5th Annual Transmodern Festival Live.Art.Action

Adrienne Anemone - Sat. February 4, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 8:00 am

Adrienne AnemoneBrooklyn-based artist may be best known for her musical theatrics with band the Tuna Helpers described this way by Westword in Denver, Colorado: “Operatic, piano-anchored spells of art rock that imagine Azure Ray taking up residence in a Neil Gaiman graphic novel: all mystery, melody and magic.”

Adrienne also creates maniacal, frenzied performance art addressing topics such as zombies, brains, love, lesbian sex, and more. Her amazing, edgy work continues to dazzle audiences across the US.

“Though Adrienne may race around stage, kicking and screaming, her piercing eyes bulging out of her head as she releases a glorious yowl, you’d somehow feel at ease leaving her with your children.” — Bitch Magazine

 

Peter Barrickman - Thurs February 3, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 3:48 am

Peter BarrickmanPeter Barrickman is an artist working in Milwaukee. His videos, sculptures and paintings have been shown in the United States, Mexico and Europe. He studied at The Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, NY.

Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL

 

Lauren Bender - Fri. & Sat. February 2, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 10:28 pm

Lauren BenderLauren Bender: 5′0″, 110 lbs, Baltimore. Editor, SUCCESS! @ narrowhouserecordings.com. Feminine Arbiter of Phrases, Performance Thanatology Research Society.

 

Kevin Blechdom - Sat. February 1, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 3:19 pm

Kevin BlechdomKevin Blechdom, born Kristin Erickson, is an experimental electronic musician/performance artist from San Francisco, California. She attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where she founded Blectum from Blechdom with Blevin Blectum, an experimental electronic group. In 2001, Blectum From Blechdom won an Award of Distinction for digital music at the Prix Ars Electronica.

Kevin also played in an art-rock band, Adult Rodeo, with her brother lumberob, a.k.a. Rob Erickson, and his wife mephany stankins. They released records on Shimmy Disc and Four States Fair.

Kevin Blechdom continues to pursue a solo project. Her latest album, called Eat My Heart Out, was released June 2005, on Chicks on Speed Records. Featured a short 13-minute musical movie called Countdown to Nothing, a collaboration with Lucile Desamory.

Despite her typically masculine first name, she is female.

 

Blevin Blectum - Sat.

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 2:00 am

Blevin BlectumBlevin Blectum is an electronic musician. Recently relocated from the industrial armpit of Oakland, California, to the humid lovecraftian greenery of Providence, Rhode Island, Blevin releases her soon to be classic fourth solo album, GULAR FLUTTER, on an unsuspecting public via the AAGOO label (New York). Blevin is alternately known as one half of the recently reformed and reunited groundbreaking digital duo Blectum From Blechdom, recipients of the 2001 Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Digital Musics (for their album “The Messy Jesse Fiesta”). Blevin moonlights with audio/video band SAGAN alongside her husband and fellow e-musician Lesser, keyboardist Wobbly, and video artiste enfant terrible Ryan Junell. SAGAN released their debut CD/DVD, “Unseen Forces” on the Vague Terrain label (Matmos’ vanity label) in 2004, and followed it up with limited edition green vinyl 7″ and mini-CD on Oakland’s 333 label (the ‘Resting Pleasures’ EP, 2006). http://blevin.lsr1.com/

Blevin produces continued electronics with a more oblique slant on the basic BFB sensation of things-not-quite-right-here, clanking, creaking grooves and anti-grooves as a coal-powered spacecraft from some steampunk parallel universe potentiality, puffing and straining as it struggles to reach escape velocity, chopped, noise-reduced and timed/stretched to the breaking/boiling point, generally fucked-with samples of everything from hand-slapped rain-drenched leaves in courtship gardens and antique broken Beatnik banks to ProTooledFree classic utterly danceable disembodied-blissful-transvestite-stand-up-comic vocals.

