Contents for September 20, 2021
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1. DISBAND, FF Alumn, launches new website https://disband.us
2. Jaye Rhee, FF Alumn, at Fulton Center, Manhattan, NY, thru Sept. 30
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, at The Action Lab, Ossining, NY, and more
4. Cassils, FF Alumn, at @HOME, Manchester, UK, opening Oct. 1, and more
5. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Manhattan, NY, October 15, 2021-January 22, 2022
6. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Christie’s New York, NY, Oct. 1
7. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, online at Vimeo.com and more
8. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Roosevelt Island, NY, Sept. 29
9. Denise Green , FF Alumn, at The H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg, Germany
10. GOODW.Y.N, Miao Jiaxin, FF Alumns, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, NY, thru May 2022
11. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 27
12. Edward Gómez, FF Alumn, now online at Nikkei Asia
13. Dick Higgins, FF Alumn, new website
14. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, at Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Sept. 19, 2021-Jan. 24, 2022
15. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, at St. Louis Art Museum, MO, Sept. 30, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022
16. Harold Olejarz, FF Alumn, at Montclair Art Museum, NJ, opening Sept. 12, and more
17. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, receives Rose Dorothea Award
18. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, NY, opening Oct. 2; on view thru Mar. 6, 2022
19. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, receives New York Innovative Theatre Award 2020-21
20. Laura Parnes, David Everitt Howe, FF Alumns, now online at Pioneer Works
21. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, at Dante Park, Manhattan, NY, Sept. 26
22. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, online at MNN.org cable television, Sept. 21
23. Donna Kaz, FF Member, publishes new book
24. Helen Varley Jamieson, FF Alumn, live online with UpStage, Oct. 15-17
25. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, at Hamilton MAS, Suffolk, UK, thru Sept. 27
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace presents Jaime Davidovich, FF Alumn, film screening and live online panel discussion, September 27 at https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias-jaime-davidovich-film-screening/
You are cordially invited to a free live online panel discussion, Monday, September 27, 2021 7:00-8:00 PM EST at the Franklin Furnace LOFT. Register here: https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias-jaime-davidovich-film-screening/
As part of the online exhibition HISTORIAS http://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias/ Franklin Furnace, in collaboration with Pratt Institute, invite you to screen, from September 20 through September 27, the following Jaime Davidovich online films in advance of the panel discussion:
Portrait of the best artist 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaPSUG49XQ
The Live! Show Promo 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfERww4I7cA
Dr. Videovich Visits Texas 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqpowj9Ddgg
The Live! Show, How to Draw a dog art lesson 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkKmadTlRI
Jaime Davidovich Museum of Television Culture 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDA7ZCZ2mEw
The Live! Show – QUBE Project 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bym7p6wxuLI
On Monday evening September 27, 2021, expert panelists Brian Bentley and Jorge Oliver join HISTORIAS exhibition curator Ruth Benitez in a live interactive discussion of the filmography of Argentine/New Yorker Jaime Davidovich. The evening program begins with the screening of two very short Davidovich works, followed by a discussion centering on the artists’ work processes and intentions, and concluding with audience comments and questions. This program will be in English with live Spanish translation by Manuel Molina.
A selection of art from HISTORIAS is now on view for Pratt students, faculty and staff only, at the Pratt Institute Library in Brooklyn, NY. This film screening and panel is presented in cooperation with Pratt Institute and the Jaime Davidovich Foundation. Funding for HISTORIAS is provided by The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Jaime Davidovich (1936 – 2016) was an Argentine-American conceptual artist and television-art pioneer. His innovative work as a painter, installation artist, and video artist included creating the legendary downtown Manhattan cable television program The Live! Show (1979–1984), an eclectic half-hour of live, interactive artistic entertainment inspired by the Dada performance club Cabaret Voltaire.
Ruth Benítez received her Bachelor’s from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College in 2020. Historias is the first exhibition Ms. Benitez has curated.
Brian Bentley is Manager of the Jaime Davidovich Foundation. He holds a PhD and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and a BA Honours from McGill University. He has held curatorial positions at the Brooklyn Museum and the Grey Art Gallery and research roles at MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and El Museo del Barrio. In 2016 he co-curated Intimate Matters, an exhibition of work by NYU BFA students. His writing is published in Paulo Bruscky: Artist Books and Films, 1970-2013 (Another Space, 2015).
Jorge Oliver, Dean of Pratt Institute’s School of Art, holds a B.A. from George Washington University; an M.A. from The New School; and an M.F.A.from San Francisco State University. An independent filmmaker, actor, and educator born and raised in Puerto Rico, Jorge is the first male filmmaker in the history of Puerto Rican cinema to openly deal with gay images. Screenings include the Cork International Film Festival, the Havana Film Festival, the Festival de Viña del Mar (Chile); performed as a professional actor off-Broadway and in San Juan, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and St. Louis.
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. is a 45-year old independent artists’ organization based on the campus of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA. www.FranklinFurnaceLoft.org/historias/
contact: Harley Spiller 917-553-4831
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1. DISBAND, FF Alumn, launches new website https://disband.us
DISBAND, Franklin Furnace Alumn, the all-girl punk band of women artists who couldn’t play any instruments active from 1978 to 1982 and again from 2008 to 2016, announces new website. DISBAND’s original website designed by Franklin Furnace Intern Sarah Reynolds has been re-designed by artist and Franklin Furnace Program Director Arantxa Araujo.
Please visit the website here:
https://disband.us
Thank you.
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2. Jaye Rhee, FF Alumn, at Fulton Center, Manhattan, NY, thru Sept. 30
I am showing my 52 channel installation work, Handcrafted Reality in Fulton Center which was commissioned by MTA, Art and Design. It was launched last May in the Fulton Center and this month is the last month to view.
This work partially stemmed and developed further from my project which received a Franklin Furnace Fund 2010-11 award.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2021/06/04/as-nyc-subways-start-to-get-busy-again-mta-updates-digital-art-program-in-hub-stations/
Thank you.
“Created during the coronavirus pandemic, Jaye Rhee’s digital artwork, Handcrafted Reality, explores the notion of virtual space and the human relationship with digital devices such as smartphones and computer games. Rhee constructed actual 3D models of digital images from various sources. She then assembled and staged them in innumerable configurations and filmed them to create these 52 fantastically animated tableaux. Recalling early screensavers with floating imageries and popular computer games, Rhee’s whimsical work captures the essential reality of our lives that are increasingly spent in front of screens and alludes to the collapsing of the real and the virtual.”
