NATALIE WEISS

FRIDAY IN BROOKLYN: Unicornicopia/Janka Nabay/Banana Clipz/Telethon Friday September 10th at Silent Barn!

SILENT BARN:

915 Wycoff Avenue
Ridgewood, NY

L train to Halsey or M to Myrtle Wycoff

JANKA NABAY
“Janka Nabay is a Sierra Leone native who escaped the country during the bloody 90s and is now bringing its music to new ears as a transplanted resident of Philadelphia. Specifically, the sound Nabay makes is known as bubu music, a genre rooted in the rhythms of funeral processions conducted by the Muslim Temne people of the country’s northwest region. Nabay strips down the sound while preserving its teeming twitchiness, using keyboards and carburetor pipes to create a minimal but undeniably kinetic brand of music that he weds to socially conscious lyrics. Uniquely engaging. ” - Pitchfork

UNICORNICOPIA Natalie Weiss creates music and DJs under the moniker Unicornicopia.This evening she will joined by a band featuring Joanna Choy, Kristin Mueller and Joe McGinty. Weiss’ synth and sample based Unicornicopia shows are as well received in the Performa Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art’s P.S. 1 as they are in basements. Weiss’ music has been called “Refreshing and uplifting” (TimeOut NY), “Hilariously subversive” (New York Magazine), and “Very catchy” (New York Post.) 

BANANA CLIPZ
Banana Clipz is the solo project of Chief Boima, Sierra Leonian by birth and just recently a resident of NYC! Part of the Dutty Artz collective, Banana Clipz integrates an encyclopedic knowledge of Pan-African music with new electronic and club music. This guy is the best, I am saying this with no reservations.

TELETHON
“Telethon is the full-band offshoot of weirdo dance terrorist Telethon Veginald Cheeseburger, and they make some pretty unadulterated, nasty rock music.” - Impose

Jesus In Our Lives: My Residency at Ramiken Crucible

My 3 weeks in Ramiken Crucible Gallery have been incredible — turns out Jesus In Our Lives was a very apt title for my residency. The group art show I curated for the space has been been hugely inspiring  while writing and composing! 

I took a huge tumble down the stairs in the gallery. My friend literally bound my wounds with cloth from the Jesus costume I wore in the opening! Talk about the love of Christ. Marissa and Michael rescued me in the middle of the night!

The gallery has also been a great platform to investigate the intersection of Christianity and Sexuality through non-traditional performance. The opening party was a huge success and I look forward to the closing party — Night Time Church Girl and Boy on September 1st!

JESUS IN OUR LIVES opens at Ramiken Crucible Gallery Thursday August 19th

Artist, musician, and playwright Natalie Weiss is Artist in Residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery. During her residency, Weiss will transform the gallery into a collaborative music studio and performance venue. Hosting events that will take the form of multimedia presentations, discussions, musical performances, video art, social sculptures, experimental soundscapes, potluck dinners and slumber parties, Weiss is serving and encouraging the practices of other artists in the community that support her own work. Through bracing (and often sexually explicit) honesty and complete creative sincerity, Weiss’s residency is an experiment designed to repurpose the traditional social functions of a church in the most idealistic and contemporary ways imaginable.

Artwork by:
Natalie Weiss, Jeremy Earhart, Bridget Regan, R. Stevie Moore, Lauren Bahr, Tom Sawyer, Allie Avital Tsypin, Machinedrum, Beach People, Wheat Wurtzburger, Marissa Hinds, riderhood, Frank Traynor

Featuring:
Natalie Weiss, Rhonda Ayala, Charlie Looker, Zeljko McMullen, Joe McGinty, Kristin Mueller, Joanna Choy, Andrew Chadwick, Doron Sadja, Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Alice Lee, Amy Gironda, Melanie Brook, Marissa Hinds, Katie McVeay, Ashley Brown, Caroline Contillo, Kaia Wong, Conrad Winslow, Our Community, Will Lang, Mark Broschinsky, Sebastian Vera, James Rogers, Gabrielle Herbst, Justin Guereux, Scott, Sonia Tsypin, Karesia Batan, Two-Hawks Young

RAMIKEN CRUCIBLE GALLERY IS ON EAST BROADWAY AND CLINTON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE. ENTRANCE IS A LARGE BLACK BOX.

THURSDAY AUGUST 19th, 2010 

Lauren’s Song of Revenge 
Video and performance artist Allie Avital Tsypin gets into teenage rage and banality in this video/performance piece based on a song from the new musical CAMP WANATACHI.

Ironing 
Andrew Chadwick uses record players, microcassettes and radio to create quilted audio collages through broken records and object interference. Magnetic dregs and battered grooves yield a stuttering summertime soundclash.

Together We Are A River 
A line of women braid themselves together in a social sculpture about how great it is to touch your friends. Featuring Throat II by Little Women arranged for four female voices by Natalie Weiss.

Pinning Music for Four Trombones 
Conrad Winslow explores the sonorities and dynamics of the trombone with an entirely male ensemble!

Unicornicopia 
Wielding armfuls of samplers and synthesizers, as well as costume by riderhood, Natalie Weiss, Joe McGinty, Kritin Mueller and Joanna Choy will perform as Unicornicopia.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1st, 2010 

OUR COMMUNITY - I Had A Lesbian Experience At Camp 

NATALIE WEISS - Acts 2: 1-18

*Night Time Church Girl and Boy will end with an unthemed POTLUCK! BRING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS AND DRINKS!

Playing at Monster Island August 6th: Showpaper Benefit

I will be performing with my band Unicornicopia in support of Showpaper. Showpaper is a bi-weekly paper fold out that lists the all ages shows that are happening in the New York area. Each issue features amazing original art. The picture above was created for Issue #11 by Sumi Ink Club (Sarah Rara+Luke Fischbeck aka Lucky Dragons.) 

MONSTER ISAND
210 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY