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SUMMARY:Scooter LaForge: Homo Eruptus
DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening is pleased to present Homo Eruptus\, a new body of work by Scooter LaForge including large\, mural-size paintings that mine the artist’s fertile inner emotional realm.  Whether it’s expressed on the mammoth pictorial canvases on view at the gallery\, or a t-shirt or cast-off article of clothing—Scooter paints with an earnestness that responds in the moment to what he sees and hears and feels about the world around him. Prehistoric cave paintings and the erotic murals of Pompeii mix with childhood memories and his experiences as a gay youth in leather bars\, creating an orgy of images that personalize and tap into the emotional content of his daily life and current interests.  \nMoving from canvas to canvas\, everything exists simultaneously for Scooter—the passionate\, the arousing\, the disturbing. Immediate and unmediated\, he “hits” his canvases like a graffiti artist. With a painterly agility bordering on the absurd\, his canvases are focused because of the very centrality and honesty of his emotions—the unmitigated awareness of his odyssey and the plasticity of his medium become a unifying force in the story and visuals of his work. \n“What impresses me is the urgency with which he paints—the fluidity—his vulnerability and knowing subversiveness\,” says Jane Friedman\, Executive Director of Howl! Happening. \nScooter understands the rules of painting and adapts well to the nature of whatever surface presents itself—canvas\, wall\, ceramic object\, piece of clothing\, bag\, or pair of shoes—the gender fluidity\, the homoerotic\, the fairy tale energy are one with the artwork.  \nDespite the recognizable pop culture imagery\, his painting is not a linear narrative about bunnies and bears and SpongeBob. There is a dark cloud that hangs over the fairy tale creatures and myths of his artmaking. Bed bugs\, dope\, addiction\, and the excesses of underground gluttony at sex clubs are also part of his experience and therefore an integral part of his painting. That dark cloud can be seen literally within a large mural he recently painted for a gay and lesbian youth center in Tel Aviv where four teens were murdered. That cloud restores complexity and reinstates the balance of delight and dread that is a hallmark of his work. \n \nWould You Be My Girlfriend?\, Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center\, 2018 \n  \nScooter 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. But his contribution to painting is not necessarily “topical.” Instead\, by delving into his emotional essence\, the authentic power of the work emerges\, full of ambiguity and dreamlike visions—invoking pleasure and an edge of danger—expressing what it feels to be gay and living on the dark side of troubling times. \nAbout Scooter LaForge  \nScooter LaForge was born in Las Cruces\, New Mexico\, and moved to New York City in 2001 for a Cooper Union residency. Living in the East Village for the past 17 years\, his unique style has garnered the interest of curators and collectors. His work mines the rich catalog of art history\, infusing classical themes with a colorful sensibility. Bridging the gap between pop art and contemporary painting\, LaForge’s work redefines the medium for today. LaForge works in various media\, including painting\, sculpture\, and drawing\, employing unorthodox techniques and striking iconic images. In 2015\, the artist was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He is a frequent collaborator with his good friend Patricia Field. Exhibited internationally\, Scooter is currently exhibiting Creation of the Animals at Empirical Nonsense and will have his second solo show at HOWL! Happening\, Homo Eruptus\, in February 2019. \n  \nOpening Reception: February 14\, 2019 / 6–8 PM / Free \n 
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/scooter-laforge-homo-eruptus/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:SPRING/BREAK: Scooter LaForge Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale
DESCRIPTION:Spring/Break Art Show NYC \nScooter LaForge Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale \nCurated by Carlo McCormick \nBooth #W14\n \nFor Spring/Break\, Howl! is also pleased to offer the Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale\, curated by Carlo McCormick\, featuring works by Scooter LaForge. Inspired by his painting exhibition Homo Eruptus Mount Vesuvius will include amphora\, paintings and works associated with his show at Howl! Happening– up through March 13th. \nMaster pop-culture contextualizer and prose stylist McCormick updates a classic trope in this tongue-in-cheek “fire sale” of objects which might have been found in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the time when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and buried both cities. Artifacts\, graffiti\, and racy murals all are preserved\, revealing what is hidden in contemporary culture: the erotic\, exotic\, and ribald…the rapturous freedom of desires.  \n“Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale is a perfect manifestation of the subversive humor and social commentary inherent in both Carlo’s and Scooter’s work\,” says Jane Friedman\, executive director of Howl! Happening. “These 21st century souvenirs are satirical\, but the cloud hanging over all of us is dead serious in these troubling times.” \nCommenting on LaForge’s exhibition\, Homo Eruptus\, currently on view at Howl! Happening through March 13th\, McCormick begins his catalog essay by quoting a passage from Malcolm Lowry’s novel Under the Volcano: “I have no house\, only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow\, my shadow is yours.”  \nCarlo goes on to say: \nAshes to ashes\, funk to funky\, we all live under a volcano\, in the shadows of a doubt. What is certain is only that we will each of us someday die; the only remaining mortal question is if it will be with a bang or a whimper. In an ambitious cycle of new paintings Scooter LaForge allows us the pleasure and peril of contemplating life in the shadows of extinction\, reimagining the frescoes of Pompeii through the bacchanal of another abruptly interrupted era: that of New York’s pre-AIDS gay nightlife. […] In a kind of postmodern marvel of time in a blender remix pastiche\, Scooter doesn’t simply deliver the engulfed and exhumed subterranean splendor of Pompeii but the great homosexual underground clubs that raged through the city of his youth\, the demise of the former conjoined in some anonymous sexual tryst with the latter. \nMount Vesuvius Fire Sale offers the chance to own a piece of history in the making\, as LaForge creates and memorializes historic remnants of a long-buried creative culture. \nFor information about Spring Break \n  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y425tlXIH5w&feature=youtu.be
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/spring-break-scooter-laforge-mount-vesuvius-fire-sale/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:SPRING/BREAK: Tom Murrin: Welcome To Alien Flight School
DESCRIPTION:Tom Murrin Collection /The Howl! Arts Archive \nBooth #W25 \nPerformance art is anything done with purpose and style. —Tom Murrin \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Tom Murrin: Welcome to Alien Flight School\, a showcase of performances\, masks\, and props from The Howl! Arts Archive\, Collection: Tom Murrin. Also known as The Alien Comic and Jack Bump\, Murrin (February 8\, 1939–March 12\, 2012) was a performance pioneer whose life and work inspired artists and audiences for more than 40 years. The Howl! Arts Archive includes  his masks\, costumes\, scripts\, correspondence\, photographs\, and performance videos\, dating from the early 70s. \nAt Spring/Break\, Howl! will be showing an array of handmade masks\, costumes\, and videos that contextualize Murrin as an artist and performer. Known for engaging audiences directly in his mercurial and frenetic performances\, visuals were a unique part of Murrin’s shows. He made no distinction between his art and performance\,and was a masterful maker of masks and costumes using humble materials like cardboard\, plastic bags\, and funky objects found on the street. Rarely seen videos—like Merrill Aldighieri’s footage of a performance in Riverside Park in which Tom teaches parkgoers how to turn themselves into flying aliens—bring to life the full range of his work.  \nAs a writer\, entertainer\, performance artist\, actor\, provocateur\, itinerant hit-and-run showman\, and in the loosest sense community organizer and teacher\, Tom never wanted to differentiate between the various aspects of his creative practice and engagement with the world. As long as it was understood that everything—Luna Macaroona\, The Alien Comic\, Tom Trash\, or Jack Bump doing Balloon Theater or Avant-Garde-Arama; playing punk rock clubs\, playgrounds\, and theaters; playwriting or being a journalist; and supporting many generations of younger performance artists—was of one entirety. \n      —Carlo McCormick\, April 2014
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE: Drew Hubner Podcast from Howl!
