LIZZI BOUGATSOS SADIE LASKA DANNY PEREZ SPENCER SWEENEY GREETINGS FROM BITBURG press le confort moderne association l’oreille est hardie 185, rue du faubourg du pont-neuf 86000 Poitiers Tel : +33 (0)5 49 46 08 08 www.confort-moderne.fr state- ment Lizzi Bougatsos / Sadie Laska / DannY Perez / Spencer Sweeney Greetings From Bitburg june 7th to august 18th 2013

Every band that Bumpy or Muffin played in began in . I used to watch Joey Ramone walk down 10th street to go to the Japanese restaurant on the corner. But this was after high school, when I learned how to drive to the Ramones. When bands have spirit, they also can rag out the bad one, in this song, it was Reagan who was Bonzo. The art world today is back to the 80's. Let's face it, it's the men that are buyin up the market and the women are still tryin to keep up. I.U.D can only channel this energy thru it's filters, distorting and stealing everything as they did with a 'Switch-blade Sisters' or 'Mixed Blood' Mentality for their album, The Proper Sex, which is basically ripped off Reggae and Public Enemy songs, awkwardly sounding like Meat Beat Manifesto or Front 242. Greetings from Bitburg is a combination of music, painting, sculpture and video- but this time roping in their Feminine nihilism and humor into a messy percussive collaboration with Spencer Sweeney, a long- time collaborator of the girls back to the days in 1998 with the NYC band Actress. Live on and Rock for Light. I.U.D., 2013 lizzi bougatsos / Greetings From Bitburg

Lizzi Bougatsos, Audrey Hepburn, 2012

LIZZI BOUGATSOS “Dinosaur dropping, Styrofoam varnished Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Born in 1974 in cosmic-chrome”, Home Alone Gallery, Data Trash, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY Lives and works in New York New York Hot Trigger, The NewBridge Project, I'm Not Pregnant, James Fuentes, New York London, England Solo exhibitions 2005 Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, New 2010 Failurisms with Kim Gordon, Reena York, NY Slut Freak, James Fuentes, New York Spaulings Fine Art, New York Four by Four: Collector Series, Victoria 2009 2000 Myhren Gallery at the University of Solo Exhibition, The Breeder, Athens, Boug & Worth II, American Fine Arts, Co., Denver, Denver CO Greece New York 2011 2007 Boug & Worth, Fuck All Our Art Heroes/ In the Name of the Artists – American Street Feather, James Fuentes, New York Assholes, American Fine Arts, Co., New Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley 1999 York Collection, 29th São Paulo Biennale, São The Noble and the Land, James Fuentes Paulo, Brazil Gallery, New York Group exhibitions (selection) 2012 2009 Two persons exhibitions BAD FOR YOU curated by Beth Rudin The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown's 2012 DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery, London, UK Enterprise, New York, NY Lizzi Bougatsos “JERRY!!! and Rob Pruitt New York Minute, Macro Future Museum, lizzi bougatsos / Greetings From Bitburg

Lizzi Bougatsos, Splatfly, 2007

Rome, Italy Publications Registry, New York 2008 2007 , Retina Riddim, DVD, The Station, Curated by Shamim Momim and The Process V, Nieves Edition, Zurich Social Registry, New York Nate Lowman, Miami, FL 2004 Gang Gang Dance, God's Money, Social Journey to the Center of Uranus, Canada, The Process III, Nieves Edition, Zurich Registry,New York New York, NY 2002 Gang Gang Dance, Hilleluh, Social I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl, Asia Simpson, Bennett, "Boug & Worth Take Registry.New York Song Society, New York, NY ," International Center for Gang Gang Dance, s/t. Fusetron Records, Works from the Astrup Fearnley Contemporary Art Catalogue, 2002 New York Collection, Astrup Fearnely Museet for Public Collections Gang Gang Dance, Revival of the Shittest, Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Social Registry, New York Jekyll Island, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles Angelblood, Labia Minoraptain Trip Discography Self-Portraits 1966-2008, James Fuentes, Records and Printed Matter Inc., Japan, I.U.D., The Proper Sex, Social Registry, New York, NY New York New York The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Angelblood, Mass for the Daggersptain Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna, Social America Art, New York, NY Trip Records, Japan Registry, New York Angelblood, Trip Records, Japan Gang Gang Dance, First Communion, Social Angelblood,Mambo Mange, New York Sadie Laska / Greetings From Bitburg

