Goings On: posted week of December 16, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, at Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 11, 2020
2. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly, Manhattan, thru Jan. 25, 202
3. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, in T Magazine, now online
4. Dennis Adams, Hans Haacke, Margia Kramer, FF Alumns, in El Mundo, now online
5. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, opening Jan. 14, 2020
6. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at East Village Playhouse, Manhattan, Dec. 21
7. Scott Johnson, FF Alumn, at Roulette, Brooklyn, Jan. 23, 2020
8. Olivia Beens, Susan Newmark Fleminger, FF Alumns, at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, Manhattan, Jan. 10-Feb. 4, 2020
9. Josh Harris, FF Alumn, at Museum of Sex, Manhattan, Dec. 18
10. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, online at medicinepathpodcast.com/podcast/maxgimblett
11. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at vimeo.com
12. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, at SF MoMA, CA, Dec. 2019
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1. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, at Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 11, 2020
Tales of Little Tokyo
Saturday, January 11, 2020
2PM & 7PM
Japanese American National Museum
Tateuchi Democracy Forum
100 N. Central Ave.
Tales of Little Tokyo is a live theatrical reading of memories drawn from over 50 interviews with L.A. residents about their relationship to the oldest and largest Japanese American community in the United States. Today this 135+ year old landmark of Japanese American history faces serious threats to its existence as the relentless forces of gentrification bear down on its ever-shrinking geography.
Why are communities and the cultural history they embody important? What do we stand to lose? What have we lost already? How can a community respond intelligently and effectively to conflicting issues of preservation and development? Tales of Little Tokyo speaks to those questions and more through the stories of those who have been part of its history and who continue to cherish it as a community.
Originally created by award-winning performance artist Dan Kwong in 2018, Tales of Little Tokyo will include new interviews as well as a multimedia component. Read/performed by Kwong and veteran actress Takayo Fischer, dozens of recollections will come to life with the help of exquisite archival photos, family snapshots and period music. Together they will convey the rich history of Little Tokyo and what it means to its stakeholders.
And even if you are not Japanese American or have no relationship to Little Tokyo, the idea of people fighting for something that has symbolized “home” for generations resonates loud and clear: the heart and soul of a city is found in the collective experience of its people.
To donate:
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2. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly, Manhattan, thru Jan. 25, 2020
JAMES CASEBERE
On the Water’s Edge
DECEMBER 13, 2019 – JANUARY 25, 2020
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, December 12, 6-8pm
Sean Kelly is delighted to present On the Water’s Edge, James Casebere’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this arresting new series of images, Casebere continues his ever-evolving exploration of form at the intersection of architecture, sculpture and photography. In previous, well-known bodies of work, the artist depicted buildings and interiors based primarily on extant structures; this series, however, is distinguished by a marked change in Casebere’s conceptual approach. To create these salient new images, Casebere became the architect, often designing and building the structures he produced and then photographed. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, December 12, from 6-8pm. The artist will be present.
The works in the exhibition are hybrids of public/private spaces. Geometrically designed edifices rendered in a rich and vibrant palette; these buildings appear simultaneously concrete and abstract; they are open, even unfinished buildings of the sort that provide sanctuary, such as beach houses, cabanas, bathhouses. Neither utopian nor dystopian, these images are meant to inspire an appreciation of pure beauty coupled with a twinge of uncertainty. Indeed, in these unmoored, flooded pavilions, Casebere sees human ingenuity in the face of global warming. Acknowledging the imminent unknown future these pictures embody, he also insists that we “can’t afford to throw our hands up in… resignation.” Casebere states that these structures are about tenacity, adaptation, ingenuity, and perhaps, optimism, describing them by saying, “there is such a playful atmosphere to them. It feels like an expression of the indomitable human spirit. These things could be rising out of the water like the first creatures to emerge from the sea and live on solid ground.”
For additional information on James Casebere, please visit skny.com
For press, please contact Adair Lentini at the gallery, 212.239.1181 or via email at Adair@skny.com
For all other inquiries, please contact Cecile Panzieri at the gallery, 212.239.1181 or via email at Cecile@skny.com
Sean Kelly Gallery
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
(212) 239-1181
info@skny.com
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3. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, in T Magazine, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/t-magazine/andrea-fraser.html
thank you
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4. Dennis Adams, Hans Haacke, Margia Kramer, FF Alumns, in El Mundo, now online
Dennis Adams, Hans Haacke, Margia Kramer, FF Alumns, in the December 10, 2019 issue of “El Cultural, ” El Mundo’s weekly review of culture, about NEWS, ETC. at Galeria MPA in Madrid. Please visit this link:
https://elcultural.com/fakes-todo-es-mentira
thank you.
