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Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Gerry Visco Day TODAY!!
Gerry Visco Day TODAY!!
If you can't make it 6 to 9 PM tonight, join Gerry and hosts Leo Gugu and Paisley Dalton also tonight at the after-party from 11 PM until 3:30 AM at the weekly dance party, My Chiffon Is Wet at Eastern Bloc, 505 East 6th Street (Aves. A and B). Special guest host: Alan Cumming!
Photo by Gerry Visco
Save the date: Gerry & The Twinks will be appearing at Pussy Faggot on Friday, April 6th at Public Assembly. It's gonna be hilarious!
TONITE: Salon No. 15 Last Thursdays: Attention Deficit Disorderly Conduct with Gerry Visco
Thursday March 29th, 6 to 9 PM
Salon No. 15, 15 Clinton Street (between E. Houston and Stanton Streets), (646)573-2499
Attention Deficit Disorderly Conduct is a show featuring a collection of photos taken by Gerry Visco, a photographer, performer, and writer based in New York City. She shoots 1,000+ photographs a week and her hard-drive is always full. The opening will also feature performances by Visco and others TBA: like Gerry & The Twinks -- Adam Van Buren, Kelvin Oliver Goncalves, Hari Nef, Reve Douglas, Joe Kane, Jesus Mondragon. Friends who may perform: Indigo Earl, Shane Shane, Joseph Keckler, maybe YOU.
Like many in today’s frazzled world, she has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and barely sleeps. Her life is a tumultuous eruption of parties, shows, social media, a day job, and a slew of night jobs and art projects. Despite working constantly, she’s broke. “I only have two cents but I feel like a million bucks,” she says.
The photos and performances in this show portray New York City survivors navigating their way in life while they party on. The colorful artists, performers, and nightlife people have created their own strategy to flourish in an urban landscape fraught with challenges. The American Dream holds no assurances or promises. Working hard for a lifetime can result in getting laid off, 90-year-old women are being thrown out of their lifelong homes, doctors refuse to help in an emergency out of a fear of being sued, family relations and partnerships are tenuous and easily severed, and tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance or even jobs. Cellphones track your every movement while giving you cancer, the Internet records all your activities and thoughts, you can’t walk the streets or enter a bar without a state-issued ID, you can’t smoke in public, you have to take your shoes off at the airport and behave yourself or else. While corporations and the government have hijacked the economy, forcing us to toil away at drone jobs, taxed up the yin yang and barely able to pay the rent and student loans, the freaky members of The Gerry Party have fun and enjoy their lives by doing it THEIR way.
When Gerry Visco, a survivor herself, escaped the suburbs of Boston and arrived in the gritty New York City of 1974, the streets were dangerous and the economy sucked, but the possibilities were endless. Fast-forward to 2012: the city is cleaner, safer but how can you survive in this brave new world with a million rules but not too many guarantees. If you’re not guilty of disorderly conduct these days, then you’re guilty of being a zombie.
Photo by Gerry Visco
Illegally blonde and at large on the Upper East Side of New York City, Gerry Visco’s a performer, writer, photographer, and nightlife personality who Gayletter dubbed “the Queen of Trouble.”
She’s performed at Dixon Place, The Wild Project, the Creative Time annual gala, the Bowery Poetry Club, Chantal’s House of Shame in Berlin, and Envoy Gallery. Her performance career began in 1980 with her role in Woody Allen’s film, “Stardust Memories,” and she’s appeared in numerous films and videos, including a recent vignette in Abel Ferrara’s 2012 “4.44 Last Day On Earth.” Visco writes for Out Magazine and Hyperallergic. From 2006-2011, she had a weekly column in New York Press, covering parties, events, and the arts and was cited by the Village Voice for the Best of Award as Bravest Nightlife Photographer in 2010. Her photography has appeared in New York Press, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Try State Magazine, The Daily News, Gawker, Gothamist, and numerous online publications, and was exhibited in a solo show at the Munch Gallery in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature, an MFA in Writing, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.
Visco is currently writing a tell-all memoir about her colorful life as muse, actor, fag hag, rent girl, and disco diva in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.
Her Gerrification project, a global effort designed to eradicate ugliness. Dressing like Gerry will improve your mood and your life. This project inspired Gerry & The Twinks. Twinks, for the uninitiated are traditionally young, thin, hairless gay men but Gerry Visco is expanding the definition of "twink" to include anyone who is fun, cute, and full of pep. That means Gerry Visco is a twink.
Most people in this world resign themselves to dull, colorless lives at drone jobs, desperately trying to pay their bills and bemoaning how "tired" they are when really they are depressed. Gerry & The Twinks are here to change all that! Join the Gerry Party and have FUN!
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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