{"id":7717,"date":"2011-10-24T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2011-10-26T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T03:18:24","slug":"the-interrogation-room-gunz-girlz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/10\/24\/the-interrogation-room-gunz-girlz\/","title":{"rendered":"~the Interrogation Room, GUNZ & GIRLZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘QUIET: WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – ROUGH CUT SCREENING, WHITE BOX – OCT 21, 2011 – PART 2
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\na young(er) ALFREDO MARTINEZ ran the shooting gallery art installation at ‘QUIET’.
\nit was the most popular exhibit there. mostly because it was interactive. you, meaning anybody – could come shoot big guns, under professional conditions . . . I mean even, or esp in New York City – how many ordinary city folk, incl hipsters get to . . . really play with guns.
\neverybody jumped at the chance. and I mean everybody, but esp (stylish) girls.<\/p>\n

Alfredo’s self-enclosed plexiglas bullet-proof enclosure was super too. very futuristic. Alfredo designed it himself.
\nit cost him well over $60,000 to build. year 2000 dollars. not including the salaries for the licensed professional film prop weapons specialists, who were there 24\/7 – as required by city ordinance.
\n(there’s some funny back & forth in the film about that, as well. the film production laws in this almost tinsel town.)<\/p>\n

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\nvideo artist FEEDBUCK conferring with Josh – in the early stages of the installation.
\ninsider’s will catch – a really funny sequence in this edit, about the so-called budget.
\nFEEDBUCK, the Pseudo resident video artist – is shown chuckling . . . over that.
\nhe says something like: “Josh had made a budget for the party, I think he spent the entire budget – the very first day” !!<\/p>\n

meaning after that, it was just one big free fall. money-wise too. outta-control.
\nI remember Josh’s most frequent question throughout the entire 2 weeks: “anybody see my credit card ?
\nI can’t remember who I last gave it to.” famous last words.<\/p>\n

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\nwhat is it about guns ? that make them such a babe magnet ?<\/p>\n

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\nthe chicks just lined up . . . to play with those big guns.<\/p>\n

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\ngirlz and gunz.<\/p>\n

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\nmore girlz with gunz. it was the never-ending story.<\/p>\n

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\neven Josh, of course . . . got into the gun game. nothing like being around big guns, to make you look – just like a FED !!
\nyou can just start to make out Alfredo’s futuristic $60,000 ‘shooting’ gallery – behind him.
\nnote: Year 2000 $$<\/p>\n

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\nthis is what it looked like, inside. just one small section – lottsa guns. and big ones.
\nplus, note that FOX TV logo – yep, we made a big splash – on the local media. the Millennium, how could we not. we were the biggest, and baddest thing happening – in the entire Big Apple – at the turn of this century.
\nthink on – that. <\/p>\n

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\nthe Interrogation Room.
\non the left, the interrogator, and he did a great job of terrorizing everybody: that was ASHKAN SAHIHI.
\nhe was so for real. he could go work for KHADAFY – if Khadafy hadn’t just been taken down by a Yankee fan.<\/p>\n

it didn’t help that the interrogation room was right next to the shooting gallery. even though it was soundproof – in the middle of being interrogated \/ terrorized – every now and then, a big gun would blast out. and the poor jerk under scrutiny – would jump. I mean, who really knew what Josh was capable of ?<\/p>\n

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\nyep, they did indeedy catch a big gun blast – ‘jumper’. . . in the rough cut. it’s in the next frame.<\/p>\n

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\nR.I.P.
\nJUDGECAL. aka CAL. he ran the video game consoles next to the Interrogation Room. he also ran the local Vampire branch. for real. he threw the best flat-out party, of the entire 2 weeks, the very nite before New Year’s Eve – it was absolutely and fabulously wild, ritualistic . . . and everybody had fangs. when he passed away a year or two ago, under suspicious circumstances, his friends spread his ashes on the famous Pseudo door – at the SE corner of Broadway and Houston. <\/p>\n

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\nR.I.P.
\nMARK ENGER. he’s the dude who silk screened the red or blue concentric ‘target’ circles on the uniforms of the chosen few. kind of like the anti-army hierarchy.
\nyeah, I had many ‘targets’ silk screened on mine.
\nMark Enger is the guy who got the huge ‘Drunken Cowboy’ cameo – in the finished documentary. <\/p>\n

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\nMark had big ‘targets’ for the back of the shirts, and smaller scale ones – for the sleeves and fronts. <\/p>\n

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\nJOSH often walked around, and M.C.d as his alter ego: LUVVY . . . the clown ? the bad clown ? how about the last man standing ?
\nit was an escape from the C.E.O. label, but also it was an easier and more effective way to encourage (way) bad behavior.
\njust compare Luvvy to Josh the Fed, a few frames above, and Josh the internet C.E.O. (previous post) below. get it ?<\/p>\n

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\nLuvvy’s shinning moment was when he got to judge the live sex act competition. between a straight couple,
\na lesbian couple and a gay couple. the straight couple won, but the lesbo bed crew elicited one of the biggest laugh-out-loud moments in the rough cut. When the official competition monitor, a tough lady moderator type, who was helping out Luvvy, went to sit on their bed to chat them up, she immediately jumps back up, exclaiming: “it’s wet !!”
\nthat was Luvvy in a nutshell.<\/p>\n

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\nwe get to see ALEX ARCADIA, whinning about Josh, having trampled the “purity” of his installation. even though as an individual artist – he scored the biggest budget . . . <\/p>\n

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\nfor his over-the-top sci fi temple . . . more fascist than Buddhist, truth be told, it was a temple to . . . what else ? Alex Arcadia, himself – with a capital A. it even had live goldfish, the big ones, carp as they are known at that point, swimming in the when finished water-filled moat !!<\/p>\n

even though Josh paid and paid handsomely for the honor of allowing Arcadia to build a temple in honor of himself. Arcadia is seen in the film, grumbling, and burning, apparently to no avail, sage to re-purify his temple, after Josh had trampled on its “sanctity” – by using it as a ‘new age’ speech podium . . . trust me, it was an almost Star Trek moment.
\np.s. the reported budget on the Arcadia temple installation was $80,000. those were<\/em> the fab golden dot.com days. <\/p>\n

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\nthe best Star Trek moment – of the party.
\nQUIET – be careful what you wish for. it’s closer than you think. <\/p>\n

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\nphotographer ASHKAN SAHIHI, currently based in London and New York – who played – the notorious and chilling – ‘QUIET: WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ interrogator, is alive and well . . . and showed up – at the Oct 21, 2011 WHITE BOX screening.<\/p>\n

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\non the right: the notorious performance artist – PATRICK BUCKLEW – aka – MANGINA !!<\/strong>
\nalso alive and well, he also made the WHITE BOX rough cut screening this past weekend, with his companion, Sprout.
\nlike I said: QUIET<\/strong>, be careful what you wish for . . . <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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