“BOY” is the first solo exhibition by Cody Critcheloe, lead singer and mastermind of the punk-/performance-/art band SSION (pronounced “shun”), which he founded as 16-year-old boy from Kansas. It is shown at Peres Projects Berlin and opens on Saturday, presenting Critcheloe’s first feature-length film with the same title. Following the press release of PP, the film brings together nine jointly conceived music videos SSION have recorded for their record Fool’s Gold from 2007. Both the film and the exhibition have already been presented at Peres Projects L.A. and Grand Arts, a non-profit art project space in Critcheloe’s home town Kansas City, which has produced the film.
For more information about the show check out the website of Peres Projects as well as this text about the film by a writer called Blair Schulman. On the contemporary art magazine this is tomorrow you also find a bunch of pictures of the exhibition (click here). Below the trailer of “BOY” and a walkthrough of the L.A. show I also posted a whole bunch of Ssion music videos of the last few years (after the jump). Check out the YouTube channel of Ssion for more stuff, especially for Critcheloe’s videos directed for other bands such as Peaches and Gossip.
UPDATE: I completely forgot there’s a new mixtape by Ssion on DIS Magazine. Click here
Selected videos:
