Contents for October 23, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Weekly Spotlight: Becca Blackwell, FF FUND recipient 2019-20, at Soho Rep, Manhattan, Oct. 25-Dec. 3
1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, now online at direct.mit.edu
2. Arantxa Araujo, Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, Amapola Prada, FF Alumns, at Teatro Latea and Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, Nov. 2, 10, 17
3. Juana Valdés, FF Alumn, at Sarasota Art Museum, FL, thru Feb. 11, 2024
4. Lapd, FF Alumns, at General Jeff/Gladys Park, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 28-29
5. Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Nancy Holt, Ana Mendieta, Jody Pinto, Michelle Stuart, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
7. Karen Finley, Jeff McMahon, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Nov. 6
8. Arleen Schloss, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, Oct. 27
9. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
10. Maya Ciarrocchi, FF Alumn, at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, thru Nov. 22
11. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, Autumn news
12. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, live online with AC Books, Nov. 5
13. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Nov. 3-4
14. Nancy Burson, FF Member, at Boston Globe Globedocs Film festival, Cambridge, MA, October 29
15. Laurie Anderson, Richard Foreman, Joan Jonas, Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Rachel Rosenthal, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Wilson, FF Alumns, in PAJ Archive, Yale Beinecke Library, New Haven, CT
16. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, thru Dec. 30
17. Helen Lessick, FF Alumn, at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Inglewood, CA, Nov. 11-Dec. 22, and more
18. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Miami Main Library, FL, Nov. 7, 2023-April 2024
19. Anne Bean, Susan Hiller, Nina Sobell, Silvia Ziranek, FF Alumns, at England & Co., London, UK, thru Nov. 24
20. Brad Buckley, FF Alumn, at Kandos Projects, Australia, thru Nov. 10
21. Charlemagne Palestine, FF Alumn, at Meredith Rosen Gallery, Manhattan, opening Nov. 4
22. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, now online at NyTimes.com
23. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, at Furnace Vault, Falls Village, CT, opening Oct. 28
24. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 30, and more
25. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Oct. 26
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Weekly Spotlight: Becca Blackwell, FF FUND recipient 2019-20, at Soho Rep, Manhattan, Oct. 25-Dec. 3
Becca Blackwell, FF FUND 2019-20
Snatch Adams, October 25 – December 3, 2023 at SohoRep.
https://sohorep.org/shows/snatch-adams/
Trigger Warning: There will be fluids!
Snatch Adams is a 6-foot tall vagina who lost her job as a clown at Planned Parenthood in 2016. After knocking on clinic doors across America, only to find them shuttered, she is finally hired to host a talk show with recently Me-Too’ed comic Tainty McCracken! Along with a rotating roster of celebrity guests, Snatch and Tainty fart, flirt, and squirt in order to bring awareness and love to genitals and their human companions everywhere.
Becca Blackwell is an NYC-based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: ”Survival of the Thickest,” “Bros,” “Sort Of,” “High Maintenance,” “Ramy,” “Marriage Story,” “Shameless,” “Deadman’s Barstool,” and “Jack in the Box.” They have toured their solo shows They, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie’s Choice across the US. And currently creating a new show Back To She that will premiere in 2024. Blackwell was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award, the Franklin Furnace award and the Creative Capital Award.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Production fees for playwrights at Soho Rep are generously sponsored by The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation.
Thank you.
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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, now online at direct.mit.edu
Indecencia / Recent Review / MIT’s PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
A Sanctuary for Indecency, Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini
Indecencia, exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, September 16, 2022–January 8, 2023.
Indecencia is a provocative exhibition that embraces secular rituals, improper prayers, and indecorous redemptions. Through an heterogenous corpus of works, including videos, scripts, photographs, costumes, textile interventions, and installations, Indecencia builds an idiosyncratic sanctuary for the excesses that disruptively overflow the parameters of the heteronormative and colonial orders.
Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez, the exhibition brings together twenty-five Latin and Latinx artists from different generations to share their past and present work as a response to Marcella Althaus-Reid’s “indecent theology” that, departing from an improbable marriage between liberation theology and queer theory, problematizes the mythical multiple layers of oppressions in Latin America. Althaus-Reid explains: “Indecent Theology is the opposite to a sexual canonical theology, concerned with the regulation of amatory practices justified as normative by economic infrastructural models where anything outside hegemonic patriarchal heterosexuality is devalued…
To read the full piece, please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. Arantxa Araujo, Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, Amapola Prada, FF Alumns, at Teatro Latea and Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, Nov. 2, 10, 17
Argentina Performance Art, with the support of Teatro LATEA and Grace Exhibition Space, is curating a three-night program that aims to bring to life critical and essential South American issues through the power of performance art.
