The Toxic Pop Video Archive project is an attempt to create an online video library of the New York City performance art scene from the early 90's through the present. With the help of such venues as Surf Reality and the Bowery Poetry Club - as well as through the contributions of the artists themselves, our goal is to create a single repository of performance video from the NYC "art star" performance scene. Please visit www.toxicpop.com for more info, or if you would like to contribute to the project.
"Tinea Tricolore: The Love Fungus" was the third production in the infamous "Grindhouse-A-Go-Go!" series, a late night performance/party that was held at midnight at Surf Reality in NYC's Lower East Side in the late 90's-early 00's. This show, performed in October of 1999, was by far the dirtiest (in terms of outright nudity) and probably our most political as well. Rudolph Giuliani was still mayor, and the show satires his campaign to "clean up New York" by shutting down strip clubs and repla...
Pop culture correspondant and Toxic Pop podcast host Bex takes the stage at the Toxic Pop 5-Year Anniversary party for a little backwards karaoke. Yep, she does Fergilicous entirely backwords, and doesn't miss a beat. Don't believe us? Watch.
Art star Katrin Hier returns to the stage with a short burlesque-y vignette about a good Christian woman from the midwest who is tempted by Satan at Applebee's in New York City. Shot at the Toxic Pop 5-Year Anniversary Party at Bowery Poetry Club, NYC.
Diane "Destiny" O'Debra - half of the notorious O'Debra Twins - delivers a rare solo performance at the Toxic Pop 5-Year Anniversary Party, giving the audience a taste of her upcoming rap album.
Musician and comedian Rob Paravonian takes a hiatus from his tour with George Carlin to grace the audience at the Toxic Pop 5-Year Anniversary Party with a brand new number about the un-originality of today's Broadway shows.
Urban Astrologer Courtney Weber makes some outrageous predictions and drops some serious metaphysical science on the crowd at Bowery Poetry Club at the Toxic Pop 5-Year Anniversary Party on May 6, 2008
Carmen Mofongo (aka Michele Carlo) - that latin lady with her lunch on her head - rips off a couple of numbers at the Toxic Pop 5-Year Anniversary Party at Bowery Poetry Club on May 6, 2008.
Moonshine Shorey, resident poet and bartender at Bowery Poetry Club, solicits the audience's help as he deviates from his usual poetry reading and becomes a "human blockhead" for the night at Side B Circus on April 11, 2008