New Orleans Airlift Events http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events New Orleans Airlift Events weblog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:58:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Orleans Bounce at P.S. 1. Warm Up! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/08/25/new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up-new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/08/25/new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up-new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:55:38 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=306 August 28th, Long Island City, NY

Rising Bounce superstar Big Freedia and the Airlift’s own D.J. Rusty Lazer continue to bring it to the people!  They will perform live at MOMA’s P.S.1 for the museum’s Warm Up series.

Big Freedia / New Orleans Sissy Bounce, New Orleans (live)

DJ Rusty Lazer / New Orleans (DJ set)

DJ Rashad / Juke Trax/Movel Trax/Ghettophiles, Chicago (DJ set)

GHE20 GOTHIK DJs Venus X and Brenmar / Brooklyn, New York (DJ set)

Traxx (DJ set, Nation Records, Chicago)

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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Julia Street, 6 -9 pm

Saturday, November 13th, 2010
St. Claude Avenue, 6 – 9 pm

plus pop-up performances TBA

Tableaux Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective is a collaboration between New Orleans Airlift guest artist, Rosie Cooper, and the New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant.

Rosie is a London-based performance artist and curator. The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant is the brainchild of Airlift Visual Arts Director, Delaney Martin and it is comprised of New Orleans artists, performers and interested citizens who are dedicated to the revival of “living pictures”.

As the Society’s guest director, Cooper has chosen to present a group show of tableaux vivant that will be enacted by the Society members. In addition to a selection of historical tableaux, original tableaux from international contemporary

artists have been commissioned specially for this performance. Participating artists include:

Audrey Reynolds
Anna Barham
Olivier Castel
Tai Shani

The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant will also collectively originate their own tableau. Their tableau will pay homage to the Tableau Balls of the old-lineMardi Gras Krewes.

This performance of static works will “wander” through city streets on the back of a flat bed truck which will act as a stage.

Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospect is a New Orleans Airlift production. It is being presented as part of Prospect 1.5 New Orleans.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/08/24/london-comes-to-new-orleans/feed/ 0 N.O. Airlift artists Big Freedia & Rusty Lazer in the NY times Magazine! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/07/23/new-orleans-airlift-artist-big-freedia-on-the-cover-of-the-ny-times-magazine/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/07/23/new-orleans-airlift-artist-big-freedia-on-the-cover-of-the-ny-times-magazine/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:30:52 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=280 Over the past two years Big Freedia and Rusty Lazer (who’s secretly Jay Pennington, an organizer of the Airlift Project) have spent considerable time and effort to help Bounce Music reach beyond the streets of New Orleans.  Since the first Airlift collaboration involving NY Producer Dre Skull, XLR8R Magazine, Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby, Katey Red and Gotty Boi Chris, Rusty has worked as a kind of Bounce ambassador, taking performers to Austin, New York, Miami and more. Likewise, Freedia has acted as both a performer and an organizer in her own right, by assisting with logistical and talent related issues and providing the stability necessary to help a talented community take steps in new directions.  The rewarding work the Airlift has done with these performers is coming to beautiful fruition in an exhaustive article published in the New York Times Magazine this week.  The Airlift is very excited to have fostered such an amazing collaborative effort and proud of all the performers for their talent and hard work!  Please check out the article here and feel free to peruse past projects involving these amazing musicians here.  Watch out for more to come and congratulations to all involved!

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/07/23/new-orleans-airlift-artist-big-freedia-on-the-cover-of-the-ny-times-magazine/feed/ 0 New Orleans Airlift goes to Brussels! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/03/11/new-orleans-airlift-goes-to-brussels/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/03/11/new-orleans-airlift-goes-to-brussels/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=166 The New Orleans Airlift has been invited to participate in the TRAJECTOR ART FAIR during Art Brussels, April 23- 25 2010!

The Airlift will be presenting a film program that documents the unlikely phenomenon of Sissy Bounce.  Sissy bounce is the gay/transgendered off shoot of Bounce, New Orleans home grown hip hop.

