| 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | first part 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | main menu |
ABOUT GOINGS ON: How to subscribe and submit listings
Contents for August 25, 2008
1. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, in Washington Depot, CT, opening August 16
2. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Mobile Museum of Art, AL, thru Sept. 2008
3. Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumn, at Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, and more
4. Gearoid Dolan, Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumns, at DAC, Brooklyn, July 27
5. Ruth Hardinger, Liliana Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir, FF Alumns, in Beijing, China, opens Aug. 16
6. elin o'Hara slavick, FF Alumn, now online at http://elinhiroshima.blogspot.com
7. Adriene Jenik, Diane Ludin, at UC San Diego, CA, opens August 4
8. David Medalla, FF Alumn, in Sussex, UK, Aug 2, 2 pm
9. Tommy D, FF Alumn, at Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, Aug. 5, 7:30 pm
10. Arlene Raven, FF Alumn, honored by Critical Matrix, Spring 2008, vol. 17
11. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, in Yokohama, Japan, August 2, and more
12. Clemente Padin, FF Alumn, in Montevideo, Uruguay, thru August 22
13. Doug Beube, Mary Lum, Scott McCarney, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, now online
14. Tom Trusky, FF Alumn, in Post Falls, ID, August 8
15. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Alumn, at Oostereiland Prison, The Netherlands, Aug. 1-14, and online
16. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Lincoln Center, Manhattan, Aug. 9, and more
17. Purgatory Pie Press, Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumns, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Aug. 6
18. Phillip Warnell, FF Alumn, now online
19. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, at Talman + Monroe, Manhattan, opening Aug. 8
20. Kathy Grove, FF Alumn, at Surface Library, East Hampton, NY, thru Aug. 24
21. Fiona Templeton, FF Alumn, at Chashama, Manhattan, Sept. 2-13
22. Tracy Quan, FF Alumn, in Mexico City, and more
23. Peter Dobill, Rob Andrews, Holly Faurot + Sarah H. Paulson, FF Alumns, at English Kills, Brooklyn, Aug. 16-Sept. 7
24. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Aug. 13-17
25. Cecilia Rodriguez Petit, FF Alumn, now online at www.cecliapetit.com
26. Maciej Toporowicz, FF Alumn, now online at http://web.mac.com/maciejtoporowicz/iWeb/Real/Chocolate.html
27. Vernita N’Cognita, Krzysztof Zarebski, FF Alumns, at Rivington School Underground, Manhattan, August 8
28. Penny Arcade, Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumns, at Galapagos, Brooklyn, August 7
29. Joshua Fried, neuroTransmitter, FF Alumns, at New Museum, Manhattan, August 7
30. Ron Athey, Annie Sprinkle, FF Alumns, in London, England, Sept. 4-10
31. Meow Meow, FF Alumn, at P.S. 122, Manhattan, Aug. 10
32. Annie Lanzillotto, Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, in new Columbia University book
33. Adriene Jenik, FF Alumn, at UCLA, Nov. 20-23
34. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, at Claremont Museum of Art, CA, September 21-December 28
35. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at Deitch, Manhattan, opening Sept. 4
36. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at PS 122, Manhattan, August 14, 8 pm
37. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at Wildcat Studio, Berkeley CA, Sept. 13, 8 pm
38. Coco Gordon, FF Alumn, in Napoli, Italy, thru Aug. 26, and more
39. Circus Amok, FF Alumns, across NYC, September 6-28
40. Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumn, at CoCo66, Brooklyn, Aug. 14, and more
41. Benoit Maubrey, FF Alumn, in Brooklyn, Sept. 16-22 and more
42. David Cale, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, August 25, 9:30 pm
43. Marthe Fortun, FF Alumn, at Glasslands, Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 9 pm
44. Peter Cramer, FF Alumn, at Metropolitan Playhouse, Manhattan, thru August 24
45. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at Manhattan Children’s Theater, Aug. 31
46. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray, Manhattan, opening Sept. 10
47. Laure Drogoul, FF Alumn, at Chelsea Art Museum, Manhattan, Aug. 28
48. Richard Foreman, Marianne Weems, Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at CUNY Grad Center, Manhattan, Sept. 24-27
49. Anne Flournoy, FF Alumn, now online at http://www.youtube.com/anneflournoy
50. Anne Bean, Nina Sobell, FF Alumns, in Spain, August 22
51. Roberta Allen, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock, NY, Aug 30
52. Deborah Garwood, FF Alumn, at Pratt Insitute, Brooklyn, opening Aug. 25
53. Tim Miller, FF Alumn, fall 2008 calendar
54. Maria Yoon, FF Alumn, at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan, Sept. 18-20
55. Deborah Lawrence, FF Member, at Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA, opening Sept. 4, 6-8 pm
56. Kimsooja, FF Member, at Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, thru October 19
57. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, published in two new books
58. Eleanor Antin, FF Alumn, at San Diego Museum of Art, CA, thru November 2
59. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, at Galeria Brito Cimino, Sao Paulo, Brasil, thru Sept. 20
1. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, in Washington Depot, CT, opening August 16
INTERSPACE: LINE AND COLOR
POWER BOOTHE
CAT BALCO
CHRIS DURANTE
AUGUST 16 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 4-6 PM
WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION
4 BRYAN PLAZA
WASHINGTON DEPOT CT 06794
GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday 10-5PM, Sunday 12-5PM
860.868.2878
washingtonart@snet.net
www.washingtonart.org
2. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Mobile Museum of Art, AL, thru Sept. 2008
Joni Mabe, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, July -Sept, 2008, 1st Place Award.
3. Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumn, at Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, and more
200 pound block of ice hangs from gallery ceiling in Aberdeen art installation
Performance and multimedia installation at Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen: 22-26 July
Can you work even while you are asleep? Artist Tobaron Waxman proves with Block of Ice + 1/60, that he can. His impressive performance connecting labour and water ecology is the final part of 'No Time to Lose', an exhibition exploring the theme of 'overwork'.
The performance, a first in Aberdeen, is open to the public at Peacock's gallery from Tuesday 22 July until Saturday 26 July.
Waxman's brain functions like that of a shift worker, i.e. he sleeps during the day and works during the night. The impressive installation Block of Ice + 1/60 involves the artist sleeping in a large hammock suspended from the gallery ceiling, next to a massive 200 pounds block of ice hanging from the ceiling as well.
While the artist sleeps in the gallery during opening hours, biofeedback from his brainwaves are monitored in a process allowing him to pull images from the internet. The images are subsequently projected onto a block of ice as it melts over the course of the week.
The images are generated through a software program which conducts image searches on the internet based on terms such as 'labourer' and 'water'. The images are collaged in response to his alpha brain waves digitally monitored.
Passing through a filtration system the ice melts into bottles while, at the same time, screen captures of the projection are printed onto labels. Upon waking at night, the artist begins his ‘working day' by applying the labels to each bottle thus generating an artist's multiple. The bottles are a unique edition for sale, with proceeds going to not-for-profits concerned with labour and hydrology.
Block of Ice +1/60 reveals the boundaries between social and personal experiences of ‘schedule' and the notion of 9 to 5 as the minimum "respectable" work hours. It's an image juxtaposing the ecology of work opposite the fragile balance of the water table.
Block of Ice +1/60 is part of the exhibition ‘No Time to Lose' (Peacock Visual Arts, 13 June - 26 July), which responds to the decline of personal time experienced in large parts of the world due to increased hours spent working. The show is curated by Canadian Milena Placentile and features multimedia artworks by seven international artists, both in and outside the gallery.
The exhibition is open Tuesday – Saturday, 9.30am – 5.30pm. Admission free.
Tobaron Waxman, is a performance artist specialising in digital media and voice. He is based in Toronto, Canada and New York City. His work contextualises gender, embodiment, and the physical experience of time as systems of inscription. He completed an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also taught Voice. Waxman also studies and performs Jewish liturgical music as a cantorial soloist, and continues to give workshops for the voice. http://www.tobaron.com
For more background information:
Milena Placentile / No Time to Lose: http://notimetolose.wordpress.com
Peacock Visual Arts is the main centre for contemporary art in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland and recently received £4m from the Scottish Arts Council towards the £13m development of a new arts centre in Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens. The project is in partnership with Aberdeen City Council and is scheduled to be ready by 2011.
Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen. Tel: 01224-639539.Email: info@peacockvisualarts.co.uk. Web: www.peacockvisualarts.com
AND
To read a review of this exhibition, please click on the next line (full text follows below)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4381274.ece
From The Times
July 22, 2008
A hammock, but not enough me-time for artist
Artist Tobaron Waxman
By Mike Wade
A man lies sleeping in a hammock alongside a vast block of ice, whose meltwater is slowly draining into empty whisky bottles. By night, he awakes and spends all his time making labels for the bottles, using images which have been generated on a computer by signals from his brain.
For enthusiasts, Tobaron Waxman's creation at the Peacock Visual Arts gallery in Aberdeen is an eloquent protest against the dominance of work in our lives, as it encroaches remorsely into our “me-time”. For those of a more sceptical bent, it is just another example of what happens when you let a conceptual artist off the leash.
Mr Waxman, an “inter-disciplinary time-based artist” from Toronto in Canada, appeared modest about his creation, refusing to pose in his hammock for photographers who had arrived to record his latest work. However, no one could dispute that he has applied the full force of his mind to Block of Ice + 1/60.
Seeking to demonstrate how the tyranny of labour intrudes into every second of our lives, over the next four days Mr Waxman will attach electrodes to his head before he drifts off to sleep. These will measure his alpha wave activity - electromagnetic oscillations inside his head - while he is unconscious, creating a form of biofeedback.
