* Performing with the The Oregon Symphony
conducted by Nico Muhly
Antony
first presented his songs in after-hours cabarets at the Pyramid
in NYC. After receiving a N.Y.F.A. fellowship for "performance
art / emergent forms," Antony assembled the Johnsons and
recorded his first album. The group presented concerts at The
Kitchen and Knitting Factory before beginning a residency at
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.
Antony and the Johnsons have since performed at venues including
the Bloomsbury theater in London, Central Park SummerStage,
the Nancy Jazz Festival, the Warhol Museum, the Wexner Center,
Townhall in NYC, MASS MOCA, and Royce Hall, UCLA.
Antony sings on Lou Reed's albums The Raven and Animal Serenade
and toured with Lou internationally in 2003. Antony appeared
as an androgynous convict singing to a crowd of inmates in Steve
Buscemi's film Animal Factory. He also appeared recently singing
"I Fell in Love to a Dead Boy" to a crowd of empathetic
Parisian transsexuals in Sebastien Lifshitz's latest film Wilde
Side.
Antony was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial; he collaborated
with Charles Atlas to stage a 3 night sold out series at Saint
Ann's Warehouse in NYC called "TURNING." A concert
and live video installation, "TURNING" featured Antony
and the Johnsons playing before a cast of 13 slowly revolving
Beauties, whose images were simultaneously processed and projected
onto a giant screen.
Antony and the Johnsons' first recordings were released by David
Tibet on his label, Durtro in the UK. In Summer 2004, Antony
signed to the Indiana based label Secretly Canadian, who will
be releasing the new Antony and the Johnsons album "I Am
a Bird Now" in February 2005. Antony's "The Lake"
was also included on Devendra Banhart's recent Bastet compilation
"The Golden Apples of the Sun."
