UNCENSORED NEW YORK (b. 2021) is an art movement against censorship. Over a three year period we’ve programmed lectures, curated exhibitions, produced art fairs and distributed films with a dedication to preserving transgression in this daunting socio-political landscape. Our movement has laid the groundwork for uncharted territory through challenging the conventions of cancel culture by highlighting the dehumanizing behavior in its aftermath.
Recent projects include two feature length film distributions: Kansas Bowling’s Cuddly Toys and Jonathan Rosado’s Brutalist Couture and two music projects Death Dance Music and Pain Annihilator.
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.
Our 2024 - 2025 studio art class Fear or Death is still in session and we offer both project development and a syllabus on art, history, politics and writing. Guest lectures include Ira Silverberg (Grove Press, High Risk), Joseph Cochran, Samantha Sutcliffe, Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family) and Adam Lehrer (Safety Propaganda).
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.
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
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
Image Removal from Redefining Censorship by Samantha Sutcliffe
Image Removal: A Market has been Created
In the last decade the risk of monetary loss has kept our mouths shut. Those who look the other way chose to self-censor themselves becoming complacent. For reasons much more complex than words can describe but our research helps us start to disseminate. Lack of connection to physical existence. Some still face a struggle of freedom that comes from purity and privilege. Government run and citizen enforced open air policing reveal that the marginalized don’t deserve freedom. These open air prison systems implemented by citizens prevent people from jobs and support thereby preventing them from recovery and basic human rights.
The present day art dealer or record label profits off of controversial acts that are dead but rarely do they take risks when there is no monetary gain. The image is created and projected onto the artist as a brand or a marketing tool. The image could also be created by the artist themself and acted out in order to get a message across. That message or image will, if successful, be profitable. Viewers, listeners, fans will be attracted to the image. They find meaning in the image. A reason to live. The image helps humanity and media companies survive. We must remember survival is not possible without access to the flow of capital. It’s time for the removal of your image. because not all images are allowed to enter the flow. Can the removal of our image bankrupt the media? Is life possible without participating in the flow?
How do we remove our misrepresented image from the internet? Companies take our image and brand us. Once our image is taken and put up online we a longer have control or ownership over it. We’ve been manipulated. Thinking that being “seen” will help us be “heard”. This manipulation has created a whole market for lawyers and security hackers who are able to suppress information. A lawyer from Minc Law, a law firm specializing in defamation, will charge a retainer fee of $3000 a month with a commitment of twelve months. You are looking at a total of $36,000 for one year. They work with SEO trackers to create new information about you that will suppress the old information about you. With this option you are paying for a service to generate more content.
How can we remove our image for free? You can not remove your image from the internet just like you can’t change the past. The only change that can happen will occur in the present so the best way to remove your image is by no longer putting your image online. Overtime old information is suppressed until irrelevant and no longer searchable. Just like a dead body decomposing.
Principles and Values, July 2022 We have come together to create an art movement for those who do not want to conform to the superficial standards of mass media. Our interest is in art that is political by nature. We operate under our own set of values that exist outside of the parameters that mass media creates. We oppose rules that weigh us down, restrict us and turn us against one another.
Sublimation in art: To channel pain, impulse, hate, intrusive thoughts, violence, fear and taboo into art in order to understand the complexity of human nature.
Radical Inclusion: Elevate art by those who have to fight the systems they are confined to, separate art from the artist, do not judge art solely on the character of the artist, break down boundaries, bring together people from all different backgrounds.
Empathy: We must help those who are struggling. We must accept and forgive in order to heal.
Resist the Spectacle
Spirituality and mindfulness in everyday life, we are in flux.