Performer Bios
(listed in the order of appearance in the benefit program)
MELISSA LIVAUDAIS & EMILY HOPE: Melissa Livaudais is a video artist and musician, and also one half of the experimental pop band “Telepathe.” She has performed on stages all over the world and been invited to DJ at events from Tokyo to Sao Paolo. Emily Hope is a photographer and video artist from London, where she spent many nights haunting East London’s parties and clubs with her mixes that eventually ended up in New York.
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K8 Hardy (MC of the evening) is a New York-based artist who mines popular culture for material and has no regard for originality. She has no allegiance to any particular medium, but performance is a thread that weaves through her body of work. She believes in the power of flamboyant and bold gestures, and the conversations of play, which come across in her endeavors toward total expression. Hardy is a founding member of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. She has shown internationally at spaces including: Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NY; The Tate Modern, London; Artist Space, NY: Galerie BaliceHertling, Paris; Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich; PS1 MOMA, NY; Higher Pictures, NY; Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Heerlen, NL; and the Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, NY.
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ANGELA BEALLOR: »FIGHT OLD GHOSTS, NEW FORT!«
Angela Beallor, artist and writer, is a red diaper baby from the Rust Belt. She received her MFA in Advanced Photography from Bard College-ICP and a BS in Photo-Illustration and journalism from Kent State University. Questions from a background in political work, journalism, and documentary remain central to her work. From 2009-2010, she was a co-curator of the reading series From Here to the Corner. Most recently, her work was shown with The Greatest Love of All: An Impromptu Queer Collective as a part of Congress of the Collectives. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Angela Beallor will perform FIGHT OLD GHOST, NEW FORT! The imperative commands forward into the future! calls out in a present always in the imperfect tense. A collage of texts, two microphones, two readers, and a projector. Angela Beallor will be performing together with Grey Vild, a Brooklyn-based writer.
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EMILY ROYSDON (1977) is a New York and Stockholm based artist and writer. Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, print making, text, video, curating and collaborating. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. She is a contributing member with the band MEN. www.emilyroysdon.com
Emily Roysdon is the guest curator of Capricious # 12, the PROTEST issue, and will give an introduction to her curation of the issue.
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MALIK GAINES sings show tunes, pop covers, and discursive diatribes. A member of the performance group My Barbarian, Gaines will premiere a voice-and-piano solo act that integrates musical sources and tests authorial control.
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JEANINE OLESON: »The Shore is Still in the Sea – Words mean nothing when they are eroded by power«
Jeanine Oleson is an artist whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of performance, film/video, installation, and photographic work, often collaboratively. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Rutgers University and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Oleson has exhibited at venues including: Beta-Local, San Juan, PR; X-Initiative, NY; Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; Monya Rowe Gallery, NY; Samson Projects, Boston; Participant, Inc., NY; PS 1, Queens, NY; Pumphouse Gallery, London; and Art in General, NY. Oleson is an Assistant Professor of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons the New School for Design. www.jeanineoleson.com
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TWIN-GEMZ is Bunny Michael and Amber Ibarreche aka Aqua Eyez dancing in laughter that pictures don’t capture. Crow black night wanderers. Crystal skull ponderers. Toughest dream hunters. Toughest dream hunters. http://twingemz.tumblr.com/
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CREEP are Brooklyn based Lauren Flax (Detroit) and Lauren Dillard (Connecticut). Creep’s first single “Days,” featured the vocals of friend Romy Madley Croft of The xx. The package includes remixes by Azari & III, Deadboy, Drop The Lime and Soul Clap. A brilliant video directed by Warren Fischer of Fischerspooner followed. The second Creep single and video, “You” features guest vocals by NYC twins, Nina Sky. The duo’s unique R&B vocals provided the perfect soundscape for the eerily prophetic video directed by Thalia Mavros (Creators Project), and it had it’s world premiere on Pitchfork. To close out 2011, we will release the third single from CREEP, which is called “Animals,” featuring the vocals of Holly Miranda. A full length will follow in 2012. To check out the videos please go to Youtube.com/OfficialCreep. www.officialcreep.com
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MEN is a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective. MEN are JD Samson, Michael O’Neill, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Johanna Fateman and Emily Roysdon. MEN focus on the energy of live performance and radical potential of dance music. Their music speaks of issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise, and the demand for liberties through lyrical content and an inventive, high-energy stage show. www.menmakemusic.com -
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KIM ANN FOXMAN There is one word to sum up Kim Ann Foxman when she is behind the turntables…classic. Having started her career in dance music in the mid-90’s performing in various electronic music acts. She essentially grew up on the sounds of English ex-pats the Wicked Crew (some of whom transformed into disco sensation Rub-N-Tug), Los Angeles legend Doc Marten and the many Chicago house djs that came through San Francisco during the period. These heavy hitters provided an education that she carried through and still does when finding music. Moving to New York she met Andrew Butler of Hercules and Love Affair fame, who inspired her to start using her voice which she has, appearing on two Hercules albums and various singles + guest appearances and collaborations with other artists as well. By this point she has dj’d alongside, everyone from Tim Sweeney to Vitalic, all over the world from Brazil to Japan. Pushing forward, she dropped her debut Ep on MR.INTL label in 2010, featuring remixes by James Curd and Faze Action. Check out Kim Ann Foxman’s latest remixes and collaborations, and keep you ears peeled for her solo productions. Booking her means three things: the party will be deep, classic, and go off! www.facebook.com/KIMANNFOXMANpage
