Lydia Lunch at Ivy Room

ivy room presentsSUNDAY NOVEMBER 10TH—LYDIA LUNCH& SPECIAL GUESTS…—-Doors 3:30pm / Show 4:00pm$17 ADV* / $23 DOOR—-IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+(rsvp on facebook)LYDIA LUNCH returns to Albany's Ivy Room to present Verbal Burlesque, a series of naughty spoken word tales.Lydia Lunch, recipient of Fellowship in 2022 for her contribution to Contemporary Music from Middle Tennessee State University, one of the nation’s oldest and largest archives devoted to preserving and studying the full scope of American Popular Music.Lydia Lunch was voted by Time Out magazine as one of the most influential performers to have emerged from New York City...

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ivy room presentsSUNDAY NOVEMBER 10TH—LYDIA LUNCH& SPECIAL GUESTS…—-Doors 3:30pm / Show 4:00pm$17 ADV* / $23 DOOR—-IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+(rsvp on facebook)LYDIA LUNCH returns to Albany's Ivy Room to present Verbal Burlesque, a series of naughty spoken word tales.Lydia Lunch, recipient of Fellowship in 2022 for her contribution to Contemporary Music from Middle Tennessee State University, one of the nation’s oldest and largest archives devoted to preserving and studying the full scope of American Popular Music.Lydia Lunch was voted by Time Out magazine as one of the most influential performers to have emerged from New York City. She has taught workshops in Performance Art at The San Francisco Art Institute, along side Meredith Monk as part of Living Voice in Ghent Belgium. She has produced spoken word records, curated performance series in America and Europe, worked with dozens of luminaries in film, music and literature. She has written seven books translated into multiple languages, released over thirty LPS, and continues to be a driving force in art, music and literature and her special forte—performance.No other artist of the 20th century has fought, forged, punched, and sculpted their own artistic vision in such a uniquely original way. Defying categorization, Lydia Lunch has actively conquered new territories and gained international recognition for the innovative quality of her work. Through music, books, spo- ken word performances, film, video, photography, poetry and a multitude of creative endeavors, she has proven to be one of the most daring artists of the current era. Sexual icon, radical and unclassifiable, Lunch has never ceased to denounce conformism, the exploitation of misery, American politics and vio- lence against women. Her spirit of revolt, her independence, and her prolific collaborations continue to influence new generations of artists.Queen of No Wave, muse of The Cinema of Transgression, writer, musician, poet, spoken word artist and photographer, continues to tour the world in a variety of mediums. A rabid collaborator she continues to re-lease new music as well as reissuing classic material from her vast catalogue of written and musical works. She is currently working with Italian label Radiation Records who have recently re-issued LPS of Teenage Je- sus and the Jerks, 1313 and Honeymoon in Red and her seminal recording Queen of Siam. Since 2019 she has been hosting a weekly podcast, The Lydian Spin, with over 240 episodes as of Feb 2024, that features musicians, artists, writers and filmmakers in conversation.Her decades long career is the subject of The War is Never Over, a fea- ture length documentary by Beth B –which toured the UK and Europe in the summer and fall of 2021-2023 and is available through Kino Lorber Films. Her new documentary Artists - Depression, Anxiety, and Rage - a series of in depth interviews with musicians, writers and visual artists who through art have managed to overcome their childhood trau- mas premiered in Italy in Nov 2023, and continues to tour the USA and Europe. Featuring Shirley Manson of Garbage, Eugene Robinson of Oxbow, JG Thirlwell, Ron Athey, Bryan Lewis Saunders and many others.The passion of her fury is the best testimony to her lack of cynicism. —Jim Farber, New York Daily NewsLydia Lunch Performance HighlightsPalais de Tokyo, ParisHammer Museum, Los AngelesCity Lights Bookstore, San FranciscoCaixa Forum, BarcelonaAll Tomorrow's Parties, United Kingdom University of Valencia, SpainSoo Visual Arts Center, Los AngelesJoe's Pub Public Theater, NYCTheàtre Gerard Philippe, ParisBelfast Cathedral Arts Festival, IrelandMuseu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain Absolute Poetry Festival Monfalcone, Italy Centro de Artes Espectàculos Mataro, Spain Centro de Artes Espectàculos Portalegre, PortugalCentro de Artes Espectàculos Mamede Guimaráes, Portugal Museum Of Modern Art Lodz, PolandExodus Festival Ljubljana, SloveniaMAK Vienna, AustriaStrasbourg Museum Contemporary Art, FranceThyssen Bornemisza Contemporary Museum, Vienna, Austria University of Chicago, Paris, FranceTheatre Garonne, Toulouse, FranceKulturehaus Bucharest, HungaryHenie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, NorwayMuseum of Modern Art, Stockholm, SwedenUniversity of Chicago, Paris

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