Contents for March 28, 2022
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1. Ogemdi Ude, FF Fund recipient 2021-22, at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan, March 31-April 2
2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Pablo Helguera, FF Alumns, at The Hispanic Museum and Library, Manhattan, March 28
3. Barbara Pollack, FF Alumn, at Izolyatsia Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
4. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, in T Magazine now online
5. Tish Benson, FF Alumn, now online at Patreon and Ko-Fi
6. Arantxa Araujo, Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Yali Romagoza, Jaguar Mary X, FF Alumns, at Emergenyc.org
7. Fred Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
8. Terry Berkowitz, Aaron Burr Society/Jim Costanzo, elin O’hara slavick, FF Alumns, at Proyectos Raul Zamudio, Brooklyn, thru April 24
9. Virginia Maksymowicz, FF Alumn, now online at Ceta Art Research Archive
10. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, April 23
11. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, at Bowdoin College Art Museum, thru June 5, and more
12. Jennifer Miller, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, April 11-12 and more
13. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY, April 2
14. Frank Gillette, Patrick Lichty, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that subliminal kid, Joseph Nechvatal, Nina Sobell, Nina Yankowitz, FF Alumns, at Southampton Arts Center, NY, opening April 23
15. Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, at Temple University, Philadelphia and at Harvestworks online, Apr. 4-8
16. Paul Zaloom, FF Alumn, now online at Youtube.com
17. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, new stories published at matterpress.com
18. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, April 19
19. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at Art Institute of Chicago
20. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now in Rain Taxi
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1. Ogemdi Ude, FF Fund recipient 2021-22, at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan, March 31-April 2
Ogemdi Ude’s new series of solos Dig/Hear/Sing/– premieres at Abrons Arts Center from March 31st to April 2nd. These shows function as a triptych, with a different solo performance each night.
In Dig/Hear/Sing/– Ude uses movement, voice, and installation to contend with distinct experiences of loss and her efforts to develop coping rituals in their aftermath. By charting the lasting marks that loss has made upon her, she opens a space for audiences to simultaneously process their own grief.
Jasmine Hearn will be providing live vocals for Dig and slowdanger are sound designers for Hear and Sing.
Come see one, two, or all three!
Dig/Hear/Sing/–
Abrons Art Center in the Experimental Theater (466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002)
March 31st-April 2nd at 7pm
Please purchase single tickets at the links here:
Dig March 31 https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/ogemdi-ude-dig/
Thank you.
If you are interested in seeing 2 or more pieces in the Dig/Hear/Sing/— series, you can receive a discounted ticket price! Learn more about our ticket packages. https://ci.ovationtix.com/209/store/packages
Accessibility:
There will be ASL interpretation for the April 1st performance of Hear and ASL interpretation and live audio description for the April 2nd performance of Sing.
If you are interested in seeing Dig and require either closed captioning or audio description, or if you are interested in seeing Hear and require audio description, please let me know and I will follow up with a process for receiving dubbed documentation.
Information on wheelchair accessibility can be found at the bottom of this page.
Abrons COVID-19 Safety Policies:
All audience members and visitors 5 years of age and older must show proof of full vaccination. Valid forms of proof of vaccination include: Vaccination card, photo of vaccination card that clearly show your name and dates of vaccination with matching photo ID, the NYC COVID Safe app, or the NYS Excelsior Pass.
Abrons highly encourages but will no longer require boosters for entry for all staff, performers, Residents, and audience members.
Abrons requires all audience members to wear masks.
Abrons Arts Center is not accepting any medical or religious exemptions from the vaccination policy. To discuss the possibility of reasonable alternative accommodations, please reach out to jharper@henrystreet.org a minimum of two weeks in advance.
Click here for more information regarding these policies: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/covid-safety-rules/#:~:text=Vaccination%20policy%20for%20children%205,to%20enter%20public%20indoor%20spaces
Ogemdi Akunna Ude
Pronouns: She, her, hers
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2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Pablo Helguera, FF Alumns, at The Hispanic Museum and Library, Manhattan, March 28
The Hispanic Museum and Library
Roundtable: Artists’ Perspectives on the Collection
Monday, March 28th, 2022 at 6:00PM
East Building Gallery
Space is limited. Reservation required
RVSP: events@hispanicsociety.org
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
In conjunction with the special exhibition Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, guest curator Dr. Madeleine Haddon will have an informative and insightful conversation with the Hispanic Society’s Vilcek Artist Research Fellows who have been doing investigative research on the collection related to their artistic practice, including: Blanka Amezkua, Cecile Chong, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Esperanza Cortez, Aurora de Armendi, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Pablo Helguera, Jessica Laguna, and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky. The conversation among these artists should provide for a thought-provoking and dynamic program.
