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Pendu Inc. is a nonprofit arts organization fostering challenging work by artists, musicians, and writers who operate primarily within the fields of occultism, adhocism, and eroticism. Pendu increases public awareness and understanding of these dynamic marginalized fields of interest and diverse modes of expression through the dissemination of literature, audio recordings, essays, and interviews as well as through curatorial projects, creative productions, art shows, workshops, and music events in various spaces throughout New York City.
Pendu curates and organizes the NY Eye & Ear Record Fair and Music Fest ... Go to http://www.nyeyeandear.com for more info.
Check out our Calendar for Upcoming Actions & Events. Sign up on our mailing list and also join us on Facebook and/or MySpace to show your support.
The PenduCult... Actions & InterActions; Physical & Psychical Energies; Experience & Transience; Movement & Movements; Eros & Thanatos |
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Please, Donate What You Can
In order to be successful, Pendu Org needs your financial support to stay afloat. All proceeds go toward securing a future and funding future projects. We cannot survive without your support. We have no dependable source of revenue. Everything we do comes out of pocket and out of love. We need your help. Every contribution counts... !! Even $5 can make a difference... We need to cover a host of costs in order to run a sustainable org.
Donating money will give us the ability to continue to put together great exhibitions and carry out creative endeavors. Receipts will be made for donations above $20.
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Thank You!
- Todd Pendu |
Pendu is in the process for nonprofit 501(c)(3) status.
We filed our paperwork seeking 501(c)(3) status on January 26, 2009. February 26, we were certified by the state of NY and were approved by the NYC Dept. of Education. We are waiting final approval from the IRS. All donations are still considered tax-deductible and we will make receipts out for donations $20 and above. View our NYS Entity information here >>...
Investor Opportunities
Pendu, Inc. is looking for partners in investment opportunities. If interested, please contact us. |
Pendu Org would like to extend a THANK YOU for Love,
Financial Contributions & Support from:
Ursula Brown - Brooklyn, NY
Tayler Shaw - Austin, TX |
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:: Intern to work 12 hrs/wk and report to home office of Pendu, Inc. Must have a laptop and have great computer skills. Knowledgable in standard software such as Word, Excel, Photoshop, etc.
:: Street team members to help distribute Pendu ephemera throughout Brooklyn & Manhattan.
:: Fund Raising Manager to help organize fundraising events/projects, get donations from local businesses & private sponsors. (Earn Commission)
:: Visual artists to design T-shirts, Postcards, Flyers, etc.
:: Screenprinters who will donate time, experience, and supplies.
:: Photographers and videographers to document Pendu Live AKtions and Events.
We can't pay anyone yet, but will do whatever we can to make it worth your while. If you love what we're doing here, send a cover letter and resume to info(at)pendu.org. For most positions, there are no college requirements, but applicants should have extensive knowledge and deep interest in the arts and music. Good luck and thanks for your interest in Pendu! |
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Who is Todd Pendu ? [view CV] |
I am Todd Brooks, better known as Todd Pendu. I am creator of Pendu Inc., the NY Eye & Ear Festival, and Scorpio Cinema. As musician, I play prepared guitar, oscillators, and electronics in Ghost Moth (with Daniel Carter), Abuse Report, chaos.CM.majik, Barkminer, and Feral Comb. I have published a book of collected poetic-texts entitled "Analekta: Semantic Texts" and am currently working on a non-fiction work tentatively titled "Bouzingo Means Noise" about a relatively obscure French literary collective from the 19th century that included some famous figures including Gerard de Nerval, Theophile Gautier, Petrus Borel, and others. I also write music reviews and features for the online magazine Foxy Digitalis.
Thanks for taking an interest. I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions so please don't hesitate to write me at info(at)pendu.org. Don't be lazy. Don't make boring art. Cheers!
- Todd Pendu, Exec. Dir./Curator/Editor-in-Chief
Website Designed, Updated, & Maintained by Todd Brooks.
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| Contact Pendu... |
Send letters/packages to:
Pendu Inc.
