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Lee Tusman
Lee Tusman is a multidisciplinary curator and artist at the nexus between urban, socially-based art practices and traditional visual art media. Tusman is Curator of the Riverside Art Museum and an active artist in Southern California and beyond. Tusman serves as Director/Driver of Vanagallery, a mobile art space operating out of a 1987 Volkswagen Vanagon. Tusman’s work is cross-disciplinary, playful, informed by DIY culture, participatory and collaborative. A newspaper profile can be found here.
Current projects include JANKY photo/noise magazine, Jewish Noise recordings, and Vanagallery events Painting and Pizza Delivery and Running With The Night mobile concerts.
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May 26, 06:16 PM
Public Welcome: Sumi Ink Club @ RAM
Exhibition: May 10, 2010-July 31, 2010
Collaborative Art Creation: May 10, 11, & 12, 2010 from noon-4 p.m.Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group holds regular open meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper with anyone who wants to participate. For this work, titled Public Welcome, Sumi Ink Club met in the Art Alliance gallery for three days, drawing directly on the wall in collaboration with museum visitors. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, and all styles. Their hope is to build community through sharing the experience of making collaborative art.
Sumi Ink Club has chapters throughout the world and has exhibited their work in museums such as: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City, NY, as part of their 2008 Whitney Biennial), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), Para-Site Gallery (Hong Kong), and Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). They have also offered workshops in museums and universities around the world, including: Stanford University, Emerson College (Boston, MA), Brown University (Providence, RI), MICA (Baltimore, MD), École Estienne (Paris, France), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan), and AIMAS (Ogaki, Japan). The group has received a George Peabody Gardner Fellowship, a Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in New Genres, and a Harvestworks New Works Residency.
Join us for the DIY Arts and Letters Fest May 29 and special performances with Lucky Dragons this summer.
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February 19, 12:08 AM
Raymond Pettibon: Thank You for Staying
March 30 - May 17, 2008 Curated by Lee Tusman
Artist Raymond Pettibon is a cult favorite among underground music fans for his early work associated with the Los Angeles punk rock scene such as Black Flag, and his album cover for New York avant-rockers Sonic Youth. Pettibon has acquired an international reputation as a top contemporary American artist adept at combining serious literature with popular culture references.
This exhibition is a selection of paintings made during RAM’s Earwax performance in conjunction with bassist Mike Watt from legendary LA band The Minutemen performing live at the museum in January. The works themselves reference Mike Watt’s bass, lyrics and titles from his songs, the southern California landscape, and even Watt’s legendary Ford Econoline. These paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Riverside Art museum. The title of the exhibit references the last painting Pettibon created at EARWAX, a painting of Nikita Kruschev with the line “Thank You For Staying” painted above it exactly as Watt played the last musical notes of the evening.
Pettibon’s work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums internationally. Major retrospectives of his work have been held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Photos from live painting and concert with Mike Watt by Michael J. Elderman
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February 18, 11:12 PM
The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas
March 30 - May 17, 2008 Curated by Lee Tusman
Barry McGee and Clare Rojas have long been associated with the “Mission School”, a loose collection of artists inspired by the culture of the street, particularly in the Mission District of San Francisco. Their works are often shown clustered together, mixing handcrafted paintings with scraps scavenged from the street and with photographs and other artwork found at thrift stores.
Barry McGee is a giant in the graffiti world, an artist known as much for his technical skill as a “tagger” as for his inclusion of new material, technology and street culture in his installations. Although rooted in graffiti subculture, he references all forms of vernacular art, including comics, folk art, and hand painted signs. McGee’s installations often involve images painted directly on the wall, loud animations, mechanical totems, drawings on paper, bright geometric patterns, and assemblage sculptures such as smashed cars and old signs. In addition to traditional paints, McGee uses pens, spray paint (including paint applied with pesticide sprayers) and screenprints on a variety of materials.
Clare Rojas’ art simultaneously references hard edge geometric art and handmade folk styles, as well as traditional European fairytales and quilts. She works with gouache, acrylic and latex paint on paper, wood panels, and directly on gallery walls. Rojas depicts men, women, and animals in magical settings, and her narratives reverse sexual stereotypes. Men are portrayed nude in provocative poses. Cackling, old ladies with headscarves are shown wielding sharp objects. However, for all this menace and disruption, there is a delicate feel to the work, especially in Rojas’ paintings of domestic life, animals in nature, or lonely individuals reinforced with a quiet power.
Performance by “Peggy Honeywell” at the reception.