The data in turn will be transformed by specialised software package and will be used to power a pre-set internet search for pictures of labouring people on a computer located near by. Finally, the images that are collected will be projected on to the 80cm³ ice block, creating a “dynamically changing collage animated by my brainwaves,” said the artist.
Paradoxically, although visitors to the gallery will only see Mr Waxman asleep, he said his work sends a message of support for workers in Aberdeen and the world over.
“This is very much a gesture in empathy with the exploited, whether the labourer is an office worker, or someone sifting through garbage in a landfill, it is meant to remind us here about the privilege which we enjoy - and to connect us with workers across the world as part of a global ecology of labour,” he said.
Over the four days of the show, the block of ice is expected to melt away. During that time its meltwater will
be filtered, and drained into empty whisky bottles, donated by the Glenfiddich distillery. Mr Waxman's own waking activities begin after dark, when he will make labels from the image of labour, to stick on the bottles, forming an edition of 500 of “unique sculptural pieces” for sale. All proceeds will be sent to a drinking water charity which operates in the Middle East.
Mr Waxman, who is in his thirties, studied at the Art Instiute of Chicago and produced an early version of his latest work ten years ago. That first installation had been a response to the disabling impact of a sleeping disorder, he revealed. Suffering from extreme exhaustion, inflammation of the joints and unable to walk without the support of sticks, the artist found that the problems of disability were not recognised by any aspect of society.
“In trying to describe how I was feeling I said I felt like a block of ice, to help people outside of my body understand that feeling of stasis of being frozen in place and not being able to produce, in the way that people are expected to be productive,” he said.
Mr Waxman added that though he was now physically fit, the experience had become “a palette for my artmaking.”
Block of Ice + 1/60 is at the Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen, until Saturday. Admission free.
4. Gearoid Dolan, Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumns, at DAC, Brooklyn, July 27
HOLY HOLES: ABSOLUTE STALLS
Curated by Denise Carvalho
June 14 - August 3, 2008
Curator's Talk: Sunday, July 27th, 6 - 7 PM
Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls is a multimedia exhibition exploring different viewpoints on the relationship between religion, power and economics. This show looks at religion from a humorous, poetic and critical perspective, subverting traditional expectations and inviting viewer to interact, transform, or reflect on the relationship between religious rituals and consumerist everyday practices.
Among the more general ideas gathered in this show is how religious rituals and dogmas are used to sustain gender and ethnic differences, and to claim absolute power through propagandistic consumerist strategies. The other end of the spectrum here is how believers react. Whether individually or collectively, more intimately or overtly, and whether we are believers or not, most of us are usually caught in the web of religious imagining, as receptacles of divine inspiration or intervention, or as messengers of absolute power. Another aspect of how believers react is in the fluxes of social change through language and culture assimilation, re-contextualizing and reshaping language structures, which leads to competing and shifting positions of power. Some dogmatic languages are kept untouched, while others result from the mixing of sub-cultural trends into the mainstream via the many cultural industries of a free market society.
In this show, absolute messages are equated with anarchic demonstrations, self-conscious humor and a bit of deep reflection, bringing the viewer to a contradictory duality of cathartic interaction and religious critique.
Artists: Neil Beloufa, Joseph Bennett, Gearóid Dolan, Angela Freiberger, Grady Gerbracht, Karin Giusti, Hadassa Goldvicht, Meirav Leshem, Jenny Marketou, Dylan Mortimer, Kimberly Simpson, Kwabena Slaughter, Adriana Varella, Brent Wahl, Tobaron Waxman and Marcia X.
Denise Carvalho is an art critic, curator, and independent scholar based in New York City. As an art critic, Ms. Carvalho’s contribution includes more than 80 published articles for magazines such as Flash Art, Sculpture, Art Papers, Review, Journal of Contemporary African Art, and more recently, Afterimage and Art in America. She is also an essayist, with several published essays in artists’ catalogs. Her experience as an independent curator includes major multimedia projects such as “Infinitu et Contini” (2007) and “RAW” (2003) at Smack Mellon, New York,“Hybrid Dwellings” (2001) at the City Gallery of Bialystok, Arsenal Gallery, Poland, and “Fairy-Tale” (1999) at the Center for Metamedia, in the Czech Republic. Ms. Carvalho’s curatorial projects have been featured in magazines such as Time Out, New Yorker, New York Arts, Sculpture, Brooklyn Rail, Springerin ( Austria), Umelek ( Prague), Journal of Performing Arts (MIT), and in articles and reviews on Polish and Czech local television, radio and newspapers. Her education includes a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and three Masters in Art—art history and cultural studies, from the University of California at Davis, and anthropology from Hunter College (NY), as well as a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts (NY). As an educator, Ms. Carvalho has taught at Pratt Institute, College of Staten Island CUNY, San Francisco State University, Humboldt State University, Columbia College, and will be serving as a Director of Independent Studies at The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts beginning February 2008.
Dumbo Arts Center is supported in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The New York State Council on the Arts. This organization has received funding from The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Robert Lehman Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation and The Dedalus Foundation. DAC's gallery and office space is generously donated by the Walentas Family and Two Trees Management LLC. Special thanks to Materials for the Arts of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, for in-kind support.
Dumbo Arts Center
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn , NY 11201
T. 718.694.0831
www.dumboartscenter.org
5. Ruth Hardinger, Liliana Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir, FF Alumns, in Beijing, China, opens Aug. 16
Ruth Hardinger's
work is currently on display in China as part of
Two Lines Gallery
798 Art Zone No. 4
Jiuxianqiao Lu
Chaoyang District
Beijing , China
Curated by Peter Wayne Lewis
(on display till July 28)
The exhibition will then relocate in its entirety to the new
Sunshine International Art Museum in Beijing
Aug 16 - Oct 10, 2008.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design launched the Master Print Series program in 1993. In 2007 the college presented an exhibition of prints created through the series. This summer Peter Wayne Lewis, professor of painting and chairperson of Fine Arts 2D, is remounting the exhibition at Two Lines Gallery in Beijing. The core of the exhibition is selected from the Master Print Series with some complementary work from other artists. “I thought it would be a good idea to present this exhibition in Beijing to showcase the various contemporary modes of prints that currently are being produced in the West and to give the Chinese audience the opportunity to see some recent developments in this media.”
A variety of printmaking techniques are included in the exhibition: etching, lithograph, silkscreen, Inkjet, photogravure, photolithograph, aquatint, intaglio, woodcut, dry point, mezzotint, digital print, and monotype.
Artists who have participated in the Master Print Series and whose work is included in the exhibition include Gregory Amenoff, Nancy Bowen, Ambreen Butt, Lesley Dill, Carlos Estevez, Rochelle Feinstein, Jane Kent, Annette Lemieux, Nicola Lopez, Michael Mazur, Jeffry Mitchell, Liliana Porter, Kiki Smith, Pat Steir, Sarah Sze, and John Walker. + artists in the exhibition include , Liang Han Chang, Tomas Vu Daniel, Stuart Diamond, Bob Friemark, Bob Graham, John Scott, Alfried Hagedorn, Ruth Hardinger, Nona Hershey, John Hunter, Kofi Kayiga, Lorenzo Pace, Pavel Rochka, Robert Rauschenberg, Sean Scully, Heddi Siebel, John Thompson, Roger Tibbets, Hadad, Jennifer Nuss.
6. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, now online at http://elinhiroshima.blogspot.com/
Hi Everybody,
We are leaving Hiroshima next week. We will be back in Chapel Hill August 1. It has been an amazing 3 months here. Some of you have already seen my blog, but I wanted to let you know that I just uploaded a few examples of my recent cyanotypes (sunprints) of A-bombed objects. Here is the link: http://elinhiroshima.blogspot.com/
It is hotter than heck here. Hope you are all having a wonderful summer. I sure will miss the sushi, soba, udon, somen noodles, tempura, sake, stone buddhas, and the intense inspiration of Hiroshima. Peace, elin
elin o'Hara slavick
Professor of Art
Hanes Art Center CB# 3405
UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
www.unc.edu/~eoslavic
7. Adriene Jenik, Diane Ludin, at UC San Diego, CA, opens August 4
New UC San Diego Exhibition Envisages Future of Nanoparticles and Distributed Social Cinema New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive threat to human health, will be on display starting August 4 at the gallery @ calit2 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
(Media-Newswire.com) - New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive threat to human health, will be on display starting August 4 at the gallery @ calit2 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
The joint exhibition will present “SPECFLIC 2.6” by UC San Diego Visual Arts professor Adriene Jenik, and “Particles of Interest” by *particle group*, an art collective composed of independent and UCSD-based artists and writers.
The art installations ask the viewer to consider a not-so-distant future in which individuals will be intimately connected to networks not only through our computers, but via nanoparticles in or on our own bodies.
The gallery is part of the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology ( Calit2 ).
SPECFLIC 2.6
Today accessibility to information is a combination of video, image and text, informed in large part by the language of film and the literary novel. Adriene Jenik, in her ongoing project SPECFLIC, currently in version 2.6, explores the evolution of film language as “Distributed Social Cinema.” Using multiple screens, from cell phone interfaces to large image projections, Jenik layers media and technology forms. SPECFLIC 1.0 premiered at the dedication of Atkinson Hall as Calit2’s headquarters on the UCSD campus in 2005; SPECFLIC 2.0, hosted by the San Jose Public Library, was a featured event at ISEA06/ZeroOne San Jose in 2006.
For the gallery@calit2, Jenik offers the public a speculative, futuristic reality taking place in the year 2030, in which people access the “InfoSphere” to learn about books that are only available to the public in electronic form. In SPECFLIC 2.6, books exist as rare objects that can only be described by the InfoSpherian, who is a rough equivalent to today’s reference-desk librarian. Gallery visitors will be able use their cell phones to share their reflections on the future of the book and the library.
