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Oct 07

Da Prato Test Kitchen: Family Meal

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Come enjoy a handmade meal, sit down with friends and strangers alike gathered around community tables, and even get a peek into the fresh pasta making process. This supper will feature two handmade pasta dishes served family style as well as a salad of lush greens and edible flowers.

The Da Prato Test Kitchen is a monthly supper club series presenting food and examining sensation. The dinners test various recipes, present odd and beautiful ingredients, and bring together an interesting calico of people to celebrate food, conviviality, merriment, and perception. Join us for a special installment at Knockdown Center.

Menu is as follows:

Handmade pappardelle with wild boar ragu; rich gamey wild boar, stewed for hours in a sauce of chianti and juniper berries, fresh herbs and tomato. Served over delicate ribbons of handmade pappardelle.

Handmade maccheroni with porcinis and pine nuts; these are not the little elbow pastas you are thinking of but rather a very rustic, traditional Tuscan pasta shape of elegant hand torn sheets folded beautifully atop the dish and topped in layers with wild porcini mushrooms in a light cream sauce with toasted pine nuts and fresh herbs.

Salad of greens and roses; torn bitter greens tosses with buttery leaf lettuces, pickled shallots, a medley of fragrant and herbal edible flowers, fine herbs, and toasted pistachios tossed in a champagne vinaigrette.

These dishes draw upon the verdant mountains of northern Italy, bringing together wild mountain mushrooms, wild game, the unbelievable pine nut as well as the flora of the woods themselves. We’ll be in the tops of trees, rummaging through the brush, and rolling about the forest floor in this delightful and homestyle feast to warmly escort you into fall. We hope you can join us.

The cost of this meal is $35. Wine available for purchase. We kindly ask you to purchase your seats in advance.

Guests are invited to arrive at 4pm to see the rolling of the dough and learn about making pasta, dinner will be served at 6pm
Oct 05

Comrade Truebridge: artist-to-artist salon

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COMRADE TRUEBRIDGE is an artist-driven, rhizomatic workgroup, braintrust, salon, kitchen table, laboratory, and hive mind where artists share and exchange needs and resources – offering an opportunity to engage deeply with their own and others’ work and needs during various phases of development. The mission of the group is intended to collaboratively find intersections and assistance between diverse, multidisciplinary, and difficult-to-define artists.

At our gatherings, artists come together to (a) share works in progress, (b) discuss their project’s preoccupying puzzles, experiments, failures, mysteries, messiness, challenges, and vision, and (c) collaboratively identify strategies, insights, resources, and possible avenues for exploration and invention. The gatherings yield a wealth of collective knowledge and expertise as expressed by eagerness to both give and receive assistance from our colleagues and peers. Rather than a place to present polished, formal, completed works with pressures of perfection or prestige, Comrade Truebridge is an incubator and sanctuary for artists to step outside the realm of marketplace and to share the more intimate aspects of art making, both absurd and sublime.
 
To attend this workshop on October 29:
1. Seating is limited, so please RSVP to comradetruebridgenyc@someseriousbusiness.org

2. In your RSVP email, please give a list of what you have to offer your fellow comrades, and what you need in regards to your work.

 

ABOUT COMRADE TRUEBRIDGE:

Comrade Truebridge was founded in 2013 by multidisciplinary artists Quintan Ana Wikswo and Cat Tyc, and directed by Wikswo. With the partnership of Creative Capital, NYFA, LMCC, and other organizations, artists came from an eclectic range of disciplines and communities, with a special focus on those whose practices venture beyond the traditional boundaries of form and discipline. The first participants were NYC-based interdisciplinary alumni of Creative Capital, NYFA, LMCC, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Millay Colony. Since that initial gathering, Comrade Truebridge has expanded in a rhizomatic manner, as comrades bring other comrades. Read more: someseriousbusiness.org

Oct 02

Internet Yami-Ichi

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The Internet Yami-­Ichi is a free-­to-­attend flea market where people gather and exchange “Internet-­ish” things in real life. Originating in Tokyo, the Internet Yami-Ichi was founded by artist duo Exonemo and their online art collective IDPW and has traveled to over ten cities including Berlin, Moscow, and Seoul. One year ago, the first ever Internet Yami-Ichi in the United States took place at Knockdown Center. The market featured over 130 vendors and 1,500 attendees.

