August 28th, Long Island City, NY
Rising Bounce superstar Big Freedia and the Airlift’s own D.J. Rusty Lazer continue to bring it to the people! They will perform live at MOMA’s P.S.1 for the museum’s Warm Up series.
Big Freedia / New Orleans Sissy Bounce, New Orleans (live)
DJ Rusty Lazer / New Orleans (DJ set)
DJ Rashad / Juke Trax/Movel Trax/Ghettophiles, Chicago (DJ set)
GHE20 GOTHIK DJs Venus X and Brenmar / Brooklyn, New York (DJ set)
Traxx (DJ set, Nation Records, Chicago)
Society Debut
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Julia Street, 6 -9 pm
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
St. Claude Avenue, 6 – 9 pm
plus pop-up performances TBA
Tableaux Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective is a collaboration between New Orleans Airlift guest artist, Rosie Cooper, and the New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant.
Rosie is a London-based performance artist and curator. The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant is the brainchild of Airlift Visual Arts Director, Delaney Martin and it is comprised of New Orleans artists, performers and interested citizens who are dedicated to the revival of “living pictures”.
As the Society’s guest director, Cooper has chosen to present a group show of tableaux vivant that will be enacted by the Society members. In addition to a selection of historical tableaux, original tableaux from international contemporary
artists have been commissioned specially for this performance. Participating artists include:
Audrey Reynolds
Anna Barham
Olivier Castel
Tai Shani
The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant will also collectively originate their own tableau. Their tableau will pay homage to the Tableau Balls of the old-lineMardi Gras Krewes.
This performance of static works will “wander” through city streets on the back of a flat bed truck which will act as a stage.
Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospect is a New Orleans Airlift production. It is being presented as part of Prospect 1.5 New Orleans.
Over the past two years Big Freedia and Rusty Lazer (who’s secretly Jay Pennington, an organizer of the Airlift Project) have spent considerable time and effort to help Bounce Music reach beyond the streets of New Orleans. Since the first Airlift collaboration involving NY Producer Dre Skull, XLR8R Magazine, Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby, Katey Red and Gotty Boi Chris, Rusty has worked as a kind of Bounce ambassador, taking performers to Austin, New York, Miami and more. Likewise, Freedia has acted as both a performer and an organizer in her own right, by assisting with logistical and talent related issues and providing the stability necessary to help a talented community take steps in new directions. The rewarding work the Airlift has done with these performers is coming to beautiful fruition in an exhaustive article published in the New York Times Magazine this week. The Airlift is very excited to have fostered such an amazing collaborative effort and proud of all the performers for their talent and hard work! Please check out the article here and feel free to peruse past projects involving these amazing musicians here. Watch out for more to come and congratulations to all involved!
The New Orleans Airlift has been invited to participate in the TRAJECTOR ART FAIR during Art Brussels, April 23- 25 2010!
The Airlift will be presenting a film program that documents the unlikely phenomenon of Sissy Bounce. Sissy bounce is the gay/transgendered off shoot of Bounce, New Orleans home grown hip hop.
Trajector Art Fair is an initiative by Hotel Bloom! and Centrifugal Projects that will take place from 23 April until 25 April 2010, coinciding with Art Brussels. Trajector Art Fair is an initiative that follows on from Projector Art Fair, presented by MAMA, that took place, to great critical and public approval in Rotterdam in 2008.Centrifugal’s Ken Pratt, one of the key developers of the original concept, has worked with Hotel Bloom! to realise a new manifestation. Building on the success of the Projector Art Fair , Trajector takes the core concept on the road for 2010. It will take place in Brussels, in April 2010 coinciding and collaborating with Art Brussels. In Brussels –as in Rotterdam- the focus is not on the commercial gallery sector, but on the project spaces, artists’ initiatives and independent curatorial projects that provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary artists in the international arena. In part a celebration and playful game with the role of non-profit organisations, project spaces and independent curators within the art commerce systems, Trajector takes the original concept and re-realises it as a hotel art fair in Brussels’ most recent boutique hotel. Tongue-in-cheek, critique or hardcore commercial? That’s largely up to the participants to determine. Trajector Art Fair will transform Hotel Bloom! into a vibrant ‘boutique hotel art fair’ with eighteen rooms and a wide range of conference rooms and public spaces providing a platform for a range of international art spaces and curators to present some of the best emerging contemporary art to a Brussels audience.