Mesa Redonda: Nuevas Perspectivas sobre la Colección
Lunes, 28 de marzo 2022, a las 6:00PM
Galería del Edificio Este
Aforo limitado. Se necesita reservar
RVSP: events@hispanicsociety.org
Junto con la exposición, Nuestra Casa: Redescubriendo los Tesoros de la Hispanic Society Museo y Biblioteca, la comisaria de la muestra, la Dra. Madeleine Haddon, tendrá una conversación informativa y perspicaz con los becarios de la fundación Vilcek en la Hispanic Society: Blanka Amezkua, Cecile Chong, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Esperanza Cortez, Aurora de Armendi, Nicols Dumit Estevez, Pablo Helguera, Jessica Laguna, and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky. La conversación entre estos artistas promete ser un dinámico progama que invite a la reflexión
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3. Barbara Pollack, FF Alumn, at Izolyatsia Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
Art at a Time Like This presents
Must Establish Reality:
Ukrainian Artists under Siege
curated by Izolyatsia
New York—Art at a Time Like This is thrilled to present 6 artists who are currently making work in Ukraine, brought to our platform by the Izolyatsia Foundation, based in Kiev. While hunkered down in an underground shelter, these curators were able to solicit works from artists caught in the war and share their visual accounts with our audience. The six artists include conceptual artists Alevtina Kakhidze and Anton Karyuk, painter Kateryna Lysovenko, filmmaker Dana Kavelina, graphic artist Oleksa Mann and Sergey Zakharov aka Banksy of Donetsk.
“The rotting underbelly of any war is dehumanization,” Catherina Lisovenko wrote on Facebook after a harrowing crossing at the Ukrainian border, as reported by the Los Angeles Review of Books on March 8th. “Before they came, they dehumanized us. They accuse Ukraine of Nazism while burning our people and our cities.”
Even in the impossible conditions of a war zone, Ukrainian artists are making art, demonstrating in their own way the courageousness of this culture and people. As Russian troops press on around Ukraine, artists are among those on the front line with sculptors welding barriers of steel to ward of attackers and many more taking up arms and joining the soldiers. Even artists trapped in subways and shelters, even those fleeing Ukraine, are creating harrowing accounts that are unforgettable. It is ATLT’s mission to provide a platform for artists and curators facing just these conditions, where it seems almost impossible to think about art.
IZOLYATSIA is a non-profit, non-governmental platform for cultural initiatives, founded in 2010, based in Kyiv. This foundation aims to effect systemic change in Ukrainian society through the agency of cultural projects. The foundation is developing an institutional environment, which promotes networking between cultural agents and creates the necessary conditions for the emergence of new players. IZOLYATSIA orientates its activity toward the new Ukrainian generation that is involved in the creative and cultural sectors.
We will be sending honorariums to these individual artists. Please consider donating to IZOLYATSIA which is directing all its activities towards humanitarian aid and support of Ukrainians in need.
Donate to IZOLYATSIA: PayPal account – info@izolyatsia.org
Art at a Time Like This is a 501c3 not-for-profit arts organization that serves artists and curators facing the 21st century, presenting art in direct response to current events. Now, celebrating its second year in operation, ATLT has addressed a wide range of issues, from the pandemic and George Floyd’s murder to mass migration in Latin America and global warming. It has provided a platform for artists caught in crisis, from Mexico, India, Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Ukraine and the U.S. mass incarceration system. Our mission is to present artists and curators as thought leaders, envisioning our world in ways surpassing the imagination of politicians.
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4. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, in T Magazine now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/t-magazine/nina-simone-childhood-home.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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5. Tish Benson, FF Alumn, now online at Patreon and Ko-Fi
Started up
On
Patreon and Ko-fi
Please visit these links:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Pouring-Brain-Scenario-F2F2BT29U
https://www.patreon.com/LeticiaBenson
Thank you.
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6. Arantxa Araujo, Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Yali Romagoza, Jaguar Mary X, FF Alumns, at Emergenyc.org
Emerge welcomes the 28 new members of our community!
