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Uncensored New York is an art movement dedicated to producing, distributing and preserving contemporary art, music, film and education. Our focus is on creating an environment where all walks of life can grow and get support for artistic endeavors. 

We work with film-makers, musicians, artists, venues and organizations to develop creative projects, events and public programming. Over the last four years Uncensored New York has distributed films and music, developed an education program offering classes, lectures and mentorship both on and offline and curated exhibitions, book releases, live performances and art fairs. 

Our lectures + discussions are distributed via Profane Realm // Reino Profano, a Usb exchange inspired by alternative distribution methods that counter censorship and assimilation across the Americas. It promotes a free exchange that emphasizes real-life relationships and bypasses the filters imposed by our current media infrastructure. For example, consider researching ‘El Paquete Semanal’ in Cuba.

We’ve organized programming in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, St. Louis and Philadelphia at Printed Matter Chelsea, John Giorno Foundation, Ki Smith Gallery, Public Works Administration, Whammy! Los Angeles, PhilaMOCA, The Broad Theater, Rockaway Art Week + more. 

Uncensored New York is part of the Brujas World Syndicate and the recipient of Creatives Rebuild New York and The City Artist Corps Grant. 





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Education


Fear or Death Seminar is a year long curatorial and publishing project that utilizes art history and theory to explore the frameworks of censorship and its impact on individuals and society as a whole. Class discussions analyze pivotal political movements of censorsorship and study the dynamics between freedom of speech, propaganda and surveillance. Students are encouraged to develop their creative practice with assignments that confront and/or attempt to resolve the universal state of fear that we all live in. Guest lectures include Ira Silverberg, Joseph Cochran II, Samantha Sutcliffe and e5piral. 




Death of the Subject 
Group Exhibition at Public Works Administration 


from left to right Joslyn Crocco, Art Class. Samantha Sutcliffe Hysterical, Dangerous and Perfect Pop-Culture Fun. Jake Brush Laundry Detergent (Cheers!).


Death of the Subject explores the disturbing flow of media brainwashing and doxxing culture and suggests to break the cycle by moving offline.

In Boris Groys’ Into the Flow he explains that being offline is the act of contemplation that leaves no trace and therefore does not belong in the material world. The death of the subject means the incapacity of the subject to communicate and contribute their own message therefore becoming a secret. Death of the Subject explores the disturbing flow of media brainwashing and doxing culture, suggesting to break the cycle by pausing and becoming symbiotic with nature to exist formless, in the now. The media cycle (tabloid) continues to validate this behavior that has trickled down to all classes (non-celebrity) resulting in loss of job, housing, community and suicide. The good news is I’ve found that the death of one’s image is a blessing in disguise. Although painful, the rebirth creates an open minded existence, a freedom from the attachment of the image of the self.


Curated by Samantha Sutcliffe featuring installations, videos, sculptures, and handmade clothing by E5piral, Jake Brush, Joslyn Crocco, Johnny Scuotto and Samantha Sutcliffe.There will be additional programming with guest speakers and DJs occuring every Friday from 4-7pm. The exhibition is accompanied by an education pamphlet written and edited by E5piral and Samantha Sutcliffe that redfines censorship as the death of the subject and guides readers on how to enter The Profane Realm through wearing garments that embody the prehistoric symbols of the earth.





Rockaway Art Week
Group Exhibition 

still from Joseph Cochran II’s Only You (And You Alone), 32  minute video collage and meditation
Samantha Sutcliffe, De-transition Transcript, 8.5x11 in. Xerox, 2019.
Johnny Scuotto, Death Fear Tragedy, Collage, 2023
from left to right Johnn Scuotto, End the Cult of Victimhood and Death Fear Tragedy, Lauren Massie Fill the Gaping Hole and Samantha Sutcliffe Under the Shadows of...

Responding to Rockawy Art Week’s theme of Liminal Space Uncensored New York’s artists used the feelings of tension as a jump off point to explore a plethora of related topics. 

In our society oppositional views on gender, race, drug use, victim mentality and gun violence tear us apart. This group show, curated by Samantha Sutcliffe with assistance of Joseph Cochran, will have a experimental film installation by Joseph Cochran that explores the Rockaway’s past and present, never before seen images and interview transcripts from Samantha Sutcliffe’s archive on isolation, a black and white film photograph confronting addiction by Lauren Massie and Johnny Scuotto’s collage about the demographis of violence and a garment about the cult like victim mentality portrayed in media. 

“Far Rockaway and its surrounding areas represent the perfect, most visible remnant of the infamous Robert Moses’ power. His rockaway improvement plan which began in the mid-twentieth century changes the Rockaways from a bungalow-laden resort town to a segregated quagmire of public housing, isolating wealthy communities and Moses’ own passion projects such as Riis Beach. 

To this day the Rockaways remain one of the most impoverished resource-deprived communities in the city. While less than 5 percent of the burrough’s total population lives there, approximately 30 percent of its public housing stock can be found on the penninsula. Bombarded by climate disasters and lethargic governmental aid, Moses’ vision now lives on as a dilapitaded husk, more notable for its crime and apathy from the public.” - Joseph Cochran 



Absolute Divinity Album Release Party 
Connecting the themes of nature and technology through broadband audio / visuals. Written / Recorded / Produced by Joslyn Crocco
















Club Della Morte
Liz Lamere performing for Club Della Morte in Manhattan at Nublu, October 2024.


Our music programming occurs once a month bringing together musicians and DJs from our collective along with special guests. We like all genres especially electronic, post-punk, experimental, jazz, ambient, hip hop and world sounds. Highlights include Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), Stella Rose, Liz Lamere (Alan Vega / Suicide) and Fatboi Sharif.





Public Programming



Cristiano Grim performing at Ki Smith Gallery for the “Poetry & Prose Screen Tests by Andy Warhol” exhibition, May 2024.



We curate special events for publishers and venues some of which include Jack Skelley’s Fear of Kathy Acker out on Semiotext(e) at The John Giorno Foundation, ‘Poetry & Prose Screen Tests by Andy Warhol” at Ki Smith Gallery and Joseph Cochran II Forays, Frontiers and Flags at Printed Matter Chelsea.


Video Installation for The Alliance of Big Tech, inc. at the Uncenosred New York Art Fair, March 2023.