts Performance? Body-Based Performance? What is this “performance” thing anyway? Who cares? MC Matthew Silver cares. A lot. About you. And wants to see the work you do.
The Performance Art Open Mic Pt. 2 is held at:
3rdEye(Sol)ation
1501 Broadway.
Brooklyn, NY
J-Train Halsey Stop
7:30pm-11pm
Free
Jungle Juice $3
NOTE: This event is meant for everybody interested in defining/redefining performance art, not the “performing arts” in general (poetry, music, dance, etc), though all of these things may be included in a performance art piece, possibly at once.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/
Matthew Silver is disappointed that nothing happened Dec. 21st, 2012.
He attempts to open the portal himself by creating a community gathering.
Using the power of her Golden Sneakers she starts Jogging.
She jogs alone for five minutes, while the audio to her score repeats “Won’t you Jog with Me, Jog with me please, Lets fight the social disease.” In a robotic voice.
Finally two people get up and jog.
And then Two more
The entire room jogs with her.
4 minutes TOGETHER WE FIGHT the social disease!!!
Fly dance moves!!!!
The hands between the legs is the most advance Swag development since 1999
Straight upside DOWN!!!
She starts off, making us believe she’s sane.
But then the world of stuff gets too her brain.
She ends up with a nervous Breakdown. God bless her soul.
Who is the woman with the folding chair?
Why do the placement of the chairs concern her?
Staring alone into the distance. Is she asking for connection?
Or is she just trying to connect to her folding chairs?
Ann is a street performer who tap dances for a living. Today she tries something different.
Bringing it to the audience through passion!
Showing off her beautiful dancing legs.
She’s looking at you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He first clears the room.
Then he takes a big plummet into the hard wooden floor, everybody looks with shock!
Next time Whitney falls, People are their to catch him.
WATCH HIS FIRST FALL ON the YOUTubeee
She comes on stage as her masked super hero!!
The super hero tapes up bags of air.
Slowly she becomes consumed by them.
The yellow bags start taking over.
Getting bigger like a yellow puss TUMOR.
The Tumor consumes the HERO. Must be goof ball Hero instead.
Donald Duck is alone.
Minny Mouse Enters and they enjoy a day on the beach.
Until Mickey Mouse enters.
Mickey Dances, not aware of Minnie’s and Donald’s, presence.
When aware of Donald and Minnie. Mickey Kills Donald, when not looking, because he doesn’t want anybody to know that he’s gay.
And then Minnie, who knows YOGA.
Mickey Leaves everybody with a positive message, “Life is not about winning or losing”
“Be Yourself!!!”
7:00pm until 11:00pm
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Performance Heart: Mixed Bags
Monthly Performance Art Show Boundaries between Audience and Performer will be CONFUSING. Vulnerable states will be PRESENT. The performer’s arsenal, FEAR, LOVE, LAUGHTER, NOTHING, MOTHERS, KETCHUP, TANKS, OMEGA-3 EGGS. This Months BAGS: Adjua Greaves Ann Amendolagine Muchmore sells coffee and drinks. If your interested in performing in Performance Heart send me an email with some links of your work at: silver@maninwhitedress.com Check out last Performance Heart HERE: http:// |
I break in the Gallery giving them a speech about NOTHING
I tell them how my brain gives me a headache.
I realize I’m too hard on myself and I ask for a hug.
I’m free and I fly an airplane.
I preach the struggle between the brain and the heart. Some people call it our lizard brain. Performed @ Outlet Fine Art. 253 Willson Ave. Brooklyn, NY. http://www.outletbk.com Performance was December 7, Friday, during opening Reception. The show was called ON THE GRID. Filmed by Augustin Doublet.
Second Part, I get everybody in a flying frenzy and then I do my signature freeze moment. It’s always interesting how people react NOTHING.
