Who is kalup linzy

I feel like my lyrics are specific to my character and how I wanted that narrative to go. It was a limited edition of of the vinyl and 50 cassettes. Being a performance artist, I feel like when museums do a show or exhibition they just want to include you in the programming, and it feels so fleeting. I felt it was getting to the point where even people in the art world were trying to push everything I was doing online. I want to be in these physical spaces.

I really like things that are vintage. I thought creating this character that was vintage and releasing the album on vinyl and cassette felt like it would be something more special than streaming the album. And I like that people could go to their local record store. One weekend, I took a trip to Bentonville and Eureka Springs. During that trip, I got a call from Josey Records, the music store.

They wanted me to send them more vinyl because they ran out. They only take two or three at a time. Taylor Hanson from the Hanson brothers, who live in Tulsa, bought the last one. Those sorts of discoveries where people stumble across it, I like that. Do you think the nostalgia of stumbling upon things in an organic way is the reason vinyl and even CDs are having a resurgence?

They were babies when I was recording songs with my cassette player. Do you think that the new generation is discovering these things because of the internet and YouTube? There would have been far more options for influences to be part of my artistic DNA. I think these kids can find whatever they gravitate toward and create a community. I still want to shoot a feature film.

But I realized you have to keep repeating those stories for a new generation or else it gets lost after 5 to 10 years. With my music, I got to Tulsa, and I thought if you want something different to happen, you have to do something different. That is totally gone. A lot of the things you mentioned have to do with being remembered.

In another image, Linzy is depicted standing outside on a balcony. The art world, like many other social spaces, is coming to terms with many injustices that marginalized groups have faced for decades. Following protests that erupted this summer across the world with the Black Lives Matters Movement in response to the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and countless others, as well as the lack of diversity in many corners of the country and the election there is a lot to unpack.

It really boils down to the company you keep and who you surround yourself with. What happens when everyone is treated equally? I also mean monetary value. If there is no top, does that mean the bottom fell out? It will be interesting to see how things play out. Linzy had to reconfigure the way they have been making work and turning to other platforms via social feed to collaborate and work.

My live performances have been pre-recorded with no audience. My approach has pretty much been going back to the basics. Linzy also expanded the way promoted his work by trying to reach a larger audience. Early on Linzy did a lot of collaborations with artists he already knew and decided to up his game with marketing. While he was already running Facebook and Instagram ads in the US he decided to take a more global approach during the pandemic. Everyone is at home.

Whoever has a phone and a computer is probably on social media. For Performa , Linzy created a pre-recorded set of songs with an accompanying band the piece also came out of a commission he received from the New Orleans Film Festival. Linzy is also developing a fashion line, a series of DNA based collage paintings, a feature length project, and even a few more music projects. Working with a relatively large cast of artists and friends, Linzy voiced and overdubbed all of the characters' dialogue.

Filmed on location in New Orleans, this black-and-white narrative stars Linzy as a misanthropic grande dame who dispenses advice to a trio of troubled young lovers. Linzy, who again performed all of the characters' dialogue, shot and directed Keys To Our Heart in the style of a Hollywood melodrama. Linzy has been hailed as one of the most innovative of a new generation of queer artists, drawing comparisons to John Waters, Jack Smith and RuPaul.

Kalup Linzy was born in in Stuckey, Florida. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.