LIVE WITH ANIMALS

210 KENT AVENUE
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
LIVE WITH ANIMALS IS AN ARTIST RUN GALLERY LOCATED IN THE COLLECTIVELY OPERATED MONSTER ISLAND BUILDING ON KENT AVENUE AND METROPOLITAN.
LIVEWITHANIMALS@GMAIL.COM
www.livewithanimalsgallery.blogspot.com
www.cameronmichel.blogspot.com

OPEN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 1-6 OR BY APPOINTMENT
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT VASHTI WINDISH @ 347-526-3179

September 10th 2011 2PM TO 10PM
BLOCK PARTY!!!!

POSTER Design BY WOLFY-THANK YOU!!
http://www.facebook.com/event
RAIN OR SHINE!

Thank you so much for your years of support! We are sad and excited all at the same time for our new beginnings! This has been an amazing time for all of us at Monster Island, and we at Live With Animals are very thankful for our time here and all of the wonderful people we have been so lucky to work with. Please take this ending as a reminder of how important it is to support the art scene and never take anything for granted. We took our name from an excerpt of Walt Whitman poem and saw it fitting to name our final show after Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay...which really sums up our existence in this wonderful and quickly fading building. So alas...


Monster Island Arts and Music Festival Last Ever annual Block Party!

Monster Island, Williamsburg's landmark center for the arts home to, Live With Animals Gallery, Secret Project Robot Art Space, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P. Practice Spaces, Mollusk Surf Shop, Oneida and a multitude of studios and rehearsal spaces would like to say goodbye in style.

Over the last 7 years we have always thrown an annual Block Party where we invite the entire neighborhood in to listen to live bands on the street, tour the building and host 2 giant art installations; as that this is our last block party ever (the building is slated for demolition in October), we'd like your help to celebrate!

CULT OF YOUTH
ERIC COPELAND
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
MAN FOREVER
CALL OF THE WILD
K-HOLES
REEGAL DEEGAL
DUBKNOWDUB
VAZ
HAIR JAIL
DIVINE ORDER OF THE BLOOD WITCH
BRUTE FORCE
THESE DAYS
and more!


Two Art Installations!

In Live With Animals

"NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY"
Group art show and installation

Golden Art Installation with work by founders and friends of Live With Animals Cameron Michel, Tania Ryalls, Vashti Windish, Raul de Nieves, Kory Hellebust, Tom Delaney, Eli Lerhoff, Sto, Eli Lerhoff, Sara Gates, Matthew Craven, Martha Hipley, Carlos Ruiz, Rachel Nelson, Zach Lerhoff, Micki Pellerano, Nathan Whipple, Jessie Steat, Emma and more!

In Secret Project Robot

"OUTER SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER"
A GROUP INSTALLATION AND THE FINAL
ART SHOW AT THIS SECRET PROJECT ROBOT LOCATION
Barry London, Sto, Kyle Hepp, John-eric Lawson, Chris uphues and Jenn, Christine Francis, Eli Lehrhoff, Brian Chase StoveTop, Martha, Kory Hellburst
Robot Death Cult, Maya Hayuk and Friends, Kayrock, Zach Lehrhoff, Allison Awesome and Call of the Wild, Cameron Michel...



Live With Animals will continue to do curatorial projects in other spaces, and are happy to announce their new studio and home will be in the new Secret Project Robot location. We will be focusing on our projects and music there! Keep up with us at http://cameronmichel.blogspot.com/ , http://www.thek-holes.blogspot.com/ and of course http://livewithanimals.org.

Lemonaids
A collaboration between Jason Fritz/Matthew Momchilov
Opening Reception August 13th 7-10


For queers, and many others, the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic created a fear of ones own body as the promise of a future was thrown into jeopardy. As AA Bronson has pointed out, this historical moment was “the continuous interweaving of care-taking, funerals, memorials, anniversaries, and more deaths.“
Using the vast media culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which conflated queerness with illness, artists Jason Fritz Michael and Matt Momchilov consider a variety of media tactics from this time and provide a counter-reading of these images from our current moment. The work questions the limitations and failures of self-help, fashion, art, and other media as a stand in for real advocacy, activism and transformation. If we can change our bodies and futures into something not tethered to the chains of death- is this how we do it?