Photos by Spencer Eakin
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February 18, 10:51 PM
Jeff Soto: Turning In Circles Curated by Daniel Foster and Lee Tusman
Nowadays, painting in southern California is all over the place, stylistically as well as geographically. But it has been adopted with particular verve by one still new, rapidly evolving genre. The manifold sources for this new genre, from graffiti to cartoons to psychedelia to car (and surf/skateboard) customizing and on and on, provide these self-styled, technically adept “lowbrow” or “newbrow” or “pop surrealist” painters with an immense variety of styles, subjects, attitudes, and rhetorics.
Riverside artist Jeff Soto has achieved an especially prominent place among the legions of “newbrow” painters. In his work of the past couple of years, Soto has reached a clarity of intent, as well as pitch of technique, that embodies a true vision – true, that is, to his grasp of reality, not just to the making of a richly faceted yet coherent image. Soto made his reputation on visually assured, pictorially ambitious paintings; now, he is challenging himself to produce visually challenging, even unstable imagery, imagery that reflects back at us something more than our need for entertaining stimulus.
Soto’s new, perhaps more focused direction, an onset of musings on the perilous state of the world, came about in response to the birth of his daughter. The work is now rooted in the visual vocabulary of children (not, by the way, in their crude visual grammar) and is driven not by the adult preference for tales of caution but by the kids’ own predilection for personifying all they desire and fear in a clearly delineated community, or species, of creature-characters. The work, according to Soto, is also rooted in his deep ambivalence about his (and his daughter’s) environment. Although born in Orange County, Soto spent his youth in Riverside, discovered art at Riverside Community College, and continues to live here. The Inland landscape “is a common element [in] my paintings,” Soto notes, identifying “gentle rolling purple hills,” “dead dried up brush,” a “rogue palm tree on the horizon,” and even the Raincross as recurring motifs in his recent art. (“The smoky smog layer sometimes makes an appearance, as does decaying signage and oil pumps…”) To Soto Riverside, with its down-to-earth ambience and diversity of communities, encapsulates the world - even more concisely than does nearby, but fantasy-absorbed and mask-wearing, Los Angeles.
Jeff Soto wants that salty ambience and visual-cultural diversity to suffuse his paintings. He is, after all, making a statement about humanity, never an easy thing to do, much less do eloquently. And he wants to make sure that we understand that he falls on the side of the “little guy.” Soto - like so many artistic champions of the working man – doesn’t aim for eloquence, but in his persistent refinement of his art he may achieve it.Essay by Peter Frank
Jeff Soto ‘Turning in Circles’ Preview from Jeremy Asher Lynch on Vimeo.
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February 18, 09:55 PM
June 22 - August 22, 2009
Curated by Lee Tusman
Since the turn of the century, a heterogeneous cadre of artists has been churning out contemporary comics (often referred to as comix) in their basements, bedrooms or studios to a hungry fan base with an insatiable appetite for their work. Flying below the radar of the general public only familiar with superheroes in long-underwear, this uncategorizable scene of visionary artists have no guidelines to delineate their work beyond their interest in the intersection of contemporary art, storytelling and flirting with comic strip conventions.
Like mainstream comics, comix rely on the culmination of narrative language and visual imagery. These artists set themselves apart by coyly playing with conventions. In the current climate, two approaches predominate but are no means exclusive: those artists that are creating deep, affecting narratives within the boundaries of traditional comic strip seriality, and those that push comix to the extreme—breaking the page, leaving tape and glue marks in their work, writing in obscure notes to the reader, and just generally ignoring clean lines and straight-forward story-telling. Strips, Scripts and Scapes draws from these two approaches.
Today’s contemporary comix grow from a diverse lineage including but not limited to George Herriman, Will Eisner, Charles Schultz, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Harvey Pekar and Gary Panter. As the contemporary art world has tended to focus on increasing inclusion of up-to-the-minute technology, many of these artists still rely on or at least reference the handmade mark-making process. In recent years, much activity has centered in Southern California, with standouts including the Comicon convention in San Diego, Giant Robot magazine and store, Family Store, Hope Gallery, Ooga Booga and numerous one-off events and zines.
Work exhibited in Strips, Scripts, and ‘Scapes comes from an umbrella cast of artists influenced by or working in the Southland, but it is by no means comprehensive. It serves as a tasty sampling of printed, hand-drawn and collage comix art, in addition to sculpture and installation work by artists working within the vocabularly of comix.
