New York performance artist Nate Hill’s is done with his White Ambassador project. He spoke to ANIMAL about a recent performance that turned tense, more so than usual. Read more »
Nate Hill’s White Ambassador Critiques Twitter Racism in Harlem
NYC’s Nate Hill takes Harlem with his new piece The White Ambassador. What’s with the white face, you ask? Earlier this year, Hill has set up a WhiteSmellBot on Twitter that is now retweeting about 80 “white people smell like” stereotypes a day. As a biracial performance artist, he’s headed out to confront these bytes of cyber racism. See the video for some tense discourse. Read more »
Racist Incorporated: Nate Hill’s New Art
NYC artist Nate Hill of Death Bear, Punch Me Panda and China Garbage Taxidermy Tour fame has given up performance art! For a bit. To do this. Presenting: Racist Incorporated — an internet art project that’s going to make you very uncomfortable. Read more »
We’ve accompanied NYC performance artist/provocateur Nate Hill on one of his Chinatown Garbage Taxidermy Tours before and, trust us, the rotting fish aroma soaking into your shoes from bloody puddles as you trollop along the alleys ways, garbage-diving for feathered fauna, frogs and fish heads to saw together… is worth it. Seems like Hill’s back on the streets. Here are his latest bloodily puckering canvases of his restaurant waste taxidermy. Requests?
Nate Hill’s ‘White Power Milk’
Performance artist Nate Hill’s newest unsettling project is open for business. Choose from five “rich, beautiful, white girls” recruited from “within the upper echelons of society” to “gargle your milk to absolute perfection,” thereby “purifying” it. White Power Milk is social commentary so tongue-in-cheek, it hurts. Read more »
R.I.P. Chinatown Garbage Taxidermy Tour
Last night, performance artist Nate Hill lead a small crew on the last Chinatown Garbage Taxidermy Tour of The Best Art Show of 2011 and we’ve got the visuals (be glad they’re not in smell-o-vision). The crew scrounged through trash, confounded locals and spiritually connected with frog heads, strings of guts and puffer fish parts. Photos below. Read more »
On Monday, someone happened upon performance artist Nate Hill while he was channeling his Bouncy Rides character, supposedly for the last time, at the Hunter College subway station and had no idea what was going on. The firsthand account: Read more »
Performance artist Nate Hill, known for creating an array of mascot-based alter egos, self-explores his changing attitude while he’s in Punch Me Panda mode. He’s apparently becoming more and more confrontational. Sounds like he’s just settling into his permanent role… that of a New Yorker!
In a month-long endurance performance, Nate Hill will be resurrecting some of his most iconic identities for Best Art Show of 2011. Punch Me Panda, the Chinatown Garbage Taxidermy Tour, Death Bear and Free Bouncy Rides will be performed every day in March. So, if you want to exorcise your life from your ex, dig for fish to sculpt with, get bouncy-bouncy on a friendly plush lap or punch a giant panda, see the initial schedule below. Read more »
Punch Me Panda Looks Like This
Here’s Nate Hill Punch Me Panda, in non-cartoon form, shot by Teresa Nasty. Today through Saturday, Punch Me Panda is sleeping on a blow-up at the Outpost as part of #TheSocialGraph art show and servicing all of Brooklyn: in/outcalls, singles and couples for a penny a punch. Text 347-742-2293 or tweet @natexhill.
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