Goings On | 09/11/2019

Goings On: posted week of September 11, 2019

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1. Ana Mendieta, Julie Tolentino, FF Alumns at EFA Project Space, Manhattan, opening Sept. 18
2. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at brooklynrail.org now online
3. Stacy Skolnik, FF Member, at MX Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 19
4. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Site Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 20, and more
5. Joseph Nechvatal, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, at Société, Brussels, Belgium, thru Nov. 9
6. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Oct. 11-12
7. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, in the 2019 Cairo Video Festival, Egypt, thru Sept. 30, and more
8. Nancy Burson, FF Member, at Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy, opening Sept. 13
9. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn,at Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Italy, opening Sept. 14
10. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, Queens, Sept 14, 2019 thru Feb. 29 2020
11. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, at MOMENTA | Biennale de I’image, Montreal, Canada, thru Oct. 13
12. Lillian Ball, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, Manhattan, Sept. 14-Oct. 27
13. Nina Kuo, Bing Lee, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumns, at Asian American Arts Alliance, Manhattan, Oct. 22
14. Mama Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, Sept. 23, and more
15. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, book launch, at LACE, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 28, and more
16. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, at The Brick, Manhattan, Sept. 17-21
17. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France, Sept. 14-Oct. 26
18. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, at Oodi Library, Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 18
19. Susan Newmark, FF Alumns, at The Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, opening October 3
20. Tom Otterness, FF Alumn, at Marlborough Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 12
21. Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, at Choplet, Brooklyn, thru October 10
22. Nina Sobell, Marina Abramović, FF Alumns, in new publication
23. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, thru Dec. 18
24. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Sept. 12

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1. Ana Mendieta, Julie Tolentino, FF Alumns at EFA Project Space, Manhattan, opening Sept. 18

Soft And Wet

On View: September 18-November 16, 2019

Opening reception and curatorial walkthrough:
Wednesday, September 18, 5-8 pm

Curated By: Sadia Shirazi
Artists: Arooj Aftab, Beverly Buchanan, Crystal Z Campbell, Caroline Key, Ana Mendieta, Andy Robert, Julie Tolentino, Zarina, Constantina Zavitsanos

EFA Project Space is pleased to present Soft and Wet, curated by Sadia Shirazi. The exhibition features works by Arooj Aftab, Beverly Buchanan, Crystal Z Campbell, Caroline Key, Ana Mendieta, Andy Robert, Julie Tolentino, Zarina, and Constantina Zavitsanos.

The exhibition cites Prince’s 1978 single, “Soft and Wet” and Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, which was co-curated by Ana Mendieta, Kazuko Miyamoto, and Zarina at A.I.R. Gallery in 1980. These citations serve as reference points to help us locate fleshy, formalist impulses in the practices of contemporary artists that echo those of artists from the 1970s. Working through sound, vision, vibration, touch, and breath, the artists in Soft and Wet activate multi-sensory responses that move beyond the linguistic registers of a singular voice and questions of individuated agency dominating discourses of representational art. The artists turn their formalism towards questions of flesh, fugitivity, and consent in relation to the nation-state, neoliberal capitalism, and the medical-industrial complex, while stretching formalism beyond the assumption of hegemonic subjects as the sole inheritors of its legacy. The works in this show are experiments in, and explorations of, what it means “to consent not to be a single being” as Édouard Glissant writes. The artists in Soft and Wet think with and through one another, invoking the artist whose song gives the exhibition its title, to feel out the contours of other ways of being in relation. They join him in saying-We’d be so lost, in our mouths, the best, I feel it everyday (every way).

Exhibition Events

Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 5-8 pm: Curatorial walkthrough and opening reception. (Note: walkthrough starts promptly at 5 pm)

Saturday, October 19, 2019, 5 pm: Lecture Performance by Crystal Z Campbell, followed by a conversation with Sadia Shirazi, Caroline Key, and guest speaker. The conversation will touch upon questions of flesh, fugitivity, and consent in relation to the medical-industrial complex, focusing on Campbell’s work on Henrietta Lacks’s immortal cells and Key’s work on the technological gaze in her new video work Khora. (Note: this event takes place during EFA’s Open Studios Weekend)

Friday, November 15, 2019, 5 pm: Publication launch. Writers of commissioned texts will read excerpts from their writing, alongside readings of selected passages by artists included in the catalogue of Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States from 1980, followed by a conversation.
All events are free and open to the public. Admission is first come, first served. For updates and more information on events at Project Space, please visit our website.

About the Curator
Sadia Shirazi is a writer, art historian, curator and sometimes architect based in New York. Her reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, MoMA post, C Magazine, The Funambulist, Jadaliyya and ArteEast and she has written monographic essays on Zarina and Jessica Vaughn. Shirazi has curated exhibitions internationally including Three days in the desert at the Lower East Side Printshop (2018), welcome to what we took from is the state at the Queens Museum (2016), and 230 MB/Exhibition Without Objects at Khoj Artists’s Association in Delhi (2013). Her work has been shown at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Performance Space New York and the Devi Art Foundation. Shirazi holds a MArch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA from the University of Chicago. She is the Instructor for Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP), teaches at The New School and Cooper Union, and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University.

