"Avant Garde" Blogs & Blog Posts

"What is Butoh?" You might be asking. Great question, here, maybe this Tedx talk will help. Butoh is difficult to define form of dance-theater. Its practitioners don't have a consensus on its definition, but it's loosely described as a dance of...

Italian avant-garde collective TRAUM (with members of Zu, Fuzz Orchestra, Lento, Zeus!) present their kaleidoscopic psych-laden first single "Inner Space", taken from their self-titled debut album to be released on March 1st via Subsound Records. "W...

This segment from Art21's program, London, explores the work of visual artist and composer, Christian Marclay. Marclay is probably best known for his "turntablism," a technique that involves manipulating vinyl records on a turntable to create new sou...

What's In My Bag? is Amoeba Record's popular YouTube show where they ask interesting, influential musicians and artists to wander the aisles of their store, picking records that they recommend, and explaining why. Since COVID, they've been asking mus...

Since the 1980s, happy mutant Perry Farrell, now 60, has been waving his freak flag high as the radically creative frontman for Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, and, before all that, Psi Com. Later this year, Perry's releasing a box set titled The...

Video artist Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film" (1964) is a projection of clear film leader. The image changes over time as dust and imperfections become visible. From the Bard Graduate Center gallery: Inherent in the work’s material and conce...

As Japanese musician Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) performs live in Taipei in 2013, one concertgoer demonstrates that enjoying noise music does not preclude you from practicing good dental hygiene. Full clip below. Read the rest...