Goings On | 03/24/2021

Contents for March 24, 2021 (Scroll down for more information):

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1. Lorin Roser & Nina Kuo, FF Alumns, at Gallery 456, Manhattan, thru March 30
2. Guadalupe Maravilla, FF Alumn, now online in The New Yorker
3. Coco Fusco, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, selected by American Academy of Arts and Letters ‘21
4. Zachary Fabri, FF Alumn, selected for 2021 NYC-Based Artist Residency
5. Katya Grokhovskly, Modesto Jimenez, FF Alumns, receive Brooklyn Arts Council grants ‘21
6. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, live online April 27
7. Laurie Anderson, Sur Rodney (Sur), FF Alumns now online in The Guardian
8. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, now online
9. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, named finalist for Lambda Literary Awards 2021
10. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online in White Hot Magazine
11. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, Spring news
12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online in the Provincetown Banner and more
13. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, now online in Flaunt Magazine
14. Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, FF Alumns, live online March 30
15. Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, live online March 27-28
16. Mark Bloch, Lorin Roser, FF Alumns, now online in White Hot Magazine
17. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, now online in the New York Times
18. Gearoid Dolan, FF Alumn, in NYC Independent Film Festival 2021
19. Gia Forakis, FF Member, now online at https://www.gfandco.org/whats-next/coming-up-next

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*Franklin Furnace invites you to the opening of HISTORIAS, live online, tonight at 7 pm est.

HISTORIAS
March 24, 7-8pm EST
please register at https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias-event/
por favor registrese en https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias-event/

You are cordially invited to Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. & Pratt Institute Library ‘s 6th Annual Live at the Library Exhibition, HISTORIAS. This visual art bilingual exhibition presents online images of 40+ political artworks and multiples created by 15+ Argentine artists from the 1970s through 2020, with essays, memoirs, interviews and a timeline – all in Spanish and English.

Esta cordialmente invitado a En Vivo en la Exposicion de La Biblioteca VI. Esta exhibición bilingüe de arte visual presenta imágenes en línea de más de 40 obras de arte políticas y múltiples creadas por más de 15 artistas argentinos desde la década de 1970 hasta 2020, con ensayos, memorias, entrevistas y una cronología, todo en Español e Inglés.

The public is cordially invited to the virtual opening and reception for HISTORIAS on March 24, 2021, The Argentine National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.

El público está cordialmente invitado a la inauguración y recepción virtual de HISTORIAS el 24 de marzo de 2021, Día Nacional del Recuerdo de la Verdad y la Justicia de Argentina.

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1. Lorin Roser & Nina Kuo, FF Alumns, at Gallery 456, Manhattan, thru March 30

“Outscape Escape” Exhibit
March 18 – March 30, 2021
Gallery 456
456 Broadway (at Grand) 3rd fl. NYC
Artist: Lorin Roser

Exhibit of 3d animations, digital prints, artist book , models. Lorin Roser with Chinese Am. roots, presents a world animated by extraordinary architectural abstractions and unconventional forms generated by mathematical constructs and code. He sculpts with 3d moving video shapes created by computer simulations of natural laws. The invented buildings combine features of organic shapes and man-made mechanisms as an alternative understanding of our future within the Asian diaspora experience. Presenting pagoda designs and earlier ties to the ancestry of railroad workers in videos there is a tribute to noted artists and heroes (multicultural community leaders and survivors) some collaborated with Nina Kuo artist .These pieces have all undergone various stages of appropriation and transformation. These images belong to a system composed of references that recall Metabolism‘s reality and memory’s mythical powers. They resemble urban dreams of alienation and hybridity often imagined alongside the expressionistic yet futuristic experiences he has heightened and made as an escape. Exhibition is by appointment only. RSVP to events@caacarts.org

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2. Guadalupe Maravilla, FF Alumn, now online in The New Yorker

please visit this link:

https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/guadalupe-maravilla

thank you.

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3. Coco Fusco, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, selected by American Academy of Arts and Letters ‘21

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4. Zachary Fabri, FF Alumn, selected for 2021 NYC-Based Artist Residency

please visit this link:

https://madmimi.com/p/69ed121?o=fs&fbclid=IwAR1RvdftZra5EpZRkrXx6w9SOKk5wYOSG9NT3WycrSlAqYf87VCdgsOf0hM

thank you

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5. Katya Grokhovskly, Modesto Jimenez, FF Alumns, receive Brooklyn Arts Council grants ‘21

please visit this link:

https://grantees.brooklynartscouncil.org/2021/

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6. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, live online April 27

PADILLA’S SHADOW

A Commemorative Act in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Poet’s Confession
A virtual performance that will be streamed via social media
Date: April 27th, 2021

On April 27, 2021, twenty Cuban intellectuals will perform a choral reading of the confession of poet Heberto Padilla in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his legendary auto-da-fe. The collective performance will be directed by Coco Fusco, with design by Hamlet Lavastida. The performance will be streamed online via Facebook and other social networks.

Heberto Padilla’s confession took place on April 27, 1971 at the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba, immediately after his release after thirty-six days of imprisonment and interrogation by Cuban state security agents. This ritualized public penance, in which he denounced himself, his wife and several close friends as counterrevolutionaries, sent shockwaves through literary circles and altered the world’s view of the Cuban revolution. The confession was transcribed, published and distributed to embassies and press agencies as proof of the Cuban government’s right to imprison the poet and strip him of his professional rights. However, the gesture failed as political theater and was seen abroad as Cuba’s version of a Stalinist show trial. As a result of the negative international response, the film of the confession made by documentary filmmaker Santiago Alvarez was suppressed.

