The PUTF podcast aims to shed lights on inspiring creatives from the PUTF community & beyond. Guests are invited to talk about their career paths, story and vision. Pick Up The Flow is a NYC based online resource aiming to democratize access to opportunities.
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The PUTF podcast aims to shed lights on inspiring creatives from the PUTF community & beyond. Guests are invited to talk about their career paths, story and vision. Pick Up The Flow is a NYC based online resource aiming to democratize access to opportunities.
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The PUTF Podcast: Laraaji Interview at Dripping 2025
This interview was recorded at Dripping Festival in New Jersey in June 2025.
Laraaji is a seminal figure in ambient and New Age music—a pioneering multi-instrumentalist, composer, and spiritual practitioner. Known for his expansive body of experimental and meditative work, he has released dozens of albums and led laughter meditation workshops worldwide, weaving together sound, joy, and mindfulness into a deeply transformative practice.
Laraaji’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/
Laraaji’s Website: laraaji.blogspot.com
Dripping explores the authentic connections between sound-system driven club music and the experimental avant garde.
Dripping is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Leo Miller. Dripping at Nowadays is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Sol León. Design and website by M.C. Madrigal.
Dripping’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/dripping.fyi/
Dripping’s sonic archive: https://soundcloud.com/drippingfyi
Dripping’s website: https://www.dripping.fyi
Dripping's linktree: https://linktr.ee/drippingfyi
Laraaji's photo courtesy of Dripping.
PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
Newsletter: https://putf.substack.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflow
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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow
#laraaji #dripping #pickuptheflow
#creativeprocess #artist #nyc #spirituality #drippingfestival #music #sound #career #newage #ambient #dripping #consciousness #spirituality
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The PUTF Show - Episode 19 / Doug Henwood
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Doug Henwood is a journalist and broadcaster based in Brooklyn. From 1986 to 2013 he published Left Business Observer, a newsletter on economics and politics. Since 1995 he’s been the host of Behind the News, a weekly radio show originating on KPFA, Berkeley, that enjoys a vigorous afterlife as a podcast. He’s the author of four books, notably Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997), After the New Economy (New Press, 2004), and My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (OR Books, 2016). He’s written for many publications including Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation, and Jacobin. He’s been working for all too many years on a book on the rot of the American ruling class.
Doug's Website: https://lbo-news.com
Follow Doug on X: https://x.com/DougHenwood
Doug Henwood's Radio Archives: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
Wall Street book: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/WSDownload.html
We also requested Doug to share with us some of his favorite things.
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
https://wavdwgs.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/
If you'd like to support this project: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflow
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
#doughenwood #journalism #behindthenews #news #radio #economics #politics #nyc #writer #leftbusinessobserver
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The PUTF Show - Episode 18 / TYGAPAW
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist,
producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New York, where they have spent the
better part of a decade uplifting frequencies representative of the Black electronic music
diaspora. Their sonic palette—informed by the dancehall of their hometown as much as
it is the techno emanating from the warehouses of Detroit—has made them an
indispensable figure in Brooklyn's electronic music scene.
Since 2014, McKenzie has been carving spaces in New York for queer people of color
through their queer club night, and now label, Fake Accent. The platform is part of their
broader mission to forge liberating spaces for marginalized people, particularly Black,
queer and trans people, an agenda embedded in the various layers of the artist's work.
Early records like the breakthrough EP Handle With Care (2019), Ode To Black Trans
Lives (2020) and their debut album, Get Free (2020) established McKenzie not only as
a skillful producer, but further as an emotive storyteller. Through their production, they
are known to weave together stories of queer immigrant life, radical self-preservation
and Black communal joy.
Their music, much like New York, is a cultural stew made vibrant by influences as local
as New York's ballroom community and as distant as Berlin's hard techno circuit. In
2021, one of techno's most vital institutions, the Berlin venue and record label Tresor,
enlisted MacKkenzie to contribute to their 30th anniversary compilation, where the
musician was in the company of techno luminaries like fellow contributors Juan Atkins,
K-HAND and Robert Hood. In 2022, McKenzie brought their visionary take on techno to
life with a three-part techno opera, Devil Woman (Obeah Woman)—the first iteration of
which premiered at New York's The Chocolate Factory Theater, and Queens Museum
before the project traveled to Berlin.