190 Bedford Ave. #134
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Email: info(at)pendu.org
Phone: 347-683-7363 |
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Staff Directory:
Todd Brooks
Exec. Dir./Curator/Editor-in-Chief
info(at)pendu.org
Catherine Serrano
Asst. Dir.
cathy(at)pendu.org
Stephanie Gross
Secy. to the Board
stephanie(at)pendu.org |
Interns:
Laura Brown
Adriane Schramm |
Board of Directors:
Todd Brooks
Chair./Pres.
info(at)pendu.org
Jesse Gelaznik
V.P.
jesse(at)pendu.org
Ariel Panero
B.O.D.
ariel(at)pendu.org
Harrison Owen
B.O.D.
harrison(at)pendu.org
Carson Craig
B.O.D.
carson(at)pendu.org
Karl Woschitz
B.O.D.
karl(at)pendu.org |
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Pendu Magazine + Gallery is an online arts and culture publication + curated online artist registry... Art as Ecstatic Experience. Read poetry and interviews, listen to sounds, & view artworks and videos from an eclectic circle of int'l artists working in diverse media. Discover new work by interesting artists working in the Now! >>
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Pendu Sound Recordings is a Brooklyn-based recording label specializing in frenetic musics, headrushers, creepers, burners, rippers, jammers, blissers, wreckers, trippers, bangers, nailbiters, teethgrinders, night terrors, and all manifestations of materialized intuitive and spontaneous actions. An imprint of Pendu. >>
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Pendu Bookshop is the webstore of Pendu and carries an eclectic selection of books, music, and artworks specializing in handmade, limited, and rare editions. >>
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Calendar of Actions and Events Pendu Org curates live actions with artists and musicians in various spaces throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. Artist, bands, and venues should email info(at)pendu.org for more info. >>
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"...art as ecstatic experience. Does it really matter which is called art by some and not by others? The analytical is a distraction from mysteries, pulling away the veil. I am interested in the overall effect of an artwork, not necessarily technical prowess. It's not important how an artist gets to the end. Crude art can be erotic and technical art can also be erotic; it's not a matter of only one or the other. Does it stimulate, arouse, or excite? Does it confuse, disorient, or estrange? These are the questions that matter. I'm interested in spontaneous ecstatic actions; emotive outbursts of creativity; raw expression derived from intuition and the pineal imagination; uninhibited tantrums of frenetic and vital energies; visceral and cathartic artforms and artworks. I'm interested in the unknowable; the dark and the secret..."
We want to give unique individuals and collectives the chance to show their work. If you'd like to submit your art or sounds for consideration to be featured online, send an email with a few words about yourself and be sure to include a link to your website, myspace, or flickr account but please do not send attachments.
The Pendu Organization is welcoming submissions from writers of original poetry and prose as well writers who want to contribute articles, interviews, features, essays, editorials, and reviews dealing with the topics of adhocism, bricolage, collage, assemblage, montage, drawing, arts & crafts, handmade art, d.i.y. art, editions & multiples, poetry, occultism, eroticism, junk-jamming, free-musics, and free-noise.
We are not looking for armchair critics or sidline refs, we're looking for 'get your hands dirty' artists and poets. We are not looking for college dissertations or academic garble, we're looking for creativity from people who write from an experiential point of view. Send a short bio + sample of your writing and get your work published here. We're looking forward to hearing from you. |
| Send an email to info(at)pendu.org
or Send packages to: Pendu Inc. // 190 Bedford Ave. #134 // Brooklyn, NY 11211 |
All the best!
Todd Pendu |
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| Le Pendu is a French word meaning the HANGED-MAN and as used here is a reference to the 12th card of the Major Acanum of the Tarot, but is also used here in reference to the 19th Century mystic outsider poet Gérard de Nerval who hung himself after being rejected by a safehouse on a cold January evening in 1855. |
"La rue de la Vieille-Lanterne, mort de Gérard de Nerval" by Gustave Doré
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Gérard de Nerval was an eccentric literary figure, mystic, and pioneer of the avant-garde from the 19th Century who was made an outsider and finally 'suicided by society'. In the 1830’s, Nerval was an integral member of the short-lived anti-bourgeois collective known as the Bouzingo, a preeminent gang of artistic rebels pre-dating Dada by almost a century. He is well-remembered for his collection of 12 cryptic and mystical sonnets known as “Les Chimères” and for the book of prose containing his dreams and hallucinations known as “Aurelia” found tucked in his pocket at his death . He is also remembered for his outrageous behavior in his youth and for the fits of madness that forced him in and out of asylums for the last 10 years of his life.
Tragically, while on a late night walk in the cold, Nerval was turned away from a safehouse and as a consequence committed suicide by hanging in the Rue de la Vieille-Lanterne on January 26, 1855. I am currently working on a historical biography of the Bouzingo entitled "Bouzingo Means Noise: Freaks, Weirdos, Visionaries, and Outsiders".
"Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world."
- Gérard de Nerval
Nerval committed suicide because he was literally pushed outside into the cold night. Pendu metaphorically stands as a place where outsiders are welcomed so that they will not be forced to such extreme actions. |
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Illustration from the Rider-Waite deck drawn by artist Pamela Colman Smith, 1909.
