Contents for April 12, 2021
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1. Dara Birnbaum, Crystal Z Campbell, Tracie Morris, Dread Scott, James Siena, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, FF Alumns, receive 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships
2. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan, opening April 12
3. David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in Artnews
4. Fang-Yu Liu, Arantxa Araujo, Jaguar Mary X, FF Alumns, live online April 18 and 25
5. Ayana Evans, FF Alumn, now online at Artnet
6. Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
7. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, now online in Artforum
8. Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
9. Katya Grokhovsky, JC Lenochan, FF Alumns, at Smack Mellon, Apr. 18
10. Sarah Safford, FF Alumn, new video now online
11. Flako Jimenez, FF Alumn, online at Taxilandia thru May 3, and more
12. Mark Waskow, FF Member, now online in the Rutland Herald and Times Argus
13. Joseph Nechvatal, John Cage, Joan Jonas, Nam June paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic
14. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, Zoom Studio Visit, Apr. 18
15. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, now on Youtube
16. Judy Giera, FF Alumn, live online, April 17
17. Miriam Schaer, FF Alumn, now online at Brooklyn Rail
18. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, now online at The Guardian
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1. Dara Birnbaum, Crystal Z Campbell, Tracie Morris, Dread Scott, James Siena, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, FF Alumns, receive 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships
please visit this link:
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2. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan, opening April 12
On April 12 we will unveil the third installation in our free Public Art Series: Dread Scott’s White People Can’t Be Trusted with Power.
Two of Dread’s works will be on display: One work engages passersby in considering what a world unburdened from America’s imperialism and often-destructive exceptionalism—a world without America itself—might look like. The other piece, a new text-based work making its debut at Playwrights, sparks questions about why white supremacist power structures are perceived as societal givens; what other forms power might take; and who can be trusted with it.
please visit this link:
https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/shows/trailers/dread-scott/
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3. David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in Artnews
please visit this link:
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4. Fang-Yu Liu, Arantxa Araujo, Jaguar Mary X, FF Alumns, live online April 18 and 25
On April 18th and 25th, 2021, the Hive Art Community presents our second edition of the online performance series “Re:Vive!”, curated by Fang-Yu Liu and Kathie Halfin. Inspired by the Women’s History Month we are proud to invite eight female-identified and queer artists: Arantxa Araujo, Erica Gressman, Gaby Bila Gunther, Jaguar Mary X, Lariel Joy, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Murta Azul, Romina Gonzales. Please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revive-tickets-148455362987This series “Re: Vive!” invites artists to incite a range of possible responses. We ask questions about the conditions of response-ability that include specific experiences, practices, histories and re-workings that bond us together. As female-identified and queer artists, thinkers and cultural producers we cultivate moments of growing consciousness while paying attention to the body. We believe that listening to our bodies initiates passages to rework im/possibilities and evoke response-abilities to be able to live with differences that initiate meaningful changes.
The Hive Art Community is an art space and a performance art platform found in 2019. In 2020 The Hive Art Community launched an online performance art series to promote and support performance artists during times of pandemic. This month, we launch the Live Art Support Fund here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/live-art-support-fund?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer
to further offer financial support to the artists and curators. We wish to compensate the artists for their labor, especially during these trying times. We would be grateful for your donation of any amount. Your contribution will support performance artists and ensure future events at The Hive Art Community.
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5. Ayana Evans, FF Alumn, now online at Artnet
please visit this link:
thank you
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6. Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, now online in Artforum
A review by Colby Chamberlain of Mira Schor’s recent exhibition Tipping Point (Lyles & King, NYC, Jan.8-Feb.7, 2021) is in the April print issue of Artforum and can be viewed online at: https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202104/mira-schor-85264
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8. Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
please visit this link:
thank you
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9. Katya Grokhovsky, JC Lenochan, FF Alumns, at Smack Mellon, April 18
ARTIST TALKS
Katya Grokhovsky and jc lenochan
Sunday, April 18, 3–4:30 PM ET
In-person at Smack Mellon and live on Zoom
Join us for a discussion with our exhibiting artists about their current solo exhibitions. In conversation with curator Gabriel de Guzman, jc lenochan will speak about the issues of race, class, and social injustice that he confronts through his work in UNDOING WHITE MESS. Katya Grokhovsky will discuss the themes of migration, displacement, and consumerism in her mixed media sculptural installation FANTASYLAND, which has recently been featured in White Hot Magazine and Artnet News. Grokhovsky will present her work moderated by Smack Mellon’s Rachel Vera Steinberg.
