Contents for October 3, 2022

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Weekly Spotlight: Jacki Apple, Jeff McMahon, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, Oct. 3

1. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, Oct. 7

2. David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumn, at Columbia University School of the Arts

3. Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, at 651 Rock Cut Road, Walden, NY, opening Oct. 22

4. Lorraine O’Grady, Sol Le Witt, Lucy Lippard, Adrian Piper, FF Alumns, now online in The New Yorker

5. Candace Hill Montgomery, FF Alumn, at The Hekscher Museum of Art, thru Jan 22, 2023

6. Ralph Lewis, FF Alumn, live online, Oct 3

7. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, fall news

8. Stanya Kahn, FF Alumn, at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

9. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at NeueHouse/Madison Square, Oct. 17

10. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, live online with Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, Oct. 13

11. Vernita Nemec, Kazuko Miyamoto, Linda Montano, Dotty Attie, Nancy Azara, Josely Carvalho, Janet Olivia Henry, Joyce Kozloff, Susan Schwalb, Dee Shapiro, FF Alumns, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 13 and more

12. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, new publication

13. Jacki Apple, Lee Breuer, Kenneth King, Leslie Labowitz, now online in Performance Art Journal 132

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Weekly Spotlight: Jacki Apple, Jeff McMahon, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, Oct. 3

The Art and Legacy of Jacki Apple

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-and-legacy-of-jacki-apple-tickets-428042595927 

The Art and Legacy of Jacki Apple 

The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNYThe James Gallery 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016

Mon, October 3, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

About this event

Jacki Apple’s radio works provide a wide view of the ambivalent entanglement that shapes belonging. A pioneer in multimedia performance, sound and radio, her practice was deeply collaborative and experimental, pushing boundaries and shaping what is now an established art form of multimedia performance. She bridged the downtown New York and west coast performance scenes in the very early 1980s and 1990s and was a deeply influential mentor, teacher and artistic collaborator. Please join her archivist Emily Waters and her early collaborators Ulysses S. Jenkins, Jeff McMahon, Martha Wilson for an investigation of Jacki Apple’s artistic life, performances, and legacy.In the exhibition We Are Beside Ourselves, three of her immersive audio/radio artworks from the 1980s/early 1990s, are accompanied by projected archival images and highlighted text excerpts was created with the artist specifically for this space just before her recent death. These artworks serve as art historical touchstones and at the same time, their themes and tone resonate with the fragilities and possibilities of contemporary social and political life with uncanny precision.Redefining Democracy in America, made in the early 1990s, raises questions about who speaks, who is listened to, who is heard, who is silenced, and how that has shaped our present social reality. Strikingly pertinent today, the push and pull of the collaborative process to create this piece resulted in such an uncompromisingly honest artwork. Voices in the Dark imagines the cosmos as an audio archive of information broadcast to the stars, a repository of human (and perhaps other) histories in which time melts and language dissolves into signals. Is there anyone listening and how do they interpret what they hear? How do we/they distinguish between real events and people, and media-generated fictions? Are we the “they”? We say we want to contact the Other, when in fact what we search for is a mirror of ourselves. In The Garden Planet Revisited, an astronaut the paragon of late twentieth-century technological man hurtles through time and space. Stranded on a station, abandoned and alone, he is on a mission without end. Simultaneously, the inhabitants of an unnamed place search amongst the architectural remains, gather stories, rumors, myths from Messengers and Witnesses, as they try to reconstruct what happened in the time before “the cities shifted and the Earth turned.” Is it a memory, a dream, a hallucination, a prophecy?

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1. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, Oct. 7

2022 Whitney Biennial artist Julie Tolentino presents an entwined performance and public program on Friday, October 7.

HOLD TIGHT GENTLY

Friday, Oct 7, 1–9 pm

Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

HOLD TIGHT GENTLY is an eight-hour durational performance and a collaboration between Julie Tolentino, Stosh Fila, and Robert Takahashi Crouch in which the artists invite visitors to observe minimal yet attentive actions between performers and objects within a live sound and mirror installation.

Free with museum admission: https://whitney.org/ticketing-info 

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2. David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumn, at Columbia University School of the Arts

Columbia University School of the Arts is delighted to welcome a number of new faculty members to the 2022/23 academic year, including

David Antonio Cruz, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts

David Antonio Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, and performance. His work explores the intersectionality of queerness and race, centering Black, Brown, and queer bodies. Incorporating literature, language, and sculptural elements, Cruz’s work engages portraiture as a place of permanence and as a form of resistance to normative conventions. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, ICA Boston, The Block Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, and El Museo del Barrio. Most recently, Cruz exhibited work with Monique Meloche Gallery at The Armory Show in New York.

Columbia University School of the Arts recognizes Manhattan as part of the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger people. We continue to address issues of exclusion, erasure, and systemic discrimination through ongoing education and a commitment to equitable representation.

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3. Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, at 651 Rock Cut Road, Walden, NY, opening Oct. 22

Dear Family, Friends and Followers of Rumi,

Please join Mori and me for an open house retrospective of Rumi’s art

Saturday October 22, 2022 from noon to 7:00 PM in Walden NY (near Newburgh)

If you can’t make it that day, I will keep the work up through the end of the year. Please contact me to arrange an alternative time to visit.