PRESS INQUIRIES:
JP-Anne Giera, Program Manager
EFA Project Space Program
212-563-5855 x 233 | jpanne@efanyc.org

EFA PROJECT SPACE
323 W. 39 Street, 2nd Floor, NYC
between 8th & 9th Avenues
Hours: Wed-Sat, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM
www.projectspace-efanyc.org | projectspace@efanyc.org
Accessibility Note: EFA Project Space is located at 323 W. 39th Street, 2nd Floor, between 8th and 9th Avenues, in Manhattan. The building is wheelchair accessible, with two accessible elevators in the lobby. Guests are asked to sign in in the lobby, but no ID is required for entry. Nearest accessible subway station is 42nd Street/Port Authority, 1 block north on 8th Avenue. EFA Project Space is committed to nurturing an intergenerational environment, and we encourage ‘kid noise’ at our events. Please feel free to notify us of any accessibility needs by email projectspace@efanyc.org, or phone at (212) 563-5855 x 233.
EFA Project Space, launched in September 2008 as a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary arts venue founded on the belief that art is directly connected to the individuals who produce it, the communities that arise because of it, and to everyday life; and that by providing an arena for exploring these connections, we empower artists to forge new partnerships and encourage the expansion of ideas. www.projectspace-efanyc.org.

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Through its three core programs, EFA Studios, EFA Project Space, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, EFA is dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice.

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2. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at brooklynrail.org now online

Mark Bloch writes in print and online for the Brooklyn Rail about a Native American painter whose must-see exhibition closes in a few days–Sept 16

T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America
By Mark Bloch

https://brooklynrail.org/2019/09/artseen/TC-Cannon-At-the-Edge-of-America and in the print edition

“T.C. (Tommy Wayne) Cannon painted Native American portraits outside against skies with potato-shaped clouds and in interiors against “magical circle” wallpaper patterns with unlikely color combinations. He transformed the garments and neckwear of his subjects to bring out the gravitas from their faces and posture, creating jolting, psychedelic yet monumental tributes, political in their mere existence and as solid and American as Mount Rushmore…. Each Indian face reflects dignity, respect and seriousness, the centerpiece of this important, must-see show, reminiscent of Charles White’s powerful African-American portraits at MoMA last year. Yet, despite the strength portrayed in Cannon’s Native American faces, it is not unusual for eyes to linger in the shadows cast by hands or hat brims shielding his subjects from the sun-and perhaps us.”

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3. Stacy Skolnik, FF Member, at MX Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 19

mrsblueeyes123.com launch: Vanessa Place, Abby Lloyd, and Stacy Skolnik at MX Gallery NYC, 7-9pm Sept 19.

In a world of increasing surveillance and virtuality, who controls what we can and can’t watch? Or worse, what we can and can’t want?

These are some of the questions that Stacy Skolnik asks in her new collection of poetry, mrsblueeyes123.com. The poems in this book-as-website were previously released on Instagram under the handle @mrsblueeyes123. But the account was banned within six months of its creation. Having lost an interactive and consistent audience of nearly 2,000 followers, Skolnik now reclaims a space for herself on the internet and asks the reader to join her in a complicated, spiraling, and shamelessly public interrogation of our own relationships to consent, objectification, censorship, and the erotic.

At this launch event featuring performances from visual artist/clown Abby Lloyd, and writer/lawyer Vanessa Place, against the backdrop of Corey Presha’s paintings which draw from Jim Crow-era cartoons, we try to make sense of what type of censorship is just, what we are allowed to look at, and what we allow ourselves to want to look at. What language and imagery can be appropriated from the past and present in order to make new narratives, or resolve old ones? How does that determine what we long for or laugh at in public? Are we bad people if we do it when we’re alone? Who has the right to talk about their desires? And who should be banned from the conversation?

September 19, 2019 – 7-9pm
167 Canal Street, New York
https://mxgallery.com/mrsblueeyes/

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4. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Site Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 20, and more

Hello friends!

I am exhibiting in these group shows this fall. Lots of fun.

Sept 10-Oct 3, 2019 Faculty and Friends, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson New York
Sept 20 -Oct 19, 2019, Geometry, curated by Phyllis Tuchman, Site Gallery, 165 7th St, Brooklyn, NY. Opening Sept 20, 6-9pm.
September 27, 2019, Flat File, curated by Deborah Zlotsky, Collarworks, 621 River Street Troy, NY 12180, Kickoff in Flat File space 5-8pm during Troy Night Out.
Oct 11 – Dec 4, 2019 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, curated by Victoria Palmero, The Hyde Collection, opening for members only Oct 12, 2pm.

I was so lucky and honored to have received a Pollock-Krasner August 2019. Studio reorganize in the works, making room for the new work.
This morning one of my globes headed out to a new home.

Hope to see you out and about the art town!

best,
Yura
www.yuraadams.com
http://instagram.com/yuradams

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5. Joseph Nechvatal, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, at Société, Brussels, Belgium, thru Nov. 9

EXPOSITION COLLECTIVE ENCOUNTERED ERROR À SOCIÉTÉ, BRUXELLES JUSQU’AU 09 NOVEMBRE 2019 AVEC LES ŒUVRES DES ARTISTES ART&LANGUAGE, NOBUTAKA AOZAKI, ROBERT BARRY, WALEAD BESHTY, DAVID BIRKIN, STANLEY BROUWN, STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN, MARC BUCHY, TONY CONRAD, DAMIEN DION, MICHEL FRANÇOIS, BENJAMIN GAULON, EUGEN GOMRINGER, BERT JACOBS, DIETER KIESSLING, MARIA KLEY, ELIZAVETA KONOVALOVA, GUSTAV METZGER, MATAN MITTWOCH, SIMON MORRIS, JOSEPH NECHVATAL, DENNIS OPPENHEIM, ED RUSCHA, NAAMA TSABAR.
Vernissage dimanche 8 septembre 2019 de 14h à 19h

Société
Rue Vanderstichelen 106
1080 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
Principles and processes of destruction, accident, failure, feedback, transmission error… play an important role in the conception and creation of art. The exhibition tries to place these ‘negative notions’ in a ‘positive perspective’ and attributes to the ‘error’ it’s true merit as essential element conductive to question the meaning of art, while investigating the medium with its limitations as the convention of language and the codes in its understanding.

Realised with the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels International and Vedett.

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6. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Oct. 11-12

John Kelly’s ‘Underneath The Skin’ Oct 11 & 12 at 7:30pm

** JOHN KELLY PREMIERES NEW WORK OCT 11 & 12 at NYU SKIRBALL!
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Dear Friends – I am excited to be sharing this world premiere with you!
October 11 & 12, 7:30pm at NYU Skirball

Underneath The Skin (https://nyuskirball.org/events/john-kelly-underneath-skin/) is a new dance theatre work drawn from the life of sexual rebel Samuel Steward (1909-1993). A novelist, poet, and scholar, Steward abandoned his post as a staid university professor to reinvent himself as Phil Andros, a writer of gay erotic fiction – and as Philip Sparrow, one of the 20th century’s most influential tattoo artists.

Alone the way, he had trysts with Rudolph Valentino and Lord Alfred Douglas; attracted the friendships of Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and André Gide; and meticulously recorded his thousands of sexual encounters in his “Stud File.”

In this NYU Skirball commission, Kelly virtuosically weaves Steward’s letters, essays, unpublished autobiography, and interviews, along with movement, video projections and digital animations of his erotic illustrations and tattoo designs, into a kaleidoscopic meditation on a queer maverick.

This performance contains mature themes.
Appropriate for ages 18+.

NYU Skirball (https://nyuskirball.org/events/john-kelly-underneath-skin/)
566 LaGuardia Place, NYC
212.998.4947
Photo: Josef Astor
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7. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, in the 2019 Cairo Video Festival, Egypt, thru Sept. 30, and more

Premiere of Thought Forms, a short video, as part of the 9th Cairo Video Festival, opening September 09, 2019 – through September 30.
Artist talk
Singular Acts – On bestowing permanence to the ephemeral
at the Cinematheque, Cairo/Egypt, Sept 15, 2019, 7 pm
https://www.cvf.medrar.org/portfolios/artist-talk-singular-acts-by-alexander-hahn/

Closing on Sept 14, 2019:
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents
Art and Friends
an intimate summer show, featuring works by associates and friends using different mediums.
The show, which also features FF alumni Kay Hines, runs from June 14 – Sept 14 2019

Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York NY 10003

www.alexanderhahn.com

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8. Nancy Burson, FF Member, at Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy, opening Sept. 13

Nancy Burson at the Museo Marino Marini
An installation of four new works in the Firenze Suona Contemporanea

September 14-23, 2019
With an opening reception on September 13 at 6:30pm

Museo Marino Marini
Piazza San Pancrazio
50123 Florence, Italy

The Museum is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays. The artist will be present September 13-16.

DNA HAS NO COLOR, a sculpture
DNA has no color. Scientists see it as translucent, even though it can sometimes appear whitish due to impurities in samples. Race is a social construct. We are all one race, the human one, and all human DNA is colorless.

Perpetual Mary, an experiential installation
Perpetual Mary is a glow-in-the-dark figurine that serves as a tool to see and experience the energy around her. To most viewers, Mary appears to move, assisted by the energy in the room. Is seeing her move a miracle in itself, or is it seeing the energy around Mary that’s miraculous? Viewers can decide for themselves. Do you see her moving in this still image? Please feel free to download it onto your computer or phone. It takes most people between 5 and 20 seconds to see Mary in motion.

The installation Perpetual Mary will be accessible every 30 minutes by a maximum of 20 people, with first access at 10:30am and last access at 6:30pm. For more information: festival@firenzesuonacontemporanea.it / segreteria@museomarinomarini.it

The Museo Marino Marini is located within the site of an ancient church and was a monastery for nuns in the 1500’s. Perpetual Mary will be installed in the room of the crypt beneath the museum that still houses the nuns’ remains. Mother Mary has been a symbolic representation of the feminine aspect for centuries and continues to be a key figure in belief systems worldwide. The installation will be accompanied by the music of two of the earliest European female composers.

Love Above All Else, a video projection
Love Above All Else is a video projection created from the repeated writing of the word Love (or I love you), drawn both handed for brain balancing. Beneath the images is an underlay of love’s opposite in the form of fourteen photographs combined that symbolize war, racism, poverty, disease, terrorism, global warming, mass shootings, ethnic cleansing, refugees displaced, hurricanes, fires, religious conflicts, family separations, and famine. Together these constitute one disruptive, apocalyptic image that has been lightened to be barely visible, as if the totality of all human suffering is disappearing. Conceptually, the lightening of the image that is barely visible underneath represents the power of love to transmute all that negativity. The Love Above All Else video projection symbolically represents the vibration of love triumphant over Earth’s current malaise.

The Energy of a Drawing in UV Light, a video projection
This video recorded the energy over a drawing made with two graphite sticks (one for each hand) along with a substance of “unknown origin.” Something I have seen as a form of “liquid light” has been added to the paper, disappearing instantly. Although scientists have not yet been able to identify its properties, I believe this mysterious form of light enables us to see the energy moving over it.

Copyright (c) 2019 Nancy Burson, All rights reserved.

nancyburson.com | @nancyburson

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9. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn,at Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Italy, opening Sept. 14

Astratto Realista
Lorenza Sannai
Lucio Pozzi
14 Settembre/September – 13 Ottobre/October, 2019
inaugurazione : 14 Settembre ore 16
opening : 14 September 4:00PM

Casa del Mantegna
Via Acerbi 47, Mantova, Italy

Questa mostra è organizzata da Giovanni Iacometti nell’ambito di un dialogo fra generazioni di artisti e interazione d’immagini. Lorenza presenta dipinti di geometria policroma su tavole di vario spessore appese al muro, Lucio pitture allusive in nero su bianco sopra fogli di carta fissati al muro con puntine.

This exhibition is organized by Giovanni Iacometti as part of a series devoted to the dialogue between artists of different generations and image interactions. Lorenza hangs on the wall polychrome geometric paintings on boards that have various depths and, Lucio pins on the wall papers onto which allusive images are painted in black.

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10. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, Queens, Sept 14, 2019 thru Feb. 29 2020

Dear Friends!

Fall is almost here and I am excited to share a new exhibition of my work at the Noguchi Museum! Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release will open to the public Wednesday 11 September, following an opening event on Tuesday 10 September from 6PM-8PM.

This major new project will take place within the Noguchi’s current collection exhibition, Noguchi: Body-Space Devices. In reverence and excitement, a series of new works will share space with sculptures and dance-sets Noguchi produced for Martha Graham. Within this space my contributions consist of new choreography, a series of new sculptural devices designed in collaboration with Norman Kelley and costumes by Rad Hourani. Performances will take place Saturdays at 1:30PM and 3:00PM, following the schedule below:

September 14 and 28, 2019
October 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2019
November 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2019
December 7 and 14, 2019
January 11, 18, and 25, 2020
February 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2020

In addition to these performances, a special one-night performance and event will be held on November 18 from 7:00PM to 10:00PM. Noguchi at Night will feature a performance by Lloyd Knight, principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company; a culinary experience created by Masayo Funakoshi, Chef at Farmoon, Kyoto; and a DJ set by Karsten Sollors. All not to be missed!

Produced over the course of a very full year (full of new highlights) it is an honour to be winding down summer and celebrating this new work together at the Noguchi. I hope many can join us on the 10th and many more will be able to join along the way!

As always, sending my best,
Brendan

Copyright (c) Brendan Fernandes Studio 2019

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11. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, at MOMENTA | Biennale de I’image, Montreal, Canada, thru Oct. 13

Chun Hua Catherine Dong presents her work, MOTHER, at Galerie de I’ UQAM as part of MOMENTA | Biennale de I’image, Montreal, CA. Sept 5 -Oct 13, 2019.

Opening reception: Wednesday, September 5, 2019. 5:00pm -6:30pm
“Mother” consists of 14 photographs and a video dedicating to Dong’s absent mother. Absence is a form of presence. Since her mother passed away, she went back to China where she was born and found 14 mothers who are her mother’s close friends and relatives. She bought a pair of floral embroidered traditional Chinese shoes to each mother as a gift, because her mother always loved the floral embroidered shoes. They took photographs together at each mother’s home where the mother wore the new shoes and she wore her cloth. After taking photos with each mother, she invited all mothers to come together for a group portrait that was transformed to a video later.

This work seeks consolation and restores narrations of the past through visual expression of memories and loss, exploring relationship between life and death, human existence and universal emotions. She uses re-enactment as a method of revisiting and re-imagining past to create scenarios of her mother visiting her birth place and meeting her childhood friends. Through using her own body to present her mother’s present, she reunites with her mother and become her. This work reveals how the mother/daughter relationship is experienced as a site of love and care, and how memories cross time and space to create a new experience that not only transcends life and death, bridges past and present, but also transforms emotions and realities. “Mother” is an embodiment of a melancholic longing for an unrecoverable past and a memento mori: a reminder of the inexorable passage of time and the beautiful transience of human life.

For more info about “Mother”
http://chunhuacatherinedong.com/portfolio/mother/
For more info about exhibition program
https://www.momentabiennale.com/en/location/galerie-de-luqam/
For more info about MOMENTA | Biennale de I’image
https://www.momentabiennale.com/en/theme/
Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a Chinese-born Montreal based artist working with performance, photography, and video. She received a MFA from Concordia University and aBFA from Emily Carr University Art & Design in Canada. She has performed and exhibited her works in multiple international performance art festivals and venues, such as Quebec City Biennial, The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Kaunas Biennial, Museo de la Cancillería in Mexico City, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival in Chicago, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, Place des Arts in Montreal, Dublin Live Art Festival and so on. She was the recipient of the Franklin Furnace Award for contemporary avant-garde art in New York in 2014 and listed “10 Artists Who Are Reinventing History” by Canadian Art Magazine in 2017.
http://chunhuacatherinedong.com

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12. Lillian Ball, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, Manhattan, Sept. 14-Oct. 27

http://www.harvestworks.org/sept-14-oct-27-go-donana-interactive-video-game-installation-by-lillian-ball/

Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM
Harvestworks on Governors Island, Bldg 10A, Nolan Park

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13. Nina Kuo, Bing Lee, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumns, at Asian American Arts Alliance, Manhattan, Oct. 22

NINA KUO has Art to show and wear – Please come and have fun $ 125 tix
Oct 22

Costumes, Couture & Cocktails

Join A4 for a silent auction benefit featuring costumes, couture clothing, and accessories created by Asian American artists and designers. Come in costume or bid to win one! Featuring DJ sets, special performances, open bar featuring Hendrick’s Gin, light fare by Bessou, and dessert by Lady M. Thanks to sponsor Hudson Square Properties.

Participating artists and designers (list in formation):
Miya Ando, Bonny Cai, Su Jung Chang, Grace Duong, Jacob Hashimoto, Jeanne Jalandoni, Nina Kuo, Sowon Kwon, Bliss Lau, Bing Lee, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Christopher Lin, Wyna Liu, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Jiha Moon, Gabriella Mozo, Eun-Ha Paek, Athena Robles, Mika Song, Yeohlee Teng, Cheng Wang,.

Your ticket supports A4 programs which seek to ensure greater representation, equity, and opportunities for Asian American artists and arts organizations. Proceeds from costume purchases will be split evenly with the participating artists and designers.

Early bird tickets are only available until September 10!
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/asianamericanartsalliance/295529/

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14. Mama Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, Sept. 23, and more

Fabulous Fall Events with Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman

Exotic Brooklyn, New York¬-¬-With the kids already back-to-school and the autumn chill waiting right around the corner, it’s time to mark your calendars for the official changing of the seasons with New York’s own Urban Shaman, Donna Henes! Mama Donna, as she is affectionately known, will say goodbye to summer at her 44th Annual Autumn Equinox Celebration on the first day of the fall, Monday, September 23rd, at 6:30 pm at Grand Army Plaza, Bailey Fountain in Brooklyn.

Mama Donna’s Autumn Equinox Celebration is a free, family-friendly event. Bring kids, dogs, drums and plenty of spirit!

Here are the exact details:

SEPTEMBER 23
Monday, 6:30 PM EDT
Drumming in the Dark! 44th Annual Autumn Equinox Celebration
Grand Army Plaza, Bailey Fountain
Park Slope, Exotic Brooklyn.
Meet at the Fountain. (2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza)
For more information: 718-857-1343
Free!

Don’t miss Mama Donna at these many more fabulous fall events!

SEPTEMBER 14
Saturday, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET
Full Harvest Moon at The Open Center

The Full Harvest Moon is the largest, most spectacular moon of the year. It marks many diverse festivals of food, fortune, and fulfillment all over the world, in honor of Mother Earth, She who feeds us and attends to all our needs. This full moon also calls us to celebrate the blessings of life. Every experience – the easy as well as the hard, the good, the bad, and the ugly – offers us a valuable lesson if we choose to honor it. The Harvest Moon illuminates our personal harvest, measured in lessons learned. Now is the time to reap what we have sown. Together, we will express our gratitude for this growth, and for life itself.

Note: Please bring a symbol of a lesson you have learned for the altar, and a drum or percussion instrument.

Open Center Members FREE/ Open Center Member Guests $10/ Nonmembers $15

Register through The Open Center

SEPTEMBER 29
Sunday, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
New Hunter Moon Ceremony & Drum Circle

The energy of the Hunter Moon calls us to focus our attention on what we seek in life, to set our sights on our intentions and goals, to take careful aim at what we are shooting for, and to claim the fullness of our purpose, passion, and power.

Please bring a drum or percussion instrument if you have one. If, not some will be provided.

Wainwright House, Inc.,
260 Stuyvesant Ave,
Rye, NY 10580

$50 Members of Wainwright House / $55 Non-members

Meanwhile, Donna continues to offer her ongoing and extremely popular Tarot 101 class through Course Horse.
And don’t miss out on her latest workshop, World of Oracles, offered through The New York Adventure Club!

About Mama Donna:
* Unofficial Commissioner of Public Spirit of NYC. – The New Yorker
* For 35 years Ms. Henes has been putting city folk in touch with Mother Earth. – New York Times
* Part performance artist, part witch, part social director for planet earth. – The Village Voice
* A-List exorcist! – NY Post
* The Original crystal-packing mama. – NY Press

Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman, contemporary ceremonialist, spiritual teacher, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She has published five books, a CD, an acclaimed Ezine and writes for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum. A noted ritual expert, she serves as a ritual consultant for the television and film industry. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancy in Exotic Brooklyn, NY where she works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable occasion.

Read her on the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-henes/

Connect with her on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/MamaDonnaHenes

Follow her on Twitter:
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15. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, book launch, at LACE, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 28, and more

Performance / Media / Art / Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018
By Jacki Apple Ed. Marina LaPalma
Published by INTELLECT, Bristol, UK. Paperback. 326 pages. Seven sections. 57 essays. 37 black and white photographs. Distributed in USA by University of Chicago Press.

Experience interdisciplinary performance from the 1980s to 2018 through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple’s Performance | Media | Art | Culture traces performance art, multimedia theatre, audio arts and dance in the United States from 1983 to the present. Showcasing thirty-five years of Apple’s critical essays, the collection is a rich compendium of sharp-eyed and eloquent observations on the rise and diversification of interdisciplinary performance, how new technologies influence American culture and contemporary life, the interdependence of pop and performance culture, and the politics of art and the performance of politics. Brimming with big ideas grounded in concentrated reviews of individual performances, this volume offers current and future readers a rich portrait of performance culture at the end of the millennium.

Los Angeles area events:
– Sat. Sept 28th- 2 – 4 PM Book launch, reading & signing/ Guest discussant John Fleck
@LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 323-957-1777 | welcometolace.org
– Thursday evening October 3rd at 7:30pm. with editor Marina La Palma
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
– Sat. Oct. 5th – 2-4 PM Book signing and talk with editor Marina La Palma
Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Bookstore 903 E. 3rd St., DTLA Arts District 90013
– Wed. Oct 16th – 4 – 6 PM Reading, discussion and book signing
@ Art Center College of Design, South Campus Hutto-Paterson Exhibition Hall, 870 S. Raymond, Pasadena

Reviews
“Only a handful of writers have the intellectual chops, creative intuition, and vision of art history to speak holistically about performance art, but Jacki Apple consistently proves herself essential to the field and how we understand it. She digs into both the formal and the ineffable dimensions of performance with unmatched power and clarity without sacrificing honesty about the art and artists she clearly loves. Jacki stands in the evolving vortex of performance art so we can see its future.”– Eric Gutierrez, Writer/former Executive Editor, High Performance

“Jacki Apple has always made works that come at you from every possible angle. As composer, performer, writer and cultural detective, she is fearless at pushing the boundaries of her own work, while simultaneously providing platforms for other artists to push their own possibilities. This book has been brewing for over 35 years. It is the story of what where when why and how we are in this culture now, told by a vital participant and invaluable witness.” — Terry Allen, Artist
“Jacki Apple’s accurate, intimate, gracious, erudite and insightful writing provides a front row seat to an expanding cultural big-bang. This book is a gift to those of us determined to understand the who, the where, the when, the how and the why of the tectonic shifts that brought social interaction into the scope and insight of art makers. Her enthusiasm for the subject coupled with a commitment to her readers makes for learning more than history. She makes the history feel contemporary.” — Conrad Gleber PhD, Media artist
“For several decades now, Jacki Apple’s astute observations of the arts, performance, and culture in Los Angeles have added profound insight to this still burgeoning landscape populated by the movers and shakers who flock here. Her history as an artist in her own right expands the depth and comprehension of her analysis. She has been an influencer in the truest sense, advancing the cultural discussion with erudition and compassion. Among the annals of tomes dedicated to understanding why LA is so significant, so centripetal, this is a long-awaited addition” – Tony Abatemarco, Playwright, Performer, Co-Artistic Director – Skylight Theatre Co.

“Jacki Apple’s writing about the temporal arts stuns the reader with its capacity to contextualize projects historically. She weaves together diverse cultural interventions with an urgency about their meaning for this crucial moment in the world.” — Beverly Naidus, artist, author, activist and Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma
“Jacki Apple’s heightened artistic perception has opened my eyes to the meaning of my early visceral raw performances from the1980’s to the present more theatrically polished ones. Her insightful critical writing not only changed the way I understood my own work and its role in pushing boundaries and breaking taboos, but also the performance work of my peers in times of political pressure. For anyone who wants to understand this history, this book is eye-opening.” – John Fleck, Performance artist.

“Jacki Apple is a tireless advocate for the aesthetic, the generative, for art that intervenes and illuminates. She is the rare artist who is generous and revelatory, bringing enormous skill and knowledge to the work of fellow artists crossing many disciplines, as do her own intricate and multifaceted creations.” – Jeff McMahon, Performer and writer. Associate Professor, Arizona State University.

ORDER NOW from the University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo45803511.html

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16. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, at The Brick, Manhattan, Sept. 17-21

BAD REP redux presents:
“Casablanca on the Hudson” @ The Brick
concept/text Pamela Enz director Maridee Slater
starring:
John Carlin Maria Fontanals Najee Gaby-Knight Trav SD ++

Sept.17th 18th 19th & 20th- @ 7pm
Saturday Sept. 21st @8pm
Tickets:http://www.bricktheater.com

A radical explosion of music, projection, and text building to a howl against suppressed democracy, quashed empathy, and power without limit.

Come to this hybrid collaboration with inventive magicians: Elliott Randall musician/composer Julie Petrusak media designer & Connie Noyes visual artist, who together craft a fiery response to the state of our union.

Assistant Director: Liza Couser
Info: badreptheater2@gmail.com

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17. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France, Sept. 14-Oct. 26

Alina Bliumis
On the Land of Eagles

September 14 – October 26, 2019

Alina Bliumis’ exhibition, On the Land of Eagles, voyages through global national symbols and identities. The Poems Without Borders series features the world’s tourism slogans in patterned rhymes. Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control unlocks symbolic imagery from passport covers. The artist traces global territories in the allegorical Maps Unleashed drawings, and portrays national animal symbols in the Nature of Nations series.

“I feel Slovenia, I need Spain, Fiji Me, Cameroon is back.” Tourism slogans market countries to an expanding industry fueled by low-cost no-frills airlines. Abstract yet suggestive taglines allow foreigners to dream up their own ideas about the countries they want to visit. The series Poems Without Borders (2018-2019) arranges official national tourism slogans of forty-eight nations into sixteen poems. For this exhibition, the text-based piece is placed directly on the wall in one straight line that wraps around the gallery space.
Tourism and migration are the most significant manifestations of globalization. While economic, political and environmental migrants are routinely blocked at the border, tourists are ceaselessly wooed on various media and advertising platforms. While countries sculpt their national identities to make themselves more appealing to visitors, they use ethnic and cultural definitions to reinforce laws limiting migration.

“Free as a bird” we definitely are not. Yet ironically there are fifty bird symbols incorporated into the coats of arms depicted on the passport covers of forty-three nations. The Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control series (2016-2017) presents forty-three works on paper. From eagles to doves, from Albania to Tonga, Bliumis studied all existing passport covers – 195 in total — looking for birds in order to free them from their national context. She traced each bird, true to its source, with a focus on the species’ characteristics. The birds at the intersection of nation and nature include: the famous one-legged pose of a flamingo (Bahamas), a vulture in a gliding flight (Mali), an extinct flightless dodo (Mauritius), a rooster with an axe (Kenya) and a mythological creature that is part woman and part bird known as a Harpy (Liechtenstein).

Birds are not the only animals that nations use to symbolize themselves-a brown bear, a Fennec fox, an Apennine Wolf, a Barbary Macaque, a Marten or a goat are all official national animals. Nature of Nations (2019) is a series of watercolor portraits inspired by official national animals, heraldic design elements, geographical borders, folk fables, and stereotypes. The resulting images portray: A bird of prey, the bald eagle, freed from the USA coat of arms with a halo made of two olive branches is staring at the viewer, its claw is free of arrows. A seductive double-headed rooster of France is flirting with the audience. An outraged bear with wings is a combination of two symbols, the bear of the Soviet Union and the double-headed eagle of contemporary Russia. A goat of Iraq is crowned with a sword-shaped horn.

The series Nations Unleashed (2018-2019) is inspired by the historical tradition of satirical maps, which employ animal symbolism and stereotypes to convey biting political critique and/or to cover up human actions in certain political theaters. The series comprises watercolor and pencil drawings on paper. Delicately toned washes of blue surround loosely sketched landmasses populated by an array of diverse animals, each representing a critical political interest. Bliumis’ interpretations range from the literal – as in the American bald eagle – to the fanciful – as in a two-headed Scandinavian lion. What these maps lack in geographic accuracy is made up in thorough doses of imagination and humor, leaving further interpretation open to the viewer.

All four series in the exhibition investigate the formation of national identity, its historical and geographical roots and its ambitions in global geopolitics. National symbols often reflect national interests but imagine for a moment if, as the myth goes, the U.S. Congress had conceded to Benjamin Franklin. For instance, he might have chosen the wild turkey as the national bird, instead of the bald eagle. Would the country’s domestic policies and international interests have unfolded differently?

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18. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, at Oodi Library, Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 18

Ann-Marie LeQuesne
invites you to join
CRESCENDO at
Oodi Library – Helsinki
18/09/19 – 10:30-12:00
Come and make structured noise at Oodi!
Meet in front of the Library at 10:20 to be measured.
Töölönlahdenkatu 4,
00100 Helsinki
FINLAND
We will make a CRESCENDO with our voices and our height. The performance will be filmed and posted on VIMEO and YouTube with an exhibition following in Helsinki.
All welcome!
www.amlequesne.com
www.vimeo.com/annmarielequesne
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com

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19. Susan Newmark, FF Alumns, at The Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, opening October 3

Hello to all,

Please join me at the exhibit:
WALT WHITMAN’S WORDS: INSPIRING ARTISTS TODAY
The Center for Book Arts: 28 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001
October 4 – December 14, 2019
Reception: Thursday, October 3 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Curator, Deirdre Lawrence

I will also be part of a Roundtable Discussion on Thursday, October 24 at 6:30 PM.

Featured artists: Isabel Baraona, Sasha Chavchavadze, Allen Crawford, Marianne Dages, Brian Dettmer, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Evelyn Eller, Anne Gilman, Donald Glaister, Sam Gordon, Barbara Henry, Meg Hitchcock, Timothy Hull and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sam Ita, Stefan Killen, Richard Kostelanetz, Karen Kunc, Sophia Le Fraga, Angela Lorenz, Russell Maret, Barry McCallion, Mark McMurray, Susan Newmark, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Brian Selznick, Clarissa Sligh, Peter Spagnuolo, Elizabeth Tonnard, Walt Whitman, Rutherford Witthus, Marilyn Zornado.

2019 is the 200th birthday year of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), who is known today as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century. In addition to his work as a poet, Whitman is also remembered as a book designer and printer, essayist and journalist. Calling himself “the Bard of Democracy,” Whitman broke the mold in his prolific writings calling for equality, inclusivity and a more humanist world for all to live in.
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20. Tom Otterness, FF Alumn, at Marlborough Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 12

Tom Otterness
Sculpture & Drawing:
1996 – 2017

September 10 – October 12, 2019

40 West 57th Street

Marlborough is pleased to announce a comprehensive exhibition of works by Tom Otterness. It will consist of some 40 sculptures as well as several works on paper and include many of the key works created by the artist over the past 23 years. The works, which range in scale from compact to monumental, will be displayed throughout the second floor gallery as well as in the 57th-56th Street Breezeway.

Otterness’s well-known and endlessly inventive sculptural creations have made him one of the most popular American artists of the day. His signature figures-Cones, Spheres, and Cylinders-are presented in a wide range of sculptural situations. The shapes have the effect of universalizing form yet are remarkably expressive. Each is recognizably his own creation and at the same time reflective of art history, fables, allegories or current events.

An illustrated catalog will be available at the time of the exhibition.

Marlborough Gallery Hours
10am-5:30pm
Monday through Friday
(212) 541 4900

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21. Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, at Choplet, Brooklyn, thru October 10

Rumi presents new ceramics at Choplet, 238 Grand Street, Brooklyn, thru October 10, 2019. https://choplet.com/gallery

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22. Nina Sobell, Marina Abramović, FF Alumns, in new publication

Hi,

I thought you might like to know about this new book about Brain Art, for which I wrote the foreword. I am very pleased that my own work is discussed in detail by several of the contributors to this first of its kind survey of Brain Art.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-14323-7
eBook and Hardcover are available.

Thanks for taking a look and I hope to hear from you in the near future ;~>!

Warmest,
Nina

NEW PUBLICATION by @SpringerNature
Anton Nijholt, Editor
Brain Art: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression
The first book that surveys how brain activity can be monitored and manipulated for artistic purposes, with contributions by interactive media artists, brain-computer interface researchers, and neuroscientists. Demonstrates examples from art and science that relate brain activity to the creative processes of making and experiencing art: music, movies, dance, painting, interactive and performance art~
With contributions by:

Preface and Introduction: Anton Nijholt; Foreword: Nina Sobell; History: Flora Lysen; Mirjana Prpa/Philippe Pasquier, David Rosenboom/ Tim Mullen, Duncan A. H. Williams; Self: Suzanne Dikker/Marina Abramović/Sean Montgomery/Suzan Tunca, Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat/Frances Brazier, Laura Jade/Sam Gentle; Perception: Zakaria Djebbara, Lars Brorson Fich/Klaus Gramann, Jesus G. Cruz-Garza, Girija Chatufale, Dario Robleto/Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Eric Todd, Jesus G. Cruz-Garza, Austin Moreau, James Templeton; Therapy: Stephanie M. Scott, Chris Raftery/Charles Anderson, Rainbow Tin Hung Ho, Sunee H. Markosov, Nathan Sanders/Chang S. Nam; Technology&Hacking, AR/VR: Richard Ramchurn, Sarah Martindale, Max L. Wilson, Steve Benford/ Alan Chamberlain, Andrea Kübler/Loic Botrel, Felix Putze, Christoph Guger, Brendan Z. Allison, Martin Walchshofer/ Sarah Breinbauer.

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23. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, thru Dec. 18

Coco Fusco: Swimming on Dry Land/Nadar en Seco, organized by Jane Becker Nelson with Christina Wiles and Christopher Tradowsky, at the Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.

September 5 – December 18, 2019

Swimming on Dry Land/Nadar en Seco features video and installation work by interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco. The exhibition’s title alludes to a verse by the Cuban poet Virgilio Piñera, quoted in Fusco’s piece Y entonces el mar te habla (And the Sea Will Talk To You) (2012). Over the past three decades, Fusco has remained committed to issues related to the production of knowledge, gender, race, and power. Building on those themes, this exhibition explores the intersections of historicity, memory, absence, and the challenge that poetic license and critical vision represent for the Cuban revolution. As Fusco grapples with Cuba’s impact on her own political vision, she questions the country’s mythological place in collective global consciousness.

The works on view here invite us to consider how absence and invisibility can be forms of somatic and psychic violence and, alternatively, how images and visibility are forms of power. Fusco weaves together archival materials and footage of Havana in the postcommunist era together with poetic reflections that invoke forbidden subjects. For Fusco, the act of making visible that which has been rendered invisible or obsolete by those in power is a political act.

Of her work Fusco notes, “Visitors to Cuba invariably arrive because they are obsessed with its past. For Cubans, however, there is an ongoing struggle, both to shape a vision of a postrevolutionary future and to address suppressed events from the past and present. My work is part of that effort.”

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24. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Sept. 12

Dear friends, NYU is sponsoring nine panels from the Quilt this semester at Bobst Library as part of our Stonewall at 50 series of events. Attached is our invitation to the opening, which is next Thursday, September 12th. I hope you can make it. Also, would you consider sending this invitation to your lists or posting to your social media? We hope to have a crowd for the opening. Karen Finley is speaking.

Thank you in advance,

Marvin

https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=01492b8c945417e36af5bc919&id=2e053693eb

Marvin J. Taylor
Curator for Food Studies and the Arts
New York University Special Collections
70 Washington Square South, Room 232c
New York, NY 10012
ph. 212.998.2596

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thing is just a slow event.”
–Stanley Eveling

NYU Special Collections – Fales Library, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives, and University Archives – is undergoing a major renovation over the next two years. There may be an impact on services and collections. All repositories will be closed to researchers from May 22, 2019 – September 2, 2019 and May 21, 2020 – September 7, 2020.

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