BAM presents Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films, a multimedia performance event created in celebration of The Andy Warhol Museum’s 20th anniversary, Nov 6—8
Exposed features 15-never-before-seen Warhol films accompanied by original songs written and performed by five seminal songwriters including the project’s music curator Dean Wareham (Luna, Dean & Britta), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound), Eleanor Friedberger The Fiery Furnaces), Martin Rev (Suicide), and Tom Verlaine (Television)
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Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival sponsor
Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films The Andy Warhol Museum and Dean Wareham
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) Nov 6—8 at 7:30pm Tickets start at $25
Brooklyn, NY/Sep 29, 2014—Created in celebration of The Andy Warhol Museum’s 20th anniversary, this multimedia performance event comprises 15 never-before-seen films captured by Andy Warhol between 1963 and 1966 with his original 16mm camera. Five songwriter-composers representing a musical trajectory from the 1970s until today perform scores to these rare Warhol selections—a combination of portraits and actualités (non-fiction films using footage from real life, but without a documentary’s narrative arc). The films feature such superstars and luminaries as Taylor Mead, Mary Woronov, Edie Sedgwick, Mario Montez, John Giorno, Marcel Duchamp, Marisol, Donovan, and Warhol himself. The evening’s composers and performers, selected by music curator Dean Wareham (Luna, Dean & Britta), who also performs, include punk icons Tom Verlaine (Television) and Martin Rev (Suicide), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound), and Eleanor Friedberger, formerly of The Fiery Furnaces. All songs are original contributions except for a Wareham cover of the song “Where Did Everyone Go To?” by Antoine (real name Pierre Antoine Muracciolo), a subject of the film Nico/Antoine.
Exposed makes its New York premiere as part of a national tour, following world and West Coast premieres in Pittsburgh at The Carnegie Music Hall and at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance in October, respectively. It was produced for The Andy Warhol Museum by Ben Harrison, curator of performing arts, Geralyn Huxley, curator of film and video, and Greg Pierce, assistant curator of film and video, in consultation with Dean Wareham.
Digital transfer of the Warhol films courtesy of MPC.
Co-commissioned by The Andy Warhol Museum, BAM for the 2014 Next Wave Festival, and UCLA Center for the Art of Performance
For press information contact Adriana Leshko at [email protected] or 718.724.8021
About the artists Singer/guitarist Dean Wareham was born in Wellington, New Zealand, 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 indie rock 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 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, toured the world for five years. In March 2014 he released Dean Wareham, his first solo album.
Tom Verlaine is one of the key figures of the punk rock movement. His band, Television, emerged as one of the best groups of the New York underground scene in the mid-1970s and he continues his writing and guitar playing in a solo career. Television’s iconic Marquee Moon regularly appears in critics' lists of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. Rolling Stone named Verlaine one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Martin Rev first made his mark in New York with the co-founding of his electronic punk band, Suicide, in the 1970s. His style varies widely from release to release, from electronic no wave (Martin Rev), to bubblegum electronic (See Me Ridin’ and Strangeworld), to heavy synthesizer rock (To Live), to baroque/orchestral (Stigmata). Rev provided soundtracks for Stefan Roloff videos and contributed to The Raveonettes' 2005 album Pretty in Black.
Bradford Cox began producing music as a young boy in the 1990s by using tape recorders to mix instrumental tracks and his own vocals. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the garage band Deerhunter, which he founded in 2001. Based in Athens, GA, Cox continues to release solo material under the pseudonym Atlas Sound.
Eleanor Friedberger came to fame in the early 2000s as the vocalist in the brother-sister duo The Fiery Furnaces. She went solo this decade, releasing her debut Last Summer in 2011, followed by Personal Record in 2013. Friedberger’s music is playful, yet more straightforward than the Furnaces’, and pays homage to the introspective pop of the 70s.
About The Andy Warhol Museum Film Collection and The Andy Warhol Museum From the time he obtained his first film camera in 1963 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol actively explored the moving image, creating epic films, personal portraits, programs for cable television, and music videos. His films and video capture the rich and raw texture of the fertile cultural milieu in which he lived and worked. Warhol produced thousands of reels of films, from epics lasting for hours to his minutes-long Screen Tests. The Warhol currently has a collection of approximately 350 preserved Warhol films, several hundred Screen Tests, as well as the entire output of the artist’s work in video. The museum displays these productions on a regular basis, and a recent re-imagining of the exhibition space features an on-demand film and video gallery. Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films is The Warhol’s second commissioned performance involving its film collection. The first was 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, co-commissioned by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust World for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008, which has toured internationally over the past five years, playing more than 85 dates.
Located in Pittsburgh, PA, the place of Andy Warhol's birth, The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Additional information is available at www.warhol.org.
Credits Bloomberg Philanthropies is the 2014-2015 Season Sponsor
Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor
Support for the Howard Gilman Signature Artist Series provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation
Leadership support for BAM Visual Art provided by Agnes Gund and Toby Devan Lewis
BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival supporters: Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman; Brooklyn Community Foundation; William I. Campbell & Christine Wächter-Campbell; Aashish & Dinyar Devitre; Judith R. & Alan H. Fishman; Ford Foundation; The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust; Diane & Adam E. Max; McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The SHS Foundation; Pablo J. Salame; The Shubert Foundation, Inc; The Winston Foundation, Inc.
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Your tax dollars make BAM programs possible through funding from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. The BAM facilities are owned by the City of New York and benefit from public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Mayor Bill De Blasio; the New York City Council including Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa Ferreras, Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, the Brooklyn Delegation of the Council, and Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo; and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. BAM would like to thank the Brooklyn Delegations of the New York State Assembly, Joseph R. Lentol, Delegation Leader; and New York Senate, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Delegation Leader.
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