Flagship Emerge Program (in person, led by George Emilo Sánchez)
Autumn Newcomb
Aviya Hernstadt
Catherine Chen
Cristina Bartley Domínguez
Josiah Vásquez
Jovon Outlaw
kc jackperson
Maira Duarte
Mobéy Lola Irizarry
Naisha Solomon
Parker White
Yali Romagoza
Virtual Emerge Program (on Zoom, led by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio & Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles)
Aitor Flores (Barcelona)
Alexa Vásquez (Los Angeles)
Arantxa Araujo (Emerge alumna! NYC)
Ching-In Chen (Lake Forest Park, WA)
Dimple Shah (Karnataka, India)
Dora Selva (Rio de Janeiro)
Ikpemesi O (Bowling Green, OH)
Ivonne Navas Domínguez (Mexico City)
Jaguar Mary X (Kingston, NY)
Marilou Mariko Carrera (Chicago)
Monet Clark (Los Angeles)
Nina Terra (Paraty, Brazil)
Paola “Júpiter” Hernández Billip (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Raquel Karro (Rio de Janeiro)
Rosina Ivanova (Trondheim, Norway)
viento izquierdo ugaz (Lima, Perú)
EMERGENYC is an incubator for artist-activists interested in developing their creative voice, exploring the intersections of art and activism, and connecting to a thriving community of independent practitioners—most of them BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA+ folks.
First launched in 2008 at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute—and now housed at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange in collaboration with Abrons Arts Center—EMERGENYC offers varied entry points into art and activism, prioritizing process, discovery and reflection, and fostering a brave space for experimentation, risk-taking and community-building. Through in-person and virtual annual programs,
EMERGENYC encourages participants to take interdisciplinary leaps, mix styles and traditions, and develop incisive new work at the intersection of performance and politics. Over the years, EMERGENYC has activated a strong network of artivists—in NYC and beyond—who have built solidarity across differences, challenged dominant narratives through cultural resistance, and engaged in artistic world-making together.
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7. Fred Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Baltimore Museum Guards Take Seats at the Curators’ Table
Please visit the following link:
Thank you.
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8. Terry Berkowitz, Aaron Burr Society/Jim Costanzo, elin O’hara slavick, at Proyectos Raul Zamudio, Brooklyn, thru April 24
Lapdogs of War @ Empty Circle
499 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY
March 26- April 24, 2022
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9. Virginia Maksymowicz, FF Alumn, now online at Ceta Art Research Archive
You can now access a video recording of the March 9th 2022 Women’s Caucus for Art/CityLore/Cuchifritos Gallery panel, “How an Almost Forgotten Federal Program Kickstarted the Feminist Art Movement”
Please visit the following links:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SNr09Vph2wr6XhNmgQGOiSI3vGMKFQL_
(on the open-access, CETA Art Research Archive at )
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1udYKRxNOHJOWOV01e6ZNUMMw11psL71c
(on Google Drive. Feel free to share the link.)
Thank you.
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10. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, April 23
Hello everyone,
We are thrilled to participate in the V & A Museum Performance Festival. Saturday, April 23. Performances will be at 1pm and 3pm, duration 20 minutes.
Please visit the following link:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/season/2022/va-performance-festival-2022
Thank you.
Jody Oberfelder Projects (JOP) and guest dancers will perform an excerpt from the larger work Walking to Present in the John Madejski Garden fountain at the V & A, titled Splash Dance. Inscribing the pool in the center of the garden, we offer a dance both reverent and irreverent.
Choreography: Jody Oberfelder, in collaboration with performers Christopher Matthews, Jody Oberfelder, Maya Orchin, Andrew Sanger plus guest dancers: Rohan Dhupar, tim lytc, Genevieve Maxwell, Kate Page, Maya Takeda and Costumes: Katrin Schnabl. Performance will take place in Raphael Gallery 48a if poor weather.
Of course we hope it is not pouring rain! Also, we hope for perfect weather on Saturday, June 4th. Save the date—Walking to Present (Brooklyn,) an ambulatory performance starting at the Center for Brooklyn History moving into Cadman Plaza will be performed with a wonderful cast of NYC and UK dancers: Ching-I Chang, Aditi Dhruv, Vanessa Knouse, Christopher Matthews, Daniel Morimoto, Jody Oberfelder, Maya Orchin, Andrew Sanger, and Mark Willis. More on that soon.