The exhibition features the work of Sammy Harkham, Johnny Ryan, John Pham, Mike Bertino, Travis Millard, Rusty Jordan, Souther Salazar, Brent Harada, Walt Holcombe, Martin Cendreda, Mary Fleener (story by Harvey Pekar), Taylor McKimens, Roberta Gregory, Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson, and Megan Whitmarsh.
Review in THE MAG - LA Art Magazine.
Reception Images
Megan Whitmarsh
Souther Salazar
Esther Pearl Watson
Walt Holcombe
Rusty Jordan
In addition to the exhibition, we held a Zine Ffest! {sic} with Esther Pearl Watson, Mark Todd and the ZineWorks Collective.
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February 16, 05:04 AM
JANKY, 2010 (currently in production. more info on this project here.)
Zines are independently-produced small-circulation publications, often photocopied or screenprinted, and distributed outside of mainstream distribution networks. There is a long tradition of artist-produced zines. My zines are created as stand-alone works of art, often in collaboration with others, or as documentation for exhibits and projects. These zines range from small photocopied and folded pieces to elaborately-produced professionally-printed publications with accompanying photos and albums.
Recession Special (excerpt), 2009
This zine was printed in conjunction with an event called Recession Special that documented artistic and creative contribution to free culture and provided a space for free exchange of goods and services. The zine includes excerpts on 60s Dutch counterculture movement Provos and their White Bicycle Plan; the Bolinas Free Box; the public commons; and online free culture.
Quiltz (excerpt), 2009
This zine was printed in conjunction with an album of music connected to fabric works. It documents my studio production, live concert at Padlock Gallery, as well as other fabric-related works.
Quiltz (excerpt), 2009
Cats (cover), 2008
This is a collaborative zine with 12 contributors sharing cat photos. It focuses on the colony of stray cats of Riverside, CA centered around the warehouse district and art studios, as well as other contributors’ cat-related phenomena.
Cats (excerpt), 2008
Bikes, 2009
This zine documents alternative biking culture and homemade bike projects. Printed in blue ink on pink paper.
Olga’s Account, 2008 (released on Jewish Noise Records)
Although technically an album, Olga’s Account is a 40-minute recording of Musician/Scholar Daniel Hantman’s interview of his grandmother’s immigration to the United States. This album was packaged with an essay by Hantman and a forward by myself.
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February 08, 03:00 AM
February 27- March 28, 2009 Curated by Lee Tusman
Cat Cult is a group of Southern California artists creating street art marrying graphic iconic representation with visual elements of chance that result from handpulled screenprinting. Contributing to the visual collage of modern urban and suburban life, these works can be found wheatpasted to electrical boxes, abandoned walls and other forgotten surfaces. Active for several years in the streets of Southern California, this is the first time this work has had a museum showing. The selected prints included in this show are six out of a series of collaborations between Cat Cult and Southern California street and graffiti artists. Using the screen printed poster as a base, artists such as Kofie, Shark Toof, Ewso, and Ruets added additional screenprints, drawing and painting in these collaborative pieces.
The focal point of each poster is the unmistakable image of a cat. As a stand in for the graffiti writer’s signature, Cat Cult’s work is identified by this ever-present, yet ever-altered head of a cat. Cat Cult has chosen the cat as their central symbol as “…cats have been used throughout history to represent important figures within ancient fables and myths in cultures and societies across the globe. Cat Cult embraces these multidimensional identities that the cat embodies and plays upon these iconic ideas in playful and ironic ways throughout the urban environment.”
Each Cat Cult poster has an individual theme and iconography yet all six posters are unified by their street art technique. Gathering inspiration from life in the Inland Empire, some incorporate images of American pop culture while others were inspired by friends who lead “gluttonous [lifestyles] sometimes full of youthful destruction”.
Cat Cult review in Riverside Press Enterprise.
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August 17, 03:35 AM
I participated in the Wickerbasket Pop-Up Shop on the weekend of July 30-31 by sewing a dressing room (that was complete with Vacant / Occupied sign).
Photo/video by Joy Newell.
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June 17, 06:41 PM
Some more cell phone photos (!) of my show Quiltzenjammer at J and J Test Only, curated by Jeff Ribaudo.
photos by Jeff Ribaduo
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February 27, 04:53 PM
Artist and curator Jeff Ribaudo is the curator of J and J Test Only Center, a California-licensed smog testing center and gas station. He invited me to have a solo show in the space. Pictures below. Enjoy!