The cycle will emphasize the interrelated nature of Latin America and its diaspora, building a connection of narratives braided with strands of memory. The selected artists employ their bodies as vehicles of expression, addressing pivotal Pan-American concerns such as social inequality, gender, political turmoil, trauma, and more. The purpose is to emphasize the profound impact of performance art in preserving culture, resistance, and transformation.
South-American Performance Art will feature live performances by Arantxa Araujo (Mexico/NYC), Pancho Lopez (Mexico/NYC), Natacha Voliakovsky (Argentina/NYC), Salomé Egas (Ecuador/NYC), Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra (Brazil), Mana Bugallo (Argentina/NYC), Carolina Muñoz Awad (Chile), Domenica García (Ecuador/NYC) and Siri Gurudev (Colombia/Texas) and videos by Amapola Prada (Peru), Marta Minujín (Argentina) and Alfombra Roja (Peru).
Schedule
The South-American Performance Art cycle will take place at two organizations in New York City: Teatro LATEA on November 2nd and Grace Exhibition Space on November 10th and November 17th.
This three-night program will unite artists from various regions of Latin America, featuring a total of 9 live performances and 3 video presentations. The cycle extends an invitation to anyone interested in performance and contemporary art.
Please visit this link:
https://www.argentinaperformanceart.com/ciclonyc
Thank you.
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3. Juana Valdés , FF Alumn, at Sarasota Art Museum, FL, thru Feb. 11, 2024
Countdown to the opening of Juana Valdés: Embodied Memories, Ancestral Histories!
We are one week away from the opening day talk with curator Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig next Saturday, October 21 at 1pm and official exhibition opening.
After a lot of hard work, it’s amazing to see the transformation as we install a survey selection of 30 years of artwork. Thank you to everyone who has been with me along this journey and has helped me make it possible.
The show will be on view @sarasotaartmuseum through February 11 and you can read more about the exhibition through the link in bio.
#TerrestrialBodies (2019)
Originally conceived @moadmdc, Terrestrial Bodies addresses the history of trade and the displacement cultures and people.
The gallery is painted white and gray to mark the separation between land, sea, and sky. Shelves around the gallery display hundreds of objects the artist collected over the years. These pieces, which include porcelain pieces and African effigies among others, address the history of colonization and its relation to trade and labor.
Some of these objects are represented in cyanotype prints which depict the bottom of the porcelain pieces, as if seen from the deepness of the sea floor. The angle suggests looking at the world from a different perspective, particularly one rooted in the artist’s own experience and genetic research into her mother’s sub-Saharan and East Asian ancestry. As Valdés explains, the work charts the complex terrain of multiple cultures and nations comprising her own identity, which has been shaped and reshaped by experiences of displacement and transculturation.
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4. Lapd, FF Alumns, at General Jeff/Gladys Park, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 28-29
Festival For All Skid Row Artists
Saturday and Sunday, October 28 & 29, 2023, Each day from 12 Noon to 4 PM
In General Jeff /Gladys Park, At the corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue In Skid Row, Los Angeles, CA 90021
A project of The Los Angeles Poverty Department
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For further Information about the festival Please call Tel. 310-227.6071 Or email info@lapovertydept.org
The 14th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists (FASRA) is gonna’ rock, on Saturday and Sunday, October 28 and 29, from 12–4pm each day. Presented by the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) the festival is two days of live non-stop music and performance, visual art, and participatory art workshops, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row residents.
Taking place in General Jeff Memorial Park / Gladys Park (corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue), the festival is a grassroots cultural event where over 150 Skid Row Artists perform or display their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many artists are preparing their acts and works of art, and thanks to extensive street outreach, many people will get on-stage for the very first time and get in the mix of Skid Row artistic culture.
Festival attendees are invited to participate in a range of artist facilitated workshops. Visual arts workshops will be offered by Studio 526, Creative I, Piece by Piece, Doodles Without Borders, Coach Ron, and Michele Lorusso. Jen Hofer will write poetry on demand and there will be a woodworking workshop by Would Works.
