Contents for October 30, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ida Applebroog, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, now online in Culture and Arts in the Modern World, and more
2. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at srwolff.bandcamp.com
3. Micki Watanabe Spiller, Ed Woodham, FF Alumns, now online at theurbanactivist.com
4. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Elysian Theater, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 18-Dec. 9
5. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Susan Joy Share, FF Alumn, now online at CanvasRebel.com
7. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, now online at podcasters.spotify.com
8. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at ThereAreThingsToDo.com
9. Mouchette, FF Alumn, at Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, thru March 31, 2024, and more
10. Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Nov. 6
11. Joan Jonas, Sol LeWitt, Liliana Porter, Joan Snyder, Richard Tuttle, FF Alumns, now online and in person at Pace Gallery, Manhattan, thru Nov. 8
12. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at David Richard Gallery, Manhattan, thru Nov. 16
13. Doug Skinner, Norman Conquest, FF Alumns, new publication
14. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, now online at podcasters.spotify.com
15. Jacob Burckhardt, Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Nov. 12-Dec. 17
16. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, at Deborah Bell Photography, Manhattan, thru Nov. 4, and more
17. Ann Messner, FF Alumn, at Oxymoron Galerie, Vienna, Austria, thru Nov. 25
18. John Fleck, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Nov. 8
19. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Nov. 11
20. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, now online at leakestreetgalleries.art
21. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 30
22. William Wegman, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
23. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, at Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, thru Jan. 14, 2024 and more
24. Nora York, FF Alumn, new album release Nov. 17
25. James Johnson, FF Alumn, new publication now available
26. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 26, Dec. 10 & 17
27. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
28. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Nov. 6-7
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Ida Applebroog, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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1. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, now online in Culture and Arts in the Modern World, and more
Culture and Arts in the Modern World journal #24 from Ukraine
Please visit this link:
http://culture-art-knukim.pp.ua/issue/view/17073
my article is on p.p.100-11:
http://culture-art-knukim.pp.ua/article/view/287666/281529
and here are my (some) shaky news:
I was invited and sent my works to the Second Murgia Biennale in Bari November 2023 – January 2024.
Please visit this link:
https://www.italia-arte.it/ii-biennale-della-murgia-4-novembre-2023-10-gennaio-2024/
The Jerusalem Biennial I was going to take part in November as part of the international Art and Nomads exhibition was postponed with unclear dates due to HAMAS bloody invasion and the war in the Middle East.
Thank you.
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2. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at srwolff.bandcamp.com
We were very lucky to have Sander create so much beautiful music for the Let Me Be Frank series. Sander just compiled this music onto a Digital Album:
Music for the Documentary Series: Let Me Be Frank
By Sander Roscoe Wolff
Please visit this link:
https://srwolff.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-the-documentary-series-let-me-be-frank
Frank Moore was an American performance artist. Born with cerebral palsy, he overcame his uncomfortable isolation by creating participatory performance events that involved friends, collaborators, and audience members. He wrote extensively about his life and work and, after his death, his closest partners, Linda Mac and Michael LaBash, began to craft a documentary about his life and work. This project morphed into a series of short episodes, each focusing on a chapter from Moore’s book, Art of the Shaman. Because he was unable to speak, they invited friends, fellow performance artists, and collaborators to read the texts, including such luminaries as Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, and David Steinberg. I created music for many of these readings, which are included here.
Released October 24, 2023, all tracks were created by Sander Roscoe Wolff, using a variety of sound sources, including Voice, Trombone, Cambodian Buddhist Monks, Live Looping Synth & Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Grand Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Recorders, Ocarina, Kalimba, and Cat.
Many thanks to Carl Off, Robert Douglas, Michael LaBash, Linda Mac, and Frank Moore.
You can purchase a printed copy or digital download of Frank Moore’s book, Art of the Shaman, here:
You can view the entire NSFW documentary series here:
Digital Album
1. Wide Open 02:21
2. A Wounded Healer 08:30
3. Art of Reshaping Reality 08:11
4. Roots of Performance 09:30
5. Learning The Trickster’s Art 05:59
6. Art of Risking 09:20
7. Time, Community, and Inter-Relations 07:29
8. Theater of Human Melting 12:59
9. The Plot of Fame and Good Taste 08:10
10. Playing with Reality 12:18
11. Sex 04:46
12. Art of Smallness 06:30
13. The Dynamics 07:11
14. Private Rituals 07:00
15. Teacher of Possibilities 04:53
16. A Wounded Healer – Alternate 08:30
17. The Dynamics – Alternate 07:40
18. Letter to Jesse Helms 03:56
Sander is an experimental music artist who works in a variety of genres, including improvised electronic music, highly composed music, soundtracks, ambient, and rock. He is a member of Toaster Music, and part of Thee Hop-Frog Kollectiv.
In Freedom,
Linda, Mikee &
Frank Moore
https://archive.org/details/frank-moore-archives
Thank you.
