Three years before the Stonewall Riots in New York City (1969) there was the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot (1966) in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, which is just one among many pre-stonewall actions [New Republic] [NewNowNext]. The transgender and queer community of the Tenderloin took a collective stand for their civil rights. Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005) is a documentary by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman which sought to uncover the stories of what went down at the riot, …
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With the World Cup going on in Brazil, for those not caught up by football (soccer) fever it’s a good time to revisit DJ/producer Diplo and his label Mad Decent’s 2008 documentary Favela On Blast. The documentary is about the music sub-culture in the city of Rio de Janeiro (in the poor neighborhoods, the favelas) called Baile Funk or Funk Carioca: a bass heavy sound with electro drum beats, reminiscent of Miami bass and electro funk of artists like MC …
Bad Rap, a documentary about Asian American rappers had a successful crowd funded campaign, exceeding their $25,000 goal by the end of their campaign this past week. As promotions for the documentary and the rappers involved, the director/producers Salima Koroma and Jaeki Cho along with three of the four central rappers from the documentary: Awkwafina, Lyricks, and Reksitzzy have been doing shows and interviews this past week. They’ve also had an interview on Hot 97, with DJ Cipha Sounds, talking about the …
Artists are no strangers to using bodily fluids such as blood, sweat and tears (figuratively and literally) in their work. In the case of artist EA Conner, he uses human semen mixed in his paints for his artwork. Because of the quantity he needs for his paintings, EA Conner receives donations of semen. The first thought from someone finding out that the paintings EA Conner makes contains human semen is probably “gross,” but it makes his artwork intimate and allows …
Six artists (Jonathan Meese, Bill Viola, Leigh Ledare, Elina Brotherus, Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist) talk about decisive moments in their life and work. Art is expression, the concrete, social, imaginary, fantastic, and the gray areas of life. Louisiana Channel interviewed these artists getting them to discuss the events that influenced them in making choice of living the Artist’s life, and the influences on the kind of art that they make. Here are the individual full interviews of the six artists featured in the video below …
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