Blevin holds degrees in music from Oberlin Conservatory (B.A., Ohio, USA) and Mills College (M.F.A., California, USA). She was the recipient of a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California. She has toured extensively through the United States and Europe since 1998. In 1999 she was the winner of the 1999 New Langton Arts Music award for her first solo CD “Pirate Planets” on the Phthalo label out of Los Angeles. Her second and third albums, “Talon Slalom” (2004) on Deluxe Records, and “Magic Maple” (2006) on the Praemedia label, were greeted with much critical acclaim.

photo credit: Vinciane Verguethen

 

Jai Brooks - Sat. January 29, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 6:44 pm

Jai BrooksJai Brooks is a comedic poet. With his tongue fully ensconced in her cheek, he will poke fun at all things we revolutionary artists hold dear. Jai is a core member of the Charm City Kitty Club and a grateful performer at We Are Hip Hop Too events. He has been performing for over two decades and is excited to put the “trans” in Transmodern.

 

Sarah Buccheri - thurs & fri January 28, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 2:08 am

Sarah BuccheriSarah Buccheri was born and raised in suburban Chicago. After living for a stint in New York City, she now resides in Milwaukee, WI. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Film from The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Aside from her film and video work, Sarah is a performer and collaboratively produces regular performance art evenings at Darling Hall, one of Milwaukee’s finest underground art spaces. She has performed at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and Galapagos Art Space. Her films and videos have screened at The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Heaven Gallery in Chicago.

 

 

Filmography

  • I’m Not Pregnant: A Secret History of the Female Potbelly – 2007. 4 minutes. MiniDV. Color, sound.
  • Antarctic Territory – 2007. 5 minutes. 16mm to MiniDV. Color, silent.
  • heeshee river sweet search – 2004. 4 minutes. 16mm to MiniDV. Color, sound.
  • women’s room – 2004. 3.5 minutes. MiniDV. Color, sound.
  • Copper Demons – 1999. 6 minutes. 16mm to video. Color, sound.
  • Fat Free Film – 1997. 3 minutes. 16mm to video. Color and B+W, sound.
  • Door – 1996. 2 minutes. S8 to video. B+W, sound.

Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL

 

Theresa Columbus - Fri.

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 1:20 am

Theresa ColumbusTheresa has a warm and kooky approach to the avant garde. She debuted a short play at the Pussycat Caverns in New Orleans in 1994. She has toured with many many performance pieces and plays, often incorporating “punky synchronized movements and experimental and/or funny singing/music.” She was n.

 

Dillon de Give - thurs. January 27, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 1:29 am

Dillon de GiveDillon de Give grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and studied film at Northwestern University. He presents elementary school style plays and video pieces. He has shown work at the Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Margaret Thatcher Projects, and Canada galleries NYC among others. Dillon lives in Greenpoint Brooklyn and is writing his first feature length film called “In the Shower Going Over the Waterfall”. http://www.implausibot.com/

 

EPHKLATCHEMERAL - Thurs. January 26, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 2:28 am

EPHKLATCHEMERALEPHKLATCHEMERAL is a toxic performance cactus from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They snore a variety of writingand performance bums to come up with peanuts. The headband is suited to the cactus with the salt that the performance wouldn’t be possible without a hippyish approach. In this way the lumps are always
ice-cold, authorship isn’t trash and nobody gets crazy

>Peter Barrickman
>Tyson Reeder
>Jinnene Ross
>Xavier Leplae
>Randy Russell
>Sarah Buccheri

 

Dynasty Handbag - Sat. January 24, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 9:41 pm

dynasty-handbag1.jpgDynasty Handbag is the solo music/video/voiceover/
comitragic performance vehicle created and executed by Jibz Cameron.

http://dynastyhandbag.com 

 

Evans Hankey - Sat. January 23, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Film & Video, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 8:05 pm

Evans MySpace Page

 

Katastrophe - Sat. January 22, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 11:00 am

KatastropheKatastrophe (aka Rocco Kayiatos) is a genre-busting, emo-hop mc, whose stunning lyrical skills merge with beats that slide from slick to raw to solid to eccentric, creating a sonic otherworld that snags you in a dance-trance while teasing your head with rhymes that snap, pop and educate.