Jeff Ribaudo outside the waiting room/gallery
Gallery at J and J Test Only
early, 2010, discarded fabric, found paper, batting and thread
OT Database, 2010, discarded fabric, found paper, batting and thread
Apt 12, 2010, discarded fabric, found paper, batting and thread
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February 25, 03:50 AM
JANKY, 2010 (currently in production. more info on this project can be found on its own website here.)
Zines are independently-produced small-circulation publications, often photocopied or screenprinted, and distributed outside of mainstream distribution networks. There is a long tradition of artist-produced zines. My zines are created as stand-alone works of art, often in collaboration with others, or as documentation for exhibits and projects. These zines range from small photocopied and folded pieces to elaborately-produced professionally-printed publications with accompanying photos and albums.
Recession Special (excerpt), 2009
This zine was printed in conjunction with an event called Recession Special that documented artistic and creative contribution to free culture and provided a space for free exchange of goods and services. The zine includes excerpts on 60s Dutch counterculture movement Provos and their White Bicycle Plan; the Bolinas Free Box; the public commons; and online free culture.
Quiltz (excerpt), 2009
This zine was printed in conjunction with an album of music connected to fabric works. It documents my studio production, live concert at Padlock Gallery, as well as other fabric-related works.
Quiltz (excerpt), 2009
Cats (cover), 2008
This is a collaborative zine with 12 contributors sharing cat photos. It focuses on the colony of stray cats of Riverside, CA centered around the warehouse district and art studios, as well as other contributors’ cat-related phenomena.
Cats (excerpt), 2008
Bikes, 2009
This zine documents alternative biking culture and homemade bike projects. Printed in blue ink on pink paper.
Olga’s Account, 2008 (released on Jewish Noise Records)
Although technically an album, Olga’s Account is a 40-minute recording of Musician/Scholar Daniel Hantman’s interview of his grandmother’s immigration to the United States. This album was packaged with an essay by Hantman and a forward by myself.
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June 29, 03:53 AM
Photos from June 18 parking lot show
We had a really cool intimate vanagallery show on the 18th. Started off with solo improv by False Sunshine, and was joined by Aaron Roche and Dan Burns (of Action!) for a really crazy all-out jam while a freight train rolled by. Drums, guitar and experimental effects box in the 9s. Great stuff. Look for a joint release by jewish noise and the music fort in the fall. This was followed up by performances by Action, Aaron Roche, and even an impromptu performance by Aaron Freeman of Mothers of Gut.
Parking lot shows are a lot of fun.
Jump over to jewish noise for an audio excerpt.
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June 14, 08:42 PM
vanagallery parking lot show this saturday
yes, we’ve been doing a lot of these lately. in riverside, ca. (“I have traveled much in Riverside.”)
VANAGALLERY Parking Lot Show
FRIDAY JUNE 18STARTS AT 9PM Sharp.
ACTION (prog/reg)
AARON ROCHE (acoustic/folktronic)
FALSE SUNSHINE (electronic/exorcisim)
STOLE_LIFE (primal plucking)
+ undisclosed othersLOCATION: Parking Lot/Quonset Hut @ 3rd and Commerce St. near 91 freeway – Riverside, CA – next to train tracks. Look for Silver Vanagon.
Note: Performers, activities subject to change depending on whims. This is the last concert for Aaron Roche in Riverside, CA before he moves to NYC!
facebook event page with directions/etc is here.
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June 02, 03:34 PM
photos from Saturation guerilla show
Font Sunshine and Conscious Summary (with MCs Slapoint and Miguel Landeros of Yuga) played a guerilla show Saturday May 29 at approximately 9pm in a parking lot in Riverside, CA. About 50 – 80 people in the parking lot were watching/listening. There were also about 30 – 45 on the decks of 2 bars in the immediate area.
FS played for approximately 25 minutes, combining new age cassette tapes, improvised roughshod noise, live cell phone calls, and MC Slapoint for an extended poetry session, and Miguel Landeros who had a long experimental improvised freestyle session. It was amazing. These photos capture some of the mysterious, intense feel.
The first performance ended when a police car showed up. Someone at the bar called in a 5150! The police officer was friendly, saw that there was no ‘danger,’ and left. Then Conscious Summary played an amazing set with violin and circuit bent stuff, including an electric pencil sharpener. Killer!
Vanagallery in action
Slapoint on the telephone handset mic
Police officer pays us a friendly visitCell phone photos by Angela Asbell
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May 28, 04:35 PM
guerilla vanagallery event saturday may 29. shhh
Guerilla Vanagallery ‘Running With The Night’ event Saturday May 29th in Riverside during Saturation Fest. Shhhh. (performers may include Yuba, Font Sunshine, Slapoint, Conscious Summary, etc). Also, a 25-foot microphone passed among the crowd. Also, who knows. Also, etc. etc. Full regular saturation festival info and schedule here.
