Exposed: Warhol Films. Songs for Unseen. The Andy Warhol Museum. #WarholExposed. BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival

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1 BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival #WarholExposed Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Exposed: Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Songs for Unseen Warhol Films BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Nov 6 8 at 7:30pm Running time: one hour and 15 minutes, no intermission The Andy Warhol Museum Guest music curator Dean Wareham Season Sponsor: Time Warner is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Support for the Howard Gilman Signature Artist Series provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation Leadership support for BAM Visual Art provided by Agnes Gund and Toby Devan Lewis Guest songwriters: Tom Verlaine Martin Rev Eleanor Friedberger Dean Wareham Bradford Cox Films by Andy Warhol Co-commissioned by The Andy Warhol Museum, BAM for the 2014 Next Wave Festival, and UCLA Center for the Art of Performance Digital transfer of Warhol films courtesy of MPC

2 Exposed Me and Taylor, 1963

3 BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival EXPOSED: SONGS FOR UNSEEN WARHOL FILMS In celebration of the museum s 20th anniversary, the Andy Warhol Museum is proud to partner with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and UCLA s Center for the Art of Performance to cocommission a new performance that comprises 15 short Warhol films, never before publicly exhibited, accompanied by live music. The films chosen are a combination of portraits and actualités featuring superstars and luminaries such as Taylor Mead, Mary Woronov, Edie Sedgwick, Mario Montez, John Giorno, Marcel Duchamp, Marisol, Donovan, and Andy Warhol himself. This special project strives to support the museum s mission by utilizing its collection in new ways that honor the unwavering relevancy of the art and life of Andy Warhol by re-contextualizing his work in ways that resonate in contemporary culture. Five songwriter-composers representing a musical trajectory from the 1970s until today perform original scores to these rare Warhol selections. The composers and performers, selected by Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna), who also performs, include punk icons Tom Verlaine (Television) and Martin Rev (Suicide), Eleanor Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces), and Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound). The Exposed project was produced for the Andy Warhol Museum by Ben Harrison, curator of performing arts; Geralyn Huxley, curator of film and video; and Greg Pierce, assistant curator of film and video, in consultation with Dean Wareham, guest musical curator. The 15 films have been digitized as part of a larger project to preserve and make accessible all of Andy Warhol s film work. This archival achievement is made possible through a new partnership initiated by the Andy Warhol Museum s Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce, and Patrick Moore, adjunct curator, with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Moving Picture Company (MPC), a Technicolor Company, which brings together the world s most comprehensive single-artist museum a preeminent museum for modern art, and a global leader in digital effects. Exposed makes its New York premiere as part of a national tour, following the world premiere in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Music Hall and the west coast premiere in Los Angeles at UCLA s Center for the Art of Performance in October. Exposed is the Warhol s second performance commission involving the museum s film collection after 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol s Screen Tests (featuring Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips), co-commissioned by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008, which has been touring internationally for six years. All film stills 2014 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Film stills courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum.

4 Exposed TOM VERLAINE John Washing (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps With John Giorno Jill (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps* With Jill Johnston John Washing, 1963 Bob Indiana Etc. (1963) 16mm film, color, silent, 4 minutes at 16fps* With Wynn Chamberlain, John Giorno, Robert Indiana, Marisol, Eleanor Ward *To be shown at 24fps Photo: Stefano Giovannini Tom Verlaine, one of the key figures of the punk movement, helped to put the legendary club CBGB on the map in Television, the band co-founded by Verlaine, recorded the iconic album Marquee Moon, which is regularly included on critics lists of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. Television performs live on occasion, most recently touring in Verlaine has continued to dazzle with his writing and guitar playing throughout his solo career. Verlaine has a unique sound, and was included in Rolling Stone s list of 100 greatest guitarists. There was punk energy propelling Television, writes David Fricke, but guitarist Tom Verlaine was no angry primitive hacking at the strings. He used a crisp, needling attack and favored long, carefully developed exchanges with guitarist Richard Lloyd. The result was music of Coltrane-like depth at a time when the spastic outburst was the norm.

