ABC No Rio 45 Years
@abcnorio45years.bsky.social
In April of 2025, ABC No Rio celebrates 45 years of existence on NYC's Lower East Side with an exhibition of its history at the Emily Harvey Fndtn in Soho.
This Bluesky account will record the progress of that project.
Expo site - https://abcnorio45.org/
This Bluesky account will record the progress of that project.
Expo site - https://abcnorio45.org/
John Fekner sends this image of ABC No Rio in November of 1980, taken from the adjoining rooftop. It illustrates his work for the "Animals Living in Cities" exhibition, a street graffiti -- "This concrete separates the earth from the animals"
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
John Fekner sends this image of ABC No Rio in November of 1980, taken from the adjoining rooftop. It illustrates his work for the "Animals Living in Cities" exhibition, a street graffiti -- "This concrete separates the earth from the animals"
Big talk event -- Friday, April 18th
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Big talk event -- Friday, April 18th
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
Fly and Open Mic organizer and street artist Matthew Courtney at our "soft opening" Friday. The show is up and spectacularly open -- see @abcnorio45.org for event dates and gallery hours
April 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Fly and Open Mic organizer and street artist Matthew Courtney at our "soft opening" Friday. The show is up and spectacularly open -- see @abcnorio45.org for event dates and gallery hours
Squeezing Seth Tobocman's monumental painting construction recalling the squatter movement into the door for "ABC No Rio 45 Years". Soft opening the day of the big demo, April 5th, 12noon to 7pm. Drop by after the march!
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Squeezing Seth Tobocman's monumental painting construction recalling the squatter movement into the door for "ABC No Rio 45 Years". Soft opening the day of the big demo, April 5th, 12noon to 7pm. Drop by after the march!
Reclaiming Spaces in the South Bronx / A walking tour for Bronxites: Lisa Ortega & Nicolás
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
March 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reclaiming Spaces in the South Bronx / A walking tour for Bronxites: Lisa Ortega & Nicolás
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
EiLeen Doster: "I think of bands, poetry, print shop, hanging out with Ginsberg and Fly... I used to volunteer for Food Not Bombs and get unsold produce from the Union Square Farmers Market and push it to Tompkins on this big ass trolley that belonged to the Yippies. "
March 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
EiLeen Doster: "I think of bands, poetry, print shop, hanging out with Ginsberg and Fly... I used to volunteer for Food Not Bombs and get unsold produce from the Union Square Farmers Market and push it to Tompkins on this big ass trolley that belonged to the Yippies. "
The ABCNoRio45 Years project's cybernetics officer facing nature in an undisclosed location in the Caribbean.
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The ABCNoRio45 Years project's cybernetics officer facing nature in an undisclosed location in the Caribbean.
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
We'll have John Fekner t-shirts (a 2023 re-issue of a classic 1982 design) available at the @ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Snag one and support No Rio.
March 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We'll have John Fekner t-shirts (a 2023 re-issue of a classic 1982 design) available at the @ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Snag one and support No Rio.
Remembering the anti-nuclear mural John Fekner and John "Crash" Matos collaborated on around the corner from ABC No Rio in 1981. It was on an abandoned building. Within weeks the City knocked it down. (Photo: Lisa Kahane)
johnfekner.com/feknerArchiv...
johnfekner.com/feknerArchiv...
March 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Remembering the anti-nuclear mural John Fekner and John "Crash" Matos collaborated on around the corner from ABC No Rio in 1981. It was on an abandoned building. Within weeks the City knocked it down. (Photo: Lisa Kahane)
johnfekner.com/feknerArchiv...
johnfekner.com/feknerArchiv...
Mail art continues to flow in for the April exposition "ABC No Rio 45 Years". See it at our Flickr site - www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Mail art continues to flow in for the April exposition "ABC No Rio 45 Years". See it at our Flickr site - www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
A screenshot of ABC meeting during Artists Call days, 1983. Alan, Becky, Feliz Perez, and Maria Acosta. The other guy I don't recognize. The video? So much stuff is coming out of the woodwork now.....
March 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A screenshot of ABC meeting during Artists Call days, 1983. Alan, Becky, Feliz Perez, and Maria Acosta. The other guy I don't recognize. The video? So much stuff is coming out of the woodwork now.....
Still time to get your mail art in for #ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Send to – ABC NO RIO 45, 123 Scribner Avenue, Staten Island, NY USA. Please include email address to confirm receipt. Questions? abcnorio45@yahoo.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Still time to get your mail art in for #ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Send to – ABC NO RIO 45, 123 Scribner Avenue, Staten Island, NY USA. Please include email address to confirm receipt. Questions? abcnorio45@yahoo.com
A blog post for the "ABC No Rio 45 Years" project -- "A walk in Loisaida". Several years ago when some old comrades were still with us. This post concentrates on the Latinx coordinates of the #ABCNoRio45 project -- the inspiration of the Young Lords and the thunder of Nuyorican poets.