Happy Spring and here’s to longer and brighter days. #nowar
Jody Oberfelder
Twitter: @V_&_A
Instagram: @vamuseum
Facebook: @victoriaandalbertmuseum
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11. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, at Bowdoin College Art Museum, thru June 5, and more
A retrospective of my work, “Marcia Resnick: As It Is Or Could Be” and eponymous book, published by Yale University Press, has opened at the Bowdoin College Art Museum, Bowdoin, Maine, USA (Feb 24-June 5, 2022). It will move to the Minneapolis Museum of Art (Aug 13-Dec 11, 2022) and then to the Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y. (Feb 10-June 18, 2023).
https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/news/2022/marcia-resnick-as-it-is-or-could-be.html
Please visit the following links for interviews:
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkpwyz/marcia-resnick-photography-1970s-new-york
https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/news/2022/marcia-resnick-interview.html
Thank you.
Best,
Marcia
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12. Jennifer Miller, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, April 11-12 and more
Pratt Institute’s
Performance and Performance Studies Program presents the 2022 MFA Thesis Festival:
Between You and I,
Five emerging artists from Pratt Institute’s MFA program in Performance and Performance Studies debut work at experimental performance venue Dixon Place and Pratt Institute’s Dekalb Gallery.
Between You And I: Mfa Thesis Performances By Rachel Austin, Kym Bernazky, Lila Klatz, Lizbeth Miscles Rivera, And Stephanie Woods
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002
Performances: APRIL 11-12, 2022, 7:30 PM
Installation By Lizbeth Miscles Rivera
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, DeKalb Hall, 331 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 Reception: May 12, 7:00-10:00 PM.
Exhibition: May 12-13, 2022, 10:00 Am- 8:00 PM
Pratt Institute’s Performance and Performance Studies program is pleased to announce its annual MFA thesis festival showcasing work from the five members of the graduating class of 2022.
Artists featured are: Rachel Austin, Kym Bernazky, Lila Klatz, Lizbeth Miscles Rivera, and Stephanie Woods.
The festival includes theater, choreography, sound art, and installation by the MFA candidates and will take place across two venues, Dixon Place and Pratt Institute’s Dekalb Gallery. “It’s been a thrill and an honor to work with these exciting artists. Please join us to celebrate their work,” says Jennifer Miller, coordinator of the graduate program.
April 11th and April 12th, 7:30 PM, Dixon Place
Bad Light by Rachel Austin
The Blue Hour by Kym Bernazky
Whale Patterns by Lila Klatz
Femme (Text)ures: BLENDINGBLEEDINGBORDERS by Lizbeth Miscles Rivera
Breathing Lessons for People Who Hate Being Told How to Breathe by Stephanie Woods May 12th and May 13th, DeKalb Gallery
Femme (Text)ures: What the Back of my Throat Knows by Lizbeth Miscles Rivera
For the detailed schedule and artist bios please visit: facebook.com/prattpps
About Pratt Institute’s MFA in Performance and Performance Studies:
Pratt Institute’s MFA in Performance and Performance Studies degree offers innovative, interdisciplinary training in the fields of performance studies and performance practice in one program. Through two years of graduate study, MFA candidates deepen their performance and art making practice, engage critical inquiry and theory, practice pedagogy, and apply community-based methodologies. This is a small and intensive program designed for students to experience the vibrant exchange across practice and theory, individualize their graduate study, and draw on the rich performance and cultural worlds of Brooklyn and New York City. Current program faculty include: Jennifer Miller, Paloma McGregor, Jenny Romaine, Karin Shankar, Julia Steinmetz, and David Thomson.
About Pratt Institute:
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is a global leader in higher education dedicated to preparing its 4,600 undergraduate and graduate students for successful careers in art, design, architecture, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, as well as a campus in Utica, New York (PrattMWP College of Art and Design), Pratt has an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression. Pratt’s programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country, and its faculty and alumni include the most renowned artists, designers, and scholars in their fields. ###
For media inquiries: Jennifer Miller, jmille11@pratt.edu
@pratt_pps
@pratt_pps /prattpps
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13. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY, April 2
Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, performs “Norm’s Memory Sale” as part of the exhibition “The Narrative of Things” at Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY, April 2, 6pm.
Instead of a straightforward yard sale, artist Norm Magnusson has created fictional provenances for the household curios, bric-a-brac and tchotchkes he wants to get rid of. The stories are humorous or poignant or just plain absurd and Magnusson will be performing a few of them along with the (often hilarious) musical interludes of pianist Steve Mosto.
