Howl! Arts

Arturo Vega American Treasure
2015-03-28 18:00 - 2015-04-28 20:00 UTC | NY
Arturo Vega (October 13, 1947–June 8, 2013) was a Mexican-born artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1971 until his death in 2013. While he is widely known for graphic imagery that defined punk music and fashion, he was also a prolific painter and printmaker independent of that imagery.
Arturo Vega was influenced by De Stijl, a Dutch movement of geometric abstraction that included the artists Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, as well as by pop art, citing Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as two of his inspirations.
As a young artist fleeing the violent repression facing Mexico’s student movement in the late 1960s, Arturo Vega, in paintings and prints, explored the relationships between the symbols of the power of the United States government, advertising, commerce, sloganeering, and corporate logos.
Beginning in 1972 and over the course of his lifetime, he produced between 80 and 90 paintings of an open palm holding a 1972 silver dollar. As Vega lived on the Bowery from the early 1970s until his death, the paintings can be viewed as depicting a beggar’s outstretched palm or as a means of co-opting the power of the symbols of the United States.

Lydia Lunch So Real It Hurts
2015-05-08 18:00 - 2015-06-05 20:00 UTC | NY
Surveying the sweep of Lunch’s career from her days as a teenage runaway and instigator of no wave to the present, the exhibition includes ephemera, photos, posters and letters, and materials from some of her most notorious collaborators in music, spoken word, and literature; the photographic series The War Is Never Over; the X-rated, scene-of-the-crime installation You Are Not Safe In Your Own Home; and performances and live events by Lydia and friends that showcase her astoundingly prolific work and continuing influence with a multi-generational cast of characters.
Passionate confrontational and bold, whether she’s attacking the patriarchy and its pornographic warmongering, turning the sexual into the political or whispering a love song to the broken-hearted, her fierce energy and rapid-fire delivery testify to her warrior nature. She has released too many musical projects to tally, has toured for decades, curated dozens of shows, written half a dozen books, and simply refuses to shut up. “I describe myself as a confrontationalist,” Lunch says. “I prefer not to be pigeonholed by generic labels like feminist and have never considered myself punk.

Clayton Patterson Outside In
2015-06-19 18:00 - 2015-08-14 18:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
With Paintings by Elsa Rensaa
When Clayton Patterson and Elsa Rensaa moved to the Lower East Side from Canada in 1979, he began to document the neighborhood in photographs, video and audiotape, and collected ephemera. I didn’t realize it at the time, he would tell the New York Times some thirty years later, but I was capturing the last of the wild, free, outlaw, utopian, visionary spirit of the Lower East Side.
He did more than record. He has participated in and affected Lower East Side culture as an artist and gallery owner, editor and publisher, organizer, promoter, provocateur, and, over the last few years, historian and eulogizer. Any one piece of that is best understood in the context of all the others.

Scooter LaForge How to Create a Monsterpiece
2015-09-19 18:00 - 2015-10-10 18:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
We all have a core of innocence, battered and buried. I don’t mean immunity to guilt and shame, but the capacity to be endlessly surprised by the specificity of everything . . .
Peter Schjeldahl, Brooklyn Rail, 2015
Howl! Happening presents How to Create a Monsterpiece, an exhibition of new work by Scooter LaForge. Shocking and playful and messy and scary, his paintings and three-dimensional objects are madly over the top: anarchic yet composed, pretty yet provocative, they embody recreational pleasure, artistic discernment, and the enjoyment of PLAY.
After leaving the small town in New Mexico where he grew up, LaForge received a painting degree at the University of Arizona and then moved to San Francisco, where he polished his painting technique. He won a fellowship to Cooper Union and moved to New York, and it was here that he rediscovered his voice in the pop-culture and cartoon worlds of his childhood. Twenty years later, he says, “I am doing what I was doing when I was nine or ten years old.”
With this exhibition, LaForge comes full circle as a mature artist. His innocence and ability to be endlessly surprised are apparent in works that break down the barriers between sculpture and painting. LaForge, whose work is described by the Saatchi Collection as “Golden Books on acid,” cites Robert Rauschenberg’s combines and Claes Oldenberg’s sculpture as major influences. The works in this show incorporate presents that strangers send from around the world with a mash-up of urban detritus found on the streets of New York City. Everything is fodder for his playfulness and innovation. Combining painting with a mind-boggling array of nontraditional materials and chance objects like old brooms, dolls’ heads, pins, fabric, old clothing, teddy bears and other stuffed animals, bags of junk jewelry even a badminton net he found on the street, La Forge repurposes these humble gifts.
Rauschenberg says of his intention in the combines: “I wanted to use the surprise and the collectiveness and the generosity of finding surprises. And if it wasn’t a surprise at first, by the time I got through with it, it was.”
With a nod to pop art, an expressionist painterly eye, and the exuberance of pattern and decoration, LaForge peppers his work with iconic cartoon characters, both well-known and from his wildly fertile imagination: “My heroes are Popeye, SpongeBob SquarePants, witches and monsters, cats, bunnies, bears, owls, and birds,” he says.
Also on view are new large paintings’ psychological landscapes that are less about how they look than about how they make the viewer feel. Painted with reckless abandon, they combine the influences at play in his life and art play that produces beauty.
“Scooter LaForge is acutely aware of his antecedents: Joyce Pensato, George Condo, Phillip Guston, Fellini’s clowns, Ringling Bros, Emmet Kelly, Picasso, and German expressionism,” says Happening Gallery director Ted Riederer in his essay, “and while this true, Scooter is completely of this era, a time of gentrification, art fairs, and the economic paradox where a high-end boutique stands next to a welfare hotel on a street notorious the world over as Skid Row.”
The arts are a great little laboratory, of absolutely free play of ideas and emotions which normal social space can’t cope with: you can play war and nobody dies, and play love and nobody has their heart broken.

