Gallery: Station to Station Launches With Flips, Whips, and Guitars That Rip

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    *The Kansas City Marching Cobras laid it down for the crowd with their energetic and hypnotic percussion and choreography.*
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    *People removed their shoes before walking into Urs Fischer's white, pristine, and fog-filled yurt.*
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    *While folks were asked to take their shoes off before entering Urs Fischer's yurt, there were no rules prohibiting the occasional make-out session.*
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    *Rirkrit Tiravanija's goodie bag for attendees contained a shirt that said "Tofu kills people," a reference to an inside joke after a guest in a pop-up kitchen announced the statement to a crowd.*
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    *The Kansas City Marching Cobra's used drumsticks to make a beat on a cement wall during a dinner break.*
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    *Olaf Breuning's smoke bomb installation colored the sky as the sun set over Manhattan.*
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    *Experimental punk band No Age--Dean Allen Spunt on drums and Randy Randall on guitar--took the stage for a full set after first joining the Kansas City Marching Cobras.*
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    *Yurts glowed from within as the sun set over the Manhattan skyline.*
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    *Whip-cracker Chris Camp stunned a crowd as he snapped out staccato percussion while auctioneers created songs out of classic auctioneer chants.*
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    *YOSHIMIO--from the Japanese experimental music group* Boredoms*--sings and plays the drums on stage alongside Hisham Akira Bharoocha and Ryan Sawyer.*
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    *Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos and Chris Simon share a moment as YOSHIMIO, Hisham Akira Bharoocha and Ryan Sawyer performed.*
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    *Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, better known as Ariel Pink, riles up the crowd with Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.*
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    *Ballerina Lilja Rúriksdóttir (center), David Norsworthy and Maximilian Cappelli-King perform a dance choreographed and directed by Jonah Bokaer. The piece was performed in slow motion with incredible precision.*
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    *New York City duo Suicide have managed to destroy a crowd since the 80s. The closing act for the* Station to Station *launch event, Martin Rev banged on the keyboard, sometimes even with his elbow, as Alan Vega chanted into the mic on stage.*
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