Automata, a collective of Los Angeles puppeteers, will lead a workshop to build a house for Little Amal –the 12-foot pupped of a Syrian refugee child. Little Amal, (a project of Handspring theater, Capetown, South Africa) is traveling the world looking for a home. LAPD is working with Automata and the Institute of Contemporary Art and on Nov. 2 LAPD performers will parade with Little Amal, ending in General Jeff/ Gladys park -and offer her a home in the affordable housing only zone proposed in the City’s new Downtown Community Plan.
Community groups will be there to encourage engagement and advance the quality of life in the Skid Row community. Skid Row Now & 2040, a coalition of community members and groups, will be there to share their vision for a Skid Row future without displacement. LA County Department of Mental Health staff will be there to get input in their emerging Skid Row Action Plan.
Los Angeles Poverty Department celebrates and preserves the rich artistic heritage of Skid Row and beginning with the first Festival in 2009 has generated a registry of Skid Row artists, which now numbers more than 900. LAPD is a theater company comprised primarily of low income and homeless people living in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Founded in 1985, LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row. LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive (250 S. Broadway), creates exhibitions and events and collects, preserves, and disseminates the history of the Skid Row neighborhood.
The 14th Festival for All Skid Row Artists is produced by Los Angeles Poverty Department and is made possible with the support of The Kindle Project of the Common Counsel Foundation; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council; Kevin DeLeon, CD 14; the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and United Coalition East Prevention Project, (UCEPP).
Thank you.
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5. Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Nancy Holt, Ana Mendieta, Jody Pinto, Michelle Stuart, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
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Thank you.
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7. Karen Finley, Jeff McMahon, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Nov. 6
Jeff McMahon will be sharing an evening with Karen Finley and Laurie Stone as part of the series First Mondays curated by Sarah Schulman.
Performance Space New York (former P.S. 122), 150 First Ave. Monday November 6 at 7pm
Free but reserve!
Please visit this link:
https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/firstmondays-nov6/
Thank you.
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8. Arleen Schloss, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, Oct. 27
WORS:Women Of Rivington School
Friday Oct 27th at Grace Exhibition Space 182 Ave C
$10
Doors open-7pm Show- 8pm
Curated by Angel Eyedealism
Performance Artists:
Rachelle Garniez
Theresa Rodrigues
Angel Eyedealism with Nick Demopoulos
Presenters:
Jim C-Tribute to Fallen Wors: Arleen Schloss, Christa Gamper, Little Alexis, etc.
Anne D’Agnillo~ Tribute to Apocalynn
Please visit this link:
www.womenofrivingtonschool.com
@womenofrivingtonschool
Thank you.
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9. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Maya Ciarrocchi, FF Alumn, at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, thru Nov. 22
Where the Water Goes
Oct 14 – Nov 22
Maya Ciarrocchi, Tarryl Gabel, Pat Hickman, Mara G. Hasseltine, Basia Irland, sTo Len, Mary Mattingly
Rockland Center for the Arts @roca_arts @marymattingly @basiairland @mayaciarrocchi
This water themed group exhibition examines how different artists create work with & about their local watersheds in NY and link it to the global water issues that increasingly affect us all. If you are in the Rockland County NY zone, do yourself a favor and stop by for some intriguing hydro investigations.
Thank you.
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11. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, Autumn news
Barbara Rosenthal
(seven items: Three current exhibitions, three upcoming readings, and open-studio with video nights)
a. Denise Bibro Gallery, Art from the Boros.
Please visit this link:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbara-rosenthal
b. Personaland, Personal Archeology.
Please visit this link:
https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/personal-archeology
c. Personaland, Image-Text.
Please visit this link:
https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/text-image
d. Lichtundfire, Reading and Book Signing with Live Mag! 175 Rivington St., Sunday, Oct 29, 2-4PM.
Please visit this link:
https://livemag.org/issue_17/barbara-rosenthal/
e. Jefferson Market Library, Reading and Magazine Compilation with White Rabbit, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2-4pm.
Please visit this link:
f. Tompkins Square Library, Reading and Book Signing, Arcade of the Scribes, Rogue Scholars Press Anthology, Saturday, Nov. 18, 1-5pm.
