Just Another Asshole
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Just Another Asshole was a short-lived no wave
art/music/sound art
magazine publication project launched from the Lower East Side
Manhattan
in the early 1980s. It was edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca
.
no wave
work. Just Another Asshole #6 is often cited as one of these seminal writing compilations. Edited with Glenn Branca
, the sixth issue of this downtown magazine outlines the variety of styles and aesthetics that were developing in the early 1980s. Included in the issue are works by Kathy Acker
, Eric Bogosian
, Mitch Corber, Brian Buczak, Jenny Holzer
, Cookie Mueller
, Richard Prince
, Joseph Nechvatal
, Judy Rifka
, David Rattray, Kiki Smith
, Lynne Tillman
, Anne Turyn, Ann Rower, Reese Williams, David Wojnarowicz
, and others.
.
No Wave
No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre...
art/music/sound art
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
magazine publication project launched from the Lower East Side
Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street....
Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
in the early 1980s. It was edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...
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Just Another Asshole: The Book
Anthologies played a major part in defining the various attitudes of downtownDowntown
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's core or central business district ....
no wave
No Wave
No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre...
work. Just Another Asshole #6 is often cited as one of these seminal writing compilations. Edited with Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...
, the sixth issue of this downtown magazine outlines the variety of styles and aesthetics that were developing in the early 1980s. Included in the issue are works by Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S...
, Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...
, Mitch Corber, Brian Buczak, Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:...
, Cookie Mueller
Cookie Mueller
Dorothy Karen "Cookie" Mueller was an underground American actress, writer and Dreamlander, who starred in many of filmmaker John Waters' early films, including Multiple Maniacs,...
, Richard Prince
Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...
, Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
, Judy Rifka
Judy Rifka
Judy Rifka, an American artist, first emerged in the 1970s as a painter and video artist, and is associated with Colab, Tribeca, the Lower East Side arts scene of that period, and such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard, John Ahearn, Richard Mock, Ron Gorchov, Becky Howland, Keith...
, David Rattray, Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...
, Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction...
, Anne Turyn, Ann Rower, Reese Williams, David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:...
, and others.
Just Another Asshole: The LP
Just Another Asshole #5 (1981) was a compilation anthology LP that was released in 1981. A CD reissue was released in 1995 on Atavistic RecordsAtavistic Records
Atavistic Records is an American rock and jazz record label based in Chicago, Illinois, known particularly for its No Wave and free jazz recordings. It has released albums by Glenn Branca, Nels Cline, Lydia Lunch, Peter Brötzmann, various Ken Vandermark projects, Pinetop Seven, Swans, Elliott...
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Track listing
- Larry Simon – "Eggs Benedictus" – 0:52
- Dara BirnbaumDara BirnbaumDara Birnbaum, born in 1946 in New York ,USA, where she continues to live and work, uses video to reconstruct television imagery using as material such archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes. Her techniques involve the repetition of images and interruption of flow with...
– "Kojak/Wang" – 0:56 - Carla Liss – Untitled – 0:52
- Bobby G – excerpt from "Times Sq. Show Audio" – 0:38
- Wharton TiersWharton TiersWharton Tiers is an American audio engineer, record producer, drummer and percussionist.- Biography :Diplomed from Villanova University , he moved to New York City in 1976 and was part of the No Wave scene.As an audio engineer and record producer, he has worked on projects such as Sonic Youth,...
– "Incantation" – 0:48 - Carol Parkinson – "True Confessions" – 0:53
- Nina Canal – untitled – 0:50
- Lee RanaldoLee RanaldoLee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
– "Shift" – 0:45 - Jenny HolzerJenny HolzerJenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:...
– untitled – 0:46 - Annea LockwoodAnnea LockwoodAnnea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds...
– "Sound Stroke" – 0:56 - Michael SmithMichael Smith (performance artist)Michael Smith is an American artist born in Chicago, in 1951. He is an influential figure in performance art, video art, and installation art. In the 1980s, he was perceived as "the quirky Ed Sullivan" of the time.-Mike:...