On View August 13th through August 28th

www.jasonfritzmichael.com
www.mattmomchilov.com

Pseudoarchaeology
Paintings by Lionel Lamy

I come across my subjects through extensive research of imagery which I use as a launching point to explore the divides that exist between past and present, pre-modern and post-modern and to explore what, if anything, has been lost in terms of the spiritual, symbolic and magical experiences of mankind.

The current work deals specifically with the interplay between archetypal fragments, pseudo-histories, and general vagueries and misinterpretations in the building of new and more personal mythologies.

July 8th through July 31st
Opening Reception July 8th 7-10pm
with DJ Micki Pellerano

Violet Times presents: Foggy Notion
June 10th – June 26th, 2011
Opening Reception 7-10

Featuring visual art & musical performances throughout the month from John D Morton (electric eels, X__X, Johnny & The Dicks) / Peggy Snow (Cherry Blossoms) / Timmy Vulgar (Clone Defects, Human Eye, Timmy's Organism, etc.) / Hamish Kilgour (The Clean, Great Unwashed, Mad Scene, etc.) / Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia (both Smegma, The Tenses, etc.) and Neil Michael Hagerty (Royal Trux, Howling Hex, Pussy Galore)

Friday June 10th, 2011 - Opening nite party
Garbage River (featuring Timmy Vulgar & Jimbo Easter)
+ special guest: Sightings
DJ Acapulco Rodriguez

Saturday June 11th, 2011 – auxiliary party at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St, NY
Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex
+ special guest: comedian Ben Kronberg

Friday June 17th, 2011
John Morton & The Dunking Swine Of Chelsea
The Tenses (Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia)
DJ Chris Freeman (Fusetron)

Thursday June 23rd, 2011 – Closing nite party
The Cherry Blossoms (Peggy Snow)
The Mad Scene (Hamish Kilgour)


Violet Times wants to turn you on.

Over the years of listening to my records I began to take an even greater appreciation of some of my favorite bands’ record covers. These outrageous sounds were often housed in sleeves adorned w/ equally compelling artwork, almost always done by a band member who had also made the music I was hearing.

One day whilst cruising thru a mini ‘landmark’ tour of sorts in my former South Brooklyn hood w/ one of the prime movers in Cle-punk history, a little black egg dropped out of the earhole of my skull and the idea for this visual spectacle was subsequently hatched.

Each of the Foggy Notion artists have been creating music and art for quite some time- a few have been recording & performing since as far back as the very early 70's. In some ways they are all fairly well known in the under-the-counter culture world of music & out sounds but they've all been simultaneously creating visual art throughout the years in far more obscurity. Violet Times thinks it would be great to shine a light on another aspect of what these individuals do that is most likely less known to the mass ear and eye.  

This is not at all to imply that I want to have this be some kind of record cover art showcase- I’ve never wanted that at all and that’s not what one should expect when attending the exhibit. The Foggy Notion art exhibition is about their other visually artastic activities.  The music as released and sleeved is only the gateway into these other endeavors. Mine, and now yours…

Ocean by Cook and Gates is the first collaborative installation by Brooklyn duo, Ethan Cook and Sara Gates. Last year, both artists brought their studio practices together to form their experimental fashion label, Cook and Gates. Specializing in a variety of hand dyeing techniques they create canvas bags that are each their own work of art. Here they expand on their process and create a whole environment incorporating dyed canvas, organic found material, sound, and limited edition bags for sale.

HEADSSS

APRIL 22- MAY 8
Nicholas Gazin, Eli Lehrhoff, Ryan Hill, John Henry Kelly, and Thomas Delaney


Opening Reception April 22nd 7-10
Live performance by Fuck School and Hair Jail

Live with Animals is proud to present "Pilgramsferd til Nidaros", an exhibition by Eric Leiser.

Opening Reception April 8, 2011 7pm-11pm
Puppet Performance April 8, 9, 10 at 9pm




"Pilgramsferd til Nidaros" is an exhibition of several parts one being paintings celebrating the arrival of spring loosely based upon the study of 19th century Norwegian Folk Art, specifically focusing on the art form of Rosemaling (Norwegian for rose painting) a form of decorative folk art that originated in the rural valleys of Norway. The second part will be a Norwegian Stabbur house focusing on Nidaros which was Northern Europe's most important Christian pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages, the goal of pilgrims being the Nidaros Cathedral. The third part will cover Viking Art pre and post Christianity in paintings and animation. Finally a puppet play based on a 18th century Norwegian Fairytale "The Boy who went after the North Wind" will be
performed each night with life size puppets in Bunraku style with accompanying animation and live score by Jeffrey Leiser.

