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April 4, 2015
OVERTURE
The three rooms were filled with this year's marvelous 2015 residencies (of which we haunt the misty month of October with V A L L E Y) offering up a taste of what's to come. It is simply a pleasure to sink into a place of this level, with its evolving ethos and personal mythology ascending to complement the determination of its wild art intentions. Also visible is the work of the amazing artist Torsten Zenas Burns (video projections on the right, second and fifth images down), whose forthcoming collaboration with video / installation artist Darrin Martin is set to sizzle poor ole' August.
KROWSWORK, unlike standard galleries, which usually run in stodgy clockwork, isn't locked in step to the template bestowed unto us by "the industry".This venue does not run on perennial fear, nor marketable imitations of the run of the mill, but on imagination and visionary insight.
otherwise by appointment
p.s.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Duane Deterville, whose fascinating "Afriscape Cartography: Sight, Sound, Space and Ritual" left me in enlightened awe. It also granted a few sharp knots to my gut in viewing the meticulously detailed depictions of slaves bound in preparation for The Middle Passage, inserted into mysterious drawings depicting symbols of The New World Order.
February 22, 2015
RATSKIN RECORDS Presents
come on down to OAKLAND town
to fry your mind this tuesday before boom of blare and bounce of lit to shit.
brought to you by MALOCCULSION & SHALO P
LETS FADE INTO LIGHT
RATSKIN RECORDS Presents
OCCULAR EYEPLUGS: A NIGHT OF VIDEO SHORTS
FEATURING A FEW HOURS OF SHORT FILMS / EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS FROM LOCAL, NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND VIDEO MAKERS!
$3-7 DONATION
free snacks...
Curated by MALOCCULSION with Shalo P
new and recent works by:
SHALO P
SHANA MOULTON
JASON WADE
BRYAN BOYCE
ADRIAN S.
MOREDRUGSMOREOFTEN
STEPH LISTER
STYROFOAM SANCHEZ
DOUG KATELUS
SAMUR KHOUJA
POSTCOMMODITY / RAVEN CHACON
KENT LONG
ZEEK SHECK
DAVID LIM
FLETCHER PRATT
AND A SPECIAL LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE FROM ORACLE PLUS!!!
and lots more tba....
LIFE CHANGING MINISTRIES
(located between Peralta and Campbell on 8th St, Oakland)
FEB 24 9PM
work by FLOWER PATTERN aka ADRIAN SAENZ
FEB 24 9PM
work by FLOWER PATTERN aka ADRIAN SAENZ
work by BRYAN BOYCE
work by SHANA MOULTON
work by SHALO P
February 6, 2015
V A L L E Y
We're happy to announce that V A L L E Y will be presented this OCT at the prestigious KROWSWORK in Oakland, California.
There will an Overture exhibition for the next two days (Feb 6-7) to preview this year's "residencies", along with an interesting new perspective on modicum of message.
There will an Overture exhibition for the next two days (Feb 6-7) to preview this year's "residencies", along with an interesting new perspective on modicum of message.
The V A L L E Y exhibition will be a sensational affair that hopes in all its true blues to enthuse synergistic licks between sexual ecstasy, the colossal cosmic void, and a lowly hysterically mental aberration that serves as Melody Tension to our Surge Gainsbourg, or perhaps as Vigil / Ovid to our olive oil eternal limbo of maniacal laughter*. It's an opera concerning low lying lands, where ensnared cleverly concealed dour hours transcend the sorrowful.
Personally, we're quite thankful to work with Krowswork's Jasmine Moorhead again, whose kind support has been instrumental to all this coming together, and whose openness to daring video artforms, innate Bay Area weirdness(es), and really conceptually far-out ideas truly sets her apart from her seemingly lifeless colleagues.
She's one of the most fearless curators out there,
and we're honored to present another fine production at her establishment.
OCT 2015
M O U T H
T O
M O U T H
W O R T H
D R O W N I N G
F O R
http://hellprevails.blogspot.com
our previous discourse
http://www.krowswork.com/krowsworker.html
http://www.krowswork.com/overture.html
* SISTER SPREAD
our previous discourse
http://www.krowswork.com/krowsworker.html
http://www.krowswork.com/overture.html
* SISTER SPREAD
January 14, 2015
CHARLIE HEBDO / HEAVEN'S HAMMER COURTESY OF STEPHEN R. BISSETTE
I'm seeing a lot of folks I love, respect, admire circulating variations on distancing themselves from the content of CHARLIE HEBDO and the really vicious cartooning they thrived upon—a French tradition, I'll remind you.
No, I won't post/share David Brooks' NY TIMES "I AM NOT CHARLIE HEBDO" because I don't share those sentiments. I've seen and faced and spoken to and fought with those kinds of apologists—including the smug Florida prosecutor who railroaded Mike Diana back in the 1990s (whose bile one could almost taste over the phone when he spat back, "You'd make Diana a poster-boy for art?" "No, you're already doing that yourself," I replied).