An Awesome Documentary!!!!!! About Master Wacky Matthew Silver
TO SEE EVERY EPISODE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwdP1yO7P4&list=PL8R02VWYIHa1KQd7ouiSPKXo…
From Producers Mithun Bhat, Michael Jefferson, and Hardy Winburn with Cinematographers Nick Capezzera, Tony Farkasch, Thomas Gonzalez, and Daniele Napolitano.
Edited by James Eades & Nick Capezzera.
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9:00pm until 4:00am
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It’s gonna be a CARNIVAL@APOSTROPHE
cheap drinks, Free Drink Games! DJ SETS BY: LIVE PERFORMANCE BY: FREE before 10pm, $5 till 12am, $10 onwards OUTSIDE LIQUOR WILL BE CONFISCATED |
I started off explaining to everybody that I’m an American Hipster Rabbit. And then I started talking about circles.
Then I got Performance Artist, puppeteer and Experimental Musician Jeff to get half-naked with me. We sung We are the world together.
You can NOW watch this MOMENT ON THE U-TUBE!!!!
After too much thinking, I ripped my brain in two.
Jeff took the airplane and flew among the crowd. He was free, we were all free from the Brain!!
WATch me rip the FUCKING BRain and the intense silence in the room.
At the end everybody got up and started to wave their hands and dance to the drum beat!!!!
And then EVERYBODY HUgged.
Watch everybody stand up and dance to the funky beat!!!! The amazing Heart beat of life!!!!
For the finale, I did the Statue! Nobody gave me a dollar, they just kept clapping over and over and over and over again. WATCH the video and share this Awkward moment.
MATTHEW SILVER
Matthew Silver opens the night, by putting the audience into an awkward state. Once the crowd achieves full awkwardness, the show is ready to go on.
Matthew Silver talks about how ideas are amazing!!! You can grow them in your brain if you’re focused. He uses the rubber chicken as his pointer.
But then Matthew becomes neurotic and slowly starts walking towards a man who has a beard just like him. Will he hug him? Will he appreciate his hairy body? Does he think he’s just another idiot? Click here if you want to watch half of his performance.
SYLVA DEAN AND ME
Who is this strange woman who walks in with a kart and chicken feet?? A little bit creepy if you ask me. I mean I heard that weirdos put chicken feet up their nose! Is she a bag woman?
But then low and behold this Bag woman gives birth to a cows head!!! How dare she play tricks with our minds!!!!!!!!
LORENE BOUBOUSHIAN
Lorene twisted the minds of the entire audience. My parents didn’t get it, but they were intrigued. It was as if we were sucked into THE LORENE VORTEX!! Here they are singing like deranged sirens.
Lorene is using hand movement to pull out the part of the brain that thinks too much. People don’t know this and just stare, not knowing that she is healing them.
Now Lorene uses her feet to emit special odors that make people say “YES I like the Lorene Vortex, maybe I can make a friend or two”.
GELRADO MERCADO
Geraldo brought everybody into the digital REALM of Zero’s and One’s. Here you can see him getting everybody excited about these numbers. Is this saying that we have all become zero’s and one’s and none of us have an identity anymore? I thought I was a chicken!
Here Gelraldo is reading Adjua’s fortune, shuffling digital video game cards. Later he tells Adjua to destroy a computer hardrive by smashing it with his boots. The Hardrive is now where all our memories come from. Forget about BRAINS!!!!
KATIE DOUGHNUT
Katie is stuck in a picture. Is this her dream or her nightmare?
She seems to want in on this beautiful landscape but there is NO ENTRANCE
So she hangs herself and glitter falls on her head!!!!!!!
PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LABORATORY Brian Mckorkle and Esther Neff
PPL intertwine their audience into a world of confusion!! Esther is stuck in a web of string. People are pulling her back and forth while Brian is playing the music of a mad man!!! He’s talking about eating PORK LOIN sandwiches!!!
CRUSHED VELVET by Jacquelyn Gallo and Rosalie Knox
Total San Francisco Cult Hippie Fest. They brought a little bit of the 60s back. It was Happy. It was SCARY. It was an ACID TRIP.