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3. Micki Watanabe Spiller, Ed Woodham, FF Alumns, now online at theurbanarchivist.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Elysian Theater, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 18-Dec. 9
Please visit this link:
https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/jibz
Thank you.
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5. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Susan Joy Share, FF Alumn, now online at CanvasRebel.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, now online at podcasters.spotify.com
Dear ones,
Here’s the link to: My California (part 2) inspired by a prompt from Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick.
How do you hone in on home? Can a state also be a state of mind?
We hope you are managing to find and create some homeland inspiration in your own domains, despite the heavy times.
Upcoming, we’ll have some interviews, book reviews, absurd commentary, and wonderment to share with you.
Sincerely,
The Art Ranger
Aka Melissa Smedley
Thank you.
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8. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at ThereAreThingsToDo.com
FF Alumn Jay Critchley, in documentary about civil rights activist Irvashi Vaid that is showing at 20+ film festivals across the country: There are things to do.
Please visit this link:
https://www.therearethingstodo.com/
Thank you.
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9. Mouchette, FF Alumn, at Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, thru March 31, 2024, and more
Please visit these links:
https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst
https://www.digitalcanon.nl/#464
https://visions.of.mouchette.org/
Thank you.
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10. Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Nov. 6
Hello Friends,
I’m excited to tell you about a fabulous event at Dixon Place on Monday Nov 6 at 7:30pm. I am curating an evening of 4 new puppetry projects, featuring myself with Sxip Shirey, Jane Catherine Shaw, Shraddha Tiwari, and Accra Shepp. I hope to see you there!
Please visit this link for more info & tickets:
https://dixonplace.org/performances/11062023/
Thank you.
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11. Joan Jonas, Sol LeWitt, Liliana Porter, Joan Snyder, Richard Tuttle, FF Alumns, now online and in person at Pace Gallery, Manhattan, thru Nov. 8
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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12. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at David Richard Gallery, Manhattan, thru Nov. 16
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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13. Doug Skinner, Norman Conquest, FF Alumns, new publication
“The Potato Farm” is now available! This collection of thirty stories is my first book of short fiction since “The Snowman Three Doors Down” in 2018. What happens when constellations socialize, when Faust and the Devil start drinking, when imaginary friends gain imaginary friends, when Sleeping Beauty and Rip van Winkle trade places, when Duncan paints a cockatrice, when a terrifying Werechurch roams the land? And was it really a good idea for August and Collier to start that potato farm, especially given Collier’s troubled past? You’ll find slapstick, vivid characters, fictional physics, and surprising narratives, often filtered through stringent constraints to keep the language lively. If you read only one book this year, read this one over and over again!
It’s designed by Norman Conquest, published by the delightful people at Black Scat Books and available on Amazon.
Please visit this link:
Thanks! Doug Skinner
Thank you.
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14. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, now online at podcasters.spotify.com
Dear ones,
Here’s My California (part 2)
Please visit this link:
sparked by a prompt from Poet Laureate Lee Herrick asking citizens to contemplate their state.
And if you haven’t yet, feel free to check out My California (part 1) an adventure story.
Please visit this link:
How do you hone in on home? Can a state also be a state of mind?
Upcoming, we have some interviews, book reviews, absurd commentary, and wonderment to share.
We hope you find and create some homeland inspiration in your own domains, despite the heavy chaos rain.
Sincerely,
The Art Ranger
aka Melissa Smedley
Thank you for staying tuned to this slow moving project!
Thank you.
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15. Jacob Burckhardt, Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Nov. 12-Dec. 17
Cathy Weis Projects
Fall 2023 Season Lineup
We are pleased to announce the Fall 2023 season of Sundays on Broadway. Starting in November, we will present four evenings of dance, video and film at WeisAcres.
November 12: Jennifer Monson & Zeena Parkins + Jennifer Monson & Cathy Weis + Isa Spector
November 19: Deborah Hay + Scott Heron + Paul Botelho + Cherrie Yu
December 10: Works by Jim Neu with Deborah Auer & Harry Mann + Jennifer Miller + Oren Prum + video by CW
December 17: Vicky Shick + Jacob Burckhardt + Reason Wade & Aminah Ibrahim + video by CW
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
All events begin at 6:00 pm – doors open at 5:45 pm.
No late seating.
$10 suggested contribution.
Keep in mind, this is a small space! Please arrive on time out of courtesy to the artists.
For more information, please visit this link:
Thank you.
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16. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, at Deborah Bell Photography, Manhattan, thru Nov. 4
Please visit this link:
-and-
reviewed in Collector Daily, please visit this link:
https://collectordaily.com/ahead-of-her-time-marcia-resnick-deborah-bell/
Thank you.