5 Who s Exposed Who MARTIN REV Superboy (excerpt) (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.6 minutes at 16fps* With unidentified man Song title: Sugar Baby Allen (excerpt) (1964) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16fps With Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gerard Malanga, Taylor Mead, Peter Orlovsky Song title: Poetry John Washing, 1963 Jack Cigarette (excerpt from Batman Dracula) (1964) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.4 minutes at 16fps With Beverly Grant, Jack Smith Song title: Monsters *To be shown at 24fps Photo: Divine Infant Martin Rev, born and raised in New York City, is co-founder of the electronic group Suicide. His style varies widely from release to release, from electronic no wave (Martin Rev) to bubblegum electronic (See Me Ridin, Strangeworld) to heavy synthesizer rock (To Live), to Baroque/orchestral (Stigmata). Rev also works with Stefan Roloff on soundtracks for Roloff s video work and composed the soundtrack to his acclaimed documentary, Die Rote Kapelle. He contributed to The Raveonettes 2005 album, Pretty in Black, and appeared with MIA on The Late Show with David Letterman in a performance of her single Born Free, in which his instrumental track Ghost Rider was featured as a sample. He currently tours internationally as a solo performer, and with Suicide.

6 Exposed ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Screen Test: Donovan [ST 78] (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16fps Song title: Deep in the Subway Marisol Stop Motion (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps* With Marisol Song title: Born with Two Names John Washing, 1963 Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick [ST 310] (1965) 16mm film, color, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps Song title: All Known Things *To be shown at 24fps Eleanor Friedberger Originally known as the vocalist in the brother-sister duo the Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger released her solo debut Last Summer in 2011 on Merge Records, followed by Personal Record in Friedberger s music is equally playful, yet more straightforward than the Furnaces, and pays homage to the introspective pop of the 70s. Very few are writing with half the precision, wit and cool poise that Friedberger displays (Pitchfork). Photo courtesy the artist

7 Exposed DEAN WAREHAM Paraphernalia (1966) 16mm film, color, silent, 3.8 minutes at 16fps* With International Velvet (Susan Bottomly) Song title: Paraphernalia Nico/Antoine (1966) 16mm film, color, silent, 4.4 minutes at 16fps* With Antoine (Pierre Antoine Muracciolo), Nico Song title: Where Did Everyone Go To? John Washing, 1963 Kiss the Boot (excerpt) (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps With Gerard Malanga, Mary Woronov Song title: Walk into the Sea *To be shown at 24fps Photo courtesy the artist Dean Wareham, a singer/guitarist, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but moved to New York City in 1977, at age 14. His band Galaxie 500 emerged from Boston in 1988 and made three albums that influenced a generation of indie rock bands. He went on to record seven studio albums with his next band Luna, and three more with his wife Britta Phillips as Dean & Britta. Dean & Britta s recent collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol s Screen Tests, has toured the world for six years. In March 2014 he released his first solo album, Dean Wareham.

8 Exposed BRADFORD COX Screen Test: Marcel Duchamp and Benedetta Barzini [ST 81] (1966) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16fps Mario Montez and Boy (1965) 16mm film, color, silent, 4 minutes at 16fps With Mario Montez, Richard Schmidt John Washing, 1963 Me and Taylor (1963) 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4.5 minutes at 16fps* With Taylor Mead, Andy Warhol *To be shown at 24fps Bradford Cox, born in Athens, GA in 1982, is best known as the leader of the avant garage band Deerhunter. He also releases solo material under the pseudonym Atlas Sound. He has been making music on tape recorders since Based in Atlanta, GA, his most recent work has been focused loosely on wire sculpture and experimental perfumery. Photo: Lockett Pundt

9 Who s Who ADDITIONAL PERFORMERS Noah Hecht (drums), based in Brooklyn, is a member of Icewater, Eleanor Friedberger s band, and collaborates in other contexts as well. He graduated with a BM and a BA from Oberlin Conservatory and College, where he studied with his mentor Billy Hart, a.k.a. Jabali. Hecht also spent several months studying Afro-Brazilian folkloric music traditions in northeastern Brazil. Britta Phillips (bass, keyboards, vocals) was a member of the band Luna, and one half of the duo Dean & Britta, whose major recent touring and recording project was 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol s Screen Tests. Jason Quever (guitar, keyboards) is a singer and songwriter best known for Papercuts, the San Francisco-based band he has led since Earlier this year Easy Sound Recordings released his latest album, Life Among the Savages. Quever is also active as a producer; credits include Beach House, Cass McCombs, Dean Wareham, and Vetiver. ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Production design Clear Story Creative Lighting designer Rob Long Video technician Doug McDermott Tour director/stage manager Peter Arsenault Backline technician Stewart Hurwood