ELINOR THOMPSON - Durational piece
Elinor fell asleep on a couch during the duration of the entire show, about 2 hours!!! Photo by Drew Vanderburg
She had two sharpies next to her and people would write on her all night, explaining what wackiness was unfolding during the night. Photo by Adjua Greaves.
At the end of the night, she got on stage and Matthew read all the quotes on her body. One of them said, “Gelraldo Smashing Shit.” Photo by Adjua Greaves
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, you can now watch 2 hours compressed into 3 minutes. And soon I will edit my entire life into 30 seconds.
I was performing, and some kids on a class trip came by. I started talking about potatoes.
Some of them thought I was selling potatoes.
Watch the whole episode here, documented by the Highschool kids themselves.
TO SEE EVERY EPISODE: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8R02VWYIHa1KQd7ouiSPKXonvj8EDm5G&f…
From Producers Mithun Bhat, Michael Jefferson, and Hardy Winburn with Cinematographers Nick Capezzera, Tony Farkasch, and Daniele Napolitano.
Edited by James Eades and Nick Capezzera.
Like “THE BACK OF THE BUSK” on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/TheBackOfTheBusk
“THE BACK OF THE BUSK” airs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8pm EST. exclusively on Action Jackson TV.
“THE BACK OF THE BUSK” airs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8pm EST. exclusively on Action Jackson TV. Action Jackson TV is an online network that broadcasts quality content including narrative shorts, features, documentaries, fictional and non-fictional mini series and sketch comedy. We cater to an audience interested in free, high quality content on the internet with the standards of network television. Our demographic is very broad and varies from the ages of 16-54. Our goal is to make our own content as well as acquire original content for our audiences.
Check out the channel and subscribe athttp://www.youtube.com/theactionjacksontv
Stay up to date on shows and events on our Facebook!http://www.facebook.com/TheBackOfTheBusk
“If you swipe your credit card, we can put it on the grill. We can make a barbecue with credit cards. YES! SYNCHRONICITY!!!” – The Great Performer
While on a class trip we came across Matthew Silver, the Great Performer, during his act. Not bad.
Matthew Silver’s Website: http://www.maninwhitedress.com
Go check him out ladies and gents!
I’m as free as I want to be. You have to remind yourself that what you really want inner peace. So it is up to you to take those steps. Figure out how your body works. You can do with your ability to focus. The tools are out there. Infinity exists. One answer for me. One thing at a time. And learn to meditate, completely concentrate on that. It’s impossible to do two at time. Patience and focus. Nothing faster, nothing slower. You can do it. Completely trust you can, and that there is help all around you for all your unique visions. But one thing at a time or get scattered and lose yourself again. But then you always comeback. See yourself getting newer, better, healthier, happier. Restart, relax, you can do it. Loveeee.
In this class you need to understand the Why nothing is important! Using a wacky chicken everybody can enjoy nothing!!
But then your wacky brain doesn’t make sense. So you got to beat it with the chicken.
So I’ve decided to Evolve into an American WAcky Bananna
And at the end of the day all you need a hug. So please clap and hug and have a potato.
Or just listen to my lectures about a wacky banana .
The battle of the brain will always be our hardest struggle.
But with the power of wackiness and the holy chicken we will all live on!
8 hugs a day will keep you very healthy.
