Damien
Damien's first demo tape earned him an investment deal and took him to
NYC where he recorded and launched his first independent underground
house and spoken word CD. He made guest appearances on college radio
shows and performed in nightclubs Webster Hall, Irving Plaza,
China Club, Avalon and Tuxedo Junction. His CD scored a Top-10 and
Top-20 hit on the CMJ charts and Damien was named one of the Best Top
Acts by New England Performer Magazine. But Damien's interests soon led
him away from the underground and dance genres and he steered clear of
producer-driven projects. He took a hiatus to focus on his songwriting
and two new bands - Vertigo Blind and Damien and
the Echo Boomers. His future goals are to keep writing, recording, performing and, most
importantly, challenging himself as an artist.
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Soigne Deluxe
Soigne Deluxe is a NY-based performance artist whose provocative
work is breaking boundaries, creating genres and breathing new life into
the NY art world. Soigne laid the groundwork of his artistic career at
the Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts, studying
musical theater, modern dance and visual art. Soigne immersed himself in
the NY nightlife scene in 1993, where he introduced his iconcoclastic
performances, hypotonic moves and one-of-a-kind art. His many
accomplishments since include a collaboration with Grace Jones and a
Japanese TV appearance with Marilyn Manson. His paintings feature
otherworldly, diaphanous creatures and portraits of stars, from Boy
George to Madonna. A contrast to his complex, fantastical artwork,
Soigne's philosophy is simple, "Be true to yourself, for things are
rarely what they seem."
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Madame Dollhaus
The personal work of Madame Dollhaus ranges from multimedia
sculptural pieces to live duration pieces within intricate
installations. Currently Madame is working on five paintings which will
be unveiled at The Brave Destiny Surrealism ball in The Williamsburg Art
Historical center in Fall 2003. The works will be based on great Queens
of England, fetishistically adapted and mutilated in great portraiture
form. She is also the director of The Dollhaus Art gallery in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Dollhaus represents 7 unusual artists and
hosts a variety of guest artists each month. This summer The Dollhaus
expands its "Creepy Toyshop" of curious art oddities and unusual objects
and will accept new artist's work.
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Dreambot
A self-professed "know-nothing pondering the
inexplicable," Dreambot is "mixing media for new content." The
Bronx-based neo-Fluxist identifies patterns, then deconstructs,
re-replicates and examines his results. Dreambot has created well over
one thousand sample files and is discovering ways to utilize them in
art and design programs.
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Missy Galore
After viewing Missy Galore's Wet Nirvana statue, Thorsten Ramin
dubbed her "a Dada superhero". Missy Galore is Meglomedia: Her visuals,
music, fashion, performance art, installations and sculpture reveal her
Love of Life. It is the interconnection of mediums that fuels this
co-founder of Feedbuck's creative fire: "I create as a way of bringing
people together in a virtual town meeting with an open broadcast
platform." To Missy, there is nothing more important than communication,
understanding, sharing and caring.
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Gecko
Gecko Saccomanno has been involved in the downtown performance art
scene for as long as she can remember. Always generating new and fresh
work, she has conceived large-scale installations, meta-media works,
sculptural art collages and musical ensembles. Most notably, Gecko's
performance pieces have been exhibited in New York's Guggenheim Museum,
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, P.S. 122 Performance Space, Westbeth
Theater and Exit Art gallery, which is internationally renowned for its
emerging performance and visual art programs. Gecko now serves as
director of the nonprofit experimental theater space,
Collective: Unconscious, where she continues to produce and perform her
own technologically focused work.
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Gigi Deluxe
Gigi Deluxe was manufactured in a Japanese doll factory on the
island of Puerto Rico. Her father, manager of the factory, was a Puerto
Rican/Chinese hybrid and her mother was of Spanish/Mexican decent. Gigi was
sold to the factory as a young girl and worked her way up to "finger
tester," a coveted role, testing doll breasts for squish-ability. A mere
four years old, Gigi escaped the factory and fled to Chicago and started
working clubs. By the time she could drink legally, she had been running
amok from club to club, city to city. Now, Gigi's main focus is her art,
which is best described as "very detailed fantasy-realism."
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