IN FLAGRANTI x AYAKAMAY NIGHT! 

In Flagranti is back with a concept called HOTFOOT presenting energetic DJ sets done with 7” vinyl singles from their vast collection spanning from the 1960s until now. Their first release features New York performing artist Ayakamay and will be released at their performance music event on April 26th, 2018. This music video was made by Ayakamay and projects the distance between gender, money, and the nurtural perspective point of view of being the subject and reflecting the parallel world in a minimal setting. This video is the censored version and includes the director’s commentary featuring Sam Roberts and Mike Brocchetti from the Jim Norton and Sam Roberts Show on Sirius XM. The uncensored version is on Vimeo and can be viewed by clicking here.

Ayakamay is happy to announce her first kick-off performance of 2018 at Ideal Glass on Thursday, April 26th.
The music event will feature a special solo performance of Ayakamay and live performance with international DJ sensation unit Alex Gloor & Sasa Crnobrnja of In Flagranti to celebrate her records “Kachi Kachi” and “MAKE MAKE, YOU LOSE YOU LOSE” featuring In Flagranti.

April 26th THU
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
Special Performance by Willard Morgan: 7:30 PM
Ayakamay: 8:15 PM
Ayakamy x In Flagranti : 9:00 PM

@ IDEAL GLASS
22 East 2nd street, NYC

RSVP: info@ayakamay.com

Ayakamay represents HOTEL KAMIKAZE
May 12th Fri – June 4th Sun, 2017

◆Opening Reception:
5/12 Fri 6pm – 9pm

◆Performance:
5/19 Fri 6pm – 9pm
(DSC Annex)

DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary is proud to present HOTEL KAMIKAZE, an exhibition by Ayakamay, opening May 12th, 2017 and on view through June 4th, 2017, in the DSC Project Space, with a featured perfomance in the DSC Annex on May 19th.

After World War II the word “Kamikaze” became synonymous with Japanese suicide pilots and filled Americans with anger and hate.

The traditional meaning of “Kami Kaze” is a completely different and a positive one. “Kami Kaze” is sacred figure of the Divine Wind an ethereal being, a deity whose breath and wind creates energy that moves weathervanes, fans and flags, birds and insects, a positive deity creating a temporal freedom for all touched by this spirit.

Ayakamay’s installation in Hotel Kamikaze creates eternal temporary non-space: a comfortable place to address this still-present discomfort in the common past between East and West, between Japan and the United States. This sacred wind, still trapped, threatens to be caught in the lightness of the air like a cloud or a mirror that shows us how difficult it is to find commonalities when we hold onto our preconceptions and cannot reconcile our histories.

Ayakamay will present a stand-alone long-duration performance in the DSC Annex on the evening of Friday, May 19th. The artist invites us to penetrate this singular hotel, a place dyed to a certain redness between the sanguine and the carnal, an unsettling surface that we see crossing the planes of image and the space, a red that seduces and deceives us with its violent passivity that emulates our voyeurism making us blind to what is secreted in the being of things.

DAVID&SCHWEITZER CONTEMPORARY
56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Photo by Ventiko

Performed by Ayakamay
“Happy Birthday, Seriously, America. 2016”
at Ideal Glass, NYC, U.S.A.
May 7th, 2016

Thank you for coming and also be part of the performance piece, “Happy Birthday, seriously, America. 2016” at the Quiet Lunch magazine launch party at Ideal Glass.
I had a great time celebrating the Quiet Lunch magazine cover with all of you.
I’m very proud of my team who work very very hard to keep Ayakamay running, and thank you to the Quiet Lunch magazine crew for this great opportunity, I appreciate this very depply, and also so grateful for these chances to get to meet all of you with full of love.
Thank you so much and ARIGATO BIG TIME!!

Kisses,

Ayakamay

Ayakamay would like to thank you for your support and friendship to make the year 2015 an exciting year. We look forward to share another exciting journey to explore more of Ayakamay world in 2016 with you!

We will kick start with her first solo show “GENDERLESS” at Prince Street Project Space of Leslie Lohman Museum. Join us Ayakamay’s first performance in 2016 at the opening on February 4, 6:00PM to 8:00PM.

HOURS:
OPENING RECEPTION and Ayakamay Performance
THU Feb 4th 2016
6:00PM – 8:00PM

Exhibition and Performance Installation
FRI Feb 5th till TUE Feb 9th 2016
12:00PM – 6:00PM

LOCATION:
Prince St. Project Space
127-B Prince St
New York, NY 10012
(At Prince St & Wooster St)

Programming administered by:

15 OCT – BO NINGEN – NO BRA – CLASS WAR – AYAKAMAY
16 OCT – WILD DAUGHTER – LUIS DRAYTON – WINNIE THE POOF – EYESHADOWS

Two nights of live music and performance celebrating the best of the East London Underground scene to coincide with Frieze week October Thurs15th 7pm till 2am & Friday 16th 7pm till 2am 2015.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
SEXOTHEQUE DJS – SUE WEBSTER – HANNA HANRA – HELEN BULLOCK – JOHN BOOTH – ANNE MCCLOY – SOMEPRODUCT

IOU is a collaboration between Beat magazine, Sue Webster, Anne McCloy and RED Gallery. Over two nights in the Red Gallery basement and Arts Club, major players from within the East London scene who work both locally and internationally will join forces in an experiment in underground sound. The programme will be as diverse as the performers and include cross gender alternative cabaret hardcore, multifarious universal cross-cosmopolitan artists, loud loud noise and artwork visuals.

Experimentation in the alternative is to be encouraged. Audience and performer as one.

BEAT magazine is an East London based music magazine. BEAT magazine is THE music teacher that you need in your life. It covers just about everything. Its really really Cool. : The Beat Juice website

Sue Webster is an internationally renowned and exhibited artist and Editor at Lunch at BEAT. She has collaborated with many music artists including PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Bo Ningen and S.C.U.M. Her work is collected by JAYZ and Beyonce : Sue Webster website

Anne McCloy aka Some Product is a multidisciplinary artist working in the visual and multi-media arts, design and performance: Anne McCloy website

Inside Outside Underground
TICKETS HERE

Red Gallery event page HERE

Red Gallery 1-3 Rivington Street, London