Daniel McKernan

Daniel McKernan is a New York based artist, musician and curator. He is now focused on his new music project Protection with debut releases scheduled for early 2013 on the new label, Formlessness Press. He recently mixed live video projections for the UK premiere performance of Cyclobe at Antony Hegarty's Meltdown Festival in London in August 2012. He has also worked on the live video projections for Thighpaulsandra's and Black Sun Productions' live performances throughout Europe and performed with Coil in NYC for their only North American performance with Balance. His interactive video installations in NY galleries include Is Evolution Evil? featuring Amanda Lepore and The Magick H8-Ball featuring Sophia Lamar. He has curated two lineups of experimental 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 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 last short film, Whoever Whatever, a collaboration with Sophia Lamar with an original soundtrack by cellist John Contreras (Marc Almond, Current 93), premiered in NYC in 2011 and has since screened at film festivals in Uruguay, Israel, UK, Ireland, Spain, and Canada.