Todd Pendu

Address:
Pendu, Inc.
190 Bedford Ave. #134
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone: 347-984-1409
Email: info(at)pendu.org

Born 1974, Fort Myers, FL
Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY

I am Todd Brooks, better known as Todd Pendu. I am creator of Pendu, Inc. (which includes Pendu Gallery, Pendu Mag, and Pendu Sound Recordings) + NY Eye & Ear Festival + Scorpio Cinema as well as a Curator, Visual Artist, Writer, Performer, Graphics Designer, Tarot Reader. As a bricoleur/adhocist/collagist, I explore themes of eclecticism, syncretism, majik, ecstatic transcendentalism, and occultism. As musician, I perform as chaos*CM*majik, Ghost Moth (with free-jazz legend Daniel Carter), and Abuse Report. I have a published book of collected writings entitled “Analekta: Semantic Texts” and am currently working on a non-fiction historical biography tentatively titled “Bouzingo Means Noise!” about a relatively obscure French literary and artist collective from the 19th century of that included some famous figures including Gerard de Nerval, Theophile Gautier, Petrus Borel.

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*** As Visual Artist

Group Shows

2010, “NO FREEKOUTS” Collage Works, also performed at opening and closing as chaos*CM*majik, Curated by Rebecca Gaffney, Stagg Gallery, 64 Stagg st. #3 Brooklyn, NY 11206

2007, Feb 2 – Mar 5, “Frequencies”, Curated by Jordon Schranz, Black and White Gallery/Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY (http://www.frequenciesnyc.com)

2001, “An Untitled VideoCinePoem”, Video Art based on a poem by Richard Larue, Liquid Cafe, Fort Myers, FL

Solo Shows
2000, “The Cloven Viscount and the Non-Existent Knight”, Collaboration Paintings with Richard Larue, Liquid Cafe, Fort Myers,FL

Online Exhibitions
2007, No Fun Fest Photography (http://www.pendu.org/artists/toddbrooks/nofunfest2007)
1999 – ongoing, Pendu Arts & Actions, (http://www.pendu.org/artists/toddbrooks)

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*** As Organizer and Curator

July 2 – July 30 ::: BUNNY + AMBER IBARRECHE “Worshipped Age” @ PENDU GALLERY

June 4 – June 25 ::: GEA* “Heuvos Reveultos” @ PENDU GALLERY

May 7 – May 29 ::: JESSE GELAZNIK Solo Show @ PENDU GALLERY

May 22-23, 2010 ::: NY Eye & Ear Fest III (http://www.pendu.org/nyeyeandear)
Massive Annual Music and Arts Fete showcasing some of the most exciting bands, artists, and filmmakers currently living and working here in NYC. In addition, NYE&E assembles a Record Fair featuring NYC-based Record Labels and Vendors selling LPs, CDs, 7”s, cassettes, lathes, comics, zines, stickers, and art prints.

July 11, 2009 ::: Women of NYCinema
Featuring the films of Sarah Lipstate (Noveller), Liz Wendelbo (Xeno & Oaklander), and Rachel Blackwell with a live score by Dirty Churches, an ensemble led by Jesse Gelaznik.

July 9-12, 2009 ::: NY Eye & Ear Fest II (http://www.pendu.org/nyeyeandear)
Massive Annual Music and Arts Fete showcasing some of the most exciting bands, artists, and filmmakers currently living and working here in NYC. In addition, NYE&E assembles a Record Fair featuring NYC-based Record Labels and Vendors selling LPs, CDs, 7”s, cassettes, lathes, comics, zines, stickers, and art prints.

May 16 – June 6, 2009 ::: Raymond Salvatore Harmon “Dweller on the Threshold”, Transcendental Video Installations and Paintings, Hosted by Secret Project Robot @ Monster Island

December 12-13, 2008 ::: NY Eye & Ear Fest I (http://www.pendu.org/nyeyeandear)
2 Days! 36 bands & 30+ record labels celebrate NYC DIY!

