Joe Ahearn, Curator of Performance and Installation, is a leading voice in the national network of underground music spaces. Since 2008, Ahean has been resident curator at the Silent Barn, a premier underground music space, where he has curated innumerable music shows, book releases, and artist made video game exhibitions. Ahearn is also the Managing Director of Showpaper, a non-profit, bi-weekly arts and music newsprint with a 60-volunteer staff pool and a circulation of ten thousand. He is also Founder and Event Organizer of SleepWhenDeadNYC, a series of inter-organizational, multi-disciplinary, collaborative cultural events based in unusual locations throughout the city.
Currently at the Clocktower, Ahearn is organizing the Moral Kombat performance series and curating the Above the Law performance series and the Time Sync Residency Project.