Original Facebook invite can be found Here
| Matthew Silver will not move until he is given a dollar, unfortunately he is criticized for this behavior. People now call him an Attention Money Whore Hipster. There’s no getting away from the Critic. In this performance Matthew will open his heart to his inner critic leaving him vulnerable, he will be humbled by name calling and flying turkeys. It is up to you!!! Give him your worst, eat a pizza, and then HUG. We all need at least 8 hugs a day.This just in, you can watch a clip of his last show at this link: http://youtu.be/ |
Original Facebook invite can be found Here
7:00pm until 11:00pm
| Performance Heart: Mixed BagsMonthly Performance Art Show
Boundaries between Audience and Performer will be CONFUSING. Vulnerable states will be PRESENT. The performer’s arsenal, FEAR, LOVE, LAUGHTER, NOTHING, HEADACHES, TIME MACHINES, INFINITY. This Months BAGS: Matthew Silver Elinor Thompson Muchmore sells coffee and drinks. If your interested in performing in Performance Heart send me an email with some links of your work at: silver@maninwhitedress.com |
THIS: Saturday, November 24, 2012
6:00pm
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Featuring: 7:00pm – Sweet Soubrette 9:00pm – ON As you may know, Hurricane Sandy hit the Gowanus Ballroom hard. Despite extensive preparations against flooding, the amount of water that breached the canal’s banks proved too strong. A six-foot wave crashed through our steel and sand bag barrier. Seawater quickly filled the first floor, tossing large sculptures and tens of thousands of pounds of heavy machinery around as if they were toys. As the water receded back into the harbor, it left a trail of devastation. Several neighbors have filed for bankruptcy, yet the Gowanus Ballroom persists as friends, family, staff and artists work to clean up the wreckage. There’s still a lot of work to do, but with luck, help, and support, both the Ballroom and its sister company, Serett Metal Works will survive. If you have enjoyed one of our shows in the past or have wondered what the Gowanus Ballroom is all about, and if you might spare a small donation, we’re asking for your help. Thanks in advance for your consideration. Here are two ways to help: Save Gowanus Ballroom Fundraiser on Saturday, November 24th, 6pm – $15 Admission In the wake of the storm, we’ve been uplifted by the generosity of the community that has helped make the Gowanus Ballroom what it is today. We have a great lineup of artists, musicians, and performers who are donating their considerable talents to our fundraiser. Join us for a great night as we celebrate the fact that we’re still here, and look forward to a future rebuilt on strength forged in adversity. Due to ongoing clean-up, we are combining the Save Gowanus Ballroom Fundraiser with FlutuArte NY! Both will now take place on Saturday, November 24th, 6pm. Donations of $15 per-person admission will support the Gowanus Ballroom and FlutuArte. We will also be accepting donations of canned goods, clothing and other emergency necessities for those suffering in the wake of hurricane Sandy. Come out and show your support for the Gowanus Ballroom and FlutuArte. Experience a bit of Rio de Janeiro right here in Brooklyn. Bring your bikinis and swim trunks and take a dip in our HEATED SWIMMING POOL. Slow things down to a tropical pace, enjoy FREE Jerk BBQ from 7–10pm, sip on special FlutuTinis in our corner of paradise, and dance until the wee hours. Additional art and performance will include: It’s sure to be a great night! Hope you can join us, and thank you in advance for your generous support! |
| a pete’s candy store residency! saturday afternoons in november, 4-7pm. free entry, solid entertainment. and $1 off sandwiches. original music arranged by theme: sat. nov. 17 — DYLAN |
Photo taken by Boris Suhodrev
7:00pm until 10:00pm
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Superchief Gallery is proud to announce the CLOSING PARTY of our October gross-out extravaganza, CREEPERS! We had to put it off a bit thanks to the weather and lack of transportation; but now that the L and G trains are back, we’re all gonna be comin’ out to celebrate!Our opening event on October 4th was KILLER, and this one’s gonna be just as big, so come out and party, check out the show if you haven’t, and get all dirrrrrty with us.