/ A. Leroy – "The Smith-Leroy Comedy Team" – 0:45 - Chris Nelson – "Dinner Time" – 0:48
- Willie Klein – untitled – 0:48
- Mitch Corber – "Simply Riding a Dream" – 0:52
- Mark Abott – untitled – 0:53
- Dan GrahamDan GrahamDan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....
– untitled – 0:42 - Michael ShambergMichael ShambergMichael Shamberg is an American former Time-Life correspondent and current film producer.-Life and career:His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill...
– "On the Promontory" – 0:47 - Anne DeMarinisAnne DeMarinis- Sonic Youth :Anne DeMarinis was in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, for a very brief period from 1981-1982 as a keyboardist. She contributed vocals, along with Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore, on three Sonic Youth songs performed once, and only live on June 18, 1981. The songs are entitled...
– "Radio Song" – 0:46 - Thurston MooreThurston MooreThurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
– "The Fucking Youth of Today" – 0:50 - Andy Blinx / Don Hunerberg – "Red Ants" – 0:47
- Vikky AlexanderVikky AlexanderVikky Alexander is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited internationally since 1981. Working across mediums she is a leading practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism and is well-known as an installation artist who uses photography, drawing,...
– "Calvin Klein" – 0:27 - John Howell – "Dear John" – 0:53
- Salvatore Principato – untitled – 0:50
- Nigel Rollings – "Penumbra" – 0:40
- Peggy Katz – "Grand Central Station" – 0:42
- Eric BogosianEric BogosianEric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...
– "Highway Patrol" – 0:43 - Herr Lugus – "Happy Police Horn" – 0:43
- Amy TaubinAmy TaubinAmy Taubin is an American film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment...
– "Door Stop" – 0:46 - Remko SchaRemko SchaRemko J. H. Scha is a professor of computational linguistics at the faculty of humanities and Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. He is also an internationally renowned composer and performer of algorithmic art....
– excerpt from "The Machines" – 0:53 - Susan Russell – "Talking Art" – 0:34
- Bill Buchen – untitled – 0:45
- Verge Piersol – "Well, Alice" – 0:43
- David Hofstra / Lynne TillmanLynne TillmanLynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction...
– "Tell the Story" – 0:49 - D. Brown – "K-4" – 0:42
- Sandra Seymour – "Dogs" – 0:45
- Phill NiblockPhill NiblockPhill Niblock is a composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:...
– "Index Circa Seventy" – 0:46 - Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerBarbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
– "United Technology" – 0:51 - John Rehberger – "Fetish" – 0:51
- Paul McMahon / Nancy Radloff – "Turtles Travel Slower on Asphalt" – 0:45
- Bruce Tovsky – "Dub Bums" – 0:46
- Martha Wilson – untitled – 0:19
- Ned SubletteNed SubletteNed Sublette is an American composer, musician, record producer and musicologist. Sublette studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain. He studied composition with Kenneth Gaburo at the University of California, San Diego...
– excerpt from "Slowly I Turn, Step By Step, Inch By Inch ...." – 0:41 - Glenn BrancaGlenn BrancaGlenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...
– "Faspeedelaybop" – 1:01 - Gail Vachon – "You Will Start Out Standing" – 0:47
- B. Conan Piersol – "Deutschland Etude" – 0:47
- Gregory Sandow – "A Natural Death" – 0:43
- Stephan Wischerth – "Dirty Tape" – 1:04
- Bob George – "Warhead in the Forehead" – 0:48
- Judy RifkaJudy RifkaJudy Rifka, an American artist, first emerged in the 1970s as a painter and video artist, and is associated with Colab, Tribeca, the Lower East Side arts scene of that period, and such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard, John Ahearn, Richard Mock, Ron Gorchov, Becky Howland, Keith...
– It's True" – 0:44 - David Garland – "Long Song" – 0:45
- Mark BinghamMark Bingham (musician/music producer)Mark Bingham is an American music producer/composer/musician/engineer.In 1966 , Bingham was signed to a publishing contract with Elektra Records. After a brief stint at Elektra in Los Angeles and one single released on Warner Bros., he returned to Bloomington where he attended Indiana University...
– "32 Bad Movies" – 0:41 - Michael Byron – excerpt from "Strangers in a Strange Land" – 0:48
- Glenda Hydler / Susan Fisher – "It's Hot Love" – 0:46
- Laurie SpiegelLaurie SpiegelLaurie Spiegel is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse...
– untitled – 0:51 - Barbara Ess – "Entrada" – 0:50
- Kiki SmithKiki SmithKiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...
– untitled – 0:44 - Shelley HirschShelley HirschShelley Hirsch is a singer, performer, and composer. Central to Hirsch's work are her versatile vocal abilities, which are often enmeshed in a kaleidoscope of electronic music and sound effects....
– untitled – 0:45 - Peter GordonPeter Laurence GordonPeter Gordon is an American experimental composer and musician, whose music draws from influences as diverse as jazz, opera, rock and world music...
– "Foreign Waters" – 0:46 - Arleen Schloss – "Watch Out - Verse 5" – 0:51
- Tod Jorgensen – "Sweden - Den Mother" – 0:47
- David RosenbloomDavid RosenbloomDavid Rosenbloom is a film and television editor with more than 20 film credits, as well as many television editing and directing credits. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and the American Cinema Editors "Eddie" for The Insider ....
– "Voices and Chambers" – 0:47 - Doug Snyder – untitled – 0:45
- Jon Rubin – "Floating Cinema Excerpt" – 0:42"
- Thomas LawsonThomas Lawson (artist)Thomas Lawson is an artist, writer, and Dean of the School of Art at California Institute for the Arts. He has exhibited paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as part of the Pictures Generation exhibit, Metro Pictures in New York, Anthony Reynolds in London and LAXART in Los...
– untitled – 0:45 - Harry Spitz – "Pipe Music" – 0:46
- Rhys ChathamRhys ChathamRhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions...
/ David LintonDavid LintonDavid Linton was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He made a career as a lawyer in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, and finally Linn County, Kansas where he was a probate judge . Also, a State Senator for Ohio before he...
– excerpt from "64 Short Stories" – 0:55 - Isa GenzkenIsa GenzkenIsa Genzken is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin.-Education:Genzken studied fine arts and art history at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1969–1971, the Berlin University of the Arts from 1971–1973, and Arts Academy Düsseldorf from 1973-1977. Genzken married German visual...
– "Salutations Roma" – 0:48 - Daile Kaplan – "New Sneakers" – 0:25
- Kim GordonKim GordonKim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
and Miranda – "Working Youth" – 0:50 - Sally A. White – untitled – 0:50
- Joseph NechvatalJoseph NechvatalJoseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
– "Crown of Thorns" – 0:46 - Steven Harvey – "Friend Heart Alarm" – 0:49
- Sammy Marshall Harvey – "Radio Off" – 0:35
- Brian Doherty – untitled – 0:51
- Rudolph Grey – "Evelyn McHale" – 0:45
- Richard Morrison – "Die" – 0:46
- Z'EVZ'EVZ'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...
– excerpt from "Metal and Plastic" – 0:54
See also
- ZE RecordsZE RecordsZE Records was originally a New York-based record label, started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban. It has been re-established by Esteban since 2003.-History:Michael Zilkha ZE Records (always written with two capital letters) was originally a New York-based record label, started in...
- Noise musicNoise musicNoise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
- ABC No RioABC No RioABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington Street on New York City's Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. It features a gallery space, a zine library, a darkroom, a silkscreening studio, and public computer lab...
- No waveNo WaveNo Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre...
- ColabColabColab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects, which was formed after a series of open meetings between artists of various disciplines. Colab came together as a collective in 1977, and initially received an NEA Workshop Grant through Center for...
- Tellus Audio Cassette MagazineTellus Audio Cassette MagazineLaunched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan, in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time...