NEW ORLEANS BLOCK PARTY!
The New Orleans Airlift, in association with Nolabounce.com, The Bounce Spot, Where They At?, Bounce Fest, and Crossfaded Bacon.com, is bringing the ultimate retrospective Bounce Showcase to the South by SouthWest Music festival.
Partners n’ Crime, DJ Jubilee, Katey red, Big Freedia, Miss Tee, Magnolia shorty, Vockah Redu, and DJ’s Lefty Parker and Rusty Lazer, will be on hand to show Austin where its at in New Orleans.
Stay tuned to Rustylazer.com for additional shows by individual artists and check out the March 18th Louisiana Economic Development Fund showcase featuring New Orleans music including several bounce artists!
Lady Aiko makes a Big Freedia stencil! Get your limited edition tee-shirt for only $15! Write to us if you want one!
AIKO NAKAGAWA aka AIKO from Tokyo, JAPAN recently met New Orleans Bounce sensation BIG FREEDIA and the New Orleans Airlift at a performance for Dietch Projects during Miami Basel 2009.
MUTUAL ADMIRATION = COLLABORATION
Aiko currently resides in New York. Floral designs, girl cartoons and street pop culture images are all incorporated on Lady Aiko’s mixed media works. She utilizes both stencil, spraypaint and silkscreen print techniques to create her vibrant large-scale works which often transform “cupcake” images to playfully portray feminine sexuality and beauty. Being an immigrant from Japan, Aiko has herself been discovering Americana-type pop imagery and recreating it in an innovative way. She has recently shown her works, Love Monster Exhibition at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York, Apocalypse Wow at MACRO Future in Rome, The Wynwood Walls at the Deitch Project in Miami, and Animamix Biennale at Shanghai MoCA as well as major galleries and museums in US, Europe and Asia.
The Society for Decoration and Sacrifice Presents: Zradab, A “Legend” Unearthered
Curator Delaney Martin, in association with Barrister’s Gallery of New Orleans, assembles 20 artists from London, NY,and New Orleans to create one mega-installation featuring four nights of performance within the installation.
Artists: Delaney Martin (NOLA), Taylor Lee Shepherd (NOLA), Andrew Zeigler (NOLA), Luke Brennan (London), Kim and Scott Pterodactyl(NOLA), Jennifer Odem(NOLA), Myrtle Von Damitz III (NOLA), Luke Barber- Smith (NY), Rachel David (NOLA), Eric Smith (NOLA), CaronGeary (London), Frank Deleon-Jones (NY), Arielle De Pinto (NY), Randi Mates (NY), Ben Wolf (NY),Melissa Stryker (NOLA) Joy Patterson (NOLA) Nina Nichols (NOLA)and Jeffery Cook (NOLA)
Big Freedia and Deitch Projects at Art Basel 2009!
Big Freedia headlined the opening of Deitch Project’s outdoor exhibition “Wynwood Walls” featuring work by notorious street artists Swoon, Aiko, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos and Barry McGee and many more, with fireworks provided by the Black Label Bike Club.
Airlift jetsets New Orleans artists work to London in Today is Borings’ popular monthly film night.
Films showcased include:
-Ground breaking Trouble the Water (2008) Carl Deal & Tia Lessing
-Helen Hill animations, Blinded By Seeing by Michael Mortell, the award winning Glory at Sea by Benh
Zeitlin, New Orleans Bounce documentary Ya Heard Me, and Les Blanks’ New Orleans’ Classic Always For Pleasure (1976) amongst others.
Sissy Bounce Heroes SISSY NOBBY & BIG FREEDIA Take a Bite Outta The Big Apple!
LIVE!! with special guest Bounce DJ RUSTY LAZER…and…SPANK ROCK! MALUCA! DRE SKULL! OMG MICHELLE! ROXY COTTONTAIL! DJ DIRTY FINGER! NINJASONIK! OJAY MORGAN of House of Ladosha!
