THERAPEUTIC DENIM NYC

HE ESTABLISHED WWW.CACHOFALCON.COM AS A WAY TO SHOW HIS WORK AND MEANS TO CONTINUE GATHERING STORIES FROM OTHERS. FALCON DISCOVERED IT WAS MUCH EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR DARK EXPERIENCES WITH A STRANGER. HE RECEIVED MANY ANONYMOUS EMAILS FROM PEOPLE TELLING THEIR STORIES OF LOSS, HOPE, REGRET, AND LOVE, WHICH IN COMBINATION WITH HIS OWN PERSONAL STORIES, BECAME THE BASIS FOR A MASSIVE COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS.

OUR MUSE, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, PERFORMER AND THE SYMBOL MAKER OF #METOO, ROSE MCGOWAN AND HER BOOK BRAVE

“Since so many brave survivors and I have come forward, titans of every industry have toppled. We, survivors, have gained our power. We, survivors, are using our voices in record numbers. We cannot let up, and as hard as it is, we must continue to get even louder, to push even harder. We all count, and we all matter. Here’s to freedom, yours and mine. Now go breathe fire.”
― Rose McGowan, Brave

CLAYTON PATTERSON A REBEL L.E.S.´S OWN EMBODIMENT

“EVENTUALLY, I WON MY POINT, WHICH WAS: – “I AM AN ARTIST, AND THAT TAPE IS ONE OF MY ARTWORKS, AND IT BELONGS TO ME.” YES, THEY CAN HAVE A COPY. I HAD A POINT OF VIEW AND A REASON TO FIGHT. ON THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, I SAID: “LITTLE BROTHER WATCHING BIG BROTHER.” THAT WAS A BIG STATEMENT, AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SAW THAT. IT MEANT ANY INDIVIDUAL WITH A CAMERA (WHICH CAN BE A POWER WEAPON USED TO PROTECT ONE’S DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS) COULD HOLD THE AUTHORITIES AND THE POLICE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS ON THE STREET! THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A WHOLE NEW DIGITAL AGE. “

#NOITISNOTNOTALWAYS. EXPOSED! THE INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR SOPIN AND ANDREAS ROD

“We are oscillating above the harsh vs soft vision of reality closely linked to the artist’s perception of the body in its physical, cultural, and psychic dimensions. The group of portraits shown at the “No It Is Not Not Always” exhibition in vibrant East London intends to question how we understand and relate to inherent aspects of human experiences, such as uncertainty and eccentricity, but also to culture and the symbolics that make it identifiable. “-Arthur Sopin and Andreas Rod.

#ROOM7: THE TENDERLOINERS

“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, statuses, and social activities, and it can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems that a way of life can yield a culture and ethics. To be “gay,” I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.”
― Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth

DISMALAND

DISMALAND IS A TEMPORARY ART PROJECT ORGANISED BY STREET ARTIST BANKSY, CONSTRUCTED IN THE SEASIDE RESORT TOWN OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE IN SOMERSET, ENGLAND. PREPARED IN SECRET, THE POP-UP EXHIBITION AT THE TROPICANA, A DISUSED LIDO, WAS “A SINISTER TWIST ON DISNEYLAND” THAT OPENED DURING THE WEEKEND OF AUGUST 21, 2015 AND CLOSED PERMANENTLY ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2015, 36 DAYS LATER. BANKSY DESCRIBED IT AS A “FAMILY THEME PARK UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

TRIANA IGLESIAS NEXT-DOOR PLAYER

” My best talent is turning everything into a light game. I approach everything I do with a sense of playfulness. I play games, even in projects that demand a lot of energy and effort. I decided to try to sustain our playful quality when we were kids – to avoid limiting myself and use my imagination freely. We must never forget how to play: So many great things can come out of it!”

DJ MAI SCHAARUP – A TOMBOY

” I feel like the running and me creating music is part of the same thing. I can feel my body when I run, and I also feel the music, whenever I do both, I feel like my mind is free and not disturbed by a lot of thoughts. It makes me feel complete.” 

