Portland's Own Ambiguously Gay Duo Rocks Your Cell Phone

By Michael Byrne
WILLAMETTE WEEK
April 4, 2007

"Like people who still shoot black-and-white film for reasons other than being old-school, Hooliganship credits its music's basic qualities to self-imposed technical limitations. The duo relies on and embraces the crude tools at its disposal: simple computer-mixing software, distortion and a stripped-down rock arsenal of bass and keys. Despite (or perhaps because of) its musical simplicity, Hooliganship is also an A/V band, performing to dizzyingly patterned videos and blocky Flash animations. The video element doesn't just mimic the duo's sound; it lends coherency to Hooliganship's otherwise short, isolated tracks (my Hooliganship ringtone is an entire song). Doulgeris compares it to Italo Calvino's collections of microfiction—Cosmicomics or Invisible Cities—short pieces that are incoherent without some larger idea to bind them."

East Burnside Report on First Friday

By Jeff Jahn
PORT
February 5, 2006

"The best stuff was Peter Burr's really screwed up magazine collages enhanced with puff paint. I've seen literally thousands of artists try to do this sort of thing, but Burr gets it right. The scale constantly shifts and the menace of the image overload is very palpable. His best one was Bountiful Little Dudes #10 = Front Massage. He's like the child of James Rosenquist and Peter Saul... With Jorg Immendorf as his nanny. I like these and it will be interesting to see this young artist develop."

By Josh Tyson
TIME OUT CHICAGO
December 15, 2005

"Through the door and to the right, a portable DVD player sits on a small pedestal with attached headphones, supplying a sort of fueled electronic rock that provide wings for Hooliganship's kaleidoscopic video art. Sucking liberally from a deep, deep well of pop-culture minutuae and pulling up fragments of dated arcade fighting games like Darkstalkers and Samurai Shodown II - among many other oddities - Hooliganship dunks everything into a rigorous and compelling stew that is difficult to pull away from."

By Carrie Schneider
PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER
June 17, 2004

"Peter Burr’s sassy Bountiful Little Dudes #1-9 is a series of collaged images appropriated from 1950s and early 1960s magazines. Burr creates scenes of blissful domestic life -- children congregating around the home stereo system, mothers and daughters working and observing in the kitchen -- and turns them on their heads by sprinkling in images from bodybuilding and porno mags. The tanned, greased, hairless torsos and limbs contrast the innocent fireplaces, refrigerators and bundt cakes. The collages are then coated with gloss medium and outlined in neon puff paint -- creating an overall sense of tainted nostalgia, of loss for the best."