**************PERFORMANCES ~MATTHEW SILVER~~GEORGIO AKA THE HUMAN CARPET~
~RAUNCH QUEEN BEATRIZ~ + Special Surprise visits!!! Check out the online CREEPERS! gallery HERE: http://www.facebook.com/ “The multi-media, interdisciplinary show features work from underground cartoonist MIKE DIANA (the first and only artist to be arrested and receive a criminal conviction for obscenity for artwork in the US), future feminist artist and Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black singer KEMBRA PFAHLER (Deitch Projects, MoMA PS1, 2008 Whitney Biennnial), artist/dj/musician/Santos Party House co-owner SPENCER SWEENEY (MoMA PS1, 2006 Whitney Biennial), former Art Club 2000 member DANNY MCDONALD (2011 Frieze Art Fair, 2010 Whitney Biennial), ARIC SHUNNESON (originator of NYC’s sexual-comedy electro-punk theatrical group, Jugger-Nut), as well as a slew of other varied and talented misfits. http://superchief.tv/ The group exhibition, curated by self-proclaimed creepers Jacquelyn Gallo and Rosalie Knox, includes work that has been banned, rejected, censored and ultimately put one artist in prison. The emancipated collection reflects on liberated childhood fantasy and embraces its transition into adulthood, providing a pleasant respite from the current climate of sexual tension and oppression. A raw dog glance at natural imaginative response, curiosity and frustration (sans all the societal shame and embarrassment) the unoppressive collection strays away from catering to the ‘respectable’ and returns sexuality to the sweaty arms of the proudly perverted. http://superchief.tv/ Like stumbling upon a dildo in your mom’s underwear drawer or dad’s Barely Legal collection, it’s an eye opener. Treat yourself to something horrible. ”
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Here the woman would not marry me. That’s very upsetting. A stud like me, you should always say Yes no matter what.
Photo by Adjua Greaves Here the Middle School Rebels beat me in a dance off. Very upsetting, you don’t understand how much training I do. My style of dance is not accepted in todays society.
Photo by Adjua Greaves So I have this issue with my brain. It likes to freeze every 3-5 minutes, my whole body can’t move at the same time. People just take pictures of me like I’m just some tourist attraction. What’s up with that? I should of never installed chicken in my brain.
Photo by Adjua Greaves These people are awesome!!! I forget where they were visiting from, but they all had fun. Wackiness comes from withinnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Filmed by Adjua Greaves I confront people and see if I could get them to convert to the power of a chicken. All Hail Buck cock a doodle doooooooooo.
7:00pm until 12:00am
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PERFORMANCE ART! LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE! CHEAP DRINKS! BARACK OBAMA VS. MITT ROMNEY! PERFORMANCE ART VS. TELEVISION! BROOKLYN 2012! COME ON DOWN!This year on November 6th, as the next president of the USA is decided, join us at the Grace Exhibition Space for a night of political performance art to heighten the excitement and open dialogue about our country’s democratic process!
Featuring performances by… Anonymous Boh
Matthew Gliva Adjua Greaves Eric Hokanson Richard Kamerman Amber Lee Meghan Lespier Phillip Luddite Jill McDermid Geraldo Mercado PPL (Esther Neff + Brian McCorkle) Miles Pflanz Hilary Sand Andrew Scoville Matthew Silver Elinor ThompsonLive Election Video Coverage Streamed by Imaginary Media! (formerly known as Room 404 Media: http://room404media.com/) Salsa by Brooklyn Salsa! Beverages provided by Red State Blue State Beer! Live Music and 3D Visuals by The Blue and Red Hosted by Elinor Thompson and Drew Vanderburg! Come on out for this one guys. It will be a night of great art, ramped up by electricity in the air, no matter who is the winner! GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE |
Three different ideas have eroded my mind, and now I can’t settle on one, so there must be a vote. Except the vote doesn’t work and just makes me confused. Filmed by Bogdan Szabo.
Sometimes confusion goes back to your roots. That’s why I like potatoes!!!
Complete Improv Performance. Fooling around with strangers. Hope it makes you laugh!!!!
I like to explore the vast world of nothing. The opposite of performing. I always prolong my performance to see how long I can do absolutely nothing and still entertain people.
This is art. This is fart. This is art. I’m a monkey too. What is there to understand in this world except yourself. You have the choice to Make this your awakening or your sleeping. Of course both are good. A balance, which is usually defined on two levels, ying yang, up down, left right. Balance doesn’t necessarily mean in the middle. The best way to feel a balance is by really being aware. Not half ass. Keep track of what you can in the most relax manner possible.