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5. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, opening Jan. 14, 2020
One Person Exhibition
“From Concept To Creation: The Bookworks and Related Works of Claire Jeanine Satin”
at Jaffe Center for the Book Arts
Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton Florida
Opening January 14 – May 31, 2020
The exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition catalog of 26 with an original artwork as well as a unique cover. Essays by prominent individuals in the field will be included.
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6. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at East Village Playhouse, Manhattan, Dec. 21
Galinsky – FF Alumn – Benefit Screening “Street to Stage Mashup” of The Bench – East Village Playhouse Saturday Dec. 21, 7pm
Robert Galinsky’s celebrated solo show The Bench, has received praise in both NYC and LA with extended sold out runs over the past three years. Last year STAGE Network filmed The Bench, directed by Tyler Milliron. On Saturday, December 21 Galinsky will host a benefit screening of his film to benefit City Kids. The event will be held at The East Village Playhouse (340 East 6th Street), doors will open at 6:30 and the screening will begin at 7 PM. There is a suggested donation of $20 or pay what you can.
This is a benefit for City Kids and it’s “pay what you can”
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7. Scott Johnson, FF Alumn, at Roulette, Brooklyn, Jan. 23, 2020
Scott Johnson at Roulette, January 23, 8PM
With Contemporaneous, Stephen Gosling, Ashley Bathgate, and Yoko Reikano Kimura
“Americans… a vibrant, multilayered masterpiece … profound and beautiful.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
Dear friends and colleagues,
On January 23 at Roulette, I’ll be presenting the world premiere of Assembly Required and the NYC premiere of Americans with the exciting young ensemble Contemporaneous, conducted by David Bloom. Americans pairs an electric band lineup with the sampled voices of immigrants from China, Romania, and Afghanistan. Assembly Required was written as a purely instrumental companion piece for the same instruments, and as a reflection on popular music, the sociality that inspires it, and the gatherings where it occurs.
I’ll pick up a guitar myself for Up and Back, inspired by a day spent in the mountains of New Mexico’s Pecos Wilderness. It will also feature shamisen virtuoso Yoko Reikano Kimura and two of New York’s most notable new music performers: cellist Ashley Bathgate and pianist Stephen Gosling.
Regards,
Scott
January 23, 2020 8PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
https://roulette.org/calendar/
https://scottjohnsoncomposer.com
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8. Olivia Beens, Susan Newmark Fleminger, FF Alumns, at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, Manhattan, Jan. 10-Feb. 4, 2020
The Storyteller, Olivia Beens, Through the Decades
El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109
215 E 99 St (between 2&3 Av)
New York, NY 10029
10 January – 4 February 2020
Susan Newmark Fleminger, Curator
A retrospective exhibition including installation/perfromance work from 1980’s through current sculptural work on two floors.
The Storyteller
Olivia Beens Through the Decades
January 10, 2020-February 4, 2020
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
Beginning January 10, 2020, El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 is pleased to present The Storyteller: Olivia Beens Through the Decades, a career retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre from the early 1970s to the present day. Beens’ dynamic and psychically-charged work, which spans across media and employs a broad-ranging use of materials and techniques, has consistently explored questions surrounding the relationships between body and spirituality, particularly as they relate to female identity and women’s experiences. The exhibition will open with a reception on January 10 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Born in 1948 in the Netherlands, Beens immigrated to Flushing, Queens in 1955 with her mother. After graduating from the Pratt Institute, Beens earned her MFA from Hunter College, where she studied under Minimalist titans Robert Morris and Tony Smith. Under the tutelage of an all-male faculty, Beens and other students started the Women in the Arts group, which advocated for gender inclusivity and women’s representation in the art world. Beens would continue as an outspoken and politically motivated artist, participating in a number of activist groups including Colab (Collaborative Projects, Inc.), PADD (Political Artists for Documentation and Dissemination), ABC No Rio, Art Against Apartheid, Art for Nuclear Disarmament, and the Potato Wolf People. Through radical performances and installations, Beens’ work in the 1980s boldly interrogated the ways in which systemic power is perpetrated and maintained by the state and religious institutions, particularly the Catholic Church. Oftentimes incorporating her young son in performances, Beens explored issues of gender and motherhood, among other themes, and the socioeconomic limitations set against women in the pursuit of artmaking. Beens also looked to the rapidly changing landscape of New York, with its mix of defunct architectures and mountains of discarded objects, to interrogate history, narrative, and personal identity. Drawing from the history of Western art, urbanism, and her own experiences as an immigrant, Beens deftly combined sound, objects, movement, and text to create