Contents for February 06, 2023
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1. Epstein & Hassan, FF Alumns, at Alchemical Theatre, Manhattan
2. Kate Gilmore, Nao Bustamante, Patty Chang, Brendan Fernandes, Autumn Knight, Amber Hawk Swanson, FF Alumns, at Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, thru May 7
3. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Feb. 28
4. Tracie Morris, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan and online, March 25
5. China Blue, Arlene Rush, Nina Sobell, Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumns, at Sojourner Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 9
6. Terry Dame, FF Alumn, at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, Feb. 25
7. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, opening Feb. 8, and more
8. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, FF Alumn, now online in NYTimes.com
9. Francheska Alcántara and kara lynch, FF Alumns, at 108|Contemporary, Tulsa, OK, thru March 19
10. Wendy Olsoff, FF Member, at New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, Feb. 8
11. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
12. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Touchstones Rochdale, UK, thru May 6
13. Beth B, FF Alumn, at Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, thru May 1
14. Constance DeJong, Joseph Kosuth, Ana Mendieta, Warren Neidich, Martha Rosler, Chrysanne Stathacos, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
15. Stanya Kahn, FF Alumn, now online at Wallpaper.com
16. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at SUNY New Paltz, Feb. 23
17. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, at Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Manhattan, March 4-19
18. Gia Forakis, FF Member, Creative Life Practice sessions
19. Lynn Book, FF Alumn, at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Feb. 8
20. Galinsky, FF Alumn, now online at BroadwayWorld.com
21. Yvonne Rainer, FF Alumn, online at performa-arts.org, thru May 31
22. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, thru June 5
23. Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in NYTimes.com
24. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manhattan, thru Feb. 25
25. Stefanie Trojan, FF Alumn, at Kunstraum hase 29, Osnabrück, Germany, thru April 8
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1. Epstein & Hassan, FF Alumns, at Alchemical Theatre, Manhattan
The Final Chapter of BlackJewLove
written by Epstein & Hassan
Alchemical Theatre
50 W. 17th St., 12th FLoor
New York NY 10011
Saturdays 7:30 pm
Beginning Feb. 4
Reservations 212-242-6216
Thank you.
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2. Kate Gilmore, Nao Bustamante, Patty Chang, Brendan Fernandes, Autumn Knight, Amber Hawk Swanson, FF Alumns, at Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, thru May 7
Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment
From February 1 – May 7 a series of nine different performance artists will create weeklong projects at The Neuberger Museum of Art.
Jesus Benavente, Daniel Bozhkov, Nao Bustamante, Patty Chang, Emily Coates, Brendan Fernandes, Amber Hawk Swanson, Autumn Knight, and Alix Pearlstein.
The full schedule and brief descriptions of each project can be found here:
https://www.purchase.edu/live/news/6871-hard-return-9-experiments-for-this-moment
See you at the museum! More below:
Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment
ON VIEW: February 1—May 7, 2023
Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is a performance art exhibition featuring a series of nine artists creating dynamic week-long experiences, environments, and interactions live in the Neuberger Museum of Art’s galleries.
Over the course of Spring Semester 2023, each of the nine artists will create works that pose fundamental questions about art and life. The projects will experiment with our sense of being alive in this moment, probing the influence of history on our present and proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community—from the intimate experience of one-to-one relationships to attempts to see humanity at planetary scale.
Hard Return promotes modes of artistic activity that the pandemic made impossible for a while and explores the museum as a space of community, reflection, and support.
for complete schedule and reg
Participating artists include:
Brendan Fernandes
February 1-5
Fernandes will develop a dance piece in response to African art in the Neuberger collection. Working with vogue expert Jason Rodriguez and a cast of Purchase College students, the artist will consider the transmission of cultural forms and knowledges across time and space and from body to body. This work, which will change and grow over the week, will also consider questions of rest and repose. In addition to developing original choreography, the artist will offer related movement workshops to museum visitors throughout the week.