So A. Be aware – take notes
B. Then really, measure what works and doesn’t work.
C. Then do it over and over and over again.
this is something Anthony Robbins might say. He taught me to make basic formulas for your problems. If you can really focus on one thing at a time, you’ll will get more things done. You have to keep refocusing on whats the most important thing to finish. Sometimes it feels bad to let one thing go so you can do another, but it has to be done. You have to be able to narrow your focus and open it back and forth. Learn to be flexible. You will learn to be more flexible if you take notes. Because that will help you remember more. I want to get to the next stage of my life. I have to believe I’m doing that. Patience is the answer, over and over and over and over again.
| Featuring: Rhys Rodgers (AUS) John G. Boehme (Victoria, Canada) 2SHEA (USA) Matthew Silver (NYC) and NON GRATA (Estonia) Here is my last Performance there!!! |
Making fun of relationships and EGO-Driven males. Performed at Culture Fix, in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Starring Katie Doughnut and me.
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In this performance, I will demonstrate how the anatomy of a king hipster is different than a normal hipster. Using body movements that mimic a chicken, rat and a duck. If all of them are combined correctly, I will be able to clone my KING HIPSTER DNA. Most of the king hipsters that I create will be affordable. Unfortunately normal hipster DNA does not clone. If this answers all your questions, then your forgetting that there is still another mystery to solve.Read how I became A hipster here, here, an
d here.1. Masterbeard Theater Presents
http:// 2. Breaking News: Attention seeker finds sought-after attention. 3. {Real} Brooklynites just don’t understand ART. http:// |
My new technique is an ancient technique. So I won’t tell you what it is. But if you watch me, you can see it’s pretty obvious. I’m still doing the same thing, chicken, banana, Duck, I’ve added rat and Hipster because rat is a big city animal and hipsters are everywhere but they don’t exist at the same time. According to Die Hipster, I’m King Hipster. So you call me brothers and sisters KING HIPSTER. FART. On Wednesdays the High School kids sometimes go to Union Square. They are scared of me but curious. They don’t know what to think. You see in the picture or video at the 55 second mark, the children are running away from me, I run towards them and they run around in circles. It cracks other observers up. The kids love it and they laugh. They make fun of me, but as long as they laugh, I feel like I’m serving some kind of purpose.
Go to the 55 second mark and watch all the crazy excitement. FARTtttt. HIPsteR
Photo by Mithun Bhat
| This month our performers are:
Ivy Castellanos Performance Anxiety is a monthly gathering of performance artist and art aficionadas at Culture Fix in the Lower East Side. Our aim is to provide a space for the both exploration and presentation of performance art while lowering the barrier between performer and audience. |
Diehipster is a social network for internet trolls. And trolling is great entertainment for many people in the world. I didn’t understand that at first.
Read Original post and comments at http://diehipster.com
As we head into the weekend I’ll leave you with another recent masterful performance by Matthew Silver – performance artist extraordinaire. Below the video will be things that equally talentless hipsters would say in Matthew’s defense.
Things transplant hipsters would say in Baby Matthew’s defense:
“Aww, leave him alone. He’s just doing what he loves!”
“Matthew brings a smile to my face whenever I see him. Thanks Matthew!”
“At least he’s brave enough to do what he does – I’d like to see you do that”
“We need more care-free, spiritual people like Matthew – it would make this city a better place”
“You’re just jealous of him”
“Don’t listen to them Matthew! Keep doing what you do. Haters gonna hate.”
“I love zany New Yorkers like Matthew”
According to this Youtuber I did something bad at the 5:37. Check it out for yourself and Let me know.
tusgal: 5:3p, most epic man flash of 2012.
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Jermaine Norris where he threw the white thing right?
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Tusgal: The part where he laid on his back, and start kicking, in person… no homo, hair were protruding from his speedo and the black guy got full frontal.5:39.