You can find more information about the program’s participants at:
***Full Zoom Call Instructions***
Topic: ARTIST TALKS: Katya Grokhovsky & jc lenochan
Time: Apr 18, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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10. Sarah Safford, FF Alumn, new video now online
Believing end of life decision making could use a little help, we wrote a song and dedicated it to ones we love. Please support our mission by liking, sharing and tagging @bevival
Watch at:
https://www.bevival.com/mortality-awareness-video
#nationalhealthcaredecisionsday2021
#deathliteracy
#endwell
#longbeforetheend
#dodeathdifferenly
#EOL
#endoflifecare
#endoflifeplanning
#endoflifechoices
#caring
#caregiver
#diewell
#DeathDoula
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11. Flako Jimenez, FF Alumn, online at Taxilandia thru May 3, and more
JOIN THE TAXILANDIA EXPERIENCES
HAPPENING APRIL 5 – MAY 3!
TAXI RIDES WITH FLAKO:
Enter the Taxilandia lottery
A single pod of up to three people become passengers in Flako’s cab for a personal experience of Bushwick. Winners are selected via a lottery.
To enter the lottery, visit:
https://www.taxilandia.com/taxi-lottery
and
TEXTILANDIA:
Walk the streets of Bushwick with Flako
Co-created by Modesto Flako Jimenez and Andrew Kircher, Textilandia is a new text message experience that invites you to traverse these blocks haunted with a deep history of conflict, perseverance, and joy. And to recognize how you inscribe yourself wherever you go. All you need is your phone, your body, and a comfortable pair of shoes. Flako will be your guide, teaching you to peep the traces of gentrification.
Get tickets at:
https://www.taxilandia.com/textilandia
-and-
TAXILANDIA GALLERY:
Experience the past and present of Bushwick
Walk the neighborhood and take in the sights, sounds, and history of the barrio—the part Vogue wasn’t talking about. Each installation features original poetry, video and sound design work, and is based at a local business that is an important patch in the fabric of an ever-changing neighborhood. Contributing poets include Elisabet Velasquez, Shy Richardson, Naya Rodriguez, Max Desir, Elvis Valdez and Gustavo Calzado and Modesto Flako Jimenez. Our store-front galleries at local businesses in Bushwick can be found at Alex’s Luncheonette, Elvy’s Pastelitos, Los Hermanos, Mr. Grocery Corp and Tony’s Pizza.
Respect the neighborhood and don’t act like a tourist; keep your head up and watch out for traffic.
Collaborators on the Taxilandia Gallery include video designer Victor Morales, sound designer Juan Alvarez (Wamoo), Mural Artist Fernando ’Ski’ Romero, technical director Kevin Torres and dramaturge Shy Richardson.
Gallery info available at:
https://www.taxilandia.com/gallery
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12. Mark Waskow, FF Member, now online in the Rutland Herald and Times Argus
please visit this link:
thank you
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13. Joseph Nechvatal, John Cage, Joan Jonas, Nam June paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic
please visit this link:
thank you
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14. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, Zoom Studio Visit, Apr. 18
Sunday at 2PM
Local Knowledge: A Literary and Art Journal NY and LA, hosted by Sanjay Agnihotri and Jeff Wright, with artist Barbara Rosenthal, and poets Chris Kraus and Peter Valente
Zoom Link April 18:
https://www.facebook.com/localknowledgemag
A native New Yorker, Barbara Rosenthal is a prolific, idiosyncratic, Media and Performance artist and writer, referred to as “Media Poet” by The Village Voice and elsewhere since the 1980s, and by Berlin Art Link in 2013 as “ever-evolving Old Master of New Media.” Her works are in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, The Tate, Berlin Kunstbibliotek and Artpool Budapest. On April 11, Local Knowledge will host her overview of the Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks Project, focusing on works from the suites in current exhibitions and publications including Denise Bibro Fine Art, LiveMag!, Xanadu Press, Rogue Scholars Press and Ugly Duckling Presse.
Below are excerpts from Barbara Rosenthal’s notes for the April 18th Zoom:
“I’ve only begun to understand these works as on a continuum within a single Project, but it does fall into two categories, the first becoming fodder for the second.”
