Crackhead Barney. Image courtesy the artist.
Live In-Person Event
Fri, June 13 at 7PM
Tickets $0-$25, pay what you can
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Virtual Live-Streamed Episodes
Sat, May 3 at 10AM
Sat, May 17 at 12PM
Sat, June 7 at 12PM
Free. Tune in virtually via Instagram Live @crackheadbarneyandfriends__ or Twitch @crackheadbarney
Live from Crackhead Barney’s sweat-soaked mattress comes In Bed with Crackhead Barney: The Bed Wench Podcast, a series of conversations with fellow artists, derelicts, sworn enemies, and strangers from Plenty of Fish, consummating her signature ambush street interviews under the sheets.
After getting down and dirty with guests during three steamy Saturday virtual broadcasts, 2025 Artist-in-Residence Crackhead Barney invites the public into her conjugal bed for a live, in-person podcast event at CPR on Friday, June 13, celebrating the imminent success of her 10,000-man Birthday Gang Bang Challenge.
Surprise guests to be announced.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Crackhead Barney was born in Jamaica, Queens to strict religious parents who immigrated to America from Northern Nigeria. She was raised in a one bedroom apartment with her siblings in an era before wokeness and identity politics ruled the cultural landscape and was always taunted for her immigrant African roots and dark complexion. She studied Fine Arts and Media at Hunter College and was told her artwork wasn't shit. Rejected from museums and galleries, she decided to take matters into her own hands and use the streets of NYC as her canvas, painting pictures with her body across the landscape without the need to satisfy the desires of the cultural institutions. Her street performances garnered attention and she began to go viral all over the Internet with people reacting in confusion, laughter, anger, pity, concern, and all the other emotions available to humans. Rejecting any hierarchies that didn't feature her at the very pinnacle, she naturally was attracted to social media where she could form a universe centered on her performance art. She began a “Crackhead Barney and Friends” account on Instagram and TikTok where she’s developed a cult of personality supportive of her creative practice.