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g. West Chelsea Festival of Art, Westbeth Arts Complex, 55 Bethune St / SW corner Washington St, Nov. 9-Dec 8. (Call 646-368-5623 for appointment and video dates).
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Thank you.
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12. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, live online with AC Books, Nov. 5
Please join us—
‘ar’
zoom event
Sunday, Nov 5, 12 pm EST
Please visit this link to register:
https://une.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcO6rpjMsE9b3NttP4p79fih1rLLavWSA#/registration
Thank you.
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13. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Nov. 3-4
Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming and Concurrent In the Flow Exhibit
Symposium, November 3-4, 2023
University of Puget Sound
Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming is a two day symposium at the University of Puget Sound on November 3-4, 2023. The symposium includes an affiliated Kittredge Gallery exhibition, In the Flow: Art, Ecology, and Pedagogy.
The exhibit features the work of nine artists and collaborative teams working in the Salish Sea Watershed and Columbia River Basin. The artworks explore how land and place can help us connect and build new kinds of relationships in the face of accelerated climate change.
The symposium includes workshops, and facilitated conversations and presentations that engage with place/land based ways of knowing around the Columbia River basin and Salish Sea while contending with climate change. Nine individuals, listed below, co-organized this two day gathering, integrating reflection, discussion, and hands on interactive programming.
Flow explores ways to integrate, embody, and enact intersections between art and ecology through direct engagement with matter and materials such as dyes, pigments, and mycelium, multi-sensory guided walks, reflection on positionality and place, and critical examination of language and classification’s role in creating a sense of place and displacement. Guiding themes and questions include:
What is the role of the artist as healer and maker in navigating this current moment?
How can approaches to reparative work and re-imagining be taught through creative practices?
How can place/land based knowledge teach us how to connect and build relationships?
How do we practice remediation and utilize loss?
Further information and context can be found here.
Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming co-organizers:
Melonie Ancheta, Director Pigments Revealed International, researcher, artist, educator
Natalie Baloy, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Western Washington University
Cynthia Camlin, Professor, Art and Art History, Western Washington, University
Heidi Gustafson, artist and ochre specialist
Beverly Naidus, Emerita Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma
Daniela Naomi Molnar, independent artist and poet
Matt Reynolds, Associate Professor of Art History, Whitman College
Elise Richman, Professor Art and Art History, University of Puget Sound
Cara Tomlinson, Professor Art, Lewis and Clark College
Additional Participants:
Rachel DeMotts, Professor, Environmental Policy and Decision Making, University of Puget Sound
Dann Disciglio, Visiting Professor of Digital Media, Lewis and Clark College
Amanda Leigh Evans, Visiting Assistant Professor, Art, Whitman College
Cleo Wölfle Hazard, Assistant Professor School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington
Yixuan Pan, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma
Sasha Petrenko, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media, Western Washington University
Renee Simms, Associate Professor & Leadership Team Member, African American Studies, and the Race and Pedagogy Institute, University of Puget Sound
Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Assistant Professor in Socially Engaged Art, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University + Visiting Professor, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin (2023-24)
Banu Subramanium, Professor & Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Arianne True, Washington State Poet Laureate (Choctaw, Chickasaw)
Lewis and Clark Art and Ecology course students: Sophie Abbassian, Miriam Baena, Summer Dae Binder, Owen Clark, Allison Clarke, Mallory Dubois, Margo Gaillard, Liv Ladaire, Gillian Largay, Paloma Richeson, Gabriel Rosenfield, Stella Scheffer, Anthi Sklavenitis, Ezequiel Walker, Lila Ward, and Aiden Wilkson
Western Washington Art and Ecology Students
Thank you.
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14. Nancy Burson, FF Member, at Boston Globe Globedocs Film festival, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 29
The short doc film about my life and art called It’s Not Up To Us will have its World Premiere in Boston as part of the Boston Globe’s Globedocs Film Festival at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, October 29th at 11am.
For more information, please visit this link:
https://globedocsfilmfestival2023.splashthat.com/
Thank you.