Eric Leiser is an artist, animator, director, puppeteer, holographer and curator who currently lives and works in New York City. He creates animated feature film and shorts as well as works that integrate animation, puppetry, holography, sound and live performance/installation. Leiser is interested in spiritual surrealism and how animation transforms perception when it is combined with live action space creating a fantastical/spiritually surrealistic quality.

His works have been shown at MASS MoCA, ISTANBUL MODERN, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum, British Film Institute and Anthology Film Archives.

The Front
4100 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm

Articles of the Lysithean Order
New Works by Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish
April 9th - May 8th
Opening Reception April 9th 7pm-11pm


Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish bring you a collection of images and traditional costumes of the Lysithean Order, a tribe that lives deep in our solar system on one of the many moons of Jupiter. The masks and costumes are worn during the ceremonial gathering called Ipcheata which is when a young Lysithean transmutates into its telepathic body. During Ipcheata, they develop from a humanoid body into orbs of light, which can communicate in visual vibrations. These glowing exchanges can be seen by the human mind’s eye when in dream states.

Cameron and Vashti operate Live With Animals, an art space in Brooklyn, NY. Their gallery houses exhibits by emerging artists, avant garde performances and many musicians. Also sharing the love of music, they are presently members of the bands K-holes and Golden Triangle.

Cameron Michel and Vashti Windish live and work together in New York City.

www.cameronmichel.blogspot.com
www.nolafront.org

Andy Curtin

Opening Reception March 4th 7pm-10pm
Exhibition March 4th - April 1st
Check back for special events throughout March.

Tobin Hines is an artist who works in various two and three dimensional mediums.

His work deals loosly with the physical, emotional and intellectual distance between the individual (viewer or artist) and the artwork itself and the exchange that occurs as a result of looking.

The work in this show has something to do with the anxiety that results from anticipation as well as notions of absence, contemplation and sincerity.

He is interested in and influenced by popular music, advertising, design, the internet, his friends, The United States of America, television, some books, some movies, standing in line, sports,

games, food, amateurism and comedy.

He lives with his wife and their two sons in South Carolina.

Micki Pellerano is a New York based artist and esotericist. Acclaimed by the New York Times a gifted young Post-Neo Symbolist; his draftsmanship, ritual performance and experimental film explore the role of emblems in the human psyche and the perversions of a society confounded by mystery.

His study of ancient and modern mystery traditions combine with a pedigree of the experimental theater to implement a unique command over gesture and symbol in extracting obscure meaning enshrined in classical myth, art and architecture. Pellerano's drawings and short films have been exhibited widely throughout Europe and North America. His artwork and scholarly accomplishments in occult theory and philosophy have been featured in various American books and periodicals.

Dear Joy,

Thank you very much for the letter you sent me. It was very nice to hear from you.

2wenty 5ive smiles pass, and I sit n smile for you:

JOY SHOES

JOY BABIES

JOY LIGHTS

JOY CELEBRATION!!!

Try Cry Try with Nathan Whipple and Ed T Sanderson play knowing

that maybe one day you might just show up to one of our shows, punch

me in the face-n-fake my place. Jessie Stead made has made a video

for your n-joyment.

I await for your up coming letter, maybe this time the best friend flavor wont

be sold out.

BE LOVE

Raul

Raul de Nieves functions and dis-functions with a unique hand-made material language, building narrative through decadent multimedia performances and playfully obsessive mixed-media installations. Raul de Nieves is a unique rarity of color and delirious art. Born

September 29, 1983 in Morelia Michuacan, Mexico. His works have been shown in Berlin, Mexico, Miami Basel, San Francisco, and New York.

"Mirror Moves for Private Eyes" is an exhibit of video, collage and installation, featuring a new video piece by the same name. This work explores the idea of The Mirror as a psychic receptor; a magical portal to visionary and ecstatic states, through self-reflection and visualization. The ritual use of beauty tools such as make-up, hair brushes, perfume, and other transformative implements, infuses these objects with a symbolic charge. Spaces such as movie theaters with lit-up marquees, and boudoirs with mysterious dressing tables, act as portals as well - power sites where time is fluid, and past and future co-exist. Auras of glamour, artifice and fantasy are used in a hypnotic, meditative way, creating pathways towards transcendence and personal gnosis. The collages in the show are composed of elements which were also used in the video, creating a reflexive cast of characters and symbols, which mirror back and forth, referencing each other.