immersive and sexually-charged happenings. With limited space and a growing demand for an object-based practice, Beens’ work in the 1990s is grounded in spiritualism and the natural world. Object Spirit, a series of assemblages that combine branches, stones, vines, shells, bones, feathers, and the artist’s hair, among other found objects, reverberate with psychic energy. Amassing detritus from both natural and constructed environments, Beens imbues these evocative works with her own musings on myth, magic, and memory, opening portals into a collective consciousness and shared human experience. Since the late 1990s, Beens has worked almost exclusively with clay. Honing her technical abilities while sharing studio space with skilled sculptors such as Julia Kunin and Simone Leigh, Beens began to see ceramics as an opportunity for meditation, what with its repetitive and tactile nature. In the series Icons, Beens looks to the female body as a site for regeneration, infusing these sculptural works with an ancient quality. Copper functions as a conductor for universal forces in Icons, while Clay Bodies present human organs as abstracted, almost alien pouches. Beens continues to work with ceramics both for
public commissions and in her own practice, forging swirling busts and trembling bodies, as well as evocative cascades of ceramic tears, oil, and blood in her Columns of Tears. Since the 1980s, Beens has shown in numerous spaces in New York, including performances and exhibitions at The Kitchen, Performance Space 122, Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, and Abrons Arts Center, among others. Her work with Colab has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum, and is also part of the collections of both institutions. The Storyteller: Olivia Beens Through the Decades is curated by Susan Newmark Fleminger. The exhibition catalogue, designed by Diane Adzema, contains an essay by independent curator and coeditor of 50 Contemporary Women Artists, Heather Zises, as well as a conversation between Beens and Fleminger.
Please direct inquiries to nicolas.ochart@uconn.edu
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
215 East 99th Street
New York, NY 10029
The galleries are open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 is a community-driven project which transformed an abandoned public school in East Harlem into an arts facility. Designed by Charles B.J. Snyder and completed in 1898, the structure is five stories tall with a steeply pitched roof,
copper-clad cupolas, and a wealth of newly restored decorative terra cotta. Today, the project boasts 90 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families, as well as 10,000 square feet of complimentary space for arts organizations.
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9. Josh Harris, FF Alumn, at Museum of Sex, Manhattan, Dec. 18
The Museum of Sex and Cam4 celebrate the opening of their collaboration: Cam Life: An Introduction to Webcam Culture, the first exhibition to survey the rise of webcam culture from a single camera in a dorm room to a billion-dollar global industry, with a private reception on Wednesday, December 18th from 7-10PM.
Drinks will be flowing and live performances will be run throughout the evening.
Please RSVP to CAM4@nadinejohnson.com
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10. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, online at medicinepathpodcast.com/podcast/maxgimblett
Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,
We wanted to share with you a personal and insightful interview Max did with Brian James for his Medicine Path Podcast on Art as Spiritual Practice.
https://medicinepathpodcast.com/podcast/maxgimblett
Hope you enjoy!
Sincerely,
Matt (and Max)
Matt Jones
Studio Manager
matt@maxgimblett.com
www.maxgimblett.com
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11. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at vimeo.com
HELSINKI CRESCENDOS are online
18/09/19
Oodi Central Library
Participants in CRESCENDO https://vimeo.com/369869069 lined up by height to process into camera space in front of the Library. Using their voices and their height they built crescendos, repeating their initials over and over. Link
16/05/19
The Cable Factory
Participants in THE WORKERS CHORUS https://vimeo.com/369867284processed into the Factory, repeating their initials over and over and holding up the tools of their trade before beginning to set up Art Fair Suomi 19. Link
Earlier performances of CRESCENDO:
2015 – Icebox, Philadelphia Link
2009 – V.art09, Värnamo Link
2009 – V.art09, Värnamo Link
…and also – a new edit for **THE ANSWERS CHORUS
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12. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, at SF MoMA, CA, Dec. 2019
Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s essay, “Jerome Caja and the Scalability of Camp,” just published in SFMOMA’s Open Space (December 2019)
Jerome Caja was a San Francisco-based performance, visual, and punk drag artist who died of AIDS-related complications in 1995. The essay reflects on the scalability of camp in Caja’s work, as well as the event, “A Celebration of Jerome Caja” which took place at SFMOMA’s Koret Education Center in October, to honor the artist and celebrate the West Coast launch of the Visual AIDS book, Duets: Nayland Blake and Justin Vivian Bond on Jerome Caja.
To access the essay, visit:
https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/12/jerome-caja-and-the-scalability-of-camp/?fbclid=IwAR2AAtRG4simJBRph0Yg_g7bUDFjLRv-VGhp8dGhgQhpHpTauFvzQbIvqo4
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