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LIZZI BOUGATSOS
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Lizzi Bougatsos
Lizzi Bougatsos, the lead singer for the band Gang Gang Dance, is an underground art and fashion icon. One of the "enfants terribles" in the downtown art scene, Bougatsos has performed with her band at the Whitney Biennial, been interviewed by publications such as The Village Voice and Paper Magazine, and in 2010 was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum Young Collectors Council.
Bougatsos' work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at James Fuentes LLC, New York, and the Breeder, Athens, Greece. It has also been included in group shows at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY; Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, NY; Honor Fraser, New York, NY; Museo d'arte Contemporanea di Roma, Milan, Italy; and White Columns, New York, NY, among others. In 2004, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant, and in 2008, she was featured at the Whitney Biennial.
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On what it means to identify as an artist
In addition to your work in Gang Gang Dance, you’re a visual artist, a writer, and a frequent collaborator with different artists and musicians. Have you always been someone who needs to be working on a lot of different things at the same time?
Yes. I am that person who has the art books on one the side of the bed and Hot 97 playing over on the other side, you know? I’ve always been that person. I need a little bit of everything, all the time. I have always been chastised for being that person. I’ve always been told to focus, in a very military-like way, on one thing. But if I don’t have my hands in all these different pots and pans, then I just can’t function. I know that sounds really crazy, but that’s just how it is. I can’t really do it any other way.
As a band, Gang Gang Dance resembles an ongoing art project. It seems built into the DNA of the group that there’s this eagerness to mutate, change, improvise, and try new things. Given the nature of your music, has the actual working process within the band changed radically over time?
We like to experiment, but the recurring work patterns we have tend to drive me insane, actually. We had a long hiatus after our last record; during that time I really got to focus on myself an