March 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A blog post for the "ABC No Rio 45 Years" project -- "A walk in Loisaida". Several years ago when some old comrades were still with us. This post concentrates on the Latinx coordinates of the #ABCNoRio45 project -- the inspiration of the Young Lords and the thunder of Nuyorican poets.
Our event got into the famous Slingshot collective's newsletter.... Hoping to get some letters from the follks in the big broad land before 47 shuts down the USPS.
slingshotcollective.org/a12-call-for...
slingshotcollective.org/a12-call-for...
March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our event got into the famous Slingshot collective's newsletter.... Hoping to get some letters from the follks in the big broad land before 47 shuts down the USPS.
slingshotcollective.org/a12-call-for...
slingshotcollective.org/a12-call-for...
Mail art has started to come in for #ABCNoRio45Years show in April at the Emily Harvey Foundation....
Images of the pieces are being posted on Flickr.
Here's one from Karen Musgrave....
www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
Images of the pieces are being posted on Flickr.
Here's one from Karen Musgrave....
www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
March 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Mail art has started to come in for #ABCNoRio45Years show in April at the Emily Harvey Foundation....
Images of the pieces are being posted on Flickr.
Here's one from Karen Musgrave....
www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
Images of the pieces are being posted on Flickr.
Here's one from Karen Musgrave....
www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
Put work in, buy work off the line... always a great event. For further information about the Clothesline Show please contact Gavin at gavin@abcnorio.org
February 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Put work in, buy work off the line... always a great event. For further information about the Clothesline Show please contact Gavin at gavin@abcnorio.org
“Too Much Death”
4th fourth post on process of prep'g the “ABC No Rio 45 Years” for this April of ‘25. Problems technical, organiz'l and, finally, emotional. Deaths have shaken our metaphysical building even as the physical one re-emerges apace.
#ABCNoRio45Years
artgangs.blogspot.com/2025/02/too-...
4th fourth post on process of prep'g the “ABC No Rio 45 Years” for this April of ‘25. Problems technical, organiz'l and, finally, emotional. Deaths have shaken our metaphysical building even as the physical one re-emerges apace.
#ABCNoRio45Years
artgangs.blogspot.com/2025/02/too-...
February 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Too Much Death”
4th fourth post on process of prep'g the “ABC No Rio 45 Years” for this April of ‘25. Problems technical, organiz'l and, finally, emotional. Deaths have shaken our metaphysical building even as the physical one re-emerges apace.
#ABCNoRio45Years
artgangs.blogspot.com/2025/02/too-...
4th fourth post on process of prep'g the “ABC No Rio 45 Years” for this April of ‘25. Problems technical, organiz'l and, finally, emotional. Deaths have shaken our metaphysical building even as the physical one re-emerges apace.
#ABCNoRio45Years
artgangs.blogspot.com/2025/02/too-...
We gonna have to talk about this, and deal with it. Artists are all in.
February 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We gonna have to talk about this, and deal with it. Artists are all in.
"Sarr articulates a concept of the archive that goes beyond what he calls the fear of oblivion, based on a cyclical conception of time...."
www.afterall.org/articles/the...
www.afterall.org/articles/the...
February 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
"Sarr articulates a concept of the archive that goes beyond what he calls the fear of oblivion, based on a cyclical conception of time...."
www.afterall.org/articles/the...
www.afterall.org/articles/the...
February 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The South wall of the "ABC No Rio 45 Years" expo install might look something like this....
February 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The South wall of the "ABC No Rio 45 Years" expo install might look something like this....
via @FreddyAlva, who passes 156 Rivington St
Foundation has been laid, steel rafters & basement roof next!""
Foundation has been laid, steel rafters & basement roof next!""
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
via @FreddyAlva, who passes 156 Rivington St
Foundation has been laid, steel rafters & basement roof next!""
Foundation has been laid, steel rafters & basement roof next!""
@abcnoriopunkhc
ABC No Rio is making a comeback. First return show at the Bridge and Tunnel Brewery in Ridgewood
See you there
ABC No Rio is making a comeback. First return show at the Bridge and Tunnel Brewery in Ridgewood
See you there
February 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
@abcnoriopunkhc
ABC No Rio is making a comeback. First return show at the Bridge and Tunnel Brewery in Ridgewood
See you there
ABC No Rio is making a comeback. First return show at the Bridge and Tunnel Brewery in Ridgewood
See you there