{"id":6874,"date":"2011-09-18T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2015-08-01T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T17:36:01","slug":"sergej-vutuc-lele-live-from-usaopening-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/09\/18\/sergej-vutuc-lele-live-from-usaopening-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"~SERGEJ VUTUC & LELE LIVE FROM USA\/OPENING PIX !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nfrom left: photographer SERGEJ VUTUC, with 2 pals: photographer LARS GREIWE, originally from Germany, now Barcelona-based. and DAVID COULIAU, a French documentary photographer currently working on a project in NYC.
\nSERGEJ VUTUC was born in Bosnia, lived in Croatia, the area we know as the Balkans, and currently resides in Germany.<\/p>\n

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\nLELE (LEON ZUODAR). LELE hails from Slovenia. also part of the Balkans.<\/p>\n

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\nalso from SLOVENIA: MIHA – LELE’S longtime – painting partner.<\/p>\n

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\nat first me and Lars and David – tried to score fish tacos – at the ROCKAWAY FISH TACO joint – but it was too late – but there was still some action . . . <\/p>\n

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\non the ad hoc – skate ‘park’ !! <\/p>\n

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\nwe finally settled on burgers – on the Rockaway boardwalk steps – looking out towards the ocean !!
\nDAVID COULIAU and LARS GREIWE – were fun . . . small world I actually meet them on the way over. can you believe – sitting directly opposite to me – on that damn A train. what are the odds on that. I had them pegged for the event, Lars had a skateboard and looked pro. I was determined to remain NYC cool – but when they started talking to each other in heavy accents, (sorry dudes. it’s true, but it was total charming) – I did actually say: are you on the way to ELK ? and, Lordy, the answer was: yes.
\nso I got to hear so much about their scene . . . LARS had just completed a month long skateboard jaunt across the USA – while David is a cameraman\/photog with wonderful tales of Paris, told with the flourish – only a documentary photographer could sketch out. He is currently up in Harlem – working with his brother on a documentary about street basketball culture – in NYC.
\nDavid had seen Ondi Timoner’s first Sundance winner – DIG! – while Lars had heard tell of WE LIVE In PUBLIC.<\/p>\n

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\nyeah, the venue was the real deal. raw raw and more raw. <\/p>\n

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\nJOCKO WEYLAND. writer, curator, zine publisher. and the founder of ELK GALLERY – which started off as a zine-based project. and . . . the driving force behind the Rockaway show.<\/p>\n

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\nrock, rock, Rockaway . . . <\/p>\n

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\nclassic, SERGEJ VUTUC . . . <\/p>\n

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\nSERGEJ VUTUC . . . <\/p>\n

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\nphotos by SERGEJ VUTUC – words not necessary.<\/p>\n

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\nthough this one seemed really ironic – reason why: don’t know. it just rocks.
\nSERGEJ VUTUC.<\/p>\n

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\nLELE’S corner . . .<\/p>\n

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\nLELE . . . <\/p>\n

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\nLELE . . .<\/p>\n

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\nLELE . . .<\/p>\n

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\nLELE . . .<\/p>\n

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\nok, one more. LELE . . . <\/p>\n

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\nchecking out the show . . . <\/p>\n

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\nwaiting for the band . . . <\/p>\n

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\nwhich turned out to be the hard driving . . . DIRTY FENCES.<\/p>\n

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\nthe DIRTY FENCES . . . Ramones inspired.<\/p>\n

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\nDIRTY FENCES, frontman JOHN JACKSON DAVES, center with mike . . with Max. Max and Max. <\/p>\n

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\nDIRTY FENCES . . .<\/p>\n

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\nMax – their drummer and also a singer. DIRTY FENCES.<\/p>\n

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\nit was a big guy thing – and, yeah. they got down and rowdy to the music.<\/p>\n

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\nup a short flight of stairs – there was a zine wall – of SERGEJ VUTUC publications – to be sampled.
\non the left: that’s photographer\/zine maker PHIL JACKSON, out of Philly in the cape – who I heard is pretty good. with friend Lee.
\nsee: PHIL JACKSON PHOTOGRAPHY<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSERGEJ VUTUC on the right . . nothing like having the author\/photog on hand. or what.<\/p>\n

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\nskateboard focused zine – by SERGEJ VUTUC.<\/p>\n

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\nbeautiful. SERGEJ VUTUC . . . <\/p>\n

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\nleft: NAOMI. on the right: ELANA LANGER.
\nI saw Elana’s work back in 2005 or so – she did that great great set-up. . . ‘animated’ desk accessories.
\nat that ‘art at work’ show. <\/p>\n

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\nDAVID SELIG of Rockaway Tacos – and one of the reasons why the Rockaways – rock. <\/p>\n

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\nAMANDA McDONALD CROWLEY, executive director of Soho’s Eyebeam Gallery & Project space . . . <\/p>\n

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\nSTEFANI BARDIN, currently an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam . . . <\/p>\n

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\non the long way back. LARS GREIWE . . . on the shuttle bus.
\nmiles and miles of new construction look-alike suburbs all around – really, unbelievable.
\nwe were all wondering: what the hell was there, before ?<\/p>\n

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\nI guess Lars hit New Orleans on his month-long U.S.A. skate jaunt . . .<\/p>\n

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\nwe’ll give him . . . the last word:
\nLIFE ITSELF IS STILL BEAUTIFUL.
\namen.<\/p>\n

all in all – a real nice night.
\neven the traveling – was fun . . . so fun to be a tourist – in your own hometown !! <\/p>\n

ALL PHOTOS BY – AND COPYRIGHT OF: NANCY SMITH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from left: photographer SERGEJ VUTUC, with 2 pals: photographer LARS GREIWE, originally from Germany, now Barcelona-based. and DAVID COULIAU, a French documentary photographer currently working on a project in NYC. SERGEJ VUTUC was born in Bosnia, lived in Croatia, the area we know as the Balkans, and currently resides in Germany. LELE (LEON ZUODAR). LELE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26131,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/26131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}