OPEN HOUSE | Election Night with Crackhead Barney

For Election Night 2024, CPR will open its doors to screen the election returns in its theater, providing a space to be in community as this historic and consequential presidential election unfolds. The evening will feature live political commentary from performance artist, viral ambush interviewer, and political dilettante Crackhead Barney.
Additional performances and activations throughout the evening will punctuate the drone of the endless news cycle and offer space for hope, fear, humor, and care, with artists and special guests TBA.
Free drinks while supplies last. Bring a pillow, some snacks, and camp out at CPR amongst artists and friends.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Crackhead Barney was born in Jamaica, Queens to strict religious parents who immigrated to America from Northern Nigeria. She was raised in a one bedroom apartment with her siblings in an era before wokeness and identity politics ruled the cultural landscape and was always taunted for her immigrant African roots and dark complexion. She studied Fine Arts and Media at Hunter College and was told her artwork wasn't shit. Rejected from museums and galleries, she decided to take matters into her own hands and use the streets of NYC as her canvas, painting pictures with her body across the landscape without the need to satisfy the desires of the cultural institutions. Her street performances garnered attention and she began to go viral all over the internet with people reacting in confusion, laughter, anger, pity, concern, and all the other emotions available to humans. Rejecting any hierarchies that didn't feature her at the very pinnacle, she naturally was attracted to social media where she could form a universe centered on her performance art. She began a “Crackhead Barney and Friends” account on Instagram and TikTok where she’s developed a cult of personality supportive of her creative practice.

Event Venue

CPR - Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, United States