Best regards,
Jaye
For more information, please visit the following website:
http://www.jrhee.com
Thank you.
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, at The Action Lab, Ossining, NY
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles receives a “Take a Breath Residency” by The Action Lab, Ossining NY
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.actionlabny.org
Thank you.
The Action Lab serves as a movement home where where social justice leaders, people directly impacted by the unjust policies of our government, and members of the arts community could come together to connect, create, and find sanctuary.
The Action Lab sits on land native to the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger tribes.
We are located 30 miles north of New York City in Ossining, New York in Westchester county. From New York City, we are a short drive, or a 45 minute Metro-North train ride (from Grand Central Station to the Ossining train station) and a 7 minute taxi ride from the Ossining train station.
The Action Lab is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all participants, volunteers, vendors, and staff. We do not discriminate in our programs or employment opportunities in regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or physical ability.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, live online with City as Living Laboratory, Sept. 23
Climate Week NYC // Cultivating Compassion and Motivating Action
Thursday, September 23, 2021
12:30 PM 1:30 PM (New York)
Presented by City as Living Laboratory (CALL)
For this year’s climate week NYC, we’re speaking with artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (NDERE) and world-renowned expert in climate psychology Dr Renee Lertzman on cultivating compassion for the natural systems we are a part, and the role of compassion in responding to the climate crisis.
This program will be held on zoom. It is free to attend, but registration is required for the zoom link.
Please visit the following website to RSVP: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?id=89&name=E342387
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To learn more about City as Living Laboratory (CALL), please visit the following website: https://www.cityaslivinglab.org
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To read more about Dr Renee Lertzman, please visit the following website: https://reneelertzman.com
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Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, NY, Sept. 24
Growing A Green Heart
Friday, September 24, 2021
3:30 PM6:30 PM
To RSVP, please visit the following website: https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/events/growingagreenheart
Thank you.
Van Cortlandt Park6142 Broadway, NY, 10471
Led By Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (Ndere)
With Priscilla Marrero, John Butler And Iván Asín
Set aside some time on a Friday afternoon to disconnect from busyness and reconnect with the ecosystem you are a part of! Join us for “Growing a Green Heart”, a three-hour experiential community gathering-walk-movement-drawing workshop at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where participants are invited to become ONE with its ecosystem, and thus for us to develop deep connections with it that can lead to advocacy for our borough’s green areas and for the future of Tibbetts Brook.
In this experience, participants will engage art as a transformative process, leading them back into Nature and while highlighting the personhood of rivers, trees, and fields, to name a few.
“Growing a Green Heart” encompasses walking in ways that develop mindful awareness and focus; moving our minds-bodies away from technology and with our immediate surroundings, and engaging in performative exercises that seek to move participants from empathy to compassion for Nature, but also to awaken Nature within us. At the end of the session, participants will be invited to join in a plant-based meal.
We hope you’ll join us in this transformative experience….and let your heart turn green like the Park!
This will be an in-person, socially distanced event following covid safety protocols. Tickets are limited to allow for appropriate distancing, so while this is a free event, registration is required by visiting the following website:
https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/events/growingagreenheart
Thank you.
Nicolás will be working with amazing Argenis Apolinario and Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in photograph and video.
Growing a Green Heart is an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, and the Bronx Council on the Arts . This project is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts
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4. Cassils, FF Alumn, at @HOME, Manchester, UK, opening Oct. 1, and more
Cassils, FF Alumn, at @HOME, Manchester, UK, opening of Solo Exhibition Oct. 1, and International Premiere of LIVE Performance Oct 7
Cassils: Human Measure
Sat 2 Oct 2021 – Sun 12 Dec 2021
FIRST UK SOLO EXHIBITION
Cassils is a transgender visual artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Working in live performance, sculpture, photography, sound design and film, Cassils contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and power.
For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, their work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.
Referencing conceptualism, feminism, and body art, Cassils powerfully trains their body for different performative purposes, committing to a process of extreme physical and psychological endurance. By positioning their body as a battleground, it is with sweat, blood, and sinew that Cassils shares experiences for contemplating histories of violence, representation, struggle, and survival.
Curated by Bren O’Callaghan for HOME, Manchester, Human Measure will be Cassils’ first UK solo exhibition and a 10-year survey at a critical moment for advocacy.
The exhibition will be accompanied by the world premiere of Cassils’ first piece of contemporary dance, Human Measure (2021). A collaboration with choreographer Jasmine Albuquerque, who has worked with the likes of St Vincent, Devandra Banhart, Laura Marling and Mike Mills, the performance will draw upon personal safety, vulnerability and problematises visibility in a moment of heightened violence against the GNC/Trans community.
Events and response
An artist advisory group of trans and non-binary creatives have engaged in dialogue upon the occasion to devise a range of public-facing responses. Chester Tenneson and Zorian Clayton will shape a series of critical and creative essays, with contributions by Dominic Johnson (Professor of Performance and Visual Culture, Queen Mary University, London), Libro Levi Bridgeman (Hotpencil Press) and Jay Bernard.
Filmmaker Campbell X will curate a film series that celebrates trans/non-binary joy and desire, combating the filmic trope of the transgender victim. Curator Bren O’Callaghan will be in conversation with Cassils, while UK-based Zimbabwean writer and performer mandla rae will explore ritual and remembrance with a performative assembly.
Details of these events will be announced shortly. With thanks to Kate O’Donnell, founder of Manchester-based art organisation Trans Creative for ongoing encouragement.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Human Measure was developed with the support of the Paul D. Fleck Fellowship residency at Banff Centre, and with support from Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, initiated by Carol A. Stakenas and Jacqueline Bell.
With additional thanks to Canadian Stage for their continued assistance.
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Cassils: Human Measure Live
Part of: Our Autumn Winter 2021 Theatre Season, Cassils: Human Measure
Thu 7 Oct 2021
WORLD PREMIERE
The recent government review of the UK Gender Recognition Act fell short of promises to reform and remove need for a medical diagnosis in order to self-identify, omitting legal recognition for non-binary persons or support for minors. Toxic online abuse by those purporting to champion women’s rights and the rise of far-right forums have contributed to a trebling in anti-trans hate crimes since 2014, with Great Britain placed 10th across Europe in terms of LGBTQI+ liberties according to ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Europe Map, rating particularly low for hate crime, legal gender recognition and bodily integrity.
