Casey Spooner
Casey Spooner | |
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Born | Casey David Spooner February 2, 1970 |
Occupation(s) | Musician, artist |
Casey David Spooner (born February 2, 1970) is an American musician and artist.[2] He resides in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York City.[3]
Early life and education
Spooner was born in Athens, Georgia.[1] He attended University of Georgia and later went on to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4]
Work
Solo Music
Spooner has contributed and worked on shows with
Casey joined experimental New York performance ensemble The Wooster Group in 2007, taking on the role of Ophelia's brother Laertes in their production of Hamlet (which featured two Fischerspooner songs that were composed for the show).
In 2009, Spooner did a DJ tour before the album “Entertainment” came out. He was also performing with the Wooster Group during this time.[5]
In January 2010, Spooner distributed his first solo work online, "Faye Dunaway", as a preview of a 2010 solo album entitled Adult Contemporary. The album, according to words by Spooner on Twitter, was recorded directly after finishing Entertainment, and was scheduled for release in 2010.
In 2011, Spooner was the opening act for Scissor Sisters on the band's North American tour.[6]
Spooner released a solo single in 2020 titled "I Love My Problems."[7]
Spooner announced SPOONERHOLLYWOOD in 2021. The multimedia project consists of music, performance, film, and political commentary.[8] He made a Ned Stresen-Reuter directed music video for a Julian Stetter-produced song called Blood is Blood. The video was available online as an NFT. The logo was created by Gareth Hague and the package includes photographs by Jun Lu.[9]
Art and Film
Spooner wrote much of the soundtrack to the 2004 movie D.E.B.S.
In 2012, he co-directed the independent film Dust with Adam Dugas. The film included Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn, artist Jaimie Warren, musician and painter Cody Critcheloe, designer Peggy Noland, and more. [10][11]
Spooner, with electroclash and performance troupe Fischerspooner, produced two books with Italian based publisher Damiani Editore: Egos (2014) and New Truth (2015). New Truth explored the connection between pop culture and visual art and was edited by Meredith Mowder with text by Klaus Biesenbach, Gavin Brown and Jeffrey Deitch, amongst others.[12]
Spooner exhibited and produced a catalogue in 2017 called "SIR: character studies, promotional materials, self actualization and contemporary photography 2013 – 2018" at Mumok.[13] The exhibition included a photographic series by Yuki James which showcased Spooner, friends, collaborators, acquaintances, and anonymous men from the internet in various sexual regalia and leather-and-chains bondage.[14] At the close of the exhibition, Spooner performed “Deinstall/Dismantle/Destroy”, destroying the imagery at the exhibition and making new works from paintings and collages.[15]
Spooner announced a presidential bid for the 2020 United States presidential election, on 4 July in 2019.[1][16] He created a line of clothing and art objects to promote his campaign.[17]
In 2021, he was the subject for artist Robert Knoke's “FANTASIES OF A HOMOSEXUAL PRESIDENT; POINTING A FINGER AT THE DOUBLE STANDARDS OF THE PATRIARCHY,” at the CultureEdit Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.[18][2]
Fischerspooner
Spooner met
In 2002, the duo appeared on the cult-status television show Top of the Pops.[14]
Fischerspooner's debut album, #1, has been released on several record labels, including International DJ Gigolo, Ministry of Sound and Capitol Records, and includes their hit singles "Sweetness", "Emerge", and a cover of Wire's "the 15th". In the final months of 2004, Fischerspooner opened up their FS Studios in New York City to the public for a few hours once a week, allowing people to meet the band and production team, as well as preview new video, music and dance projects that they were working on.
In 2005, Odyssey, the band's second album, was released. The album featured songs that were more structured and more accurately described as electropop than electroclash. "Odyssey was really about being on Capitol, which was this icon of classic American music, trying to embrace that cliché and find a way to embody it and infiltrate it and take it apart at the same time", says Spooner.[21]
Spooner and Fischer wrote a majority of the songs for the 2006 film Grandma's Boy.[22]
Entertainment was released in North America via the band's own label FS Studios on May 4, 2009, produced by Jeff Saltzman (The Killers, The Black Keys, The Sounds). An American and European Tour, known as Between Worlds, continued all through 2009. Like in other Fischerspooner's performances, Spooner was the main figure of the show.
The album Sir, executive-produced and co-written by Spooner's first boyfriend, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and Boots, was released in February 2018.[23][24] The song "Top Brazil" was released on January 19, 2018, along with an electro-pop music video which Billboard called "provocative." NPR interpreted the album as a retrospective collage of Reagan-era queer references framed in an undeniably contemporary style. Fischerspooner disbanded in 2019.
In November 2019, Spooner revealed that French music producer
References
- ^ a b c "Another gay man just announced he's running for president". Newsweek. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
- ^ a b ""Fantasies of a homosexual president; Pointing a finger at the double standards of the patriarchy," A Virtual Exhibition by Robert Knoke - purple ART". Purple (in French). 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ SSENSE (2018-04-05). "Casey Spooner: An American in Paris". ssense. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
- ^ "Interview: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner". COOL HUNTING®. 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
- ^ "VIEUX CARRÉ | THE WOOSTER GROUP". thewoostergroup.org. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Kickstarter Project". Retrieved 2011-07-03.
- ^ "Watch ex-Fischerspooner member Casey Spooner's carnival video for 'I Love My Problems'". NME. 2020-03-13. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "Casey Spooner on NFTs, Threesomes, and Warehouse Raves". Interview Magazine. 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "casey spooner jun lu - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "WATCH: Trailer for Adam Dugas & Casey Spooner film 'Dust'". www.out.com. 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "theCollectiveShift represents Casey Spooner". theCollectiveShift. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Egos Fischerspooner - 9788862084291". www.damianieditore.com. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Fischerspooner - Sir". www.mumok.at. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ a b "Fischerspooner". www.mumok.at. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Casey Spooner: "Now I'm addicted to museum shows. I want one every year."". Kaput Mag. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ Cooper, Mariah (2019-07-08). "Gay singer Casey Spooner announces U.S. presidential bid". Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "SPOONER2020". HOMOCO. Archived from the original on 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Robert Knoke SPOONER2020". CULTUREEDIT. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner Is on a Post-Breakup, Midlife-Crisis World Tour". W Magazine. 24 July 2017. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ Fischerspooner New Truth ARTBOOK | D.A.P. 2014 Catalog Damiani Books Exhibition Catalogues 9788862083287.
- ^ a b "SuicideGirls". SuicideGirls. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "Grandma's Boy (2006) Soundtrack". RingosTrack. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Digital Butch: Casey Spooner's 'Aggressively Homosexual' Pop Music". www.out.com. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ Fischerspooner – Sir (2018, Vinyl), 16 November 2018, retrieved 2021-10-17
- ^ "Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner Says Madonna Didn't Pay or Credit Him for Madame X Song". Pitchfork. 24 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ^ "Casey Spooner on Instagram: "my demo GOD CONTROL"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ^ "Casey Spooner on Instagram: "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH @madonna has fucked me over. I co-wrote GOD CONTROL and I've gotten no credit and no compensation. I've been dealing with…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ^ "Casey Spooner on Instagram: "COPYRIGHT LAW"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
External links
- Casey Spooner discography at Discogs
- Casey Spooner at IMDb