Affordable Housing Workshops. Hosted by the Actors Fund
2015-09-22 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City, which is available for both low- and middle-income households. Complex information is broken down into simple, straightforward steps. While demand for these affordable units exceeds the supply, this seminar will help you avoid common mistakes and get organized and prepared to take advantage of opportunities to apply. The following questions will be addressed:
â€¢ How do you find and apply for affordable housing?
â€¢ What are the eligibility requirements? (Income, household size, credit, housing history, etc.)
â€¢ How does a housing lottery work?
â€¢ Can you get on a waiting list?
â€¢ How do you document your income if it fluctuates year to year?
â€¢ How can you best prepare yourself for an interview?
â€¢ What are your options if you are denied?

Secrets of the Great Pyramid The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Cultural Laboratory
2015-10-17 18:00 - 2015-11-07 18:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
On December 10, 1981, Ronald Reagan had been president for less than a year when a group of New York art-school flunk-outs threw a party at a small Polish/Ukrainian dive bar on Avenue A in New York’s East Village. Ed Koch was mayor, the East Village was in flames, the street drug trade was rampant, and rents were cheap. First Avenue was viewed as the farthest east any sane person would dare to tread. The bar was called the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge; the party, Home On the Range. Within a few weeks, a simple excuse to frolic had transformed into a seven-nights-a-week venue – an epicenter of art, music, performance, and social change.
Carrying on a rich, centuries-old New York tradition, the Pyramid had many faces and functions. It was a watering hole, a social club, an art gallery, a dance hall, a music venue, a sexual hunting ground, a happening, a haven. To its denizens, it was always a freak magnet. And for many, it was home. It lasted for roughly a decade. Like the great ethnic and cultural movements and migrations in the East Village’s long-past history, it seemed to disappear in the twinkling of an eye.
What didn’t disappear were the changes the Pyramid inspired in culture and society at large. Nor the work of many of the artists and performers who got their start there.
Featured in the three-week exhibition, will be artwork and visuals from both deceased trailblazers and living, working artists who the Pyramid embraced; ephemera from the past; performances that highlight four distinct time periods within that golden decade; and a variety of other events that spotlight the enduring spirit of The Great Pyramid.
ART AND MULTIMEDIA BY
Stephen Tashjian, Greer Lankton, David Wojnarowicz, Joseph Horatio, Julie Hair, Billy Beyond, Samoa, Trey Speegle, Deb-O-Raw C, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Laura Levine, Michael (London) Berube,Tanya Ransom, Alice O’Malley, Clayton Patterson, Jayne County, Connie Fleming, Chris Tanner, Keiko Bonk, Frederick Nunley, Aner Candelario, Lynn Grabowski, Antony/Blacklips, And Whyland, Billy Beyond, Nelson Sullivan, Marjan Moghaddam, Richard Oszust, Mark Rizzo, Scot Wright, John Kelly, Flloyd, Leslie Lowe, Tweed Theaterworks, James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook, Tennavision, Dug Wah, Robert Petrick, and more TBA.
PERFORMANCES BY
Hattie Hathaway
Hapi PhaceHeather
LitteerKestutis
NakasPaula Sjunneson<

Cafe Iguana Performance
2015-10-17 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Opening Night: Cafe Iguana, Saturday October 17th, 8 PM
Part Weimar-era Cabaret, part Great White Way, with a dash of the Merry Pranksters and Happenings thrown in, Cafe Iguana blended song, dance, poetry, theatre and gender-illusion into what was then a futuristic mix. The evening was held together seamlessly by its host, the late Ann Craig, channeled tonight by Heather Litteer.
Performers:
John Kelly, From bar top to international acclaim, double Obie and Bessie award-winning performance artist and Pyramid regular, Kelly most recently completed a successful run of Love Of A Poet (a staging of Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe song cycle) on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor.

Kestutis Nakas, Pyramid Theater Mogul responsible for such legendary productions as Titus Andronicus (with Ann Magnuson and Steve Buscemi), When Lithuania Ruled the World, and The Andrew Carnegie Story. He currently teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and runs The Bridge theater company.

Paula Now, one of the original Pyramid bar dancers, Paula Swede (one half of the highly interactive duo Cindy and Trish) is wellknown for her work with John Sex and Joey Arias, as well as a blogger and burlesque performer and producer under the name of The Swedish Housewife.

Featuring Heather Litteer as Ann Craig. Litteer is a member of Big Art Group and a resident artist at La MaMa. She is the recipient of the 2014 Fox Fellowship with La MaMa where she will presenting her solo show “Lemonade” in Spring 2016. Her daring film choices include working with Darren Aronofsky, Jane Campion, and Mary Harron.

Secrets of the Great Pyramid: Panel Discussion
2015-10-18 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | NY
Moderated by Hattie Hathaway. Panelists include Victor Mendolia (Anonymous? Productions), Kevin Malony (TWEED TheaterWorks), Hapi Phace, Kesutis Nakas, Paula Now, John Jeserun, Iris Rose, and of course more!

Affordable Housing Workshop. Hosted by the Actors Fund.
2015-10-20 18:00 - 20:00, 2015-11-24 18:30 - 20:30, 2016-01-19 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City, which is available for both low- and middle-income households. Complex information is broken down into simple, straightforward steps. While demand for these affordable units exceeds the supply, this seminar will help you avoid common mistakes and get organized and prepared to take advantage of opportunities to apply. The following questions will be addressed:
How do you find and apply for affordable housing?
What are the eligibility requirements? (Income, household size, credit, housing history, etc.)
How does a housing lottery work?
Can you get on a waiting list?
How do you document your income if it fluctuates year to year?
How can you best prepare yourself for an interview?
What are your options if you are denied?

Whispers Tribute: hosted by Hapi Phace
2015-10-24 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Conceived as a response to the gentrification and pasteurization of New York in 1984, Whispers was billed as “The Complete Suburban Gay Experience” and as a party for “hairdressers, display queens, theatre folk, fashionistas, florists, and sensitive straight people,” Whispers was distinctly tongue-in- cheek, featuring everything from the hanky code, to roller disco, Sixties kitsch, drag queens and kings and the fine art of the lipsynch.
Performers include Pioneering Experimental Theater performer Agosto Machado, Pyramid/Wigstock co-foundress Sister Dimension, Poet Kennon B. Raines, from Montreal, chanteuse quebecoise Marleen Menard, Hapi Phace and Hattie Hathaway, and, in a tribute to International Chrysis, Bobbie. PLUS: Bar dancing turns by Butch Icon Dee Finley and “The Painted Man”, David Caskie!
Happy Phace Much loved emcee of Whispers, Hapi is also a Melville Scholar, sculptor and most recently appeared with Dancenoise at the Whitney Museum, NYC.
Sister Dimension, co-Founder of not only the Pyramid, but also Wigstock AND Whispers, star of the YouTube sensation Pickle Surprise, and a world-famous DJ to boot, Sister has recently returned to the stage after a decade-long absence and recently wowed the audience on The Wigstock Cruise 2015.

FILM/VIDEO Programme
2015-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Including works by: Disturbed Form Theater, Tennevision, Tom Rubnitz, Mark Oates, Nelson Sullivan, Tabboo!, Blacklips, Flloyd, Marjan Moghaddam, TWEED TheaterWorks & more.