Alix Pearlstein ’88
February 15-19
Exploring a personal archive of objects from previous artworks—props, structures, gestures—with a group of Purchase student actors, Pearlstein’s new commission blurs the lines between then and now, self and other, live and recorded. Improvisational exercises directed by the artist work to plumb and produce emotional responses to objects or tasks. While the collection is replete with psychological resonance for Pearlstein, the actors encounter it for the first time. As the actions and objects generate new emotional charges, the work will grow in excess of what is visible. This work of inventory might change the meaning of Pearlstein’s archive and will develop links among the individual collaborators. At the end of each day, a summary performance will be committed to video; each video recursively feeds back into the work, serving as the next day’s point of departure for further reflection and creation.
Daniel Bozhkov
February 22-26
With this new commission Daniel Bozhkov proposes to grow cucumbers on Mars. In the gallery, his process takes the form of an opera that writes itself. Bozhkov has been working with gardeners in Bulgaria, soil biogeochemists, and astro-ecologists at Cornell University and The Soil Factory in Ithaca, NY to investigate the viability of life on this and other planets. For Cosmic Cucumber Carousel he has collaborated with composer Erin Gee to develop this process of provisional planting into an operatic libretto. The resulting five-day long opera is performed by Purchase students against a backdrop of experimental produce, a cycle of videos featuring fortune tellers and gardeners, fresco panels, and an embroidered curtain that doubles as a document of process and mis-en-scène. Bozhkov’s work asks us not only to imagine multiple futures, but also to consider how our actions in the present make some versions more possible than others.
Nao Bustamante
March 8-12
Bustamante will present a series of theatrical set-pieces organized around the all-too-timely theme of the history of optics and tools used in gynecology and how these have interacted with, and informed conceptions of, femininity and womanliness. The work will feature original videos as backdrops to live performances which will feature Purchase students as actors.
Amber Hawk Swanson
with Davecat and Sidore Kuroneko
March 29 – April 2
Hawk Swanson will film episodes of The Harmony Show, a multi-faceted talk show she developed with her collaborator, Davecat, and his partner, Sidore Kuroneko, a life-size silicone doll. Created during the early days of the pandemic as a web-based mode of artistic production foregrounding intellectual inquiry and community-building, The Harmony Show explores issues of personhood, desire, race, queerness, disability, and community in two modalities. The first is a seminar in which an invited scholar presents on their work and discusses it with the show’s co-hosts. The second is a cooking show, where a less academically-geared discussion about the same types of issues can unfold as the guest and hosts prepare a meal designed by a recipe developer who specializes in food’s healing properties. As a program designed for an online environment, filming in-gallery with a live audience will present new opportunities for considering public engagement and imagining the community created by the show’s dissemination.
Emily Coates
April 5-9
Coates’ work will interweave a multi-channel video installation with a dance piece featuring original choreography and speaking-role cameos for Purchase College science faculty. The video, dance, and dialogic elements stem from Coates’ research into the long human history of cosmic dances across time and multiple geographies. Exploring attempts to reckon the cosmos in human scale and through the orchestration of human movement and collaboration, the work will feature Purchase College students. Coates will also offer movement workshops related to the themes of the piece to museum visitors.
Autumn Knight
April 12-16
Knight’s sculptural installation and dialogue-based performance work, Complain/Disappoint, will feature five performers drawn from the Purchase College community. The performers will interpret and present action scores that include interaction with sculptural objects created by Knight and the recitation of texts featuring the complaints of people who “are not usually allowed to complain or who we do not expect to hear complaining.” The piece explores affective labor, vulnerability, and the extraordinary expectations placed on certain types of workers we ask to shoulder other’s burdens while ignoring that they have their own.
