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Bobo | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | New York City, Philadelphia |
| Genres | Genredelic |
| Years active | 2007-present |
| Members | Phil Cote, Drew Gillespie, Nick Payne |
| Website | http://www.bobo-nyc.com/ |
Bobo is an a music group, an art group, a programming troupe. The three members are Phil Cote, Drew Gillespie, and Nick Payne. They produce songs, sculptural works, and science fiction that share connective worlds and humored associations with one another. Their chosen media-form is interchangeable, an idea can equally reside in an artwork or a song.
Music
Musically, Bobo has been described as having an elastic and gluey sound— a thick, freewheeling acid funk, with songs that concern Thanksgiving Genies, Michelle Obama’s White House garden, and spending an entire lifetime in the shower.
Bobo have released multiple albums while performing at the Bowery Ballroom, Knitting Factory, Institute of Contemporary Art (at University of Pennsylvania), NYUFF Film Festival, Best Fest Philadelphia, and Hot Mud Fest.
Art
As visual artists, they make wallworks, written works, videos, and printed particulates. They often characterize this work as being genredelic. Each and every work represents a new species of culture, taking the form of an expression packet. Like an “out of the box” starter kit with instructions to generate new culture from scratch, the works function as compressed seedpods for worldbuilding.[1] Bobo have exhibited art at Gavin Brown Enterprises, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA Art Fair), New York Art Book Fair, Foxy Production, and 247365.
Other Projects
They are the former proprietors of Bobo's on 9th, the now defunct experimental exhibition and performance space in Philadelphia, that was once raided by Federal Agents. Bobo eventually moved from Philadelphia and resettled in the greater New York area. They have since organized many art and performance events, including this year's Hot Mud Arts and Music Festival and a monthly event at Honey’s in Brooklyn. Bobo has additionally written two works of science fiction.
Press
Bobo has been featured in the New York Times, Village Voice, Artforum, The Creator’s Project, New York Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, Modern Painters
- ^ "Reality Unfolds in an Art Collective's Sculptural Worlds". Creators. 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2017-11-17.