It is against this backdrop we present the world premiere of Cassils’ first piece of contemporary dance, Human Measure (2021), building upon Cassils’ knowledge of kinesiology, martial arts and sports science to reinterpret Yves Kline’s Anthropometries paintings. In addition to being an artist Yves Kline was a judo master. Kline published The Foundations of Judo (1954), a book illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Klein performing the movements that form the basis of judo.
Cassils references this work to demonstrate movements grounded in oppression and resilience, culminating as the dancers’ bodies impress a stain upon a giant cyanotype – to be exposed the color of “International Yves Klein Blue”. A collaboration with choreographer Jasmine Albuquerque, who has worked with the likes of St Vincent, Devandra Banhart, Laura Marling and Mike Mills, the performance will draw upon personal safety, vulnerability and problematises visibility in a moment of heightened violence against the GNC/Trans community.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Human Measure was developed with the support of the Paul D. Fleck Fellowship residency at Banff Centre, and with support from Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, initiated by Carol A. Stakenas and Jacqueline Bell.
With additional thanks to Canadian Stage for their continued support.
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5. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 15, 2021-Jan 22, 2022
Pablo Helguera
A Journal of the Year of the Pharmacy
October 15, 2021-January 22, 2022
Shirley Fiterman Art Center
81 Barclay street
New York NY 10007
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
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6. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Christie’s New York, NY, Oct. 1
Revolutionary Artist Dread Scott Creates First Video and Performance Art NFT: White Male for Sale
Auction on October 1, 2021 at Christie’s New York
Please view the full press release at the following website:
https://www.cristintierney.com/usr/library/documents/main/dread-scott-nft-press-release.pdf
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For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.cristintierney.com/exhibitions/76/press_release_text/
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On October 1, following the September opening of “We’re Going to End Slavery. Join Us!,” Dread Scott’s first solo gallery exhibition in more than 20 years, Cristin Tierney Gallery and Christie’s announce the auction of the artist’s new conceptual NFT project, White Male for Sale. This new digital project harnesses the artistic medium of the moment—the NFT—to deliver a powerful visual statement from within the context of a live auction. The NFT, which is linked to a perpetually looped 00:01:10 minute video of a white male standing on an auction block, will be featured within Christie’s “Post-War to Present” sale on October 1 in New York. The final act of selling the NFT at auction will complete the performance of Scott’s conceptual work.
For more information on “We’re Going to End Slavery. Join Us!,” please visit the following website:
https://www.cristintierney.com/exhibitions/73-dread-scott-we-re-going-to-end-slavery.-join/cover/
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Scott’s innovative NFT makes the medium itself an inherent and essential part of his conceptual project. The artist was initially inspired to create “White Male for Sale” by the meaning of NFT: Non-Fungible Token. As the artist explains, “The term fungible resonated differently for me due to its use by scholars of the history of slavery. People are inherently non-fungible. But as slavery became an integral part of developing capitalism, enslavers sought to make people fungible.”
Throughout the 16th to 18th centuries the Portuguese and Spanish used a system called Pieza de India (“piece of India”) through which people were quantified and valued in relation to an idealized slave—or a “piece of India.” Later, in the ledgers of 18th to 19th century American enslavers, people are often referred to as No. 1 slaves, No. 2 slaves, etc.—a means by which unique people could be dehumanized and compared to others, and thus turned into human commodities. For example, a 35-year-old male carpenter could be equated to a 20-year-old, possibly unskilled woman with two children.
“White Male for Sale” takes this history as a point of departure. During much of the history of America, enslaved people were sold at auction. Frequently these auctions would take place on a street corner, with advertisements announcing the sale. The enslaved person would be made to stand on a block as they were auctioned.
The video of “White Male for Sale” is a slow motion shot of a nondescript white male in a typical middle-class work shirt and pants. He stands relatively motionless on an auction block as the residents of a predominately Black Brooklyn neighborhood pass by, going about their day without acknowledging him. The video seamlessly loops; the auction goes on in perpetuity, questioning the intertwined history of slavery, capitalism, and the ideology of white supremacy. To extend the conceptual project and provide a global platform for this powerful conceptual work, the artist has partnered with Christie’s to feature the NFT within its first major contemporary art sale of the fall season, and place it within the context of a live auction.
Exhibition Dates and Locations
Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York: September 14-30, 2021
Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York: September 25-30, 2021
Auction Information
“Post-War to Present,” October 1, 2021 at 10am EDT
Rockefeller Center, New York
View online at the following website:
www.christies.com
Thank you.
Media Contacts:
Abby Addams, Blue Medium | abby@bluemedium.com |+1-212-675-1800
Sara Fox, Christie’s | sfox@christies.com|+1-212-636-2680
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7. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, online at Vimeo.com and more
Willie Cole: Artcycling
A series of sculptures commissioned by Tod’s for Salone del Mobile 2021
Please watch the video at the following website:
https://vimeo.com/602687238
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Willie Cole was invited to create a series of sculptures in collaboration with the Italian fashion brand Tod’s for their sustainable design project: ARTCYCLING. Based on the values of Tod’s new MOSAIC collection, the initiative explores the inventiveness linked to the recovery of unused materials brought to life through Cole’s unique sculptures.
Known for creating works from existing materials, Cole created the sculptures from recycled Tod’s leather. Collaborating with the brand’s artisans to transform previously considered unusable leathers, semifinished products, and salvaged pieces from different production processes into raw materials for artistic invention.
The sculptures were recently unveiled during Milan’s Salone del Mobile at Tod’s flagship store and subsequently will travel to Paris, London, New York, and Miami.
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8. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Franklin D. ROosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Roosevelt Island, NY, Sept. 29
Hosted by Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
Please be our guest as Four Freedoms Park Conservancy presents artist Shaun Leonardo’s “Between Four Freedoms” at FDR Four Freedoms State Park. The evening will feature Leonardo in conversation with artist Sanford Biggers and scholar and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program officer, Deborah Cullen-Morales, and will be moderated by Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation.
Experience Design & Animations by KUDOS Design Collaboratory. Visuals Digitally Printed & Installed by Looks Good NYC.