10 Who s Who ANDY WARHOL Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola, ) grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. He began studying art in the fourth grade at Carnegie Institute, eventually graduating from Carnegie Tech s College of Fine Arts with a major in pictorial design. He moved to New York and worked as a commercial artist for clients such as Vogue, Tiffany, and Bonwit Teller. He dropped the last a from his name, began wearing a hairpiece, and had a nose job a few years later, transforming himself into the persona that would become world-famous. By the early 1950s, he d already had a solo exhibition; in 1956, he was in a group show at MoMA. In 1957, he incorporated himself as Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc., and around 1960, bought a townhouse on Lexington Avenue & 89th Street. He continued painting, following the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg; both incorporated popular symbols in their work, including the American flag and Coke bottles. Roy Lichtenstein showed his works based on comic strips while Warhol, coincidentally, had shown some cartoon-based paintings in a window display. Warhol shifted his focus, referencing commonplace ads, consumer products, and pop culture figures (Elvis, Marilyn, Liz). In 1964, he relocated his studio to East 47th Street, nicknamed the Factory, which became a hangout for his core group of associates such as Gerard Malanga and Baby Jane Holzer. He began exploring film, making titles such as Sleep, Haircut, and Kiss and casting his cohorts. He also pursued as painting subject matter dark headlines from the news, such as disasters, civil rights demonstrations, electric chairs, and Jackie Kennedy after JFK s assassination. In October 1965, Philadelphia s Institute of Contemporary Art assembled a Warhol retrospective that garnered so much buzz that for security reasons, the curators removed many of the paintings, leaving walls blank. Five months prior to this show, Warhol said he would stop painting and devote himself to filmmaking. His circle now included Paul Morrissey, Edie Sedgwick, Ultra Violet, Nico, and Lou Reed and John Cale, part of The Velvet Underground which Warhol presented as part of the multi-genre Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Warhol s film, The Chelsea Girls, went into wide distribution while Castelli Gallery exhibited his Cow Wallpaper and a room of mirrored, floating Silver Clouds. In 1967, Warhol produced The Velvet Underground s first album, produced two books, and began filming Lonesome Cowboys; Fred Hughes, who eventually became his business manager, began working for Warhol. In 1968 at the Factory, Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas and was close to death, spending six weeks in the hospital. After this, Warhol cut back his activities for a time; Morrissey assumed filmmaking duties. The next year, with three others, Warhol co-founded Interview magazine, which blossomed in the mid-70s with Bob Colacello at the helm. The year Warhol s mother Julia died, 1972, Andy resumed painting, making commissioned portraits at a rapid clip as many as 100 a year, which continued through the decade. Parallel projects of a more ambitious tack included the Mao, Skull, and Oxidation series. In the 80s, his subject matter broadened, including Portraits of Ten Jews of the 20th Century; Myths, including pop icons such as Mickey Mouse and Superman; and, with Ads, a return to his roots. He also created two cable TV shows and published two books. Warhol died in New York City on February 22, 1987, due to complications following surgery to remove his gall bladder.

11 Who s Who THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world and features extensive permanent collections of the art and archives of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century. The Warhol, a primary resource for anyone seeking insights into contemporary art and popular culture, is also an active cultural center with a performance program that enables the museum to both explore a wide range of work related to its mission and serve a diverse audience. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and a collaborative project between the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Plans to house the Warhol in Pittsburgh, PA, Warhol s birthplace, were announced in 1989, and the museum opened its doors in May Originally built in 1911 as a distribution center for products sold to mills and mines, the Warhol was designed by architect Richard Gluckman and features seven floors of gallery and exhibition space. Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinctive museums dedicated to exploration through art and science: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum.