• L.A.’s Possum Dixon remember Ric Ocasek, who produced their “New Sheets” album in 1998
• Becoming Peter Ivers: A new collection from the “New Wave Theatre” host arrives later this year
• Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand: Robert Dean Lurie’s “Begin the Begin” covers R.E.M.’s early formative years in Athens, Georgia
• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• Jane Wiedlin felt weird in Japan in this exclusive excerpt from Drew Fortune’s book “No Encore!”
• A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
• Attention “cord cutters” and streaming fanatics: Night Flight Plus has been just been updated!
• Teens high on “the weed rooted in hell” go wild in the midnight movie classic “Reefer Madness”

All posts tagged "performance art"

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  Drop That Ghetto Blaster: S’Express went acid trippin’ in the Second Summer of Love, 1988

  We’re going back for another dose of Night Flight’s “Take Off to Acid Rock” — which originally aired on September 16, 1988, and you can now find streaming on Night Flight Plus — which is where we...

  • Posted September 10, 2019
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  A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”

  Ann Magnuson’s performance art video piece as “Fallopia,” the latest in a line of sexy Prince protégés — which she describes as “a classroom lesson in “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut” — was produced...

  • Posted July 12, 2019
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  Performance artist turned post-modern pop singer Laurie Anderson’s “Language is a Virus”

  “Mixing social commentary with deadpan wit, the eclectic Laurie Anderson began as a painter and a performance artist, before crossing over to pop,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott in her introduction to three of the performance artist...

  • Posted April 10, 2019
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  Cult-O-Rama: Slava Tsukerman’s new wave, sci-fi & sex-infused 1983 NYC cult classic “Liquid Sky”

  “…Cult movies transcend all categories, and give their audiences something they’ve never seen but always wanted to,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott near the end of this 30-minute clip-centric 1988 survey we’re calling “Cult-O-Rama,” now streaming on...

  • Posted November 19, 2018
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  “Mondo New York”: Charlie Barnett captivates a “nice mixed crowd” in Washington Square Park

  “In the 1980s, Charlie Barnett performed raunchy comedy in New York City,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott in her introduction to a clip of the NYC street comedian, excerpted from 1988’s Mondo New York, which appears in...

  • Posted May 28, 2018
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  “Warm Leatherette”: Iconic artist Grace Jones’ “sassy tribute to the pleasures of ultraviolence”

  Back in the 1980s, Night Flight occasionally collected some of the most innovative videos by creative music artists who we thought were regularly pushing the boundaries in their art. On September 3, 1988, we shared some of...

  • Posted September 1, 2017
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  “O Superman”: Performance artist Laurie Anderson’s charting 1981 UK hit and video highlights our video profile

  In her intro to Night Flight’s video profile on Laurie Anderson, which first aired in 1985, Pat Prescott says, “Laurie Anderson has brought the avant-garde into pop music’s mainstream. Anderson’s instrument is her body, and in 1982,...

  • Posted June 5, 2017
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  “Extremely Cruel Practices”: Mark Pauline’s colliding metal behemoths as machine performance art

  In 1989, Night Flight creator and founder Stuart S. Shapiro produced IMPACT VIDEO MAGAZINE, a magazine-style home video that featured stories about — among other things — rap music, political humor and underground artists, including performance artist...

  • Posted May 3, 2017
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