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March 02, 02:26 PM
Running With the Night x Vanagallery
Running With The Night is a monthly event. Most recently, we held one Feb 21, 2010 in the Vanagallery, parked outside my studio on 3rd Street in Riverside, CA. See photos below to get an idea of the intimate epic-ness of our gathering.
MCed by Lee Tusman
Husni Abu Bakar
Ann Mazzocca
Karen Wilson telling a story
Aaron Freeman playing Doom 2012 (accompanied by Ryan Beal)
Electronic Wizardry by DEMONSLAYER
Yes, we had cupcakes. Expertly baked vegan and chocolate stout cupcakes by Talene Salmaszadeh.
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February 12, 07:46 PM
Proposal: Mobile Skate Park and Art Show
Just received this official-looking proposal for a Mobile Skate Park and Art Show from Jeff Ribaudo. Ribaudo experiments with works on paper, especially collage and printmaking. Many of his prints fall between abstracted graphic elements and minimalist collage. He also does traditional and new media printmaking. In 2008, his work was shown in Riverside Art Museum’s project space galleries. He has an amazing series of minimalist skateboarder prints. Take a look at this awesome proposal.
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January 30, 03:46 AM
surprise street concert saturday – LA
Surprise (shh) performance in front of the Art LA Contemporary Fair Saturday at 1PM. FORT Vanagallery. Foot Sunshine (noise). A Roche (folknik). MC White Jewish Girl (bad rap karaoke), and maybe Producer Snafu (hard) and anyone else off the street. + live drums of destruction. In conjunction with jewish noise.
Buy the way, do you follow Vanagallery on Facebook? You should, or you’re missing out on fast announcements and cool articles like this.
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January 08, 02:50 PM
New rolling raucous noise shows
Announcing a New monthly small show of rolling, raucous music:
RUNNING WITH THE NIGHTNew music (xprmntl, noise, drone, doom, abstract acoustic, 21st century classical, minimalism, etc)
REVOLVING VENUES (warehouses, speakeasies, VANAGALLERY, etc)
1st concert held @ the Adventist Speakeasy(Look for Vanagallery parked outside; otherwise, you may not find the secret entrance)
TUE JAN 12
DOOR OPENS 6:45PM
STARTS AT 7PM SHARP (DOOR LATCHED FIRMLY)
Round-robin; each musician plays heavy 5 – 10 minutes
FINISHES BY 8PM
NO $ / Beverages OK“Running With the Night” is a new program of new music meeting at various places with various people performing solo in many different styles, currently based in the Inland Southern California area (plans include shows in LA and other areas starting summer 2010). Concerts are small intimate and quick affairs. Arrive by 7pm to hear the show. Round-robin style: There is no pre-arranged lineup. Get there by 7pm or risk being left out in the cold. Each month we’ll have new music and new musicians. Get in contact for more info or to play a future show.”
In random order:
WEAK STREAM Joe Hill (ex-Spiderworks, ex-Alien Ant Farm)/stole_life (ex-Spiderworks) – LAPTOP/GUITAR
SERGIO CAMARENA (Mothers of Gut) – UNKNOWN???
FAKE SUNSHINE (fuck sunshine) – NOISE/GLITCH
AARON ROCHE – 21ST CENTURY ACOUSTIC
STEVEN LED – ELECTRONIC MINIMALISM
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December 13, 04:05 AM
Vanagallery x J and J Smog Shop Gallery collabo forthcoming??!
Quick note: Artist Jeff Ribaudo is now the Curator of “J and J Test Only Center,” a smog/repair shop here in Riverside, Southern California. Maybe house exhibits will become yesterday’s news and gas station galleries will become all the rage? Ribaudo has previously participated in Vanagallery’s Painting and Pizza Delivery nights and had a solo show that I curated at RAM last year. More info and photos here. I’m looking forward to seeing what future exhibits will be there. Definitely envision a collabo Vanagallery x J and J Smog Shop event down the line…
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December 11, 04:38 AM
My maga/zine project JANKY is up on kickstarter.com !
Are you down with Kickstarter.com? It’s my new favorite website. It lets artists, writers, performers, filmakers, and other creative people post their project online. The public can view these pages, learn about the project, and decide to pledge money to support it. If the total amount of money needed is not reached by the deadline, the pledges are rescinded and the project doesn’t happen. But if enough people feel it-really dig it-then the project is funded. Pledges allow you to help fund the project and get a cool gift in return.
