CREDITS: "Talking Beasts" design by Zack Kinney, directed by Kevin Malony
"Altarpiece" directed by Joseph Keckler. Editing and design collaboration: Ned Stresen-Reuter. Shot by Laura Terruso. Special thanks to Katja Loher.
"Talking Beasts" directed by Joseph Keckler. Director of photography: Laura Terruso. Edited by Ned Stresen-Reuter. Produced in conjunction with Cole Nahal. Make-up: Tyler Stone and Sequinette. Special thanks to Dennis Rolland and Gerry Visco. Featuring Andy Toad, Mike Hanf, Dan Bartfield, Glenn Marla, Sequinette, Dennis Rolland, Saori Tsukada, Gerry Visco, Katie Madonna Lee, Tyler Stone, and Louis Jordan.
"Dazzling."
-PAPER
"Downtown It Boy."
- The L Magazine
"An arresting display of vocal control and disarming wit, but Keckler is just warming up.... a tour de force of deconstruction."
-Baltimore City Paper
"Divine!"
-Time Out New York
"Joseph Keckler is the real deal and I can't recommend anyone more."
-BlackBook Magazine
"Skinny, disaster-bound, and young."
-New York Magazine
"One of the sharpest intellects I've had the pleasure to question."
- East Village Boys
"The kind of gifted one-offs that people assume are everywhere in New York but are actually as common as hens' teeth."
-Manhattan Users Guide
"A finely honed sense of the absurd."
- Irish Theatre Magazine
"Keckler proves that performance art can both push the scary boundaries and also warm the heart."
-Popnography
"Keckler is a hard man to pin down. Of course, we wouldn't want him any other way."
-The Village Voice
"One of the finest performances in years... an unmatched range, endless and flawless... The intimacy of Jeff Buckley with the swagger of Freddy Mercury."
- Alternative Blog NL
"Keckler's voice [has] extraordinary range, richness and malleability, as he sings from low baritone to glass-shattering falsetto."
-The Irish Times
"Although this writer and performer can flip styles as though responding to a switch, take on myriad voices, and draw on an extensive musical repertoire, his vocal skills are just one aspect of this gifted storyteller.... disarmingly articulate."
-Backstage
"Mesmerizing... an utter joy to watch... a craftsman in the truest sense... you can hear Keckler's words, his voice, his soul, reaching for the sublime."
-New York Cool
"Keckler commands the stage with erotic bravado, launches into dramatic monologues and embodies so many different personae that you can't help but wonder whether he's possessed by spirits or if his body cannot help but channel all of the voices in his head. Sensual, cathartic, overwrought and deeply philosophical, his psychotic twists and turns can bring his audience either to tears (from laughter) or to a numbed silence."
-New York Press
oseph Keckler is a singer and artist whose work takes form in music, interdisciplinary performance, video, and written narrative. He is interested in staging conversations among different art forms.
He was born in Michigan, in one of several towns that begin with the letter P and orbit the relative metropolis of Kalamazoo. He went on to train in painting and classical voice and move to New York City.
Joseph's concerts and performances have recently been presented by SXSW Music, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, La MaMa ETC, NP Contemporary Art Center, SF MOMA, Abrons Art Center and many other venues across the country and abroad. He has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Artist Colony and Yaddo Artist Colony.
Joseph's E.P, Featured Creatures was released last year in Italy by Transeuropa. He is currently working on musical projects, videos, and a collection of stories.
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