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BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival #WarholExposed

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Exposed: Executive Producer Songs for Unseen Films

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Nov 6—8 at 7:30pm

Running time: one hour and 15 minutes, no intermission The Museum

Guest music curator

Guest songwriters: Dean Wareham Season Sponsor: Films by Andy Warhol

Time Warner is the BAM 2014 Co-commissioned by , BAM Next Wave Festival Sponsor for the 2014 Next Wave Festival, and UCLA Center for the of Performance Support for the Howard Gilman Signature Artist Series provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation Digital transfer of Warhol films courtesy of MPC Leadership support for BAM Visual Art provided by Agnes Gund and Toby Devan Lewis Exposed

Me and Taylor, 1963 BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival

EXPOSED: SONGS FOR UNSEEN WARHOL FILMS

In celebration of the museum’s 20th anniversary, the Andy Warhol Museum is proud to partner with the Academy of Music (BAM) and UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance to co- commission a new performance that comprises 15 short Warhol films, never before publicly exhibited, accompanied by live music. The films chosen are a combination of portraits and actualités featuring superstars and luminaries such as , , , , , Marcel Duchamp, Marisol, Donovan, and Andy Warhol himself. This special project strives to support the museum’s mission by utilizing its collection in new ways that honor the unwavering relevancy of the art and life of Andy Warhol by re-contextualizing his work in ways that resonate in contemporary culture.

Five songwriter-composers representing a musical trajectory from the until today perform original scores to these rare Warhol selections. The composers and performers, selected by Dean Wareham (, Luna), who also performs, include punk icons Tom Verlaine (Television) and Martin Rev (Suicide), Eleanor Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces), and Bradford Cox (, Atlas Sound).

The Exposed project was produced for the Andy Warhol Museum by Ben Harrison, curator of performing ; Geralyn Huxley, curator of film and video; and Greg Pierce, assistant curator of film and video, in consultation with Dean Wareham, guest musical curator.

The 15 films have been digitized as part of a larger project to preserve and make accessible all of Andy Warhol’s film work. This archival achievement is made possible through a new partnership initiated by the Andy Warhol Museum’s Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce, and Patrick Moore, adjunct curator, with the Museum of (MoMA), and the Moving Picture Company (MPC), a Technicolor Company, which brings together the world’s most comprehensive single-artist museum—a preeminent museum for modern art, and a global leader in digital effects.

Exposed makes its premiere as part of a national tour, following the world premiere in at the Carnegie Music Hall and the west coast premiere in at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance in October. Exposed is the Warhol’s second performance commission involving the museum’s film collection after 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s (featuring Dean Wareham and ), co-commissioned by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008, which has been touring internationally for six years.

All film stills ©2014 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Film stills courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum. Exposed

TOM VERLAINE

John Washing (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps With John Giorno

Jill (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps* With

John Washing, 1963

Bob Indiana Etc. (1963) 16mm film, color, silent, 4 minutes at 16fps* With , John Giorno, , Marisol,

*To be shown at 24fps

Tom Verlaine, one of the key figures of the punk movement, helped to put the legendary club CBGB on the map in 1974. Television, the band co-founded by Verlaine, recorded the iconic , which is regularly included on critics’ lists of the greatest rock ever recorded. Television performs live on occasion, most recently touring in 2013. Verlaine has continued to dazzle with his writing and playing throughout his solo career. Verlaine has a unique Photo: Stefano Giovannini sound, and was included in ’s list of 100 greatest guitarists. “There was punk energy propelling Television,” writes , “but guitarist Tom Verlaine was no angry primitive hacking at the strings. He used a crisp, needling attack and favored long, carefully developed exchanges with guitarist Richard Lloyd. The result was music of Coltrane-like depth at a time when the spastic outburst was the norm.” Who’sExposed Who

MARTIN REV

Superboy (excerpt) (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.6 minutes at 16fps* With unidentified man

Song title: “Sugar Baby”

Allen (excerpt) (1964) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16fps With , , , , Taylor Mead, Peter Orlovsky