Patty Chang
with Astrida Neimanis and Aleksija Neimanis
April 26-30
Chang, Neimanis and Neimanis will present a work exploring intimacy and feeling (as individual physical sensation and as the sense of belonging to a group) through a participatory, immersive environment. Still images culled from virtual reality depicting the action of touching an object will form the visual backdrop to performers and audience members playing a memory game using cards strewn across the floor. Investigating the seams between vision, touch, and sound, as well as the borders between individual and collective experience. Chang, Neimanis and Neimanis will invite museumgoers to consider the reality of feelings in multiple ways.
Jesus Benavente
May 3-7
Benavente will present a series of installations and interventions in the gallery and across the Purchase College campus on a rotating, irregular schedule. The artist will work with students to produce gatherings that have the aesthetics of protest to investigate what turns a group into a politicized bloc. Large inflatable sculptures will fill the gallery, altering one’s perception of space and transforming the solemn museum into an overstuffed funhouse. Museumgoers will be invited to a dance party with music and lights, all of which will alternate between a celebratory club atmosphere and a surveilled crime scene. Sometimes, a mariachi band will appear. The collection of spatial invitations and interventions will explore the ways our surroundings shape our sense of self and the permissible—what it is OK to do, and what it is not OK to do—and it will offer moments and glimpses of how people can push back on these limitations and expand our sense of the possible.
Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art.
Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.
A Note on Performance Art
by Professor Jonah Westerman
Co-Curator, Hard Return
“Performance” itself can be an intimidating and confusing word when it comes to describing artworks. Since the 1970s, “performance” has become a way to describe modes of artistic activity that do not fit neatly into other categories–like painting, sculpture, photography, video, dance, theater, etc.–or flout their conventions. At the same time, works described as performance often include or borrow from these traditional mediums. Performance itself, however, is not a medium—not something that a work of art can be—but is rather a set of questions about how art relates to people and the wider social world. Describing artwork as performance emphasizes the processes through which it is created and received. It destabilizes the line between two usually sequential procedures to acknowledge the many ways a work is made at the place and time where it meets its audiences.
Thank you.
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3. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Feb. 28
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
36 South Wabash Avenue
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United States
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) presents a new season of the Visiting Artists Program—a public forum that features today’s most influential practitioners and thinkers.
Formalized in 1951 with the establishment of an endowed fund by Flora Mayer Witkowsky, the Visiting Artists Program has featured more than 1,000 international artists, designers, and scholars representing more than 70 countries. All events are free and open to the public.
Brendan Fernandes
Tuesday, February 28, 6–7:30pm CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Fernandes’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Fernandes’s projects take on hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, and part political protest, they’re always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
For more than 155 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program ranked number two in the nation by US News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world, and adults, teens, and kids in our Continuing Studies classes have the opportunity to explore their creative sides, build portfolios, and advance their skills. Notable alumni and faculty include Georgia O’Keeffe, Nick Cave, David Sedaris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cynthia Rowley, Michelle Grabner, Richard Hunt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Jeff Koons.
Thank you.
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4. Tracie Morris, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan and online, March 25
Please visit this link:
https://artistsspace.org/programs/ralph-lemon-tracie-morris
Thank you.
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5. China Blue, Arlene Rush, Nina Sobell, Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumns, at Sojourner Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 9
Inaugural Juried Exhibition
Sojourner
Opening reception: February 9, 6-9pm
February 9 – March 15, 2023
Sojourner Gallery
446 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
Curated by Kyoko Sato
Artists:
Andrew Chan | Arlene Rush | Chihiro Ito | China Blue | Chinchih Yang | Ebenezer Singh | Egon Zippel | Franck Saïssi | Isolde Kille | Joseph Ayers | Joseph Fraia | Kate Fauvell | Kenji Kojima | Lilia Ziamou | Lily Kostrzwa | Loy Luo | Max Fujishima | Michele Brody | Nina Sobell | Ola Rondiak | Richard Rothenberg | Sadie Bridger | Seth Ellison | Taiyo Okamoto | Takuya Sugiyama | Tom Judd | Toshiki Hayasaka | William Evertson | Yoyo Xiao | Yuji Hamamura | Yukari Edamitsu | Zhang Zheyi
After four years of diligence, we are pleased to announce the opening of the new gallery space Sojourner, located next to Hudson Yards, at 446 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001, in addition to the one on 178 Bleecker Street, NYC.
