Boiler Room and iconic cult lifestyle brand Places+Faces are forming the latest power duo. Once a Tumblr blog photographing the biggest names in hip-hop, now a cultural phenomenan, a Places+Faces collab means you’re getting nothing but the best. Expect performances from the most exciting fresh artists in modern hip-hop, certified legends AND big DJs.
Join us for the closing of A Continuous Stream of Occurrence, with a sound intervention by Roarke Menzies, who will be engaging Luba Drozd’s installation.
Roarke Menzies is a New York City-based artist and musician who incorporates his voice, mouth and body with audio tools and toys to create electronic and electroacoustic works. His music has been described by The New Yorkeras “a layered electronic throb, coming and going, always enhancing but never overpowering.”
Menzies’s work has been presented at the Material Art Fair in Mexico City, the Spring Break Art Show in New York City, the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, VOLUME in Los Angeles, Quiet City in Vancouver, CHANNEL in Toronto, and many other venues. His music has also been presented on KCHUNG Radio, KFFP Freeform Portland, WNYU’s Bentwave FM, and on BBC Radio 3 as part of the series “New Year New Music: exploring iconic masterpieces, avant-garde experiments and the next generation of talent.”
About the exhibition
A Continuous Stream of Occurrence is an exhibition that brings together the works of Luba Drozd and William Lamson to explore how time manifests in natural and physical phenomena. The artists have created site-specific, time-based works that modify Knockdown Center’s gallery space into an uncertain laboratory, where architecture, light, piano cords, copper, salts, and glass create an ever-evolving environment that unveils time as materially constructed. By focusing on sound and vibration, or on crystallization and geological transformation, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the sensory elements that make up these living systems.
The Gardens of Babylon is a global family that co-creates mythical events around the world. Their magical NYC premier will feature performances from Red Axes, Kerala Dust, KMLN, Wild Dark, Carlita, and Gabriel Belmudes, plus meditations, ceremonies, a Market of Curiosities, and much more.
BUSHWIG NYC 2019
SHAKE. THE. HOUSE.
September 7th and 8th at the Knockdown Center.
This year Bushwig will be even more legendary than ever before with over 300 iconic performers.
Featuring live music from Slayyyter, Mykki Blanco, AJA, Christeene.
Drag shows from Nina West, Bubble T, Charlene, Tammie Brown, Lady Bunny, Horrorchata and all of your Brooklyn favorites.
Join us for 23 hours of drag, dancing, live music, shopping with over 30 vendors and more.
♥ Dance to sets by Iconic DJs like Jasmine Infiniti & Justin Cudmore.
♥ Carry at the Ketel One Bar.
♥ Over indulge with our food vendors.
♥ Get your desserts in the dark room.
Ride our FREE SHUTTLE from Jefferson L Train Station (Jefferson St. and Wyckoff Ave.) to the venue or alternatively use our code “WIGRIDE19” on LYFT for a 20% discount.
Bushwig is a safer space with LGBTQ friendly security, wheelchair access, and designated space near the stage for guests with disabilities. For reservation please email: Simon@Bushwig.com
Final tickets on sale now!
Bushwig NYC is an adults only 21+ event.
#shakethehouse #bushwig2019
Barn Dance with Caller Dave Harvey & The Remedies
Ticket includes: Dance, BBQ Buffet, Beer, Wine, Soda.
Cash Bar Also Available
Attire: Dressy Denim Optional – Free hat with admission
Mechanical Bull
Raffles
BASEMENT, a brand new venue, launched in May 2019 underneath the main hall of Knockdown Center. The newly designed and literally underground room is New York City’s new home for top and up-and-coming techno talent from all over the world.
Artists to play the venue include Rebekah, Answer Code Request, Aurora Halal, DJ Stingray, DVS1, Etapp Kyle, Fiedel, Function, Headless Horseman, Juan Atkins, Juana, Juliana Huxtable, Justin Cudmore, Katie Rex, L.Sangre, Luke Slater, Newa, Silent Servant, Somewhen, Steffi, Tin Man, Tommy Four Seven, Vatican Shadow, Veronica Vasicka, Volvox, and Vril, live sets from FJAAK, O/H, and Orphx, plus the NYC debuts of Fabrizio Lapiana, 999999999, SHDW & Obscure Shape, and Shlømo.
BASEMENT will also host special events from Quo Vadis and STAUB, the Berghain 09 | Vatican Shadow Mix Release Party, Horse Meat Disco’s NYC Pride, Bassiani, FIST and will be the new home to the Wrecked party series. Additionally, BASEMENT will host various workshops with performing artists, and release podcasts from those playing the space with details to be released soon.
