Contents for August 22, 2022
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Weekly Spotlight: Alva Rogers, FF Alumn, receives Humanities New York Action Grant 2022
1. Gaby López Dena & Caroline Garcia, FF FUND 2021-22 recipients, in Brooklyn, Aug. 27-28
2. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, live online at Franklin Furnace LOFT, Aug. 26
3. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at Floating Cinema, Venice, Italy, Aug. 29
4. Rachel Frank, Beatrice Glow, FF Alumns, at Spring/Break Art Show, Manhattan, opening September. 7
5. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
6. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, live on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Aug. 23 and more
7. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 10 and more
8. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, at EFA Studios, Manhattan, Aug. 24 and more
9. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Ressemblage Collective, Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 23 and more
10. Donald Sultan, FF Alumn, at Ryan Lee, Manhattan, opening Sept. 8
11. Jaye Rhee, FF Alumn, at Frieze Seoul, South Korean, Aug. 31-Sept. 7
12. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, new publication
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Weekly Spotlight: Alva Rogers, FF Alumn, receives Humanities New York Action Grant 2022
Franklin Furnace Archive is proud to announce receipt of a Humanities New York Action Grant 2022 to present “The Serious Business of Doll Play: Alva Rogers, Dr. Paulette Richards & the
Legacy of Lenon Holder Hoyte,” a free humanities program about ongoing human rights issues as seen through the lights of Black women artists, scholars, and cultural leaders coming to the Franklin Furnace Digital LOFT at 6 pm on Wednesday November 16, 2022, United Nations International Day for Tolerance promoting respect for various religions, languages, ethnicities, and cultures. Please mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information.
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1. Gaby López Dena & Caroline Garcia, FF FUND 2021-22 recipients, in Brooklyn, Aug. 27-28
We’re excited to conclude our socially-engaged project, An Infiltration, a collaboration with locals and residents in our Brooklyn neighborhood. Adopting an intersectional feminist lens, it examines how water sustains our bodies and connects them to larger ecologies and cultural practices.
After three weeks of sharing water-based skills, practices, and embodied knowledge unique to each individual–which included two incredible skill-share exchange workshops led by each participant in tie dying, clay, traditional Chinese cuisine, Qi Gong and acupressure, and swimming–we are thrilled to close with guerilla-style live interventions in our local public pool.
With this public intervention, we reclaim public space as a platform for experimentation, rethinking notions of embodiment and our connection to water, creating new “waterways” (or narratives) in a land-locked neighborhood to demonstrate the potential in our very own system of intersectional feminist networking.
For safety and security, we can not disclose the exact location or name of the participants until the performance is over.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2021-22, supported by Jerome Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and SHS Foundation.
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2. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, live online at Franklin Furnace LOFT, Aug. 26
Please visit this link to register for the online version of the hybrid official launch of Jeanette Andrews’ new publication “Invisible Museums of the Unseen” live on the Franklin Furnace digital LOFT this Friday August 26th from 6-7 pm EST:
https://franklinfurnace.org/invisible-museums/
To attend in person at Printed Matter in Chelsea, Manhattan, please visit this link:
https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/1456
Thank you.
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3. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at Floating Cinema, Venice, Italy, Aug. 29
Mixed Messages, my very first video released in 1990, will be included in a unique program, Floating Cinema, in Venice, Italy on Monday, August 29th.
Mixed Messages is an experimental video collage that incorporates found footage, performance, interviews with young girls, documentary, animation, images from advertising and television, and a dream narrative in a work that examines gender-stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth.
Now, with the “me too” movement and the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court Supreme Court overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, the piece has added resonance and even more relevance. In 2022 – Have we come a long way, baby?
It was recently acquired into the collection of the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, a feminist audiovisual archive.
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4. Rachel Frank, Beatrice Glow, FF Alumns, at Spring/Break Art Show, Manhattan, opening September. 7
In September, I will be participating in the SPRING/BREAK Art Show again this year. Some of my Sentinel Offering Vessels will be on display in a group show.
Salve, Sanctuary, Seer
Curated by Rachel Frank and Sarah Grass
Booth #1117
SPRING/BREAK Art Show
625 Madison Avenue, NYC
Opening, Wednesday, Sept. 7th, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Regular Show Days: September 7th -12th, 11:00 – 8:00 pm
Vanessa Albury, Rachel Frank, Beatrice Glow, Sarah Grass, Heidi Norton, Kylin O’Brien, & Zulu Padilla
Best end of summer wishes!
