Contents for May 30, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. receives National Endowment for the Arts grant
2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at FRACsud, Marseille, France, July 1 2023-Feb. 4, 2024
3. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at the cell, Manhattan, June 8
4. Carla Stellweg, FF Alumn, at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, thru August 6
5. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, now online at CBSNews.com
6. Gabriel Martinez, Jody Pinto, FF Alumns, at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, thru Sept. 10
7. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, receives 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award
8. Shirin Neshat, Yvonne Rainer, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
9. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, at Nuit Blanche aux Amarres, Paris, France, June 3
10. Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas, Cassils, Judy Dunaway, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Veronica Hart, Xandra Ibarra, Eileen Miles, Linda M. Montano, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Sur Rodney (Sur), Veronica Vera, Maria Yoon, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, June 14-18
11. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, June 6
12. Dakota Gearhart, FF Alumn, at the New Museum, Manhattan, June 22, and more
13. Ken Friedman, FF Alumn, now online at KalmarKonstMuseum.se
14. Ilona Granet, Norm Magnusson, Lady Pink, Micki & Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, now online at epicenter-nyc.com
15. Paula Barr, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, June 7-30
16. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at NewArtExaminer.net
17. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, now online at EvergreenReview.com
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1. Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. receives National Endowment for the Arts grant
Franklin Furnace’s SEQ ART KIDS program is delighted to report renewed support in the amount of $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works program for its 2023-24 “Transcending Tradition” workshops for children at PS889, Brooklyn.
Thank you.
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2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at FRACsud, Marseille, France, July 1 2023-Feb. 4, 2024
Martha Wilson, “Invisible: Works on Aging, 1972-2022,” at FRACsud, 20 boulevard de Dunkerque, 13002 Marseille, France, July 1, 2023 through February 4, 2024.
FracSud
Cité de l’art contemporain
20, bd de Dunkerque, 13002 Marseille
accueil@fracsud.org / www.fracsud.org
+330491912755
Thank you.
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3. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at the cell, Manhattan, June 8
CADAF is excited to announce “Pride as Performance: Preserving the Ephemeral”, its third
Web3 Collectors Salon event exploring the possibilities of performance art in Web3. This event
is hosted in collaboration with Franklin Furnace and the cell, taking place in New York on June
8, 6-9pm.
The event will feature a panel discussion followed by live performances by Carrie Able, Mimi
Silk, Jay Kay, Sir Cum Sized, Show Ponii, X-Emma, Charlie Wo, Vic Sin & bonus surprise drag
artists! The audience will be some of the first to experience Carrie Able performing her first
record label release “Deep Joy”.
Pride as Performance features distinguished industry leaders, artists, and performers:
● Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace founder & performance artist)
● Rachel Rampleman (Life is Drag archive creator & multimedia artist)
● Carrie Able (internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist & metaverse pioneer)
● Joe Jeffreys (drag historian, documentarian, educator and pundit)
● Sebastian Sanchez (digital art at Christie’s Auction House)
● Esther, The Bipedal Entity! (drag/multimedia artist)
● Fem Appeal (18 veteran of NYC’s drag & burlesque scenes)
● Stephanie McGovern (visual artist/performer/video artist)
Topics to be covered:
● The vital role of documenting and archiving performance art
● Web3 / NFT opportunities for performance artists
● The transformation of performance art and drag in the digital era
● Making performance art accessible in the digital space
In partnership with Franklin Furnace and the cell.
About CADAF:
CADAF is an ecosystem for artists, curators and collectors to discover, buy and learn about digital art and NFTs. CADAF supports the expansion of digital and new media art through a
dedicated program of art fairs, festivals and educational programming around the world.
About Franklin Furnace:
Franklin Furnace’s mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural
bias, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. The organization is dedicated to
serving artists by providing both physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based
art, including but not limited to artists’ books and periodicals, installation art, performance art,
and unforeseen contemporary avant-garde artforms; and to undertaking other activities related
to these purposes. Franklin Furnace is committed to serving emerging artists; to assuming an
aggressive pedagogical stance with regard to the value of avant-garde art to life; and to
fostering artists’ zeal to broadcast ideas.
About the cell:
Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre (Artistic Director Kira Simring) is a not-for-profit dedicated to the incubation and presentation of new work across all artistic disciplines that mine the mind, pierce and awaken the soul. Founded in 2006, the cell has provided a developmental home in the heart of Chelsea for works in progress by artists ranging from early career to established staples of the New York community. Originally established as a 21st century salon, the cell has evolved into a cultural hub for the performing arts, food artists, cyborg theatre artists, musicians, installation artists, choreographers and more. Past installations include Dark Matter Immersive Garden of Eden, Rachel Rampleman’s Life is Drag, Chauhaus and Steve Pavlovsky’s
Tranquility Base.
the cell 338 w. 23rd street manhattan
Thank you.
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4. Carla Stellweg, FF Alumn, at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, thru August 6
Cultivar. Homenaje a Carla Stellweg, thru August 6, 2023 Museo Tamayo Paseo de la Reforma 51, Bosque de Chapultepec, Alcaldia Miguel Hidalgo, 10 am-6 pm
Thank you.
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5. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, now online at CBSNews.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Gabriel Martinez, Jody Pinto, FF Alumns, at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, thru Sept. 10
“Museum As…”
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
May 5, 2023–September 10, 2023
This exhibition features work by six of over 125 Artists-in-Residence with whom FWM have collaborated since its founding: Tommy Joseph, Carrie Mae Weems, Sam Gilliam, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Gabriel Martinez and Jody Pinto. “These collaborations typify and manifest FWM’s deep and experimental relationships with artists.” Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño
https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/exhibition/museum-as/
“Museum As… is the third and final presentation in a trilogy of exhibitions designed to illuminate The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s (FWM) origins and name, which can be misleading or confusing. Each exhibition, organized around a singular element in our name and drawing from FWM’s extensive collection, welcomes visitors to discover the many facets of fabric, workshop, or museum.
FWM has been dedicated to making, presenting, and collecting since its inception in 1977. Interestingly, the word “museum” was not officially added to our name until 1996, nearly twenty years later.
With over 4,000 objects in our collection (including finished objects and process material), our collection has a unique energy, history, and purpose. Our institutional values are represented in the artists we work with, the projects we create, and the objects we dedicate the time and resources necessary to preserving, contextualizing, and sharing with future generations.”
Thank you.
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7. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, receives 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award
Please visit this link:
https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2023-art-award-winners/
Thank you.
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8. Shirin Neshat, Yvonne Rainer, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
Please visit this link:
https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2023-newly-elected-members/
Thank you.
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9. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, at Nuit Blanche aux Amarres, Paris, France, June 3
If you are in Paris, please join us in the Nuit Blanche party. The city is presenting 100 artists. I am honored to have my video WhiteNight be selected and to be presented at Les Amarres
24 quai d’Austerlitz, Paris 13e.
It will be a fun night! From 9 a.m. to midnight, screening of Julie Coulon, Kissing in a Cabriolet, upstairs.
– at 8:30 p.m., the performance of Julie Coulon and Zakary Bairi, Goodbye to All, in the lobby.
– from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., a moment dancing to cinema tunes, in the hall.
– at 10 p.m., a surprise concert in the hall.
Graciela Cassel
Thank you.
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10. Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas, Cassils, Judy Dunaway, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Veronica Hart, Xandra Ibarra, Eileen Miles, Linda M. Montano, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Sur Rodney (Sur), Veronica Vera, Maria Yoon, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, June 14-18
Franklin Furnace alumns Annie Sprinkle and her collaborator Beth Stephens are thrilled to announce “Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City” in collaboration with 100 of their friends. This is the first-ever East Coast Presentation of their pleasure-forward (anti) symposium and performance art happening taking place June 14, 16, 17, and 18 at Performance Space New York. The gathering will feature an abundant offering of rituals, paradigm-shifting panels, performances, ecosexual films, music, environmental activism, a Free Sidewalk Ecosex Clinic, and more! A few of the collaborating artists are Linda M. Montano, Kim Tallbear, Sur Rodney (Sur), Eileen Miles, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas, Veronica Vera, Dragonfly Diva, Courtney Desiree Morris, Lady Monster, Judy Dunaway, Larry Bogad, Sweet Labor Collective, Xandra Ibarra, Bo Zheng, Veronica Hart and more!
Some topics to be explored are Spirit Marriage, Elders and Ancestors, Celestial Kinship, Equine Tantra, Eco-Burlesque, Hydrofeminism, Orisha Wedding, Bee Intervention, Exploring Gender in Four Directions, Dendraphilia, Hot Compost, Entanglements and Ecosex 101.
Bring your animals, costumes, plants, your microbial/biome cloud and mingle with various communities of artists, scholars, sex workers, queers, fashionistas, animals, spores, water drops, clouds… Get your symposium pass here, just $25 to $100 sliding scale, with some scholarships available:
https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/exploring-the-earth-as-lover/
Thank you.
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11. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, June 6
NYC premiere: Tuesday, June 6 · 7pm EDT
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY 10003
The secret for one of the first magic effects in written history was translated into a Morse-code-based musical notation system to create this score for solo cello. It is performed in tandem with the original magic effect. This work explores secrets that are hidden in plain sight, or in this case, in plain listen.
RSVP:
https://www.nationalartsclub.org/default.aspx?p=ViewEventFlyer&ssid=323204&eventid=3865569
All programs are open to the public and free with registration.
Join us for this two-part evening event guided by artist, magician, and researcher Jeanette Andrews, featuring the NYC premiere of Andrews’s “In Plain Listen,” which uses a Morse-code-based musical notation system to create a musical score that depicts the secret of one of the oldest pieces of magic in history purely in music form, and performed in tandem with the original magic effect. The cellist who will be playing the work is Iva Casian Lakos. And “In Plain Listen” was originally commissioned by and funded by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston.
