for freddie
For Freddie, my collaboration with Deric Carner, opened on February 28th at Artists' Television Access. It's an evocation of the life and untimely death of the fascinating and obscure dancer Freddie Herko, a part of Warhol's factory crew. He danced to his death out a window in Manhattan, while listening to Mozart after taking a long bath.
Deric's installation work is just stunning, the cabinets he made to display the work as well as the drawings, icons, and posters are delicate yet challenging and tough. He also currently has a show up over in Oakland at 21 Grand.
Anyhow, the piece is now installed in the Window at ATA, on Valencia Street. According to reports so far (I've not even seen the final version yet as I've been in Tokyo), the music actually works better on the street, the hard-edges of my sounds are exaggerated through the use of the lofi speakers.
I am going to go see it tomorrow night at the screening of Haircut at ATA, it's a very hard to find Warhol film that Deric got ahold of, somehow.
Here are some images of the work, both inside at the opening and the current iteration in the window.