Special Internet bar menu!
– Apple: 100% Apple juice (non-alcoholic, non-organic)
– <br>: beer
– Netscape Margarita: Blue Margarita with lime
– Forex on the Beach: Sex on the beach (Price changes in real time using randomized software)
– Overshare-er: Mountain dew + skittles + vodka
– 90’s Internet Bubble: Alcoholic bubbles blow in your face!
– Internal Server Error: Tomato juice + Beer foam

 

After party:
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Sep 30

Rhythm of Afrika

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Dance Music Disruptors & Rhythmic Fall, with OWO present a night of African House, Deep House, Soulful House, Afrobeat, African Dance Music & African Diaspora Dance Music

Sep 29

Sundays Cycle Club

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A free bicycle tour of local galleries hosted by Orgy Park, Knockdown Center, Transmitter, and other neighborhood friends! Cyclists of all experience levels welcome.

Stay tuned for our route and our October date.

 

 

Sep 20

Collapsing Scenery EP release show

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“GOD’S LEAST FAVORITE” EP NYC RELEASE SHOW

Starting out as a think-tank music and art project by the meeting of two fertile and febrile minds, Collapsing Scenery began their mission in LA warehouses and basements spreading their dark and noisy electronic sound to those in the know. This week they stream Metaphysical Cops, the lead single from their debut UK EP, God’s Least Favourite scheduled for release on Metropolitan Indian Records on September 23rd. You can stream Metaphysical Cops below.

Made up of NYC guitarist Don De Vore (Ink & Dagger, The Icarus Line) and LA singer Reggie Debris, Collapsing Scenery bonded whilst watching predator missiles rain on Middle Eastern heads. As TV stations poured out obscene coverage, the duo assembled a stash of analog electronics: samplers, step sequencers, synths and drum machines, all supplemented by effects pedals. Following the addition of Chris Colley (who previously held sticks with The Strokes’ Albert Hammond and School Of Seven Bells), the trio started looking further afield, built their own sound-system to recreate and expand on their studio work in a live environment and hit the road.

In a genre often lacking in lyrical bite, theirs is electro music with meaning and purpose. It flexes the head as well as the heart. The EP leads with the taut post-punk electro single Metaphysical Cops, a techno inspired opus whose title takes inspiration from Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, specifically this quote from ‘Pnin’: “Metaphysical police can break physical bones.” The body of the lyrics were inspired by the great Harpers piece ’Straight Man’s Burden’ by Jeff Sharlet, and they muse on the culpability of segments of the U.S. religious right in the implementation of Uganda’s horrific anti-gay laws. It considers the very real consequences of invidious and extremist American ideologies which, struggling to find a foot-hold at home, are transplanted into new territories.

Debris commented and said: ‘It’s a comparative examination of two modes of so-called spiritual communion, one based in love and truth, and the other in fear and violence.

‘We recorded the track in complete darkness wearing military issue night vision goggles on a ranch in rural Texas.’

Collapsing Scenery shipped their own sound-system around Europe last month, playing debut shows in Paris and London, De Vore went on to say: ‘We want to play in basements, warehouses, garages – and traveling with our own sound-system, power supply and visuals, that’s exactly what we do’

‘Not being beholden to club promoters or the existing way of doing things is important. We’re 100% self-contained.

Collapsing Scenery offer a new vision for how a modern band can be. They’re not even a band – they’re curators of a series of planet-planning events, expressions, exhibitions, albums, installations, journeys, adventures and parties, all operating outside of the confines of the tired, traditional industry.

God’s Least Favorite EP will be released on vinyl and digital download via Metropolitan Indian Records on September 23rd with a drum remix from Diamond Terrifier and M. Baharie Cliff and another from The Big Pink.

— from Originalrock.net

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