'inverted symbol of sulphur'
Lapis philosophorum
Elixir
The 'open hand' has represented human creativity in the symbols of many ancient cultures. This is an open left-hand which represents an identification with Left-Hand Path practices.
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5 Senses
7 Chakras
5 + 7=12
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4 points of the tau cross (man)
3 points of the triangle (spirit)
3 X 4=12
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Pendu = 539 = 7x77
(Greek Gematria)
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Pendu = 309
(Agrippa's Latin Gematria)
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3+0+9 = 12 = 12th Trump
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Pendu = 360 = Aiwaz, Desire
(English Qabalah, Golden Dawn)
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Inversion as Subversive Aktion
"Le Pendu - The Hanged-man, is the initiate into mysteries. He understands the truth because he sees it from a different angle."
Le Pendu is the 12th card of the Major Arcana from the Tarot. The number 12 in Numerology and Astrology refers to cycles, seasons, completion, and endurance. Example: 12 months / 12 Signs of the Zodiac / etc.
In the Tarot card (pictured to the Left), The left leg of the youth is crossed in back of the right "and his arms are folded behind his back in such away as to form a cross surmounting a downward pointing triangle. The figure thus forms an 'inverted symbol of sulphur' and, according to Levi, signifies the accomplishment of the Magnum Opus. The picture therefore depicts polarity temporarily triumphant over the spiritual principle of equilibrium. To attain the heights of philosophy, therefore, man must reverse (or invert) the order of his life."
- from "Secret Teachings of All Ages" by Manly Palmer Hall
FROM THE BOOK OF THOTH by Aleister Crowley
The Hanged Man (Le Pendu)
The Spirit of the Mighty Waters
Card Number: 12
Key Number: 23
Rulership: Water
Hebrew Letter: Mem
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Symbols of the Pendu Star...
1. Two double-lined circles, representing the Black Sun (first stage of Alchemy)
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2. The circle is divided with 12 lines creating a Zodiac Wheel.
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A 12-pointed star made of 4 overlapping triangles (Earth (N), Water (S), Air (E), Fire (W)) intersected by the lines of the Zodiac Wheel.
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A Pentagram is drawn using existing lines, 2 points facing up (Horns of Heresy).
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An Inverted Symbol of Sulphur (Final Stage, Great Work of the Alchemist) is drawn out of the base of the Pentagram. |
Learn more about Tarot and Le Pendu:
Tarot of the Bohemians: http://www.beyondweird.com/tarot/Bohemians/tob26.htm
L'Arbre du Dieu Pendu a book by Alejandro Jodorowsky was inspired by the Tarot. See Jodorowsky's writing on Tarot at http://www.hotweird.com/jodorowsky/tarot.html
Gnostic Teachings - http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/twenty-two-arcana/arcanum-12-transcription
Ritual Magick - http://www.ritualmagick.org/The+Hanged+Man+-+Thoth
Northvegr Foundation - http://www.northvegr.org/lore/sanctum/006.php
The Pythagorean Tarot - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/M12.html
The Hanged-Man on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_Man
Library of Images from the Tarot from the 18th Century to Present - http://trionfi.com/tarot/cards/12-hanged-man
The Hanged-Man on Tarot Journey - http://tarotjourney.net/tarot-cards/major-arcana/12-the-hanged-man |
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Le Pendu Femelle is featured in the top half of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. "... the Bride or the Pendu femelle is a 'projection' comparable to the projection of an 'imaginary entity' in 4 dimensions in our world of 3 dimensions (and even in the case of flat glass to a reprojection of these three dimensions on a surface of 2 dimensions)." - Marcel Duchamp
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Arcanum XII by Robert Rauschenberg |
Le Jeu du Pendu is what the french call the vocabulary game "Hangman"
Le Pendu - title for a song made famous by Jacques Brel
Ballade du Pendus - one of the most famous poems from French Medieval poet, François Villon
La Maison du Pendu (painting) - famous work by Paul Cezanne
L'Homme pendu; orchid - The French name means "hanged man" because of the shape of the orchid which looks like a hanging body.
Court-Pendu - A kind of apple
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*Penduis also a Punjabi word meaning simpleton, a perjorative similar to the word 'redneck'.
*Pendu Mazdoor Union - Punjabi Agricultural Labor Union
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Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation & Self-Hanging - On June 3, 2009 David Carradine was found naked, curled up inside a wardrobe with one end of a shoelace tied around his penis and the other end fastened around his neck. Both of his hands were bound with a cord which was also tied around his neck. |
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