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Honored and thrilled to report, BEAUCOUP made Dennis Cooper’s always awesome year-end list “Mine for yours: My favorite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2022.”
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In the pit at Lollapalooza with Lorna Shore playing "Into The Earth" (2022)
“Working within painting, drawing and sculpture Darcey Bella Arnold’s practice is informed by experience and research. Beginning with the personal as a departure point, her work drifts between language, art history and pedagogical theses.”
Raf Simons | Spring Summer 2022 by Raf Jan Simmons | Full Fashion Show
Dawit Abebe’s “schematic compositions recall the scales of Ethiopian Jazz, as much as they do an impressionistic rendering of the European nude.”
Maha Ahmed “(B. 1989, Pakistan) completed a MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School of Art, London on the Caspian Art Foundation Scholarship (2015) and a BFA in Miniature Painting at the National College of Arts, Lahore (2012). Ahmed has lived and worked in Lahore, London, Tokyo and is currently based in Dubai.”
“Norwegian artist Audun Alvestad has developed a playful, vibrant style for his art that makes it both relatable in subject and remarkable in range.”
DakhaBrakha performing live at the Triple Door. Recorded October 15, 2019
Vieux Farka Touré performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded May 2, 2017
Hania Rani performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 9, 2022.
Pan-Amerikan Native Front performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 27, 2022
Alexandros Vasmoulakis “is a Greek contemporary artist, whose field of interest in the art world include large-scale murals, installations and sculptures made out from found objects, and collaged portraits created entirely from scraps of newspaper.”
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Pablo Atchugarry “is a Uruguayan artist, best known for his abstract sculptural art.”
Laddie John Dill “is an American artist. Dill calls his work light sentences"
Como La Trucha Al Trucho | Spring Summer 2023 | Full Fashion Show in High Definition.
Hoda Afshar “is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne.”
Mia Boe “is a painter from Brisbane, Australia.”
The game is rigged. It is rigged like capitalism is rigged. There is no puppet master, no conspiracy, only a field where advantages, to begin with, are distributed unequally. You can beat the long odds, but you have long odds to beat; a team of scholars has been working for almost 10 years to detail exactly how the rigging works. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, later joined by Claire Grossman, began by noticing that poetry readings they regularly attended were held in “mainly white rooms.” They wanted to know why. To find out, they would need to widen their purview. The wider they went, the hungrier they became to understand who gets to succeed as a writer in the United States today. They wanted to reveal the system, to see all of it.
— from “Fuck the Poetry Police: On the Index of Major Literary Prizes in the United States” by Dan Sinykin, via LARB
“I want my voice in art to be far from polite. I want to go inside and mind something out that doesn’t already exist, that isn’t arty content.” Meet Los Angeles-based Calvin Marcus, who wants to be as slippery as possible to maintain his sense of freedom as an artist.
Mia Salsjö “is an Australian Artist and Composer of Albanian-Swedish descent, Salsjö orchestrates multi-disciplinary art projects, encompassing drawing, music composition, text, performance, video, and textile-based works. Her practice is grounded in complex code-based systems. The systems are devised by Salsjö as a means of linking diverse media to an underlying linguistic system. It is through this process that Salsjö reflects on the elusive nature of communication – its potentialities, triumphs, failures, past, present and future.”
IC3PEAK - Kiss Of Death (2022)
Written, directed and edited by IC3PEAK (Nick and Nastya)
“Originally from Pennsylvania, Timothy Buckwalter (born 1966) now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
Amy Beager “(b. 1988) lives and works from her studio in Chelmsford, UK.”
If Moldenke’s death seems to be in some measure an ignominious one, we must remind ourselves that what is depicted in this novel is the death of a character, a character whose fictional life has indeed been extended now over multiple installments over a wide expanse of time, thus perhaps indeed bestowing on him (for both readers and the author) more “life” than a typical protagonist. Readers of all four of the Moldenke books likely would find his death especially meaningful—although that it verges on the farcical will likely not come as a shock or surprise.
— from “Moldenke and His World: On the Fiction of David Ohle” by Daniel Green, via Big Other
“Jenna Gribbon’s sumptuous, textural paintings hover between alluring intimacy and off-putting voyeurism.”
I submit that the current situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic and its biopolitical consequences reveals something new in the ontological status of the human species which also involves an anthropological ‘revolution’. 1 This is something more than the fact that the combined tendencies called ‘globalisation’ (which, regardless of whether we assign them a recent or ancient origin, have clearly crossed a line at the end of the twentieth century) have resulted in relativising frontiers or distances, and subjected all human societies to a single system of economic interdependencies, thus realising something of the Marxian prediction (in the German Ideology) that every singular being would relate to every other, when the development of their ‘productive forces’ has reached ‘the stage of totality’.
— from “Human species as biopolitical concept” by Étienne Balibar, via Radical Philosophy
Bernadette Despujols “(b. 1986, Barquisimeto, Venezuela) studied Architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), where she graduated with honors in 2007.”
Agatha Ruiz de La Prada | Fall Winter 2022/2023 | Full Fashion Show in High Definition
Bianca Beck “(b. 1979, Columbus, OH) earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT.”
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance’s “work reflects a holistic approach to materials informed by the social function and status of objects as well as our relationship to them; the roles they play in our lives as symbols, signs, and totems.”
FAZI "Folding Story" Album Film (Full-length Version)
FAZI x Jin Shien
2022 "Folding Story" Album Film
Director: Jin Shien
Actor & Actress:Chen Tang , Lang Liu
Shooting & Editing: Geek Shoot Jack
Present by FAZI & Space Circle
Anne Buckwalter “(b. 1987, Lancaster, PA) is an artist exploring female identity and the coexistence of contradictory elements. Inspired by the folk art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, her work arranges disparate objects in mysterious rooms and ambiguous spaces.”
Gianna Commito “is the daughter of a professor of math (Mom) and a professor of marine biology (Dad). As such, she always swore as a child that she would never become a college professor. Today, she is an Associate Professor of Painting at Kent State University.”
Algorithmic Sound 9: Matthew Ryals
Matthew Ryals is a musician, sound designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music explores aleatoricism, cybernetics, and unfixed forms. Currently, his research investigates human-machine collaboration and the co-authorship of the resultant material. Tiny Mix Tapes has described his music as “filter[ing] the emotion of the human experience through the cold circuitry of electronics”.
His second album, Voltage Scores, was released October 8th, 2021 on Oxtail Recordings. Inspired by free jazz methodology, the entire album was recorded live without overdubs during the COVID-19 pandemic and merged free improvisation, generative processes, and the multi-sectional forms of classical composition.
“Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Natalie Lanese received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and conducted post-graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She lives and works in Toledo, Ohio.”
Lorna Shore "To the Hellfire" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer
Kristina Paabus “is a multidisciplinary visual artist with a focus in Reproducible Media. Her work examines systems of power and control, with a focus on Soviet and Post-Soviet histories.”
Will Ramos from Lorna Shore “Immortal” - One Take Playthrough
Paul O'Keeffe's “practice spans across sculpture and installation and often explores prosaic objects laden with personal histories.”