Rocco DeLuca performs with his 1931 National guitar at the AUTRE ISSUE 002 release party at Dilettante in Los Angeles. DeLuca’s album Drugs N’ Hymns album, which dropped last week, is definitely one of those best of a decade kind of records – its that incredible. Pick it up here and read our interview with DeLuca in our current issue. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Rocco DeLuca performs an electrifying set at the AUTRE ISSUE 002 release party in Los Angeles. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Adarsha Benjamin & Nana from Ghana at the AUTRE ISSUE 002 release party at Diletantte in Los Angeles. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
LA mystic Brent Pearson with his invention “Future Eyes” which allows you to see the future in multidimensions at the AUTRE ISSUE 002 release party at Diletantte in Los Angeles. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
AJ Jackson enjoying AUTRE ISSUE 002 at the launch party in Los Angeles, graciously hosted by Dilettante. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Aska & Guy Blakeslee (The Entrance Band) perform a magical, psychedelic set at the AUTRE ISSUE 002 launch party at Dilettante in Los Angeles. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Fashionable guests enjoying a smoke outside of Dilettante in Downtown Los Angeles at the AUTRE ISSUE 002 Launch Party. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
photograph by Amanda Charchian who is featured in AUTRE ISSUE 002 and will be exhibiting at the launch party tonight at Dilettante in Los Angeles….
Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course with the conventions of American society. Transcending all moral or aesthetic boundaries, the low budget films reveal social hardship met with sociopolitical indifference. Sometimes shot with stolen camera equipment, the films contain strident analyses of life in the Lower East Side defined by criminality, brutality, drugs, AIDS, sex, and excess. On view at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, until April 9, is the first exhibition on the Cinema of Transgression.