Recently crowned producer of the year by out music awards, Katastrophe’s beats rev and surprise, inspired by the grime craze and emo scene as well as both traditional and underground hip hop. a hybrid sound that challenges genre, Katastrophe fills his layered beats with lyics that rif on pop culture, slide into personal revelation, call bullshit on contemporary culture, offer a ragged hope for revolution and flirt with a pretty girl on the dance floor, all in the course of a song.

Using his struggle as a trans man and his contested place in contemporary queer and hip hop culture as a springboard to discuss and express larger issues of community, space, privilege, sex and self-worth, katastrophe occupies a singular place in the music underground — brainy and playful, defying genre, keeping listeners on their toes with lyrics that hook and beats that set you moving.

 

Xavier Leplae - Thurs. January 19, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 10:29 pm

Xavier LeplaeXav Leplae considers himself an artist when making art, film maker when making films, performer when performing. he refuses to state much else due to his distrust of it’s affects on his thinking process.

Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL

 

Kim Miller - thurs. & fri. January 16, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Film & Video, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 3:28 am

kim-millerAs an artist Kim Miller moves across the fields of video and performance. Employing forms borrowed from performance art, modern dance, theater, and film, multiple forms of address and shifting subject articulations build and collapse. Mapping an intersection or interstices between public space and private, political and social, associative and didactic, questions are structured around a radical democratic model. What is possible within a democratic viewing situation? Does such a thing exist, and what does it look like? What’s at stake is our positions in relation to culture and to one another. These shifting, surfacing and submerging connections are unstable and fleeting, deliciously and infinitely now. Maybe working towards the existence of a democratic subject, hopefully and enthusiastically, without ever reaching this place. Or else, when I say you, I have called a you into being.

 

Anna Oxygen - Thurs. January 14, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 11:36 pm

Anna OxygenAnna Oxygen is a multi-media artist and musician. She has extensively toured Europe and the United States, performing dance pop recitals and fantasy-science pieces. Her audio and video works often deal with interactivity, movement and semiotics in forms of narrative, performance and installation. She has released several albums of electronic music, most recently “This is an Exercise” on Kill Rock Stars. Her solo work has been presented at The Seattle Art Museum, Telic Arts Exchange (LA), NYU, The Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Rohsska Museet in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also in the multimedia performance group “Cloud Eye Control.” http://www.annaoxygen.com/

 

 

Anna Oxygen Press & Reviews:

Seattle Weekly
Portland Mercury
Pop Matters
Pitchfork

 

Carly Ptak - Fri. January 12, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 10:31 pm

Carly PtakTrained in the art of hypnotherapy Carly Ptak has a way of getting into your head and sometimes into your heart or even to your stomach. She loves to ferment both ideas and home brews until they are tangy and bubbly and healthy too. Every performance is predictably unpredictable except for the one thing you can be sure of: it comes from a place of love and a desire to create more of it in the world.

http://www.heresee.com/cptak.htm
http://www.integrationhypnotherapy.com

 

Tyson Reeder - Thurs. January 11, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 3:15 pm

Tyson ReederTyson Reeder was born in 1974 in Fairfax, VA and currently lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. He holds a B.A. from Montana State University and a B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota. Additional education experience includes the Art Center College of Art and Design M.F.A. Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

In solo or group exhibitions Reeder’s work has appeared nationally and internationally. Recent shows include: Jack Hanley Gallery, LA, Daniel Reich Gallery, NY and Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, ON. Group exhibition, Mudam Musee D’Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, NY, and Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, Norway.