New Orleans “Bounce” music rulers Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby jetsetted to New York for a special week of shows from September 19-23. Bounce Music is an original New Orleans form of rap that’s been dominating radio and street culture in New Orleans for over 15 years. Its queer counterpart, Sissy Bounce, has taken the city by storm, with tracks like Sissy Nobby’s dut-wrenching “Consequences” soaring to the number one spot on local radio. With over 10 MILLION plays on Sissy Nobby’s Myspace page, she’s probably the most famous rapper (queer or not!) you’ve NEVER heard of!
But it’s really all about the dancing. . .
Check out footage from the epic September 22 show as well as a priceless interview
with Big Freedia the Queen Diva herself!
SISSY NOBBY – www.myspace.com/sissynobbyy
BIG FREEDIA – www.myspace.com/bigfreedia
DJ Rusty Lazer – www.myspace.com/rustylazer & www.rustylazer.com
Independence Day – Southern Style
ASU are putting together a new film programme touring the Deptford, London environs at 4 locations throughout July & August. First of is their inclusion in the Tomorrow Deptford festival 4th July – http://www.myspace.com/artfulmtb
Set in the heart of the popular Deptford Market, shoppers will be encouraged into the Market Cinema – a specially constructed market stall, to take the weight of their legs and escape from the hustle and bustle for a while.
Independence Day -Southern Style celebrates independent film-makers from 4 Southern locations.South London, Memphis, TN. New Orleans, LA. and the Republic of Ireland.
The work will then tour 3 other community events.
The New Orleans Airlift is delighted to be part of this event and will be showing films from Helen Hill, Bounce Documentary “Ya Heard Me?”, scary vampire flick “The Hunter’s Apprenctice”, post-Katrina super 8 diary “Blinded by Seeing” and more.
NEW ORLEANS ART SHOW AND LIVE PERFORMANCE
Up and coming New Orleans visual artists will exhibit at the Bereznitzky Gallery’s Summer party. This exhibition of light weight works including drawings, photos, paintings and small sculptures will be accompanied by live performance from New Orleans musicians, clowns, and performance artists including one man band Ratty Scurvics’ Singularity, the singing sensation Meschiya Lake, and DJ Rusty Lazer who will bring the sound of New Orleans street music to Berlin for this one night only summer party.
FRUHPERLEN INS KARMANOIA
Isarstr./Ecke Boddinstr. , Neukolln
4pm till midnight
Airlift performers Meschiya Lake and Ratty Scruvics’ Singularity join their friends on the Karmnoia stage for the celebrated Fete De La Musique Festival, an out door event that has stages all around the city of Berlin. The Karmanoia stage also features frequent Airlift collborators Les Haverflocken Swingers, The Cowboy Killers and Captain Shebang and calls itself the stage for Eighties Queer Gypsy HotJazz. Come and find out what that is all about!
More info at www.fetedelamusique.de
The New Orleans Airlift has teamed with Berlin Lacht, a Berlin-based producer of international street festivals, to
curate a program of performances, puppetry, traditional street parades and more for Berlin Lacht’s sixth annual Mariannenplatz Festival to be held in June 2009 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin.
Nearly 20 performers and artists from 10 different New Orleans groups will be traveling to Berlin, with talents ranging from one man bands to installation art to experimental performance and beyond! In addition to their appearances at the Mariannenplatz event throughout the weekend, and our exported artists can be seen at special appearances in nightclubs through Berlin every night!
Celebrating 10 years of Katey Red, Planarian Productions and New Orleans Airlift bring you live Performances by Katey Red, Big Freedia, and Sissy Nobby, featuring DJs Rusty Lazer and D Lefty Parker.
Forget about your valentine and come dance your heart out at One Eyed Jacks!
SWOON and The New Orleans Airlift Collaborate to Raise Money to Help Traveling Artists!
A joint benefit to assist SWOON and the New Orleans Airlift will take place the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans’ Bywater Neighborhood on February 18. Antenna has generously donated their space for a silent auction featuring screenprints by SWOON among many others. Musical acts Dark, Dark, Dark (New York), Church Rag (New Orleans), and Ratty Scurvics will accompany the auction, and a dance party featuring the Airlift’s own Rusty Lazer will follow.
