ISSUE #15 | GOOD BY HOOD
BLOCK BIENNALE: 29.-30.11.2013
BLACK CRACKER
Stoic as fuck, with a baby face and a set of blue-collar shoulders,
Ellison Renee Glenn aka Black Cracker (formerly Celena Glenn) rocks a
swag aesthetic that lies somewhere between Dipset and Blackbox.
Currently living between Berlin and Lausanne, but based professionally
out of NYC, he works as a producer/MC/writer and has collaborated with
the likes of Cocorosie, Creep, Bunny Rabbit and Grand Pianoramax,
among others. Black Cracker is known as an unconventional yet highly
appreciated artist who knows how to translate studio time into
energetic stage performances - one of the reasons why artists like
Slick Rick, Grimes, Trust and many enjoyed sharing the stage with him.
His work has recently been covered in the New York Times and Vice
Magazine as well as on CNN.
https://soundcloud.com/blackcracker
http://blackcracker.tumblr.com/
rROXYMORE
rROXYMORE, aka Hermione Frank, released her epic 10 minute debut
“Wheel of Fortune“ in the summer of 2012, which came via a split 12”
alongside Planningtorock’s ‘Patriarchy Over & Out” (Human Level /
DFA Records). Her music is a intriguing one-off blend of contrasting
textures - organic and synthetic, icy and warm - a fresh future step
in dance music. Frank began producing music back in Montpellier
together with a friend in a disused garage - a starting point that can
still be traced within the atmosphere of her music. Her music
maintains a raw, almost dirty quality, which merges uniquely together
with deeply stirring and psychedelic energy. Back in the garage where
Frank made her first musical steps, she was using the Akai 950 and
Cubase on Atari - these two instruments allowed her to dig deep into
sample culture. Between long raves, diaphoretic live shows, DJ sets,
garage sessions and countless hours in the studio, Frank soon left all
sampling behind and began to play feelings direct via her
synthesises.
https://soundcloud.com/rroxymore
AMY HEATON
Combining fragments of electronic inspiration with a lifetime of
classical indoctrination Berlin-based violinist amy heaton creates
experimental ambient drones primarily as one third of the band
Ornis.
http://c-c3h2.tumblr.com/
PUSSYKREW
Pussykrew (Tikul and Jendrek aka mi$ gogo) is Berlin based
multimedia-artist-duo, exploring areas of live audio-visual
performance / video installations / DIY electronics. Started in 2004
with hacked vhs players, now using both ‘traditional’ and custom made
tools and patches, Pussykrew is creating gender-bending visual
journeys, filtered through carnal data mesh, liquid apocalyptic
dysphoria and some 3d fantasy shuffle. They merge the erotic and the
ethereal of sterile cinematic poetry, mixing maximalist sensations of
glitch with minimalist destructiveness. Pussykrew had a pleasure to
work with : Leila (Warp Records), HTRK (Work tour 2011, Ghostly
International), Raime (Blackest Ever Black), Oni Ayhun amongst others
and presented their works on many events around the globe.
web: http://niochnioszki.net
vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/pussykrew
HANNE LIPPARD
Aphorisms, love-songs, voicemails, quotes and slogans lose or gain
value depending on how they are re-arranged and performed – Lippard
reclaims language for her own end to try and overcome any overruling
claim to authorship. At times graphic, playful and intimate, this is
an artist using language in all its forms in an effort to create an
original aesthetic of the word.
Hanne Lippard (1984, Milton Keynes, UK) graduated from the Rietveld
Academy in Amsterdam in 2010. Her most recent exhibitions have been in
Exile, Berlin, Meat Factory, Prague, Minibar Art Space, Stockholm,
Spike Island, Bristol and Marres, Maastricht. She has most recently
performed at Offprint, Paris, Berliner Festpiele, Badische
Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, ARCO Madrid 2012, The Showroom, London, and
Poesia en Voz, Mexico City. Hanne Lippard lives and works in
Berlin.
http://hannelippard.com/
RAMZI
RAMZI is the solo project of Phoebé Guillemot, a Montreal based
self-taught composer. She began exploring the software Ableton Live
about seven years ago with the intuition that strangely electronic
music would bring her closer to her ideal of organic and spiritual
music. She spent a few years searching to define her own sound,
discovering the endless possibilities of midi technologies, sampling
foreign instruments and slicing obscure world music from the
Caribbean, Africa, and South-East-Asia. What came out is this lysergic
tropical musical world integrating elements of psychedelic world-beat,
dub, jazz fusion, glitch, and video game music.
https://soundcloud.com/phoebeguillemot
SHAYMAA SHOUKRY
With a focus on choreographing, performing, and creating video art,
Shaymaa is a multidisciplinary artist coming form a visual arts
background interested in integrating divers disciplines in her
creations. She is always motivated and inspired by working
collectively, while developing personal work in an organic build up
process where each project is the paving the way for the next. Shaymaa
had the pleasure to be hosted as a resident artist, take part in
festivals, perform and share choreographic work in Cairo, Alexandria,
Paris, Marseille, Avignon, Picardy, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, and Colorado.
http://ramimed.com/article365.html
ARTUN ALASKA ARASIL
Artun Alaska Arasli (1987, Ankara) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld
Academie in Amsterdam in 2011 and was awarded the annual Gerrit
Rietveld Prize in the category of Autonomous Arts. He has previously
exhibited at Amstel 41 (2011, Amsterdam) and Villa de Bank (2011/2012,
Enschede). Arasli will be studying at the Frankfurt Städelschule as a
guest student in 2013. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam.
vimeo
SIMON PAETAU
Simon J. Paetau was born in Bonn in 1986, as a son of a German father
and a Colombian mother. Since 2006 he has realized projects in
Colombia, Brazil, Cuba and Germany. His last shortfilm MILA CAOS was
invited to several International Film Festivals including Cannes, MoMA
andRotterdam. From March 2012 onwards, Simon is developing his First
Feature Film at the Résidence du Festival de Cannes in Paris.
http://simonpaetau.blogspot.de/
JOHN HOLTEN
John Holten's first novel The Readymades was published in 2011, and
most recently he has written fictional or immersive texts for the
artists Darri Lorenzen, Jani Ruscica, Lorenzo Sandoval and The LGB
Group. His work has been included at Malmö konsthall (Toves Galleri),
The White Building London (PYRAMID SCHEMES | a collective cityscape),
David Zwirner Gallery New York (with Aengus Woods) and NGBK Berlin,
amongst other places. In 2009, Holten co-founded Broken Dimanche Press
in Berlin as a continent wide fictional publishing platform, of which
currently he is the Editor-in-Chief.
http://www.johnholten.com/
http://www.brokendimanche.eu/