Day of the Dead: Live Painting Show with Scot Wright
2015-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Former Pyramid door person and frontman for the legendary 1980s Synth-Metal Band “Dem Vackra,” Scot Wright has turned his talents to creating angular, near-Rorschach water-colors of epic proportions. Tonight we transform HOWL! Happening Gallery into the artist’s studio, with Scot, his models (in various stages of undress,) and gallery-goers alike, invoking the spirits of those dear and departed.

Channel 69 Salute: Linda Simpson's Drag Experience
2015-11-04 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Despite a demanding career in publishing, Minnesota native Les Simpson found time to create the iconic Wednesday night bacchanal Channel 69 which featured DJ Dany Johnson and lasted into the 1990’s, while concurrently releasing My Comrade/Sister, a high-end Lesbian and Gay ‘zine. Author of several plays, one time Time Out NY editor, and currently touring round the globe with a slick audio-visual presentation as Gay “herstorian” Linda Simpson.

Marcia Resnick and Victor Bockris Punks, Poets & Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys 1977–1982
2015-11-10 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Join photographer Marcia Resnick and writer Victor Bockris at a book signing slideshow and reading from their new book.
Featuring rockers Joey Ramone, David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger; poets William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg and provocateurs John Waters, Andy Warhol and John Belushi among many other stars of drop-dead glamorous New York nights presented here for your personal inspiration and pleasure.
Resnick’s magnificent series of portraits of the cutting edge artists from three generations combined with Bockris’ enlightened texts give us this first portrait of the beat punk age.
Resnick will have a major photography exhibition at Howl! Happening in February 2016.

Artists Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong Alone At Last
2015-11-13 18:00 - 2015-12-06 20:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
An Interactive Installation Exploring Gender, Sexuality, and Desire Before the AIDS Crisis.
Alone at Last was conceived in 1981 as a video installation that explores issues of gender and fantasy at a time when traditional views of sexuality were not just being challenged but overturned. Created by artists Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong, both pro-sex feminists when pornography was a hot-button issue in the women’s movement, Alone at Last invites the viewer to initiate an encounter with a stranger in the dark and be seduced, in the process becoming part of the artwork.
Designed in the pre-AIDS era when bath houses and back rooms, no-strings sex and role playing were all part of life in downtown New York, Alone at Last invited artists, musicians, and locals with an offer of self-representation, a chance to enact what desire, romance, and even manipulation meant to them. Seizing on the trope of the Times Square peep show booth, Ivers and Armstrong redefine notions of sexuality, extending a come-on ”not with the cliched sentimentality of broadcast TV or the banality of hardcore porn, but consistent with the artists’ truth.
This is how it works: A participant (for she/he is no longer just a viewer) enters a darkened booth, and using a touch screen, answers a series of questions: Gay? Straight? Do you like boys who strip? Two girls? A foreign affair? Finally, a video screen brightens. On it, a potential lover including well-known club goers, artists, and personalities of the time appear and attempt to seduce the participant with a performance ranging from 30 seconds to seven minutes.
The 52 seducers represent a spectrum of gender and sexual choices, in a revealing portrait of the wide-open freedom of expression and pursuit of pleasure that characterized Lower Manhattan before the AIDS epidemic changed things forever. Alone at Last compels the viewer to participate through conscious choices and sudden decisions delving into private, perhaps hidden, sexual feelings. It also winks at the idea of television as the ultimate seducer but, through interactivity, changing the dynamic and making it new.
When it was first imagined, technological and financial considerations proved to be insurmountable obstacles to the artists’ vision, and so the project languished for more than 30. Today, a partnership with Howl! Happening has made it a reality. So surrender your inhibitions, get into the booth and finally be Alone at Last.

Affordable Housing Workshops. Hosted by the Actors Fund.
2015-11-20 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States