Proceeds will be donated to assist the Airlift in its upcoming visit to Berlin, as well as SWOON’s Swimming Cities of Serenissma - a flotilla of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from Koper, Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May, 2009. The boats are descendants of the flotillas Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2005 and 2006).
Join us, get some new art for your shack, and help artists do what they do best in places they’ve only dreamed of!
The Engine Collision Festival (ECF) is an intimate, 11 day celebration of fringe artists from all over the world. Beginning February 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, this eclectic program of Cinema, performance and Multimedia dynamically presents – the current state of ‘Genre’, the influence of past, and the vision of future. Privileged to be involved, the New Orleans Airlift will screen short films feature a live performance by Scary Toesies, closing with DJ Rusty Lazer’s Bounce afterparty!
Among Engine Collision Fest headliners:
David Lynch will be screening a selection of unavailable short works.
Slamdance Film fest has put together a night of their 2009 winners.
Extreme films from the Parisian underground, headlining rare work from Gaspard Noe (Irreversible / I stand Alone).
A free week long program of multi-disciplined arts, this festival of guilt discusses the concept of art as a luxury good proving that from outsider art to conceptual art, all creative practice has a value invested that often exceeds its perceived commercial value.
New Orleans Airlift artist’s Scary Toesies and Delaney Martin exhibit films in Luxury Goods, with DJ Rusty Lazer livening up the January 28 London opening of with a Bounce set straight from his bedroom in New Orleans (while eating fried chicken from Captain Sals)!
Curator/Artist Myrtle Von Damitz’s critically acclaimed show “Antiabecedarians”, featuring 32 artists from New Orleans’ past, present and future opened this month at Barrister’s Gallery. Starting with a packed opening and all-night dance party in the balmy January night, Antiabecedarians has transitioned to a successful running show that has seen works sell to visiting collectors from New York and beyond and will be tentatively traveling this summer in conjunction with the New Orleans Airlift’s visit to Berlin for the Berlin Lacht performance festival. The show runs through the first week of February, don’t miss your chance to stop by and meet Myrtle to catch up with this long-running gallery’s ongoing events!
New Orleans NOW
Jay Pennington & Delaney Martin expose what life’s like under the radar in New Orleans, offering a portfolio of New Orleans artists photographed by their friends.
PLUS: Quintron talks to Nels Cline
(Sold nationwide at Borders and import magazine shops.)
October 30th – Nov 5th 2009
Deitch Projects’ Artist SWOON Dresses Up The Ninth Ward For The New Orleans Airlift!
Internationally known artist Swoon visited The New Orleans Airlift for a week of costumes and wheatpasting. In addition to leaving her mark on our future offices, she traveled around town and into the Lower Ninth Ward to bring her particular kind of people-centered beauty to neglected buildings and houses.
Doug McCash, Arts writer for the New Orleans Times Picayune, covered it from his perspective on his widely-read blog. following a controversial discussion of the work of Banksy, a London based graffiti writer cum fine artist who left his (very politically astute) mark on the city. Doug’s provocative work has become the center of debate in New Orleans – as citizens weigh the merits of graffiti versus architectural blight.
Watch Doug’s video of Swoon’s work here…
| New York street artist Swoon brings her pasted paper graffiti to New Orleans |
Sweet Nothings & Hurray For The Riff Raff export their unique sound to Berlin and tour through Europe, exhibited their skills on the streets and at night clubs from July through August 2008.
DreSkull w/ Gotty Boi Chris & Big Freedia
http://www.myspace.com/dreskull
http://www.myspace.com/gottyboichris2
http://www.myspace.com/bigfreedia
Collaborative Recordings with Bounce Artists to be released in Early 2009.
February 2008 brings a collaborative performance with Krewe Du Poux in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Airlift exports Too Dumb to Die with DJ Rusty Lazer to China and Japan , spreading early Jazz Performance and Traditional New Orleans DJ Sets from August through September 2007.