Alice Cohen lives and works in Brooklyn NY. A long-time musician, she has released records since the 1980s as a solo musician, composer, and as a member of various bands. A long-time collagist as well, she started animating her collage materials during the last few years, and has created music videos for bands such as Ducktails, Coasting, and Talbot Tagora, amongst others.

http://vimeo.com/user1658854

http://www.myspace.com/alicecohen

Circus Gold Presents: Neighborhood Watch

3-day Event Featuring: Art/Movies/Puppet Dj dance party/Music/Raffle/Games/Kung Fu/Costume party/and more

Suggested donation at door.

For daily event schedule and to RVSP go to the circus gold page on face book.

Artist Showing:

Briar Bonifacio/ Austin, Texas

JLaw/Austin, Texas

Zach McDonald/ Austin, Texas

Patrick Griffen/ New York

David Perez/ San Antonio, Texas

Stephen Fitzgerald/Brooklyn, Texas

Kim Swift/Brooklyn, Texas

Cherie Weaver/ Austin, Texas

Hayden Dunham/ New York

Arden Fanning/ New York

Trinh Huynh/ New York

Elizabeth Huey/ New York

Joesph Phillips/ Austin, Texas

Carly Rabalias/ Brooklyn, Texas

LaBrona/ Canada

and many more.......

Event includes

Film screenings: Break in/Beat Street/Street Wise/Rumble Fish/Cool Hand Luke/Eat Flies/Big Bad Love/

Daily games for prizes with raffle drawing sponsored by: Ghetto Olympics which include musical chairs/pull up contest/bing bag toss

Dj Dojo drawing room/kung fu class

Puppet Dj dance costume party

Sponsors include: Patron/Cafe Bastelo/Zico/

Food:Bruce Lee Smoothies/Popcorn/and more

Clothing/Accesories by: darkeyes clothing/Circus Gold

www.circusgold.com

email:circusgold@gmail.com

Brooklyn, NY: Polyglot Discotheque at Secret Project Robot, 10pm – 5am:New York Night Train’s latest party – the POLYGLOT DISCOTHEQUE (international discotheque psychedelique!) returns! Mssrs JONATHAN TOUBIN (soul clap etc http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/soulclap/jtbio.html) and his favorite DJJOSH STYLES (smashed! blocked! etc http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manhattan-NY/SMASHEDBLOCKED/93214791622) join forces behind the dj booth to bring you exquisite foreign fuzzy sixties dance jams in a variety of tongues (primarily French) from the original rare 45s while you get down in the wall to wall tripped-out visuals provided by the MIGHTY ROBOT A.V. SQUAD(http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/) ’til dawn…

as always, the first half of the party includes performances by the underground’s latest and greatest live acts:

- 12am: K-HOLES: Brooklyn’s own spooky swamp garage super-group returns to the discotheque by popular demand to conjure their wild jungle haze! (http://www.myspace.com/kholesk)

- 11pm: HARD NIPS: jump up and down to the super-core rock candy hits of these Williamsburg-by-way-of-Japan art vixens! (http://www.myspace.com/hardhardnips)

- 10pm: THE N.E.C. (Natural Extension Concept) – intense Atlanta psych-rockers are driving all the way to NYC for the express purpose of blowing yr brains through the window! get there early girly (http://www.myspace.com/thenec)
only $5 for a night of sensory stimulation, cheap drinks, and weird rock and roll dancing in an uncommon environment!

This show has been cancelled due to Technical Difficulties! We do apologize.

0th is a collective of four female artists, Jacqueline Gordon, Caryl Keintz, Canner Mefe, and Amanda Warner. Founded in 2006, the artists live in the United States and collaborate across the globe. 0th utilize homemade electronic/analog musical instruments, sculpture, robotics, live statue, teleconference, performance and art experiments.

The 0th iteration is the forerunner of all other iterations. The 0th item is the initial item of a 0-based sequence, that which is numbered beginning from 0 rather than 1, such as the non-negative integers, the natural numbers.0 may be called null or nil when a number and void and nihil for nothing or 0 things. 0th is the 0th null and the 0th nil and the 0th nihil and the 0th void.