Song title: “Poetry” John Washing, 1963

Jack Cigarette (excerpt from Dracula) (1964) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.4 minutes at 16fps With Beverly Grant, Jack Smith

Song title: “Monsters”

*To be shown at 24fps

Martin Rev, born and raised in , is co-founder of the electronic group Suicide. His style varies widely from release to release, from electronic no wave (Martin Rev) to bubblegum electronic (See Me Ridin’, Strangeworld) to heavy synthesizer rock (To Live), to Baroque/orchestral (Stigmata). Rev also works with Stefan Roloff on soundtracks for Roloff’s video work and composed Photo: Infant the soundtrack to his acclaimed documentary, Die Rote Kapelle. He contributed to ’ 2005 album, , and appeared with MIA on The Late Show with David Letterman in a performance of her single “Born Free,” in which his instrumental track “Ghost Rider” was featured as a sample. He currently tours internationally as a solo performer, and with Suicide. Exposed

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER

Screen Test: Donovan [ST 78] (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16fps

Song title: “Deep in the Subway”

Marisol—Stop Motion (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps* With Marisol

Song title: “Born with Two Names”

John Washing, 1963

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick [ST 310] (1965) 16mm film, color, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps

Song title: “All Known Things”

*To be shown at 24fps

Eleanor Friedberger Originally known as the vocalist in the brother-sister duo the Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger released her solo debut Last Summer in 2011 on Merge Records, followed by Personal Record in 2013. Friedberger’s music is equally playful, yet more straightforward than the Furnaces’, and pays homage to the introspective pop of the ’70s. “Very few are writing with half the precision, wit and cool poise that Friedberger displays” ().

Photo courtesy the artist Exposed

DEAN WAREHAM

Paraphernalia (1966) 16mm film, color, silent, 3.8 minutes at 16fps* With International Velvet (Susan Bottomly)

Song title: “Paraphernalia”

Nico/Antoine (1966) 16mm film, color, silent, 4.4 minutes at 16fps* With Antoine (Pierre Antoine Muracciolo),

Song title: “Where Did Everyone Go To?”

John Washing, 1963

Kiss the Boot (excerpt) (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps With Gerard Malanga, Mary Woronov

Song title: “Walk into the Sea”

*To be shown at 24fps

Dean Wareham, a singer/guitarist, was born in Wellington, , but moved to New York City in 1977, at age 14. His band Galaxie 500 emerged from Boston in 1988 and made three albums that influenced a generation of bands. He went on to record seven studio albums with his next band Luna, and three more with his wife Britta Phillips as Dean & Britta. Dean & Britta’s recent collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum, 13

Photo courtesy the artist Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, has toured the world for six years. In March 2014 he released his first solo album, Dean Wareham. Exposed

BRADFORD COX

Screen Test: Marcel Duchamp and Benedetta Barzini [ST 81] (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16fps

Mario Montez and Boy (1965) 16mm film, color, silent, 4 minutes at 16fps With Mario Montez, Richard Schmidt

John Washing, 1963

Me and Taylor (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps* With Taylor Mead, Andy Warhol

*To be shown at 24fps

Bradford Cox, born in Athens, GA in 1982, is best known as the leader of the avant garage band Deerhunter. He also releases solo material under the pseudonym Atlas Sound. He has been making music on tape recorders since 1994. Based in Atlanta, GA, his most recent work has been focused loosely on wire sculpture and experimental perfumery.

Photo: Lockett Pundt Who’s Who

ADDITIONAL PERFORMERS

Noah Hecht (drums), based in Brooklyn, is a member of Icewater, Eleanor Friedberger’s band, and collaborates in other contexts as well. He graduated with a BM and a BA from Oberlin Conservatory and College, where he studied with his mentor Billy Hart, a.k.a. Jabali. Hecht also spent several months studying Afro-Brazilian folkloric music traditions in northeastern Brazil.

Britta Phillips (bass, keyboards, vocals) was a member of the band Luna, and one half of the duo Dean & Britta, whose major recent touring and recording project was 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests.