Keeping with a European club tradition, BASEMENT features a state-of-the-art, Funktion-One sound system, and a custom lighting rig throughout the venue. All events are 21+, and attendees will be required to adhere to a set of house rules, including no photo/video, and a safer space policy.
For more information and tickets to all events, visit the BASEMENT WEBSITE.
Knockdown Center welcomes back techno-queen Nina Kraviz and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy for a supercharged night of techno and dance music with support from Justin Cudmore.
In the Ready Room:
Museum Of Love (DJ Set)
Shit Robot
In Texas:
Fabe
Mike Huckaby
A night of “immersive sonic experimentation” with modular synth alchemists Pita and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe playing on the kind of soundsystem they deserve.
PITA
An alias of Peter Rehberg, Pita has been an outlet for the Vienna-based artist to explore experimental niches in electro-acoustic sounds steeped in industrial, noise and left-leaning techno. His oeuvre spans two decades of boundary-pushing music, and has seen Rehberg collaborate with the likes of Jim O’Rourke, Fennesz, Marcus Schmickler and Stephen O’Malley. Rehberg is also the founder of the seminal pioneering Editions Mego label and family of sub-labels, which needs no introduction, and he’s released some of the most important albums from the electronic avant-garde since 2006 via this platform. Performing solo as Pita with his modular synthesis setup, we can expect the unexpected as sounds are pitted against each other in tensile, unconventional and beautiful ways.
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is an acclaimed and adventurous artist and composer who primarily works with voice and modular synthesizer for sound in the realm of spontaneous music. He has contributed to, and collaborated on, a dizzying amount of projects in the contemporary classical and electronic music world for more than a decade, both in Brooklyn where he’s based and internationally. His performances often invoke trancelike states as he uses his voice and analogue modular synthesis in tandem, pushing each instrument to its fullest depth of expression.
JANUARY HUNT
Artist, sound engineer, writer and producer January Hunt combines her many talents, utilizing noise and drone to convey life experience, emotions and identity musings amongst other things. We are excited to have her back on another Quo Vadis lineup, having performed for us last year as New Castrati; this time opening the room with an intense, noise-driven foray into body-centric musings, transition and malleability.
David Ian Bellows/Griess (born Omaha, NE 1984) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through diy surveillance to relay the physicality and the resilience of the body and what might be possible/impossible for the body to sustain.
Nia Nottage is a performance artist and founding member of performance collective Steph Christ – https://stephs.net. Recent projects include POSSESSION (2017-8) at Real Estate Fine Art, Device Controlled (2016) at Panoply Performance Lab, Gloss (2019) at Shawn Escarciga’s Inaugural Hallway Show, LOVE LETTERS//TIME ALONE (2018) at Human Trash Dump, Frances Yeoland: Circula (2018) at 959 Kent Ave, You Should Wake Up Earlier (2017) with No Total, Programs Associate at Artists Space, Dysfunctional poetry reading at MoMA PS1 (2017), and Curatorial Fellow at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (2019).
xtian w is a non binary trans femme writer and performer. Their poems and essays appear in [PANK], No, Dear, VIDA, Bone Bouquet, Jaded Ibis, and Hematopoiesis Press, among others. Current creative—life interests include Medusa, hysteria, Trans sensorialities, weaving and braiding, coriander, ancestry, gut bacteria, ghazals, list poems, friendship beyond heteronormativity, boundaries, and houseplants. An Aquarius sun/ Capricorn moon/ Virgo rising, xtian is an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU and paints their nails in Brooklyn.
About the Curator
Shawné Michaelain Holloway is a new media artist using sound, video, and performance to shape the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum (NYC, NY), Sorbus Galleria (Helsinki, Fi), The Kitchen (NYC, NY) Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL). Currently, Holloway teaches in the New Arts Journalism department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
About Sunday Service
Taking place the first Sunday of each month, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of cross-disciplinary performances and presentations that brings together a multiplicity of views around a singular prompt, such as a question, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service centers works in progress, interdisciplinary endeavors, and diversity in format showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster the exploration of ideas and critical discourse amongst peers.
Sunday Service is programmed by Stephanie Acosta and Alexis Wilkinson. Stephanie Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist who places the materiality of the ephemeral at the center of her work, questioning meaning-making and manufactured limitations through her multiple practices. Alexis Wilkinson is the Director of Exhibitions and Live Art at Knockdown Center.