0th presents BLOW UP UNIVERSE, a new performance piece exploring what may have come before the Big Bang. It may well have been total nothingness, the inside of a black hole, the 0 before the 1. Or it could have been an elaborate scenario with dancing giants stamping sonic boom bolides, lama heads blowing up balloon universes, and many, many floating pigtails using matter to paint brush in dark stars, ring nebulas, and large hadron colliders. 0th uses music, technology, string art, dance, percussion, and robots to formulate a way back into the void of nonexistence.

Performance will take place promptly at 11:00pm in conjuction with a skype run performance at Southern Exposure on the West Coast. Doors at 10pm.

Visit 0th's http://0th.cc for more information 0th.

Buffalo Stance + Autre Ne Veut + Kriye BodeFriday, March 26, 2010 at 8:00pm

Live With Animals210 Kent AvenueBrooklyn, NY

Wooooooooowwwwwwww!!!!!

Joint closing party for "How Is My Friend" at Live With Animals and "Philadelphias Works from the Nettle Fizz" next door at Secret Project Robot!

Alternating Performances in Both Galleries

LIVE WITH ANIMALS

8PM
Kriye Bode: NY Haitian Dance Company
**performing to raise money to bring to Haiti the very next day**
Autre Ne Veu
Buffalo Stance

Door $7

And this is important- you can make an immediate impact and help those effected by the earthquake:
Members of Kriye Bode are traveling to Haiti the next morning (3/27). PLEASE BRING NEW CLOTHES AND SHOES AND/OR MAKE A CASH DONATION. They'll bring as many donations as can fit in their luggage!

AGISSONS VITE!!!!!

check everybody out:

BUFFALO STANCE
Philadephia PA / members of Man Man & Need New Body
http://www.myspace.com/buffalostancemusic

AUTRE NE VEUT
Brooklyn NY
http://www.myspace.com/autreneveut

KRIYE BODE (Haitian Folkloric Dance)
New York NY
http://www.tamboula.com

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SENSATIONNEL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At Secret Project Robot Starting at 9 PM:

Howard Kleger
DJ Cool Places Soundsystem
La Red: Athena Barat & Chris Hayden
Bree Zucker
Bobo

Live With Animals is proud to present "How Is My Friend" by Karisa Senavitis & Kevin O'Neill.
March 5th through March 28th
Opening Reception November 5th 7pm

How Is My Friend is an impromptu exhibition by Karisa Senavitis & Kevin O’Neill, collectively known as Will Work for Good. Senavitis and O’Neill present naively constructed symbols of solidarity (flags, posters, lapel pins, t-shirts, etc.) representing what they perceive as the good spirit and exuberance of local Haitian culture channeled through the positive vibes of a long-time Haitian friend who has been too-long out of communication.

The work makes no attempt to be an historical account of Haiti and chooses to make no overt comment or reference to the current tragedy. Rather, the perspective is more local/personal, expressed through recontextualized communications and unassuming visual cues adapted from emails, flyers, dvd packaging, television, logos and other typically mundane communications. The resulting work intends to send positive vibes back to the Haitian community and more specifically, to evoke a return email/visit/phone call from this good friend who is believed to be in Brooklyn.

There will be an Opening Reception on March 5 from 7pm to 10pm. Additional events during the month will be posted online at livewithanimals.org. A portion of proceeds from the sale of work will go to the Haitian Centers Council in Brooklyn to provide therapy and legal support to New York’s Haitians impacted by the earthquake.

Will Work for Good / willworkforgood.org
Haitian Centers Council / hccinc.org

HereComesEverybody, a night of Performance and Video brought to you by Raul de Nieves!

Mexico City's Yautepec Gallery is excited to announce the concluding half of its cross-border gallery swap with Brooklyn's Live With Animals Gallery, building on the success of their initial Mexico City collaboration in August with artists from Live With Animals and Secret Project Robot.

On Friday, December 11th, Yautepec and Live With Animals will inaugurate a show entitled Asesinos — a provocative (and often disturbing) exploration of violence from several uniquely Mexican perspectives. Featuring the artists Artemio, Ruben Gutierrez, Ximena Labra, Mark Powell, Joaquin Segura, and Marion Sosa, Asesinos is an attempt to frame the complex and pervasive nature of violence within a contemporary Mexican society that appears to be increasingly defined by it.