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15. Laurie Anderson, Richard Foreman, Joan Jonas, Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Rachel Rosenthal, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Wilson, FF Alumns, in PAJ Archive, Yale Beinecke Library, New Haven, CT
PAJ Archive Acquired by Yale Beinecke Library
Beinecke Library at Yale University Acquires PAJ Publications Archive and Bonnie Marranca Papers
PAJ Publications is proud to announce that the PAJ Archive and Bonnie Marranca Papers have been acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. The Beinecke Library plans to have the Archive open for research by the spring of 2025. The collection will be closed until it is processed. Inquiries can be directed to Melissa Barton, curator of drama and prose for the Yale Collection of American Literature.
PAJ Publications was founded in 1976 by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta to publish important, original works in the arts and the critical commentary about them in an ongoing dialogue between art, artists, and the public. The Obie-Award-winning press is internationally recognized as a pioneering force in arts publishing, influencing the university curriculum, performance scholarship and documentation, and the theatrical repertoire. The journal is published by MIT Press; Theatre Communications Group is distributor of the books.
PAJ’s archives encompasses correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, and editorial process materials relating to works published in more than 130 issues of PAJ as well as files on 160 titles issued by PAJ Publications. The independent press has published more than 1,100 plays and performance texts, translated from over twenty languages. The lists features works by experimental writers and world playwrights in translation: Maria Irene Fornes, Richard Maxwell, Lee Breuer, Walter Benjamin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Daniil Kharms, Marguerite Duras, Darryl Pinckney, Mario Vargas Llosa, Elfriede Jelinek, Rabindranath Tagore, The Wooster Group, Mac Wellman, Adrienne Kennedy, Jawad Al Assawi, Etel Adnan, Kathy Acker, Lee Breuer, Aristede Tarnagda, Robert Wilson, and Richard Foreman. Five Nobel Prize-winners are among those published, including Jon Fosse, this year’s recipient. Several books focus on the artistic practices and ideas of Morris Carnovsky, Meredith Monk, Michael Chekhov, Reza Abdoh, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, and Eugenio Barba.
“We published original performance texts and early criticism on the major figures who created the downtown performance culture of New York City at a time when audiences and critics were just learning how to understand this work,” Bonnie Marranca notes. “And now, decades later, PAJ is engaged in the writing of contemporary theatre and performance history, which includes many of these important artists and their ideas and practices at its center.”
Highlights from Marranca’s personal papers include her correspondence, professional lecture and keynotes, authorial manuscripts, and drafts of journalistic and scholarly articles, including working notes for her books and essays. There is also her extensive collection of printed performance ephemera collected from artists and venues over more than four decades of attending performances: rare programs, flyers, and posters for works by Squat Theatre, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, El Teatro Campesino, Mabou Mines, The Living Theatre, Bread and Puppet Theater, South Bronx Community Action Theater, Fluxus events, Sam Shepard, The Open Theater, Jack Smith, Rachel Rosenthal, Trisha Brown, Joan Jonas, Laurie Anderson, Carolee Schneemann, Philip Glass, and Arthur Russell.
For a complete list of PAJ books, please visit this link:
https://personify.tcg.org/Default.aspx?TabID=2076
For an index to plays and interviews in the journal, please visit this link:
Thank you.
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16. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, thru Dec. 30
Mitchell Algus Gallery
Presents
Morgan O’hara
Recent Work From Venice, Italy
21 Ocotber Thru 30 December 2023
132 Delancy At Norfolk Street – 2nd Floor
Subway: Delancey And Essex Streets
516-639-4918
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday Thru Saturday Noon – 6PM
And By Appointment
Opening: Saturday 21 Ocotber
5-7 pm
Thank you.
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17. Helen Lessick, FF Alumn, at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Inglewood, CA, Nov. 11-Dec. 22, and more
FF alumn Helen Lessick is participating in a group exhibition at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, 1109 N. La Brea Avenue, Inglewood CA in November; and is presenting her installation Sweeper as part of Inglewood Open Studios Nov. 11 and 12, 2023.
Please visit these links:
https://inglewoodopenstudios.org/
Thank you.
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18. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Miami Main Library, FL, Nov. 7, 2023-April 2024
WCA and WAAM Exhibition
November 7, 2023-April 2024
Miami Main Library and
Miami Beach Library, Florida
The history/ legacy of The Women’s Caucus for Art, an advocacy organization, (I was the Vice President), and The Womens Book Art history in Florida (of which I was a prominent creator).
Please contact for further information:
ClairejeanineSatin
Thank you.
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19. Anne Bean, Susan Hiller, Nina Sobell, Silvia Ziranek, FF Alumns, at England & Co., London, UK, thru Nov. 24
Women’s Works: artists working in 1970s & ’80s London
10 October –24 November 2023
England & Co’s Project Space at the Sotheran’s Building, 2A Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London W1S 3DP.
Works by women artists working in London in the 1970s and ‘80s, reflecting some of their very varied practices, ideas, and their artistic, political and feminist networks.
The exhibition features works by some of the artists included in the forthcoming exhibition at Tate Britain – Women in Revolt! – exhibited together with other artists of various generations working in London at the time.
Exhibition evening events will take place following Frieze week and will be announced here and on the gallery Facebook and Instagram. These include a London book launch for Dr Amy Tobin’s forthcoming book, Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation.
Thank you.
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20. Brad Buckley, FF Alumn, at Kandos Projects, Australia, thru Nov. 10
Dear Friends and Colleagues
Helen and I have just finished installing two new works at Kandos Projects. Kandos is a town in the mid-west of New South Wales; a four hour drive west of Sydney.
Kandos Projects is directed by Dr Ann Finegan, who is also the co-founder of Cementa. A biennale event held in Kandos of installations, performances and burlesque.
Le Grand Fromage (2023) by Helen Hyatt-Johnston
How to teach a dingo to eat mussels in polite society (with apologies to Beuys and Broodthaers) (2023) by Brad Buckley
Kandos Project Australia
10 October – 10 November 2023
Kandos Projects is located at 18 Angus Avenue, Kandos, NSW, Australia
Please visit these links:
https://kandosprojects.wordpress.com/about/
Warmly,
Helen and Brad
Thank you.
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21. Charlemagne Palestine, FF Alumn, at Meredith Rosen Gallery, Manhattan, opening Nov. 4
Meredith Rosen Gallery
Charlemagne Palestine
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
November 4-December 23, 2023
Opens November 4th 6-8pm
11 East 80th Street
Please visit this link:
https://meredithrosengallery.cmail19.com/t/j-l-sykuitt-whkhjulih-r/
Meredith Rosen Gallery is pleased to present Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, a site specific exhibition of new work by Charlemagne Palestine. The show opens November 4 and will remain on view through December 23 at 11 East 80th Street. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8pm on Saturday, November 4th.
Like the spell that transformed the forgotten stepsister, Cinderella, from her forsaken circumstances into a princess, Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Do metamorphoses the gallery space into an immersive installation encompassing wall-based stuffed animal toy sculptures, video works and a multi mixed sound environment.
Originally beginning as a sound, performance and video artist associated with the music, performance, dance and conceptual art scene of the 1960-70s New York avant-garde, Charlemagne Palestine’s diverse practice engages ritualistic process to produce expansive installations, using stuffed animal children’s toys which he calls “divinities.” Palestine often uses the teddy bear, invented by an immigrant couple from Brooklyn in 1902 near where the artist was born. His early sound installations were created on electronic music synthesizers and incorporated chanting, carillon bells, organs, and pianos to induce a trance-like sonic state in live performances and as accompaniments to his later elaborate multi-media installations, interacting with the architecture, acoustics and atmospheres of a diverse array of spaces including warehouses; galleries; museums and sacred buildings. This activation of space (and the living beings and inanimate objects which occupy them) creates an interactive performative community in constant transformation and visceral dialogue. Similar to the magic cast upon Cinderella’s pumpkin into a white carriage and mice into horses—Charlemagne’s works create a magic carnival presence which transforms the ordinary into an open sacred universe through the practice and mediums of art.
Palestine often references Karl Trahndorff’s early 19th century concept of gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art” as a framework to question the possibilities of any medium or language he employs. In Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Boo the metaphor of casting spells is another encompassing layer in which Palestine avoids existing conventions and relates art and exhibition space to a magical indefinable realm of his own invention, elevating children’s toy stuffed animals, everyday objects, sound and images into a vibrational dialogue. Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Boo also includes early video works, newly enhanced, filmed by the artist at Coney Island in the mid-1970s which depict the haunting memory of a New York amusement park from “once upon a time” as a site of fantasy, where patrons crowd into rollercoaster cars and suspend themselves to a moment of collective joy and fear. At the center of Palestine’s work, is a thread of belief, discovered in a child’s relationship to a stuffed animal “divinity;” cultivated through spiritual chant, gesture and dreaming. As mysterious as the fairy godmother’s spell, this belief binds us to a web of magic both sinister and hopeful, but most pressingly, to each other.
Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947 Brooklyn, New York) has participated in exhibitions and performances at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; Louvre, Paris; Venice Biennale; Documenta, Kassel; Moderna Museet Stockholm; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Triennale di Milano, Italy; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minnesota; Jewish Museum, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Castello di Rivoli Museo, Torino; Fondation Serralves, Porto Portugal; SESC São Paulo Brazil; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal; BOZAR, Brussels Belgium; M HKA Antwerp, Belgium; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Villa Arson, Nice; KW, Berlin; among many others. Palestine studied at the High School of Music and Art, New York; New School for Social Research New York; New York University; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; Mannes College of Music, New York; and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. This is Charlemagne Palestine’s first exhibition at Meredith Rosen Gallery.
Meredith Rosen Gallery
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New York, NY 10075
212 655 9791
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New York, NY 10075
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22. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, now online at NyTimes.com
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23. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, at Furnace Vault, Falls Village, CT, opening Oct. 28
Selections from the Flat File 2023
I am pleased to be included with a terrific group of artists!
Please join us for the
Opening Saturday, October 28th, 4 – 6pm
Front Gallery
Selections From The Flat File 2023
&
In The Furnace Vault
Traverse, an art and literary project
by Laurence Carr and Power Boothe
October 28 – January 20
Furnace – Art on Paper Archive
107 Main St. Falls Village CT, saturday 11-4 and by appointment
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www.furnace-artonpaperarchive.com
Contact: marthe@keller-email.com
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24. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 30, and more
Hope your fall is full of color and creative surprises. I’m happy to tell you about several events that are happening now, or coming up soon.
Upcoming:
Solo Screening: Monday, October 30 at 7:00 pm – Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti have curated an 1hr-20min selection of my latest, and earlier videos coming up at Microscope Gallery, 525 W. 29th Street. I would love to see you there!
Current:
Women’s Works: Artists working in 1970s & 80’s London
England & CO’s Project Space at the Southeran’s Building
2a Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London October 10 – November 24.
Works by women artists working in London in the 1970’s and ‘80s, reflecting some of their very varied practices, ideas, and artistic, political and feminist networks. My Videophone Voyeur 1977 is featured here.
BrainWave Drawings 1973-1983 is at ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, The Renaissance 3.0 Show – A Base Camp for New Alliances of Art and Science in the 21st Century:
https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2023/03/renaissance-30.
Archived:
If you weren’t able to attend (or want to see it again) the ParkBench/ Franklin Furnace LOFT event.
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25. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Oct. 26
Bratislava, Slovakia. Slovak National Gallery presents Peter Baren with the performance The Weight Of Love [This Unbearable Lightness] on Thursday 26 October 6 p.m. Atrium.
Since the 1980s, he has been experimenting with various media but mainly with the possibilities of installation and action art. Baren has been working almost exclusively in the medium of live performance for quite some time, and in this field, he is considered one of the most appreciated artists not only in Europe but also in the global art world. His multi-sensory work is based on research into the essence of very diverse cultural and political customs and images. Connecting them in a personal visual language, his presentations feel like shamanistic acts that bring about a heightened level of concentration and a raising consciousness. All this is further enhanced by an active interaction between the performer and people present. He always draws not only on the spatial qualities but also on political and historical contexts of the particular location where he is performing.
The current performance is specifically designed for the newly opened SNG building and for the concluding inaugural project of twelve exhibition situations, Prologue – 12 Colours of Reality.
The Weight Of Love [This Unbearable Lightness] is part of ongoing series Blind Dates With The History Of Mankind (2013- present), as a multi-sensory work,searches for a common ground between sensual bewilderment and operational suffering, challenging the constructed nature of our ideas on progress, identity and memory, derived from our social, cultural circumstances and exceeds
territories.
“My performance is expressly connected to what I am experiencing at that moment as a creator. It is a direct experience, which in addition I can perform with common positions in unusual situations. I associate a performance with an action in front of people or passers-by, with a certain playful or painful distance between myself and the other; at the same time it is very important to create a three-dimensional and sensitory experience that completely surrounds everyone” (Peter Baren in conversation with Bart Rutten – director Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
At the moment he is a visiting lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece..
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