“Granted the opportunity for networked interaction within the gallery, for SPECFLIC 2.6 I have rethought the installation to integrate audience contributions,” said Jenik. “So the project is very much evolving in response to what I learn from each previous iteration, as well as the opportunities afforded by the space, encounter with the audience, and technological framework.”
SPECFLIC 2.6 offers a plausible future that is in large part dependent on a network with defined boundaries that are modeled after, or part of, the Internet.
Particles of Interest
In juxtaposition, “Particles of Interest” reflects on nanotechnology, which has no clear boundaries because it links humans to machines in ways that are beyond binary networks. Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field at the crux of scientific research and corporate investment. Research on nanoparticles has led to the commercial development of products such as improved rubber tires, coating in glass that makes it easier to clean, improved water filtration systems, sunscreen lotions and much more. At the same time, there has been little consideration of the health implications of nano-products.
The *particle group* installation allows visitors to learn about growing concern with nanoparticles in public health. Videos comment on the production of nanotechnology, and visitors can discover whether they have nanoparticles on their skin or clothing by interacting with sculptural devices.
Each iteration of the “Particles of Interest” project has been, as much as possible, site-specific. “This version of the piece functions as an access route to Calit2’s gallery, so we became interested in the pedestal and the host of scripts it serves in the gallery or museum,” said the artists. “Pedestals are used to elevate that which the institution has designated to be of value… and here in the Nano3 labs at Calit2, we find the laboratory cousin of the pedestal – the clean white ( or aluminum ) counter, whose contents may only be intimately accessed by professionals. Visitors to Calit2’s nanolabs are positioned to watch skilled nanolab professionals perform a range of interactions with nanoparticles. In our piece, we wanted our ‘unskilled’ visitors to perform this meeting with the untouchable in a different way. We wanted to bring the clean room and the gallery pedestal together, to see what they might have to say to each other.”
Elements of “Particles of Interest” and SPECFLIC were on view recently at the San Diego Museum of Art as part of its “Inside the Wave” exhibition, which featured new-media works from Southern California- and Tijuana -based artists.
Artist Bios
Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist who lives in Southern California. Her works combine "high" technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema and performance. Career highlights include works in live television, including EL NAFTAZTECA ( w/Guillermo Gomez-Pena ), interactive cinema in MAUVE DESERT : A CD-ROM Translation, and the Internet street theater of DESKTOP THEATER ( w/Lisa Brenneis and the Desktop Theater troupe ). Her current research continues her interest in wireless community media and new storytelling forms. Jenik is currently developing SOCIAL SPHERE, a spatialized cinema program, and ( with collaborator Charley Ten ) the performance platform "Open Dancefloor." An associate professor of Computer & Media Arts in UCSD’s Visual Arts department, Jenik is an affiliated researcher with Calit2 and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts ( CRCA ) at UCSD.
*particle group* has exhibited at ISEA ( San Jose ) 2006, World Culture ( Berlin ) 2007, “Inside the Wave” at the San Diego Museum of Art 2008, and FILE ( Brazil ) 2008. It is a collective consisting of Principal Investigators Ricardo Dominguez ( an assistant professor of Visual Arts at UCSD, affiliated with Calit2 ) and Diane Ludin, as well as Principal Researchers Nina Waisman ( Interactive Soundscape ) and Amy Sara Carroll, with a number of others flowing in and out.
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater ( EDT ), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He was co-Director of The Thing ( www.thing.net ) an ISP for artists and activists from 2000 to 2004, as well as Senior Editor from 1996 to 1999. He is a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. Ricardo's performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events and as direct actions on the streets and around the world.
Diane Ludin is a writer, media artist and educator. Born in New York, she studied Drawing and Installation at the State University of New York at Purchase ( 1989-1993 ) and Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in ( 1998-2000 ). As an artist, she has participated in exhibitions and events such as New York Digital Salon 2001, Ars Electronica 2002, DEAF 2003, ISEA 2004 and 2006, Whitney ArtPort 2004, Medialabmadrid 2005 and Nomadic New York in Berlin, 2006. Ludin has completed online commissions for The Walker Art Center, New Radio and Performing Arts, Franklin Furnace, and The Alternative Museum. She has held Artist Residencies for the World Views program in 2000 and Harvestworks in 2004. She is currently a lecturer in the MFA Computer Art Department of New York’s School of Visual Arts.
Nina Waisman's work considers sonic and gestural forms of control and communication, provoked by technology's disruption of the body's space and time. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, Berlin, New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Long Beach, San Diego and online, and is currently finishing an MFA degree in Visual Arts at UCSD.
Amy Sara Carroll is assistant professor of Latina/o Studies in the English Department and the Program of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; she received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University ( 2004 ), an MFA in Creative Writing ( Poetry ) from Cornell University ( 1995 ), an MA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago ( 2003 ), and an A.B. in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Princeton University ( 1990 ). In 2005-2006, Carroll held a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Latino/a Studies and English at Northwestern University. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies such as Talisman, Carolina Quarterly, The Iowa Review, among many others. She has served as either an artist- or writer-in-residence at the Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, New York, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar , Spain . Additionally, Carroll translated and created subtitles and visual poems for Claudio Valdés Kuri’s theatrical production El automóvil gris ( The Grey Automobile ), which was performed at several venues, including the Anglo Mexico Foundation, the Ebert Film Festival, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Media Contacts:
Eduardo Navas or Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825
8. David Medalla, FF Alumn, in Sussex, UK, Aug 2, 2 pm
David Medalla, FF Alumn, will perform the first of his new series of live events collectively entitled "Janusseries", on Brighton Beach in Sussex, England, on Saturday , August 2, 2008, at 2 p.m., as part of "Long Shore Drift", a cultural project conceived and curated by Katie Sollohub. David Medalla's portmanteau performance is entitled "Finale-ContraFinale". As a boy in Manila, Philippines, where he was born, David studied organ music for a short period of time. He played on the Bamboo Organ at Las Pinas Church in Rizal Province, where his cousin Regina Lontok was the organist. Years later, David played the organ in the Church of San Agustin in Manila. A photo of David playing the large organ there while chanting his "Immoderato Incantabile" (a malediction against the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos) appeared in the book "Exploding Galaxies" by Guy Brett.
"I learned from Professor Albert Faurot (the American pianist and head of the School of Music at Silliman University in Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental Province in the Philippines) the intricacies of the musical compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. I was fascinated by the concept of 'point-counterpoint' in music as practised by Bach and the Baroque composers. It is the concept of 'point-counterpoint' that inspired me to create "Finale-ContraFinale". The "Finale" part of this portmanteau work will literally be the Finale of the work I started this year, during the inauguration in Paris of LONDON BIENNALE 2008. The work is a translation from the original English to Tagalog (the basis of the Filipino national language) of the Mission Statement of Franklin Furnace. The first part of the translation-event occured in May on the wooden explanade of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. David was accompanied by Monocyclistes Pere et Fils during the event. A short video of that event was made by Marko Stepanov. Throughout the rest of May, David Medalla continued his translation-event on the ramparts at Bergamo, on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, and at the Bocca della Verita in Rome, during the LONDON BIENNALE "POLLINATIONS" in Italy.
The "ContraFinale" part of David Medalla's performance in Brighton will consist of the continuation of his "Cosmic Propulsion" entitled "Croissants-Boomerangs" which he dedicated to the Biennale of Sydney in which David's celebrated auto-creative sculptures "Cloud Canyons" is currently on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sydney. David invited various artists-friends to throw "croissants-boomerangs" across the Pacific Ocean and over other bodies of water, large and small, all over the world. Lucas Ihlein, Jenny Brown, Misha Dare and Luke Roberts were among the artists in Australia who participated in this event. David himself threw a "croissant-boomerang" across the riverThames at Windsor in England, while Adam Nankervis, director of MUSEUM MAN, threw a "croissant-bommerang" across the river Spree in Berlin.
Since the year 2000, the "Long Shore Drift" project, conceived and curated by Katie Sollohub, has been an integral and organic part of the LONDON BIENNALE. Artists have gathered on the beach at Brighton in Sussex, England. Installations on the beach were created by Mai Ghoussoub, Adam Nankervis, Regine Elliott, Marko Stepanov, Arvinder Bawa, Marisol Cavia, Jill Rock, Enzo Marino, Sumer Erek, Nicole Mollett, Marisa Rueda, Pangos, Giacomo Picca, Cecilia Madureira, and others. Many performances were enacted on the beach and in the sea by Katie Sollohub herself, and by Geraldine Gallavardin, Laura Kristin,Mabel Encinas, Chris Burke, Adam Nankervis, Jams Reyes, Teodoro Maler, Luna Montenegro, Adrian Fisher and others. The "Long Short Drift" on Brighton Beach, next Saturday, August 2, 2008, will start at noon and will continue until sunset. The event, which will mark the finale of LONDON BIENNALE 2008, will take place opposite Concorde 2 on the beach by the sea at Brighton, Sussex, England. The event is open, free, to all artists and art-lovers. Bring friends, food and drinks, as the event will be a part of the "Moveable Feast" which will be the Finale of LONDON BIENNALE 2008.
9. Tommy D, FF Alumn, at Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, Aug. 5, 7:30 pm
Tommy D, Naked Man presents free “A Pubic Reading” starring Angela Peluso, writer and Tommy “D” Naked man, poet. Artbreak gallery 195 grand street 2nd floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Tuesday August 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm. Caution: Readers will be naked.
