Daniel McKernan is a New York based artist, musician, filmmaker and curator. His recent recordings with his music project PROTECTION are scheduled for release in early 2013 on his new label, Formlessness Press. He recently worked on the live video projections for the UK premiere performance of Cyclobe at Antony Hegarty’s Meltdown Festival in London in August 2012. His interactive video installations in NY galleries include The Magick H8-Ball starring Sophia Lamar and Is Evolution Evil? starring Amanda Lepore and featuring an original drone score by Thighpaulsandra, which has since been release through Brainwashed Records handmade series as "The Lepore Extrusion" (HAND003). He has curated two lineups of experimental queer shorts – Homoccult & Other Esoterotica and Luminous Darkness – which both premiered at MIX NYC and went on to screen around the world including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, The Horse Hospital and Visions of Excess at the Spill Festival in London, and the Museum MADRE in Naples, Italy. He performed with Coil in NYC for their only North American performance with Jhonn Balance and created the live video projections for Thighpaulsandra‘s and Black Sun Productions‘ live performances throughout Europe. He was commissioned to do visual projections for the Portuguese production of Hedwig & the Angry Inch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has shot two music videos: Little Annie’s “Billy Martin Requiem” & the other one assisting Bruce LaBruce for Gio Black Peter’s “Revolving Door”. His latest short film, WHOEVER WHATEVER, was a collaboration with Sophia Lamar which premiered in 2011 with an original soundtrack by cellist John Contreras (Marc Almond, Current 93).
For more information please visit danielmckernan.com
Top 21 Releases of 2012:
- Light Asylum - Light Asylum
- Trust - TRST
- Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail
- Alice Cohen - Pink Keys
- Lebanon Hanover - The World is Getting Colder
- Cyclobe - Sulphur - Tarot - Garden
- Myrninerest - "Johnn," Uttered Babylon
- Matmos - The Ganzfeld EP
- Swans - The Seer
- Patrick Wolf - Sundark & Riverlight
- Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
- o F F Love - Probably Love
- Crystal Castles - III
- Purity Ring - Shrines
- Daughn Gibson - All Hell
- Xiu Xiu - Always
- How To Dress Well - Total Loss
- Yeasayer - Fragrant World
- Led Er Est - The Diver
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Dog in the Fog EP
- NANCY - Violent Boys EP
