Project ArchivesUpdated June 2007
2007
FOCUS ON FORT GREENE FEBRUARY 2007
P.S. 20'S CLASS 5-220 PHOTOGRAPHS THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Sequential Art for Kids
THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
A Franklin Furnace View of Performance Art
Harry de Jur Playhouse, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement.
FOCUS ON FORT GREENE JUNE 2007
P.S. 20'S CLASS 5-220 PHOTOGRAPHS THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Sequential Art for Kids
2006
FRANKLIN FURNACE 30TH ANNIVERSARY
FOCUS ON FORT GREENE JUNE 2006
P.S. 20'S CLASS 5-319 PHOTOGRAPHS THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Part of
Sequential Art for Kids
2005
HISTORY OF DISAPPEARANCE
On June 17th, 2005, History of Disappearance, an exhibition drawn from the archives of Franklin Furnace, opened at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK. This major exhibition was presented Italy in the spring of 2006, from March 27 to April 14 at Galleria Neon>fdv in Milan. Under the auspices of MuseumMAN, History of Disappearance was presented in September and October during the Liverpool Biennial 2006. In the fall of 2007, History of Disappearance traveled again under the auspices of MusumMAN to Santiago, Chile where from October 25 to December 13, 2007, it was presented at the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda. From September 15 to 28, 2008, History of Disappearance was organized by Jenny Brown and exhibited under the aegis of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia. From November 12, 2010 to January 9, 2011, the exhibition was shown at Arhus Kunstbygning/The Aarhus Art Building, Arhus, Denmark. From July 15 to 31, 2011, History of Disappearance was on view in the PHOTOIRELAND FESTIVAL, Dublin, Ireland. Martha Wilson presented the video portion of History of Disappearance on November 8 and 9 at Laznia Center, in Gdansk, Poland.
March 27 - April 14, 2006
Galleria neon>fdv
Via Procaccini 4, La Fabbrica del Vapore, 20125, Milano, Italy
Tel: 02 45486367
Coordinated in Italy by Chiara Tiberio
September 16-November 12, 2006
Liverpool Biennial 2006
MAN Museum
25 Parliament Street, Liverpool L8, Merseyside, England, UK
Contact: Adam Nankervis
See announcement
2004
"The C-Series" exhibition and seminar were proposed to Franklin Furnace in 2004 by Courtney J. Martin, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at Yale University.
She hoped to organize an exhibition of "activist" artists' books drawn from Franklin Furnace's collection of third, or "C," copies.
These copies comprised the archive returned to us after the "A" and "B" copies were acquired in 1993 by the Museum of Modern Art.
Courtney asked me how many copies could be considered activist in intent, and I replied, "About half."
She patiently reviewed the entire collection, sitting at a table near one of the only windows in the Bergen Street warehouse where the collection was being kept,
selecting thirty-five for an exhibition mounted at The Nathan Cummings Foundation's offices in New York.
Martha Wilson, 2005
2001
Here you can see video interviews with artists who helped Franklin Furnace reach this milestone year, a history of our public face, from our letterhead to our virtual presentations, and a timeline tracing Franklin Furnace's journey from Martha Wilson's apartment in 1976 to our present home on the Internet.
Franklin Furnace's 25th anniversary grant, awarded to Kyong Park.
2000
Franklin Furnace?s Archives of the Avant-Garde project received support in 2000 from the New York Foundation for the Arts and The Cowles Charitable Trust, enabling us to create a Location Database of the archives of art spaces, living and defunct, founded after 1960 in and around New York City.
We organized groups into categories such as Alternative Spaces, Group or Collective, Gallery Spaces, Nightspots, Periodicals, Film/Video, Theater and Other to accommodate the wide variety of forms avant-garde groups have taken and are still taking!
In the spring of 2004, Franklin Furnace contributed this database to the Art Spaces Archives Project, an initiative founded by a consortium of alternative art organizations which is expanding its Location Database nationally,
and gathering virtual resources:http://www.as-ap.org
1999
THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE is a Martha Wilson's selection of 50 performance art works which in her opinion had changed art discourse during the last quarter of the 20th century.