The event took place before an audience of Padilla’s colleagues and served as a warning to the Cuban intelligentsia and a harbinger of what was to follow: a decade in which dozens of Cuban artists and writers were banished from public life.

“Why do we have to remember Padilla’s tragic submission to the authority of the state?” asks the project’s director, Coco Fusco. “Fifty years later, Cuban intellectuals are still fighting for the right to have rights, for the legitimacy of independent thought and creative endeavor. And they continue to be subjected to arbitrary arrests, harsh interrogations and social death. They live in Padilla’s shadow”.

Padilla’s Shadow: A Commemorative Act is a project of the San Isidro International Movement and 27N.

More information: coco.fusco@gmail.com

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7. Laurie Anderson, Sur Rodney (Sur), FF Alumns now online in The Guardian

please visit this link:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/18/new-yorkers-at-home-sally-davies-in-pictures?fbclid=IwAR3mooTLl_de7EnH1jtFB925EWmDLQDkO4l0khh9dWH7oHFyVOpM9c-BDhA

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8. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, now online

please visit this link:

https://mailchi.mp/75d7e3dfa931/the-interior-beauty-salon-out-in-the-city

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9. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, named finalist for Lambda Literary Awards 2021

please visit this link:

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10. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online in White Hot Magazine

Joseph Nechvatal’s art review of the Eaux d’artifice show in Le Théâtre des Expositions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris has been published at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.

You can read the review at:
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/book-review-eaux-d-artifice/4906

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11. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, Spring news

please visit this link:

https://mailchi.mp/5d38b7d4c026/the-latest-7626193?e=864d4e492

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12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online in the Provincetown Banner and more

The Great Wonder proposal for Dublin City Hall

“After potato submission, artist Jay Critchley eyes new projects in ancestral lands”:
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/provincetown-banner/2021/03/07/jay-critchley-provincetown-artist-continues-irish-pursuits/4608906001/
TEDx Talk: A portrait of the artist as a corporation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbGAUoXRAI&feature=youtu.be
For Jay Critchley’s website and to join the mailing list, visit:
www.jaycritchley.com

Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/jay.critchley.56

Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/jaycritchley/

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13. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, now online in Flaunt Magazine

please visit this link:

https://flaunt.com/content/susan-kleinberg-perceiving-courage

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14. Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, FF Alumns, live online March 30

Circus Amok! presents
The Idles of March
March 30 @ 7:30 pm

Jessica Lurie, David Thompson, Jules Skloot, Heather Green, Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson.

Dances. Saxophones. Arias.

https://www.facebook.com/circusamok

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15. Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, live online March 27-28

Feeding on Light, a play about Simone Weil written and directed by Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, will stream live online on March 27th and 28th, 2021.The times/dates for the free screenings are now:

Saturday, March 27, 1 p.m. EST
Saturday, March 27, 7 p.m. EST
Sunday, March 28, 7 p.m. EST

For live connection, visit:

https://www.purchase.edu/academics/theatre-arts/performances/

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16. Mark Bloch, Lorin Roser, FF Alumns, now online in White Hot Magazine

Mark Bloch has written this article about Lorin Roser, the downtown Manhattan improv musician, architect, and master of digital special effects.

https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/outscape-escape-at-gallery-456/4908

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17. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, now online in the New York Times

please visit this link:

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18. Gearoid Dolan, FF Alumn, in NYC Independent Film Festival 2021

Gearoid Double good news: I got 2 films accepted into the New York City Independent Film Festival 2021!!!

A short that premiered in Doc NYC 2020 documentary film festival titled “Protest: Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality, NYC 6-28-2020” and a feature length documentary on accessibility in the New York City transit system for people with disabilities titled “The Biggest Obstacle”.

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19. Gia Forakis, FF Member, now online at https://www.gfandco.org/whats-next/coming-up-next

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS IN 2021
RE-ENVISIONING THE CREATIVE PROCESS, ONE THOUGHT AND ONE ACTION AT A TIME
presenting
A GF&CO 3C (Creative Collective Ceremony)

This is Not a Cure: A Ceremony for Healing

An entirely free, fully accessible, and wholly original performance-based video ceremony intended to bring a sense of healing from all forms of loss.

You can watch the video at this link:
https://www.gfandco.org/whats-next/coming-up-next

A GF&CO Member Collaboration
Conceived & Directed by Gia Forakis

Featuring GF&CO Members:
Adam Boncz, Darya Gauthier, Sharahn LaRue, Randolph Curtis Rand,
Jens Rasmussen, Stephanie Regina, Juju Stulback

Music:
Awakening, Composed & Performed by Katie Down ©.2021
Bacocho Sunsets, by Undersea Poem©.2010

Help the Healing Go Viral. Our project was first launched on March 19th, the eve of the Spring Equinox, the 10-Year Anniversary of GF&CO, and the Birthday of our Artistic Director, and Founder, Gia Forakis. We welcome you to celebrate this meaningful confluence of events with us by sharing our free video ceremony with your friends, your families, your social media, your email contacts, and your communities. Our dream is to reach as many people as possible, world wide, with healing intentions. Share Big. Share Often. Share Again. Let’s come together and begin to heal.
With Gratitude
GF&CO

GF&CO 3Cs are devised with the intention to offer a transporting experience into the sacred, mystical, and liminal realms of ceremony: ceremonies for awakening a vision of possibility and new beginnings through an encounter with the transcendent and transformative powers found in the ancient origins of art and performance.

GF&CO | 233 OCEAN PARKWAY, STE 3A, BROOKLYN NY 11218.

STAY INFORMED:
GFandCOinfo@gmail.com
https://www.gfandco.org/whats-next/coming-up-next

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Goings On is compiled weekly by Harley Spiller