As an opening exhibition, we are holding an open call, offering chances for world wide artists to submit their proposals. This inaugural juried exhibition titled Sojourner, curated by Kyoko Sato, juried with the team of the gallery, will be held from February 9 to March 15, 2023 with the opening reception on Thursday, February 9, 2023, 6-8pm.
Sojourner (n.) – a temporary resident; a stranger or traveler who dwells in a place for a time. —Webster’s Dictionary
Globalization allows space for belonging. According to the US census, indeed, 36% of New York City’s population is foreign-born. One can be a sojourner, and be a permanent resident in this capital of the art world. The New York art scene has been greatly influenced by such sojourners, who have significantly contributed to art history.
Sojourners may be found in every aspect of our world and beyond, leaving as quickly as they arrive. In search of something new, they might find belonging, or they might create a space in which they belong. In
In this case, we might consider ourselves sojourners: We are born on Earth, we stay for a brief time, and we return.
Thank you.
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6. Terry Dame, FF Alumn, at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, Feb. 25
Friends! I’m thrilled to announce an upcoming solo performance at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg at 2pm on Feb 25th.
I’ll be presenting a new work entitled “Improvisations with Bees and other Natural Wonders”.
It features field recorded sounds gathered from the HandyHag Homostead and surroundings starring my bees, birds, stream and performed on self-made instruments fabricated from found objects.
It is part of DVAA’s Salon Series and is in conjunction with an exhibition by local artist Robyn Almquist.
Stick around after the concert for a conversation about plastic waste with Catskill Mountainkeeper. Robyn will be talking about her work too.
Hope to see you there.
Terry Dame
Thank you.
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7. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, opening Feb. 8, and more
I’ll have a solo exhibition of video and paintings, Crystal Z Campbell: Lines of Sight, opening February 8th, 2023 at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. Here’s the link to more information: https://mag.rochester.edu/exhibitions/lines-of-sight/
And I’ll be sharing my latest short film Revolver at the Berlinale Film Forum Expanded from February 16-26th, 2023. Link is here:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/2023/programme/202302310.html
Thank you, Crystal Z Campbell
Thank you.
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8. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, FF Alumn, now online in NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Francheska Alcántara and kara lynch, FF Alumns, at 108|Contemporary, Tulsa, OK, thru March 19
108|Contemporary is excited to present Francheska Alcántara and kara lynch: Strange & Oppositional on view February 3 – March 19, 2023.
“Strange & Oppositional” is a collective meditation on Black feminist fugitive aesthetics, mourning, and liberation. This exhibition presents a critical, reflective political art practice that considers generations and histories of Indigenous, Black and Brown migrations. “Strange & Oppositional” honors where we come from, and is a deep listening to where we are. It is an offering.
This exhibition is generously sponsored by the Flint Family Foundation, Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Tulsa Community College.
More information at https://108contemporary.org/event/strange-and-oppositional/
108 E Reconciliation Way
Tulsa, OK 74103 info@108contemporary.org 918-895-6302
Thank you.
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10. Wendy Olsoff, FF Member, at New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, Feb. 8
Live Show After That: Wendy Olsoff, Brigitte Mulholland
Our artistic tastes are shaped by museums, critics, and teachers—and also by galleries. Two eloquent gallerists, the former with PPOW, the latter with Anton Kern, talk about their world. Here on Earth. Their professional world. Music: Piedmont Bluz.
Wednesday, February 8, 6:30
New York Academy of Art
111 Franklin Street
This is a free event.
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
I have written this new article for Whitehot Magazine about the South Korean artist Ran Hwang and her big show at the Baker Museum in Naples Florida, USA. Please have a look and enjoy! Her art is so unique and interesting.
“Ran Hwang’s unique cascades had been created out of painstakingly placed beads, crystals or buttons or thousands of individually placed, custom made Hangul letterforms, each on a tiny pin hammered into a surface, to set in motion larger tableaus… Like other things that cascade, the exhibition was comprised of seemingly still, inert objects joining forces to become phenomena. Tiny individual monads, arrays of atoms frozen in time, cohere into larger entities seemingly or actually in flux. Single particles join hands to meditatively create greater cascading movements or motion, waves of substance, fully present yet somehow alive, pulsating with the life force.”
Ran Hwang
Becoming Again
The Baker Museum at Artis-Naples
Naples, Florida
October 22, 2022 through January 8, 2023
Curated by Rangsook Yoon, Ph.D
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/ran-hwang-becoming-again/5660
Thank you.
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12. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Touchstones Rochdale, UK, thru May 6
Touchstones Rochdale is pleased to announce “A Tall Order! – Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s,” an exhibition that includes images of Betty Beaumont’s twenty-year survey exhibition “Changing Landscapes,” her performance work “RiverWalk,” and her monument project, “OCULUS.” The exhibition offers an invigorating look at the artwork made and exhibited at Rochdale Art Gallery, led by Exhibition Officer Jill Morgan, during the 1980s by a generation of artists, many of whom were women, young, working class and Black.
Featuring key works from this time and demonstrating how this period of political and social change influenced many artists, the show brings together works from Rochdale’s own collection, loans from public and private collections from around the UK, and three new and exciting commissions by contemporary artists.
Generously supported by a grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Arts Council England and Friends of Rochdale Art Gallery funding, A Tall Order! is curated by independent research curators Dr. Derek Horton and Dr. Alice Correia.
“A Tall Order!” will be on view at Touchstones Rochdale from February 4 – May 6, 2023.
Gallery address: Touchstones Rochdale, The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ, UK
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Wednesday 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Thank you.
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13. Beth B, FF Alumn, at Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, thru May 1
“Once upon a time — the punk-bruised late Seventies — there was a downtown No Wave indie scene, and Beth B was its eight-millimeter Frida, pioneering an anti-professional aesthetic of exuberantly bad behavior, no-rent ambiance, soundtrack dissonance, experimental longueurs, and acting that was more like posing.” –The Village Voice
Beth B
Celebrated in Paris
Le Centre Pompidou
February 8, 2023, 19:00 pm, Cinema 2
Sex, Power, and Control: The Art of Beth B
Beth B in conversation with Nicolas Ballet
and
L’Archipel Cinema
February 9, 2023, 19:30 pm, Cinema L’Archipel
Screening of the documentary Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2020)
In the presence of the director, Beth B
and
The Film Gallery
February 10-March 4, 2023, Opening Feb. 10 18:00, The Film Gallery
Belladonna, Thanatopsis, The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
In the presence of the director, Beth B
and
Who You Staring At?
Exhibition at Le Centre Pompidou
Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s
Film, Video, Sound and Digital Collections
February 1 – May 1, 2023
No Wave comes to Le Centre Pompidou in an exhibition and presentations by some of the most important artists of that time including Beth B, Barbara Ess, Vivienne Dick, Rhys Chatham, and many others. This presentation borrows its title from Who You Staring At?, an album by John Giorno and Glenn Branca. A question that transcribes no wave artists’ confrontational attitude and determination to deconstruct the conventional gaze, presented here in an ensemble of multidisciplinary practices where dance, opera, music and the visual arts intersect.
The Pioneering Work of the Legendary Artist and Filmmaker
As a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and MoMA Film Retrospective recipient, Beth B exploded onto the New York art and film scene in the late 1970s after receiving her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1977. Her prolific career is characterized by work that challenges society’s conventions, with a particular focus on social issues and human rights. Beth B has produced over 30 documentary, experimental, and narrative films throughout her 45-year career, as well as interdisciplinary work that has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world.
