Artflux

I received a surprise call from Scott Covert of club 57 notoriety and fame. It was nice catching up to him with him and talking about publishing some pictures that I taken of the bad seed the Andy Reese production. Anyway long story short the negatives are in storage unfortunately,  so I will do my best to retrieve them. After I headed out to pick up a zipp car to move a desk that I found on craigslist! So it’s all moved in and the only thing is I need some help assembling it and deciding where to put it. It’s been hot hot hot here in Toronto. So I am actually turning on the AC. Bye for now time for a glass and music then get dinner. Xo Victor

Anthony Scibelli in The Bad Seed at Club 57, 11 x 14 edition of 10

photo by Victor Carnuccio

Directed by Andy Reese
Set by Frank Holliday

Andy Reese

Club 57 was situated in the basement of the Holy Cross Polish National Church on St. Marks Place in New York where I met Andy Reese who was manager at the time. It was the late 70’s when rents were reasonable so there was a community of artists on the lower east side who hung out together creating events there. Ann Magnuson, Keith Harring, Kenny Scharf, John Sex, Wendy Wild, Klaus Nomi, Joey Arias, Tseng Kwong Chi, Tom Rubnitz, David McDermott and Peter McGough, and countless others got together there to show their work. Tom Hawk mastered the music for the events. I met John Epperson there as well as many others. Tom had a huge collection of vinyl at this Elizabeth Street apartment that he shared with William Lively who was choreographing dance and theater. While rummaging though some old cassettes I ran across one of his tapes. It is very similar to the David Byrne’s Instermental Miniatures that we played at the Artflux opening Thursday.

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Club 57 was situated in the basement of the Holy Cross Polish National Church on St. Marks Place in New York where I met Andy Reese who was manager at the time. It was the late 70’s when rents were reasonable so there was a community of artists on the lower east side who hung out together creating events there. Ann Magnuson, Keith Harring, Kenny Scharf, John Sex, Wendy Wild, Klaus Nomi, Joey Arias, Tseng Kwong Chi, Tom Rubnitz, David McDermott and Peter McGough, and countless others got together there to show their work. Tom Hawk mastered the music for the events. Tom had a huge collection of vinyl at this Elizabeth Street apartment that he shared with William Lively who was choreographing dance and theater. While rummaging though so old cassette tapes I ran across one of his tapes.

Click here to hear the Tom Hawk Club 57 Podcast.