PROFANITY AGAINST THE PATRIARCHY

ANNOUNCING... A TEE SHIRT COLLABORATION WITH JASON ROY

Jason Roy and I collaborated again -- this time on a tee shirt! It says "FUCK YOUR MACHO BULLSHIT" and has a bunch of middle fingers on it. Jason has some other rad original designs for sale too. You can pick them up at:

ARTIST & CRAFTSMAN SUPPLY

761 METROPOLITAN AVE.

BROOKLYN, NY
11222

for $10!

proceeds go to International Girl Gang Underground zine

MIX TAPE #6: TO KEEP

TO KEEP

Nirvana - Ain't it a Shame (demo)

Jay-Z ft. Chrisette Michele - Lost One

Tenement - Cage That Keeps You In

that dog. - To Keep Me

Swearin' - What a Dump

Texas is the Reason - Blue Boy

No Doubt - End it on This

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Almost Cut My Hair

Far - Waiting for Sunday

Remember when I said there wasn't gonna be a mix? I lied. Here's the winter mix for 2011.

Inspired by Robin Browne's "Xmas Cake" mix, cabin fever, and a victorious end to the YEAR OF HEALING^TM. Made in honor of my Northern-turned-Southern friends whom I won't be seeing this holiday season (like I did this time last year).

BRAIN WAVES: HIGHLIGHTS FROM A YEAR OF ZINES

BRAIN WAVES show (left) with BRAIN WAVES collection (right)

This weekend is your last chance to see BRAIN WAVES' first gallery group show, Highlights from a Year of Zines at STOREFRONT. It's also my last two days working at the gallery (forever!), so if you are so inclined, feel free to bring food and beverages and share the end of an era with me. I'll be listening to It's Christmas on repeat; gallery hours, as always, are 1pm-6pm Saturday & Sunday.

BRAIN WAVES

highlights from a year of zines

featuring

Melanie Kress & Kate Ryan, coeditors

“i am not a good enough feminist” book

2011

Aimee Lusty

“Artefacts” zine

2011

Kathleen McIntyre

"The Worst" 2 

2010

Mike Taylor

“Late Era Clash” #23

2011

Kate Wadkins & Stacy Konkiel, coeditors

“International Girl Gang Underground” zine

2011

I've also marked the occasion by doing an Anthology session with Sarah Butler of wordservents:

Anthology Art Space 2010 + ongoing collaboration with James Ewing and Valerie Soles Anthology… is a boxed archival portfolio of photographs and texts collected through collaborative meditation on the real and ideal contexts of art. Handwritten conversations and architectural photographs explore the places that artists make, the artists that places make.

Wall text

L to R: i am not a good enough feminist, Artefacts, The Worst #2, Late Era Clash #23, International Girl Gang Underground

BRAIN WAVES Winter 2011 collection

Snapshots from our opening & closing party, December 9, after the jump:

AT THE BROOKLYN NIGHT BAZAAR

Hyperallergic will have a booth at this month's Brooklyn Night Bazaar, starting tonight at 5pm and going until Saturday (for more details, see this post). I just whipped up a batch of International Girl Gang Underground zines to peddle at the event! So get yr copy while it's hot. In a way, it's like my zine is opening for Fucked Up?

Note: Check out Hyperallergic's follow-up post on the Bazaar here! Can you spot IGGU?

A FOND FAREWELL: STOREFRONT

If you've been following me here, you probably know that a large portion of my life has been devoted to Bushwick's STOREFRONT gallery, which opened in January 2010. As we near two years of existence, Deborah Brown has decided to re-establish the gallery as Storefront Bushwick. Tonight is the opening of ROUND UP, STOREFRONT's final show -- so it is also our closing party.

STOREFRONT WILL CLOSE ITS DOORS

DECEMBER 18

After two fantastic years, Storefront will close its garage door with a final show featuring artists who had one-person exhibitions in the space:

Deborah Brown, Hermine Ford,

Suzanne Goldenberg, Cooper Holoweski,

Andrew Hurst, Norman Jabaut,

Mary Judge, Greg Kwiatek, Justen Ladda,

Amy Lincoln, Kevin Regan, and Austin Thomas

OPENING / CLOSING PARTY:

Friday, December 9 -- 6-9PM

Jason Andrew will continue to run his nonprofit and gallery space Norte Maar, which will also be the new home of BRAIN WAVES, the zine and print collection I established at STOREFRONT in January 2011. Celebrating a year of zines, we'll have a zine exhibit in STOREFRONT's back room for the duration of the final show, up until December 18th.

BRAIN WAVES

highlights from a year of zines

featuring

Melanie Kress & Kate Ryan, coeditors

“i am not a good enough feminist” book

2011

Aimee Lusty

“Artefacts” zine

2011

Kathleen McIntyre

"The Worst" 2 

2010

Mike Taylor

“Late Era Clash” #23

2011

Kate Wadkins & Stacy Konkiel, coeditors

“International Girl Gang Underground” zine

2011

PLEASE JOIN US TO WISH US A FOND FAREWELL!

LINKS:
STOREFRONT
STOREFRONT BUSHWICK (NEW SPACE)
NORTE MAAR
BRAIN WAVES

WINTER MIX 2011

This is the first drawing I've done since August.

OCCUPYING & OBSERVING

Foley Square, November 17, 2011

Yesterday I marched in lower Manhattan (starting at Zuccotti Park) for World AIDS Day, with my friend Roz. After the march stopped and the civil disobedience group was arrested, we made our way back to Zuccotti to see if anything else was going on. To our surprise, Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins and Jackson Browne were scheduled to play a free show. We stayed until our toes nearly froze off. I was tweeting the events and the New York Observer posted one of my photos:

On a related note, I recently wrote a piece for Hyperallergic about OCCUPIED: Occupy Wall Street Art Show at Bluesetockings. The piece was also about my personal experience with the movement and my respect for the fact that it disrupts business as usual. Originally called "Occupying Business as Usual," the title didn't make it through the editing process.

The general vibe I’ve been hearing from a lot of people is “I don’t totally agree with the OWS protesters but … ” and then some message of, well, agreement. I have been feeling the same way, but deeply passionate about the space OWS has opened up for dialogue: political, social, economic and artistic.

As cultural critic Jay Smooth said, “It’s just specific enough to catch that basic sentiment that so many people share, and it’s just vague enough to let many people come to it with many different shades of that sentiment.” The OCCUPIED art show is a little like that. 

From political posters of all sorts to handmade signs (like those seen at Zuccotti and in the streets) to more traditional art pieces, OCCUPIED was clearly the result of an open call for submissions, which is, obviously, appropriate.

You can read the full article here.

I also want to mention to my fellow writers -- especially zine authors and editors -- you can add your names to the Occupy Writers list. While I am a contributing writer at Hyperallergic, I was curious to see if my editing International Girl Gang Underground would be appropriate for this list, and I got an emphatic yes as a response. Occupy Writers is encouraging anyone on the list to write original material about the movement.