Rachel
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5. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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6. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, live on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Aug. 23 and more
Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, TV Talk Show Interview About Trademarking HOMO FUTURUS.
New air date: Tues, Aug. 23, 8pm (and on YouTube then and thereafter)
mnn.org; FiOS 33; RCN 82; Spectrum 34 & 1995; Lifestyle Channel
Paul DeRienzo, host of “Let Them Talk,” interviews Barbara Rosenthal in her studio about her newly trademarking the term “Homo Futurus,” the concept that the next hominid will be genetically engineered, as it arose to her in 1982, and as we on Earth are now approaching the inevitability.
On the agenda are the HOMO FUTURUS works Rosenthal has generated since — books: “Journal Volume 25,” in which the idea occurred, “Homo Futurus Blank Book” (eMediaLoft.org, 1984), “Homo Futurus” (Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986), Homo Futurus Blank Book Filled Collaboration with Paul Zelevansky (in two vojumes), “Chapter 23: Homo Futurus in the Trans-Millenial Century” in “Wish for Amnesia” (Deadly Chaps Press, 2017); the 41-segment image/text piece “Homo Futurus Wallwork,” shown at the Carlo Lamagna Gallery, NYC in 1988 and The Center for Book Arts in 2014; “Provocation Cards / Homo Futurus Will Not Be Human,” (Folio editions 1990-2022), which was part of her street performance “Provocation Cards Interact, NYC 2022) in front of Barbara Kruger’s show at the David Zwirner Gallery this summer.
She speaks about art in the context of personal and social reflection, and herself as “guinea pig,” her correspondence with noted evolutionary biologist Steven Jay Gould, as well as the trademarking process and scope, granting her the exclusive right to the term HOMO FUTURUS on or in anything of any kind of paper offered for sale.
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7. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 10 and more
Climate Crisis
an exhibition at FGD Gallery
September 10 – October 9, 2022
Opening Reception: September 10, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
535B Sixth Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(Between 14th and 15th St in Park Slope)
Gallery Hours
Friday: 2 – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12 – 5pm
For more information or to make an appointment, contact Katherine Davis at kgormandavis@yahoo.com
and
Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists
an exhibition at BWAC
September 10-18, 2022
Opening Reception: September 10, 3-6pm
BWAC
481 Van Brunt Street
Redhook, Brooklyn
Gallery Hours: 1pm-6pm on weekends
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8. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, at EFA Studios, Manhattan, Aug. 24 and more
Screening
Ukrainian Independence
Co-organized by Kateryna Ruban and Katya Grokhovsky
Wednesday August 24th 2022 6-8pm
Artists: Yana Bachynska, Pavlo Grazhdanskij, Katya Grokhovsky, Alena Grom, Kathie Halfin, Oleksiy Radynski, Slinko
EFA Studios
323 W 39th St, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Kateryna Ruban and EFA Studio member Katya Grokhovsky co-organize a program of video art in honor of Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24), which also marks six months since the current invasion by Russia. Presented by EFA – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program and Ukrainian Artists and Allies League. A selection of videos will play on a reel and refreshments will be served.
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Solo Performance
Point A: Prelude (for Ukraine)
Friday August 26th 2022 6-9pm
Flowers Fest
Essex Flowers Gallery
19 Monroe St,
New York, NY 10002
Point A: Prelude (for Ukraine) is a durational live action, which serves as an introduction to a multi part, multi venue, mixed media project exploring pain, memory, origin, identity, migration and consequences of war via movement, sound, video and painting. The work employs ritualistic repetitve gestures and spatial choreography, as well as vocal and material experimentation, whilst excavating childhood memories and displacement narratives, highlighting the ongoing genocide and erasure of Ukraine. Sound: Sarah Martin-Nuss.
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9. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Ressemblage Collective, Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 23 and more
Film Screening, August 23rd, 2022 @ Ressemblage Collective in Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibition, September 13th-December 10th, 2022, Katherine E. Nash Gallery at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
https://cla.umn.edu/art/galleries-public-programs/katherine-e-nash-gallery
Film Screening with Cameron Downey and Crystal Z Campbell, September 21, 2022,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
http://walkerart.org/calendar/2022/cameron-downey-and-crystal-z-campbell
Crystal Z Campbell
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10. Donald Sultan, FF Alumn, at Ryan Lee, Manhattan, opening Sept. 8
Donald Sultan
The Nature of Things
September 8 – October 22, 2022
Opening reception: Thursday, September 8, 6:00-8:00 pm
Ryan Lee is pleased to announce Donald Sultan: The Nature of Things, an exhibition of new works by the acclaimed artist. The paintings and drawings included are a continuation of Sultan’s ongoing investigation of abstraction using the aesthetic structure of the mimosa plant. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Thomas Loughman.