For more information about Beth B: www.bethbfilms.com
Beth B in Paris is organized by Nicolas Ballet, Curator, Le Centre Pompidou.
For press resources and the complete screening schedules contact: bethbprod@gmail.com
Thank you.
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14. Constance DeJong, Joseph Kosuth, Ana Mendieta, Warren Neidich, Martha Rosler, Chrysanne Stathacos, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
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15. Stanya Kahn, FF Alumn, now online at Wallpaper.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/stanya-kahn-ruinart-commission-frieze-los-angeles-2023
Thank you.
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16. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at SUNY New Paltz, Feb. 23
The Departments of Art History and Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, with generous support from Campus Auxiliary Services, are pleased to present a screening of the award-winning documentary, Following the Thread, and a presentation by filmmaker Kathy Brew. Please join us at the SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center, Room 104, on Thursday, February 23rd, at 7:00 PM. We will wrap up with a reception and light refreshments.
Following the Thread (2021) provides a critical view of the delicate balance Indigenous communities of fabric makers face as they struggle to maintain age-old artisanal practices in a globalized market economy. The film, in Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles, is based on footage filmed by Roberto Guerra in 2010 and initially edited by Kathy Brew in 2018 during a Fulbright Scholar grant.
SUNY New Paltz is located at 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561. For questions and to request accommodations, please contact Chair of Art History, Keely Heuer by email at heuerk@newpaltz.edu or call (845) 257-3829.
Thank you.
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17. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, at Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Manhattan, March 4-19
Jody Oberfelder Projects presents:
Rube G.- The Consequence of Action
March 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th: 7:30 PM
March 19th – Benefit Performance: 6:30 PM
Gibney Dance Center’s Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
White Box Studio C, 280 Broadway – Entrance on 53a Chambers St.
Rube G. – The Consequence of Action is a physically charged, immersive, and audience participatory dance. The springboard and inspiration for this piece is a Rube Goldberg Machine. We’ll be looking at all angles of how things work as a connective unit, thereby connecting all of us.
Music by Frank London
Costumes by Claire Fleury
Performed by Paulina Meneses, Ashley Merker, Jody Oberfelder and Grace Yi-Li Tong
This performance is brought to you by Gibney’s POP Performance Series. Reservations are donation based; limited seating available.
Tickets can be found at: https://jodyoberfelderprojects.ticketbud.com
Press RSVP: kimberly@theprsocial.com
Thank you.
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18. Gia Forakis, FF Member, Creative Life Practice sessions
Creative Life Practice (CLP)™ private coaching
Sliding scale available.
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OTOA CLP is the practice of creating our lives using the creative process.
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OTOA CLP PC is useful for making changes, supporting transitions, reinforcing projects, and/or seeking new horizons in our personal, professional or creative lives.
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19. Lynn Book, FF Alumn, at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Feb. 8
Excited to be improvising with stellar saxophonist, composer, sound artist, Laurent Estoppey: http://laurentestoppey.com/
Join us for some ear bending and body rendering next Wednesday, February 8th at 6 pm in Hanes Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem. It’s part of the Sound Phase series, curated by gallery director Paul Bright.
Lynn Book
Thank you.
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20. Galinsky, FF Alumn, now online at BroadwayWorld.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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21. Yvonne Rainer, FF Alumn, online at performa-arts.org, thru May 31
Radical Broadcast
Performa’s on-line arts program
On view February 2 – May 31, 2023
24/7
Performa is proud to present Yvonne Rainer: Work 1999-2022, a chronicle of America’s leading figure in experimental dance.
Yvonne Rainer: Work, 1999-2022 surveys the last twenty years of work from Yvonne Rainer, one of the most important figures in experimental dance of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Rainer, known for revolutionizing dance through her work with the Judson Dance Theater, left dance for filmmaking in the 1980s. After a long absence, the legendary choreographer returned to the stage in 1999, beginning a streak of artistic production that rivaled the artistic peaks of her days at Judson.
