Chicago, Coochies, Fermentation, Deals
You can read all about that here:
http://pegacornpress.blogspot.com/
BRAIN WAVES
the zine & print collection
newly located at Recession Art CultureFix
OPENING FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 7PM – 9PM
featuring:
Abe’s Penny (Anna & Tess Knoebel) / Jon Bocksel / Lauren Denitzio / Nina Hartmann / Aimee Lusty / Kathleen McIntyre / Caroline Paquita / Jess Poplawski / Jason Roy / Cynthia Schemmer / Mike Taylor / Leah Wishnia / Audra Wolowiec & Christine Shan Shan Hou
Curated by Kate Wadkins, BRAIN WAVES is a collection of zines, artist books, prints and other ephemera. With an emphasis on and enthusiasm for print culture, BRAIN WAVES aims to further the creative work of emerging local artists and writers. Previously located at STOREFRONT in Bushwick and now debuting on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, BRAIN WAVES is thoroughly influenced by the voices and vibrancy of its New York neighborhood.
@ Recession Art CultureFix
9 Clinton Street
New York, NY 10002
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What 1500 live ladybugs look like and the crazy bag that they were shipped in. Released in the garden today to chow down on aphids! I was told by a my entomology professor once that I was a “closet entomologist.” At 32 and ordering bags and boxes of thousands of insects (on a somewhat frequent basis), I’m starting to believe him…
Wuz up
Too much going on! Finally blogged about it all at: http://carolinepaquita.blogspot.com/
P.S. Will I ever understand tumblr? What is this thing?
Essential Hues closing hangout tomorrow!
Last chance to see the Essential Hues group show featuring new artwork by Caroline Paquita, Adee Roberson, Sam Lopes, Caitlin Rose and Anna Luisa Petrisko.
Come chill with us from 3-6pm and enjoy the artwork or perhaps take a piece home with you? Many of the pieces are sliding scale & affordable.
BYOB. CHILL. ART.
1109 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn
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We live in a world surrounded by color. We lead colorful lives. We make colorful work.
As artists who identify as queers, feminists, people of color, spell-casters and radicals, our work is saturated with the chroma of the vibrant lives and communities we have created and shared over the past decade and across geographic divides. Our histories are entwined, and color embodies the bright hues of the threads of collectivity, sexuality, gender, family, history and magic that bind us together.
Featuring paintings, works on paper, sculpture, textile art, video, and more, Essential Hues is a collaborative installation.
Free reading this Saturday at the Essential Hues show
“What We Do Is Secret” Free Reading 5/5/12 4-6 p.m. at the Essential Hues Art Show at Wayfarer’s Studio
Readers: Kat Case, Terry Clifton, Brontez Purnell, Cristy C. Road, Max Steele, Jessica Strang, Joseph Whitt
Where: Wayfarer’s Studio, 1109 DeKalb @ Broadway, Brooklyn (J train to Kosciuszko or M train to Myrtle)
When: Saturday, May 5, 2012 4-6 p.m, SHARP. Not punk time. Get here on time, enjoy a cocktail, and don’t miss any of our fabulous readers.
Why: A collaboration with our friends, who are showing in Essential Hues, a collaborative group show featuring the work of Adee Roberson, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Caitlin Sweet, Caroline Paquita, and Sam Lopes. The exhibit includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture, textile art, video, and more. This collaborative installation will be up until May 13th, 2012.
Another awesome review of FAG SCHOOL #4
“Fag School is kind of my fantasy of what a queer punk zine could and probably ought to be. It captures a voice, a personality, a perspective. It’s smart, fun to read, informative, emotional, and portable. There are spelling and typing mistakes. It’s not elaborately designed. It’s immediate. It makes my heart beat much faster. Go buy it!”
-Billy Cheer
Read the whole review of Brontez’s new masterpiece at:
http://fagcity.blogspot.com/2012/04/eaten-alive.html
Love it!
New Pegacorn Press releases finally available via Etsy! They will be posted with other payment options within the next couple days on the PP website. Hooray for printed matter!
Hell yeah!
This gets the prize for funniest smartest zine I’ve read in a while (flipside of Fag School #4). I generally have no interest in narrative and typos make me gag but this is so good that I don’t care. Here’s an excerpt from the chapter “Barebackers Anonymous”:
“This DRASTIC ass queen had this awesome story about how in the Mid-90s in a sex club in Amsterdam, she stayed up on tweak and took 112 anonymous loads of cum up her butt in one 4 hour “sitting” (she had been up for two weeks) and how besides the speed part SHE REGRETTED NOTHING. 112 loads. Shit fuck JESUS MARY! Who was keeping count!? This story became no less compelling when she told it-EVERY MEETING. I remember thinking it was not not in a porny way, more like an Animal Channel kinda way. I remember this one time she told that story and it made me throw up my tuna fish sandwich. The only time I called bullshit was when this Financial District asshole talked for 45 minutes straight (5 min shy of group time) about his RAGING speed addiction and had the nerve to say “I’m too rich not to be happy…” (I almost barfed) I came to the meeting stoned off my ass, crashed somewhere in the middle of his bullshit soliloquy and in my post stoned sober haze realized WAIT A MINUTE THAT BITCH IS STILL TWEAKING! The piece of shit Psychology Major intern that was facilitating hadn’t even caught that shit and I was feeling judgmental (I had certainly been pushed) and wrote in the suggestion box to him at the end of group “YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE AND SHOULD KILL YOURSELF” then just to be a bitch asked him in the lobby outside group if I could borrow 20 $”
Also nice that it’s out through Caroline Paquita’s new publishing outfit, Pegacorn Press: http://pegacornpress.blogspot.com/
Sneak preview of Caitlin Sweet’s piece in Essential Hues! So amazing, particularly in person. Come out this Friday and feel the woo.
Goddess of nothing