ANTHONY LISTER: OUIJA LOWBROW ART

“THE FIRST RULE OF PAINTING IS TO TAKE EVERYONE ELSE OUT OF THE EQUATION. I AM THE VIEWER, SO IDON’T UNDERESTIMATE MY VIEWERS. THEY SEE EVERYTHING, AND I JUST HAVE TO ASSUME THEY ARE ME. I CAN’T PAINT FOR ANYONE ELSE. IT’S ALL ABOUT HAVING THE COURAGE TO SAY THIS IS FINISHED, AND THEY HAVE TO KNOW I AM THE BOSS IN PAINTING. It’s LIKE BEING A SOLDIER BECAUSE I HAVE TO BE HARD AS FUCK TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THESE THINGS AND LET THEM GO.”

THE WINNERS OF DT500 OPEN CALL: LENNIE VARVARIDES AND KAZIMIR BIELECKI #DT500METAMODERNIST

– heyBEA_ features a married genderfluid couple, Jorja and Jax James, kissing set to an interview with right-wing commentator Faith Goldy. In this film, we ask the question, how free are we when we’re not free to think? ‘no-platforming’ and refusing to allow people to air their views, thoughts, and instincts can lead to damage to an individual’s mental health and societal devastation.

ANTHONY LISTER THE LOWBROW-O

THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT A GRAFFITI WRITER, RISK, NEW IMAGE ART GALLERY OWNER MARSEE GOLDBERG, DIRECTOR MARK SIMPSON, AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST ARIEL BRICKMAN TALKING ABOUT LISTER’S INCREDIBLE STYLE AND DEDICATION TO HIS TRUE LOVE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION.

NO, IT IS NOT NOT ALWAYS: THE PORTRAITURE FROM NYC, BERLIN & LONDON

“ This exhibition represents the collective image of a protagonist who is an indeterminate and unclear character. However, it would be strange to demand clarity from people at a time like ours, and there is one certain thing: our hero is a strange individual and an eccentric figure. Some may deem that strangeness and eccentricity are more likely to harm than deserve attention in a world of people desperately striving to identify particularities whilst searching for some common sense in the general muddle. A new question arises: eccentricity is detached and isolated, isn’t it? If you disagree with this and think, ‘No, it is not’ or ‘Not always ‘, here begins our inspirational moment. Not only is the eccentric figure ‘Not always’ or ‘ No it is not’ related to particularity and isolation, but on the contrary, it so happens that the eccentric one, perhaps, carries a core of the whole existence at some points, but the rest of the people, by some other kind of strangeness, at times are breaking away from it.” -Arthur Sopin and Andreas Rod

#DT500METAMODERNIST EAST LONDON WINTER 18

Metamodernism also suggests taking the Goal, which lies behind systems and religions, as a constant, but the constant as a method of achieving which a person must find independently. This is the principle of individuality, sensitive aristocracy, and creative morality as an individual revelation. The way of attaining the Goal is also proposed (the Goal is to own sacred growth, achievement, and comprehension of the pure actuality) or, at least, the road to it – going beyond the notions of “good and evil,” going out of the judgment, that the Dutch philosophers “Notes on metamodernism” were dubbed oscillation-oscillation. The sensitive aristocracy is about the sacred beginning behind the systems and religions, proclaiming a new era from the Post to the Meta.” – Arthur Sopin.

A MAN FROM THE TOMORROW?

” I think of the future of an island. Crystal clear waters, blue sky, and the sunshine, the future is paradise! No food, no drinking water, no friends, the future is hell! Utopia vs. dystopia, cyclic vs. disruptive…The future will be all of these, and the important question is not about predictions but rather about why you do the things you do. Will your actions take us to paradise or to hell? What is the point of being pessimistic? If everyone joins the Preppers – people who invest in guns and store food to prepare for Armageddon – then that’s what the future will be like. I think connectivity will ultimately lead to the end of hierarchy and that’s the revolution.”