May, 2008 ::: Various Artists – Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 1 (Pendu Sound)
featuring HeteroSkeleton, Blastocyst, Pukers, Oubliette, Ghost Moth, Vestigial Limb, Kristin Calvarese, Buffle, Pink Canoes, Usurper, Harshcore, Fully Dilated, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Fish & Sheep, Valerio Cosi, Howlin’ Magic, Pet Coffins, Family Battle Snake, Pax Titania, Skozey Fetisch, Arachnid Arcade, Josh Lay, Mike Shiflet, Craniopagus, Sons of Bronson, Demonologists, Women in Tragedy, Sorc’henn, Eastern Seaboard, VxPxC, Saints, Lanterns, Nonhorse, Gullwing, Panicsville

November, 2007, Merdre!: Low-Tech Art ::: An online group exhibition featuring Michael Alan, Nadja Arast, April Behnke, Samuel Bonnet, _Cane, John Casey, Comoseta, Conteleta, Dwarfa, Eel Eye, Laure Forêt, Jesse Gelaznik, Rebecca Gould, Max Gudmunson, Dav Guedin, Karin Hagen, H.O.P.E., Andrew James Jones, Troy June, Cassie Rose Kobeski, Ward Kuypers, Eleonore Lebidois, Matthieu Levet, Lisa Lipton, Matthew Lock, Kristie Louderbough, Gaëlle Maas, John Maters, Alex McLeod, Monica de Miguel Rubio, Pedro Mota, Mymo, Bruce New, Jeremy Nuske, Stavroula Papadaki, Chris Pottinger, Julien Quentel, Johnny Rogers, Susanne Schmidt, Shunzan, Snot, Bosse Sudenberg, Nini Sum, James Ulmer, Simon Woolham, and Yeulmaus

November, 2006 ::: Various Artists – Getting Rid of the Glue LP (Pendu Sound)
featuring Dirty Churches, Spin-17, K.P., BIG A little a, Fessenden, Eager Meek, Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter & Old Ghost, Maria Chavez, Talibam!, and Excepter

2005 ::: Ctephin – Selections from the Book of Changes (Pendu Sound)
The Book of Changes project is Ctephin’s musical interpretations of each of the 64 hexagrams of the classical I-Ching.

June, 1997 ::: Various Artists – The 49th Parallel CD/LP (Disillusion Records)
featuring Swallowing Shit, Still Life, Karenza, Tho Ko Losi, Eliot Rosewater, MK-Ultra, Acrid, Three Studies for a Crucifixion, Submission Hold, Inept, Gates of Dawn, Resin, Heautontimorumenus

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*** As Author

Bouzingo Means Noise: Freaks, Weirdos, Visionaries, and Outsiders
Before DADA… Before the SITUATIONISTS… Before PUNK… there existed a gang of writers and artists who terrorized Paris in the 1830′s known as THE BOUZINGO – expected to be published 2011. (http://www.pendu.org/artists/toddbrooks/bouzingo)

Pendu Magazine
- 2008 – present, Editor-In-Chief and Contributor (http://www.pendu.org/mag/tag/todd-brooks)

Foxy Digitalis Magazine
- 2007 – present, Contributing Music Reviews and Features (http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/writers.php?which=581)

Analekta: Semantic Texts
- 2001, Writers Club Press (http://astore.amazon.com/pendugallery-20/detail/0595186564)

Earshot Will Destroy Pillbox Beauty
- 1996 – 2003, Editor-In-Chief and Contributor, 1 issue in 1996 & 1 issue in 2003, Earshot will Destroy Pillbox Beauty was a xerox zine with contributions from Pete Bogolub, Vince DiAngelo, Todd Brooks, Jeremiah Brookes, Matthew Boerio, Richard Larue, Joel Calabrese, and Pierre Le Hors

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About The Pendu Organization
Pendu, Inc. is a nonprofit arts and culture organization. Our mission is to increase public awareness of culturally-significant work from visual artists, performers, and writers that are often marginalized and overlooked. We create a dialogue with the public through our magazine, record label, and webstore as well as through creative productions, art shows, workshops, and music events in various spaces throughout NYC.