Wed. Sep. 29
5:30pm – 7:00pm EDT
RSVP at the following website: https://www.paperlesspost.com/go/G7d2jy7UlG962LhjpbQ4/pp_g/2c9706ca6f3e3f48243d507a5846586dc416bc95?utm_content=view_flyer&utm_source=flyer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=flyer_invitation_v4
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
1 FDR Four Freedoms Park
New York, NY 10044
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9. Denise Green , FF Alumn, at The H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg, Germany
This show is a series of photo collages which combine photos taken by my father in WW2 with my drawings. His photographs capture nighttime air raids in Alexandria, lines of Italian P.O.W.’s moving across the Libyan desert, bombed buildings collapsing, and citizens recovering bodies from destroyed homes.The curator Thomas Elsen configured these 33 photo collages into thematic groupings which expand the viewer’s experience of what trauma can look and feel like.
H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast
Beim Glaspalast 1, D-86153 Augsburg, Germany
h2-zentrumfuergegenwartskunst@augsburg.de
T +49 (0) 821 324 41 69 oder -41 55
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10. GOODW.Y.N, Miao Jiaxin, FF Alumns, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, NY, thru May 2022
Grace Exhibition Space
182 Avenue C, NYC NY 10009
(646) 578 – 3402
gracexhibitionspace@yahoo.com
Opening Friday, September 17 at
9:00 – 11:00 pm
Continuing through May 2022
Including works by Martin Renteria, Miao Jiaxin, Arai Shin-Ichi, Mideo Cruz, Mongkol Plienbangchang, GOODW.Y.N, Non Grata Group and a new installation by Sindy Butz. This is an evolving exhibition, please check our social media for updates on all the artists represented.
15 Anniversary – Wild & Alive !-
From September 17 through May 2022 Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art, opened in 2006, will be unveiling and exhibiting their collection of artifacts created from past performances across the last 14 years. Grace Exhibition Space will be an installation remembering/recounting/reusing artifacts, images, videos, memories and dialogues in recognizing our past.
Grace Exhibition Space was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit in 2013, proving to be a challenge in navigating a corporation within the networking community of performance art. In September 2018, Grace Exhibition Space moved, from 840 Broadway in Brooklyn, to 182 Avenue C/Loisaida. We have operated as a community of performance artists and spaces that include the art community of Bushwick, Brooklyn and the performance art spaces Glasshouse, Panoply Performance Lab and IV Soldiers, as well as the Maximum Perception and BIPAF Festivals.
Grace Exhibition Space will create a participatory exhibition-building performance, involving expanding communities of viewers and participants. Objects will be brought out into the light for the first time since the performance art piece when they were created. Objectification, history and memory will be on exhibit as well as we contemplate the history of performance art in Brooklyn, and in the long history of performance in the East Village.
GES History: Opened in 2006 by friends and performance artists Jill McDermid and Melissa Lockwood, Grace Exhibition Space has been devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists, whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced, and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
Sincerely,
Jill McDermid and Erik Hokanson
Directors, Grace Exhibition Space
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11. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 27
Carousel returns with an outdoor, in-person show with the Brooklyn Book Festival.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://brooklynbookfestival.org
Thank you.
Presentations of graphic novels and comics as performed by the artists:
Emily Flake
R. Kikuo Johnson
Arielle Jovellanos
Matt Madden
Robyn Smith
Jeremy Sorese
For more information about the artists, please visit the following websites:
https://www.emilyflake.com
https://www.rkikuojohnson.com
https://www.arielle-jovellanos.com
https://mattmadden.com
https://www.robrosmo.com
http://jeremysorese.com
Hosted by R. Sikoryak.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.rsikoryak.com
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The event will be followed by a book signing.
Safety
This is an all vaccinated event! A vaccination card or Excelsior pass with matching photo ID is required for entry to this event. Masks are required for all inside the building of The City Reliquary, but may be taken off outside in the backyard, where you will have ample room to social distance if you choose.
Please remember to bring cash for a bar stocked with drinks, sweets, and snacks.
Bios:
Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator and performer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work appears regularly in the New Yorker, the Nib, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. She is the author of “That Was Awkward: the Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug.” She is also the founder of St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency, a residency for women and NB people working in humor-related fields.
For more information, please visit the following websites:
www.emilyflake.com
www.stnells.com
Twitter: @EmilyFlake
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R. Kikuo Johnson was born on Maui in 1981. His books include the graphic novels No One Else, Night Fisher, and the all-ages tale, The Shark King. Since 2006, his comics and illustrations have regularly appeared on the cover and in the pages of The New Yorker. He divides his time living and working in Brooklyn, NY, teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design, and playing the ukulele with his family on Maui.
For more information, please visit his instagram:
@r_kikuo_johnson
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Arielle Jovellanos is a NY based freelance illustrator, writer, and comic artist. Her work has been featured in the Eisner & Harvey nominated anthology FRESH ROMANCE and in magazines, comics, books, and branded social media campaigns. Recently, she illustrated BLACK STAR, an original graphic novel written by Eric Anthony Glover (Abrams Megascope). Her next graphic novel EVIL THING, adapted from Serena Valentino’s bestselling Cruella De Vil novel, will be out this fall from Disney-Hyperion.
For more information, please visit her instagram:
@ joviellety
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Matt Madden is a cartoonist. His best-known book is 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin). In 2013 he was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. He wrote two comics textbooks in collaboration with his wife, Jessica Abel, and the couple were series editors for The Best American Comics from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt for six years. His newest book, Ex Libris, is coming out in October 2021 from Uncivilized Books.
For more information, please visit his instagram:
@mmaddencomics
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Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist known for her mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, illustrating DC Comics’ Nubia: Real One (written by L.L. McKinney) and Black Josei Press’ Wash Day (written by Jamila Rowser). She has an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has also worked on comics for College Humor, Nike, and The Nib.
For more information, please visit her instagram:
@robrosmo
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After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, Jeremy Sorese was accepted to La Maison des Auteurs, a residency program in Angoulême, France. His first book Curveball, published with Nobrow in 2015, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. A sequel, The Short While, will be published with Archaia in November 2021. He’s been teaching art for eleven years.
For more information, please visit his instagram:
@jeremy_sorese
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R. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and the author of Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn & Quarterly).
For more information, please visit his instagram:
@rsikoryak
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For more information, please visit the following websites:
https://brooklynbookfestival.org
http://carouselslideshow.com
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12. Edward Gómez, FF Alumn, now online at Nikkei Asia
Dear art-world and media colleagues:
Greetings from Tokyo as the summer begins to fade…
With this note, I’d like to share with you my recently published article from Nikkei Asia, the English-language magazine of Nihon Keizai Shinbun, one of Japan and East Asia’s leading newspapers.
