{"id":70551,"date":"2017-06-29T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/for-moogfest-michael-stipe-lonnie-holley-and-transhuman-futurists-commune-down-south"},"modified":"2017-07-05T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:00:42","slug":"for-moogfest-michael-stipe-lonnie-holley-and-transhuman-futurists-commune-down-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/for-moogfest-michael-stipe-lonnie-holley-and-transhuman-futurists-commune-down-south","title":{"rendered":"For Moogfest, Michael Stipe, Lonnie Holley, and Transhuman Futurists Commune Down South"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the oldest and largest art magazine by circulation in the world. For the first time, it has #transhumanism in its search engines. A main task of mine all these years has been spreading that word and concept. My talk at #Moogfest on the Immortality Bus is covered a bit in this story.<\/p>\n

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L ast month, as bidding was underway at Sotheby\u2019s for what would prove to be a stratospheric Jean-Michel Basquiat sale, Lonnie Holley, a 67-year-old artist who was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and has worked for decades in various folksy and homegrown modes, was preparing to take the stage at a sports bar in Durham, North Carolina. He was sitting at a table in the back, in a place that stank of burgers and beer. An audience of a few dozen had convened for the occasion, though it was hard to distinguish between Holley fans and regular denizens of the Bullpen, a joint next door to the stadium for the beloved local minor-league baseball team, the Durham Bulls. Night-game lights were bright outside. Televisions above the bar showed the Bulls making easy work of the Gwinnett Braves, in town for a weekend series from Georgia. The air was thick and languid in the way it tends to be on a deep, hot Southern summer night.<\/p>\n

Holley is a hero to some: as an artist, he has made formidable paintings and sculptures that have been collected by the Souls Grow Deep Foundation and exhibited by museums and institutions all over, and as a musician, he has forged an unforgettable sound with a stirring voice and stewing electronics. For all his accomplishments, though, Holley remains underappreciated\u2014certainly not as known in the worlds of either art or music as he should be.<\/p>\n

So first came an introduction. Tim Duffy, the founder of Music Maker Relief Foundation, an organization devoted to preserving musical traditions of the South, took to a microphone and lavished Holley with praise, running down a list of laurels and markers of a legacy still in the making. \u201cThumbs up for Mother Universe,\u201d Duffy said, thankful for the cosmic conception of an artist he clearly revered.<\/p>\n

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