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Uncensored New York is art movement against censorship. We are dedicated to preserving contemporary art, film and music through education, distribution and public programming. Our focus is on creating an environment where people can grow and get support for artistic endeavors. We open our doors to all walks of life.
Over the last four years we’ve distributed two feature length films: Kansas Bowling’s 16mm film Cuddly Toys and Jonathan Rosado’s Super 8mm film Brutalist Couture and two music projects Death Dance Music and Pain Annihilator.
In 2024 we launched the UNY Education Program. The program is a culmination of our collective research on ways to navigate and respond to the distressing nature of our current political climate. The first course ‘Fear or Death’ will be 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 censorship such as Wikileaks and study the dynamics betweenfreedom of speech, propaganda and surveillance. Students are encouraged to develop their practice with creative assignments that confront and/or attempt to resolve the universal state of Fear that we all live in. Work in all mediums and practices are supported including fiction, documentary, performance, photography, audio, installation, digital, research-based, curatorial and social practice.
The 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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DISTRIBUTION
2024 Jonathan Rosado’s Brutalist Couture, Film
2024 Pain Annihilator, ACT IV, EP
2023 Kansas Bowling’s Cuddly Toys, Film
2023 Death Dance Music, EP
GUEST LECTURES
2024 Ira Silverberg High Risk
2024 Joe Cochran Censorship: The Assassination of an idea?
2023 Adam Lehrer Safety Propaganda
2023 Lias Saoudi
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Rockaway Art Week, Far Rockaway, NY
2023 Death of the Subject, Public Works Administration, New York, NY
2022 Lauren Massie, X Pizza, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2024 Arts Letters & Numbers
2022 - 2023 Radio Bonita, X Pizza, New York, NY
GRANTS
2024 Emerging Exhibitors Grant, New Jersey Art Book Fair
2022 Creatives Rebuild New York
2021 The City Corps Grant
INTERVIEWS
2024 Life in Plastic, Dirty Magazine
2024 The Girl Issue, American Vulgaria
2024 Devirtualize, Redacted Island
2024 Discipline & Anarchy, Vera.PR