DESCRIPTION:A Reading from the Old Neighborhood \nPLEASE NOTE that this event is now taking place on Saturday March 9th\, not 2nd.  \nHowl! Happening invites you to join us for a reading and fantastic music from the old neighborhood\, featuring LES luminaries:  \nSamoa \nKurt Wolf of Pussy Galore \nPoet legends David Huberman & EAK! Angie Glasscock \nEast of Bowery \nDarius James \nAnnecy TK \nPuma Perl \n…and many more \n  \nHost Drew Hubner is the author of American by Blood\, We Pierce\, and East of Bowery. Produced by Kristin Mathis. \n  \nAbout the Participants \n  \nJournalist and writer Sarah Ferguson has covered the East Village for more than 30 years—first for Downtown magazine\, then the Village Voice\, and now the Villager and Gothamist. She was twice nominated for a Pulitzer (for her reporting on the homeless movement and squatter rebellions)\, and was graced with an Acker Award in 2014. She’s also written features for Esquire\, Vibe\, Details\, High Times\, the Nation and Mother Jones. Now an avant gardener and mom\, she’ll be reading from some of the unpublished screeds she penned as a witness to the neighborhood’s turmoil. \nAngie Glasscock is a singer-songwriter born in Memphis\, Tennessee. After experimenting with LSD in her junior year of college\, she dropped out to pursue a bohemian life and moved into an artist colony in an SRO hotel in downtown San Diego. Glasscock moved to New York City in 1987 and worked as a waitress for several years at the beloved LES dive El Sombrero (The Hat). She works for the City of New York\, specializing in HIV and reproductive health care; writing songs and performing is a new passion. Her songs reflect her country roots.  \nDavid Huberman has work published in Evergreen Review\, A Gathering of the Tribes\, Long Shot\, Icon\, and many other literary journals. He’s performed at The Public Theater\, P.S. 122\, La MaMa E.T.C.\, and other performance venues. \nDarius James ​is a lecturer\, spoken-word performer\, editor\, and author of five books. He​ ​lived and worked in New York City for 22 years as a freelance journalist and moved to Berlin\, Germany\, in 1998. His documentary The United States of Hoodoo was released to the German market in the summer of 2012. He returned to the United States in the winter of 2007 and is currently completing a series of stories for his next book\, ​Aunt Katie’s Tales.  \nAnnecy Kenny is a queer\, NYC-based\, self-taught musician and actor originally from North Carolina. They play piano\, ukulele\, guitar\, and the omnichord\, and are currently working on an album called Awakened: The Gospels of Cornchip\, with a tentative release in 2019. Their drag work is inspired by Judy Garland\, Amanda Palmer\, Björk\, John Waters\, David Lynch\, Divine\, and Christeene. They use their platform to lift people up and build solidarity—speaking out against the stigma of mental illness and those affected by it. \nKristin Mathis (Producer) is a poet\, teacher\, translator\, and activist based in New York City.  Her translations of Sappho are forthcoming in Ezra magazine (May 2019) and her own poems have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals. When not writing or teaching\, she advocates for victims of gender-based violence and trafficking with the non-profit organization Sanctuary for Families. \nPuma Perl is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends\, as well as two full-length poetry collections\, knuckle tattoos and Retrograde (great weather for MEDIA). A fifth\, Birthdays Before and After\, is due for release in winter 2019. She is the creator\, curator\, and producer of Puma Perl’s Pandemonium\, which launched at the Bowery Electric in 2012 and brings spoken word together with rock and roll.  \nSamoa was born in Hiroshima\, Japan. He formed the first rock band in his high school and curated numerous music events in his hometown. He moved to Tokyo in 1975\, where he acted and attended beauty school. After arriving in New York City in 1980\, he began to do performance art at The Pyramid Club\, ABC No Rio\, La MaMa E.T.C.\, Area\, Danceteria\, and The Kitchen. In 1988\, Samoa co-founded the notorious punk band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black with Kembra Pfahler. He started painting in 1995. After the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle\, his painting has been predominantly focused on themes of political justice.  \nKurt Wolf is best known for his contributions to downtown noise ogres Pussy Galore\, Boss Hogg\, and Foetus Inc.\, while continuing to make music under the moniker Lapis Lazuli. The music of Lapis Lazuli exists in a kind of parallel universe where rock was dead on arrival and soundtrack composers dominated the latter part of the 20th century. In a world gone mad\, Lapis Lazuli offers comfort in the oddly familiar and a future that never was.   \n  \n  \nImage: Ted Barron. Houston Street\, New York City\, 1985.
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