This article looks at the life and career of the Japanese-born video artist Shigeko Kubota, who, as you may know, was the wife of the Korean-born video artist Nam June Paik. She died in 2015. Earlier in her career, like Paik, she was associated with Fluxus, the international community of avant-garde artists.
Although Paik is usually regarded as “the father of video art,” Kubota also took up the portable video camera as soon as it became available in the late 1960s. Kubota, with her ideas about what she called “video sculpture,” which substantively influenced Paik, was equally an important video-art pioneer.
My article appears now on the occasion of a big, first-ever retrospective exhibition of Kubota’s work, which is currently touring Japan. It’s now at a museum in Osaka. Later, it will come to Tokyo.
This exhibition makes clear just how much Kubota, too, was a pioneering video artist in her own right, sharing many of Paik’s aesthetic ideas but also pursuing her own artistic vision in and with a new medium.
You can find my article online, here:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Arts/Japanese-video-art-pioneer-honored-at-last
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I hope you’ll enjoy reading this article.
I send you all best wishes for good health and peace of mind as the pandemic continues…
Take care!
Edward
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13. Dick Higgins, FF Alumn, new website
Please visit FF Alumn Dick Higgins’ new website:
www.DickHiggins.org
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14. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, at Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Sept. 19, 2021-Jan. 24, 2022
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15. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, at St. Louis Art Museum, MO, Sept. 30, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022
I have two map pieces in the up-coming exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum entitled, Art Along The Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration of the 200th anniversary of Missouri’s statehood. September 30, 2021 – January 9, 2002. The exhibition brings together Mississippian sculpture, Osage textiles, architectural drawings for iconic landmarks, musical instruments, German and Creole furniture, African American decorative arts, prize-winning paintings from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and contemporary artists’ responses to these historic objects. Mel Watkin
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16. Harold Olejarz, FF Alumn, at Montclair Art Museum, NJ, opening Sept. 12, and more
Studio Montclair presents “Inspired by an Object,” a concurrent exhibition from September 10 to October 15 at both Montclair Art Museum’s Vance Wall Art Education Gallery, 3 South Mountain Avenue, and Studio Montclair Gallery, 127 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair, NJ. An opening reception will take place on Sunday, September 12, 11am-5pm at Montclair Art Museum and 3-5pm at Studio Montclair Gallery. This exhibition is the fourth in SMI’s Community Partnership Exhibition Program and features the artwork of 50 artists. It is based on the words of Jasper Johns, who made a note to himself in 1964 to “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.” Since then, these instructions have referred to artwork that uses everyday objects and other non-fine art materials and describes a revolutionary approach to art-making that developed during the early 20th century and continues through the late 1950s, 1960s, and beyond.
Please note: Both the museum and gallery require proof of vaccination or a negative covid test for entry. Masks are mandatory. My piece, Winch, will be on display at the Studio Montclair Gallery.
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17. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, receives Rose Dorothea Award
I am so honored to have received at The Provincetown Public Library this past Friday, the Rose Dorothea Award for my writing with connections to the Cape. Thank you to the committee for selecting me. Provincetown has been such an important place of centering for me.I am so grateful and appreciative of this recognition. Thank you for the cover!! Enjoyed the interview Rebecca Alvin! #provincetown #rosedorotheaaward
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18. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, NY, opening Oct. 2; on view thru Mar. 6, 2022
Thirteen artists offer their interpretations of sanctuary in The 2021 Socrates Annual, opening October 2, 2021 at Socrates Sculpture Park
Long Island City, NY, September 16, 2021 – During the past year and a half, places of sanctuary have been more important than ever. A new exhibition opening at Socrates Sculpture Park addresses several interpretations of sanctuary – as spaces of rest and protection; as sacred sites; and as supportive environments. Thirteen artists selected through an open call have created eleven new projects on this theme. Projects were created onsite at the Park’s outdoor studios with financial support and technical assistance as part of the Socrates Annual Fellowship.
The eleven projects selected represent a range of interpretations, drawing from diverse communities, traditions, and artistic strategies to create unique sculptures and installations. Several threads emerge throughout the exhibition, including practices of self-care, the spiritual elements of natural phenomena, and meditations on the conditions that necessitate sanctuary. Some projects provide space for mourning modes of oppression and acknowledge that sanctuaries are not always spaces free from fear.
For many of the artists sanctuary is not necessarily a fixed geographical location, but a time-bound space that is created and recreated against the backdrop of threats such as illness, climate change, the collapse of the social service systems, and violence of racism and colonialism. Sound – both musical and spoken words – situate and unite communities of sanctuary in many of these works, a visceral mode of communicating refuge.
Sanctuary: The 2021 Socrates Annual is on view October 2, 2021 – March 6, 2022. A public opening will take place at the Park on Saturday, October 2nd from 3-6 PM featuring a performance from artist Monsieur Zohore & composer Joshua Coyne at 5 PM.
Artwork Descriptions:
Rachel Frank*
Sentinel Offering Kernos: Woodcock, Oysters, Lichen
Stoneware ceramic, glazes, steel, epoxy, and spray paint
Rachel Frank continues her exploration of our changing ecological relationships with Sentinel Offering Kernos: Woodcock, Oysters, Lichen, a large-scale ceramic interpretation of an ancient Greek ringed offering vessel, whose cups held offerings of grain. In Frank’s interpretation, the kernos’ cups are envisioned in the forms of three local indicator species, whose health or absence offer early signals of environmental change. When filled with grain or water, birds and insects can find nourishment here. The kernos offers a haven, encouraging new ceremonies of ritual and community, inclusive of the local Greek community in Astoria, whose ancestors originated the kernos form.
*2021 Devra Freelander Artist Fellow
Moko Fukuyama
Shrine
Salvaged oak tree, epoxy resin, acrylic urethane, gravel, landscape edging
Inspired by Shinto spiritualism, Moko Fukuyama’s Shrine features a group of monolithic wooden sculptures evocative of the form and function of fishing lures. Shinto, Japan’s indigenous religion, seeks to cultivate a harmonious relationship between humans, “kami” (deities), and the natural world. Shrine also draws upon Fukuyama’s upbringing in Japan and her experience with recreational sport-fishing. The ‘lures,’ carved from logs whose curves, grain and burl inform Fukuyama’s sculptural interventions, pay homage to the Shinto legacy of developing the character inherent within a landscape. As an immersive monument, Shrine presents fish and forests as symbols of natural abundance, susceptible to principles of scarcity. The oak tree used for the sculpture was donated by East Woods School in Oyster Bay, Long Island, repurposed after it was knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Gi (Ginny) Huo
an act or an offering, what if?