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Jermaine Norris ROTFLMAO I SAW THAT~!
Union Square IS Art // New York City from Mike Zhu on Vimeo.
Right when I walked out of the subway I was triggered to pull out my camera to start shooting a man acting all crazy. A lot was happening this Monday afternoon and I was fortunate enough to get some footage.
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People watching in this city is just too fun sometimes. Matthew Silver the Great Performer, in particular, takes it to a whole new level. Whether he is dancing on my friends or asking women for their bras, he is always trying to get you in good spirits. I feel a longing for him when he is not in Astor Place as I get off the subway but feel equally frightened if he is there.
We saw this guy performing in New York and did an auto-tune remix with original music for your viewing pleasure.
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MC’d by the Fool of our tragic hipsterdom, Matthew Silver.
This Open Mic was born out of the anxiety of discipline (kissing cousin to anxiety of influence) to help us cognize ourselves. Does it matter if the term “performance art” is bandied about? Is it fear of a lack of respect for or knowledge about the history, dialectic, methodology, ideologies, and theories of performance art that really gets our goat sometimes? Or should we just take a chill pill and provide a space for people with all sorts of practices to have at it in a “performance-art context” (and what is a “performance art context” and how is such a context constructed?)
The theory here is that YOU get to decide what performance art is. NO tech, mess quite allowable. 10 minutes per slot. Show up at 5pm, write your name on the chalkboard. We will begin the show at 5:30pm sharp! Panoply Performance Laboratory Subway to Montrose L, Broadway G, or Lorimer J,M,Z no cover $2 PBR |
Photo by Dennis Ryan
There are a lot of good hearted wacky people out there!!!!!
Making an appearance will help your path. Not condemning your dreams, your life, your existence. We all have a perspective. We cannot compare ourselves to the outside world. There may be feelings that make you feel like you have to compare yourself to other people. But it doesn’t help to keep doing that. We do that as a game. Which team will win? We’re all on the same team. That’s why we call it a game. Sometimes a game is taken too seriously. Everybody wants peace. As I write this I’m trying to feel the creative life force that’s inside of me. We all have one, you can call it whatever you want. It’s whats running the force within. The more your aware of it. The more you will be at peace with it. Believe that within the answers to all your questions and problems are there. They already exist within the body. That is your inner peace. Don’t believe that you were meant for complete failure. It is your time which is always now. It disappears before you know it. You have to remember no task is small enough for you. There is no big or small. Your task is you. All resolutions will always be found with in, because they’re already there, they already happened. The silly things we do when we look for an outside force that will fix everything for us . The force will always be within you, me, them. Everybody. focus. What’s my problem? I’m still not good enough. I keep procrastinating. Yes I go outside and perform for people. But I’m missing something. This is my problem. Why do I always feel like I’m not doing something right yet? I’m obsessed with making a lot of people laugh. That to me is my destination. I believe I will get there. Maybe I just have to focus on making a lot of people laugh at once. With me as this character. I know I focus on one thing when people laugh. Why don’t I just be this guy that says all the time, “I just want to make people laugh!” I’ll make them laugh all the time. I’m making people laugh. Talk to people and say Laugh! Maybe the magic word is just to tell people to laugh!!!! That’s right Laugh. The answer for tomorrows character. Tomorrows goal is to see how many times I can make ten people laugh!!!!
This is the funniest commentary of my street performance work ever. That African Pretty Boy is a genius.
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Matthew the Great Performer WSP
The first time I run into, or literally run away, from Matthew the Great Performer was few weeks back in Washington Square Park….I saw him jumping on and off chairs, which he called stage, and I thought what the “hec”? how dare you call yourself the great performer!!!
Second time, I ran into him was at Union Square, he was surrounded by a crowed of curious, in which he was pretending to be some sort of dancer, I still cannot not figure it out; he was inviting/ forcing people to dance with him.
