Ciarán Finlayson

Events

Oct 2, 2022, 9am – 5pm

The Public’s Not Ready For You Yet: A Cricket Radio Show

Blank Forms Editions

Curtis Cuffie

2023

Blank Forms 07: The Cowboy’s Dreams of Home

2021

Images

Journal

Archival

Curtis and Ma: Cuffie on Video

Blank Forms

Footage from Cooper Square

Essay

This Trash Should've Been Free

Ciarán Finlayson

Introducing Curtis Cuffie.

Audio

Ben Caldwell's Exploitation blues comic, featuring a black saxophone player askign "How', I Doin' Norm?" and white representative of the music industry champing a cigar and responding "The Public's Not Ready for you yet—we're not makin' a dime! Keep playin!" His cup collecting tips is overflowing, and the musician is shackled to it

THE PUBLIC’S NOT READY FOR YOU YET: A Cricket Radio Show

Blank Forms

Eight hours of music, readings, and interviews celebrating The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968–69.

Audio

Coming Together: A May Day Broadcast

Blank Forms

Six hours of music and interviews celebrating work inspired by the Attica rebellion.

Essay

Untitled collage from Fighting Back! Attica Memorial to the People — 1974, published by Attica Brothers Legal Defense.

Indifferent Brutality, Incessant Noise

Ciarán Finlayson

Introducing “Coming Together,” a group of texts, images, and recordings reflecting on the Attica rebellion fifty years after landmark recordings by several American composers.