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SUMMARY:Samoa Candy Coated Evil
DESCRIPTION:An Exhibition Curated by Kembra Pfahler\nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, January 10\, 6–8 PM \nIn a poisoned\, jaded world\, this show is a limitless panacea. Samoa’s vocabulary is so innately understandable by anyone with a heart that still beats. And loved by those of us who understand that art and music and performance can create change\, rather than just swell our pockets or decorate our rooms. It’s art that serves a purpose\, and Samoa’s work does just that—one show at a time.  —Kembra Pfahler \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Candy Coated Evil\, a solo exhibition by the multifaceted Samoa\, curated by artist and performer Kembra Pfahler. The exhibition encompasses the full range of Samoa’s diverse art forms—an installation recreating his now-legendary Candy Coated Evil store\, which opened in 1996 within East Village landmark The Pink Pony; costumes and props from his performances and music groups; and paintings that capture his deep experience of living in New York City. \nA major element of the artist’s show are live events—performances by Samoa and Kembra Pfahler\, as well as a panel discussion\, and an evening of video and film. (See dates below.) \nBorn in Hiroshima\, Japan\, he formed his first rock band\, Johnny\, while still in high school and curated numerous music events before moving to Tokyo\, where he acted in underground theater and TV dramas. Doing extreme performance in Tokyo in the late 70s\, he invented his name—imagining Samoa as an idyllic paradise where he’d someday live. It was in Japan that he began creating his flamboyant costumes. He won a grand prize in 1978 at a popular disco in Tokyo\, dressed as a large can of roach spray while surrounded by a coterie of friends in cockroach costumes. He moved to New York in 1980. \nIn the Candy Coated Evil exhibition\, Samoa constructs his experiences of coming to the dystopic landscape of the Lower East Side. As Pfahler puts it\, he’s “a heroic artist and immigrant without the word ‘fear’ in his vocabulary.” The complex emotions he expresses about this experience can be seen throughout his work. \nRadical and outrageous\, he has been an active participant in extreme alternative interdisciplinary art culture for decades. He was one of the first performers at the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge—where he learned English by performing with friends Tanya Ransom and Frederic\, and watching early performances by legends like Ethyl Eichelberger and John Sex—a first wave of punk performance heroes that are historicized widely in the art world today. He stood out singing and playing his original music on his signature Gibson guitar at Wigstock in the early 80s; in 1984\, his rock opera\, Under the Bad Star\, premiered at La MaMa. The opera featured his over-the-top sets and costumes; the backing band included members of the alternative post-punk band Jawbreaker. Many of his wildly eccentric costumes and other DIY artifacts from this period will be on display. \nIn 1990—with Pfahler—he founded the legendary theatrical shock rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. Samoa was responsible for writing all the music for the band\, which continues to wreak havoc wherever they perform today. As much a theatrical troupe as a band\, New York’s TVHKB (named in homage to the B-movie scream queen) mixes their punk roots with elements of vaudeville\, psychotronic films\, and futuristic burlesque to arrive at their signature identity. \nIn his paintings\, the subjects he chooses to portray—James Baldwin\, Nina Simone\, First Nation Chief Wolf Robe\, Ken Takakura (a Yakuza movie star)\, and many more—draw attention to racial and social issues in vivid color\, with bold images that capture the hopes\, fears\, wonder\, and pain of his American experience. \nIn curator Pfahler’s words: “The oddness that emerges…his particular type of rage at the injustice that inhabits our world sneaks beautifully into every crevice of his canvases. Not unlike his songwriting and costume making…it’s all Samoa…part prophetic soothsaying and part gilded advertisement for a new world….” \nPERFORMANCES AND LIVE EVENTS\nSaturday\, January 13: Performance by Kembra Pfahler and a performance by Samoa\nSunday\, January 14: Panel discussion\nThursday\, January 18: Video/film screening\nThursday\, February 8: Samoa performance\nSunday\, February 11: Closing night ceremony \nAbout Samoa \nAbout Kembra Pfahler
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/samoa-candy-coated-evil/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery
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SUMMARY:Amy Lawless and Angela Veronica Wong
