Friday, April 22, 2016 / 2 PM / Free
Full Moon Show
Surprise Performance and
Screening of Uzi Parnes short film starring Tom, World Peace
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention
Spend your lunch break with the lunatic fringe! Outside, on the sidewalk, in front of Howl! Happening,
experience the nutty wonderment that was the essence of Tom Murrin, our beloved
Alien Comic. After the surprise performance we’ll be screening Uzi Parnes
short film, World Peace, (1987) starring Tom as Claude
Balls a philandering East Village performer gets his just reward when he hooks
up with three beautiful women after his show are sure to have you begging for
more. And there is more: For the astrologically handicapped, next month’s full scale,
full moon performance madness is coming up Sunday, May 22nd at 4 PM
and features the presentation of Dixon Place’s 2016 Tom Murrin
Performance Award, also known as The Tommy, to cultural tastemaker /////.
About
Uzi Parnes
Uzi
Parnes is a New York based filmmaker, photographer and actor. His photographs,
video and live-film performances have been shown worldwide—most recently as
part of Recycling Atlantis at 80WSE Gallery, NY (2014) and in a career survey
at The Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin (2012). His
installation “Basra On First Avenue” at Broadway Windows, NY (10/14-2/15) was
named one of the best artworks of 2014 by noted critic David Ebony. More about Parnes
About Tom
Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance
is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin
Howl!
Happening houses the archive of Tom Murrin. Tom, aka the Alien Comic, is known
as the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking
or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna
Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon,
he'd wrangle his friends to perform as his guests—pushing the careers
of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy
Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron and many others. When he
didn’t have a club date, he performed on street for passersby, transforming the
pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic. Howl! Happening’s monthly
series continues that tradition, with full scale, full moon performances in the
gallery, and surprise pop up performances on the street.