2023, TYGAPAW's second album love has never been a popular movement, was
released on fabric Originals in the spring. This album is a special one for several
reasons: It's the first album the musician produced with hardware rather than Ableton,
their first record that features their vocals prominently and it also sees McKenzie try
their hand at songwriting. In eight tracks that hopscotch across atmospheric techno and
East Coast club, love has never been a popular movement addresses, with unshakable
confidence, fierce self-love and TYGAPAW's journey as a Jamaican reckoning with their
trans identity.
https://www.instagram.com/tygapaw/
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
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The PUTF Show - Episode 17 / musclecars
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Native to New York City, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield. As musicians, they nod to great classic and soulful dance music, but with their added twists of transcendental jazz, deep elements, and cinematic mood. They also run the NYC staple party Coloring Lessons (now also a record label and radio show), pulling on a musical lineage passed down by the generations before them, and influenced by their black and brown ancestors. They aim to spread the music that has been influential to them, and share it with a younger generation of their peers.
https://www.instagram.com/musclecars.nyc/
https://musclecars.bandcamp.com
Sugar Honey Iced Tea! :
https://musclecars.bandcamp.com/album/sugar-honey-iced-tea
https://www.instagram.com/coloringlessons/
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/
If you'd like to support this project: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflow
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
Listen to this episode on audio platforms:
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#nyc #musclecars #artist #nyc #dj #coloringlessons #community #interview #career #artist #inspiration #motivation #podcast #producer #pickuptheflow #music
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Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. is a Dominican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. His work explores the ways in which diasporic unity and niche musical movements have served in the creation of community and identity in the recent past and present. Simultaneously, he experiments with analog techniques to bring elements of abstraction to his figurative images. This manual practice heightens the intimacy of his work while additionally asking himself and the viewer to consider the ways in which we influence and are influenced by our surroundings.
Rodriguez has been featured in various publications including Forgotten Lands, Hola Pardo, It’s Nice That, and Musée Magazine. Currently exhibiting at Busan’s Museum of Contemporary Art. He has been selected as a finalist for Aperture’s 2023 Portfolio Prize, a finalist for Lucie Foundation 2023 Open Call, and long listed for Foam Talent Call 2023.
https://www.instagram.com/guarionex_jr/
Episode with Guarionex from 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/putf-podcast/id1586663974?i=1000579259279
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If you'd like to support this project: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflow
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The PUTF Show - Episode 15 / Dreamcrusher
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Dreamcrusher is a New York City-based musician and artist, who describes the project as 'nihilist queer revolt musik.' Dreamcrusher’s work is at once personal and abstract, revealing and antagonistic; performances and recordings shift between genres while subjecting the characteristic elements—melodies, beats, instrumentation—to distortion until the point of transformation. Dreamcrusher has released dozens of recordings with labels such as PTP, Fire Talk, and Corpus, as well as on Bandcamp and other online platforms. Dreamcrusher is also a member of the duo Centennial Gardens with King Vision Ultra.
https://dreamcrusher.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/drmcrshr/
Merch: https://shop-dreamcrusher.creator-spring.com
A note from Dreamcrusher:
“Unfortunately I’m navigating 2024 unemployed and overdrawn… in desperate need of kind donations yet again. I hate asking, and I hate how hard I’ve worked this past year with little to no yield (and I’m definitely not the only one). I hope that the work I have coming this year truly supplements my life in a real way. Twenty-one years in now! THIS YEAR WILL BE BETTER FOR US ALL!!! If you’re reading this and have the means, please consider donating and sharing. As always, I very much appreciate the continued support. https://account.venmo.com/u/drmcrshr “
We also requested Dreamcrusher to share with us some of their favorite things.
