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Tough Girls and Lucid Dreamers

July 11, 2018 @ 12:00 am

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Tough Girls and Lucid Dreamers
Thursday, July 12, 2018 / 7 PM / Free
Katrina del Mar Curates Reading, Music, and Performance
Howl! Happening 6 East First Street (Between Bowery and 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10003

Howl! Happening is pleased to present a new live series curated by Katrina del Mar. This female-driven, women-centered, time-based live art event is feminist, inclusive, and radical. Artist Katrina del Mar invites a diverse mix of her favorite emerging, mid career and established writers, artists, and musicians to read, show video, or perform new work at Tough Girls and Lucid Dreamers.

Writers Marianne Shaneen, Mel Elberg, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, and Katrina del Mar will participate in the program, alongside performances by Karyn Kuhl, Sarah Greenwood, Genny Slag, and the Stanley Love Performance Group. A short film plus surprise guests complete the evening that has been described by Strange Loop Gallery as “one of [their] best events ever.”

Since its inception in January 2013 at the non-profit space Participant Inc, Tough Girls has been hosted in a variety of spaces, including Prince Street Project Space, Strange Loop Gallery, and Art Market Provincetown.

BIOS of WRITERS & PERFORMERS
Mel Elberg is a poet interested in speculative feminism and the effect of writing on our experience of time.

Marianne Shaneen is a Lebanese/Mexican-American writer who also works in film. She received her MFA in writing from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her essays on artists such as Christine and Margaret Wertheim and their Institute for Figuring, Ken Jacobs, and Arawaka and Madeline Gins have appeared in BOMB magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, and is the recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grant. She is currently finishing Homing, her first novel, a speculative work of fiction that experiments with what she calls “writing in the first non-human person,” from the perspective of various animals and plants, a stone, and plastic. Amidst eco-destruction and military and corporate control of technologies and bodies, its female protagonist asks, ‘Where does the self end, and where does the other begin?’ As she realizes that everywhere home might be is becoming uninhabitable, personal trauma becomes increasingly entwined with ecological distress. She lives in upstate New York in High Falls, and in Brooklyn with her partner and their dog Rupert Pupkin.

Sarah Greenwood started playing rock music in high school, moving from piano to electric guitar. From an early age she knew there was something different about her, and was grateful for musicians like Joan Jett, Bronski Beat, and Culture Club. “I wasn’t in an environment where there were a lot of gay references, but a lot of the out artists I gravitated towards were gender benders,” remembers Greenwood. She believes that being an out musician has created opportunities for her because of the camaraderie she feels with other gay people in the music industry. As Go magazine said, “She holds her guitar with ferocious confidence, her wide-set stance and aggressive stage presence mirroring the greatest of rock ‘n’ roll legends.”

Tatsiana Zamirovskaya was born in Borisov, Belarus, got a journalism degree in Minsk in 2002, and moved to Brooklyn in 2015 to get her MFA in writing at Bard College. She writes surreal short stories about memory, ghosts, alienation, and language deprivation. Her literary works have been published in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, where she worked for independent media as journalist and music critic. Tatsiana is the author of two short-story collections, Life Without Noise and Pain (2010, Moscow, AST) and Sparrow River (2015, Moscow, AST). She is currently attempting to write in English, in order to study the effects of language insufficiency on memory, narration, and representation.

A typical dance by the Stanley Love Performance Group is big and bright, with a jumbo cast of many colors and shapes grooving to pop tunes and sweating for uplift through unison. The New Yorker Stanley Love was born in Iowa. At age 18, he came to New York City to attend Juilliard and follow his dream of furthering his life as a creative performing artist. Stanley Love Performance Group was founded upon his graduation in 1992. Love works with performing artists through a dance basis. His aesthetic is based in schizophrenic-like structure and eclecticism. He utilizes different musical, dance, and choreographic styles. Much of the inspiration comes from the soul of the music—whether it be more emotional, theatrical, rhythmic, funky, or whatever. SLPG has performed in myriad NYC venues, including The Kitchen, P.S. 122, MoMA PS1, Whitney Museum of American Art, Paula Cooper Gallery, BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, DTW, Dixon Place, Cooper Union, New York University, Movement Research at Judson Church, Limelight, Tunnel, The Pyramid Club, and in Central Park for a 9/11 remembrance.

Karyn Kuhl is a singer-songwriter based in Hoboken, NJ, known for explosive, haunting live shows and complex ethereal lyrics. She was a founding member of Gut Bank, and Sexpod, and now fronts her eponymous Karyn Kuhl Band. Kuhl’s rich, expressive voice, capable of drawing you in with a whisper or a scream, takes the listener on a hazy, exhilarating trip.

Genny Slag is a punk poet, songwriter, singer, and drummer. She formed her first band, Slag, when she was 14 years old, and hasn’t stopped making music ever since, in genres ranging from hardcore to punk, rap, and country. Her acting credits include the Mechanic in Katrina Del Mar’s cult-classic film Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever. Originally from South Florida, she now resides in Brooklyn, where she makes her living as a dyke contractor, rehabbing the homes of the rich and famous with her company Rock Star Renovation. Her most recent album, Songs of the Lost and Left Behind, was recorded last year in Brooklyn.

Katrina del Mar is a New York-based photographer, video artist, writer, and award-winning film director. She is perhaps best known for her decades-long work in video and photography—chronicling the reality and illusion of her Lower East Side friends and lovers as punk heroines—and for her girl-gang movie world of strictly female population. Creating a family tree equally indebted to B-movies and diaristic photography, del Mar’s defiantly queer photographs and videos are iconic alternatives to the cultural status quo: offering exuberant hyper-stylized sexuality, an unapologetic feminist voice, and often guerrilla-style production tactics.

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project
6 East First Street (Between Bowery and 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10003

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Date:
July 11, 2018
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Cost:
FREE
Website:
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Venue

Howl Happening
6 East First Street
New York, NY, NY 10003 United States
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Phone
917 475 1294
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Organizer

Katrina del Mar