Let's go to Cloud City!

In Yer Face

JUST KICK IT TILL IT BREAKS: Fia Backström, Carol Bove, Bozidar Brazda, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Adam Helms, Scott Hug, Corey McCorkle, Dave McKenzie, Josephine Meckseper, Michael Phelan, and Meredyth Sparks. Curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons. www.thekitchen.org

K48 at The Kitchen

Tobias Bernstrup

Roxy Pain

(Courtesy of Lauren Devine)

Free Went! I'm ready for the American Revolution Part II

Did you all hear about the Bees... they are not coming back cuz it's gettin too hot in here... so like, they won't pollinate anything and that means no food... all becuz of global swarming... good news is: Vanity Fair is taking a stance... celebs are gonna save the planet—yay Hollywood!

Keep your head high Went...

420: The Male Gayz + Lauren Devine Takes Her Diet Coke for A Walk

420 rocked! The Empire State Building was all lit up in green... and Michael & I made a giant green Mr. Yuk go bag... and a fun Slim Jim fannypack for The Male Gaze show... here we are having fun on 420... njoy, hugs.















watch the movie, staring: LAURINE DEVINE, SOLOMON CHASE, DAVID TORO, JOHNNY MISCHIEF, KHALID & CAMERON...

K48 at The Kitchen 4/24

You don't want to miss this awesome FREE event of artists from the new Prizn Break issue... featuring Roxy Pain, Christophe Chemin, Martha Colburn, Annika Larsson and Tobias Bernstrup. See press release below for more info...


(Tobias Bernstrup performing at the Duolon MoMA in Shanghai)

New York, NY, April 16, 2007—The celebration of the sixth issue of K48 will be an arresting affair. The megazine and this evening will explore themes of imprisonment by presenting the work of four artists and one band. In Lockdown We Bite! takes place at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Tuesday, April 24 at 7pm. Admission is FREE.

Brooklyn group Roxy Pain will perform a live set including a track especially made for the new edition of K48—Prisoner’s Pain. The whole performance can best be described if you picture Amanda Lear as an Egyptian Lover in a place where Middle East meets Chinatown.

Martha Colburn will screen her special K48 project Waschdrang Mama with a soundtrack by electronic/pop musician Felix Kubin from Hamburg. Waschdrang Mama has the effect of being a hyperactive Gauguin or Matisse painting, but set in prison. It is floral and beautiful, and verging on garish, in contrast to its explicit material and actions of the jail inhabitants, as acted out by cut-outs and collages inspired by the imagery of Jean Genet.

French artist, Christophe Chemin will screen his new film, L’homme au gant. Since the age of 13, Chemin is obsessed by a painting called “L’homme au gant” by Titien. The painting deals with getting older and presents a strong link between the passing of time, teenagers, and death. Chemin used to visit The Louvre and masturbate in front of that painting, once a week for years. The video is very religious, desperate, and nervous. The climax of the movie is the artist masturbating, shaking, and crying in front of a postcard of L’homme au gant, with Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder as a soundtrack.

Annika Larson will present the video Fire, which will be the New York premiere of this recent work. Fire focuses on the spectacle of the violent act and the power of a violent image, but also the power of the familiar image and its symbolic use. The video’s point of departure lies in activism and riots. Homemade weapons, common brands, and ordinary clothes shape the aesthetics of the activist. Filmed in a dark hangar environment, the video uses the structure of what could be a training situation for a violent act. The suspense is underscored by an electro-acoustic soundtrack by the artist and Tobias Bernstrup, a paraphrase of Stockhausen’s opera Freitag aus Licht. Close-ups of flames, bodies in tracksuits, faces covered with bandannas, lighters, and bottles. Although the video displays a threat or the possibility of violence, its voyeuristic gaze and abstraction is suggesting a situation that is more seductive than violent.-

The evening will close with a special performance by Tobias Bernstrup who will perform his new material; songs like “Enemies of The Earth” which sounds as Miami Vice meets Fritz Lang—an Italo Disco Noir anthem accompanied by new animations and costume creations. Computers unite against man!

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Last weekend was so much fun at Magicland for Ryan's B-day... This is my first video experiment shot on my new digital camera — Ryan doin an awesome little dance for us on his B-day... (p.s. you might want to turn your screen on it's side to view right-side-up, or not.)



btw, Jimmi and I just saw The Host... so radd—"Best monster movie since Jaws."—we highly recommend that you go and see it at a theater near you...

The Priznbreak Polaroids

sorry for the long hiatus... been packin & distributin the new issue... the party was a BLAST—thank you to all the awesome bands and kids who came out to help us celebrate our new freedom! here are some of my polaroids (click = bigger)... and I finally got a digital kamera too and will post those pix l8ter...

K48 STAMP ON THE MEDIA

PRIZNBREAK LINE-UP THURSDAY NITE AT EXIT:
10PM: ROXY PAIN
10:45PM: theswimmingpools
11:30PM BRIGHTSIDE
MIDNIGHT: THA PUMPSTA & FRIENDS
1:00AM: Tobell von Cartier
1:30AM: PHIILIIP & The Rainbows
2am: The Black Peter Group

DJs: TELFAR
MICHAEL MAGNAN
KILL WHITIE

Milan Looked Good Last Night at The Cock

and so did Geir—welcome back from Mexico City dude! Ariba, ariba, andelay, andelay ...

Linda Simpson—always lookin good—showin off some priceless artwork...

only one week from today... K48 will be FREE!!!

Warhol Factory Girl Ivy Nicholson Receives Superstar Award

NYC, The Gershwin Hotel—Ivy Nicholson has been famous ever since she graced the covers of Harper's Bazaar back in the 1950s (K48 issues #2 & 4) and then again when she was cast in several of Warhol's films, including Chelsea Girls—his most famous. Ivy had a very special and she would say somewhat romantic relationship with Andy... and according to Ivy, some of her magic actually help save Andy's life while he was in the hospital after Valerie's tragic meltdown that ended in the famous Factory bloodbath. Congrads Ivy! You are a survivor and a real superstar! You looked very glamorous last night in your agnes b. stripes and mini with your silver metalic manicure... screw rehab—have a drink!

Steal This Manifesto—What's up with Britney LUH 3417?

1. Steal this manifesto.
2. Make use of a service already existing without paying for it.
3. Recycle.
4. Against that which cannot be understood.
5. “I ALWAYS thought that modern art was anything you put on your wall after you got to be rich.” — Robert Downey Jr.
6. Trash trophies.
7. The lie of success, the ignorance of its champions and the intrinsic honesty of failure.
8. Destroy reality.
9. Sell-out while you can.
10. Fuse the cadres of cultural, social & political revolutionaries into united front & action.
11. Radicalize aesthetics.
12. Fight back.
13. Everyone is an artist.
14. Bring back fun!
15. Lighten up—it’s not your fault.
16. Use your sex.
17. Art that has to be in an art gallery to be art isn’t art.
18. Share and collaborate.
19. No egos, jealousy or rivalry.
20. The creation of art is more important than its consumption.
21. Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, professional and commercialized culture.
22. Yes amateur.
23. Exploit celebrities.
24. Just kick it till it breaks.
25. For an art of improvement, understanding, and truth.
26. Curiosity.
27. Teenage Rebel.
28. Fuck rehab!
29. Surface meltdown.
30. Pro Homosexual, Pro Women, Pro Children, Anti-“Straight”.
31. Anti-capitalist.
32. Use the focking medium!
33. Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.
34. This is useless and ridiculous.
35. Just do it.