Armageddon Beachparty

Armageddon Beachparty

Armageddon Beachparty is the fluid collaboration of the married, Detroit native Artist duo Kozma & Motu. Creating Contemporary Pop Surrealist Art together since 2013, their work explores ancient cultural & spiritual beliefs blending the realms of the subconscious from an intrinsically modern perspective. Showcasing an ethos of ever-evolving character-driven concepts, they’re known for creating a wide range of paintings, murals, sculptures & art installations. Their Art has been exhibited Nationally at Galleries & Festivals around the country in addition to a brick & mortar Gallery & Music Venue – The Armageddon Beachparty Lounge – dedicated to their Art & Community in Detroit.
“The Creative Joie De Vivre of Armageddon Beachparty: Surviving & Thriving as Artists at the End of the World”
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines.” – Jay Griffiths

2020 started off for us as a year abounds with excitement & possibilities on the horizon as it was for many creative professionals. Amazing art, installations, events & adventures all awaited. However, within only a few months of the year, the entire world changed & along with it came a journey of new but unexpected experiences.

At the dawning of this new age of creativity, we’d like to discuss how we approached these uncharted waters throughout the past roller-coaster of a year as we look ahead to the new potential that the future holds!

As artists, gallery, venue owners, we learned fairly early on that in order to survive it’s imperative to be resourceful and able to adapt.

  • Stay positive & creative, try not to let yourself get caught in a rut. But if you do, don’t give yourself a hard time – take the time to relax & center yourself.
  • Build-up & hold onto your important relationships with those you care about. Having/developing a solid base of close friends has been really important for so many of us, especially during these unprecedented times.
  • Research Grants & other emergency relief funding, they can make a huge difference.
  • Platforms such as Zoom & Twitch have been immensely helpful in continuing to engage our audience & community. Although they’re not perfect & weren’t meant for much of what they’re now being utilized for they’re the base of what is making most virtual events possible right now. For the arts & entertainment industry, which other than going virtual has otherwise been brought to a grinding halt they’ve been an imperative resource.
  • Social media outreach & promotion has now more than ever become a primary way of communicating with our networks & beyond as a creative, business &/or brand its vital in order to get the word out about what you’re doing.
  • Working on the virtual nightclub platform “”Full Tilt Social Club”” that we’ve been helping develop during the pandemic & being part of the amazing team making all of that happen.
  • Seeing our friends & cohorts such as the Vau de Vire Society, Haute to Death, Burlesque Galaxy & many more + Festivals such as Electric Forest & LIB all having success in creating streaming content.
  • Becoming part of the NIVA organization (National Independent Venue Association) & having that support system as a venue owner during these strange times.
We’ve felt for a long time that you’ve got to experience a semblance of darkness in order to fully appreciate the light. Meaning that there are certain trials & tribulations in life that you’ll likely experience that will better inform your journey on this earth & help you to become a better, more well-rounded person in the long run. 2020 will historically be one of those years for more of us collectively than ever before but with love, hope & determination we all have the potential to approach 2021 with more wisdom, strength & resolve than we had before.

A funny thing about being known as Armageddon Beachparty is that an armageddon or apocalypse doesn’t inherently mean the literal “”end of the world”” in the larger sense. It’s symbolic & more so means, an end to a certain period of time or way of being, an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known & a transition into something new. Let’s do our best to celebrate this transition with positivity looking ahead. Let’s make the best of this Armageddon Beachparty!

Armageddon Beachparty

Armageddon Beachparty is the fluid collaboration of the married, Detroit native Artist duo Kozma & Motu. Creating Contemporary Pop Surrealist Art together since 2013, their work explores ancient cultural & spiritual beliefs blending the realms of the subconscious from an intrinsically modern perspective. Showcasing an ethos of ever-evolving character-driven concepts, they’re known for creating a wide range of paintings, murals, sculptures & art installations. Their Art has been exhibited Nationally at Galleries & Festivals around the country in addition to a brick & mortar Gallery & Music Venue – The Armageddon Beachparty Lounge – dedicated to their Art & Community in Detroit.
“The Creative Joie De Vivre of Armageddon Beachparty: Surviving & Thriving as Artists at the End of the World”
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines.” – Jay Griffiths

2020 started off for us as a year abounds with excitement & possibilities on the horizon as it was for many creative professionals. Amazing art, installations, events & adventures all awaited. However, within only a few months of the year, the entire world changed & along with it came a journey of new but unexpected experiences.

At the dawning of this new age of creativity, we’d like to discuss how we approached these uncharted waters throughout the past roller-coaster of a year as we look ahead to the new potential that the future holds!

As artists, gallery, venue owners, we learned fairly early on that in order to survive it’s imperative to be resourceful and able to adapt.

  • Stay positive & creative, try not to let yourself get caught in a rut. But if you do, don’t give yourself a hard time – take the time to relax & center yourself.
  • Build-up & hold onto your important relationships with those you care about. Having/developing a solid base of close friends has been really important for so many of us, especially during these unprecedented times.
  • Research Grants & other emergency relief funding, they can make a huge difference.
  • Platforms such as Zoom & Twitch have been immensely helpful in continuing to engage our audience & community. Although they’re not perfect & weren’t meant for much of what they’re now being utilized for they’re the base of what is making most virtual events possible right now. For the arts & entertainment industry, which other than going virtual has otherwise been brought to a grinding halt they’ve been an imperative resource.
  • Social media outreach & promotion has now more than ever become a primary way of communicating with our networks & beyond as a creative, business &/or brand its vital in order to get the word out about what you’re doing.
  • Working on the virtual nightclub platform “”Full Tilt Social Club”” that we’ve been helping develop during the pandemic & being part of the amazing team making all of that happen.
  • Seeing our friends & cohorts such as the Vau de Vire Society, Haute to Death, Burlesque Galaxy & many more + Festivals such as Electric Forest & LIB all having success in creating streaming content.
  • Becoming part of the NIVA organization (National Independent Venue Association) & having that support system as a venue owner during these strange times.
We’ve felt for a long time that you’ve got to experience a semblance of darkness in order to fully appreciate the light. Meaning that there are certain trials & tribulations in life that you’ll likely experience that will better inform your journey on this earth & help you to become a better, more well-rounded person in the long run. 2020 will historically be one of those years for more of us collectively than ever before but with love, hope & determination we all have the potential to approach 2021 with more wisdom, strength & resolve than we had before.

A funny thing about being known as Armageddon Beachparty is that an armageddon or apocalypse doesn’t inherently mean the literal “”end of the world”” in the larger sense. It’s symbolic & more so means, an end to a certain period of time or way of being, an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known & a transition into something new. Let’s do our best to celebrate this transition with positivity looking ahead. Let’s make the best of this Armageddon Beachparty!