The ever-evolving NYC-based music and art collective started by Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini, more formally known to the world as NewVillager, came together in support of their upcoming IAMSOUND full length debut release to present their third art installation, Temporary Culture, at Los Angeles art gallery Human Resources. Check out their DJ set tomorrow (6/21), if you’re in Los Angeles.
NewVillager is quickly getting notice in both the art and music world for their multi-dimensional stage shows and avant-garde DIY videos. This, their second gallery exhibition as a group, will mark the beginning of an amazing journey down a road that only the wildest imaginations could conceive!
Check out our interview with the band, where they discuss their mythology and inspiration behind it,
“There’s a tribal theme occurring in the independent culture trendsphere. Do you see the NewVillager mythology as a “tipi” (easily transported, and the center of social, ceremonial, and artistic life)?
The tribal thinking is maybe a necessary counterpart to the global thinking that has dominated culture in the last century. Increasingly, people are traveling, goods are traveling and the world situation is getting tricky-sour because of it. Tribalism is a more local kind of thinking. The mythology is not tribal – mythologies exist in almost all societies, big and small – but our mythos is a way of trying to understand life through a single lens, and maybe that has something in common with tribe-mentality – unity of thinking? And yet, when does tribe mentality become gang mentality become nationalism? Slippery stuff.”
They’re also featured on our InnerTube mix.