 

 

Recent Bibliography:
2005 Sullivan, Jennifer. “Urban Renewal”, Swingset Magazine, Issue 6, 48-52
Smith, Roberta. “Desired Constellations” NY Times, Aug. 12
Armstrong, Liz. “The Four Color Pen Show, I Something Chicago” February 18
Valentine, Valery. “Walking on the Moon”, Pulse of the Twin Cities.
2004 Kalb, Peter. “Tyson Reeder at Daniel Reich”, Art In America, December, 140-141

 

Adam Robinson - Sat. January 10, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Music, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 9:21 pm

Adam RobinsonAdam Robinson is a writer and musician who lives in Baltimore, MD and works as a technology buyer in the financial industry. He is the founder of the chapbook press Publishing Genius, an editor for the literary journal JMWW, and his poems have appeared in several journals and on numerous stages. He has written a dozen or so articles about Christian rock bands for HM Magazine, and his feature-length slasher-play, The Professor , was staged in Milwaukee in 2005. At the third Transmodern Festival he performed an HL Mencken bioperetta as cARDINAL, which also features Stephanie Barber. Adam currently plays bass in Baltimore’s newest What-Is-It, Hexie Johnson.

 

Jinnene Ross - Thurs. & Fri. January 9, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 2:14 am

Jinnene Ross Jinnene Ross is a performer, installation artist and costume designer who currently resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has performed collaboratively in several art spaces both locally in Milwaukee at Darling Hall, The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Hotcakes Gallery, and nationally at Gallapagos in Brooklyn, NY and ArtSpace in Richmond, VA. Her installation work has exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, Beloit College in Beloit, WI and Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI. She received her BFA at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and her MFA from Miami University at Ohio.

Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL

 

Ric Royer - Sat. January 8, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 9:52 pm

Ric RoyerRic Royer is a writer of performances and performer of writings. He wants to talk to you, spin lies both mordant and morbid, and sing songs of hope and disaster. Sometimes he will whisper into your trusting ear, sometimes he will scream in your face.

Ric has said his words and moved his hands in many places including Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, D.C. Art Center, Baltimore Theatre Project, and the Ontological Hysteric Theatre.

He has performed and recorded several music/performance pieces with his long-time sound collaborator G Lucas Crane, and EHSE records will be releasing an LP of their ghost stories/ghost music in February 2008.

is has also had critical and creative work published in many publications including Performance Research Journal, Lost and Found Times, and Pilot; he is a founding editor of the Ferrum Wheel (1999); and he is an organizing member of the Baltimore’s largest performance event, the Transmodern Festival.

 

Randy Russell - Thurs. January 7, 2007

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 2:25 am

Randy RussellRandy Russell has produced, acted in, and written for film (American Job, The Pool, Modus Operandi), has written many plays, and has performed in the Milwaukee area, including, with Peter Barrickman, The Spinning Rainbow Ball at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He has owned and operated a punk record store, a zine store, and he invented the Semioabstractique Collage technique. He has recently finished writing a collection of stories called: 9 Lies.

Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL

 

The Tingle Troupe December 5, 2006

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 11:00 pm

The Tingle TroupeThe Tingle Troupe happened when Sarah Buccheri, Theresa Columbus, Kimberly Miller, and Jinnene Ross began regularly emceeing the Tingle Showcase, an unbelievably great performance art showcase in Milwaukee, WI. Working collaboratively and individually, the troupe produced their own dramatic or poetically comical pieces, which they performed at Darling Hall, the Marcus Center for the Arts Performance Showcase, and on an east coast tour where unsuspecting audiences were filled with delight.

 

Virginia Warwick - Fri. December 3, 2006

Filed under: Browse All Artists, Performance — transmodernfestival @ 10:43 pm

Virginia WarwickVirginia Warwick describes herself mainly as a sculptor while also incorporating performance, sound, and installations into her work. Born in 1982, She spent the majority of her childhood in Frederick, Maryland where she grew up on two and a half acres of land. She grew to love wild life and animals which has influenced the subject choices in her artwork. She is currently in graduate school at the Rinehart School of Sculpture and is scheduled to graduate in May of 2008. This past year she has shown in the Artscape Outdoor Sculpture Competition, hosted the Underwater Adventure 2007 at Load of Fun Studios, and is scheduled to show at the Arlington Arts Center in the fall of 2008.