Given the absolutely dead-earnest venomous extremist patriarchal/pious/sexist/racist/corporate pro-greed Lord Ha-Ha rhetoric we tolerate from politicians and pundits—and the various and often extremist religious "faith-based" tsunamis that flood the airwaves (and dominate some broadcast regions)—every day, every hour, every minute, I consider savage satiric outrage of the most extreme as a corrective diarrhetic.
Brooks is a timid apologist at best, and would shut down the S. Clay Wilsons, Mike Dianas, NATIONAL LAMPOONs (in its heyday) and all the rest of 'em while tolerating everyone from Spiro Agnew to William F. Buckley to Morton Downey Jr. to Rush Limbaugh to Bill O'Reilly.
No, thanks.
JE SUIS CHARLIE HEBDO
A satirical magazine old enough to have covered the French Revolution.
It was firebombed in 2011 due to a cartoon featuring Muhammad.
Recently, two men with machine guns ran in and mowed down a number of the staff - of course,
another example of religiously-based violence perpetrated by intellectual cowards.
These journalists died for freedom of expression.
Remember that people unjustly die over this all the time.
And please remember to love and support those that live for freedom and open discussion.
We will need it for the future that one day buries all the religious barbarism of the past.
love,
Shalo P
further reading / viewing.
BBC report of the attack
Read the new Charlie Hebdo in English
Cartoons by Cabu
Charlie Hebdo's Wikipedia page
Charlie Hebdo's first cover after the attack
&
Richard Dawkin "The God Delusion"
Christopher Hitchens on the manufacturing of the Islamic faith
Debate: Lawrence Krauss vs. Islamic Apologist
Sam Harris "On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God"
January 4, 2015
December 6, 2014
TAROT
hey we're in a magazine.
i haven't seen the magazine.
what is in this magazine?
viewer discretion is advised.
November 20, 2014
November 13, 2014
September 18, 2014
July 30, 2014
Dan Melchior und Das Menace - HUNGER
with artwork by Shalo P & layout by Matt Jones
now available from
CASTLE FACE RECORDS
“So please dig in with open ears and hearts.
Let Dan melt your brains as he has ours at Castle Face.” — John Dwyer
ALSO, please take to moment to:
Please Help Letha Rodman Melchior Conquer Cancer!, a site which desperately needs donations in order to aide with medical costs to help Letha Rodman Melchior, diagnosed with stage IV melanoma since 2010.
AND
do yourself a favor by checking out Matt Jones' new sound project - MALE GAZE.
with love,
Shalo P
May 3, 2014
THEE OH SEES - SINGLES COLLECTION VOL 3
Here's our cover for THEE OH SEES - Singles Collection Vol 3.
The physical object is quite hard to capture photographically, as the surface's reflecting shine could give a blank platinum Jeff Koon's Bunny a run for its money.
That's that Chrome Tri-tone flavor for you.
This band is killer, and I've loved them for - like - ever.
April 24, 2014
FREAK SCENE EAST - OPENING NIGHT
here are some cool photos from our group show in Philadelphia at SPACE 1026.
thanks to all the lovely folks involved,
with special thanks to Keenan Marshall Keller & Pat Aulisio for bringing it all together.
more photos are available on Thomas Toye's website.
"Best show no one's ever seen." - Charles Burns (author of Black Hole)
tell all your friends. oh do spread the word! this is a great collection of some of the most radically exciting mind-splintering violations to the artform of the juxtaposed narrative. take a look, we do certainly "bring the pain".
the collection of books on view must be absolutely marvelous... if i were there now i'd probably stay for hours.
all fresh. all new. all now.
the literature of the unspoken wow.
stay savage
March 10, 2014
February 19, 2014
September 22, 2013
THE HERMS - DROP OUT VOL 1
the new THE HERMS is now out in store and available online.
check out my painting on the cover for the awesomely raw booming blare that is THE HERMS - DROP OUT VOL 1 out now on Castle Face Records. we have it playing all the time in the office (‘cause i said so). it’s my first physical LP in my hands, and i like it a lot. : )
it has some real great gems hand-picked to be audio-delicious as one solid volume.
it has some real great gems hand-picked to be audio-delicious as one solid volume.
thanks to Matt Jones and John Dwyer for getting this together.
love,
sp
July 10, 2013
EXPERIMENT FILM FESTIVAL PORTLAND
I just got this super rad t-shirt in the mail from the kind folks of EFF Portland.
Super thanks to Karl Lind for including me in the B-Side (which thrills me not only for the fine company, but also because it reminds me of Adam Ant's B-Side Babies). Thanks also to all the great folks involved in putting everything together. Pink in so my color right now, and the unflinchingly fearless format of volatile cinema Experimental Film Festival Portland celebrates is also a distinctly personal joy as well.
With special thanks to the Oregon Department of Kick Ass.
love,
sp
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