Rumi’s Art can also be viewed at rumiartcolony.com

Danny’s art can be viewed at maruda.us 

If you were not able to be at Rumi’s Memorial in May, a video is available at https://vimeo.com/705180414 

Special Thanks to Audrey Daniel, Judy Gittelsohn, and Eric Scher for their help getting the art together for this event.

Getting here by train: Trains leave from Grand Central in Manhattan to Beacon Station via the MetroNorth Hudson Line. If you’d like to share an Uber from Beacon to our place (or possibly a shuttle if we have enough people arriving at the same time), check out the times below and email me your preferences. I will put you in touch with others who are interested and/or plan a shuttle van.

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4. Lorraine O’Grady, Sol Le Witt, Lucy Lippard, Adrian Piper, FF Alumns, now online in The New Yorker

Please visit this link:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/lorraine-ogrady-has-always-been-a-rebel

Thank you.

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5. Candace Hill Montgomery, FF Alumn, at The Hekscher Museum of Art, thru Jan 22, 2023

Candace Hill Montgomery has work in the Long Island Biennial 2022 at The Heckscher Museum of Art, Long Island, NY – hekscher.org 

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6. Ralph Lewis, FF Alumn, live online, Oct 3

https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-origins-of-broadway-rise-of-new-yorks-early-theater-scene-webinar-registration-411962570137/

Colorized etching of The Bowery Theatre, New York City, Opened Oct 28 1826.For anyone who has ever wondered how Broadway became one of the top theatrical destinations in the world. Why, and how, did New York City become the theater capital of America? This is the story of New York’s earliest theaters and how they transformed a city once fixated on only business and trade into one dedicated to culture and the arts.

Co-Director Ralph Lewis leads a virtual tour of NYC’s first theaters. He will explore the evolution of New York’s theater industry through the mid 1800s, and the actors, production managers, and playwrights who helped pave the way for modern-day Broadway to rise.

Please join us from your home – or wherever – and get the inside scoop on this fascinating NYC history. If you love theater and NYC, you’ll want to know this enlightening story.

Our Peculiar Works projects are being made possible with public funds from is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and private funds from The Ken Glickfeld and Kris Hall Foundation, and the Mental Insight Foundation as well as our many, wonderful, individual donors.

Of course, a donation of any amount to Peculiar Works Project, Inc. through Network for Good is secure, tax-deductible, and greatly appreciated! 

https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=13-4089362&vlrStratCode=M%2bBFLk66JD6E1oHB7asdChEP1FkXAgY94789ZPH26WqT6g1P%2bU8JlF8NG2AA8RPh

You can also mail a check to us at 595 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10012-3222.

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7. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, fall news

Hi friends,

Happy Fall!  This is the time of the year when the sun feels like butter and the air is crisp.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be social. Writing a letter is social.  Gathering people in one place and having conversations is social. The work I’m making right now is dancing along with these thoughts. How are we communicating?

Mark your Calendars

Twin Cities Film Festival (San Souci Film Festival): Rube G. (the film) will be showing at the Icon Theater, at 12:00 PM. In collaboration with Rhythmically Speaking, a Jazz based music and dance collective. The theater can be located at: 1625 West End BoulevardMinneapolis, MN, 55416.

Finally! After a two year postponement, our international cast gathers on the site of a Trümmerberg, a trauma mountain, a mountain made from buildings destroyed during World War II, at Olympiapark. Curated by Nina Hümple, with dramaturg Peter Sampel, Dancer Guides lead participants on different paths. Site specific dances pop up along the way. Both performers and audience alike embody time and place, with all its sensorial details. The work is an invitation to travel, to witness and participate in savoring time, as we move through and create history.

In addition, the company will perform the durational piece Life Traveler performed by a cast of eight dancers, spread out over eight bridges across the Isar River. In Life Traveler, a one-on-one ambulatory piece, each performer engages in a dance and conversational dialogue.

Both works are inclusive and collective, leading audiences on a surprising journey, moment by interactive moment. The site-specific dances inscribe a place, and tie deeply into our own humanity, the way our lives leave essences.

Looking forward to new adventures. Stay light as it gets dark early.

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8. Stanya Kahn, FF Alumn, at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce the acquisition of Stanya Kahn’s “Stand in the Stream” by The Walker Art Center.

“Stand in the Stream” captures the rise of the internet and social media as a tool for political organizing, while simultaneously evolving into a powerful source of surveillance and marketing. Edited with precision and intensity, the film’s footage (all shot by Kahn or screen-recorded by Kahn in real time) moves globally and locally through the wild, the streets, the home, and online, in a visceral, phenomenological reflection of life, power and uprising in late capitalism. 

Articulating a powerful personal dynamic to political movements, the narrative arc of the film is shaped by the decline of Kahn’s mother to dementia, and the birth and growth of her son amid the shift of political and digital landscapes over time. An activist and former shipyard worker, Kahn’s mother speaks candidly about unions, NAFTA, the dangers of politicians in the pockets of lobbyists, how she wouldn’t want to get dementia like her mother before, even as she deteriorates. Her illness and death are woven with lo-fi clips of Kahn’s home life raising her son, caretaking, repairing, working, always from the POV of a camera. Interspersed and ongoing, is Kahn’s persistent screen recording of live streams on the internet. 

“Stand in the Stream” mimics our screen-saturated perspectives, hinting at questions of accountability, acknowledging our participation in a sometimes voyeuristic and alienated consumption of the world through images. In Kahn’s massive collection of footage – edited with an operatic sense of sound’s power to draw the epic from the mundane – we experience capitalism’s acculturation of our very personhood and the blooms of resistance and resilience.

Kahn’s sound design includes original compositions by Kahn and the musician/composer Alexia Riner.

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9. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at NeueHouse/Madison Square, Oct. 17

I’m pleased to announce that there will be an upcoming  in-person screening of Following the Thread coming on October 17th @ NeueHouse/Madison Square. Here’s the info and link to RSVP.  

https://rsvp.neuehouse.com/infocusfollowingthethread

And for those not able to attend (i.e., not living in NY or otherwise), this is the link where you can stream it. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/followingthethread… 

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10. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, live online with Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, Oct. 13

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11. Vernita Nemec, Kazuko Miyamoto, Linda Montano, Dotty Attie, Nancy Azara, Josely Carvalho, Janet Olivia Henry, Joyce Kozloff, Susan Schwalb, Dee Shapiro, FF Alumns, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 13 and more

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 13, 5 – 8pm

Masks are Mandatory

Carter Burden Gallery presents The Difference We’ve Made, featuring new work by twenty-three women artists active and successful in New York City’s art world in the 1970’s. This exhibition is curated by Cynthia Mailman, Vernita Nemec, and Susan Grabel, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by Ellen Lubell and Andrew Hottle. The exhibition runs from October 13 – November 9, 2022. The opening reception will be on Thursday, October 13 from 5-8pm; masks are mandatory. Events accompanying the show include A Night of Performances with Vernita Nemec, Kazuko Miyamoto, and Toki Ozaki, as well as Linda Montano on Thursday, October 20 at 7pm, and Meet the Artists on Saturday, November 5 at 2pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The Difference We’ve Made highlights the work of Dotty Attie, Nancy Azara, Josely Carvalho, Maureen Connor, Betsy Damon, Carol Goebel, Janet Goldner, Susan Grabel, Carol Hamoy, Janet Olivia Henry, Lucy Hodgson, Joyce Kozloff, Cynthia Mailman, Carol Massa, Dindga McCannon, Juanita McNeely, Kazuko Miyamoto, Vernita Nemec, Senga Nengudi, Susan Schwalb, Dee Shapiro, Jenny Tango, and Sharon Wybrants. Their work represents the diversity of creative expression with mediums ranging from installation, painting, sculpture, performance, and more. Through their compelling works these talented, feminist, trailblazing artists cleared paths for generations of women. This exhibition illustrates their perseverance in their ongoing creative practice to this day. Marlena Vaccaro, Director and Curator of Carter Burden Gallery, states, “The Carter Burden Gallery opened in Chelsea in 2009 to meet a need of representation of older professional artists. It is the first of its kind in the nation, exclusively featuring the vibrant and significant works of professional artists over the age of sixty. The women exhibited in this show are the shoulders subsequent women artists have stood and continue to stand on.

It is no secret that older professional artists are often under-recognized by the arts sector and given few opportunities to show and sell their work due to perceived limited marketability and other ageism related factors. This can be especially true of women artists. This dually hinders economic opportunity for older artists, while limiting public access to unique artistic perspectives. The Carter Burden Gallery celebrates this community’s unique contribution and particularly the immense and enduring influence of the pioneering artists in this show. As Maya Angelou said, ‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ The outstanding artists in this show made future generations of women artists feel they could do it, feel they could be part of the important work being done, and know they would be leaders in the conversations that would shape the art world.”

www.carterburdengallery.org 

www.carterburdennetwork.org 

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12. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, new publication

“Perceiving Courage,” is now in print!  

https://www.amazon.com/Perceiving-Courage-Susan-Kleinberg/dp/0578850249

This book derives from the piece “FEAR NOT” which I did some years back, premiering in the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale.  I asked a vast range of people, “What is courage?”  My focus was always the question.  From Congressman John Lewis, artist Chuck Close, author Gore Vidal, astronaut Sally Ride, newly arrived immigrants, domestic workers, President Bill Clinton, the Pope … we spoke and explored this most unhip, curious, profound of subjects.  My goal was to create a web of investigation in which readers might locate themselves.

Since Venice, the piece and has been shown from PS1/MoMA to the Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Achkerkran Museum, Istanbul… I hope it contributes to your thoughts and would be very happy to hear how.  

Link to video – https://vimeo.com/150596950 

Link to Italian edit – https://vimeo.com/150595697 

www.susankleinberg.com 

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13. Jacki Apple, Lee Breuer, Kenneth King, Leslie Labowitz, now online in Performance Art Journal 132

Please visit this link:

https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/issue/44/3%20(132)

Thank you

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