Wood, vinyl, paint
Exploring ideas of belief and her own family’s heritage, Huo’s structure incorporates text and images referencing Mormonism and Korean Shamanism. A wooden archway, steps, and a ramp covered in vinyl landscapes, skyscapes, and words encourage participants to reflect on creating new narratives beyond colonized religious histories. As a part of the project, Huo is recording What If? Belief Podcast, which connects, archives, and amplifies the voices of QTBIPOC (Queer / Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) youth, adults, and seniors around how they navigate their own belief systems.
Anina Major
Haven No. 3
Wood, plexi, crushed shells, ceramic shards
Inspired by the structure made to safeguard activist Angela Davis at Madison Square Garden in 1972, Anina Major’s Haven No. 3 is a wood and plexiglass installation built to express the importance of protecting all Black women while simultaneously providing a place for stillness. The crushed shells and ceramic shards installed at the bed of the installation are recurring materials for the artist, who often references her Caribbean heritage.
Jeffrey Meris*
Catch a Stick of Fire II
Aluminum, hardware, glazed stoneware clay, coral bell plants, soil, sunlight, h2o, care
For Jeffrey Meris, self-care includes care for plants. Drawing from his personal ritual of “Self-Care Saturdays,” Meris presents Catch a Stick of Fire II, an installation of arching aluminum tubes, ceramic vessels whose shape references the Mario character Bullet Bill holding coral bells plants. The branching plant-like sculptural form suggests regeneration and growth as necessary counters to systemic violence.
*New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist Fellow
Levani (aka Levan Mindiashvili)
127.1 bpm (for my dancing peers)
Steel, laboratory hardware, stainless steel, palm tree buds casted in clear urethane resin, stainless steel powder and silicone gel, lights, sound
Celebrating the political, embodied sanctuary of the queer, underground dance floor, Levani’s 127.1 bpm (for my dancing peers) is a palm-leaf ornamented gate installation activated through dance. The artist considers how the pandemic emphasized the fragility of these spaces for marginalized communities and encountered new ways of gathering (including how “parks were the new clubs”). The sculpture’s title references a particularly danceable beat per minute, a speed located within a range considered “magic” by DJs. For Levani, sanctuary is not a destination. Rather they envision it as a double-sided threshold, or portal. Collaborating with the co-creative platform and “Rave Sustainability Project” Rave Scout Cookies, the artist hosts a live DJ’ed dance party Levani’s Room: ecdysis.
Andrea Ray
Rest Cure
Wood, concrete, speakers, audio equipment
Taking up research into the New York City harbor islands – including the nearby Roosevelt Island (previously known as Welfare Island) – as former sites for the quarantined, incarcerated, and infirm, Andrea Ray creates Rest Cure, an audio and participatory installation that invites visitors to recline and listen. A sound recording airs our related sense of alienation under COVID but transforms it to an expanded network of care. The project asks, can the withdrawal from society that the pandemic caused have created a new political subjectivity, one that acknowledges our entangled nature with all others?
LJ Roberts
sleeping with clenched fists, dreaming with clenched fists
Neon mounted on upcycled tornado box springs, eight-channel oscillator, metal
LJ Roberts’s neon installation sleeping with clenched fists, dreaming with clenched fists translates those words into Yiddish and presents them on a pair of vintage tornado-style bed box springs. The work, which incorporates the handwriting of the artist’s father, honors their Jewish heritage and more broadly immigrant communities in New York for which the city serves as sanctuary. The piece marks rest and dreaming as inseparable from both sanctuary and struggle.
Yvonne Shortt, Jenna Boldebuck, & Kelly Li
African American Marbleization-An Act of Civil Disobedience: Hair Sanctuary
Cement, Wood, Steel, Marble Dust, Porcelain, Water
Built with commonly-found cement bricks around a water feature, African American Marbleization-An Act of Civil Disobedience: Hair Sanctuary provides a place for reflection and conversation. The collaborative sculpture features hair picks and accompanying audio stories narrating a range of gendered and raced experiences, many celebrating hair and hair care as a kind of sanctuary. The project continues Shortt’s series of sculptures African American Marbleization, which have often been installed guerilla-style in public spaces.
Monica Torres
Cueva | Cenote
Agua creativa, elementos de la tierra, brillante, alma y presión
(Creative waters, elements of the Earth, glitter, spirit, and pressure)
Cenotes are natural sinkholes of exposed groundwater made after the collapse of bedrock, most associated with the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and the spiritual practices of the ancient Maya. With her sculpture Cueva | Cenote, Torres brings this geological site to Socrates, presenting a perfect circular environment visitors can immerse themselves in. The bottom of the trees surrounding the sculpture are painted white by the artist to represent the sacred Ceiba tree found in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Peru.
*New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist Fellow
Monsieur Zohore
MZ.19 (Patronus: For Mothers Who’ve Lost Their Sons & Sons That Lost Their Mothers)
3-D printed polyethylene terephthalate glycol
MZ.19 is a new performative sculptural installation consisting of two glowing 3D-printed statues, one of the Virgin Mary and one of the deer Bambi from the 1942 Disney film. Named after the charm which produces silver protective guardians from the Harry Potter series and connected to George Floyd’s last plea for his mother, the figures are memorials intended to create a sanctuary born of light. Zohore commissioned composer Joshua Coyne to develop a score to accompany the works and become the site for a discrete musical performance of Coyne’s Visions of Mary during the opening, at 5 PM.
*New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist Fellow
About The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition
The Socrates Annual Fellowship (formerly the Emerging Artist Fellowship) and exhibition reflects Socrates’ founding commitment to artistic experimentation and excellence. Artists are selected through an open call and receive financial support, access to our outdoor studios, and technical assistance to create new public artworks for inclusion in a Park-wide exhibition.
