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How to Host an IAF Salon That People Will Actually Come To
by Felice | June 30th, 2012 | 2 Comments »

[Our recent New York City salon was so much fun that we asked host K. Tempest Bradford to share her wisdom. Want to host an IAF Salon in your city? Worried that no one will come? Read on!]
Since the IAF started doing salons we’ve seen a lot of interest from folks outside of NYC (where [...]


Earl Howard and Superstring
by Deborah Atherton | May 9th, 2012 | No Comments »

he music of pioneering interstitial composer Earl Howard always surprises, but also does something not always achieved by experimental music: it engages and often deeply moves the listener. Live in Brooklyn at Roulette on Saturday May 12, 2012.


Friday, April 27th: Sigils & Signs Opening Reception
by Felice | April 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

Observatory gallery in Brooklyn, NY has a new art show, Sigils & Signs, featuring the work of thirteen artists, including IAF Working Group members (and husband and wife) Daniel Rubuzzi and Deborah Mills in their first carving collaboration: three sculptures intriguingly titled Changeling Blocks — “not-quite-right toys.” Curated by Pam Grossman, the creator of Phantasmaphile, [...]


Lin Esser’s Unconventional Tableaux: March 3rd at 5pm
by Felice | February 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

This coming Saturday, the AFA Gallery in SoHo New York is hosting artist Lin Esser for the opening of his new collection of delightfully skeletal and wryly titled tableaux!
These whimsical, macabre works evoke the eccentric subjects of English symbolism, sinister figures of the renaissance, the anthropomorphic tableaux of Victorian naturalism and the Dia de [...]


Biyuu
by Deborah Atherton | February 13th, 2012 | No Comments »

Sound sculptor Liz Phillips is developing a particularly exciting new interstitial multi-media venture called Biyuu (a Japanese word describing the sound of bamboo bending in the wind). In this piece, soundscapes will be transformed through the controlled and conscious movement of the human body in live performance.


Boston: “Playing for the Planet” concert Friday 4/22
by Ellen Kushner | April 21st, 2011 | No Comments »

The guy who put the Interstitial in Interstitial Arts, musician Warren Senders, presents VIOLINS FOR THE PLANET, featuring Mimi Rabson, whose uncategorizable violin quartet music for RESQ (Really Eclectic String Quartet)  was also one of our flagship examples of interstitial music . . . great South Indian violinist Tara Bangalore . . . and Beth [...]


Cross-Binding Text and Form: The Interstitial Seams of Chapbooks
by Mike Allen | March 30th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

(Eds. note: Interstitial March continues as guest blogger A. M. Kerstetter brings us this report on the third annual Chapbook Festival at City University of New York Graduate Center, where attendees discussed the role chapbooks play in blending literature and art.)
Literature or art? Product or process, private or public? Fiction, poetry, or fragmentary sparks of [...]


Indy Convergence Update
by Ellen Kushner | March 17th, 2011 | No Comments »

(Eds. Note:  We’ve just received this bulletin from IAF Working Group member Ellen Denham, who is currently attending Indy Convergence, the annual 10-day “make-a-wish foundation for artists” in Indianapolis.  We knew from her interview last week with Indy Convergence founder Caitlin Swihart that it was a fabulous event for interstitial artists – but reading Ellen’s [...]


“Jubilant irreverence”: an interview with artist Brian Counihan, Marginal Arts Festival founder
by Mike Allen | March 11th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

(Eds. note: Interstitial March continues with an interview with artist Brian Counihan, founder of the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, Va., a long weekend celebration of arts that can be called marginal, liminal or even interstitial. Counihan has said that one of the festival’s goals is provide exhibit and performance space “for art that [...]


This month in CA: the art of Ron Pasquariello
by Geoffrey | June 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

Ron Pasquariello, whom IAF folk will know from his ‘dog haiku’ piece The Chipper Dialogues in the IAF Annex last fall, has his artwork up for viewing in two different California galleries this month. Here’s the official invite:
Ron Pasquariello
is exhibiting his artwork at two galleries during the month of June.
Gallery One
May 23-June 26. Multi-artist [...]


Fellow Travelers in New York June 15th
by Geoffrey | June 10th, 2010 | No Comments »

It’s not sponsored by the IAF, but the interstitially-minded in New York City on June 15th won’t want to miss this event:
Neil Gaiman, Walter Mosley, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford at Columbia U
Neil Gaiman will be in New York City, at Columbia University, to talk about the imagination and the increasingly scuffed line between genre and [...]


Beth Morrison Projects
by Ellen Kushner | May 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Beth Morrison first came to my attention when she produced BINIBON, the highly interstitial Jack Womack/Elliot Sharp collaboration, last year. (I wrote about it, and included some of Womack’s lyrics, here, and there are sound clips in Morrison’s archives.)
She is a champion of the uncategorizable; this week’s New Yorker magazine writes: Morrison is a big [...]