Organized into 20 thematic shows, videos were edited, digitized and streamed, beginning in October 1999 until ChannelP was cancelled by Pseudo management. Franklin Furnace is indebted to webmistress, Alice Wu, and interns and artists Alex Burke, Alex Walsh, Deborah Edmeades and Heather Casals for coordinating work with Pseudo.com. This program is being recycled as The Franklin Furnace Networked Digital Video Archive Prototype Project. This section of Franklin Furnace's site was designed by Tiffany Ludwig.
The Age of Avant-Garde Innocence
The Body as Art Medium
Endurance
Art in the Environment
Music as Art
Art History
Feminism
The World's a Stage
Art in the Age of AIDS
Gender Benders
Art and Madness
The Culture Wars, I.
The Culture Wars, II.
Monologue
Dis-Ability
Race
Art and Politics
Art/Life
The Extended Body
Global Art
1998
FRANKLIN FURNACE AT PSEUDO PROGRAMS
Franklin Furnace at Pseudo Programs, Inc. marks the first season of Franklin Furnace's collaboration with Pseudo Online Network. Franklin Furnace is a 22-year-old artists' organization based in New York City devoted to temporal art forms(such as artists' books, installation and performance art)
which became identified with artists' fight for freedom of expression during the culture wars of the late 80s and early 90s. Franklin Furnace's decision to close its TriBeCa exhibition to "downtown" audiences spread across the world. Pseudo Programs, Inc. is the world's largest producer of Internet television, broadcasting over thirty shows featuring emerging artists, news and entertainment.
This section of Franklin Furnace's site was designed by Yoon Hoe(Kelly) Gu
Performances are netcast live from Pseudo's studios, and then archived on Pseudo's servers for at least six months. To view upcoming and archived performances, download the RealPlayer plug-in, available at www.real.com. Consult , Franklin Furnace's website for complete program descriptions and updates, or email us.
The artists selected for this residency project are:
Halona Hilbertz
Bingo Gazingo
Patricia Hoffbauer
Jon Keith
Nora York
Jason E. Bowman
Kali Lela Colton
Anna Mosby Coleman
Lenora Champagne
Alvin Eng & Yoav Gal
1996
U-B-D-Judge is an on-line forum of discussion relating to Franklin Furnace's 20th Anniversary exhibition entitled Voyeur's Delight, and the issue of freedom of expression as it relates to images in general. The exhibition was organized by artists Babs Rhinegold and Grace Roselli. This section of Franklin Furnace's site was designed by Betsey Gallagher.
In November 1996 Franklin Furnace advanced its commitment to the history of the future with our final gallery exhibition, "In The Flow: Alternate Authoring Strategies." In that show we traced some of the artistic threads which already treated art work as flowing information rather than as property. The effects of the fruition of digital media on our perception of content and ultimately upon the nature of individuality and personhood were seen to be predicated by trends already existing within the culture of art. Thus, practice by artists who had used strategies since the seventies and eighties that contradict the notion of a single personal vision such as Sol Lewitt, Louise Lawler, Group Material, Guerrilla Girls, Frank Gillette, Sylvia Benitez, and the international Mail Art movement were shown together with artists whose new strategies were more specifically responsive to developments in the early and mid-nineties including the X-Art foundation, The Thing, Beattie and Davidson, Laura Parnes, Ben Kinmont, Gabriel Martinez, Robbin Silverberg, and the unknown artist. Conceptual and collaborative art dealing with issues of dematerialization of the object, appropriation, and group participation were seen by artist and curator Daniel Georges, the organizer of the exhibition, to be linked to more recent issues of interaction, non-linear narrative, de-centralization of the self, and equalizing of genres in a single digital medium.
In keeping with the exhibition focus, the catalogue for "In The Flow" was created as an on-line feature of the newly launched Franklin Furnace web site designed by Seth which launched on February 1st 1997:
This online catalogue was designed by Daniel Georges.