An Eerie Landscape Of Ashes And Ladybugs Beckons In The East Village View all 5
A physical post-Covid landscape and a powerful place of mourning has been created inside Performance Space New York in the East Village.
Artist Precious Okoyomon (they/their) made the installation on commission after winning the Frieze Festival’s Emerging Artist Award. Called “Fragmented Body Perceptions as Higher Vibration Frequencies to God” the title is from their own poem this eerie, otherworldly place is Okoyomon’s reaction to COVID.
“I just think they’re one of the most interesting artists out there,” says Frieze jury chair Jenny Schlenzka, executive artistic director of Performance Space and curator of Okoyomon’s installation.
Fact Mix 783: TYGAPAW
Fact Mix 783: TYGAPAW
A high energy mix from the Jamaican club producer and DJ.
Dion McKenzie, better known as TYGAPAW, moved to Brooklyn from Jamaica in 2002. After spending time playing in a band called My M.O. and in a rap duo, Kowabunga Tyga, she began to explore DJing and production, and in 2014 started queer club night Fake Accent. That was followed by Shottas, a party for the queer Caribbean community in the city, combining dancehall and dembow with ballroom influences.
“Wanting to create safe spaces for queer and trans people of color is really important to me because [of my experiences] growing up and not being able to be myself in any sort of party situation,” she told The FADER in 2016. “Especially in dancehall, reggae. It’s a beautiful thing when you can bring people together that want to be in that space, want to feel the music, want to see DJs, want to relate and connect to each other.”
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WHO: A shapeshifting New York songwriter accessing new zones between folk, drone, and club music.
WHY YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING: Since 2009, Alexandra Drewchin aka Eartheater has - over four solo albums, a mixtape, and a collaborative release with the duo LEYA - mapped out a sprawling soundworld equal parts psychedelic folk, experimental noise, cloud rap, and techno. In the process, she has secured her spot as one of the most compelling new musical figures to explode out of New York’s underground. Across