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/
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The PUTF Show - Episode 14 / Kyle Garner
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Youtube: www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow
Kyle Garner (aka KG) is an artist, designer, curator, DJ, and the visionary behind Light and Sound Design studio. He has been hosting a gathering called Last Saturday Dance since 2016 and in 2022 launched an offshoot weekly deep listening series called Present Sounds. His work investigates the intersection of community, happenings, architecture, performance and music.
http://www.lightandsound.design
https://lightandsounddesign.substack.com
http://instagram.com/lightandsounddesign
We also requested Kyle to share with us some of his favorite things.
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
https://wavdwgs.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
Listen to this episode on audio platforms:
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Relaxer is the project of Daniel Martin-McCormick, fka Ital, member of Black Eyes & Gaze, ex-Mi Ami, Halal & Relaxer, Sleeper Cell, Interplanetary Prophets, and more. Rooted in the US punk/noise underground of the late '90s and early 2000s, Martin-McCormick's music embodies a sensual, visceral edge that reflects and extends that legacy. His hardware live sets, honed over a decade of tours, are exhilarating, white knuckle rides, while his DJ sets fluidly cross genres and eras with a cathartic sense of play.
He's been a repeat performer at Berghain (where the Relaxer project made its live debut), De School, Unsound, Nowadays and many others. On albums "Concealer" (Planet Mu), "Coconut Grove" (Avenue 66) and "Hedonic Fatigue" (Climate of Fear), his productions stretch out, weaving strands of wormhole techno, minimal, noise, UK hardcore continuum and fractured ambient into a rippling, mesmeric tapestry. Recent club-focused EPs "Licking" and "Candy" (Lovers Rock Recordings) sharpen the blade, amping up his music's animialstic snarl and erotic undertones.
Following his recent composition studies with Morton Subotnick, Relaxer's music has evolved a new modality: alongside his club works there have been concerts of long form durational works featuring spoken word and richly spatialized sound design. His debut performance in this new style was a standout at Sustain-Release Year Seven. These works were released in the Summer of 2022 as "Force Field: A Guide for the Perplexed" on Club Night Club. "In Softening Air," the follow up, is out on Lovers Rock Recordings April 1st.
Behind the scenes, Martin-McCormick has been a consistent force shaping the US underground. He is the co-founder of Dripping camping festival and NY-based event series. He was a key member of Sustain-Release from its inception and co-director from 2017-2021, founded the labels Lovers Rock Recordings & Climate of Fear, was one of the first residents at Bossa Nova Civic Club. He currently holds residencies at The Lot Radio and Mansions.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relaxerrelaxer
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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Ruth Saxelby is a writer and editor based in Queens, New York, with a background in electronic music journalism. Born and raised in the UK, she got into writing through clubbing in the north of England in the late '90s. She was the clubs editor at The Leeds Guide (2001 -2003), new music editor at Dummy (2009-2013), and managing editor at The FADER (2014-2018). Some of the things she's written include a column about listening for NPR, record reviews for Pitchfork, memoir essays for Hazlitt, and a libretto for an opera by Actress's Darren Cunningham.
https://twitter.com/ruthesaxelby
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
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Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high production aesthetics, she explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humour. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies. Bennani’s work has been shown at the Whitney Biennale, MoMA PS1, Art Dubai, The Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Public Art Fund, CLEARING and The Kitchen in New York. Her animated series, 2 Lizards, a collaboration with director Orian Barki, premiered on Instagram during Spring 2020 and was described by The New York Times as “hypnotic…deploying a blend of documentary structure and animation surrealism…both poignantly grounded in actual events and also soothingly fantastical” and its animated protagonists “art stars.” (Jon Caramanica, April 2020)
https://www.instagram.com/meriembennani/
Meriem Bennani - Life on the CAPS (book): https://store.renaissancesociety.org/products/meriem-bennai-life-on-the-caps
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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Baby Leo is a DJ, designer and builder based in San Francisco, CA. He is a cofounder of the festival and event series Dripping and the former frontman of the pioneering extreme metal band Animosity.