PART ONE of the project: SURREAL PHOTOS
35mm full-frame analog photography
“Surreal Photos begin when I am in a kind of trance-state with my 35mm Olympus OM-1 analog cameras and lenses. When an image I see through the lense hits me in some psychological place, I snap it. I’ve been doing this since I bought the first of those cameras in 1973, and the categories they have fallen into read like nightmarish fairy tales: Trapped Figures, Tiny Houses, Renegage Horses, Aberrant Trees, etc. Current publications are “Time on the Move,” the book of my photos with Barry Wallenstein’s title and poetry published by Xanadu Press, and the back cover of Jeff Wright’s new LiveMag!-17.”
PART TWO of the project: SURREAL-to-CONCEPTUAL PHOTOWORKS
35mm full-frame analog photography, re-formed
“I had been producing photographs in the Surreal Photos categories from 1973, when by the mid-90’s, embarking on a decade and a half of serious psychiatric treatment, I began experimenting with applying certain formalist principles to some of the shots, and by xxx the NY to Chatanooga transplant, the recently deceased inimical Bob Dombrowski, had an idea about why I distorted my photographs, which he said were indicative of distorted vision in the first place. He proposed I write an essay for the daily “Chatanoogan” under his title, Barbara Rosenthal: The Artist Who Works With Instability.
PART THREE of the project: SURREAL-to-CONCEPTUAL PHOTO-WORK VIDEO MORPHS
A 10-min video loop, with 3 iterations of audio (Charlie Morrow – Helsinki; Matthew Lee Knowles – London; Claudio Scardino – Florence), the Surreal Photos morph into and out of their Conceptual Distortions.
PART FOUR of the project: SURREAL-to-CONCEPTUAL MEDIATED PERFORMANCE
Existential Ultraviolet Photo-chase, live performances with audio, interacting with projected imagery of my bizzarre, distorted landscape photos. Each time this piece is performed (London; Helsinki; New York) the documentation video of the prior performance becomes the projection, so that several images of Barbara Rosenthal appear with her live action, thus melding her live form and her image in ways the audience can not tell apart. The first iteration had been performed at Waterloo Action Centre, London, arranged by Tom Estes.
“My face is covered in these performances, so what I have to go on, in terms of space and direction is the changing light from the projector.”
Documentary photo and textual information about the Helsinki 2019 performance has now been published by Ugly Duckling Presse, in “Emergency Index 9 (2020)” available at:
BARBARA ROSENTHAL
WIKIPEDIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal
ARTSY / Saatchi Art:https://www.saatchiart.com/barbararosenthal
ARTSY / Denise Bibro Gallery: https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbara-rosenthal
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/BRartistNYC
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/barbara.rosenthal1
INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/barbararosenthal_emedialoft/
WEBSITE: http://www.barbararosenthal.org/
STUDIO: eMediaLoft.org, 463 West St, enter 744 Washington St., New York, NY 10014
STUDIO EMAIL and PHONE: eMediaLoft@gMail.com +1-646-368-5623 (voice and voicemail, no texts)
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15. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, now on Youtube
My Life As History
If you were not able to get on to my maxed out event
Saturday April 10th 3pm
MY LIFE AS HISTORY
the memoir/oral history event
with excerpts from The Lower East Side Biography Project
our 20 year video project
honoring some of my artist mentors
who can be yours too!
with Tuli Kupferberg, Taylor Mead, Judith Malina ,
John Vaccaro, Jonas Mekas, Betty Dodson
created with Steve Zehentner my collaborator of 30 years.
For Tompkins Square Library
in collaboration with Hudson Park Library
you can now watch it at your leisure here:
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16. Judy Giera, FF Alumn, live online, April 17
greetings from jamesport on the north fork of long island! i am thrilled to be currently participating in a month long artist residency with the potato farm project
https://www.thepotatofarmproject.com/?mc_cid=0dda0e3a84&mc_eid=cfb189b650
in collaboration with the efa studio program https://www.studios-efanyc.org/north-fork-residency?mc_cid=0dda0e3a84&mc_eid=cfb189b650
as part of this amazing opportunity, i am going to be giving a virtual artist talk via zoom on saturday april 17 @ 1pm est. i’d love for you to join. the link to register is here:
and the talk will last about an hour. to keep up with all the new work i’m making during this amazing residency feel free to follow me on the ‘gram or check out my website
https://judygieranotsofineart.xyz/?mc_cid=0dda0e3a84&mc_eid=cfb189b650
or you can also follow the potato farm project’s instagram too!
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17. Miriam Schaer, FF Alumn, now online at Brooklyn Rail
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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18. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, now online at The Guardian
Please visit this link:
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Harley Spiller