This is followed by a performed dialogue on the cultural evolution of magic with Charlotte Kent, PhD (professor of visual culture at Montclair State University). Jeanette Andrews has had work commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Quebec City Biennial. She is a prior Affiliate of Harvard’s metaLAB and had work profiled by PBS and The New York Times.
Thank you.
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12. Dakota Gearhart, FF Alumn, at the New Museum, Manhattan, June 22, and more
Demo 2023, New Museum, June 22
and
Creative Science Public Art Showcase, June 16—July 2, Pier 17, the Seaport, Manhattan
Public opening on Friday, June 16, 6pm-8pm
Thank you.
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13. Ken Friedman, FF Alumn, now online at KalmarKonstMuseum.se
Kalmar Art Museum releases the book 92 Events, a playful documentation of the thought processes behind Ken Friedman’s conceptual works.
92 Events
Ken Friedman
“Good art often makes us understand the world and the people in it in a new and sometimes unexpected way. (…) Ken Friedman’s 92 Events show that the things around us and our everyday actions can be something other than they seem. An event can appear exceedingly simple through its visual form and ephemeral content, but upon closer reflection, simplicity hides radical possibilities. It can challenge the way we see the world, the things around us and our actions, thereby shifting our perspective and calibrating our gaze based on these new insights. As Friedman urges us in Centre Piece (2003):
Imagine a life.
Live it.”
So writes art historian Magdalena Holdar of Stockholm University in her text about Fluxus artist Ken Friedman, “The Sound of 92 Events” in the recently published book 92 Events.
Ken Friedman’s events are instructional texts that navigate a fine line between sculptural proposition, absurd action, and concrete poetry. The works are deliberately playful and sometimes absurd. They describe actions that break with traditional notions of art, leaving the realization of the works in the hands or minds of the viewer. The book 92 Events publishes 92 conceptual, language-based works spanning over six decades of Friedman’s practice. The book also includes Friedman’s essays on several of the works as well as a biography of the artist by Ditte Mauritzon. 92 Events is designed by Oskar Laurin and William Jokijärvi Andersson.
Kalmar Art Museum has published a free open-access edition of the book in .pdf format. You will find a copy attached to this email. You can also download the pdf from the museum:
It is hosted on the museum web site at the 92 Events exhibition page:
https://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/en/exhibition/92-events/
Those who wish to purchase the hardback book edition can order it at Konst/ig Books in Stockholm:
https://konstigbooks.com/art/ken-friedman-92-events.html
The book is accompanied by a separate box with all 92 of Friedman’s event scores as postcards, also designed by Oskar Laurin and William Jokijärvi Andersson. The postcard box is sold separately and will soon be available for purchase.
Ken Friedman was born in 1949 in New London, Connecticut. He joined Fluxus in 1966 as the youngest member of the original group. Friedman collaborated closely with other artists and composers in Fluxus, among them Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Bengt af Klintberg, and John Cage. Friedman was key in establishing Fluxus West, a node for Fluxus related activities in the western states of the USA. During the 1960s and 1970s Fluxus West expanded to Great Britain.
In 1976 Friedman completed a PhD in behavioural science while working as an artist. In the 1990s Friedman worked as a management consultant and designer. He later shifted to a career in academia: first as Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design at Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, later as Dean of the Design Faculty at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Friedman is now Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai.
For press photos and review copies, please contact:
Madeleine Petersson
Communications Manager
+46-709-593-242
madeleine.petersson@kalmarkonstmuseum.se
Thank you.
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14. Ilona Granet, Norm Magnusson, Lady Pink, Micki & Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, now online at epicenter-nyc.com
Please visit this link:
https://epicenter-nyc.com/meet-wham-nycs-newest-art-museum/
Thank you.
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15. Paula Barr, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, June 7-30
Just picked up the framed piece for:
The 31st Annual National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition
June 7-30, Trask Gallery
The reception is June 9 at 6:30.
15 Gramercy Park South
The Roundtable Exhibit features work by Roundtable Committee members and their guests. This exhibit brings together established and emerging artists, offering them an opportunity to share their aesthetic explorations and latest accomplishments. The works encompass a variety of genres and materials.
All the best,
Paula
Thank you.
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16. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at NewArtExaminer.net
Hi I wrote this review of the Alex Katz show at the Guggenheim a while back. It has been published in the New Art Examiner. It is called, “Alex Katz, ‘Gathering’ at the Guggenheim.” The New Art Examiner is an international magazine of critical art thinking founded in Chicago, Illinois, in October 1973 by Derek Guthrie and Jane Addams Allen (1935-2004). The United Kingdom and international publication currently is based in Cornwall, UK and Washington D.C.
The link is here:
https://newartexaminer.net/alex-katz-gathering-at-the-guggenheim/
Thank you.
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17. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, now online at EvergreenReview.com
I’m delighted to have Three Amulet Stories in the historic Evergreen Review which in its early days published Beckett, Sartre, Duras, Genet, and more!
Thank you.
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