https://www.instagram.com/babymfleo
Dripping: https://www.dripping.fyi/
https://www.instagram.com/dripping.fyi/
Animosity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animosity_(band)
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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#babyleo #nycnightlife #nyc #animosityband #animosity #dripping #drippingfestival #culture #landscapearchitecture #career #inspiration #psychedelics #fyp #interview #podcast #motivation #harvard #harvarddesignschool #deathcore #2000's #sanfrancisco #nyc
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John Barclay is the founder of NYC’s Bossa Nova Civic Club, Paragon, and White Label Yerba Mate Soda. He also makes music under the alias Liquid Soap and was a member of DIY rave supergroup DUST, a since-retired collaboration with audio engineer Michael Sherburn of Earth Boys and visual/noise artist Greem Jellyfish.
https://www.instagram.com/johnbarclay3000
https://www.paragonbroadway.com/
https://www.instagram.com/paragonbroadway/
http://bossanovacivicclub.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bossanovacivicclub/
https://www.instagram.com/whitelabelmate/
https://www.whitelabelmate.com/
https://liquidsoap.bandcamp.com/music
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
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Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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Eve Essex is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She performs with woodwinds and voice, accompanied by instrumental ensembles, and by electronic arrangements that use synthesizers, drum machines, live processing, and other sounds. Her work slides easily from structured electronic pop to open-ended melodic explorations and big-band arrangements. She has scored film soundtracks, written music for installation and performance art, and explored prog, jazz, and electroacoustic ideas with groups including The Fabulous Truth, Das Audit, and a host of other collaborations. Essex’s second solo album The Fabulous Truth will be released in LP, cassette and digital formats by Soap Library in June 2024. Her debut solo album, Here Appear, was jointly released by Soap Library (cassette) and Sky Walking (LP) in 2018. In the summer of 2024, she will be Composer In Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN. As a featured instrumentalist she has contributed to works by The God In Hackney, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, James K, Kevin Kenkel, Liturgy, Colin Self, Mike Shiflet, UCC Harlo, and Peter Zummo, among others.
We also requested Eve to share with us some of her favorite things.
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Sam Clarke is a Brooklyn-based artist, distinguished by his uncompromising style which he translates across various disciplines. Known for his visual work, Clarke has also developed a voice of his own as an organiser and DJ, fusing his affection for noise, industrial, and dark ambient, with rhythmic, tribal, unrelenting techno.
In 2022 he co-founded the ephemeral, yet influential Dust Radio, which revived a sorely missed artist-run edge to New York's music scene. Coinciding with Dust was his beloved monthly rave series, Nausea, which he co-curated alongside DJ Valentimes.
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James Hoff is an artist living and working in New York. His work encompasses a variety of media, including sound, video, painting, and publishing.
Hoff’s multidisciplinary approach begins at the user level—the level at which we interact with consumer technologies, media, and data. He has worked with computer viruses, inaudible data signals, ear worms, culture bound illnesses, dead zones, and hacked google maps as tools and framing devices for works that reimagine and expand the creative potential of digital and cultural networks beyond their economic and corporate-engineered use value.
By exploiting and manufacturing technological and cognitive glitches, Hoff illuminates the social, political, and historical context of the software and media that we interact with on a daily basis.
Hoff co-founded Primary Information in 2006 to publish historical and contemporary artists’ books. The organization has published hundreds of titles, including facsimile editions of Art-Rite, Broken Music, Black Art Notes, Cornelius Cardew’s Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, and Womens Work as well as new works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, DeForrest Brown Jr, Tony Conrad, Dara Birnbaum, Constance DeJong, Alexandro Segade, Martine Syms, and Flora Yin-Wong, among many others.
Website: https://www.james-hoff.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshoff/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/_james_hoff
Primary Information: https://primaryinformation.org
Music releases mentioned:
Blaster: https://jameshoff.bandcamp.com/album/blaster
James Hoff — HOBO UFO (v. Chernobyl) (PAN 109): https://vimeo.com/366489963
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Asif Mian’s art practice explores how events are perceived, processed, and passed on. Asif Mian has devoted much of his career—via video, installation, performance, and sculpture—to investigating the tenuous connections between the events that shape one’s life. Informed by science, mythology, and transcendentalism, Mian's breaking down and rearranging of medium evokes a liminal psychological space, where the “ghosts” of events and the mental processing of violence reside.
