Johanna Fateman

Here’s Le Tigre’s first “press release” (from 1999 probably)....

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:40:54 -0400

Here’s Le Tigre’s first “press release” (from 1999 probably). It’s been resurrected to accompany a piece I wrote for issue #2 of the RBMA Daily Note about our version of protest music. You can pick one up on the streets of NYC maybe (it’s the one dated 4/29 with Public Enemy on the cover) or you can read it here. (My essay is on pages 14 and 15.)

Join my BFFs Lisa Darms, Kathleen Hanna, Ramdasha Bikceem and me...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:00:24 -0400

Join my BFFs Lisa Darms, Kathleen Hanna, Ramdasha Bikceem and me to celebrate the publication of The Riot Grrrl Collection, a new book published by the Feminist Press. May 29th at the Fales Library, NYU, 7PM.

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Above: Front cover of the legendary New Jersey skate punk zine GUNK, issue #4, 1993 (?), by Ramdasha Bikceem.

emilybooks: Johanna Fateman is a musician (Le Tigre), writer...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:30:36 -0400

emilybooks:

Johanna Fateman is a musician (Le Tigre), writer and artist who co-owns Seagull Salon, which I recently described in an email as “like the part in The Wizard of Oz where they get to the Emerald City and get makeovers, except also like being in your own apartment hanging out with your friends.” In addition to her criticism and scholarship, she also maintains the best twitter. We asked her about what she’s working on and what she’s reading (in addition to Speedboat, of course.)

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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:40:06 -0400

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:22:00 -0400

A limited number of autographed copies of the The Riot Grrrl Collection are available to pre-order now from the Feminist Press. The book will ship in June.

Editor Lisa Darms talks about it here.

I wrote an article for the first issue of Apology Magazine....

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:07:19 -0500

I wrote an article for the first issue of Apology Magazine. It’s based on my research at the Fales Library Downtown Collection at NYU, where the papers of writer Terence Sellers and photographer Jimmy De Sana are housed.

Sellers is currently posting a serial piece called Marie 1973: The Diary of Marie Stanley on her blog.

I wrote a short thing about Seagull Salon’s hall-of-famers...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:31:59 -0500

I wrote a short thing about Seagull Salon’s hall-of-famers THE SCISSOR GIRLS for the blog here.

Join Justin Vivian Bond, Barbara Browning, Vivien Goldman, Karen...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:54:25 -0500

Join Justin Vivian Bond, Barbara Browning, Vivien Goldman, Karen Finley, Johanna Fateman, Eileen Myles, and Laurie Weeks as they read from the new print edition of PUSSY RIOT! A Punk Prayer for Freedom.

Union Square Barnes & Noble, February 7th, 2013, 7PM

https://www.facebook.com/events/242322425900474/

http://www.feministpress.org/books/pussy-riot/pussy-riot

They Say Get Back

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:38:00 -0500

They Say Get Back:

This google doc is an account by Greg Allen of his pro se defense in his disorderly conduct trial. He was arrested last year outside a Brooklyn police precinct as he protested the NYPD’s stop and frisk policy.

seagullhair: The punk melancholy of Tilda Swinton’s Thin White...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:16:52 -0500

seagullhair:

The punk melancholy of Tilda Swinton’s Thin White Duke is awash in this pastel blonde, cropped military cut. This look was tailored for VIP client, archivist Lisa Darms and executed by head stylist Shaun SureThing.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGE DISMISSED

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:20:06 -0500

A judge has dismissed a disorderly conduct charge against a man who represented himself at a trial stemming from his arrest last year at a Brooklyn police precinct during a protest against the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices.

Criminal Court Judge Desmond Green (See Profile) in Brooklyn declined to credit police allegations in People v. Allen, 2011KN094288, that Gregory Allen had blocked the entrance to the 73rd precinct in Brownsville.

Allen, a 40-year-old Harlem community activist, was one of 27 people arrested at the rally. A 17-minute video played at his Nov. 19 trial showed him standing in the back of the group of around 80 protesters until he “walked up to submit to be arrested” after police ordered the crowd to disperse, Green wrote in his Dec. 10 decision.

Officer John Blanco alleged in an accusatory instrument that Allen stood in the doorway of the precinct, preventing anyone from going in or out, and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by Captain William Gardner.

“This is incredible on its face as both officers, testifying for the People, contradict this assertion,” Green wrote. “It was factually impossible for defendant Allen to stand in the doorway of the front entrance of the 73rd precinct when there was a human barricade of 15 to 20 police officers standing 10 to 15 feet in front of the entrance to the precinct and the defendant was said to be standing five feet away from the line of officers. In order for defendant to have been in front of the entrance way door he would have had to breach the line of officers.”

Moreover, Green continued, “this would be the same scenario for any of the alleged co-defendants who were at the rally on November 1, 2011.”

Also, the police order that protesters disperse “was not lawful” because “the protesters were not blocking the entrance to the precinct” and were “peaceably assembled,” the judge said.

Thus, he concluded, the NYPD had failed to make out the elements necessary for a disorderly conduct charge and dismissed it because the prosecution had failed to offer a prima facie case.

The prosecution dropped a second charge, of obstructing governmental administration, before the judge ruled.

Obstruction is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. Disorderly conduct is a violation punishable by up to 15 days.

Allen said he was happy with Green’s decision.

“It was a good experience,” he said, adding that his arrest “was frivolous in the first place.”

The judge “did not respond well to obvious discrepancies between the officers’ stories” and the video, Allen said.

Allen cross-examined the officers, but he did not testify at trial and called no witnesses.

Bench trials for other defendants charged at the demonstration are scheduled for Feb. 7, 14 and 15.

“So far the prosecution has refused to dismiss even though the evidence is conclusive that they did not block the evidence to the 73rd Precinct,” said Julie Fry, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society who represents a group of people arrested with Allen. “The charges are all the same, the video is the same, the facts are the same. It’s a waste of everyone’s resources to go through with it.”

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said his office is considering how to proceed.

“With respect to the pending cases, we are reviewing the evidence in light of Judge Green’s decision,” he said in a statement.

Assistant District Attorney Seth Zuckerman appeared for the prosecution at the trial.

The 73rd Precinct recorded the second-highest number of stops in the city in 2011, with 25,167, according to NYPD data.

Meanwhile, in a similar case, four people arrested during a stop-and-frisk protest in front of the 103rd Precinct in Queens last year were acquitted in a Nov. 15 jury trial of obstruction of government administration. A jury found them each guilty of disorderly conduct. They are to be sentenced on Jan. 7.

In 2011, there were 17,152 stops by 103rd Precinct personnel, the eighth-highest in the city.

Tania Karas

New York Law Journal

12-18-2012

County Down at MoMA Dec 17

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:00 -0500

An Evening with Laura Parnes.

(I’m the music director for the this film.)

Photo

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:37:02 -0500

Shaun with artist Andrea Geyer. My post for the Seagull Salon...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:59:00 -0400

Shaun with artist Andrea Geyer. My post for the Seagull Salon blog is here.

Here’s a piece I wrote last month about Yayoi...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:24:06 -0400

Kusama in her studio in New York, 1970

Untitled Accumulation, 1963

Here’s a piece I wrote last month about Yayoi Kusama’s New York Moment

HERE IS THE LIVESTREAM LINK FOR THE NYC PUSSY RIOT READING TONIGHT. HERE IS THE LIVESTREAM LINK...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:37:00 -0400

HERE IS THE LIVESTREAM LINK FOR THE NYC PUSSY RIOT READING TONIGHT.

NYC PUSSY RIOT PUBLIC READING

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:43:00 -0400

Since ancient myths of women’s carnality (evil) and vaginal filth etc are upheld and transmitted by the church and buttressed by the state, and vice versa, historically and presently, as a part of totalitarian sex caste system, it makes total sense to plan an act of feminist insurrection (a pussy riot, for example) in almost any church anywhere. The band PUSSY RIOT have done this; they have executed a work of art that continues, through its glorious reputation, to repudiate the repressive collaboration of church and state in Russia, even though they, as individuals, have been jailed since March. The verdict for art-punk protestors Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, aka PUSSY RIOT, will be read Friday. Thursday night we’ll read their statements about the show trial they’ve been subjected to, and about their lives and art under Putin. At the Ace Hotel at 7:30PM with Karen Finley, Eileen Myles, Justin Vivian Bond, Chloe Sevigny, Johanna Fateman. Here is the facebook event.

Essentially, it is not three singers from Pussy Riot who are on...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:09:00 -0400

Essentially, it is not three singers from Pussy Riot who are on trial here. If that were the case, what’s happening would be totally insignificant. It is the entire state system of the Russian Federation which is on trial and which, unfortunately for itself, thoroughly enjoys quoting its cruelty towards human beings, its indifference to their honor and dignity, the very worst that has happened in Russian history to date. To my deepest regret, this mock trial is close to the standards of the Stalinist troikas. Thus, we have our investigator, lawyer and judge. And then, what’s more, what all three of them do and say and decide is determined by a political demand for repression. Who is to blame for the performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and for our being put on trial after the concert? The authoritarian political system is to blame. What Pussy Riot does is oppositional art or politics that draws upon the forms art has established. In any event, it is a form of civil action in circumstances where basic human rights, civil and political freedoms are suppressed by the corporate state system.

seagullhair: There’s an all star cast in Seagull this morning!...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:00:01 -0400

seagullhair:

There’s an all star cast in Seagull this morning! Artist K8 Hardy, Georgia Sanford of Jessica 6, and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell are all here staying cool and keeping their lovely locks in order.

Good Morning, Midnight

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:53:43 -0400