Various Artists Gallery benefit & Stereo Mandrax: Xeno & Oaklander • MSHR • Victoria Keddie • Laura Ortman & sTo Len • Ivan Berko

Various/Artists produces handmade records, prints, publications and other editions by artists working across a wide range of media. Since 2024, they have operated a storefront project space at 19 Essex St. in New York Citycurated by Scott Kiernan and directed by Garret Linn, which features monthly exhibitions and free public programs by artists and musicians whose work defies easy categorization. Their current (and 16th) exhibition Too Much Is Better Than Too Little | Alfred Hilsberg, ZickZack & the Invention of the German Underground, curated by Sukhdev Sandhu and produced with Goethe Institute NY, surveys the output and influence of Alfred Hilsburg and Zick Zack Records - an early 1980s label which became a catalyst for a burgeoning world of German post-punk, art rock, minimal synth and DIY experimental music. Past and upcoming programming features the work of many of the artists performing tonight as well as shows by Lary 7, Sara Hornbacher, Damon Zucconi, Shana Moulton, Felix Kubin, Martin Beck, Peter Burr, Sarah Minter, Nina Sobell, Sudden Sway, LoVid, Siebren Versteeg and many more.

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Xeno & Oaklander are a minimal electronics / synth pop duo (Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride of Martial Canterel) based in Brooklyn, New York. As artists, they have been deeply involved in the analog synth community since 2004 (the release of their debut Vigils LP on Xanten), and have helped promote and inspire the revival of synth wave in the US and throughout the world through their extensive touring and prolific output. They record their songs and film scores in their Brooklyn studio and are known for their commitment to recording on and performing on analogue synthesizers exclusively.

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MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations present cybernetic audiovisual environments as living compositions. MSHR was established in 2011 in Portland, Oregon.