Tony Oursler's Synesthesia project features interviews with
incredibly influential figures from the experimental rock
and art underground of the late 1970's and 80's, from pre-punk
innovators to post-punk icons, from industrial and avant-garde
music to noise bands and No Wave. Originally included as one
element of Oursler and Mike Kelley’s multimedia installation
The Poetics Project, these conversations provide fascinating
insights and first hand accounts from a pivotal period in
underground music. A different selection of works from this
groundbreaking interview series will be presented every Thursday
in December.
Thursday 12/29: 7:30 pm, $7 Synesthesia:
Genesis P-Orridge, 1997-2001, 90:29 min
Genesis P-Orridge, performance artist and vocalist for the
iconoclastic English industrial band Throbbing Gristle in
the late 1970s, pioneered industrial music. P-Orridge, who
went on to form the experimental band Psychic TV, continues
to work in music, art, and performance in New York, and is
undertaking a long-term "Pandrogeny" project involving
a radical identity transformation
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Thursday 12/29: 10 pm, $7 Synesthesia:
Lydia Lunch, 1997-2001, 25:57 min
Lydia Lunch has been an important figure in New York's downtown
art and music scene since the late 1970s, when she led such
seminal No Wave bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and
8 Eyed Spy. Since then she has been widely acclaimed for her
writing, spoken word projects, and performances in experimental
films.
Synesthesia:
Glenn Branca, 1997-2001, 37 min
Glenn Branca emerged from New York's No Wave scene in the
late 1970s, composing and performing radical guitar music
with his bands The Static and Theoretical Girls. A rock iconoclast
and avant-garde composer, he began orchestrating experimental
symphonies of massed guitars and percussion for the Glenn
Branca Ensemble in the 1980s, and continues to compose and
perform.
Synesthesia:
Kim Gordon, 1997-2001, 20:15 min
Kim Gordon is bass player and vocalist for the experimental
rock group Sonic Youth, a visual artist, and the founder of
the clothing line X-girl. She has also played in the bands
The Supreme Indifference, Free Kitten, and The Lucky Sperms.
Her feminist lyrics, which address issues such as rape, eating
disorders, and gender stereotypes, and her support of women
musicians, have influenced a new generation of artists and
musicians.
Produced by Tony Oursler. Questions: Tony Oursler, Mike Kelley,
David West, Linda Post. Camera: Linda Post and Tony Oursler.
Editing: Tony Oursler and Elizabeth Kading.
Full December Schedule:
Thursday
12/1:
7:30 pm: David Byrne
10 pm: Arto Lindsay and Dan Graham
Thursday
12/8:
7:30 pm: Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, and Kim Gordon
10 pm: Thurston Moore and Alan Vega
Thursday
12/15:
7:30 pm: Arto Lindsay and Dan Graham
10 pm: Genesis P-Orridge
Thursday 12/22:
7:30 pm: David Byrne
10 pm: Thurston Moore and Alan Vega
Thursday
12/29:
7:30 pm: Genesis P-Orridge
10 pm: Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, and Kim Gordon
EAI Presents is programmed by Josh Kline.
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