Trajector Art Fair is an initiative by Hotel Bloom! and Centrifugal Projects that will take place from 23 April until 25 April 2010, coinciding with Art Brussels. Trajector Art Fair is an initiative that follows on from Projector Art Fair, presented by MAMA,  that took place, to great critical and public approval in Rotterdam in 2008.Centrifugal’s Ken Pratt, one of the key developers of the original concept, has worked with Hotel Bloom! to realise a new manifestation.

Building on the success of the Projector Art Fair , Trajector takes the core concept on the road for 2010. It will take place in Brussels, in April 2010 coinciding and collaborating with Art Brussels.

In Brussels –as in Rotterdam- the focus is not on the commercial gallery sector, but on the project spaces, artists’ initiatives and independent curatorial projects that provide important platforms and experimentation grounds for emerging contemporary artists in the international arena. In part a celebration and playful game with the role of non-profit organisations, project spaces and independent curators within the art commerce systems, Trajector takes the original concept and re-realises it as a hotel art fair in Brussels’ most recent boutique hotel. Tongue-in-cheek, critique or hardcore commercial? That’s largely up to the participants to determine.

Trajector Art Fair will transform Hotel Bloom! into a vibrant ‘boutique hotel art fair’ with eighteen rooms and a wide range of conference rooms and public spaces providing a platform for a range of international art spaces and curators to present some of the best emerging contemporary art to a Brussels audience.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/03/11/new-orleans-airlift-goes-to-brussels/feed/ 0 New Orleans goes to Austin for SXSW Bounce Showcase! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/03/11/new-orleans-goes-to-austin-for-sxsw-bounce-showcase/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/03/11/new-orleans-goes-to-austin-for-sxsw-bounce-showcase/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:58:01 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=160 NEW ORLEANS BLOCK PARTY!

The New Orleans Airlift, in association with Nolabounce.com, The Bounce Spot, Where They At?, Bounce Fest, and Crossfaded Bacon.com, is bringing the ultimate retrospective Bounce Showcase to the South by SouthWest Music festival.

Partners n’ Crime, DJ Jubilee, Katey red, Big Freedia, Miss Tee, Magnolia shorty, Vockah Redu,  and DJ’s Lefty Parker and Rusty Lazer, will be on hand to show Austin where its at in New Orleans.

Stay tuned to Rustylazer.com for additional shows by individual artists and check out the March 18th Louisiana Economic Development Fund showcase featuring New Orleans music including several bounce artists!

Partners n’ Crime – www.myspace.com/pncofficial

DJ Jubilee – www.myspace.com/djjubilee1

Katey Red – www.myspace.com/kateyred

Miss Tee – www.myspace.com/msteegirltalk

Magnolia Shorty -www.myspace.com/magnoliashorty

Vockah Redu – www.myspace.com/vockahredu

DJ Lefty Parker – www.myspace.com/dleftyparker

DJ Rusty Lazer – www.myspace.com/rustylazer &  www.rustylazer.com

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Lady Aiko makes a Big Freedia stencil!  Get your limited edition tee-shirt for only $15!  Write to us if you want one!

AIKO NAKAGAWA aka AIKO from Tokyo, JAPAN recently met New Orleans Bounce sensation BIG FREEDIA and the New Orleans Airlift at a performance for Dietch Projects during Miami Basel 2009.

MUTUAL ADMIRATION = COLLABORATION

Aiko currently resides in New York. Floral designs, girl cartoons and street pop culture images are all incorporated on Lady Aiko’s mixed media works. She utilizes both stencil, spraypaint and silkscreen print techniques to create her vibrant large-scale works which often transform “cupcake” images to playfully portray feminine sexuality and beauty. Being an immigrant from Japan, Aiko has herself been discovering Americana-type pop imagery and recreating it in an innovative way. She has recently shown her works, Love Monster Exhibition at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York, Apocalypse Wow at MACRO Future in Rome,  The Wynwood Walls at the Deitch Project in Miami, and Animamix Biennale at Shanghai MoCA as well as major galleries and museums in US, Europe and Asia.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/03/11/japan-meets-new-orleans-lady-aiko-collaboration/feed/ 0 London and NYC come to New Orleans! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/01/19/london-and-nyc-come-to-new-orleans/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/01/19/london-and-nyc-come-to-new-orleans/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:45:12 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=140 The Society for Decoration and Sacrifice Presents: Zradab, A “Legend” Unearthered

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Curator Delaney Martin, in association with Barrister’s Gallery of New Orleans, assembles 20 artists from London, NY,and New Orleans to create one mega-installation featuring four nights of performance within the installation.

