I recently came across both of these videos and I thought you all might enjoy them. The first is “Blue Monday” by New Order (ca. 1988). Though I vividly remember the futuristic video for Orgy’s cover of this tune (think lots of white lipstick and weird green lasers), I had never seen the original. The [...]
Author Archives: Sarah Fensom
Q&A with Hisham Bharoocha
December 14, 2009 – 10:15 am
Brooklyn-based visual artist and musician Hisham Bharoocha has had his plate full as of late. Sole founder and member of Soft Circle, Bharoocha released a split 12 inch with High Places (available on iTunes now) in July, has shown his photography and collage work in multiple group shows, and most recently has launched two projects [...]
Double Room at Recess Activities, Inc.
November 2, 2009 – 5:19 am
On the evening of November 6th, at 6:30 pm, Recess Activities, Inc. will celebrate the launch of the performance phase of Double Room, a project by artists in residence, Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden. Over the last four weeks the artists have been building two separate yet identical, triangular rooms, fashioned as domestic living areas. [...]
Mysterious Letters
August 27, 2009 – 3:00 am
This past April, artists Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe sent out personal letters to each of the 467 households in the town of Cushendall, Northern Ireland, where they had done a two week residency. The artists kept a blog with scans of the unsolicited letters – each one unique, with its own message, stationary, and [...]
Insound 10 featuring Mike Perry
August 24, 2009 – 3:03 pm
Last year Insound collaborated with artist Jason Munn (aka The Small Stakes) to produce Insound 20, an award-winning collection of stylish merch for 20 current indie favorites. This year, the online retailer sought Mike Perry, author and illustrator of the design books Hand Job and Over and Over, to reinterpret designs for 10 seminal bands [...]
X: The Multiples Exhibition at Glowlab
July 30, 2009 – 5:50 am
Tonight Soho’s Glowlab is holding the opening reception for its latest production, X: The Multiples Exhibition, from 7-9. The group show will function as a tapestry, threading together the work of thirteen artists by concept and medium (including photography, screenprinting, sculpture, performance, and publication). As its title suggests, the exhibition examines the intersection of thirteen separate [...]
