Artists Space

Abasement #77

Concert
April 7, 2025, 7pm

Performances by I.U.D., Eucademix, and Dave Miko. DJ Superkraut! DJs Pia Dehne und Mark Ohe. Visuals by Cable Visions. Projections by Bradley Eros.

Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of red, green, and yellow paper. Pieces of beige paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of red, green, and yellow paper. Pieces of beige paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.]

Abasement is a music series featuring performances, a guest DJ, and a projectionist. Beginning in 2015 at Max Fish bar in New York's Lower East Side, the evening brings together artists and bands working in free improvisation, jazz, noise, minimalism, and experimental composition. When Max Fish permanently closed due to Covid, one of the few experimental music venues in Manhattan temporarily ceased to exist. Artists Space is pleased to continue hosting Abasement.

Color image of a performer on stage, standing sideways, with an audience facing them. The performer has their hands up and their mouth open in an exasperated manner. They are holding a phone in one hand. They are standing near a microphone on a stand, with a hat balanced on it. The audience is seated. The back wall features a distorted projection of a live feed of the performance.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage, standing sideways, with an audience facing them. The performer has their hands up and their mouth open in an exasperated manner. They are holding a phone in one hand. They are standing near a microphone on a stand, with a hat balanced on it. The audience is seated. The back wall features a distorted projection of a live feed of the performance.]
Color image of a performer leaning over a record player with headphones on. One of their hands is partly out of frame while touching the machine. The background is out of focus, and bathed in bright blue light. A small portable light is placed on top of the record player, illuminating both it and the performer.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer leaning over a record player with headphones on. One of their hands is partly out of frame while touching the machine. The background is out of focus, and bathed in bright blue light. A small portable light is placed on top of the record player, illuminating both it and the performer.]
Color image of an audience in a room. Some of them are seated, others in the background are standing up. A bright yellow light is pointing into the camera, creating a dramatic light flare. The wall in the background features an abstract image projection, resembling a piece of shattered glass. The atmosphere in the room is hazy, and white dots of light from a disco ball fill the room.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of an audience in a room. Some of them are seated, others in the background are standing up. A bright yellow light is pointing into the camera, creating a dramatic light flare. The wall in the background features an abstract image projection, resembling a piece of shattered glass. The atmosphere in the room is hazy, and white dots of light from a disco ball fill the room.]
Close-up color image of a performer sitting on stage facing a laptop. The room is dark, lit with blue light and patches of rainbow abstract projections. There are white dots on the back walls reflecting from a disco ball. The performers face is lit up, they are wearing glasses and their hands are on the table.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color image of a performer sitting on stage facing a laptop. The room is dark, lit with blue light and patches of rainbow abstract projections. There are white dots on the back walls reflecting from a disco ball. The performers face is lit up, they are wearing glasses and their hands are on the table.]
Color image of a performer sitting on stage in front of a table with a laptop and audio equipment. They are leaning forward, using both hands on the machine. The laptop on the table shows live audio tracks, with bars of various colors. The room is dark and the audience is out of focus in the background. White dots of light fill the room.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer sitting on stage in front of a table with a laptop and audio equipment. They are leaning forward, using both hands on the machine. The laptop on the table shows live audio tracks, with bars of various colors. The room is dark and the audience is out of focus in the background. White dots of light fill the room.]
Close-up color image of a persons hands on a red audio mixing device. Various blue and red cords stick out of the machine. A camera on a tripod sits on top of the machine. The background is blurred, with a few audience members visible. The scene is lit with soft pink light.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color image of a persons hands on a red audio mixing device. Various blue and red cords stick out of the machine. A camera on a tripod sits on top of the machine. The background is blurred, with a few audience members visible. The scene is lit with soft pink light.]
Color image of a performer on stage holding a microphone close to their mouth. They are holding a drum stick in one hand, standing next to a cymbal and a drum set on a stand. They are bathed in red and pink light, and the background is lit with blue, red, and purple light. Small white dots of light from a disco ball fill the room.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage holding a microphone close to their mouth. They are holding a drum stick in one hand, standing next to a cymbal and a drum set on a stand. They are bathed in red and pink light, and the background is lit with blue, red, and purple light. Small white dots of light from a disco ball fill the room.]
Color image of two performers on stage standing next to each other. The performer on the right is holding a microphone close to their mouth as they touch an audio board. The performer on the left is holding a microphone with both arms in the air, looking down at the board. There are drums to the sides of both performers. The scene is lit with soft pink and green light.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on stage standing next to each other. The performer on the right is holding a microphone close to their mouth as they touch an audio board. The performer on the left is holding a microphone with both arms in the air, looking down at the board. There are drums to the sides of both performers. The scene is lit with soft pink and green light.]
Color image of two performers on standing on stage. The performer in the foreground is lit with pink light. They are holding their arm out touching a cymbal with a red drum stock in hand. They are looking down with their eyes closed. The performer in the background is out of focus, they are bathed in blue light. Drums surround the stage. A seated audience is out of focus in the background. The back wall features two projections, one is an abstract arrangement of shades of blue. The other has sharp geometric shapes in red, green, and yellow.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on standing on stage. The performer in the foreground is lit with pink light. They are holding their arm out touching a cymbal with a red drum stock in hand. They are looking down with their eyes closed. The performer in the background is out of focus, they are bathed in blue light. Drums surround the stage. A seated audience is out of focus in the background. The back wall features two projections, one is an abstract arrangement of shades of blue. The other has sharp geometric shapes in red, green, and yellow.]
Color image of two performers on standing on stage. They are both looking to the side with microphones close to their mouths. They are surrounded by drums, cymbals, and a audio board on a table. The wall behind the performers is decorated with an abstract orange, blue, and pink projection, which also covers the performers. Multiple rows of seated audience members are visible in the foreground.
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on standing on stage. They are both looking to the side with microphones close to their mouths. They are surrounded by drums, cymbals, and a audio board on a table. The wall behind the performers is decorated with an abstract orange, blue, and pink projection, which also covers the performers. Multiple rows of seated audience members are visible in the foreground.]

