Of all the great unions of underground music, rock and otherwise; Bowie and Eno, Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld, Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin, John Cale and Terry Riley, Sonny Sharrock and Peter Brotzzman, and so on; the union between No Wave icon, transgressive artist, and spoken word warrior Lydia Lunch and free jazz, noise, and no wave musician Weasel Walter is perhaps the most harmonious and unquestionably the unholiest. When considering their respective biographies, both full of moments of sticking the middle finger in the faces of conventional standards of taste and decency, itโs difficult to believe that these revolutionaries didnโt find each other sooner. Click here to read more.
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Legendary No Wave musician (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Queen of Siam), writer, spoken word artist, and actress Lydia Lunch makes her return to New York with a new photographic exhibition and installation called "So Real It Hurts" on view for on more week at Howl! Happening in New York. This Friday, to close the exhibition, she will be performing her spoken word piece "Conspiracy on Women." The piece will be also be reissued on Other People.
Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses โ the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course with the conventions of American society. Transcending all moral or aesthetic boundaries, the low budget films reveal social hardship met with sociopolitical indifference. Sometimes shot with stolen camera equipment, the films contain strident analyses of life in the Lower East Side defined by criminality, brutality, drugs, AIDS, sex, and excess. On view at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, until April 9, is the first exhibition on the Cinema of Transgression.
