Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Coming Soon!!! U-N-M-A-R-K-E-D Special Event



PHREEQUES! aka DE-ART(H)!!! aka THE UNTITLED!!!
Fri, Oct 28 + Sat, Oct 29 // Doors: 9pm // $10

BETAMAX slush and the 42nd St. trash overflow in this anti-art-house of horrors. Be all high-brow and get stupid with performance art, theater, video, music, drinks, and dancing. An antidote to the cool kids Halloween party. Co-Artistic Directors Patrick Kennelly and Sonia Oleniak’s U-N-M-A-R-K-E-D is committed to live and remote Outer-disciplinary spectacle, horror, glamour, and social justice. Ultra-violence through “art.”

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Highways Performance Space - history on video

I originally edited this reel when I first arrived @ Highways in the summer of 2004 as an intern.  I've updated it a bit over the intervening years, but the original structure remains the same.  This initially involved weeks of research, transferring, and editing of material.  Obviously much of Highways history exists in memory and myth, but the archives still had a wonderful stock of VHS, Hi-8 and a few mini-DVs charting performances in the space since its inception in 1989.

Wanted to spotlight this one last time, as I am currently in the midst of piecing together a completely new video (one which highlights the present and recent past) to reside in its place.  But until that is unveiled, this one continues to live on in our space and in our outreach to the world: