Contents for November, 29, 2021
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Benita Abrams, FF Alumn, memorial gathering, Dec. 5
Lori M. Christmastree, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Bonnie Ora Sherk, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Tracie Morris, FF Alumn, now online
1. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, at National Museum of Fine Arts Argentina, Buenos Aires, Dec. 3
2. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at Meridians Sector, Miami Beach, FL, Nov 30-Dec. 4 and more
3. Carlos Motta, FF Alumn, now online at Rubin Foundation
4. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, now online at CristinTierneyGallery.com
5. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, online at Brown University, starting Dec. 1
6. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray, Germantown, NY, Dec 10, 2021-Feb. 27, 2022
7. Roberta Allen, Betty Beaumont, Charles Bernstein, Blondell Cummings, Jane Goldberg, Bob Holman, Kenneth King, Nina Kuo, Virginia Maksymowicz, Christy Rupp, Susan Share, Blaise Tobia, FF Alumns, at City Lore and Cuchifritos, Manhattan, opening Dec. 10
8. Galinsky, Bob Holman, FF Alumns, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Dec. 16
9. Jacob Burckhardt, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
10. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, now online at Artnews.com and more
11. Marilyn R. Rosenberg, FF Alumn, announces new publication
12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in a new publication
13. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Satellite Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, Dec. 1 and more
14. Jane Dickson, FF Alumn, at James Fuentes Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, opening Nov. 30, and more
15. Merry Conway, FF Member, at Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA, Jan. 24-Feb. 5, 2022
16. Bill Beirne, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, at Institut Pour La Photographie, Lille, France, thru Dec. 5
17. John Ahearn, Ida Applebroog, Guerrilla Girls, Kiki Smith, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, opening Dec. 3
18. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at Putty’s Coronation, Brooklyn, opening Dec. 4
19. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse, Brooklyn, Dec. 4, and more
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Benita Abrams, FF Alumn, memorial gathering, Dec. 5
A celebration of the life of Benita Abrams will be held on Sunday December 5 at 556 State Street in Brooklyn (across from the Williamsburg Building) starting at 2:30 pm. Benita died on May 13thin Narrowsburg, NY after a long illness. Her relationship with the Franklin Furnace goes back to the early days where she worked as a photographer and performance artist. She is survived by her son Daniel who is living in London and longtime companion Ron Littke, with whom she collaborated with on a number of performances and videos. For more information call Ron at 347-247-0333.
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Lori M. Christmastree, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit pages 6-7 at the following link:
https://webgen1files.revize.com/waterfordme/69.pdf
Thank you.
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Bonnie Ora Sherk, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit the following link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/arts/bonnie-sherk-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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Weekly Spotlight: Tracie Morris, FF Alumn, now online
Tracie Morris’ work-in-progress, “Afrofem,” claims this week’s spotlight. This 56-minute performance, presented live on November 18, 1995 as part of Franklin FUrnace in Exile at PS 122, features a woman named Deetra, played by Morris, appearing as various archetypes of Black women and using spoken word to express each character’s experiences. This profound work critiques the harmful assumptions made about Black culture, identity, and femininity. Live jazz-funk music accompanies the striking performance, creating a captivating visual and auditory experience that remains exceedingly relevant 25 years later. With Suzanne Jones and musicians Myra Adams, Samora Free, and Vanessa de Windt with Jeff Haynes and Carla Cook. (Text by Rhea Murdeshwar, FF Intern Summer 2021)
More about Tracie Morris at her website, TracieMorris.com
Please visit this website to view her 1995 work in progress:
https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/22
Thank you.
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1. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, at National Museum of Fine Arts Argentina, Buenos Aires, Dec. 3
On December 3, 2021 at 7:00 p.m., the Exhibition of the National Awards for Artistic Career 2020-2021 will be inaugurated at the National Museum of Fine Arts Argentina, which will become part of the Museum’s collection.
Anahí Cáceres, will present the Installation YIWE-YIWEb, from the series Files of the third millennium 2012, that has material from the Performance in DCTV, New York during the residency The Future of the Present in 2001, at Franklin Furnace Archive, and other subsequent related works.
Twenty years later, this work is once again valid with the first techno-globalized pandemic, because now, solidarity is vital, and the web an ambivalent instrument that could balance great needs in the world.
You are invited to participate in the call that is part of the installation by visiting the following website:
https://arteuna.com/INICIO/convocatoria-2021/
Thank you.
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2. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at Meridians Sector, Miami Beach, FL, and more, Nov 30-Dec. 4
Dear Friends!
I hope you are well and wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving in the spirit of community and friendship. I am very excited to share that I will be taking part in Art Basel Miami Beach: https://artbasel.com/miami-beach and showing with Monique Meloche Gallery https://www.moniquemeloche.com/ from November 30th – December 4th. I will have work in the main fair in booth E16 and will have a solo project in the Meridians Sector. This will be a sculptural and dance performance with live dances happening through the week. Attached below is a schedule for you to join! As well, my new monograph “Re/Form” published by Skira https://www.skira.net/en/books/brendan-fernandes-re-form/ in Milan will debut with a book signing on December 1st from 1-2pm in the Meridians Sector. I hope to see you at these events and hope to share some time together. Stay well!
Cheers, Brendan
Still Release – Meridians Sector, Art Basel Miami Beach
Daily Live Performances
Tuesday, November 30th and Wednesday, December 1st – 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm
Thursday, December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th – 12 pm, 2 pm
Book Signing – December 1st – 1-2 pm
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3. Carlos Motta, FF Alumn, now online at Rubin Foundation
Kindred Solidarities: Queer Community and Chosen Families
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of our new virtual gallery, containing all of the works in our current exhibition Kindred Solidarities: Queer Community and Chosen Families, and made available online for those who may not be able to visit our space in person. This virtual presentation is in addition to our exhibition at The 8th Floor, which explores the idea of a structure based on allyship, rather than genetics, addressing how family is defined through gender, sexuality, and the collision of global identities, cultures, and community experiences. The exhibition features artists Jamie Diamond, Andrea Geyer, Nan Goldin, Larry Krone, Kalup Linzy, Carlos Motta with Julio Salgado, Parallel Lines (David Kelley, Jeannine Tang, Mike Cataldi, Hans Kuzmich, and Jens Maier-Rothe) and FIERCE, and Christopher Udemezue.
Visit this URL to visit the virtual gallery:https://www.the8thfloor.org/kindred-solidarities-3d
We will announce our series of programs in the coming weeks, which will take place in January, 2022.
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4. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, now online at CristinTierneyGallery.com
New digital catalog for Dread Scott
We’re Going to End Slavery. Join Us!
Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of a new digital catalog for Dread Scott’s exhibition, We’re Going to End Slavery. Join Us!, open through December 18th. The catalog features installation images and additional information about the artworks on view, plus two new essays by Gregory Tate and Christian Viveros-Fauné.
The gallery closes early today for the Thanksgiving holiday, reopening with our normal business hours on Tuesday, November 30th.
To read the catalogue, please visit the following link:
https://www.cristintierney.com/exhibitions/73-dread-scott-we-re-going-to-end-slavery.-join/overview/
Thank you.
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5. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, online at Brown University, starting Dec. 1
This conference is divided into five distinct events. The first event (which features Rashaad Newsome’s Shade Compositions) is called Black Phonic Substance. It will be live on December 1st, 2021, and will expire from the web on March 1, 2022.
Sign up by visiting the following website:
https://www.theimaginednew.org/vol-ii
Thank you.
Black Phonic Substance is a visualsonic mixtape. Within this mixtape, language is discussed as a central concern of black life. This experiment positions black life as the heretical premise that challenges the orthodoxy of language as defined by the perceptual limits of post-structuralism and linguistics. Here, we consider the phonic substance of teeth sucking, eye rolling and the dialectics of throwing shade.
Rashaad Newsome’s Shade Compositions are sequenced alongside Abbey Lincoln’s wordless singing and Doug E. Fresh’s beatboxing. Reverend C.L. Franklin preaches the word over Roland TR-909 drums, programmed by DJ Green Velvet. James Baldwin discusses the beat of black speech in his writing.
To provoke this discussion, digitally archived film and sound are edited, coded and rendered into forms that challenge the formalistic substance of form and substance. As a mixtape, Black Phonic Substance has no singular author or epistemological orthodox. Rather, the focus of the mixtape is Fred Moten’s “anarchic organization” of sound, speech, voice, body and moving image. What is the sonic form that reveals the limits of categorical speech as an organizing mechanism for knowledge and its production?
Fred Moten describes “phonic materiality” as the substance that is lost through the “analytic-interpretive” gaze. How might black sound, speech and voice challenge this analytic-interpretive gaze? Within the mix, phonic substance sounds out what Denise Ferreira D’Silva calls “the disruptive/creative capacity that blackness hosts/holds.”
Is it possible to discuss blackness as a sign, signifier and a neither that is both? How might blackness name a fluidity and continuum of expressive communication that exceeds the rigid borders of discipline or geographic location? On these imprecise terms, the published academic texts of both Fred Moten and Denise Ferreira D’Silva become a score – a set of symbolic pitches, rhythms and phrases embodied by performers Carl Hancock Rux and Okwui Okpokwasili, organized into an imagined mix. Vernon Reid scores the opening remarks on Wah-Wah guitar.
Black Phonic Substance is the attempt to unsettle the “analytic-interpretative reduction of phonic materiality” and discuss blackness as an ongoing improvisation “that moves in excess of meaning.”
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6. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray, Germantown, NY, Dec. 10, 2021-Feb. 27, 2022
Hassan Sharif and Regina Silveira: Between Perception and the WorldGermantown
Exhibition Dates: December 10, 2021 — February 27, 2022
Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Between Perception and the World, a two-person exhibition of work by Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) and Regina Silveira (b.1939). Placing these two artists in dialogue, the Gallery’s presentation highlights Sharif and Silveira’s shared interest in questioning societal structures. The show takes its title from a 2009 statement by Silveira: “[M]y most important concern … is the nature of visual representation, its function and the role (poetic and political) of the image as the intermediary between perception and the world.”
Reacting against the unchecked consumerism of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Hassan Sharif often featured found and locally sourced materials in his work. Installations like Iron No. 2 (2013) make use of salvaged wire coiled around pieces of wood. Combining timber from the Persian Gulf with imported iron, this grid-like work contrasts the two materials to reflect on Dubai’s rapid development from a traditional trading port to an international metropolis. For Sharif, this and other related sculptures—like his series of copper pieces—were about accumulation. As he explained in 2015, “Accumulation becomes important, stacking one thing on the other. It’s like time—the idea that history stacks itself one on another.”
At the same time, Sharif’s works cleverly play with and update the precepts of modernism. The artist once claimed that “… we [have] moved to an era of remaking, rethinking, redoing, and reevaluating.” Through his use of found objects and formal engagement with the modernist grid, Sharif revisited the foundations of contemporary art to question the very ideologies they continue to serve as emblems for.
Like Sharif’s Iron No. 2, Regina Silveira’s Middle Class & Co. (1971) engages in social critique. This set of fifteen silkscreens depicts a crowd constrained and forced into tight configurations. Referencing class struggles and the sociopolitical realities of Brazil in the 1970s as the country was under military rule, the images make an unequivocal political statement. Silveira illustrates the stratification of society—in one composition from the series, she literally divides and stacks groups of people one on top of the other. This pointed critique is further underscored by the silkscreens’ reductive black and red palette and geometric forms, which formally connect the works to Constructivism and the aesthetics of revolution.
Shifting away from overt political messaging, later graphic work by Silveira focuses on the formal and philosophical relationships between reality and perception. The artist’s 2002 Armarinhos series transfigures household objects into abstract forms through wildly skewed shadows. Silveira characterizes these works as “enigmatic,” explaining that they “… serve as indexical signs … [and are] enigmatic because they are marks left by light.” Collapsing the distinction between an object and its image through the play of light and shadow, Silveira’s compositions draw attention to the mutability of perception.
This mutability is at the core of Silveira and Sharif’s art. Just as Silveira’s practice advocates for a constantly evolving understanding of space and representation, so too does the materiality of Sharif’s installations and sculptures draw attention to the shifting physical and cultural landscape of society. Ultimately, both artists’ works embody, to quote Sharif, “… the rhetorical and aesthetic structure unique to the new and contemporary human.”
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7. Roberta Allen, Betty Beaumont, Charles Bernstein, Blondell Cummings, Jane Goldberg, Bob Holman, Kenneth King, Nina Kuo, Virginia Maksymowicz, Christy Rupp, Susan Share, Blaise Tobia, FF Alumns, at City Lore and Cuchifritos, Manhattan, opening Dec. 10
City Lore Gallery + Artists Alliance Inc. present
ART / WORK: How the Government-Funded CETA Jobs Program
Put Artists to Work
1973-1981
City Lore Gallery, 56 East 1st Street, 12/10/21–3/21/22
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, 88 Essex Street
(inside Essex Market), 12/10/21–2/19/22
CETA CCF Artists Project NYC – CETA Artists Organization demonstration May 1980 – photo by Grover Amen ©2021
This documentary exhibition, part of a long-term initiative in conjunction with the Delaware Art Museum, addresses the history and significance of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), a federal jobs program that ran from 1973 to 1981. CETA employed 10,000 artists nationwide, along with an additional 10,000 cultural support staff, on a scale not seen since the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s.
ART/WORK spotlights the achievements of CETA-funded artists projects in New York City, which placed over 600 visual artists, poets, dancers, performers, musicians and others in community settings in all five boroughs. Its legacy serves as a model for envisioning how working artists can be incorporated into the nation’s pandemic recovery.
Opening Receptions: Friday, December 10
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 6-8 pm
City Lore Gallery: 7-9 pm
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8. Galinsky, Bob Holman, FF Alumns, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Dec. 16
You’re Invited To Poetry In New York December!
Thursday, December 16th, 8-10 pm Live Not Virtual!
Tennessee Reed, Bob Holman & Galinsky At Book Club Bar Followed By A Musical Set By Dj
“Forget Your Password”!
Poetry In New York, 3rd Thursday Of Every Month At 8 pm
Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street By Avenue B In The East Village Nyc
Free Admission, Free Speech, Vax Card Required
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9. Jacob Burckhardt, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
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10. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, now online at Artnews.com and more
Please visit the following websites:
https://fnewsmagazine.com/2021/04/what-happened-to-godzilla-vs-the-art-world/
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/godzilla-groups-art-world-mission-1234610317/
and a coloring book image based on “After Freedom is a Constant Struggle” 2020-work in progress, based on Angela Davis’s book Freedom is a Constant Struggle, 2015, here:
https://www.ithacamurals.com/shop1.html
Thank you.
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11. Marilyn R. Rosenberg, FF Alumn, announces new publication
New Artist’s Book By Marilyn R. Rosenberg
from Luna Bisonte Prods
Marilyn R. Rosenberg describes her beautiful and complex book “Double” thus: “It is not really visual poetry, although there is some. It is not asemic poetry, although there is some. It is for sure an artist’s book, with a narrative that can be seen/read in all directions. I worked to be sure that standing on its side the images worked as well as in the landscape orientation. Notations reference the environment and the current changes in the weather (global warming- the fires and floods), and Covid, and death and life.” Rosenberg’s DOUBLE is a unique artist’s book that vividly explores ideas about doubling, and does so in many directions at once: horizontally and vertically; with elements repeated in a set of twin artists books which are presented on opposing pages; always with modifications/additions/subtractions, on the facing page. The original set of twin books were hardbound in black covers, with 200 gram acid-free, 100% recycled, 140 lb. cold press paper; and the artist worked back and forth on corresponding pairs of squares. Digitized images from both books were further manipulated for this book. “Double” has 60 color filled pages, consisting of 30 similar twin pairs of facing pages. The book itself is doubled in a sense, in that the front cover is doubled on the last page, and the back cover on the first page. “Double” mirrors and closes itself, to create a complete self-reflective object, a talisman of how we experience the reality, or what we think of as the reality, of the world we live in. The book’s gorgeous and sensuous colors, drawing, painting, writing, and collage give intense life to these concepts. – John M. Bennett
To order a copy, please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in new publication
Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in new publication
The Provincetown Arts Press has released a book by Barbara Cohen, Our Provincetown, which includes writings by sixty artists, along with paintings by Cohen.
To read, please visit the following website:
https://provincetownarts.org/home/?page_id=3316
Thank you.
Jay Critchley
Founder & Director
Provincetown Community Compact
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13. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Satellite Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, Dec. 1 and more
A. in Miami, video / futurism / philosophy
Wed. Dec. 1, 7:30pm Video + Discussion at Satellite Miami
“How Much Does The Monkey Count” (performance video) 1988;Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run (photo/performance video) 2017-21; Barbara Rosenthal Discusses Two Performance Videos in Relation to All Her Work, (talk/video) 2021 + Zoom Q&A curator Quinn Dukes: quinn@performanceisalive.com
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.performanceisalive.com/news/announcing-alive-at-satellite-miami-2021-selected-artists
Thank you.
Satellite Art Fair / Performance is Alive
1655 Meridian Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
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in NYC, publishing
Autumn, 2021
Library Exhibition Of Independent Presses
“Indy Indeed: A Half-Century of Downtown’s Independent Presses”Alyona Glushkenkova and the staff of NYPL Tompkins Square Library present an exhibition of walls and vitrines filled with labors of sacrifice and dedication to the joyful, often irreverent literary possibilities Greenwich Village is famous for. Curated by poets and publishers Ron Kolm, Greg Masters, Ilka Scobie, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, “Indy Indeed: A Half Century of Downtown’s Independent Presses” elicits nostalgia for old bygone standbys like Cover Magazine and the East Village Eye, and some newer imprints, such as Barbara Rosenthal’s eMediaLoft.org studio imprints Xanadu Press and Washington Street Press, which last year issued books by Bonny Finberg, Barry Wallenstein and A. D. Coleman.
Tompkins Square Library
331 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10009
212-228-4747
M-TH 11-7; F 10-6; SAT 10-5
online and in print, publishing and surreal photography American Book Review, Fall issue Review of two books published by eMediaLoft.org’s imprint Xanadu Press were reviewed by Ilka Skobie in American Book Review, online and in print: Party Everywhere, Second Edition, by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright; and Time on the Move, title and poetry by Barry Wallenstein, surreal photos by Barbara Rosenthal.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/836084
Thank you.
in NYC, image/text conceptual art
just ended, Postmasters Gallery
Wed. Nov 3, 7-10pm byoNFT at Postmasters ***
“This is Not A T/F/?” original gif, 2016; NFT 2021
Postmasters Gallery, 54 Franklin St., NYC Tribeca
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14. Jane Dickson, FF Alumn, at James Fuentes Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, opening Nov. 30, and more
Dear Friends,
I’m delighted to share my work will be in Miami next week at Art Basel with James Fuentes Gallery, and in a group show curated by Zoe Lukov.
Details for both are below. I hope you have a wonderful holiday week.
Jane
James Fuentes Gallery
We are pleased to announce our upcoming Art Basel: Miami Beach presentation in the Galleries sector, Booth J10. We will be presenting a selection of works by artists at the core of our program.
Jane Dickson has been hugely important to her extended artistic community in New York, since her early involvement in ‘80s collectives such as COLAB, Fashion Moda, and Fun Gallery. We are honored to present new and recent work by Dickson that circles back to that time. As with the loop between photography and painted image, Dickson’s practice can be understood as cyclical rather than liner, in which scenes and signs reappear and interact, reflecting their continued prevalence.
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Skin In The Game
A collective offering about touch, transmission, and skin—the potential, vulnerability and risk contained therein—as a boundary to protect from danger or as a porous border to receive.
Curated by Zoe Lukov
Presented by Palm Heights Grand Cayman
Nov 30 — Dec 10
1620 Washington Avenue
Miami Art Week 2021
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15. Merry Conway, FF Member, at Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA, Jan. 24-Feb. 5, 2022
Juggling Language:
Playing with Wit & Wordplay in Shakespeare
In-Person at Shakespeare & Company! Jan 24-Feb 5
Faculty: Merry Conway, Cecil MacKinnon, Julie Nelson, Susan Dibble, Alyssa Ciccarello
For more info, please visit the following website:
https://www.shakespeare.org/actor-training/in-person-specialized-workshops
Thank you.
Email: training@shakespeare.org with any questions.
Juggling Language:
Playing with Wit & Wordplay in Shakespeare
In-Person at Shakespeare & Company!
One of the delights of working with Shakespeare is encountering the full-blown pleasure and dexterity in all sorts of wit and wordplay. Shakespeare’s language often soars, opening up meaning and amplifying themes and character. The love of wit was an essential component of the Elizabethan age, and Shakespeare was a titan of the witty writers.
This workshop will start from the understanding that playing with language is a basic human activity, that we develop our language skills through the pleasure of sounds and puns and confusions, and that this can easily be diminished as we grow older, when language becomes a mere conveyance for sense.
Working in the workshop atmosphere of delight with a progression of games, we will rekindle our own love for the audacity of using wit and wordplay, and then bring that to meet the language of Shakespeare in text work.
We will explore Shakespeare’s text to discover the enjoyment and agility that is so palpable and contagious in the playing of it; that is what ultimately allows an audience to experience and enjoy the language themselves.
This workshop will also include Linklater voice work and Movement and Dance work.
Please Note: All participants are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen. All participants, faculty, and workshop staff will also be tested for COVID-19.
Dates: January 24 To February 5, 2022
Tuition: $2,500 Usd*
Location: Shakespeare & Company Campus, Lenox, Ma
Faculty: Merry Conway, Cecil Mackinnon, Julie Nelson, Susan Dibble, Alyssa Ciccarello
Housing: Single-occupancy housing with shared bathrooms and kitchen facilities.
*Alumni and union discounts are available, and scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority. Scholarships include tuition and housing. E-mail training@shakespeare.org for details.
Copyright © 2021 The Center for Actor Training at Shakespeare & Company, All rights reserved.
The Center for Actor Training at Shakespeare & Company
70 Kemble Street
Lenox, MA 01240
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16. Bill Beirne, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, at Institut Pour La Photographie, Lille, France, thru Dec. 5
La Livre Photographique
08 Octobre 05 Decembre 2021
Institut Pour La Photographie
11, rue de Thionville
59000 Lille – France
+33(0)320 880 833
A visual experimental space
Exhibition
Free, reservation strongly recommended
Wednesday 11:00 – 19:00
Thursday 11:00 – 21:00
Friday 11:00 – 19:00
Saturday 11:00 – 19:00
Sunday 11:00 – 19:00
Curator: Anne Lacoste with Zoé Isle de Beauchaine In collaboration with Lucien Birgé Production: Institut pour la photographic
“The book of photographs is an autonomous art form, comparable to a sculpture, a play or a film. Photographs lose their photographic character as objects “in themselves” to become the components, expressed in printing ink, of an exceptional creation called a book”*
Publishing was the main mode of dissemination of photography until it managed to establish itself within museum institutions in the second half of the twentieth century. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the photographic book has been the subject of a constantly renewed creativity thanks to the constant progress of the printing press which has made it possible to explore a wide variety of printing qualities and to ensure its reproduction at a lower cost.
Lucien Birgé’s library, which includes more than 25,000 international works from the late nineteenth century to the present day, bears witness to this rich and varied history of photographic publishing. It accounts for all the uses and forms of photography, from commissioned or propaganda work, through the predominant genre of documentary, to formal and creative approaches.
The prospect of this exceptional donation to the Institute for Photography is an opportunity to initiate a series of exhibitions dedicated to this privileged mode of dissemination of photography. Unlike the print run, the challenge of the book lies in its overall coherence, in order to affirm the author’s point and offer the reader a singular experience. The selection of images, their sequence and layout, the place of the text, the choice of graphics and typography, the quality of the paper and printing, the format, the binding, the cover are all parameters to consider in the design and production phases.
This exhibition, based on the first donation of 2,053 books in 2020 and supplemented by loans from the collector, offers a selection of books by iconic and lesser-known authors, on the work of sequence and layout of the photographs. The author or his graphic designer has a wide range of actions – from the choice of image formats to their arrangement in the page – to guide our reading of individual images and arouse our permanent interest.
*Ralph Prins, in conversation with Cas Oorthuys in 1969, quoted in Mattie Boom and Rik Suermondt, Photography between Covers: the Dutch Documentary Photobook After 1945, Fragment Uitgevererij, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 12 – quoted in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Book of Photographs: A Story Volume 1, 2005, p. 7.
Photography: kessels2-aspect-ratio-1000-300
Shinzo Fukuhara
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Ralph Gibson
Andrea Alessio
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Jungjin Lee
Nancy Honey
Piet Marée
Jindrich Marco
Adam Bogusz
Anna Chojnacka
Boris Mikhailov
Miroslav Hák
Keld Helmer-Petersen
Judith van Ijken
Max Vadukul
Lucile Boiron
Terry Richardson
Weegee
Bill Brandt
Johan van der Keuken
Lorenzo Castore
Erwin Fieger
Óscar Monzón
Bill Beirne
Niels Stomps
Martien Coppens
Ed van der Elsken
William Klein
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Ed van der Elsken
J.H. Engström
Kikuji Kawada
Eikoh Hosoe
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
August Sander
Hilla & Bernd Becher
Tamotsu Yato
Lee Friedlander
Taryn Simon
Erik Kessels
Ed Ruscha
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17. John Ahearn, Ida Applebroog, Guerrilla Girls, Kiki Smith, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, opening Dec. 3
Exhibition: Art for Change
Art for Change: The Artist & Homeless Collaborative December 3, 2021 – April 3, 2022
Art for Change: The Artist & Homeless Collaborative examines the history of modern homelessness in New York City through the lens of the Artist & Homeless Collaborative, a public art project founded in 1990 by multidisciplinary artist Hope Sandrow. The program, which connected women from the Park Avenue Armory Shelter for Homeless Women with artists, curators, and activists, provided a vehicle for the women to tell their stories, work creatively, and build relationships. On view in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery, the exhibition looks at the transformative potential of art in public and private life through a selection of art projects led by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Ida Applebroog, the Guerrilla Girls, Hope Sandrow, Judith Shea, Kiki Smith, Robin Tewes, among others.
Curated by Rebecca Klassen, associate curator of material culture, and Laura Mogulescu, curator of women’s history collections, with Tracey Johnson, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Center for Women’s History, and curatorial intern Lisa Diaz Louis.
Exhibitions at New-York Historical are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the Evelyn & Seymour Neuman Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. WNET is the media sponsor.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/art-change-artist-homeless-collaborative
Thank you.
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18. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at Putty’s Coronation, Brooklyn, opening Dec. 4
Putty’s Coronation is pleased to announce the opening of “(In)Complete Formation” a solo exhibition by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow at Putty’s Coronation on 1086 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206.
“(In)Complete Formation” December 4th – January 7th, 2022
Opening Reception December 4th, 2021 5-9 pm
For more information, please visit the following link:
Thank you.
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19. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse, Brooklyn, Dec. 4, and more
Opening Saturday, December 4th 2021 1:00pm to 4:00pm
December Light : “Holiday Smallworks Exhibition.” Support our remarkable local artists who are offering small works in an eclectic array of styles and mediums. We have assembled a collection of artists who have agreed to offer a holiday sale of original works, multiples and prints for under $100.
Join us for limited-occupancy viewing of our final visual arts offering of the 2021 season! Participants will enter one door, exit another and can purchase art to take home immediately. Proof of one COVID shot is required.
For complete information please visit this link:
Thank you.
Works by the following artists will be on display:
Heather Buchan
Sasha Chavchavadze
Todd Drake
Janna Dyk
Gail Flanery
Mary Louise Geering
Mary Grimes
Abby Goldstein
Diana Jensen
Christina Kelly
Michael Koehler
Wayne Mosely
Susan Newmark
Joanna Oltman Smith
Stephanie Rauschenberg
Randall Stoltzfus
Sarah Way
Larry Weekes
and
Magic at Metaphor Projects
382 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
December 4, 2021 – January 16, 2022
Opening party Saturday, December 4, 5-8 pm
Closing party Saturday, January 16, 5-8 pm
Regular gallery hours are Sat & Sun 12-6 and by appointment.
MAGIC: a group exhibition which highlights the intangible power of art to connect and heal after our months of Covid lockdown.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Danelly Reyes and Joanna Seifter, Franklin Furnace Interns, Fall 2021