Sadie Laska, Listen to me, 2013

Sadie Laska Suggested Destination, Basilica, Hudson, In There, Out Here, Leo Koenig Projekte Née en 1974 à Prince, West Virginia NY New York, NY Vit et travaille à , NY 2011 2009 Scruffy, KS ART, New York, NY Coco Loco, Stairwell Gallery, Providence Education Dirt Don’t Hurt, Jolie Laide Gallery, RI 2014 Philadelphia, PA Spaced Out/On Time, CANADA, New York, NY MFA Bard College (forthcoming) STREET TRASH, Intersection of Commercial If The Darks Are Barking, Apartment Show, 1992 Street, Franklin Ave and Dupont St. Artist Space, New York, NY BFA West Virginia University Brooklyn, NY Circle of Friends, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo Solo exhibitions CANADA Paris, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, A Dry Run, Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Paris 2008 Left Hand, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris READYKEULOUS, The Hurtful Healer, The Dark Age, Stairwell Gallery, Group exhibitions (selection) Invisible Exports, New York, NY Providence RI 2012 2010 Gold is the New Metal, Stairwell Gallery, La Ligne Passée, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Dirty Hands, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, Providence RI Luxembourg NY 2005 Le Confort Moderne, Galerie Le Confort Clean Break, Charlie Horse Gallery, Red, White and Blue, Spencer Brownstone Moderne, Poitiers, France Brooklyn, NY Gallery, New York, NY Sadie Laska / Greetings From Bitburg

Sadie Laska, Untitled, 2013

I Throw Herring to the Dog, Canada, New 2009 Bibliography (selection) York, NY Sound Wreckage Volume 1, Gavin Brown, New 2010 York, NY Performances (selection) Theme Magazine, issue 22, July 2013 IUD performance for Constraction Show, 2009 IUD performance, Sunday Sessions, PS1 Deitch Projects, New York, NY Spaced Out/On Time, NY Times, September Contemporary Art Center 2008 25 2012 IUD performance for WACK! Art and the ANP Quarterly Vol / No 2 IUD performance, EMERGENCY CHEESECAKE, Feminist Revolution, PS1 Contemporary Art Womb and Doom, New York Press, March 24 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Center, Long Island City, NY 2008 2011 IUD performance in conjunction with The Softer Sex Gets Hard, USELESS Magazine IUD performance, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, Le Confort Next Wave New York, Interview Magazine Norway Moderne, Poitiers, France 2007 2010 IUD performance for Jekyll Island, Honor Artforum, John Kelsey Top Ten, December Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Finger It”, video screening, Cinders Publications 2007 Gallery, New York, NY “Catholic No. 1, Cats”, Evil Twin IUD performance, The Swiss Institute, New IUD performance Printed Matter Benefit, Publications and DAP, New York, NY 2005 Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY York, NY Spencer sweeney / Greetings From Bitburg

Spencer Sweeney, Party Painting, 2011 marianne vitale / bright dark future

Marianne Vitale, vues de l'exposition Bright Dark Future, © Pierre Antoine 2013 marianne vitale / bright dark future

Marianne Vitale, vues de l'exposition Bright Dark Future, © Pierre Antoine 2013 I.U.D. / press I.U.D. / press I.U.D. / press I.U.D. / press gREETINGS FROM BITBURG / Lizzi Bougatsos, Sadie Laska, danny perez et spencer sweeney - opening & concert of I.u.d. friday june 7th less playboy is more cowboy (exhibitions, concerts and performances) - exhibition at le confort moderne from june 7th to august 18th 2013 - bright dark future / marianne vitale exhibition at le confort moderne from march 14th to august 18th 2013

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