10. Arlene Raven, FF Alumn, honored by Critical Matrix, Spring 2008, vol. 17
Dear Friends and Family,
Critical Matrix is a publication of Princeton University’s Department of Women, Gender, and Culture. The Spring 2008 issue, Volume 17, is devoted to art critic Arlene Raven’s legacy. The issue has just appeared. It includes an interview with Arlene, several essays on Arlene’s life and work, and also has many photographs of her, in both black and white and color. Subscription information is listed below. The contents, including essays by Jerri Allyn, Suzanne Lacy and Carey Lovelace, FF Alumns, follow below:
Volume 17: Arlene Raven’s Legacy
Edited by Johanna Burton with guest editor Anne Swartz.
Table of Contents
Johanna Burton and Anne Swartz, “Introduction”
Arlene Raven and Jean Pieniadz, “Words of Honor: Contributions of a Feminist Art Critic”
Anne Swartz, “She Is Who She Wants: A Critical Biographical Essay on Arlene Raven”
Terri Wolverton, “The Art of Lesbian Relationship: Arlene Raven and the Lesbian Art Project”
Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, “Arlene Raven Tribute”
Tom Knechtel, “The Giant Lesbian Princess”
Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, “The Artist Arlene Raven”
Suzanne Lacy and Arlene Raven, “Travels with Mona”
Jenni Sorkin, “Arlene Raven: Homecoming”
Carey Lovelace, FF Alumn, “Arlene Raven and the Foresight of the Advocate Critic”
Tanya Augsburg, “From Blurred Genres to the Integrative Process: Arlene Raven’s Interdisciplinary Feminist Art Criticism”
Joanna Frueh, “All Queer”
Elizabeth Garber, “The Voice of Arlene Raven in Art and Visual Culture Education”
Maren Hassinger and Leslie King-Hammond, “Arlene Raven: Critic, Advocate, Arts Activist, and Friend”
Leslie King-Hammond, “Agents of Change: Women, Art, and Intellect”
Anne Swartz, “Arlene Raven: (In Progress) Chronology”
Because the print run is small and generated by the number of subscriptions, if you would like a copy, it will be necessary for you to complete the subscription form (http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/graduate/critical_matrix/cm_form2.html) and provide a $15 check, mailing both to the address on the form. Please check "Current issue" or write "Volume 17-Arlene Raven" in the comments box on the form. A subscription consists of one issue. Please do not wait to order a copy if you are interested in receiving one, as Princeton University has a limited number available and there is no indication at this time that they will make an additional printing. If you want more than one copy, please indicate that information on the attached form and increase the amount of your check accordingly. This volume is a much-anticipated project on Arlene Raven.
Regards, Anne
Anne Swartz, Ph.D.
Professor of Art History
Savannah College of Art and Design
Post Office Box 3146
Savannah, Georgia 31402-3146
11. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, in Yokohama, Japan, August 2, and more
"Your Documents Please" ID exhibiiton will open August 2 - August 17, 2008 at ZAIM In the Cafe and 4th Fl exhibition space, Yokohama, Japan.
( http://za-im.jp/php/news+article.storyid+328.htm )
August 11 - August 16 Galerie Paris (http://galerieparis.net) 1 block from ZAIM will make more exhibition space available so that all works in the exhibition will be on view.
A symposium with participating artists, Ichi Ikeda, Choi Song Gyu, and Mitsuo Toshida will take place on the evening of the Aug. 2 opening at ZAIM. For further information in Japanese, see the attachment.
As always, the catalog and schedule are available at http://yourdocumentsplease.com/
12. Clemente Padin, FF Alumn, in Montevideo, Uruguay, thru August 22
The Clemente Padín´s performance, Sex´n Sex, will offer in the Collection Engelman Ost of Montevideo, in Rondeau 1426, Mars 5 August, 2008, in the frame of EROTICA RODELU, of the curators Clío Bugel and Fernando López Lage. The pattern will extend until August 22, Monday to Friday from 16 to 19 hs.
Magela Ferrero (photography), Blonde Federico (photography), Cecilia Vignolo (photography), Carolina Comas (photography), Patrician Bentancur (video), Angela López (installation), Sergio Lummox (painting), Cesarco Alexander (vinyl), Carolina Besuievsky (dance) and Silvia Meyer (music) will accompany Padín.
13. Doug Beube, Mary Lum, Scott McCarney, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, now online
Bookverks 2008
The Information Is Not Knowledge Project
http://bookverks2008.googlepages.com/
Participating Artists Include: (in no special order)
Mary Lum
Sebastian Patane Masuelli
Buzz Spector
Dahlia Elsayed
Donna Ruff
Scott McCarney
Champe Smith
Robert The
Seth Goodwin
Chris George
Doug Beube
Jennifer Carpenter
Hiroshi Kumagai
Nyugen Smith
Kevin Darmanie
Beth Ann Morrison
Amanda Friedman
Norm Francoeur
Michelle Wilson
Each artist was given one volume from a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica and asked to do whatever they pleased with it.
The results will be on view this coming October, 2008.
This site will be updated as more information is gathered.
Stay tuned.
* click here for page 2
The Information Is Not Knowledge Project is being organized by Amanda Thackray and James Prez.
Amanda Thackray ( ajthackray@gmail.com ) is an artist living in Jersey City. She studied Printmaking and Book Arts at Rutgers University-Mason Grove. She has been the curator for the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium for the past 3 years.
James Prez ( jprez@newarkmuseum.org ) lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He designs exhibits for the Newark Museum. He has been making stuff since 1972. His work has been exhibited and is collected world wide.
14. Tom Trusky, FF Alumn, in Post Falls, ID, August 8
FF Alumn Tom Trusky gives a lecture/film presentation "Before Sundance: How Nell Shipman Made her 'Little Dramas of the Big Places" at the annual Pacific Northwest Library Association conference in Post Falls, ID August 8th.
15. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Alumn, at Oostereiland Prison, The Netherlands, Aug. 1-14, and online
Hello Dear friends and colleagues,
Hope you are well. I would like to announce an event which I am part of called 13ISOLATIONS:
An artist residency/confinement in prison for 29 days, 13 artists, in separate cells, making art whilst being filmed for 8 hours a day and broadcast on the internet, followed by an exhibition at the prison.
Where: Oostereiland Prison, Hoorn, The Netherlands
Who: Project by EPISODES, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
When: Confinement: 1-29th August 2008,
Exhibition Opening: 30th of August
Exhibition: 1st-14th September 2008
Thank you, hope you enjoy watching the artists work in prison.
Regards,
Katya Grokhovsky
16. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Lincoln Center, Manhattan, Aug. 9, and more
Hi Everyone,
Two great events:
On Saturday August 9, I will be performing my work as part of a spoken word/performance festival at Lincoln Center Out of Doors beginning at 1pm. It promises to be a great event and I hope you'll all come out to support.
On Monday Aug 18 at 7pm join Cheryl Clarke, Pamela Sneed and Linda Villarosa, for an exciting evening of readings from their latest works, and a preview of upcoming projects. This event is at the Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture @ 135th St. in Harlem
17. Purgatory Pie Press, Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumns, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Aug. 6
Greetings!
Please join us this Wednesday, August 6, for a special Gaming Night featuring Readings and Performances!
Participants in the 2008 Artist Members' exhibition, Fun & Games (and Such...), will discuss their work, give readings, and perform interactive demonstrations. Artists participating include:
Ann Kronenberg discussing game theory while interacting with her artwork, "Nose Box"
Purgatory Pie Press (Dikko Faust and Esther Smith) demonstrating how to play their letterpress "PurgaToys" (pictured right)
Barbara Rosenthal inviting audience members to play her "You and I Card Game"
Shana Agid giving a theatrical reading of "Snitch", an interactive pop-up book about surveillance
Sally Tosti speaking about "Puzzle Box Coney Island" (pictured above left)
and ... Rosamond King performing as The Poetry Doctor.
Wednesday, August 6, 6:30pm
The Center for Book Arts
$10 / $5 members.
Wine and cheese reception.
Fun & Games (and Such...) will be on display at the Center for Book Arts through September 13. Click here for more information on the exhibition.
We hope you will join us next Wednesday!
Alexander Campos
Executive Director
18. Phillip Warnell, FF Alumn, now online
The Girl with X-ray Eyes - Phillip Warnell
Publication now available for purchase online at Unbound,
TheLive Art Development Agency, London.
With essays on X-ray vision by Steven Connor and G. Wajcman, an interview with Natasha Demkina and her diagnostic reporton the artist, along with film production stills, illustrations and images of Warnell's other recent exhibition work.
Published by The Mead Gallery, Warwick and Leamington
Spa Art Gallery & Museum, 2008
World of the shadowless person
'The power of science produces a sort of reaction of subjects, an almost vital refusal to let ourselves be reduced to its algorithms. Phillip Warnell's film about Natasha Demkina states that subjects cannot be comprehensively calculated.’ G. Wajcman
ISBN:978-0-902683-87-7
10 plus P&P
www.thisisunbound.co.uk
19. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, at Talman + Monroe, Manhattan, opening Aug. 8
Aug 8th, 7-9pm: Rashaad Newsome @ Talman + Monroe
Please RSVP to info@tplusmgallery.com for location.
Post-opening reception to be held at Huckleberry Bar (http://www.huckleberrybar.com/), 588 Grand Street at Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Talman + Monroe Gallery Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.tplusmgallery.com
20. Kathy Grove, FF Alumn, at Surface Library, East Hampton, NY, thru Aug. 24
Thresholds of Visibility curated by Bonnie Rychlak and including the work of Brian Gaman, Shirley Irons, Kathy Grove, FF Alumn, and Bonnie Rychlak runs through August 24, 2008 at Surface Library, 845 Springs Fireplace Road, East Hampton, NY 11937 www.surfacelibrary.com
21. Fiona Templeton, FF Alumn, at Chashama, Manhattan, Sept. 2-13
save the date
GOING (with Coming)
by The Theatre of Mistakes
and The Relationship
September 3-13 2008
GOING
(with Coming)
GOING was a 70s cult classic by British performance art company, The Theatre of Mistakes. It was last performed in New York in 1978.
