WORK ONLY :: FORGOTTEN HISTORIES :: COFFEE WITH JAMES KALM
Creator / Filmmaker Shanna Maurizi writes: New York does not have a very good memory unless there is a lot of money and press involved, and the real history of the city is sometimes only preserved in the minds of people who are paying attention. Writer James Kalm has been paying attention to the art history of Williamsburg for over 15 years, and wrote a piece for the Brooklyn Rail titled “The Brooklyn Canon“, tracing the lineage of the... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: May 13-19
CA Conrad @ Kenny’s Castaways (photo credit Stacy Szymaszek) Editor’s note: welcome to the 11th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman), to provide for the community... Read More
RE:CONVERSATIONS :: OCCUPY LOVE :: WE ARE THE HUNDRED PERCENT :: AN INTERVIEW WITH VELCROW RIPPER
ExSt: How can we as artists work with the information that we’re given? Why is non-informational media so crucial in making this movement really work? VR: Because activists so often think that, you know, the facts will be enough. And they really aren’t. Because we’re bombarded with facts. And the facts are really depressing, too, if you just look at the statistics. If you... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: May 6 – 12
Middle Schoolers from the Poetry Outreach program read at the Annual CCNY Poetry Festival, now in its 41st year. Friday, May 10th (details below) Editor’s note: welcome to the 10th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry... Read More
2nd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 18 :: ELIZA SWANN ON BERNADETTE MAYER
Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty: Thoughts On Bernadette Mayer When I think about Bernadette Mayer I think about flowers, I think about fucking, I think about a good joke. I think about children. I think about words like propagate, roseate, generate, make, yield, beget, fecundate, menstruate, proliferate, non-linear, inseminate, radicalize, originate, swell, parturiate, defecate, participate, fructify, liquidate, impregnate. I imagine the entire... Read More
SUNDAY APRIL 21st :: HARMONIOUS TENSION / TRANSLATION :: the PRINT! VOL. 3 COllaborative COntent SALON!
“Whence did the wond’rous mystic art arise, Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? That we by tracing magic lines are taught, How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The M(e/a)ssage —– GREETINGS COMRADES! If you’ve been receiving our emails and keeping track of recent announcements, you’ve probably already seen the announcements for our next Exit Strata Collaborative Content... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: April 15-21
Editor’s note: welcome to the 8th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman), to provide for the community here a true and cohesive overview of the vibrant scene that seems to birth... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: April 8-14
Allen Ginsberg, QE2, Albany, NY, 11/29/90 Editor’s note: welcome to the 7th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman), to provide for the community here a true and cohesive overview... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: April 1-7
John Giorno reading in the St Mark’s Church, sometime before the 1979 fire destroyed the Parish Hall. Editor’s note: Welcome to the 6th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup, which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman)... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: March 25-31
Jacob Burckhardy reading at The Poetry Project at St Marks, 1968 Editor’s note: welcome to the 5th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman), to provide for the... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup: March 18-24
Ammiel Alcalay at a recent reading at Saint Marks Bookshop (w/ Ana Bozicevic), 2/27/13 Editor’s note: welcome to the 4th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears noting that it’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman),... Read More
NYC Readings Roundup :: March 11-17
Editor’s note: welcome to our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup! It’s long been a pipedream of ours to revive the NYC Poetry Calendar (started in 1977 by Bob Holman), to provide for the community here a true and cohesive overview of the vibrant scene that seems to birth a new event every day. How does a poet new to New York or just new to the readings landscape figure out where to go, what these different events and organizations represent... Read More
ART :: SARADA RAUCH IS FULL OF SNAKES AND CHOCOLATE
Sarada Rauch It’s a bag full of snakes and chocolate through December 23rd, 2012 Novella Gallery 164 Orchard Street (Lower East Side) New York, 10002 Exit Strata is pleased to invite you to visit It’s a bag full of snakes and chocolate, Sarada Rauch’s first solo exhibition with Novella Gallery. While Rauch’s exploratory visual work transverses many mediums, for this recent collection the artist has focused on prints, mixed media... Read More
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY IV : BARNES, MACK-VALENCIA, VANDERBERG, KNOUSE, AITCHISON
Frenzy into Folly continues! What a terrific run this show is enjoying. Exit Strata is so pleased to note that OPENINGS artists have been receiving well deserved attention, both from an actively engaged public, who continue to flock to St. Paul the Apostle to see the work installed, as well as from the media. From curator Michael Berube: You can hear a live interview with Frenzy into Folly artist Marjan Moghaddam on Virginia Reed’s “A... Read More
SOUND: :27 Kiss Video & the Small Rock of ADC
:27 Kiss Directed by ADC & Louis Lucci Just another Saturday night in Astoria for the band ADC (otherwise known as Another Dead Clown). :27 Kiss is the first music video (and first single) from their recent EP “Everyone Went Home Alone”. The small rock/electric folk band helmed by singer-song writer Chris O’Keeffe has been rocking the Queens/NYC music scene since 2011 with jazz musician Gerad O’Shea (formerly of Urban... Read More
WORD: In Search of the NYC Fiction Scene
Bernard the Typewriter Let me begin with a confession… I am a fiction writer. I’ve been addicted to fiction since I was a kid. Lloyd Alexander, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, John Bellairs, Brian Jacques… paperback novels were my first love, and the idea that by turning the page you could be teleported to a totally different world was, well, the most awesome idea in the entire universe. All I’ve ever wanted to do was write novels (note: my first... Read More
ART: DESERT RAVEN PHOTOGRAPHY :: Capturing Creators “For the Love of ART”
Desert Raven Photography is a collaborative endeavor between Ashley Garvy and Audrey Helow – a company birthed out of their desire to be continuously making art together. Garvy and Helow took the time and made the effort to find a way. To be photographers in an era of relatively open access to professional equipment takes more than just taking beautiful pictures: sitting on the floor of their office and going through the body of photographs... Read More
Taking Stock/In Stock :: Editorial Updates AND at a Bookstore Near You
clockwise from top left: Exit Strata PRINT! vol. 1 “brownie”, PRINT! vol. 1 limited edition, blood atlas (DeSilva-Johnson), obsolete objects in the literary imagination (Pinder), limited edition vol.1 broadside You know how, just when you think that everything is about to slow down, and you’re going to have time for all the things on your To-Do-list, which is looking more and more like an epic poem? And then, you know, it doesn’t... Read More
ART CITY! : Bushwick Open Studios, June 1-3
Baby’s all grown up! From its humble, DIY origins six years ago, Bushwick Open Studios [BOS] has blossomed into a behemoth of truly staggering proportions. This year, the festival — highlighting arts and culture born and bred in this vibrant, buzzing, quarter of the Brooklyn creative map — hosts an almost unbelievable 545 Events. It’s a veritable smorgasbord, and like all festivals of this type is sure to include the good,... Read More
HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS: Steven Rose and Joanna Seitz
The AWESOME CREATORS at Heliopolis Project Proudly Present: STEVEN ROSE AND JOANNA SEITZ OPENING: June 1st, 2012, 7-10 pm VIDEO SCREENINGS: June 6, 13, 20 at 9pm Heliopolis 154 Huron St. Brooklyn, NY 11222 suncityprojectspace@gmail.com “Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick A:... Read More