Artists: Delaney Martin (NOLA), Taylor Lee Shepherd (NOLA), Andrew Zeigler (NOLA), Luke Brennan (London), Kim and Scott Pterodactyl(NOLA), Jennifer Odem(NOLA), Myrtle Von Damitz III (NOLA), Luke Barber- Smith (NY), Rachel David (NOLA), Eric Smith (NOLA), CaronGeary (London), Frank Deleon-Jones (NY), Arielle De Pinto (NY), Randi Mates (NY), Ben Wolf (NY),Melissa Stryker (NOLA) Joy Patterson (NOLA) Nina Nichols (NOLA)and Jeffery Cook (NOLA)



]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/01/19/london-and-nyc-come-to-new-orleans/feed/ 0 New Orleans Goes to Miami for Art Basel! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/01/19/new-orleans-goes-to-miami-for-art-basel/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/01/19/new-orleans-goes-to-miami-for-art-basel/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:21:19 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=134 BassEl Freedia

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Big Freedia and Deitch Projects at Art Basel 2009!

Big Freedia headlined the opening of Deitch Project’s outdoor exhibition “Wynwood Walls” featuring work by notorious street artists Swoon, Aiko, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos and Barry McGee and many more, with fireworks provided by the Black Label Bike Club.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/01/19/new-orleans-goes-to-miami-for-art-basel/feed/ 0 New Orleans Airlift Film Showcase goes to LONDON! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2009/12/31/new-orleans-airlift-film-showcase-goes-to-london/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2009/12/31/new-orleans-airlift-film-showcase-goes-to-london/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:54:29 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=207 Airlift jetsets New Orleans artists work to London in Today is Borings’ popular monthly film night.

Films showcased include:

-Ground breaking Trouble the Water (2008) Carl Deal & Tia Lessing

-Helen Hill animations, Blinded By Seeing by Michael Mortell, the award winning Glory at Sea by Benh

Zeitlin, New Orleans Bounce documentary Ya Heard Me, and Les Blanks’ New Orleans’ Classic Always For Pleasure (1976) amongst others.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2009/12/31/new-orleans-airlift-film-showcase-goes-to-london/feed/ 0 New Orleans Airlift in NEW YORK!! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2009/09/16/new-orleans-airlift-in-new-york/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2009/09/16/new-orleans-airlift-in-new-york/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:13:51 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=87 sissy nobby postcardsmallestSissy Bounce Heroes SISSY NOBBY & BIG FREEDIA Take a Bite Outta The Big Apple!

LIVE!! with special guest Bounce DJ RUSTY LAZER…and…SPANK ROCK! MALUCA! DRE SKULL! OMG MICHELLE! ROXY COTTONTAIL! DJ DIRTY FINGER! NINJASONIK! OJAY MORGAN of House of Ladosha!

New Orleans “Bounce” music rulers Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby jetsetted to New York for a special week of shows from September 19-23.  Bounce Music is an original New Orleans form of rap that’s been dominating radio and street culture in New Orleans for over 15 years.  Its queer counterpart, Sissy Bounce, has taken the city by storm, with tracks like Sissy Nobby’s dut-wrenching “Consequences” soaring to the number one spot on local radio.  With over 10 MILLION plays on Sissy Nobby’s Myspace page, she’s probably the most famous rapper (queer or not!) you’ve NEVER heard of!

But it’s really all about the dancing. . .

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Check out footage from the epic September 22 show as well as a priceless interview

with Big Freedia the Queen Diva herself!

SISSY NOBBY – www.myspace.com/sissynobbyy

BIG FREEDIA – www.myspace.com/bigfreedia

DJ Rusty Lazer – www.myspace.com/rustylazer & www.rustylazer.com

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