For its 30th anniversary, the Relationship will recreate GOING exactly, but intercut with a new version for the 21st century, COMING.
directed by Fiona Templeton (artistic director of The Relationship and founding member of The Theatre of Mistakes), with Katy Brown, Javier Cardona, Adam Collignon, Stephanie Silver*, Julie Troost, Chris Wendelken, supported by Scott Troost
at Chashama Theatre, 217 East 42nd Street, New York (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
Preview September 2nd at 8:00 pm $12,
Opening Night September 3rd $35 with reception to follow,
September 4th-13th $15.
Buy tickets for event 39845 at 1-800-838-3006 or online at
Brown Paper Tickets
4,5,6,7 & S trains to Grand Central station
This project is created in residency at Chashama Theatre, and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Fiona Templeton's time supported by Brunel University.
22. Tracy Quan, FF Alumn, in Mexico City, and more.
Tracy Quan's Latest News & Events
The Jetsetting Call Girl raffle at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City (IAC2008)
Thursday August 7, 2:45 pm / 14:45
Win a souvenir copy of Tracy's new novel, Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl
AIDS2008, Mexico City
Come to the Global Village Main Stage...
Win a souvenir copy signed by the author
Raffle to benefit APROASE, a local sex workers' association in Mexico City
Tickets go on sale during ** Star Whores 2 **
in the Global Village
Main Stage
Thursday August 7 @ 14:45 / 2:45 pm
About Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl:
The diary of Nancy Chan, a married prostitute from New York trying to keep all her balls in the air during the Barcelona AIDS Conference in July 2002
Sex worker zealots. Mary Magdalen's relics. A Wall Street tycoon in hiding. Anti-trafficking pilgrims. A stolen dildo. A suspicious husband. And one deeply confused call girl.
A 21st century adventure with a medieval twist. A Harper Perennial paperback original.
Tracy 's latest column @ Guardian Unlimited looks at Obama and the n-word allegations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tracyquan
Tracy on the legacy of Mary Magdalen. Wayward saint? Medieval money-maker? Or modern icon? You decide.
For frequent updates visit www.TracyQuan.net
23. Peter Dobill, Rob Andrews, Holly Faurot + Sarah H. Paulson, FF Alumns, at English Kills, Brooklyn, Aug. 16-Sept. 7
Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance
August 16th – September 7th, 2008
Curators: Peter Dobill + Chris Harding
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 16th, 5-9 Pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, September 7th, 5-9pm W/ Bbq.
English Kills Art Gallery
114 Forrest St .
Brooklyn , Ny 11206
Gallery Hours : Sat/Sun– 1-9pm
www.Maximumperceptionperformance.com
Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance Is The First Exhibition To Cover The Entire Range Of Contemporary Live Art Produced In Brooklyn.
Featuring 30 Artists Producing Over 20 Newly Commissioned Performances, This Exhibition Thoroughly Seeks To Open And Explore The Crucial Dialogue Produced By These Artists Within Brooklyn And Its Artistic Community.
In Addition To Featuring Traditional Photo And Video Documentation, The Exhibition Seeks For The First Time To Create An Entirely Live Environment For Expression: At All Open Gallery Hours At Least One Performance Will Be Taking Place Within The Gallery. Within This Goal, Both Curators Dobill And Harding Aspire To Substantiate And Elevate The "Live" Aspect Of The Performance Artists' Practice Beyond The Realm Of "Opening Reception" And "Special Event" Categories To The Actuality Of An Available Experience In A Gallery Setting.
Participating Artists: Ambert Alert, Rob Andrews, Elaine Angelopoulos, Lydia Bell, Matthew Blair, Ryan Brown, Ian Campbell, Alex Chechile, Andrea Cote, Peter Dobill, Holly Faurot + Sarah H. Paulson, Ximena Garnica + Shige Moriya, Andrew Hurst, Naoki Iwakawa, Amery Kessler, Marni Kotak, Sujin Lee, Evelyn Lewis, Melissa Lockwood, Jill Mcdermid, The Mercury Twins (Emcee C.M., Master Of None And Huong Ngo) With The K.I.D.S., Marissa Mickelberg, Jeremy Slater, Mark Stafford, Lech Szporer, Matt White, And Jen Zak.
Performance Schedule:
(All Performances Subject To Change, Please See The Website For Latest Details)
Saturday, August 16, 2008 - Opening Reception 5-9pm
Main Space: 6pm - Ximena Garnica + Shige Moriya
7pm - Holly Faurot + Sarah H. Paulson
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Marni Kotak
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Main Space: 1-5pm - Marissa Mickelberg
6pm - Jen Zak
7pm - Matt White
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Marni Kotak
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Main Space: 7pm - Alex Chechile
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Amery Kessler
Special Event: The Walkout - Presented By The Christian Center Sanctuary Of Hope
12pm - Union Square/Manhattan
Www.Christiancentersanctuaryofhope.Com
Www.Thewalkout.Org
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Main Space: 6pm - Evelyn Lewis
7pm - Melissa Lockwood
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Peter Dobill
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Main Space: 6pm - Matthew Blair
7pm - Lech Szporer
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Ryan Brown
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Main Space: 7pm - Naoki Iwakawa
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Lydia Bell
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Main Space: 6pm - Jeremy Slater
7pm - Andrew Hurst
Installation Space:
1-9pm - Mark Stafford
Sunday, September 7, 2008 - Closing Reception 5-9pm W/Bbq
Main Space: 1-6pm - Ian Campbell 1-9pm - Mark Stafford
6pm - Amber Alert
7pm - The Mercury Twins (Emcee C.M., Master Of None And Huong Ngo) With The
K.I.D.S.
Installation Space:
Additional information:
Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson present "hee hoo he who Meets Us will adore us" at English Kills Art Gallery on Saturday, August 16th, 7-9pm. Other work by Faurot & Paulson will be on view through September 7.
"I'm getting good at this. I wasn't even trying; I took it with me in my hand."
We've been pushing rocks every day. Come rescue us.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
7-9pm
www.faurotpaulson.com
24. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Aug. 13-17
Nina is in a program with Bas Jan Ader, Jack Goldstein, Morgan Fisher, and Pat O'Neill that runs from Wednesday to Sunday next week Aug 13th – 17, as part of The Whitney’s ongoing Film & Video program that Paul McCarthy has been curating for the last few weeks.
Nina Sobell videos will be screened from 11am-1pm on Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun and 1pm-3pm on Friday at the Whitney
25. Cecilia Rodriguez Petit, FF Alumn, now online at www.ceciliapetit.com
Dear friends and colleagues,
Earlier this year I succumbed to the temptation of putting together a website. Perhaps symptomatic of a midlife crisis, the creative effort ended up being really fun in a thoroughly self-indulgent way as it forced me to revisit past work, and consider the next phase. I imagine it'll also someday provide me an easy out when my sons demand to know who their mother is."oh just check my website!"
And so, without further ado, I'm attaching the link below. There's lots of stuff, some professional, some artistic, some personal, and some that's just silly. Enjoy it, ignore it, and if you feel like it, let me know what you think.
http://www.ceciliapetit.com
Have a splendid rest of the summer.26. Maciej Toporowicz, FF Alumn, now online at http://web.mac.com/maciejtoporowicz/iWeb/Real/Chocolate.html
Hi, I am sending a link to my new website. It shows photographs and videos dealing with the Lacanian Real. I have been obsessively working on this subject for years. As much as try to get away from it, I get closer to it..LOL.. http://web.mac.com/maciejtoporowicz/iWeb/Real/Chocolate.html
Maciej
27. Vernita N’Cognita, Krzysztof Zarebski, FF Alumns, at Rivington School Underground, Manhattan, August 8
David Rodgers & Brendan Coyle have invited me to become a part of 'The Assembly' & to perform with them on Friday@ 8-ish in East Soho... hope you can make it. It's free! Best V
www.ncognita.com
DOCTOR RAVE P R O D U C T I O N S
PERFORMANCE ART - PHOTO - VIDEO
Performance Artists The Assembly to appear at Rivington School Underground
The performance artists known as The Assembly , David Rodgers, Brendan Coyle and Krzysztof Zarebski. will be appearing at the Rivington School Underground art space on Friday, August 8, 2008, at 8pm. The event, entitled 08-08-08, will consist of performances and an exhibition of artwork by the performers. Also appearing will be the esteemed performer Vernita N Cognita, and notorious musician Mike Boner. The event will celebrate the mystical qualities expressed by this date, a once-in-a-hundred-year sequence, with a performance inspired by the classic silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in which an enigmatic doctor and a young man in the grip of somnambulism become the focus of a series of unsettling events related to the auspicious and magical aspects of this date. The event will take place at the Rivington School Underground, the latest artistic venture by the iconoclastic Cowboy Ray Kelly, well known on the downtown art scene for his free form group, The Rivington School and their famous outdoor sculpture garden, as well as the No-Se-No Gallery. The Rivington School Underground is located at 330 Broome St., New York, between Bowery and Chrystie streets, one block north of Grand St.
28. Penny Arcade, Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumns, at Galapagos, Brooklyn, August 7
I'm totally nervited (that's 'nervous' and 'excited,' fyi) for tonight's kick off event for the new Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. Not only is this the first-ever night of live performance at the venue, but it's also my first fundraiser for scenedowntown which recently received sponsored project status from The Field**. But, Earl, what does that mean exactly? I'm glad you asked!
For 3 years I've maintained and developed the scenedowntown website and sent out a "recommended this week" eblast highlighting performances, parties and special events. I've organized theater trips - called a "downtown ambush" - offering low-priced tickets and opportunities to socialize with the performers afterwards. (Incidentally, I've just confirmed that we'll be doing an ambush of Arias with a Twist on Sunday, September 7th! Stay tuned for details.) The lion's share of this work has been done in a volunteer capacity to support the work of artists and venues that are part of this loose-knit thing we call "the downtown scene."
As a sponsored project of The Field, I can apply for grants and solicit individual contributions to sustain and expand these existing activities and branch out in new directions. With financial support to work with a developer, you might soon see an online store where you could purchase a signed copy of Cintra Wilson's forthcoming book Caligula for President or a Dynasty Handbag tote! Or perhaps Penny for Your Thoughts - a video podcast with Penny Arcade! Photo galleries like this one from the afterparty for Justin Bond is LIVING!, and video content can help downtown artists and venues alike expand their audience. These are just some of the ideas that I'm excited to explore.
I look forward to seeing many of you tonight at Galapagos. I'm super-excited about the line up, and I want to give a huge THANK YOU to all of the performers and the "Welcome Wagoneers" (aka benefit committee members) who have generously given of their time and creative talents. There will be some tickets at the door, but try to arrive early to assure your admittance. I made this benefit sliding scale (general admission starts at $10) to keep it accessible, but feel free to give generously if you have the means. If you can benefit from a tax-deduction, you can make a check out to "Earl Dax / scenedowntown" and deduct anything over $10 per ticket (the value of goods) on your tax return. If you can't make it tonight, you can still make a contribution through The Field website. Just enter "Earl Dax" in the artist field and "scenedowntown" in the project field.
Full details on tonight's line up are available at www.scenedowntown.com. Check it out, and join me if you can. It promises to be a memorable night!
Earl
The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c) (3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions to artists through The Field are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10013, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053. A copy of The Field's latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
scenedowntown | 442-D Lorimer Street #150 | Brooklyn | NY | 11206
29. Joshua Fried, Neurotransmitter, FF Alumns, at New Museum, Manhattan, August 7
LoVid will be performing with Howard Huang tomorrow Thursday August 7 at 7pm at the New Museum 235 Bowery, New York, NY.
Many other great artists are performing as well.
Join free103point9, in collaboration with Radio Web MACBA, Barbara Held and Pilar Subir C !, for a live performance celebrating Radio Action III, an online radio program produced for RWM and the next free103point9 Audio Dispatch CD Release.
Radio Action III features 12 five-minute soundworks conceptually tied to the idea of radio.
Playlist/Tracklist:
The Dust Dive & Latitude/Longitude, "PARTY COVE"
radio_ruido and ben owen, "Dandelions (c/clocked)"
LoVid & Michelle Rosenberg. In collaboration with Howard Huang, "Ring in the New"
Tom Roe & Scanner, "Airscape"
Damian Catera, "deComposition USA"
Joshua Fried & Todd Merrell, "Pistol Shrimp"
neuroTransmitter, "Chronicle"
Anna Friz & Tianna Kennedy, "When radios sleep what dreams may come"
Michelle Nagai. In collaboration with Kenta Nagai, "Sleep Radio"
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, "You Love Me Truly"
Thirty One Down & Matt Bua, "Wireless Electric Chair"
Alexis Bhagat & Sophea Lerner, ".00011574 Hz"
http:www.free103point9.org
http://rwm.macba.es/
For more information see:
http://www.free103point9.org/events/1942/
30. Ron Athey, Annie Sprinkle, FF Alumns, in London, England, Sept. 4-10
Lee Adams and Ron Athey have been nominated for an erotic award for Revisions of Excess (best event category), we are in the final alongside Annie Sprinkle's Love Art Laboratory and the Dirty Red Ball.
Night of the Senses and Erotic Awards 2008
fundraising for Outsiders - Registered Charity 283350
Erotic Awards Exhibition
4th-10th September noon-midnight www.erotic-awards.co.uk
Jago Gallery, Bar/Cafe & Bookstore, 77 Redchurch Street, Hoxton, London E2 7DJ. 07501 469 474 www.erotic-awards.co.uk
Night of the Senses and Erotic Awards Finals
Friday 12th September at Mass and Babalou, Peace Garden, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1JF. 8pm all night. Strict dress code. www.nightofthesenses.com
0707 499 0808 leydigtrust@yahoo.co.uk
Originally inspired by Fellini, The Night of the Senses opens doors to libidinous intrigue, it is a sexual carnival, an erotic wonderland catering to every taste and pleasure...
www.nightofthesenses.com, www.erotic-awards.co.uk and www.outsiders.org.uk. http://blog.nightofthesenses.org/ and we have a presence on Facebook and MySpace
CONTACT: Dr Tuppy Owens 07770 884 985
p.s. As some of you will have heard Stunners was closed down recently by the council, alongside all the other clubs on site at Cable St. This was following an incident outside Club Red which resulted in someone being shot.
The incident had nothing to do with Stunners, yet suddenly the future of our beloved venue was in question. Jayne has now managed to overturn the decision and has re-opened, however the lawyers fee's are astronomical.
In order to try to raise money to pay the legal costs Dave and Annie are kindly organising a 'secret' benefit party this Sunday 10th August, 7am - late evening (Don't tell Jayne).
Entry £5 (If you can also afford to make a larger donation we would be very grateful.)
I hope as many of you as possible can make it.
Lee
Kaos HQ
31. Meow Meow, FF Alumn, at P.S. 122, Manhattan, Aug. 10
http://www.ps122.org/newsletter/blast/spiegel08_blast.html
Today, we invite you to Spiegelworld:
Members Only-Sneak Preview of DESIR
Special Offer to see Meow Meow and Justin Bond
Summer-long DJ Program
Sneak Preview of a World Premeire!
Thursday, August 7 at 8:30pm
The first 50 people to sign up for a P.S. 122 membership at the Stage Manager level will enjoy 2 complimentary tickets to 'Desir' and are invited to join P.S. 122's Artistic Director, Vallejo Gantner for drinks on the pier before the show.
Please note that you must RSVP to Laura at marketing@ps122.org for event details
DESIR is a carnival world devoted to the pursuit of beauty, clever seductions and breathtaking displays of acrobatic wonder. It is a sparkling merry-go-round where your last love affair is merely an entree to your next encounter.
Also on Thursday, stay late and party at Headphone Disco
Featuring DJ Bruse Tantrum, Cameron Craig, Bryan Roseman and Grahame Ferguson, the opening night of this U.S. debut is something you won't want to miss.
Spiegelworld's DJ Program brings you salsa, disco, soul and house all summer long.
For more information and a complete schedule of Spiegelword 2008
please visit their WEBSITE
One Night Only- Meow Meow and Justin Bond
August 10 at 10pm
A Spiegelworld Command Engagement! Celebrating the opening of the third annual Spiegelworld Concert Series, Meow Meow and Justin Bond take the stage together for the first time.
Meow Meow returns for her first full-length Spiegelworld concert after unforgettable appearances in seasons past. She has wowed audiences with her own brand of vamped-up kamikaze cabaret and exotica performance art around the globe. She has worked with London's Opera Factory, Australia's Elision Ensemble, Johannesburg's Robyn Orlin (Paris/Berlin), New York's Anthony Coleman (John Zorn), The John Cage Trust, John Jesurun, Mikel Rouse and Thomas M.
Spiegelworld favorite and Tony nominee Justin Bond returns for a command evening of comedy and song with his back-up band The Freudian Slippers. A rare and intimate Salon Perdu engagement following past sold-out performances with a downtown icon.
Use code mmjb to receive $10 off
32. Annie Lanzillotto, Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, in new Columbia University book
*Gastropolis*
Food and New York City
Edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch
“A highly original collection. I know of no other book quite like it.”*
—Warren Belasco, University of Maryland
“While New York may be the subject of more food writing than any other site in the United States, this volume will surprise, enchant, and enlighten. The collection shines.”*
—Frederick Kaufman, author of A Short History of the American Stomach
A deliciously fun sampling of New York City’s rich food heritage, Gastropolis explores the ever evolving relationship between New Yorkers and food—from pre-European Lenape clamming to modern-day dining at the Four Seasons. Covering the history, cultures, boroughs, markets, and avant-garde in the food of New York, /Gastropolis/ tells a story of immigration, amalgamation, and assimilation in the rich interplay between tradition and change, individual and society, and identity and community through cuisine. The collection begins with cuisine combinations, such as “ Mt. Olympus bagels” and “Puerto Rican lasagna,” and follows with a history of food and drink before the arrival of Europeans in 1624 and moves into the modern day.
Gastropolis features essays by: Cara De Silva, Anne Mendelson, Andrew F. Smith, Nan A. Rothschild, Annie Hauck-Lawson, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Jessica B. Harris, Fabio Parasecoli, Harley Spiller, Suzanne Wasserman, Joy Santlofer, Mark Russ Federman, Ramona Lee Pérez, Babette Audant, Annie Rachelle Lanzillotto, Jennifer Berg, Damian M. Mosley, Mitchell Davis, Janet Poppendieck and JC Dwyer.
Annie S. Hauck-Lawson is an associate professor of foods and nutrition at Brooklyn College and a registered dietitian. She is a native of Brooklyn, where she continues to live, work, study, and grow food.
Jonathan Deutsch is a classically trained chef and assistant professor and director of the Culinary Management Center in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York.
Release date, November 2008
416 pages
978-0-231-13653-2 cloth $29.95 / £17.50
History / New York Interest / Food Studies
33. Adriene Jenik, FF Alumn, at UCLA, Nov. 20-23
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas
Presented by The UCLA Center for Performance Studies
November 20-23, 2008
University of California, Los Angeles
This four-day event, co-sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, will include performances and invited speakers along with round table discussions and workshops. It brings together women performers/activists from throughout the Americas and scholars who think about performance as a mode of embodied transmission and social intervention. The event will explore issues of indigeneity, gender and sexuality, transnational/global encounters, labor, domestic violence and access to material resources. Actions of Transfer is being held as a sister event with the inauguration of Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA, a joint research/cultural center and performance space in Chiapas, Mexico, which will take place in San Cristóbal de las Casas on August 28-29, 2008.
Featured participants and performers, among others, include:
Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe, performers from Mexico City
Luisa Calcumil a Mapuche artist from Patagonia
Ana Correa, member of Peruvian theater group Yuyachkani
FOMMA, a Mayan Women's Collective from Chiapas
Los Angeles-based lesbian performance group, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP)
Tanya Lukin Linklater, First Nation Choreographer/Performer
Featured Events:
Lessons in Mayan technology/VR-Sit Code and performance of an Electronic Civil Disobedience Action (ECD)
Ricardo Dominguez/Electronic Disturbance Theater
Open_borders: Improvisation Across Networks, Distance, Timezones
This event will include performances and communications across borders in real time, including improvisations at UCLA and across the Americas.
Presented by: Adriene Jenik and Charley Ten
Local performers, among others, include: Praba Pilar
Artist's Choice, Artist's Voice
Exhibition Tour, Saturday November 22, 2008; 3pm
Maria Elena Castro discusses her installation commissioned by the Fowler as part of Cara Vemos, and other selections from the exhibition, exploring art as a political strategy.
Co-sponsored by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Concluding Celebration: "El Maíz" performed by Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe
Sunday November 23, 2008; 3pm
The NEW LATC ( Los Angeles Theater Center)
514 South Spring St. Los Angeles , Ca 90013
(213) 489-0994
El Maíz (Corn), is a theatrical ritual based on a pre-Hispanic, Mesoamerican aesthetic that unfolds through 8 songs played by Liliana Felipe. The performance follows a sole character (played by Jesusa Rodríguez) who travels from the earth's surface to the underworld where she reactivates an ancient myth about the origins of the corn people, only to re-emerge to the surface of a world now ruled by danger and death. This is a song to the genetic diversity of our corn, both the product and sustainance of our cultural diversity.
El Maíz will be performed at The NEW LATC, a community based theater in Downtown L.A., as a part of the upcoming FACE OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL: September 12th to December 14th, 2008.
For tickets to these events please visit FACE OF THE WORLD TICKETS (student, senior and group rates available)
Featured speakers and scholars include:
Diana Taylor, Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU; Founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Jill Lane , Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU; Deputy director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; Editor of e-misférica
Sue-Ellen Case, Professor and Chair Theater Critical Studies, UCLA; Director of the UCLA Center for Performance Studies
Janelle Reinelt, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, University of Warwick
Alicia Arrizón, Professor and Chair of Women's Studies, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UC Riverside
Leo Cabranes-Grant , Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American drama and theater at UC Santa Barbara
Susan Leigh-Foster, Professor of Choreography, History and Theories of the body, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Chon Noriega, Director of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; Professor in UCLA's Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Chair and Professor, UCLA Chicano Studies
Jon Rossini, Assistant Professor of Theater at UC Davis
David Romn, Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC
Karen Tongson, Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at USC
Carla Melo, Assistant Professor at Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University; Co-founder of Corpus Delecti
Conference Planning Committee:
Sue-Ellen Case, Director, UCLA Center for Performance Studies; Professor and Chair, Theater Critical Studies, UCLA
Susan Leigh Foster, Professor, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
Marcela Fuentes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Theater, UCLA
Randal Johnson, Director, UCLA Latin American Center; Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
Elizabeth Marchant, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese and Women's Studies, UCLA
Chon Noriega, Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; Professor, Film and Television, UCLA
Diana Taylor, Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish, NYU
Jose Luis Valenzuela, Artistic Director, the New LATC; Professor, Theater, UCLA
Co-sponsors of the events include The UCLA International Institute, The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, The Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, University of California International Performance and Culture Multi-Campus Research Group, UCLA Chicano Studies and Research Center, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA Department of Theater, and the Mellon initiative for Media, Technology, and Culture.
34. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, at Claremont Museum of Art, CA, September 21-December 28
For Immediate Release Media Contact
July 15, 2008 Cari Marshall
562.235.6501 press@claremontmuseum.org
Claremont Museum of Art Presents The Passerby Museum
September 21 – December 28, 2008
The Passerby Museum
The Passerby Museum makes its Southern California debut in Claremont! Created in 2002 by María Alós and Nicolás Dumit Estévez in New York City, the Passerby Museum is an itinerant institution dedicated to presenting temporary exhibitions in different cities. The museum draws its collection from donations from people who visit, work or live where it is in operation at any given time.
The Passerby Museum has been presented in Madrid, Spain, Puebla, México, Kitchener, Canada, New York City, including Manhattan and the Bronx, and twice in México City, Mexico and Havana, Cuba. At each location, visitors were asked to donate any random object from their life to the Passerby Museum’s “collection.” The only requirement is that the object fit into a sandwich bag. Its collection – which currently holds about 3,000 objects – has been exhibited to the public in two occasions, last time in 2006, bringing more than 32,000 visitors to the Galería del Ayuntamiento (Puebla) in less than a month and a half.
The Passerby Museum will be collecting items from visitors in Claremont for two weeks before the installation at the Claremont Museum of Art (exact dates and collection locations are being determined). The installation will include each of the approximately 3,000 items collected at all of the locations so far. “It will be so interesting to see what the average citizen from Claremont has in his/her pocket, versus someone in New York versus someone in Havana,” said the Claremont Museum of Art Curator Pilar Tompkins. “Every single contribution is valued the same, so every time the project is exhibited, every single object is included.”
About the Museum
The Claremont Museum of Art seeks to serve a diverse public as a regional museum of international significance and breadth. Grounded in Claremont’s important artistic legacy, the Museum engages artists and audiences through a compelling program of exhibitions and educational programs that connect the visual arts with contemporary life. In addition to a diverse slate of exhibitions, the museum features an eclectic store offering contemporary and unexpected gifts from around the world. A comprehensive slate of educational programming and events are offered for all ages. Claremont Museum of Art is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Museum Store is open until 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and until 5 p.m. on Sunday. The galleries and store are open until 8:30 p.m. the first Friday of every month and closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
Admission: $3 for adults, under 18 are free. Free admission 5 to 8:30 p.m. the first Friday of every month.
Claremont Museum of Art
536 West First Street
Claremont , CA 91711
909.621.3200
www.claremontmuseum.org
Media Contact: Cari Marshall, 562.235.6501, press@claremontmus
35. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at Deitch, Manhattan, opening Sept. 4
Hello you,
I am about to embark on a one month visit to the fair and not always so humble but thoroughly entertaining city of New York. The dates are, Aug. 10 until Sept. 8 or so. I would love to see you, lots of opportunities there, but will generally be quite busy. But, there is ALWAYS time for breaks. I am collaborating with my dear friend Chris Johanson for an exhibit at Deitch Projects.
The opening is Sept. 4 in the evening and of course you are invited.
http://deitch.com/
18 Wooster Street
I am hugely looking forward to this trip, the spectacle that is a Deitch projects event, our 2nd, building something amazing, like, oh, a temple a space ship and a spinning orb, among other things. Otherwise life is always dishing out something to me. I have been doing some activist work, teaching, making art, gardening looking forward to regime change and enjoying San Francisco.
hugs
Kal
Kal Spelletich
http://seemen.org/
http://whitehouse.org/
36. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at PS 122, Manhattan, August 14, 8 pm
one night only august 14 at 8pm PS122 nyc
Karen Finley was in Albany, New York on March 10 to waiting to hear a speech from Eliot Spitzer on Reproductive Health. Instead later that day, Spitzer performed an apology with his supportive, devastated wife standing beside him. Finley will speak about the performance of the apology, the erotic transference of the media's fixation on Spitzer's frown and the emotional starring role for his wife, Silda.
Finley will perform her latest spoken word text which examines the confession, the apology, the imagining of the sexual encounter, the travel of the escort, the compulsion, the immigrant father's plan for his son to succeed and the couples imagined therapy sessions. Looking at the psychodrama in the intimacy of our political leaders, Finley poses to see the agony of the son's need for the approval from the father and the ancient wrestling of the ancient wrestling of the feminine archetypes of mother and whore.
Conceived and performed by Karen Finley
August 14 at 8pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors),
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Get Tickets
To order tickets online 24 hours a day at Theatermania.com click:
Or call Theatermania at 212-352-3101
9 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday-Friday
10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday
Performance Space 122
150 First Ave. at E. 9th St.
NYC 10009
General Information: 212-477-5288
Administrative: 212-477-5829
Email: ps122@ps122.org
37. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at Wildcat Studio, Berkeley CA, Sept. 13, 8 pm
MARK THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR! i haven't done this kind of ritual performance in 5 years! the television producer is paying for the studio. a fitting finale [not to be confused with the ending] of our 2-year campaign...and the beginning of THE NEXT PHASE! for it i need musicians, plants for the audience...the usual stuff. and suzy is trying to come up for this one!
At Wildcat Studio, Berkeley
2525 – 8th Street (at Dwight Way)
Studio #15
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Starting at 8pm
British television will film
A rare interactive 3-hour live performance
THE EROTIC CAMPAIGN…FEEL, TOUCH THE POSSIBILITIES
By the world-known performance artist and presidential candidate
Frank Moore
Featuring THE CHEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND
The general public is welcome!
