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See Artist David Ellis’s ‘Percussive Cockfight’

Last night, at the new Theory store on Gansevoort Street, Brooklyn-based painter and video artist David Ellis debuted his new performance piece, Hell’s Angel vs. DJ RoyOwl, a “percussive cockfight†between a mechanized, Ellis-designed drum sculpture and DJ JTram (playing the role of DJ RoyOwl), dressed in a bird costume made from drinking straws. What does any of this mean? We sent Vulture’s Andrew Goldstein and Jonah Green to find out.

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See Artist David Ellis’s ‘Percussive Cockfight’