The Gaslamp Killer returns following a near-death scooter accident. He’s back with a more nuanced album, a storm of psychedelia spun into the most intricate of patterns full of spiritual revelations and electro-psych affirmations.
The Gaslamp Killer
die Reihe (NNA Tapes/Anòmia)
Image Man (1080p/Palmetto Arts)
Bryce Hackford (meakusma/Crowdspacer)
FACULTY LOUNGE
A Night of Music from Godmode
Free in the Ready Room
Malory
Well Being
Truant
Fitness
Sleep2
Gvijn
Cozy Craig
Keith Savage
Weimar-based label Giegling takes over Knockdown Center as part of their international Planet Giegling tour.
A tag-team of artists from the German label will throw down together for a two-night program that includes a concert and a party – Friday night at Knockdown Center and Saturday night at The Bunker. You can buy a $30 2-day pass here, or click the ticket link to the right for a $20 ticket to Friday’s show.
To further demonstrate solidarity among exhibiting artists, Ventiko, founder of Animamus Art Salon, will facilitate a salon style discussion with participating artists and the public.
Participating artists:
Nicole Arendt
Barbara Joy Beatus
Cat Del Buono
Sarah Chacich
Em Downing
Amelia Marzec
Danica Pantic
Reynolds Tenazas
Facilitated by Ventiko
About Animamus Art Salon:
Animamus Art Salon was created by Ventiko in 2011 with the mission to create a safe, supportive, and inspiring environment for artists of all mediums to debut and discuss their current work while encouraging audience participation and simultaneously enabling a performance of ideas, which can not be repeated. Animamus Art Salon seeks, in this digital age, to create a physical meeting space that will serve to foster the exchange of ideas, facilitate discourse, and create a sense of community.
Nasty Women + Newark Printshop collaborate for one day at Knockdown Center to assist the community in the production of flags, banners and signs – just in time for the Women’s March on Washington on January 21st .
NASTY WOMEN
This is a group exhibition that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of threats to roll back women’s rights, individual rights, and abortion rights. It also serves as a fundraiser to support organizations defending these rights and to be a platform for organization before the Trump Presidential Inauguration in January. Started by Roxanne Jackson and Jessamyn Fiore with a facebook post that read: “Hello female artists/curators! Lets organize a NASTY WOMEN group show!!! Who’s interested???” The massive response has taken this call to arms into an ever expanding network of Nasty Women Artists & Art Organizers.
NEWARK PRINT SHOP
The Newark Print Shop (NPS) is a community fine art printmaking studio in Downtown Newark, NJ. Founded in August 2012, our goal is to support the fine art of printmaking by providing affordable and accessible workspace, educational programming through classes and workshops, and exhibition space dedicated to the fine art of prints. Newark is home to one of the most extensive fine art print and book arts collections housed at the Newark Public Library, and we wish to expand on this opportunity to put Newark on the map for printmaking!
S/team: neutrality and antagonism
A workshop facilitated by non/studio
Holding onto toxic feelings? Feeling ready to purge yourself from the cosmic chaos of yesteryear? Release your hot air. Hydrate anew. Perhaps a productive counterpart to anger is dialogue, taking time and making space. We believe in the radical reimagination of our world, and with that we have to radically reimagine care for our bodies. Using basic elements; air earth water fire, we will explore the therapeutic and cathartic potentialities of steam healing. Several types of steam vapor will made available for use, and participants will learn how to make steam for future use and wild applications.
About non/studio
Working across ecology, holistic education and craft histories, we provide trans-disciplinary methods for walking between physical and digital realms while creating tools and strategies to heal bodies & minds in the information age.
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. Day time performances are free and open to the public, while evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds in benefit of select charities working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
Artists, activists, and thinkers share contemporary responses to Zoe Leonard’s influential 1992 text I want a president…
Originally conceived in response to the cultural and political climate of the early 1990’s, Leonard’s text urges us to ask: what has changed and what remains the same? Leonard notes, “I am interested in the space this text opens up for us to imagine and voice what we want in our leaders, and even beyond that, what we can envision for the future of our society.”
Engaging with this timeless text in the wake of the upcoming inauguration, this reading highlights the necessity of speaking out, of looking to the future, and the importance of coming together in mourning, rage, and action.
Speakers include:
Sol Aramendi, Albina Mateo, and Irwin Sanchez
Christopher Cole
Shannon Matesky
Meera Nair
Melissa Ragona
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
J. Soto
Diya Vij
and more!
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. Day time performances are free and open to the public, while evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds in benefit of select charities working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.