DADDY

There are, and have been, multiple artists with this name, including: 1) Daddy is a San Diego based alt rock band 2) Daddy is an American punk/goth band 3) Daddy is an American five-piece band with Tommy Womack and Will Kimbrough 4) Daddy is American duo James Franco & Tim O'Keefe 5) Daddy is a Sri Lankan band 6) DADDY was a rock band from the 2000s 1) Daddy is the sparkly alt rock brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Brooke Patterson and bassist Jessica Taylor 2) Daddy is an American punk/goth band 3) Daddy is an American five-piece band with Tommy Womack and Will Kimbrough 4) Daddy is American musical duo James Franco and Timothy O'Keefe. The motivation behind Daddy is to push beyond the sonic space of music into the surrounding ecology. Daddy investigates the territories of film/video, installation, and performance while simultaneously exploring the connections that form between them. While sampling has been an established and prevalent method of modern music making, Daddy’s approach moves beyond the ‘art of sampling’ into the act of appropriation. Not just appropriating a genre of music, but the moments it inhabits, and the characters that embody it. Like many bands before them, Franco and O’Keefe met as students in art school. While in school, they collaborated on many projects including Franco’s 2011 Endless Idaho installation at the Gagosian Gallery in L.A. before forming Daddy in late 2011. Drawing from the individual practices of both Franco and O’Keefe, Daddy brings together the interests and talents of these two artists. Franco continues his exploration of identity. Through appropriating and recontextualizing material from his work as an actor, director, and individual, he questions the existing boundaries between.