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SUMMARY:Philly Abe This Side of Heaven
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Wednesday April 4 / 6–8 PM / Free\n. . . a hybrid practice that has consistently harnessed both punk irreverence and graffiti transgression to channel demons. . . into the exquisite\, glowing collages. —Jenifer P Borum\, Raw Vision magazine \nArtist and performer Philly Abe (July 8\, 1949–January 30\, 2018) was a vortex of energy and core member of the Howl! Happening Tribe. Whether performing on the street outside the gallery in the impromptu and wacky Full Moon Show\, cheering on her friends at events and exhibitions\, or just being her own chaotic\, colorful self\, Philly/Kondor8 was a visionary who never stopped creating and reinventing herself through her performances\, collages\, and paintings. This Side of Heaven pays tribute to her work and life\, as we mourn her passing with a memorial exhibition. \nPhilly was born in 1949 and grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She attended Penn State and received a degree in educational communications. Always a rebel rouser\, she was involved with some anarchist groups in the late 60s\, and in the 70s she moved to Toronto with her then-husband who worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. There she became involved with documentary radio\, studied dance with Lindsay Kemp\, and opened a punk store before heading West to more adventures. She made her way to San Francisco\, where she met Mike and George Kuchar\, with whom she would later make several films. Eventually\, in 1983\, she moved to the Lower East Side\, which was to be her home until her untimely death. \nOnce in New York\, Philly was fully engaged in the nightlife and cultural scene. She performed at the Pyramid\, Area\, Limbo Lounge\, 8BC\, Danceteria\, and did what it took to get by in the no holds barred atmosphere of creativity and community that reigned before the era of gentrification. It’s reputed that early on she even “slept on the stage of ABC No Rio.” \nIn January of this year\, she was the recipient of an Acker Award\, a tribute to the avant-garde arts community who praised her work and life “in defiance of convention.” Her bio from their program outlines her creative trajectory: She was part of 7 Days of Creation at ABC No Rio in 1983\, and the New Leonard Beach Hotel Project of artist-decorated rooms in Miami Beach in 1989\, both exhibitions curated by Allied Productions. She was the star of many films by director Todd Verow and his muse for more than two decades. Notable Verow films starring Philly include Once and Future Queen\, The Trouble of Perpetual Deja-Vu\, and most recently This Side of Heaven (2016). She starred in Agent of Paradise by Mary Bellis and was involved in screenings at Naked Eye Cinema. Her film credits also include appearances in the films of Jack Waters\, Carl George\, and Mike Kuchar. \nIn the 90s Philly fronted the punk band Eager Meat\, which recorded the album America is a Theme Park. In 2004\, she co-founded the noize/art collective Infinity SS (Saint Stanton) with Stanton Street artist friends Carlucci ‘The Magician’ Bencivenga\, Steve Ellis\, James Curtright\, Chris Morrow\, Craig Klein\, Kosuke Aoki\, Mayuka Nobuta\, and Dave Vulcan. They collaborated on art and their noize band performed at The Knitting Factory\, Arlene’s Grocery\, and CBGBs. \nFor the Acker Awards\, she described her work as “old style thrown against the wall of now—spray paint noize markers collage—with one foot in the Stone Age and the other in string theory.” Her work was featured on the cover of Raw Vision issue #66 in 2009\, and in exhibitions with Christina Varga in Woodstock\, New York\, and Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chelsea.