Pendu, Inc. was originally known as Transition Media and was founded in late 2000 in conjunction with a vision for opening an holistic arts space in Ft. Myers, FL. A website was launched on Tripod www.members.tripod.com/dsllsn but was changed July 2001 to www.transition17.com. The site moved once again to www.transition-media.com in July 2003. In August 2003, I moved to Brooklyn, NY. In March 2005, Transition Media was re-christened officially as Pendu, Inc. A new website was launched in November 2005 and it has continued to grow ever since. In February 2009, Pendu filed paperwork to apply for nonprofit 501 (c)(3) status.

Pendu Sound Recordings has released the following:

*PSR-0033 . Atelecine – AVigillant Carpark EP (7”) 2009
*PSR-0032 . Kristin Calvarese – Vampyre Hulk Dreamz (CS) 2008
PSR-0031 . Gang Wizard – Everybody Turned Into A Baby (LP) 2009
*PSR-0030 . V.A. – Rippers and Creepers Vol. 1 (CS) 2007
*PSR-0029 . The Christkill – Discography 1997-98 (CDR)
*PSR-0028 . Gryn Brvs – Grail Fruit of Les Prix Chauns (CS) 2007
*PSR-0027 . Ghost Moth / Fossils – Split (CS) 2007
*PSR-0026 . Abuse Report – El Diablo Esta En Casa (CS) 2007
*PSR-0025 . Mialessot – Cursed Blue Flowers (CDR) 2007
*PSR-0024 . Abuse Report – Abuse Report (CS) 2007
*PSR-0023 . Mialessot – Birds (CS) 2007
*PSR-0022 . Talibam! – The Excusable Earthling (LP) 2007
*PSR-0021 . Mialessot – Serpentine Leafminer (CS) 2007
*PSR-0020 . Mialessot – Leopard Mountain (CS) 2007
*PSR-0019/TBTD-012 . Ghost Moth – Asteroid Pelt (CS) 2007
*PSR-0018/TBTD-011 . Ghost Moth – Live! (CDR) 2007
*PSR-0017 . Feral Comb – Minor Injuries (CS) 2007
PSR-0016 . V.A. – Getting Rid of the Glue (LP) 2006
*PSR-0015 . Mialessot aka Dadaco – Disturb the Comfortable (CDR) 2006
*PSR-0014 . Mialessot – Behead the Presiding Resident (CDR) 2006
*PSR-0013/TBTD-008 . Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter & Old Ghost – What If (3” CDR) 2006
*PSR-0012 . Mialessot – Shadows of the 4th (CDR) 2006
*PSR-0011 . Mialessot – Lifting the Unknown (CDR) 2005
*PSR-0010 . Ctephin – Selections from the Book of Changes (MP3) 2004
*PSR-0009 . Big City Orchestra – BCO (MP3) 2004
*PSR-0008 . Mialessot – A March Toward Dadadom 2000-04 (MP3) 2004
*PSR-0007 . Mialessot – TwinCunts E.P. (CDR) 2003
*PSR-0006 . Mialessot – The Clanging Noose of the Bouzingo (CDR) 2002
*PSR-0005 . The Stonewood Anthonys – E OEOO AO (CDR) 2002
*PSR-0004 . Mialessot – Meat Silos E.P. (3” CDR) 2001
*PSR-0003 . Mialessot – Against Nature E.P. (3” CDR) 2001
*PSR-0002 . Mialessot – Adventure in Sound and Pataphysics E.P. (3” CDR) 2001
*PSR-0001 . Mialessot – Ayant Peur De Mourir Lorsque Je Couche Seul (CDR) 2000
*Disillusion Records/Lake Eerie Hi-Fi . Various Artists – The 49th Parallel (CD) 1997

*=sold out

Note: PSR-0001 – PSR-0010 Originally released on Transition Media