City Primeval: New York, Berlin, Prague (Litteraria Pragensia)

CITY PRIMEVAL: NEW YORK, BERLIN PRAGUE is an anthology of undergrounds writing, art, film & photography that traces a cultural migration across three cities, from the defining historical moments of New York Post-Punk & No Wave, to the fall of the Berlin Wall & Reunification, to the Velvet Revolution & the Prague Renaissance. Assembled in this volume are personal documentaries of place & time by key protagonists of that era – writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, artists & performers of the New York, Berlin & Prague underground scenes, from the late 1970s to the present – including Bruno Adams, Penny Arcade, Louis Armand, Dale Ashmun, J.Jackie Baier, Markéta Baňková, Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer, Lina Bertucci, Gaby Bíla-Günther, Mykel Board, Victor Bockris, Christoph Brandl, Gary Ray Bugarcic, Robert Carrithers, David Černý, Roman Černý, Michal Cihlář, Antonio Cossa, William Coupon, Max Dax, Christoph Dreher, Sara Driver, Glen Emery, Vincent Farnsworth, Nat Finkelstein, Roxanne Fontana, Thor Garcia, Susanne Glück, Carola Goellner, Anthony Haden Guest, Carl Haber, Jere Harshman, Henry Hills, Nhoah Hoena, Michael Holman, John Hood, Chris Hughes, Jolana Izbická, Timo Jacobs, Bethany Eden Jacobson, Tobiáš Jirous, Bettina Köster, Julius Klein, Hubert Ketzschmar, Jaromír Lelek, Lydia Lunch, Rinat Magsumov, Peter Milne, Steve Morell, Mona Mur, Julia Murakami, Shalom Neuman, Paul Pacey, Puma Perl, Rudolf Piper, Rudi Protrudi, Mark Reeder, Marcia Resnick, Ingrid Rudefors, Ilse Ruppert, Šimon Šafránek, Honza Sakař, Oliver Schütz, Marcia Schofield, Tom Scully, Semra Sevin, Phil Shoenfelt, Peter Smith, Azalea So Sweet, Mark Steiner, Kenton Turk, Andre Werner, Ian Wright, Nick Zedd, Dave Zijlstra, Richard & Winter Zoli, Miron Zownir. ABOUT THE CURATORS Robert Carrithers is a Pague-based curator, photographer, video artist, filmmaker, silkscreen artist & painter who has also spent many years working in Berlin & New York, specializing in revealing portraits of unique personalities. “I seek out these people & do my best to capture them in photographs & to work with them in some way.” His photographs have been exhibited internationally. www.robertcarrithers.com Louis Armand is the author of novels including The Combinations (2016) & Breakfast at Midnight (2012) & of the poetry collections East Broadway Rundown (2015) & The Rube Goldberg Variations (2015), as well as Videology (2015) & The Organ-Grinder’s Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013). He edits VLAK magazine & lives in Prague. www.louis-armand.com www.litterariapragensia.com Read more