VisionIntoArt-In-Residence: We Were Fridays (MATINEE)
About This Event
VisionIntoArt brings We Were Fridays (MATINEE) to National Sawdust as part of an in‑residence presentation. The collective, rooted in rock and pop and better known for live-facing, text-driven projects than for streaming releases, has presented hybrid events pairing music with literary material; this performance foregrounds concept and text rather than conventional concert spectacle.
About We Were Fridays
At National Sawdust, VisionIntoArt’s in-residence program presents *We Were Fridays* (Matinee), a jazz-leaning offshoot from a collective more often associated with rock and pop textures. The project sits in VisionIntoArt’s ongoing practice of building hybrid evenings where music shares the frame with literary source material and spoken language. In New York, this kind of cross-disciplinary format has become a recurring local vocabulary, and *We Were Fridays* uses it with restraint rather than spectacle. The result reads as a portrait of how stories travel when musicians treat text as a score.
About the Artist
VisionIntoArt
VisionIntoArt is a rock/pop-oriented performance group heard in New York City settings such as National Sawdust. The collective has presented hybrid events that place music alongside literary material, including *BOOK AND ALBUM LAUNCH: ARCHIVE OF DESIRE: Reimagining Cavafy's Sensual World*, credited to VisionIntoArt.