Ryan Lee
515 West 26th Street, Floor 3, New York, NY 10001
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11. Jaye Rhee, FF Alumn, at Frieze Seoul, South Korean, Aug. 31-Sept. 7
My work, Once Called Future (2019) will be shown in the Frieze Seoul for their Frieze Film Program.
https://www.frieze.com/article/frieze-film-talks-gallery-nights-revealing-frieze-seoul-program
*Frieze Film is open to the public from August 31 to 7 September.
(participating artists: Jaye Rhee, Nikki S. Lee, LaRissa Rogers, Young Joon Kwak, Jisoo Chung)
Jaye Rhee
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12. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, new publication
Whaddyacall the Wind?
by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
Bordighera Press
Foreword by Edvige Giunta $24.95.
Distributed by: ISBN: 978-1-59954-193-8
Small Press Distribution WWW.SPDBOOKS.ORG
Subject: Memoir & Poetry
INGRAM Book Company WWW.INGRAMBOOK.COM
Size: 6″x9″ # pages: 300
Baker & Taylor, Inc WWW.BTOL.COM
A poetic tarantella of the heart. Walk, tremble and fall in the Matriamia, cry for connection from alleyways up to open windows. Expose your heart. Know what it is to feel “like an errant puzzle piece… never to be found, never to be put into place.” A New Yorker learns to walk on Sanpietrini, connects with gay community in the Matriamia, finds living cousins by hanging out in the village cemetery, talks to a Saint who sees ecstasy in stirring fava beans, learns of the Duchess who bit off the saint’s finger, argues with Pulcinella, envisions the epic journey of a painting of La Madonna through four seas to get from Constantinople to Acquaviva delle Fonti, sells wind to sailors, avoids draughts, tangos Sciroccazzo, builds a bridge of hearts and asks the question from Pompeii to COVID 19: “What position do you want to be in for l’eternità?”
“In 1975 at the bequest of my grandfather I made a trip to the ancestral home of my family, the town of Acquaviva delle Fonti in Puglia, Italy. In four words, it changed my life. Jump cut to over 40 years later and I happen to meet Annie Lanzillotto, a gifted writer, director and renaissance woman who shares this same ancestral home as I. Read this book and you’ll understand why I cherish my friendship with this woman.” Joe Mantegna
“Lanzillotto is a mesmerist who gifts us with a sumptuous word feast worthy of a great poet. This tale about ancestors, spiritual renewal and a region of Italy that is both ancient and magical, enfolds you like a mother. Lanzillotto is a master storyteller who will charm you as easily as her female progenitors wove spells and created legends that still captivate today.” Marianne Leone, author Jesse and Ma Speaks Up
“Lanzillotto is a cultural force that should be ensconced in Italian American academic and cultural spaces. Observer, listener, recorder, and channeler of voices and stories, Annie is a literary anthropologist, an epic memoirist, a fabulist of intimate moments that would fade into oblivion were she not there to catch them in her fists and slowly release them.” Edvige Giunta, from the Foreword to Whaddyacall the Wind?
“Annie Lanzillotto’s poems are a dream state in real time, sung in two tongues, from one heart, where “three winds form the source.” She is one of our most gifted storytellers, relentless in her pursuit to “shred language and break lines / until meaning comes.” We need her audaciousness and her genuine, wise voice in these uncertain times.” Tim Z. Hernandez, American Book Award Winner, Author of All They Will Call You
“Passionate and lyrical prose. An intimate experience with matrilineal Italian tradition, and a warm and meaningful time with a dear friend that we all so desperately need. Both prophet and angel, Annie Lanzillotto is one of the greatest and most dedicated teachers and mentors you’ll ever encounter.” Erica Cardwell, author of Wrong is not my Name
To Request A Review Copy, Contact: Nicolas Grosso 212-642-2001 Info@BordigheraPress.org
To Book An Interview or Reading, Contact: Lanzillotto@gmail.com
For More Info: AnnieLanzillotto.com
c/o John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 West 43rd Street 17th Floor, New York, New York 10036 TEL: 212-642-2001 FAX: 212-642-2008 EMAIL: info@bordigherapress.org
Bordighera Press is an imprint of Bordighera Incorporated, an independent, not-for-profit, federally recognized 501 (c)3 scholarly organization with no legal affiliation to Queens College or the University of Central Florida.
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