In 2021, eleven artist projects were selected from over 350 submitted proposals. Participating on the selection committee were two curatorial advisors: Emma Enderby, Chief Curator at The Shed and Lauren Argentina Zelaya, Director of Public Programs at the Brooklyn Museum; as well as former Executive Director, John Hatfield; Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Jess Wilcox and former Curatorial Assistant, danilo machado.
Support:
Major support for The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition comes from the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowships, the Devra Freelander Artist Fund, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Cowles Charitable Trust, the Jerome Foundation, the Charina Foundation, the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Agnes Gund, Lambent Foundation, Ivana Mestrovic, and Spacetime C.C. The exhibition is funded, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Digital Experience Made Possible By Bloomberg Connects
Explore the Park and the exhibition from anywhere with the Bloomberg Connects app. Bloomberg Connects is a free digital guide to cultural institutions around the world. Download the app for your smartphone or tablet to learn more about the Park’s 30-year history of exhibiting bold public art projects, hear from artists, and special performances and s videos about the artworks on view.
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.bloombergconnects.org
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About Socrates:
For 35 years, Socrates Sculpture Park has been a model of public art production, community activism, and socially inspired place-making. Over 1,200 artists have created and exhibited new works on its five waterfront acres and outdoor studio facilities. Socrates is free and open to the public 365 days a year from 9am to sunset. It is located at 32-01 Vernon Boulevard (at Broadway) in Long Island City, New York. Socrates Sculpture Park is a not-for-profit organization licensed by NYC Parks to manage and program Socrates Sculpture Park, a New York City public park.
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19. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, receives New York Innovative Theatre Award 2020-21
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20. Laura Parnes, David Everitt Howe, FF Alumns, now online at Pioneer Works
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21. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, at Dante Park, Manhattan, NY, Sept. 26
LuLu LoLo’s Performances have been rescheduled for September 26, 2021
“Dante, Opera, and Shining Shoes: Rituals of My Italian Immigrant Grandpa’s Life”
Performance and visual artist playwright/actor LuLu LoLo brings to life memories of her Italian immigrant grandfather Giovanni Pascale who died before she was born. Through family lore, he was a man of myth to her. Grandpa Giovanni loved opera, the poetry of Dante, and shined shoes for a living. This performance celebrates his life with operatic arias and accordion performed by tenor, Aaron Halevy; and with actor/dancer Luca Villa reciting in both Italian and English an excerpt from Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia (commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death September 14,1321). Dancers Sara Grassi, Maria Hochnowski, and Rathi Varma will highlight his story of immigration and shining shoes (choreographed by Anabella Lenzu with musical accompaniment by Aaron Halevy). The struggle of the immigrants of the past is the struggle of the immigrants of today. Performed in the shadow of Dante Alighieri’s statue and the Metropolitan Opera House at Dante Park, Columbus Avenue at 63rd Street.
For more information about the artists and venue, please visit the following websites:
https://linktr.ee/LuluLolo
https://aaronhalevy.weebly.com
https://www.anabellalenzu.com
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dante-park/
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First Performance: Sunday, September 26, 2021: 2:30-3:00 pm
Second Performance: Sunday, September 26, 2021: 4:00-4:30pm
Admission: Free of Charge
Dante Park, Broadway, Columbus Avenue at 63rd Street
This program is made possible by the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.
For more information about the contributing organizations, please visit the following websites:
https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/city-artist-corps-grants
https://www.nyfa.org
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/index.page
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/mome/index.page
https://queenstheatre.org
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22. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, online at MNN.org cable television, Sept. 21
Barbara Rosenthal’s archive is in the process of acquisition by The City University of New York. Please tune in to TV talk show “Let Them Talk” hosted by Paul DeRienzo of WBAI. ***Tues, Sept. 21, 8pm***; FiOS 33; RCN 82; Spectrum 34 & 1995; Lifestyle Channel*** “Barbara Rosenthal, Old Master of New Media: An Artist’s Archive, Evidence of Life into Art.”
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.mnn.org
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This is Barbara’s fifth time as guest on the show, this time pre-recorded from her loft in the Westbeth Arts Complex in the Highline District, because the Manhattan Neighborhood Network recording studio on 57th St has been closed due to covid, though the editing and broadcast studios there are open.
DeRienzo shoots Rosenthal at a window overlooking the Hudson River, above the Promenade, an assortment of her books and DVDs from some of her Projects arrayed by him on the round wooden table rescued from the street in 1958 by her art/life partner Bill Creston. Paul comes from behind the camera to sit next to Barbara on white plastic chairs she had brought up from the street in 2002. Almost everything in their life has been found, repaired, repurposed. The frugality of her life evidences in her works.
Throughout the half-hour interview, he calls her attention to the two hundred artworks on the walls and the pile he’d placed on the table. Rosenthal, ever the raconteur, talks about how creative ideas come to her, her “inventory of themes and iconography,” her materials, and psychiatric “displosions.” He presses her on the means by which the University bid for acquisition.
That topic, plus more about the archives themselves, the archiving and acquisition process, etc, will be upcoming, when “Let Them Talk” will feature Barbara Rosenthal in joint interview with an archivist from the C.U.N.Y. library. ***Tues, Sept. 21, 8pm***; FiOS 33; RCN 82; Spectrum 34 & 1995; Lifestyle Channel***
For more information, or preview tour of archives in studio situ, please visit the following website:
info–AT–eMediaLoft-DOT-org
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23. Donna Kaz, FF Member, publishes new book
My book made the list: “UN/MASKED” September Picks from Barnes and Noble. Ebooks re Women and theatre
To read Donna’s ebooks, please visit the following website:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/ebooks-nook/theater-history-criticism/women-and-theater-history-criticism/_/N-8qaZ107q?limit=20&offset=2
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24. Helen Varley Jamieson, FF Alumn, live online with UpStage, Oct. 15-17
Over the weekend of 15-17 October, audiences around the world can join online performances exploring the theme “mobilise/demobilise”, and celebrate the launch of the completely rebuilt and mobilised UpStage platform.
Time converters and live links to the stage will be available at www.mobilise-demobilise.eu.
Mobilise/Demobilise began as an artistic response to a world of increasing conflict, crisis and emergency, before Covid19 lockdowns and travel restrictions forced us to live more and more of our lives online. Now, issues of human mobility and the impact of mobile technologies have become even more urgent. The unsustainability and inequality of the old “normal” can no longer be ignored, and we must imagine a new way forward. Mobilise/Demobilise brings a critical and artistic perspective to the current crises.