“The Narrative of Things”, curated by Tamara Rafkin and featuring work by her, Shari Diamond, Kathleen Vance, and Magnusson will be on view through April 10.
Tickets for the performance can be reserved by emailing the gallery at hollandtunnelnewburgh@gmail.com and more information can be found on the gallery’s website: https://www.hollandtunnelgallery.com/
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14. Frank Gillette, Patrick Lichty, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that subliminal kid, Joseph Nechvatal, Nina Sobell, Nina Yankowitz, FF Alumns, at Southampton Arts Center, NY, opening April 23
Opening Reception:
Sat. April 23, 6-8 PM
Southampton Arts Center
25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York 11968
Exhibition Dates:
April 21 – June 4
Southampton Arts Center presents Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond, the first large-scale physical group exhibition of techspressionist artworks. The exhibition includes a selection of paintings, sculptures, NFTs, video works, animations, installation works and prints.
Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond includes the works of over 90 artists working with technology from more than 20 countries around the world including Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Canary Islands, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine and the United States.
Notable contemporary artists (as defined by Wikipedia) included in Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond include Victor Acevedo, Suzanne Anker, Frank Gillette, Clive Holden, Patrick Lichty, Chalda Maloff, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky , Steve Miller, Joseph Nechvatal, Michael Rees, Christine Sciulli, Nina Sobell, Anne Morgan Spalter and Nina Yankowitz. The term Techspressionism was coined in 2011 by artist Colin Goldberg and was first described as a movement in the WIRED article “If Picasso Had a MacBook Pro” in 2014.
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15. Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, at Temple University, Philadelphia and at Harvestworks online, Apr. 4-8
Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, Temple University onsite + Harvestworks online, Apr 4-8 World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / DONEGAL by Peter d’Agostino, and CRACT (Reference Center for Art, Science, and Technology) by Tania Fraga are new virtual installations featured at the Temple University Charles Library, Philadelphia and online at Harvestworks Digital Arts Center, New York.
World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / DONEGAL (2022) is a video-web-sculptural installation originally commissioned by Leonardo / Olats for Lovely Weather: Art & Climate Change, an exhibition at County Donegal’s Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland in 2010. Video walks were performed near and beyond the Centre at significant natural and cultural sites in Ireland, augmented by NASA satellite weather maps and climate data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The installation is composed of a green tent-like enclosure, a framed window, and a web portal. The enclosure contains a nine-channel video projection of the walks. They include: Arranmore Island, Doon Fort, Mt. Errigal, Inishkeel Island, Kilclooney Dolmen, Grianan of Aileach, Maghera Cave, Beltany Stone Circle, and Newgrange. The window with a transparent image of a wind turbine looks out at the urban landscape. Nearby is another flat screen with a solar powered light. An interactive website, located at the center of the space, displays live weather maps, climate data and quotations from scientific, technological, and poetical sources.
CRACT (Reference Center for Art, Science, and Technology) (2022), in-progress, will focus on promoting sustainability through the examination of behaviors and attitudes toward consumption practices and consideration of their consequences and impacts. Proposed interdisciplinary research and exhibitions in the arts, science and technology will range from aesthetic and poetic forms to new semiotic and sensory modes of communication. CRACT will emphasize the concept of Extended Durability to encourage the creation of long- lasting products with minimal environmental impact. The building will have a self-supporting industrial roof, an underground area for capturing and treating rainwater, a workshop space, a ground floor with indoor and outdoor spaces for exhibitions, workshops, and services, and a floor with areas for housing accommodations. The sewage will follow the Brazilian Company for Environment Preservation model for building septic tanks that recycle sewage through planting flowers and fruit trees.Photovoltaic solar panels, similar to those used for water heating, will provide electricity.
Support for the virtual installations: CSArts (Climate Sustainabilty and the Arts), Film & Media Arts Sustainability Fund, Temple University, and Harvestworks Digital Arts Center. [ harvestworks.org ]
BIOS
Peter d’Agostino’s pioneering video, photography, and new media projects have been exhibited internationally for over five decades. His work was in the biennial exhibitions of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gwangju, South Korea; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; National Gallery of Canada; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; CaixaForum, Barcelona; among others. D’Agostino’s grants and fellowships include: the National Endowment for the Arts, Pew Trusts, Onassis Foundation, Japan Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Laboratory, WNET, New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Italy as well as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and the Art / Sci Center University of California, Los Angeles. Surveys of his World-Wide-Walks projects were exhibited at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne Art Gallery, Bizkaia Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain; and Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City. The book, World-Wide-Walks / Peter d’Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural Virtual Frontiers (2019), was published by Intellect Press, UK and the University of Chicago Press, USA.
