Peter BD presents: 'Milk & Henny'

Peter BD presents: Milk & Henny
With Dean Kissick, Precious Okoyomon, Mosie Romney, Arjun Ram Srivatsa
June 26, 2022, 6 - 8 PM

Canada is pleased to announce Milk & Henny, a site-specific, time-sensitive creative intervention by anonymous multidisciplinary artist Peter BD at Canada’s new TriBeCa space at 61 Lispenard. 

Seeking to problematize our quotidian online experience by means of aesthetic interdiction at the highest level, this experiential performance reclaims the transformative potential of both milk and henny. Peter BD, whose writings have been published by Inpatient Press, e-flux, and the Poetry Project, collates video and poetic and sonic activations - such as his short musical film Milk & Henny In Quarantine, which will be screened live at Canada as a means to channel dialectical quandaries against formal hegemonies and harmonize disparate practices from across the expressive spectrums. Drawing on the collective and collaborative imagination to de-attenuate atomized fictions, Milk & Henny also interweaves the live presence(s) of Precious Okoyomon, Dean Kissick, Arjun Ram Srivatsa, and Mosie Romney as well as a twenty-minute rhythmic intermission in which the boundary between performer and performance is elided, allowing spectators to become the spectacle and engage in their own limbic interventions soundtracked by Umfang and Jaql and culminating in simultaneous movement with dancer/choreographer Owen Prum. Furthering this relational audial dialectic, sound material developed by Donis, Omnipulse, Patrick Everman and Poison Frog will be featured throughout. Nearly 50 years in the making and incorporating both contemporary and archival footage by the artist, Milk & Henny is emblematic of B.D.'s syncretic yet iconoclastic approach to assembling a comprehensive program of inquiry and investigation.

Dean Kissick was born in Germany and brought up in the Oxfordshire countryside, before moving to London at 18 to study at the Courtauld and the Royal College. He is a writer and New York editor of Spike Art Magazine. He has also contributed to i-D and the Guardian. Dean will perform and analyze a poem Peter BD wrote about Dean in 2020.

Precious Okoyomon is a Nigerian-American artist, poet, and chef and a founding member of the cooking collective Spiral Theory Test Kitchen. Okoyomon’s installations, which often incorporate lush plants and soil along with poetry, music, and sculpture, have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Luma Foundation, Arles, France; and Performance Space, New York. Their work is currently on view at the 59th Venice Biennale. They are the author of Ajebota (2016) and But Did U Die (2020), and they have performed their poetry at venues including Club Wonder at Ace Hotel Brooklyn; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Poetry Project, New York. Okoyomon lives in Brooklyn. Precious will perform new pieces of poetry they wrote.

Mosie Romney lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. A Jamaican-American artist, they received their education from SUNY Purchase, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts in 2016. They have been an artist in residence at the Home School, Hudson in 2018 and at Pocoapoco, Oaxaca City in 2021, and are included in the collections of the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Pond Society, Shanghai; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Yuz Museum, Shanghai. Recent exhibitions include Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, curated by Mosie Romney, Nicodim New York (2022); Mosie Romney: Old, Used & New, Gern en Regalia, New York (2022, solo); Different Strokes, curated by Marcus Jahmal, Almine Rech, London (2021); Friend Zone, curated by Vaughn Spann, Half Gallery, New York (2021); Mosie Romney: ENERGYnever, Nicodim Upstairs, Los Angeles (2021, solo); Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech, New York (2021); Touch, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2021); Evening Lark, Y2K Group, New York (2020, solo); PAPA RAGAZZE!, a cura di Olivia Neutron Bomb, Nicodim Los Angeles (2020); and Mosie Romney and Juan Guiterrez, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2020). Mosie will read read poetry and play accompanying sounds on the theremin.

Arjun Ram Srivatsa is an artist, writer, and musician based in Brooklyn. His writing, animations, and videos have been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork, and Natasha. He has performed at Fitness (RIP), Body Actualized Center (RIP), Silent Barn (RIP), Palisades (RIP), and Babycastles (RIP). He’s working on a record and a TV show. Arjun will perform computer processed poetry filtered through growing arpeggiated synths.