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SUMMARY:The Cutouts:  Keith Patchel and The Venus Orbit with Poet Bob Holman
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 12\, 2018 / 7 PM Free \nA Performance \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present a very special evening with Keith Patchel\, The Venus Orbit\, and poet Bob Holman. The Venus Orbit is a multimedia instrumental ensemble founded by award-winning NYC-based film composer Patchel.  The performance at Howl! Happening will be the debut of Patchel’s The Cutouts (Matisse)\, a new music song cycle using the poetry of Bob Holman—who will be performing—and based on Henri Matisse’s cut paper works\, along with abbreviated versions of Modern Music with Electronica and other Patchel compositions. Featured performers include Sayaka Aiba\, musicians Clara Francesca and Cantata Fan\, with projections by Alexis Kandra.  \nThe Cutouts (Matisse) is Bob Holman’s third chapbook with PeKa Boo Press\, located in Woods Hole\, MA. The series is edited by poet Eric Edwards and features cover and frontispiece art by Rebecca Edwards. The 50 miniatures in the book are ekphrastics—art inspired by other art—in this case the eponymous work with scissors and colored paper that occupied Matisse for the last 14 years of his life.  \nBound by a wheelchair due to polio\, he created bold\, striking\, imagistic\, brilliantly-colored shapes that were first collected in a project called Jazz. “You see as I am obliged to remain often in bed because of the state of my health\, I have made a little garden all around me where I can walk…. There are leaves\, fruits\, a bird\,” he wrote. Matisse generally cut the shapes out freehand\, using a small pair of scissors and saving both the cut-out sheets and remaining scraps of paper.  \nHolman’s poems take Matisse’s freestyle handling of paper and sets it free to dance and form poems of tenderness and whimsicality—reminiscent of nursery rhymes\, love songs\, and fragments of jazz\, orchestral\, rock\, and folk stylings. Keith Patchel’s music moves from echoes of Messiaen and Satie to contemporary classical and rock. The resulting work is a wash of intricacy and color that conjures the sea\, the sky—and the paper they are made of. Like Matisse’s cut paper works\, Holman and Patchel’s songspiel is a vibrant\, playful bite of astonishment. “Time for lunch\, Henri/So eat your breakfast/Blue apple/Green coffee/Yellow fingers.” \nHowl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project \n6 East First Street (Between Bowery and 2nd Ave) \nNew York\, NY 10003 \n917 475 1294 \ncontact@howlarts.org  \nGallery Hours: Wed–Sun\, 11 AM–6 PM
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SUMMARY:Todd Verow This Side of Heaven
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening\nAs part of the tribute to Philly Abe’s life and work\, Howl! is pleased to present a screening of This Side Of Heaven\, a film by Todd Verow. Philly’s roommate\, dear friend\, and artist collaborator\, Verow describes the impetus for the movie: \nWe decided to make This Side of Heaven when our landlord was doing everything he could to try to get us evicted. Our way of coping with the harassment and absurdity of it all was to make a movie. It was cathartic and exhausting. Every day when we were shooting\, we would wake up and I would spend an hour doing Philly’s makeup and hair. We would go over the scenes while I did this\, and she would get into her character. When we were done for the day\, we would both just collapse on the floor\, exhausted physically and emotionally. It was the last movie we finished together. \nIn This Side of Heaven\, V (Philly Abe)\, an older trans woman\, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. She has endured many tragedies involving former lovers\, friends\, \nand acquaintances over the 26 years she has lived in her rat-\, roach-\, and junkie-infested building. She has survived corrupt landlord after corrupt landlord\, but her struggles have left her agoraphobic and reclusive. As V tries to maintain her sanity\, she is visited by her friend and mentor Lili (Brandon Olson)\, who consoles her and tries to get her to work on a new cabaret show. However\, V knows those days are over; she is no longer interested in performing. \nMeanwhile\, V’s property manager\, Shawnith (Jayne Nicoletti) continues her nefarious efforts to evict her or get her to move out. In retaliation\, Alexxx (Penny Arcade)\, V’s upstairs neighbor\, tries to get her to be more active in the political fight against gentrification\, but V resigns to stay put. \nHer only connection to the outside world comes through interactions with various delivery boys who bring groceries and necessities. Most of them take advantage of V or rob her\, but one of them\, Christian (Justin Rodriguez)\, becomes her friend. He eventually agrees to move in with her\, but just as things seem to be turning around for V\, Shawnith resorts to violent means to get her out of the building once and for all. \nAlso screened will be One Last Scene\, new short film Verow made with Philly before her death.
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