From the systemic to the intimate, Asesinos presents violence in Mexico in a manner that is equally magnifying glass and mirror, a combination meant to compel a US audience to rethink its own distance and insulation from the trouble brewing down South.


ABOUT YAUTEPEC

In less than two years — from its beginnings in an abandoned taco preparation facility in the Condesa area to its brand new storefront space in the up-and-coming San Rafael neighborhood — YAUTEPEC has hosted 21 exhibitions with over 50 artists from Mexico, the United States, South America, and Europe. It has appeared in such diverse publications as the LA Times, Vice, and The Economist's Intelligent Life, as well as innumerable Mexico City-based magazines like La Tempestad, Tomo, Chilango, Life & Style, Donde Ir, and Gatopardo. In a recent gallery spotlight, Mexico's daily newspaper, El Universal, wrote that YAUTEPEC "has become a favorite among contemporary art lovers in [Mexico]."

YAUTEPEC is directed by Daniela Elbahara (b. Monterrey, Mexico, 1978) and Brett W. Schultz (b. Chicago, USA, 1978).

Come see Red Mass and Black Feelings from Canada! Special Performances by Micki Pellerano and Dame Darcy, local locals Golden Triangle too! Visuals by HappyFun.
Doors at 8pm, Music at 9pm sharp.

Live With Animals is proud to present "True Nature" by Henrike Stahl.
November 6th through November 29th
Opening Reception November 6th 7pm-10pm

Henrike Stahl's "True Nature" is an exhibition subtly exploring the parallels between animals and humans. In her photographs are beautiful human figures which she then paints with the head of an animal or bird. These pieces give us the sense of how we feel or act like these creatures whether it be socially, during courting, or just being alone. Sometimes we may feel "shy like a mouse", "confident like a horse", or "sensitive like a small bird"... these painted heads express our core nature and desires.

Henrike was born in 1980 in Mottau, a village of West Germany. She lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Live With Animals
210 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Open Saturday and Sunday 2-7 or by Appointment
livewithanimals@gmail.com
www.henrikestahl.de

DEAD OF THE LIVING NIGHT comes from the participating artists' like-minded fascination-turned-obsession with childhood fantasies and fears; the inability to look away when you know you should, combined with the desire to stay up all night and fantasize about the greatest adventures and abilities only imaginable. The exhibition examines one generation's memories through an observation of imagery that fueled their childhoods, the bizarre nuances and esoteric references. From this period, new imagery has been created from manipulated found photos and juxtapositions of movie stills, clippings and gore magazine art. The show features two video installations, sculpture, collaged poster images, and four volumes of a book of the same name, Dead Of The Living Night. The collaborative book project acts as a depository of images, photos, original drawings and found items and ephemera. The name itself sets a tone of horror, science fiction, tongue and cheek and the arcane which will be a common thread throughout each of the books issues.

The multimedia installation is housed inside a monolithic black room. Inside, viewers will snake through a horror/sci-fi section of a video store pays homage to the filmic origins that drew the artists in and planted a lifetime pre-occupation with creepy, horrific, uncanny and humorous images. Original VHS tapes line the walls in the dark, cramped space recreating the lost experience of a video store. In the adjoining room an interactive "magic beast" ride allows people the fantasy of flying on the back of a giant creature, being taken through the sky, then to space and beyond. Outside, an old TV set sits atop a stack of life-sized monster corpses playing a video cut from clips of sci-fi and horror films where high-speed editing and tongue-and-cheek cuts splices together the gore and terror and assaults to the point of absurdity. Lining the gallery walls hang poster size images created from pieces in the books.


Jonathan Cammisa
b. 1980 Philadelphia PA
Jonathan lives and works in Brooklyn. BFA, The School of Visual Arts, 2003. Currently working as a freelance graphic artist and designer. Clients include: MTV. Mark Gonzales/Krooked Skateboards. 411 Video Magazine. Generra. Fader Magazine. Sweden Unlimited. Urban Arts Research & Marketing (UARM). Featured artist: Arkitip Magazine. MTV. Beams Japan. Carhartt Japan. Tank Theory. Modern Amusement. Monument Snowboards. Element Skateboards.