Admission is FREE!
http://www.frankmooreforpresident08.com/
For info:
fmoore@eroplay.com
(510) 526-7858
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
http://www.eroplay.com
http://www.frankmooreforpresident08.com
http://www.luver.com
http://www.luver.org
38. Coco Gordon, FF Alumn, in Napoli, Italy, thru Aug. 26, and more
Coco Gordon aka Cocogo SuperSkyWoman
a Water Has Rights, My Venice new water work querying Waters & Friends on the blight of plastics in our waters degrading in huge pools of earth’s oceans is in this new edition of EAU3, in Napoli, Italy at MARARTEA “il mare nel mito”
FESTIVAL OF ART ON THE SEA EDIZIONE ZERO
26 JULY- 26 AUGUST
BERNARDI CASTALDO CIPRIANO D’AMBROSIO FALCONE
FIORILLO GALLINARO GORDON KIERSPEL LOVISCO
LUCCIOLI PACE PAGANO PECCI PICARDI
POLLIDORI PUNZOETESTA REA RICCIARDI RIVIELLO
ROCA ROCCATANO SAMELA WALTERS ZAITSEV
TESTO DI LOREDANA REA
Mostra Installazione curated by
MANIDESIGN NAPOLI
in collaboration with
SPAZIOUTOPIA CONTEMPORANEY ART Campagna (Sa)
Napoli/Isernia
LA LOCANDA DELLE DONNE MONACHE
Via Carlo Mazzei, 4 - Maratea (PZ)
info@locandamonache.com • Tel. 39 0973 876139 / 347 9532930
in collaboration with
SPAZIOUTOPIA CONTEMPORANEY ART Campagna (Sa)Napoli/IserniaFree & Open to the Public
Artist/Poet SuperSkyWoman will perform “Dislodge, Reconfigure”, interactive actions with audience from recent flux writings and art created at a 3 month Emily Harvey Foundation residency in Venice, Italy.
Entering Venice at the canal-and-bridge-rich Dorsoduro isola between Ferrovia (RR station) and Actv vaporetto/ bus depot of Piazzale Roma, I knew I would leave my particular flux art to its own organic process, and was soon given assignments from the waters to put the past to sleep with the action to create a new “Water” currency for use politically while Water contributed its shpritz for fun. My coining currency instruction, now in development is becoming useful in the Lyons Colorado Self-Sustainability and Transition Town Initiatives being formed with active participation of the new Mayor and Lyons Board of Trustees as PrototypeLife/Art.
I revisited Lido Beach doing twirl videos, finding vintage plastics, making installations that moved around with the tides and reconfigured. I pulled out all the plastic net bags I saw peeking from the sands. In my multiple function Permacultural way of working I made words and images with the plastic lengths and curlicues. I recycled everything for 3 months, making art from wrappings labeling them “Il Codardo Della Comodita” (“The Cowardice of Convenience”). Those finds with prospect for sculpture I took back to my Calle Cereria studio to wash, hang to dry and reconstruct.
The herstory of my Nature interviews began in the Arboretum of Chappaqua NY with a decade of caregiving, and 3 years investigating with an online Nature Connects group the Nature beings reactions to each of 53 senses. Sentinel Pine Tree avowed with riddles it would always be available for my queries no matter where I went, and popped out of Venice fog true to its word. Before departing on my Venice adventure, I continued my queries at the St Vrains rivers confluence asking for insight into intimidating Wars and continued degradation of the planet.
This event will use the plastic net curlicues, and cut-up clips from my interviews with Waters and Friends.
Reading at the Poets Party at Naropa performance night from books I wrote and published in Venice with edizioni inedite, two new books of my poems, Conflu-Essence, and What Opens Stays Forever, Clunk!, and a full length book of poems I finished, One Hundred Monkeys.
Reading for LIPS (Lyons Itinerant Poetry Society) Lyons Colorado, August 22, outside in nature, from one book, Interactiv #7 De-Signed Intelligence finished in Venice, and two new books written after my return: Interactiv #8 Perfect Pitch of the Body, and Interactiv #9 Value Added Life, all highlighting seminal history and philosophy of ecology, Sustainable Commerce and Spiral Dynamics consciousness.
39. Circus Amok, FF Alumns, across NYC, September 6-28
CIRCUS AMOK!!
YES YES YES!
FREE FREE FREE!
The CIRCUS is Coming!! The CIRCUS is Coming!!
New York ’s renowned, acclaimed, award-winning, astounding one-and-only CIRCUS AMOK presents:
"SUB-PRIME SUBLIME"
*** FREE FREE FREE *** ALL REAL *** ALL ALIVE *** FREE FREE FREE
September 6-28, 2008.
Acrobatic Economists, Fantastical Free-Falling Free Markets, Tenanacious Tenants, Querelous Quarks, Neurotic Neutrons, Vaulting Villains, Stupendous Stilters, Disco Dorothy, Lions and Tigers and Zebras Oh My!
COMING TO A PARK NEAR YOU!
SAT, SEPT 6 – UPPER WEST SIDE – Riverside Park - 2pm & 5pm
79th Street & Riverside Drive
SUN, SEPT 7– CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN – Coney Island - 2pm & 5pm
West 10th Street & Surf Avenue
MON, SEPT 8– EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN – MLK Park - 5pm
Miller & Dumont Avenues
WED, SEPT 10 – FT GREENE, BROOKLYN – Ft. Greene Park - 5:30pm
Myrtle Avenue & St. Edward's Street
FRI, SEPT 12 – SOUTH BRONX – St. Mary's Park - 5pm
St. Ann ’s Avenue & St. Mary’s Street
SAT, SEPT 13 – LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS – Socrates Sculpture Park - 3pm
Broadway & Vernon Boulevard
SUN, SEPT 14 – PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN – Prospect Park - 2pm & 5pm
Enter @ 9th Street & Prospect Park West
Show is at the base of the grassy hill near the dog beach.
WED, SEPT 17 – LOWER MANHATTAN – Columbus Park - 5:30pm
Mulberry & Worth Streets
FRI, SEPT 19 – SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN – Sunset Park - 5:30pm
6th Avenue & 41st Street
SAT, SEPT 20 – GREENWICH VILLAGE – Washington Square - 2pm & 5pm
University Place & Washington Square South
SUN, SEPT 21 – HARLEM – Marcus Garvey - 2pm & 5pm
Madison Avenue & 122nd Street
WED, SEPT 24 – WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN – Bedford Playground - 5pm
Bedford Avenue & South 9th Street
FRI, SEPT 26 – LOWER MANHATTAN –Battery Park - 1pm & 5pm
Castle Clinton Plaza
SAT, SEPT 27 – LOWER EAST SIDE – Seward Park - 4pm
Canal & Essex Streets
SUN, SEPT 28 – EAST VILLAGE – Tompkins Square - 12pm & 3pm
Avenue A & East 7th Street
DON’T MISS IT!
FREE FREE FREE!
WWW.CIRCUSAMOK.ORG for late-breaking news and weather updates
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED---Run Away and Join the Circus for a Day:
Volunteers are needed at each and every show. If you'd like to join us for
the day, please send an email to circusamokinfo@gmail.com, or call 802-274-0502.
SEE YOU AT THE SHOW!!
CIRCUS AMOK is NYC's internationally-acclaimed one-ring FREE traveling circus. Since 1994 we've been bringing fabulous, political circus spectacle to more than 10,000 diverse audience members in the parks of NYC each season. From East New York to the East Village, Jamaica to Harlem, CIRCUS AMOK dazzles audiences with our mix of circus skills and variety arts, puppetry and music, glitter, grime and glamour as we tackle the tough issues that touch New Yorkers: immigration, affordable housing, quality public education, police-community relations, healthcare for all.
40. Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumn, at CoCo66, Brooklyn, Aug. 14, and more
And you were wondering why you hadn't heard from us in a while! Yup, we had to take down the "Girls only" sign on the clubhouse door. Come see the new Tank lineup, with Joe on drums, Ness on base, Gail, Simone and Halona! Mark Denardo is also playing.
This THURSDAY 10 pm
CoCo66
66 Greenpoint Ave.
between Franklin and West Streets, Brooklyn
Look for the red sign that sez "BAR"
and
Hi Friends near and far, hallo Deutschland!
My 15 new-born 'Ball Dolls' are flying from Brooklyn to Berlin...to star in this art show, curated by Anna Schaedlich, in the pool hall Q-Club:
HALONA HILBERTZ & KATJA FRATZSCHER
August 29, 2008 - October 12, 2008
I too will be in Berlin from August 17 to August 31, and at the OPENING on Friday August 29, 7 pm.I know some of you Americans, and Deutsche from other Gegenden, happen to be in Leipzig or Prague or Berlin, and I SO look forward to our meetings (you know who you are)! If you live in Berlin - you'd better be at the opening, 'cause I SO look forward to seeing you, too!!
The invite can be seen here: http://www.i386.com/newsletter/viewhtml.aspx?index=180.Below is a so-called 'artist statement' about my newest pieces, for the truly interested. And I want to say Happy 85th! to Blatt Billiards in New York, who patiently and entertainingly took care of me while cutting many single yards of billiards felts that I needed for my dolls.
Love,
Halona
...while I'm in Berlin, SMS (text) me to my handy: +1-646-403-6738.
Q-Club BILLARDSALON
Forsterstraβe 5 / 2.HH
10999 Berlin-Kreuzberg
+49 (0) 30-61621490
www.q-club-billard.de
Kuratorin: Anna Schädlich
+49 (0) 179-4597600
anna_schaedlich@yahoo.de
I don’t know much about billiards. I do know that the balls are smooth and heavy and the felt they glide over is soft, strong and fibrous. It pleases my sensuality to see the different ball colors, the painted shapes and numbers. It pleases me to envision the touc