Tim Clifford Threat Assessment
2015-12-11 - 2015-12-30 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Threat Assessment by Tim Clifford, an exhibition of works that transform the visuals of American gun culture into meticulously rendered indictments of violence and death.
The exhibition showcases Clifford’s Threat Assessment series; large scale, stark black and white ink and paper inlay drawings of carnival shooting galleries done at life size. Filled with ducks, birds, and abstract geometric designs, Clifford says of the series, Threat Assessment explores the imagery of 20th century carnival shooting galleries and continues my investigation of violence and the way fear manifests itself in the material objects of our culture. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Tragedy Is Not Enough, the largest work yet in the series at 12 x 24 feet.
Target Panic, a series of 100 gouache drawings based on pistol and sniper targets forms an elegant, abstract grid that belies the psychological terror of the title. This series refers to a condition that affects competition shooters and archers when they are no longer able to keep a steady hand or shoot straight. Says Clifford, it’s a psychological affliction that severs the link between hand, mind and eye a situation not unlike the artist or image maker in our world of information overload.
In his essay for the catalogue, scholar and curator Randall Edwards says of Target Panic, The meticulously hand-drawn works recall colorful Suprematist compositions, Agnes Martin’s faint gridded lines, or Gabriel Orozco’s geometric permutations of circles. Excavating found images, however, Clifford’s works are not abstractions, but simulacra, vulnerable representations of images created only to be violently ruptured.
Additional works in the exhibition include A Good Death and Double Blind. A Good Death depicts a willow tree as seen on early 19th-century New England gravestones. The title refers to the history of ars moriendi, the Christian tradition of the art of dying.
Double Blind, a new silkscreen and woodcut print made for the exhibition at Prints of Darkness in Long Island City, features two targets in black and white printed over a newspaper image of two boys carrying a parade float with a banner reading “Our All American Town.”
Clifford’s first solo exhibition is timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Clifford’s childhood school in Newtown, Connecticut. Both series are part of his ongoing investigation of the way fear and violence are encoded in our cultures vernacular objects.

PUNK Magazine 40th Anniversary Exhibition
2016-01-14 18:00 - 2016-01-30 18:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Join John Holmstrom and some of his brilliant collaborators as Howl! Happening presents an exhibition that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Punk magazine. Revisit the magical beginning of Punk as documented in the early issues that capture the essence of the newly developing punk music scene and the flourishing urban cultural renaissance of art and fashion being played out in clubs such as CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City. On view are classic art and new work by contributing artists.

PUNK PANEL Punk sucks! The War Against "Punk" in the 1970s
2016-01-21 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Moderator: John Holmstrom
Guests: Roberta Bayley, Richard Hell, Mary Harron

PUNK PANEL New York, New York: Why New York City was "The Greatest City in the World" in the 1970s and the Punk Movement had to happen here
2016-01-28 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Hippies hated New York City, in fact it was the epitome of everything they disliked. They wanted to go back to nature and live in communes. So it was natural for people who wanted to move to New York City in the early 1970s, in spite of its bad reputation, to rebel against hippie ideals. And a city like New York offers more realistic goals for the environmental movement, a hippie ideal, than going back to nature: your carbon footprint is lower when you live here, etc. I would like to open the show by playing a Country Joe And The Fish record, two songs from “Together”: One is “The Streets Of Your Town” (where they complain “Good-bye New York City! The subway is not the underground!” and “The Harlem Song” (so utterly racist that it’s impossible to describe).
With Roberta Bailey, Richard Hell, Mary Herron and more.

Marcia Resnick Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys 1977-1982
2016-02-04 18:00 - 2016-03-02 18:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
An exhibition featuring signed contemporary silver prints and large archival pigment prints from her photographic tour de force of the culture heroes of the 1970s and early 1980s. Taken in New York during the period of the counterculture’s final climax, the show features portraits of rockers Johnny Thunders, Joey Ramone, James Brown, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Klaus Nomi, and Mick Jagger; beat poets Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso; and provocateurs and raconteurs Abbie Hoffman, Divine, Jackie Curtis, Quentin Crisp, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christo, Anthony Bourdain, Fab 5 Freddy, Charles Ludlam, and the incomparable John Belushi, as well as bad girls Debbie Harry and Lydia Lunch.
In 1977, twenty-six-year-old conceptual photographer Marcia Resnick was rocked out of her controlled studio environment and into downtown avant-garde landscape by the punk rock music that was electrifying New York. “The people from the extraordinary New York milieu amongst whom I was living and working had no way of knowing that the years between 1977 and 1982 were enchanted, endangered, and unrepeatable”, explains Resnick.
It was a time and place populated by icons, iconoclasts, and antiheroes whom Resnick documented with a unique and evocative eye. In Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: her photographs of the enfants terribles reflect this unique and highly influential time in the worlds of jazz, rock and roll, literature, art, and film. Of her subject matter, Resnick says, “A Bad Boy does have to be the prototypical James Dean character. Or like Marlon Brando in The Wild One. A Bad Boy is someone who has a special magic, who has charisma, and who braves living on the edge.”
Photos in the exhibition are included in Resnick’s, Punks, Poets and Provocateurs, NYC Bad Boys 1977-1982, a new book with text by Victor Bockris, published by Insight Editions.