Jonah Birns
b. 1979 Philadelphia PA

Jonah Birns graduated from Philadelphia's University of the Arts with a BFA in 2002, and has since lived and worked in New York City. Primarily focusing on photography and graphic design, he has worked with some of New York's top design, film and fashion companies. The artwork he creates is heavily influenced by films, books, and comics specifically in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. His work has recently appeared at The Nexus gallery in Philadelphia, the WORK Gallery in Brooklyn and in the award-winning documentary In A Dream.

Jonah Birns and Jonathan Cammisa have been friends for almost 20 years and collaborated on numerous projects, this is their first show together.

Fit For Habitation brings together 5 artists working in fields of fine art, design, and interior design. Fit for Habitation questions the idea that four walls make a home and explores interior and exterior spaces as well as more abstract conceptions of home through video and installation.

These five artists have collaborated to create their own interpretations of home through a shared installation, using both traditional and non-traditional materials as well following formal and informal conceptual movements taken from interior design and fine art.

The idea of opposites has also come to be an integral part of the exhibition. The concept of real versus fake is brought into play, by combining real materials with materials the artists have created to appear real and questioning whether we as people need the reality of a “home” or simply the illusion of comfort and safety. The exhibition further plays with the viewer’s concept of reality by bringing the outdoors inside, as well as creating additional interior spaces within the larger space of the gallery.

3 to 7pm- Rummage:
A handmade furniture show on river street with food and drink
curated by Gabby Shaw

9 to 2am- Dance of the Sugarplum Ferry Party:
Fountains and Kiddie pools with
These Are Powers, Javelin, Mirror Mirror, DJ cool Places Sound System
hosted by Live With Animals and Secret Project Robot $8

Please join us for Sarah Maher's "Maps Mapping" Book launch Friday July 10th. Live soundtrack will be performend by Nick Storella. Projections, Refreshments and fun! Doors at 9pm.

We Like the Good

Live with Animals Gallery

http://livewithanimals.com/

210 Kent Avenue Brooklyn NY 11211

June 5th – 28th

Saturdays & Sundays 3-8pm (or by appointment)

Opening June 5th 7-10pm

Panel Discussion June 7th 4pm



The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist & The Next Omelet

Should Be Made By A Carpenter.

–Lawrence Weiner



Kara Bohnenstiel and Melissa Rocha curate a receptive and responsive exhibition: an installed space that forgets to be boring. We Like the Good is constructed in a movable format. All the walls are on wheels, freely moving around the space; a choreography performed by sybaritic women dressed in perfect French maid costumes during the opening night. All successive days and nights can be arranged by the visitors of the gallery. There is a note upon entering the space: “Please arrange this space. Everything is on wheels as this organization is only temporary: Adjust to suit.”

The curators, artists themselves, deploy artists who work within a broader realm of art-making; artists who do not stick to a classic "body of work" approach, in favor of the moment, yet somehow remaining timeless. This "somehow" is the interest of the show. How is anyone making anything interesting anymore? Often it starts with a sort of humor of dissent. Sometimes serious Art can only be approached, revealed from a denial of the formal protocols of "Art-seriousnessness."

This work, from the ambitious failures of Jim Sharpe's Robot Movie (with a quintessential Lary Seven soundtrack) to the framed, studied disasters of a Todd Fisher print, avoids the obvious pretensions fatal to the concept behind the conceptual. We get it, all of us do, but seldom does art get a chance to pull it together. Art too often must prove its legitimacy. In taking cue from Seth Price's description of an artist as "amateur inventor" in his essay "Dispersion", We Like the Good mounts a Patrick Resing futile robot on a portable pedestal—its programmed mission being only to find its way off. Art is as important as your morning coffee and donut; that is important, surely, but just a cardinal fact of existence. All that is required is our innate curiosity and need for stimulation, in both cases. Laughter implies an afterthought. The exhibition facilitates that thought for the viewers/participants.
The show features an international pool of artists: Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen & Danielle Lemaire (JaDa) [The Netherlands], Fabio Roberti, Jim Sharpe & Lary Seven [USA], James Clauer [USA], Scott Haggart & Kara Bohnenstiel [Scotland + USA], Todd Fisher [USA], Jack Plug [England], Melissa Rocha [USA], Patrick Resing [USA], and Ryan Lauderdale [USA]. An artist panel will be held to discuss issues of hilarity, failure, large and small meanings, as well as contradictions. The dialogue is also considered to be Art.