Tania Fraga is a Brazilian architect and artist. She holds a Ph.D. in the Communication and Semiotics Program, Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Until 2003 Dr Fraga was Professor and Coordinator of the Graduation Studies of the Art Institute at University of Brasilia, Brazil. She has been a member of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, USA, and the Advisory Research Committee of the Banff New Media Centre, Canada; a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department at The George Washington University, Washington DC, and an Artist-in-Residence at The Bemis Foundation, USA, with a grant from the Fulbright Commission. She works with computer art and has been showing and publishing her work in national and international exhibitions, lectures, workshops, seminars and conferences. Her research is related to virtual reality and the creation of artworks looking for the integration of affection among humans, virtual and physical objects through computer technology. Recent research deals with the integration of computer based artworks with neural technologies. Such artworks weave knowledge and artistic processes with computational technologies aiming creative results at integrating art, science and technology; results with poetic, aesthetic and functional qualities; results exploring emergency and agency for their construction, design and set up.
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16. Paul Zaloom, FF Alumn, now online at Youtube.com
New 5-min. comic puppet film SANTA AND THE WHALE by Paul Zaloom + Lynn Jeffries! Enjoying a well-deserved time off, Santa encounters The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as he goes yachting in the deep blue sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcxKrZPJjs8&lc=UgzpzvQILav-2pWvIxp4AaABAg
Please like, share, + slobber over the brief epic. Subscribe to YouTube channel FruitofZaloom. Made possible with support from Dixon Place, the Jim Henson Foundation, and our own fashion-forward pocketbooks!
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17. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, new stories published at matterpress.com
I have a new short story, “Strange Things,” in print in the lit journal Epoch and a very short one online at The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.
Please visit the following link:
https://matterpress.com/journal/2022/01/
Thank you.
Roberta Allen is the author of nine books, including three collections of micro/flash and short stories, a novel, a novella and a memoir. Her latest is The Princess of Herself, Stories. Her stories have been published in many journals, such as Conjunctions, Guernica, Open City and Bomb. She has been a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction. Also a conceptual artist, her work is in the collections of The Met Museum and MoMA. www.robertaallen.com
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18. Jeff McMahon, FF Alum, at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, April 19
Jeff McMahon will be bringing the DBR Lab, co-taught with Daniel Bernard Roumain/DBR from Arizona State University to National Sawdust in Brooklyn April 19 at 7pm. Our contributors/students will be presenting new work, as will Daniel and I. Guest performers Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Paola Prestini, and members of NJ Symphony!
Please visit the following link:
Thank you.
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19. Ray Johnson, FF alum, at Art Institute of Chicago
Caitlin Haskell Announced as the Director, Ray Johnson Collections and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago
Caitlin Haskell, the Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been announced as the museum’s Director of Ray Johnson Collections and Research. In this additional position, Haskell will guide and promote scholarship and interpretation of the Art Institute’s Ray Johnson holdings and act as a liaison between the museum and the Ray Johnson Estate. Working cross-departmentally in collaboration with colleagues in the museum’s Archives and Research Center, as well as Modern and Contemporary Art, Prints and Drawings, and Conservation and Science, she will coordinates the museum’s stewardship and growth of this art and archival collection to serve as a central resource to external scholars on the artist’s practice.
A scholar of twentieth-century art, Haskell’s research and writing address the production, critical reception, and legacies of the historical avant-gardes in Europe and the Americas. Her most recent exhibitions include Ray Johnson c/o, curated with Jordan Carter for the Art Institute of Chicago, and René Magritte: The Fifth Season for SFMOMA. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Davidson College.
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20. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now in Rain Taxi
The current print issue of “Rain Taxi” features a review of PARTY EVERYWHERE published by Barbara Rosenthal’s eMediaLoft.org studio imprint Xanadu Press (xanadupress.com). The rave review is by poet Ilka Scobie. (Buy review-issue here: https://www.raintaxi.com/category/current-edition/).
The book, PARTY EVERYWHERE, is authored by East Village poet-hostmaster Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, with Rosenthal’s collaborative page collages including some of her childhood objects, and is available from Printed Matter: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/39466/.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Danelly Reyes and Taylor Milefchik, Franklin Furnace Interns, Spring 2022