The Third and last time before I got really intrigued by his character, was on a a Sunday, on a get away from the city with few friends to Governor’s Island; and it ended up not being a real get away cos the great performer was there AGAIN!!! This time pretending to be a chicken, and was making all sorts of noise.
I tried to figure out what he is trying to accomplish through his “pseudo-plays”. I was not sure whether he was trying to convey a message, which in my mind, I could not get it anyways. I moved from the thought that he is crazy, to homeless in need of money, to somebody desperately in need of attention. The looks of people around me and their laughter confused me even more because while some shared my feeling of “what is this guy doing?”, others seemed to be embraced by his performance. So I looked more into it and for the curious ones like me, here is what I found.
His name is Matthew Silver and don’t be surprised: He has his own blog. I don’t think he is homeless or clueless. At least I don’t think so, or not as much as he looks like … he has a philosophy that when I read it, I respected it and actually enjoyed reading it, and I hope you will enjoy it too!!!
Matthew the great performer in LES
“My role as a clown, trickster and village idiot is to parody excessive seriousness by playing with taboos, rules, and social norms. My inspiration comes from my heart. I perform for smiles and laughter, loosening people’s armor, and opening up a portal for imagination, creativity and love.
Some people see me as a raving lunatic, pompous “artistic” hipster, orattention-starved 9 year-old, but people don’t consciously understand the role of a clown in society. Read between the lines and you will start to see things from a different perspective. By breaking down boundaries, I provide you, the viewer, with permission to open your mind and realize it’s okay to act silly from time to time. We may trick ourselves into believing we know everything, constantly striving for perfection in a society that requires a civilized, job-holding, serious individual. We cannot be perfect. If we allow ourselves the chance to be flawed perhaps we can let the obstacles humble us, rather than make us rigid. In the end we can let our guards down to attain our most basic need of giving and receiving love.” by Mathew the Great Performer 
Matthew the great performer at Union square
Silly or not sill; funny or not funny, this guy got the attention of people that many others would die for, but they don’t get it. Bloggers do write about him and call him all sorts of names (see above), but they show interest by trying to understand the phenomenon behind the “great performer”.
So the clown will still be going around the city with more episodes and different themes, but as I am sure that next time that I would watch him, whether I would actually stop or not, I so with less sarcasm and do my best to understand what he has to offer.
It feels good to be on a list, I’m not going to lie, even if it is a silly list.
FUNNY list chicken monkey from Mashable.com
1. Naked Cowboy
2. Matthew Silver: The Great Performer
3. That Dude With the Cat on His head.
4. Ranting Elmo
5. Natalie Paruz
6. Blackwolf the Dragonmaster
7. The Upper East Side Lingerie Jogger
8. East Village Topless Lady
9. Rat Man
10. Woody Allen
Don’t doubt your love for this world. Don’t doubt your decisions anymore. Learn to trust yourself, learn to fall in love with yourself. When you cry, that’s why you love yourself the most, don’t feel bad about that, Make it cry longer, cry it out, its beautiful tears of joy. Tell yourself its going to be alright. Fall in love with your existence, understand you are seeing something really awesome. and it’s already happening. Happening now on repeat. So what you repeat. Everybody repeats. Love repeats. Everything repeats. You love yourself again. Rebirth. Rebirth is an idea that exists or not. Since infinity exists, Rebirth does exist and it doesn’t exist at the sametime. You have to be open with your mind and be ok with that. Remember that you don’t need to understand everything. or anything. and it might drive you nuts but thats ok too.
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Watch and be Confused at the same time. We will tap into the mystery of life and jump start evolution. And then we will make it disappear as if it never happened. I just did this yesterday, and the day before. The more I do it, the better I get. In this video, you will see how we went backwards into the land of the monkeys. |
I’m making fun of my Super Hero EGO. I’ve always wanted to be that guy, that super hero clown, but then my dark subconscious attacks me and I look like an idiot. We all have a critic inside our head that we must learn to be at peace with.