Jason Quever (guitar, keyboards) is a singer and songwriter best known for Papercuts, the -based band he has led since 2000. Earlier this year Easy Sound Recordings released his latest album, Life Among the Savages. Quever is also active as a producer; credits include Beach House, Cass McCombs, Dean Wareham, and Vetiver.

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS

Production design Clear Story Creative Lighting designer Rob Long Video technician Doug McDermott Tour director/Stage manager Peter Arsenault Backline technician Stewart Hurwood Who’s Who

ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola, 1928—87) grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. He began studying art in the fourth grade at Carnegie Institute, eventually graduating from Carnegie Tech’s College of Fine Arts with a major in pictorial design. He moved to New York and worked as a commercial artist for clients such as Vogue, Tiffany, and Bonwit Teller. He dropped the last “a” from his name, began wearing a hairpiece, and had a nose job a few years later, transforming himself into the persona that would become world-famous. By the early , he’d already had a solo exhibition; in 1956, he was in a group show at MoMA. In 1957, he incorporated himself as Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc., and around 1960, bought a townhouse on Lexington Avenue & 89th Street. He continued painting, following the work of and ; both incorporated popular symbols in their work, including the American flag and Coke bottles. showed his works based on comic strips while Warhol, coincidentally, had shown some cartoon-based paintings in a window display.

Warhol shifted his focus, referencing commonplace ads, consumer products, and pop culture figures (Elvis, Marilyn, Liz). In 1964, he relocated his studio to East , nicknamed , which became a hangout for his core group of associates such as Gerard Malanga and “Baby” . He began exploring film, making titles such as Sleep, Haircut, and Kiss and casting his cohorts. He also pursued as painting subject matter dark headlines from the news, such as disasters, civil rights demonstrations, electric chairs, and Jackie Kennedy after JFK’s assassination.

In October 1965, Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art assembled a Warhol retrospective that garnered so much buzz that for security reasons, the curators removed many of the paintings, leaving walls blank. Five months prior to this show, Warhol said he would stop painting and devote himself to filmmaking. His circle now included , Edie Sedgwick, Ultra Violet, Nico, and and , part of which Warhol presented as part of the multi-genre Ex- ploding Plastic Inevitable. Warhol’s film, The , went into wide distribution while Castelli Gallery exhibited his and a room of mirrored, floating Silver Clouds. In 1967, Warhol produced The Velvet Underground’s first album, produced two books, and began filming ; Fred Hughes, who eventually became his business manager, began working for Warhol.

In 1968 at the Factory, Warhol was shot by and was close to death, spending six weeks in the hospital. After this, Warhol cut back his activities for a time; Morrissey assumed film- making duties. The next year, with three others, Warhol co-founded Interview magazine, which blos- somed in the mid-70s with at the helm. The year Warhol’s mother Julia died, 1972, Andy resumed painting, making commissioned portraits at a rapid clip—as many as 100 a year, which continued through the decade. Parallel projects of a more ambitious tack included the Mao, Skull, and Oxidation series. In the 80s, his subject matter broadened, including Portraits of Ten Jews of the 20th Century; Myths, including pop icons such as Mickey Mouse and ; and, with Ads, a return to his roots. He also created two cable TV shows and published two books. Warhol died in New York City on February 22, 1987, due to complications following to remove his gall bladder. Who’s Who

THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM

The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world and features extensive permanent collections of the art and archives of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century. The Warhol, a primary resource for anyone seeking insights into contemporary art and popular culture, is also an active cultural center with a performance program that enables the museum to both explore a wide range of work related to its mission and serve a diverse audience.

The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and a collaborative project between the Carnegie Institute, the , and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Plans to house the Warhol in Pittsburgh, PA, Warhol’s birthplace, were announced in 1989, and the museum opened its doors in May 1994. Originally built in 1911 as a distribution cen- ter for products sold to mills and mines, the Warhol was designed by architect Richard Gluckman and features seven floors of gallery and exhibition space. Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinctive museums dedicated to exploration through art and science: , Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum.