Hattie Hathaway
Beginning with her roles as co-founder of the seminal post-punk band
3 Teens Kill 4 and the legendary NYC nightspot, Pyramid Club, Hattie
Hathaway has been writing, producing and performing on the East Coast
for over 20 years. Her work has been produced at such theatrical venues
as La MaMa Experimental Theatre and P.S.122. As a music promoter, she
helped launch the careers of Dee-Lite, RuPaul, Dean Johnson and The Red
Hot Chili Peppers. For the 2000 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the artist
produced and co-wrote Mein Kamp The Adolf Shicklgruber Story. Hattie was
a founder of Wigstock, co-producer of the weekly Meat Market boite,
Jackie 60, and is currently co-director of the Downtown Costume
Institute, a traveling museum of alternative nightlife fashion.
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Tonya Knudsen (Curator)
Tonya Knudsen.com - artists & addicts welcome. TonyaKnudsen
has worked and produced in arts, entertainment and publishing for over a
decade. A gifted role-player, her handiwork stands out in all facets:
from columnist personality to impartial journalist; academic editor to
marketing strategist; from subculture author and ardent art supporter to
her latest incarnation - multi-modal artist/ArtMaker moderatrix for the
MotherboardsNYC.com. This author (AnyaHard.com - An Anthology of
Inspiration) lives with her boyfriend Doug Fittipaldi (who she dedicates
her work to) and their two dogs.
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Art L'Hommedieu
In the early '90s, Art L'Hommedieu was an integral part of the
Blacklips Performance Cult and its related fanzine, Lief Sux as an
aesthetic collaborator and cameo actor. In 1994, he designed The
Blacklips Tarot, casting members of his "performance family" in various
roles in the deck. A gifted artist, Art worked in the field,
illustrating dozens of children's books. He was also a frequent
performer and doorperson at both the Jackie 60 and Click + Drag weeklies at New
York's MOTHER nightclub. Art died suddenly in August, 1998 at the age of
29. At the time of his death, he had begun work on a second deck - The
Jackie 60 Tarot.
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Landeros
As an innovative Creative Director, Landeros' approach to the
industry knows one axiom: advertising is an art. His ability to
transform fashion and beauty photography into mesmerizing, yet visually
forceful, print campaigns is evident in every creative enterprise he has
produced. Landeros is pursuing fashion and portraiture photography and
currently would like to remain an enigma.
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Derrick Little (Contributing Producer)
Originally from Pleasure Island, North Carolina, Derrick in a
Dress (a.k.a. Derrick Little) is a NY-based writer, performance artist
and photographer. She utilizes the theatrics of drag, mask work and
costuming to showcase original prose and lyrics, earning the title
"Thinking Man's Drag Queen". In addition to performing in Copenhagens
Summerstage Program, Derrick has produced Tell-Tale Art, a monthly
spoken-word evening held at the Slipper Room in NYC. The artist is
currently working on a photographic book project celebrating people who
turn 30 in the year 2003.
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Sulai Lopez and Ronald Erikson II
Sulai Lopez is focused on performance art and experimental theater.
She has trained with the Midnight Circus, HB Studios and the Upright
Citizen's Brigade. A recent performance at the Classical Theatre of
Harlem garnered rave reviews from New York Times, Backstage and the
Amsterdam News. Sulai performs in the experimental sketch comedy group,
Warm Dead Bodies. She does her best to remain happy and creative and
hopes her persistence remains equal to her passion. Sulai is currently
working on her solo show, Memoirs of a Twenty-One-Year Old, which opens
in Brooklyn this summer.
Ronald Erikson II is a twenty-three-year-old bisexual male who
suffers from acute dyslexia, night tremors. He is now trying desperately
to overcome his nasty nail-biting habit. He has no goals and has yet to
find direction. He hopes that his severe and deep-seated hate of his
stepfather subsides before he turns thirty so that he can get a job at
the post office and live out the rest of his meaningless existence with
a deluded sense of success and comfort.
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Amoree Lovell
Amoree Lovell learned to play piano by ear at the age
of four. Her first attempts at songwriting consisted
of rewriting the lyrics to her piano lessons, which
all morphed into love songs about Godzilla. She
studied music theory and composition at the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, and started performing her
original solo work in 1994. With a musical vocabulary
that runs from tin-pan alley to the pop of 20 years
past (think: New Order's Blue Monday and Nick Cave's
Red Light Hand), her sound is decidedly above and
beyond the "crap of the month". Years of piano
lessons, boring surroundings and a touch of Tim
Burton's and Danny Elfman's influences have baked a
romantic outlook into the dark reality of flatland
decay gris-gris sans swamp.
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Flo Lunn and Cal Rhodes
New Yorkers Flo Lunn and Cal Rhodes like to think of themselves as
globe trotters here in NYC even when theyre not on the road.
Co-collaborators for nine years, Lunn and Rhodes like to alter peoples
ideas of the traditional snapshot aesthetic by making pictures that are
at once, bold and humorous. Flo is now concentrating on her burgeoning
career in commercial photography while Rhodes is continuing his
year-long work on photo-based online cartoon strip, Savage Pilgrims.
Lunn and Rhodes' work has been displayed at the prestigious ArtBasel in
Switzerland, the Paris Photo fair and the Association of International
Photography Art Dealers show in NYC.
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