Áine Phillips Performance Art in Ireland
2016-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Áine Phillips is a performance artist and Head of Sculpture at Burren College of Art in the west of Ireland. Her work has been shown across five continents, in places such as Kyoto, Ljubljana, New York, Uganda and Brisbane. She has presented talks on her work at Tate Britain and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She has recently published “Performance Art in Ireland: A History” (Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books UK) and frequently publishes essays and criticism in art journals such as Performance Art Journal MIT Press New York.
She will present a slide show on performance art in Ireland from the 1970’s to the present day, focusing on political artists responding to the ‘Troubles’ (the military and civil war in Northern Ireland in the 1980s – 1990s), feminist performance from the 1980s to the present day, the evolution of Irish sound art and current live art that is often radical, socially engaged and collaborative.

Actors Fund Affordable Housing Workshop
2016-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States

MM Sera presents: Mary Bellis Agent of Paradise
2016-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Saturday, February 20th, 7pm
Mary Bellis: Agent of Paradise (1982), 16 mm
Howl! Happening and MM Serra of the New American Cinema Group, Inc/The Film-Makers Cooperative are pleased to present a very rare 16mm screening of the Mary Bellis masterpiece, Agent of Paradise.
Agent of Paradise captures a time and place in the East Village that is rapidly fading away as gentrification is transforming the neighborhood rendering it unrecognizable. This film is an historic document of the East Village, featuring the artists and performers that worked and lived there, with appearances by: Tom Murrin the Alien Comic, Tabboo!, John Kelly, Philly, Arleen Schloss, and the Dumas Attack Group. James Oseland plays a talent agent auditioning a cadre of performance artists and musicians.
Following the screening there will be a panel discussion with: James Oseland,
MM Serra,Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Philly, and Sara Fendley.
The Filmmaker’s Cooperative

Catherine Texier Russian Lessons
2016-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Book Party and Reading with Paula Bomer, Chloe Caldwell, and Larissa Pham
Catherine Texier, the co-editor of the legendary downtown literary magazine of the 1980s, Between C and D, returns with a new novel of her own, Russian Lessons. A classic of erotic literary storytelling, Russian Lessons is as bold and compelling as Yukio Mishima’s The School of Flesh, or D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Texier tells the story of a divorced mother who gets involved with a tempestuous thirty-year old Russian illegal immigrant. The edgy affair quickly turns into a darker bond of obsession and compulsion as Yuri constantly pushes the limits sexually and emotionally, driving their relationship to an intense and brutal pitch.
Sunday, February 21st. 7.00pm / Free
About Catherine Texier
About Paula Bomer
About Chloe Caldwell
About Larissa Pham

Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show with BOBBIE
2016-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention
Tom Murrin, the Alien Comic and ‘Godfather of Performance Art’, did his Luna Macaroona show—without fail—on every full moon. With a club date or not, he’d perform a piece wrangling many of his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, Tom would take it to the street! One of his favorite spots was in front of the Plaza Hotel where pedestrians on Fifth Avenue would encounter his delightful madness as they went about their business.

As part of Howl’s ongoing monthly series celebrating Tom’s wildly inventive Luna Macaroona shows, Howl! Happening is pleased to present dual gender performer BOBBIE, with a street performance in front of the gallery which houses Murrin’s archives. A hybrid ingénue and storyteller, BOBBIE is an avid collector of gay history and sees his work in a continuum of culture—a young, post-modern gay performer who mines the 80s and beyond to write stories and create characters that he describes as being in “a suspended state of intermittent Identity.” Coordinated by curator/performer Salley May.

Free to the public

Back To No Future A Panel Discussion
2016-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
In conjunction with Marcia Resnick’s photo exhibit, Punks Poets and Provocateurs.
What is it about the late 70’s and early 80’s that has everyone so fascinated? Anthony Haden-Guest, Carlo McCormick, Amos Poe, and Victor Bockris join Marcia Resnick for a discussion on the resurgence of interest in New York’s most volatile era and the indelible mark it has left on the culture, arts and landscape of the city.
Friday, February 26th, 7.00pm / Free

Arturo Vega Insults
2016-03-05 18:00 - 2016-03-31 18:00 UTC | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
A series of paintings created by the late Arturo Vega imprinted with irrelevant and honest text fragments in a cocktail of insults and mystic thoughts. Painted in primary colors as a way to ponder the crudeness of the society he was a part of, they poke fun at the uncertainty and ambivalence of the artist in the face of the cultural climate of his adopted city.
