This multi-media event will occur on Sunday May 22 from 1-3PM. You don’t want to miss the blending of glorious music, film, and zines – the way we like it. Also, be on the lookout for DAP books coming to Pulp Lab!
CARY LOREN, founding member of Destroy All Monsters, introduces the rarely shown film “Shake A Lizzard Tail or Rust Belt Rump” (1996) in celebration of the new book DESTROY ALL MONSTERS MAGAZINE 1976-1979 published by Primary Information.
In conjunction with the new publication, “Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979,” published by Primary Information, MoMA PS1 and ARTBOOK | D.A.P. presents a day-long screening of “Shake a Lizard Tail, or Rust Belt Rump,” a film created by the band for their 1996 Japanese tour. The film is a collage of horror exploitation videos, Detroit “Dance City” techno dancers, and late night WGPR television commercials of the 1980s. The commercials feature local Detroit landmarks such as Miley and Miley’s Shrimp Shack, the Club Watts Mozambique ladies club, and various funeral homes.
In 1973, the Detroit band Destroy All Monsters was a wild and reckless synthesis of psychedelia, proto-punk, heavy metal, noise and performance art. The collective hailed from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and consisted of Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara and Jim Shaw (with later members including Ron Asheton of the Stooges, Michael Davis of the MC5 and the Miller brothers of Mission of Burma).
“Destroy All Monsters released very little recorded music until Thurston Moore issued a three-CD compilation in 1994, but they published six issues of a now legendary and much sought-after zine, also titled Destroy All Monsters. This publication collects those six zines, released between 1976 and 1979, and also includes parts of a lost seventh issue that never saw publication. The Destroy All Monsters zines comprise a vibrant array of collage, writing, photography and other miscellanea by Kelley, Loren, Niagara and Shaw, and together provide insight into the collective’s kaleidoscopic vision of the dystopian values of their time” (Artbook).
