Artt Nyte

To: Listings/Critics/Features, February 12, 2009
From: Slowest Runner / 248BS Gallery – http://www.248bs.org
Press Contact: Jeremy Young – comet.meteor@gmail.com – 914.471.5523

248BS Gallery Presents

SLOWEST FWIENDS ARTT NYTE
VOLUME 1

What: A closing party for 248BS Gallery in Bedford-Stuyvesant and an opening reception for new works of art by over 20 emerging NYC-based artists featuring the music of Brooklyn’s own Slowest Runner and The Tony Castles and Montreal’s Bodies.

Dates: Friday, March 6, 2009
Times: 8:00pm
Place: 248BS Gallery
248 Monroe St., Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: FREE! The night will be Pay What You Can.


Brooklyn, New York – Slowest Runner and 248BS Gallery present the “The Slowest Fwiends Artt Nyte: Volume 1”.
This night will be both an opening reception for a group exhibition of local visual and performance artists, and a closing party for a great underground gallery space. The show will mark the first installment in the Slowest Fwiends Artt series, a seasonal party that includes art submissions of all kinds at various galleries around Brooklyn. We’re kicking it off at high speed with musical sets by three exciting independent rock bands and a dance party with DJs BleepBloopTHUD producing synthesized beats for the movement of feets. Video projectionist Zak Sherzah will be making the walls glow throughout the night. This show will feature unique new works of painting, photography, sculpture, screen-printing, ‘smell art’ and installation by some of Brooklyn’s emerging talents.

Slowest Runner established themselves in the post-rock tradition in Montreal in 2006, played shows throughout 2007, including highlights such as opening for Girl Talk, playing with Sam Shalabi at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival and organizing a ‘last’ show at Montreal’s famed La Sala Rossa with support acts Wapstan, The Rothschilds and Christof Migone. They recorded a demo album with Brendan Reed (Clues, ex. Arcade Fire) and Alden Penner (Clues, ex, Unicorns). Their unique post-baroque style combines the gentle harmonies of a string quartet with the power and rhythmic fierceness of instrumental rock bands such as Don Caballero, Explosions in the Sky or Pelican. Two years ago, Slowest Runner had no idea that four of the original members would meet back up in New York, and now, they have rebanded and are slowly trying to make Brooklyn their new home. They are currently recording their forthcoming EP to be released on Grinding Tapes Recordings.

Tony Castles started when us three met in an Employment Anonymous meeting in a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There were a lot of other people around claiming this and empathizing that, sounding off, but throughout the course of that fateful night we first got an earful of each other's plight and at some point we were all three standing up to talk at the same time and it was fun. Tony is a guy you know. He has a house with guitars, organs drums and the sound of voice. Maybe he's not that smart but he likes to dance.

Bodies is a young Canadian group who practice above a meat-packing plant. Combining no-wave guitar skronk with chiming keyboards, sprightly rhythms, and bass that echoes through the spleen, they are the defiantly untrendy sound of Montreal now. What does overdriven overdrive sound like? At what point does a cymbal become scrap metal? If you can dodge a guitar, BODIES will show you.