This documentary tracks Rainer and her company through two decades of dance, including the Performa Biennial Commissions RoS Indexical (2007) and Parts of Some Sextets (1965/2019). Narrated by Performa Founding Director RoseLee Goldberg with commentary from Rainer, Yvonne Rainer: Work, 1999-2022 includes never-before-seen footage and archival photographs to discuss the themes and influences in Rainer’s recent work, from her triumphant return to dance to her latest piece, the meditative Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees? (2022).
Produced by Performa for Radical Broadcast
On view www.performa-arts.org at any time day or night
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22. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, thru June 5
Cindy Sherman
Tapestries
February 4–June 5, 2023
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Aros Allé 2
8000 Aarhus
Denmark
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10am–9pm,
Saturday–Sunday 10am–5pm
T +45 87 30 66 00
Cindy Sherman is renowned for her photographic series, produced over many years, in which she transforms herself as characters. In 2017 a new series emerged online. Sherman started posting “selfies.” These startling images, commenting on the phenomenon of face altering apps/applications, have been given a new grandeur and permanent status using the fine and revered craft of tapestry. In Tapestries Sherman brings 21st century “face” technology together with the traditional craft of tapestry making to create new pictures, rich in texture and dense with detail.
Sherman’s “selfies” were originally produced as a series that she shared on her social media site. Created using face altering platforms available for smartphones, she amassed a series of grotesques and imaginary personae.
Too small in format to be reproduced in photography at epic scale, Sherman uses tapestry to elevate these humble, shape shifted selves to the importance and permanence of the official portraits made for nobility and the wealthy. These works are Cindy Sherman’s first major exploration of a medium beyond photography.
The exhibition has been made possible thanks to generous financial support from CAC Fonden, Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond and Stibo Fonden.
For further information, please contact press at: presse@aros.dk
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23. Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in NYTimes.com
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24. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manhattan, thru Feb. 25
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25. Stefanie Trojan, FF Alumn, at Kunstraum hase 29, Osnabrück, Germany, thru April 8
Niemand ist niemand – Stefanie Trojan und Markus Vater
Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst Osnabrück e.V.
Kunstraum hase29
Eröffnung 12.02.2023, 11 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 13.02. – 08.04.2023,
kuratiert von Friederike Fast und Jasmina Janoschka
Die Doppelausstellung „Niemand ist niemand“ mit Werken der Künstler:innen Stefanie Trojan und Markus Vater hebt die Bedeutung des zwischenmenschlichen Miteinanders hervor und widmet sich den Themen „Begegnung“, „Empathie“ und „Fürsorge“. Vor dem Hintergrund der Corona-Pandemie, den anhaltenden Kriegshandlungen in der Ukraine sowie der Bedrohung durch die Klimakrise wird die Frage danach, was die Gesellschaft im Inneren zusammenhält, immer dringender.
No one is no one – Stefanie Trojan and Markus Vater
Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst Osnabrück e. V.
Kunstraum hase29
opening 12.02.2023, 11 a.m
Duration of the exhibition: 13.02. – 08.04.2023,
curated by Friederike Fast and Jasmina Janoschka
The double exhibition “No one is no one” with works by the artists Stefanie Trojan and Markus Vater emphasizes the importance of interpersonal interaction and is dedicated to the topics of “encounter”, “empathy” and “care”. Against the background of the corona pandemic, the ongoing acts of war in Ukraine and the threat of the climate crisis, the question of what holds society together internally is becoming increasingly urgent.
Kunstraum hase29
Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische
Kunst Osnabrück e.V.
Hasestraße 29/30
49074 Osnabrück
0176 99607937
Niemand ist niemand –
Stefanie Trojan und Markus Vater
13.02. – 08.04.2023
Eröffnung am 12.02.2023 um 11 Uhr
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