The Arena, Everyday People, Trillectro, & Electric Circus Present: Crosstown Cookout
The premise of a cookout is simple: come as you are, eat what you want, drink a lil bit, and dance a lotta bit. Crosstown Cookout is a collaboration of party crews from near and far coming together to turn up under the sun for one last time before the summer comes to a close. Expect heavy helpings of community vibes, hip hop and global beats spun by NYC’s best, delicious food by the Drive Change crew, and maybe even a pop-up performance by a VERY special guest.
Wastedland 2 is a detritus-strewn, site-specific, immersive film installation transforming spaces into a three-dimensional post-apocalyptic graffiti wonderland. Questions of fate and self will collide with graffiti folk lore through wordplay, sculpture, artifacts, and characters – all centered around thematics from the existential fantasy film of the same name. Created by Andrew H. Shirley, and his actors and members of the notorious Brooklyn-based 907 graffiti crew – this environment allows the viewer to enter the psychology of the narrative, to identify and ultimately re-define the way one traditionally engages with film and artwork.
“The Beginning, If Not the End” by UFO 907 and William Thomas Porter in Detroit (photo by Phil Conners)
Following its debut in Detroit last September, Wastedland 2 has spent the past year touring across the U.S., featuring artists and new material specific to each location. This event at Knockdown Center will be the culmination and a celebration of that national tour.
About Wastedland 2
Shirley’s Wastedland 2 (30 min/ Color/ 2016) follows three solitary vandals (played by Wolftits, Avoid, and Smells) who cross paths while searching for the meaning of a trail of enigmatic artworks left behind by UFO 907, another nomadic artist. Roaming from one decaying zone to the next in a never-ending search for beer, weed and a wall to paint, the vandals form a pact with the rest of the surviving seekers (played by other recognized graffiti artists Rambo, Noxer, EKG, and others) to attain the answer to their unanimous question of their futility- “what’s the point?” www.wastedland2.com
WASTEDLAND 2: 2017 TRAILER from andrew h. shirley on Vimeo.
About Andrew H. Shirley
Andrew H. Shirley finds an obsession in living experimentation through a primarily nomadic miscreant lifestyle detached from material pop culture. His multi disciplinary work has appeared in PS 1, MOCA, Museum of Sex, and films have screened in over 300 cities worldwide. As a social architect, he has curated the underground into public events from institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music to a secret tree house art gallery he built in upstate NY.
Image: Amoeba and Wolftits encounter the UFO spaceship somewhere in a field. This scene was shot in Marbletown, NY- facing west towards Slide Mountain. Scultpure was built by William Thomas Porter and UFO907 (film still).
LPR Presents:
Rubblebucket Dream Picnic feat. Rubblebucket, Delicate Steve, Hess Is More, Alexander F, Kalbells + yoga & more!
Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train bring you a huge Roller Skating party!
Roller skate with your friends under the huge disco ball all night to the vinyl oldies! Plus… Live music! DJs! Dancing! Live Visuals! Pizza! Roller girls! Le Crunch Glam Dance party room with Josh Styles and Sophie Thunder-Murphy and much more!
If you don’t bring your own skates, $7 rentals available on site!
Join us for a special evening of experimental music and dance, brought to you by LPR Presents…
Patrick Higgins
Brian Degraw
Tyondai Braxton (DJ Set)
Qasim Ali Naqvi & Erin Ellen Kelly
Qasim Naqvi is a drummer, composer, and member of the group Dawn of Midi. When he is not touring with DOM, he composes music for film, dance, theater and chamber ensembles domestically and abroad. Qasim’s soundtracks and arrangements for film have appeared on HBO, NBC, PBS, The Sundance Channel, The New York Times, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Academy Awards, The Sundance Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, dOCUMENTA 13 and 14, The Guggenheim Museum, Vice TV, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, IDFA and others. His concert works have been performed by the yMusic Ensemble, The Now Ensemble, The Loos Ensemble, The New Century Players, The Contemporary Music Ensemble of NYU, The Crash Ensemble, The Stargaze Ensemble, The Helsinki Chamber Choir, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW Season, The Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, TEN PEN CHii, Nimbus Dance Works and others. He is a 2016 N.Y.F.A Fellow in Music and Sound and has received other fellowships and awards from Chamber Music America, Harvest Works, S.T.E.I.M. and Art OMI. Presently, Qasim writes chamber and electronic music in Brooklyn, New York and works on a variety of projects as a freelance composer and drummer. He is represented by Erased Tapes Publishing.
Erin Ellen Kelly constructs ways of moving and performance pieces in gardens, galleries, warehouse spaces, gutted stores, boats, bombed out buildings, theaters, and by the side of the road. She is formerly a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence in NYC and recently completed a residency at Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Her work has been presented by ProveRommet Series through Bit Teatergarasjen in Bergen, Studio Galerie for Nacht&Nebel Festival Neu Kolln, Kunsthaus Tacheles for A Month of Performance Art, Kultur im Spannwerk in Berlin, Utopia Teatro in Barcelona, The Performance Mix Festival, NY Butoh Festival, the HOWL Festival, and Movement Research at Judson Church in NYC. She has collaborated with Aaron Taylor Kuffner, Qasim Naqiv, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Miriam Wuttke, and Mariam Ghani. Since 2006 she and Ghani have produced a series of video installations and photographs called “Performed Places,” which are currently on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and have been presented at the St. Louis Art Museum, Queens Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Worth Ryder Gallery, Momenta Art, and Ryan Lee Gallery, in the US, and at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, Sharjah Biennial 9 in the UAE, Beijing 798 Biennial in China, and Gyeongnam Art Museum in Korea. “It Could Go Either Way” curated by Amy Mackie, an exhibition consisting of six of their video pieces was presented at the Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger, Norway and at the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska.
Dance performances by Loni Landon and Manuel Vignoulle
Loni Landon is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Movement Consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Projects, her work is commissioned by Dance Companies and Film Makers across the country.
Born and raised in New York City, Landon received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School in 2005. While a student at the NYC High School of Performing Arts, Landon was a NFAA Young Arts Modern Dance Winner. After Juilliard, Landon performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Ballet Theater Munich, Tanz Munich Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera.
Manuel Vignoulle, French choreographer based in New York, studied at The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Paris and went on to work with different french contemporary companies including Claude Brumachon, Corinne Lanselle and Bernardo Montet.
He was a dance artist with both Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (Switzerland), and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (New York) where he collaborated with inspiring choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Andonis Foniadalkis, Hofesh Shechter, Cisco Aznar, Carolyn Carlson, Benjamin Millepied, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Alexander Ekman, Jo Stromgrem and Ohad Naharin to name a few.
F.A.Q
Is it Free?
No, get your tickets while they last. Then pull up and turn up or watch us turn up on your snapchat and Instagram feed (Kanye shrug).
Is Food Free?
Yes, we have a lot more food and a lot of options. Don’t bring an aluminum foil pan big fella.
Where is it?
The illustrious and exclusive Knockdown Center. Last month everyone wanted to be there; this time you all can get in when you get your tickets. But hurry up because the price will go up as we get closer to the date and each ticket level sells out!
Why should I go?
It’s going to be crazy and you will hate yourself if you knew what we have prepared for you and missed it. Stop thinking about if you should wait big fella. Tickets will sell out any day now!
Who is throwing it?
The General Public aka Those DopeBBQ/ Mixxy Brunch guys.
Is there a dress code?
Nah, just summertime fly. How are you going to get chose looking crazy big fella!?!
Will tickets be available at the door?
Not sure, they are moving fast. No ticket, no entry. This ain’t 1-800-feed the people big fella!
What can/can’t I bring to the event?
No outside food or drinks. This isn’t your auntie house big fella; Go home big fella!
Is there an age limit?
Yes must be 21+.
NO REFUNDS WHATSOEVER!!!