Mian earned a BS Genetics & BA Studio Art from Drew University, and an MFA from Columbia University (2018). He has a decade’s experience as a director of music videos, advertisements, and short films. Mian has participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Maine, MacDowell Colony, Vermont, LMCC Workspace, NYC, and AZ West with Andrea Zettel, Joshua Tree, California. His solo exhibits have been featured in Art Forum, Artnet, Art Observer, and The Dallas News.
Awarded the Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artist, Mian’s multi-chapter project, ‘RAF’, was the focus of a solo exhibit at Queens Museum. Mian exhibited at The Kitchen for the Whitney ISP curatorial exhibit, The Shed: Open Call, BRIC, and Queens Museum International: Volumes.
Recently, Mian was an Artadia Award finalist, received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and participated in the Okayama Art Summit curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija.
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Katyann Gonzalez is a film editor primarily focused on documentary filmmaking and most recently making the jump into the narrative world. A film lover, a rave elder, an at-home chef, a sister, a friend, an advocate, and an adventurous traveler - she's really interested in soaking up everything that life has to offer from the good, the bad, and the fugly.
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Katyann's IG: https://www.instagram.com/rickytan____/
Links mentioned:
Time Bomb Y2K Documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26786629/
Union Documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30319916/
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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a Japanese born multimedia artist based in Brooklyn New York . Bharoocha works in various mediums creating large scale mural paintings, drawings, collage, sound, installation work, and performance. He has had solo exhibitions in Japan, New York and The Netherlands, not to mention the countless group exhibitions his work has been displayed around the world. Bharoocha is known for being one of the founding members of the experimental rock group Black Dice (1997-2004) alongside other bands he was a member of such as Pixeltan, Soft Circle, IIII, Boredoms (live show member 2007-2015) Currently Bharoocha is a member of Kill Alters. He creates electronically focused music under the name YOKUBARI, performing live under his own name using drums and Sensory Percussion drum sensors. Bharoocha has performed at renowned spaces such as Rockefeller Center, MoMA, MoCA, The Sydney Opera House (Australia), MoMA PS1, Barbican (London) to name a few, organizing large scale performances including up to 100 musicians, mainly drummers performing together.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/softcircle/
TW: https://twitter.com/HishamBharoocha
Fine Art: https://www.hishamakirabharoocha.com
Commercial Work: https://www.hugoandmarie.com/artists/hisham-akira-bharoocha/
Solo Performance: https://hishamakirabharoocha.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-h0l0-01-31-2020-2
Solo Electronic: https://chinabot.bandcamp.com/album/sakai
Band (Kill Alters): https://killalters.bandcamp.com/track/time-warp
DJ Mixes: https://www.mixcloud.com/YOKUBARI_SoftCircle/
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GENG PTP is a Manhattan-born, Queens NYC-based sound practitioner (producer, poet/vocalist, sound engineer, DJ), educator, archivist, visual designer, organizer, and physical trainer. With 3+ decades of participatory roots in NYC's underground music/DIY communities, he has been making work through a multitude of solo and collaborative processes. Most currently, he performs as KING VISION ULTRA (est. 2017), a channeling project considering memory and voice as quantum weaponry in relation to honoring/making/taking space, the archive (remembrance), and protecting the spirit. In January 2023, he released his fourth album as KVU, 'SHOOK WORLD,' featuring 16 collaborators + Algiers (Atlanta, GA). He also makes up half of Centenny Gz, a duo with Dreamcrusher.
GENG's organizing and coalition work expands to the visionary collective and label, PTP (Protect The Peace / Purple Tape Pedigree), which he established in 2009. As "counter-industrial purveyors of weaponized media," PTP stands to create space for us.
@genggrizzly (IG)
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Vanessa Li is the co-founder of Mood Ring, a bar & venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and co-author of Margarita In Retrograde: Cocktails For Every Sign, published in 2022 by Abrams Books.
Originally from San Francisco, she now splits her time between New York and Los Angeles working in nightlife and hospitality. She loves rabbits.
https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/margarita-in-retrograde_9781419758898/
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