My project is JANKY. JANKY is a mega-publication. It’s a package of cool stuff like glossy magazine, rough photocopied zines, handprinted photos, a SoundZine of experimental music tracks recorded over the telephone and more. A lot more. Check out my page on kickstarter, watch the video, and hopefully you’ll choose to support the project financially with a pledge. And help me spread the word. I need to get $2500 in pledges by February 13th, 2010 to make this a reality. Once funded, JANKY will be released publicly at pop-up Zine Fest/Release Parties in my Vanagallery on the West Coast and in funky art spaces on the East Coast too, and maybe other places too!
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April 19, 05:54 AM
Philly info:
5.01.10
7:00PM Saturday, May 1st
7 – 10 pm Janky Release PartyJanky is an experimental art publication of rough B&W zine, premium magazine, a soundzine cassette, pamphlets, handprinted photos, burrito receipts, and other stuff. Over 30 photographers, artists and performers have contributed to Janky. Produced by Lee Tusman.
with audio treats: Fuck Sunshine, Suicide Magnets, Fun, and Dj Psychic Franklin
$2 cover – Bring zines and tapes for tradeSpace 1026
1026 Arch Street, 2nd Floor
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April 19, 05:52 AM
Friday, April 30
8 – 10 pm JANKY Release Party / Homemade Noise
@ Launchpad in BrooklynJanky is an experimental art publication of rough B&W zine, glossy
magazine, a soundzine cassette, pamphlets, handprinted photos, burrito
receipts, and other stuff. Over 30 photographers, artists and
experimental musicians from Brooklyn/NYC and around the country have
contributed to Janky.with audio treats and homemade instruments and DIY circuit wizardry.
Fad Diet Sunshine (vocal dance improv from SoCal/Philly), Chattr
(Tenori-on wrangler from Dirty Jersey), Futuree Circuits (fuzz boxes
of destruction from Brooklyn), Dandelion Fiction (wooden Daxophone
symphony from Brooklyn) Performers subject to change!Free entry. BYO drinks. Bring zines and tapes for trade
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April 09, 11:55 PM
“so here is what i am slowly but surely getting around to! i will be adding the rest of the night tonight/this weekend probably.. i thought this part was kind of funny so far though.. i am compensating for not video taping both of ryan’s performances haha. oh yeah ps: you might want to turn the volume down a bit as i have not adjusted the sound yet.” - brianna bakke
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March 23, 05:56 PM
JANKY releases SATURDAY! The time has come! If you live in SoCal, please join us at Back To The Grind this Saturday March 27, 7 - 9PM for a release party, exhibition and “Running With The Night Concert.” More info on the facebook page here.
Janky Release Party and Performances coming soon for Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, SF, Portland. At the end of April through May, Lee Tusman will hit the road and visit fine cities for release parties and mobile/pop-up concerts with homemade instruments and forts. For a performance in your space, or to carry JANKY at your store/shack/food truck/garage, please do get in touch.
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March 10, 06:30 PM
Here is a preview of the Telephony soundzine. Featuring audio recorded over the telephone on Side A. Many experimental musicians, wrong numbers, moms, and lots of goodness direct to cell phone voicemail! Varies between minimal almost- musique-concrete and slab/noise. Due to the limitations of recording to voicemail, there’s a gentle, vulnerable sound quality that is nice. Side B features a duet by Fried Sunshine and Aaron Roche. Where side A has gentle moments, Side B is a torrent of intensity. Drums vs. telephoned vocals and effects box. Hard edge, at times influenced by freejazz, metal and hip hop, but ultimately rooted in destruction. Cover “J-card” photo by Mark Price. Album imprint by Jeff Ribaudo. Design by Lee Tusman. Produced by Lee Tusman and Aaron Roche. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Aaron Roche at Adventist Speakeasy in CA.
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March 02, 04:29 AM
Tonight, Side A of the janky soundzine Telephony was mixed by myself with Aaron Roche at his studio. The paper on the left is the order of Side A. The paper on the right is the full roster of musicians. (minus a few weird voicemails)
The album was recorded entirely over the telephone, straight to voicemail. - February 24, 02:58 PM
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February 15, 05:16 AM
Photo by Son Cleva
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February 15, 05:14 AM
Photo by Ashira Siegel
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February 15, 05:13 AM
Photo by Douglas McCulloh
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February 15, 05:12 AM
Photo by Brianna Bakke
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