Continuing Education for Dead Adults: Jan 11

Continuing Education for Dead Adults
Friday, January 11, 7pm
The New Museum, 235 Bowery
$8 General Public, $6 Members

Three multimedia performances riff off youth culture and adolescent education. East Coast collective Paper Rad will premiere two videos: the twenty-minute "Problem Solvers" (2008), and a three-minute short, "crank dat spongebob batman dropdead robocop" (2008). New York-based artist Ben Coonley will present a new fifteen-minute performance, "Kindred Spirits is the Working Title," and the Providence-based experimental band Wizzards will perform in front of a mesmeric animated tapestry composed of images taken from the Web.

Paper Rad
Formed in 2001, Paper Rad is an East Coast collective whose unique pop iconography synthesizes material from the Web, video games, advertising, and television. Visual artists and performers, Paper Rad seamlessly translates their aesthetic across mediums, from video installation to print to music to Web-based Flash animation.

Ben Coonley
Ben Coonley is a Brooklyn-based video and performance artist, cat fancier, and baseball fan. His work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals including the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, and the Corcoran Gallery. He has received the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Exceptional Emerging Video Artist, Cinematexas, 2003. Video Data Bank distributes his work.

Wizzards
Wizzards is the performance project of Providence-based artists Brian Gibson and Rich Porter. Their music—inspirational, uplifting electronics floating over hyper drum beats—is accompanied by animations, elaborate costumes, and stage sets. Porter is also known as Bug-Sized Mind, a one-man noise ensemble. Gibson is also the bass player in the band Lightning Bolt and the creator of Barkley's Barnyard Critters. Wizzards has existed for three years and recently released an album, Hidden City of Taramound, through Load Records.

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