DESCRIPTION:Publication Party for Two New Poetry Collections \nHowl! Happening is pleased to celebrate the publication of two new poetry collections: Angela Veronica Wong’s elsa: an unauthorized autobiography\, published by Black Radish Books\, and Amy Lawless’ Broadax\, published by Octopus Books. \nWong’s elsa: an unauthorized autobiography unfolds the story of a fictional 18th-century French demimondaine and mistress of Louis XV. Meditating on gender\, identity\, and the precariousness of women’s lives against the scrim of patriarchal power and capital\, the foils of the sonnet form and storytelling shape Wong’s critique. Both adhering to and breaking the structures of rhyme and meter—like Elsa wearing and divesting herself of corset and panniers—Wong’s sonnets shift between the politics of the French court and the streets of New York. Navigating the shoals of female embodiment\, the poems slip between then and now\, narrated and narrator. \nAmy Lawless takes inspiration from Annie Dillard\, who writes in her essay The Death of the Moth\, “You can’t be anything else. You must go at your life with a broadax.” In her new book\, Lawless goes at her life in an attempt to understand the pain and how to live in this fucked-up world. Broadax begins in the guileless moments of the poet’s childhood and constellates outward\, only to return to the same life through adult eyes. Lawless reflects on her life with the help of The Incredible Hulk\, Prince\, Žižek\, Mishima\, and especially her family. \nPublisher’s Weekly on elsa: “Wong explores the confines and contradictions of patriarchy\, the injustices of imperialism and class division\, and the fever-pitch potential of revolution. […] The poems and the relationships described therein witness intersecting sex and violence; there are predators and prey\, though these designations are constantly in flux and precarious in the face of revolt. […] As an imagined history\, this book is rich with sensory detail and shrewd interpersonal politics; as a screed on the perpetual cycle of objectification\, it is timely and stirring.” \nPublishers Weekly on Broadax: “Lawless’s ax strikes at misogyny and its inherent brutality in this exceedingly clever collection on being fearless in a world where fear is weaponized to keep women compliant.” \nAbout Amy Lawless and Broadax\nAmy Lawless is the author of two books of poems\, including My Dead (Octopus Books). Her third poetry collection Broadax is forthcoming in the fall from Octopus Books. A chapbook\, A Woman Alone\, is just out from Sixth Finch Books. With Chris Cheney\, she is the author of the hybrid book I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected\, from the Pioneer Works Press Groundworks series (2016). Lawless’ poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2013\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion\, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press). Poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta\, Washington Square Review\, Bennington Review\, jubilat\, The Inquisitive Eater\, and elsewhere. She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011 and lives in Brooklyn. \nAbout Angela Veronica Wong and elsa\nAngela Veronica Wong is a poet\, writer\, artist\, and educator based in New York City. Her most recent book of poetry is elsa: an unauthorized autobiography (Black Radish Books\, 2017). Chapbooks include the Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship winner Dear Johnny\, In Your Last Letter. Poems have been anthologized in Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation and Best American Poetry (in collaboration with Amy Lawless). Wong’s fiction has appeared in the Denver Quarterly\, Duende\, and smoking glue gun. Her performance work has been featured in independent galleries in Buffalo\, Toronto\, and New York. She was named a Poets & Writers debut poet for her first book of poems\, how to survive a hotel fire.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/amy-lawless-and-angela-veronica-wong/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Book Signing
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SUMMARY:Rene Ricard Four Years On
DESCRIPTION:With Raymond Foye\, Easy Keys\, Gerard Malanga\, Anne Waldman\, Richard Hell\, Anselm Berrigan and More \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Four Years On\, a multimedia evening organized by Rene Ricard’s close friend\, publisher\, and executor Raymond Foye. As we approach the fourth year of Ricard’s death\, interest in the work of this poet\, painter\, and critic continues to grow. A mainstay of the New York art scene\, Ricard starred in numerous Warhol films\, including Chelsea Girls (1966). \nThe evening includes a live performance by Brooklyn-based band Easy Keys\, who will perform songs from their new LP\, Rene Ricard. This album sets to music Ricard’s poems of tragic love\, jealousy and betrayal\, drugs and dissipation—and the poet’s redemption through writing and art. The celebration also commemorates the new bilingual edition of Ricard’s first book\, 1979-1980\, published by Éditions Lutanie in Paris\, which was edited and translated by publisher Manon Lutanie\, and Rachel Valinsky\, an independent curator and writer based in Brooklyn. \nRaymond Foye will interview legendary poet and writer Gerard Malanga\, who was responsible for collecting and editing Rene Ricard: 1979-1980 when he was director of publications at Dia. Rene Ricard’s first public reading in New York was with Malanga\, at Izzy Young’s Folklore Center in 1965. \nSpecial guest readers will include Anne Waldman\, Richard Hell\, Anselm Berrigan and others to be announced. A short film starring Rene Ricard by Rita Barros will also be screened. \nwww.easykeysworld.com/music
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/rene-ricard-four-years-on/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
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