Over the past year, artists in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Aotearoa New Zealand have researched the theme and learned to use the online platform UpStage for presenting live online events. Different thematic threads have emerged in each locations. In Austria, the artists’ platform Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus Graz have asked the public what kind of a city they want, and how might the city look without cars. In Malmo, Sweden, Teater InterAkt is working with young skaters to understand their perspective on issues of mobility and the environment. And in Whakatū (Nelson, NZ) the historic shifting of the tideway is used as a metaphor for the relationship between human expansion and the natural environment.
Connecting and underscoring the performances are the universal concepts of loss and grief associated with climate change and societal upheaval that the world is experiencing. Audiences in Europe and globally will be invited to reflect on and discuss the theme and concepts at the weekend’s opening and closing events.
The performances launch the newly “mobilised” version of UpStage, which now functions on mobile devices as well as desktop and laptop computers and incorporates many new features. Audiences click on a link and UpStage opens in a web browser; they can interact in real time via text chat and reaction emojis.
Mobilise/Demobilise is a Creative Europe funded collaboration between Teater Interakt (Sweden), Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz (Austria) and UpStage@CCT (the Centre for the Cultivation of Technology, Germany). Schaumbad’s participation is supported by the Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentliche Dienst und Sport (Austria).
Participating Artists:
Katharina Aschauer, Manel Ruiz Blas, cym, Parnian Faizi, Alexandra Gschiel, Eva-Maria Gugg, Doris Jauk-Hinz, Anita Hofer, Rebecca Hofer, Helen Varley Jamieson, Sara Larsdotter Hallquist, Jesper Miikman, Cecilia Nkolina, Keyvan Paydar, John-Paul Pochin, Lyn Russell, Sally Shaw, Vicki Smith, Eva Ursprung, Faye Wulff and Karl Wulff.
Partners:
UpStage is an online platform for cyberformance (networked performance) and an international community of artists. The platform was first developed in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2003 and since then has hosted many online festivals, performances and events. www.upstage.org.nz
Teater Interakt is a community theatre company based in Malmö, Sweden, that works intensively together with people with experience of migration, mainly in the asylum-process, creating performances communicating alternative narratives of migration and Swedish identity. www.teaterinterakt.se
Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz is a multi-disciplinary artists’ platform in Graz, Austria that provides studios for about 30 artists, and organises exhibitions, events and intercultural exchanges. www.schaumbad.mur.at
The Center for the Cultivation of Technology acts as a host organisation for international free software projects, providing organisational infrastructure. www.techcultivation.org
helen varley jamieson
helen@creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.upstage.org.nz
https://mobilise-demobilise.eu
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25. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, at Hamilton MAS, Suffolk, UK, thru Sept. 27
PROXY BODIES – 18th-27th September 2021
With work by Bryony Graham, Clareese Hill, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee, Elly Clarke, Galina Shevchenko and Loula Yorke.
at Hamilton MAS, Bent Hill, Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK
18-27th September 2021, Open 11-4pm daily.
Live Events:
Artist Talk (on Zoom and in Person): Thursday 23rd at 6pm BST
Live Sonic Response to the Exhibition by Loula Yorke: Friday 24th at 7.30pm
Collapse #9 by Dominique Savitri Bonarjee – on the beach at 5pm with a participatory workshop in Hamilton MAS gallery at 12 noon.
Please contact info@hamiltonmas.org.uk if you’d like a link to the artist talk, or to join the workshop on Saturday.
The workshop is suitable for people of all abilities. All events are free entry.
PROXY BODIES is a collaborative exhibition initiated by Elly Clarke in culmination of their three-month CHASE DTP supported Goldsmiths PhD placement at the micro art space that is Hamilton MAS in Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK. Through the media of photography, performance, embroidery, drawing, music and sound, the show explores ideas and lived realities of having and keeping a body going in an uber-connected, politically & ecologically unstable world – among other drags, pressures and pleasures.
All work in the exhibition makes use of different kinds of repetition. In Clareese Hill’s photo series Conjuring from the Rhizome, this repetition is also a form of ceremony, where she activates ancestral and critical diasporic knowledges to create spaces of rest. In these ceremonies, Hill conjures up The GUIDE, who is a triadic collaboration of Black knowledges, autoethnographic mining and ambivalence of participation within the academic conventions of research. Dominique Savitri Bonarjee’s Collapse, which has been performed in different places around the world over the past five years, is a ritual of resistance and surrender, a practice for listening to gravity, time, the weather, the climate, and the movements of an expanded field of aliveness. Next to this, her embroidery work Do Nothing is Best, made during lockdown last year, and gathers a number of sayings by four renowned Butoh dancers, as well as the artist’s contemporary meditations on their movement riddles.
Exhibited for the first time Bryony Graham’s rubbings of pain med blister packs were for a while the only thing she could do, when her illness made it incredible difficult to walk. Album is a high street stationery bought notebook which she repurposed into a photo album in 1991. In 2019, as part of a period of life review, radically adapting to a new way of living with a chronic, incurable pain condition, Graham took the images out again, leaving only the photo corners visible. In her work as an artist and as founder and director of this space, she is interested in invisible support structures, and in finding ways to make them visible.
For Elly Clarke, it’s the constant reusing and recycling of images that are the documentary digital detritus of performances and film projects she has created as her drag alter ego #Sergina. Traces of a Performance is a new series of images that are all taken from a single screen recorded rehearsal from a VJ set Clarke did on International Women’s Day in a former Nunnery in the Alsace, in France, in 2019.
Galina Shevchenko’s Prosthetics Series/Liquidity iterations muse with the ideas of labour, production, procreation, and mediation. Emerging as iPad drawings, the images evolve to become digital embroideries through custom-developed algorithms. Hanging in the windows, the embroideries are pinned to the ready-made matrix of commercially produced fabric and lace, channelling the processes of artificial cross-breeding. This work is inspired by Donna Haraway’s Cyborg manifesto and Shevchenko’s ongoing research into Renaissance Grotesques.
On Friday 24th September, Loula Yorke will perform a live sonic response to the exhibition.
Follow Hamilton MAS on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hamilt0nmas/) for updates. PDF of Exhibition Text and List of Works; http://ellyclarke.com/files/proxybodiesexhibitiontext.pdf
Most work is for sale at very reasonable prices. Email info@hamiltonmas.org.uk for a price list.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Harley Spiller