I.U.D. is the percussion duo of Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) and Sadie Laska (Growing, Extreme Violence) who infuse industrial noise with abrasive screams and inventive drum work. Called “minimal, contagious noise" (Artforum), their album, The Proper Sex has gained cult status in the New York noise scene. During the 15 years they have been performing, I.U.D has traversed DIY venues and several continents. Notable performances include: Performance Space NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunsthalle Zurich, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. They have collaborated with Kim Gordon and Spencer Sweeney and have shared bills with OOIOO and The Royal Trux.

Eucademix is the moniker of Yuka Honda, a producer, composer, performer, and visual artist renowned for her innovative, genre-defying approach to music and multimedia. Through her compositions and self-crafted video art, Honda seeks to transport audiences and expand the possibilities of sound and visual expression. Born in Tokyo, Honda spent her formative years in Germany and Denmark before later living in Aix-en-Provence and Paris. These cultural experiences deeply inform her sonic explorations, resulting in a distinct and boundary-pushing body of work. Recently, Honda has continued to explore new creative directions with her two-part EP series Farm Psychedelia I and Farm Psychedelia II, released under the Eucademix moniker. Alongside her solo work, she collaborates in the duo CUP with her husband, guitarist Nels Cline, blending poetic lyrics with experimental soundscapes. She also performs in Mycorrhiza, a project with multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (of Boredoms and OOIOO), exploring vibrant, improvisational music that reflects their deep creative synergy. Find out more at www.yukahonda.com.

Dave Miko: New York City vocalist

Mark Ohe has been involved in music since his childhood in the 1960s, playing String Bass in his grade and high school orchestras and being captivated by his parents hi-fi system and LP records at their home in the far western suburbs of Chicago. The first 7-inch he remembers buying was Santana’s (not Fleetwood Mac’s, sadly), “Black Magic Woman” in 1970 and first LP, T-Rex’s, “Electric Warrior” in the fall of 1971. With this solid foundation his record collection has had absolutely no problem growing by leaps and bounds for the past fifty years. A short employment at Wax Trax Records in the early 1980s, followed by a few years of graphic design work for Lydia Lunch’s Widowspeak Productions, and later as Art Director at Matador Records from 1992 - 2009, greatly facilitated further record collecting. Extended stays in Europe, during the 1980s in Berlin and later Düsseldorf in particular, brought his attention to German Progressive, Geniale Diletanten, Neue Deutsche Welle and eventually German avant club music. His live DJ resume is thin, but he did time as a radio DJ at WZRD and Antidote Radio on WVVX in the 1980s and occasionally spun at NY’s Cat Club in the 1990s. This will be his, and partner Pia Dehne’s, Abasement debut.

Pia Dehne grew up in Düsseldorf and was part of the punk and new wave scene at the city’s Ratinger Hof club in the 1980s. Mittagspause, Fehlfarben, D.A.F., Die Krupps, Der Plan, Liaisons Dangereuse and Kraftwerk were among her friends and favorite bands during those years. The first record she bought with her own pocket money as a 10 year old girl was George McCrae’s dancefloor hit, “Rock Your Baby” in 1974. As a teen Pia explored music by playing guitar and cello after being inspired by the Public Image album, The Flowers of Romance. Her focus then shifted, realizing that her skills for expression were more in the visual arts. Yet the exploration of musical ideas has continued to spiral through Pia’s art in many projects over the last 30 years, such as her first solo show Naked City, based on Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’ album at Deitch Projects, and her recent solo show of paintings inspired by Brian Eno’s ‘Oblique Strategies’ cards, currently on view, at IS-Gallery in Tribeca.

Working primarily with video synthesizers and bygone broadcast equipment, Cable Visions explores the chaotic and colorful nature hidden in feedback loops and anachronistically analog signal paths.

Bradley Eros, as always, (since the very beginning of Abasement (.001), 77+ months, or sessions, ago) will project their "hand-made" analog slides, and/or film ~ all night long! *** "eau de cinema", 'musique plastique', "philosophical jaywalker", "Eros C'est L'amour!"

Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015.

Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Stephen Cheng, Allan Schwartzman, and David Zwirner.