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17. Ann Messner, FF Alumn, at Oxymoron Galerie, Vienna, Austria, thru Nov. 25
I am very happy to be showing with my colleague Katharina Gruzei both earlier interventionist projects from the 1970’s and a new collaborative underground and uncommissioned work she and I did this past summer.
Ann Messner und Katharina Gruzei
underground & uncommissioned
28.10.2023 – 25.11.2023
Oxymoron Galerie, Wien
Vernissage: 28.10.2023 / 18-22 Uhr
In their joint exhibition underground & uncommissioned, the artists Ann Messner and Katharina Gruzei provide insights into their artistic practice, focusing in particular on their shared interest in public space. Based on projects both have realized in the subterranean world of metro systems, they find overlaps in both content and methods.
While Katharina Gruzei’s comprehensive artistic photo series Mir Metro (2021) explores the Moscow Metro, a fascinating cosmos beneath the city, Ann Messner questioned the reality of the New York Subway in the 1970s with a series of interventions and performances. For the exhibition underground & uncommissioned Messner shows her project ad-displacements (1977). In this project, she replaces all of advertisements on a single train car of the New York subway with photographs that she had previously taken of the crowded subway cars during rush hour. The different artistic approaches between these two projects illustrates the diversity of the two subway systems and the resulting framework for action. Projects such as those implemented by Ann Messner in the New York subway of the 1970s are hardly conceivable in the strictly controlled and meticulously maintained Moscow subway.
Intervening in reality, disturbing the banality of the everyday, is a strategy used by both artists in their work. Consequently street traffic spaces are not safe from them either. In her 1977 work slalom (garbage cans) Ann Messner playfully staggered city garbage cans in the middle of a street in Lower Manhattan challenging motorists to drive down the street slalom style. A digitized Super 8 film of this project will be on view for the first time at Oxymoron Gallery. In similar spirit Katharina Gruzei’s large illuminated sign installed for her project Open (2015) in a no-man’s land at a highway interchange, suggested to motorists an open rest stop or gas station in this inaccessible location. In addition will be the video/photo performative works: Ann Messner’s project Hitchhiking (1978), Katharina Gruzei’s work Transformation (2022).
In addition will be a new underground and uncommissioned work that the two artists have collaboratively developed on the occasion of this exhibition. Both artists will be present at the opening.
Curated by Eginhartz Kanter
Oxymoron Galerie
Dürergasse 14-16
1060 Wien
Do-Sa 14-18h
Thank you.
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18. John Fleck, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Nov. 8
John Fleck, a performance art roto-rooter of our cultural zeitgeist is workshopping a brand new piece in NYC for one night only at Dixon Place on Wed, November 8 @ 8pm.
Please visit this link for more info and tickets:
https://dixonplace.org/performances/beatrice-lillie-the-devil-and-me/
Beatrice Lillie, the Devil and me
A misfit boy with a limp wrist conjures up the spirit of Bea Lillie, a 1930’s theatrical song stylist to battle the forces of darkness conspiring to dim their fabulousness
Thank you.
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19. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Nov. 11
As a benefit for Dixon Place, veteran performance artists Margolin & Turner have created a deviant & demented show – Deb & Jim will perform each other’s solo material !
Jim performs some of Deb’s pieces celebrating the bizarre & the glorious in the unexpected corners of everyday life; Deb performs some of Jim’s crackbrained, unhinged, hysterical characters!
Don’t miss this once in a lifetime event… You yourself might get Switcherooed!
Please visit this link for tickets:
https://dixonplace.org/performances/switcheroo/
Thank you.
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20. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, now online at leakestreetgalleries.art
Franc Palaia was invited to paint a mural in the Leake St Metro Tunnel in London. In 2011, Banksy painted a mural in this abandoned tunnel which started a frenzy of Street Art with dozens of murals painted daily since then.
The Leake St tunnel is now filled with graffiti and murals from artists from around the world. Palaia’s mural, 15’x15′ is an homage to the prehistoric cave painters, who invented art, murals, stencils and spray paint.
Adjacent to my mural I wheat pasted several Hambleton shadow images from my NightLife shadow series. The end result is that the tunnel looked like NYC in the early 1980s.
Please visit this link for more info on the murals:
https://www.leakestreetgalleries.art
or
Thank you.
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21. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 30
Microscope Gallery Presents:
Nina Sobell
Intermedia Interactivity
Live & Online
Artist Will Be Present
Monday October 30, 7pm
525 W. 29th St.
To attend in-person you may purchase tickets now
Please visit this link:
If you wish to attend online, tickets may be purchased beginning 6:30pm on Monday
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Microscope is very pleased to present a screening of works by New York-based artist Nina Sobell featuring a selection of videos spanning 50 years, from 1971 – shot with a Sony Portapak — to her present-day inquiries using social media platforms and AI. Through her very uniquely empathic lens, she has proposed a type of art based on human interactions through physical installations as well as through other forms of communication mediated by new tools and machines. Sobell will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening. The event is taking place in-person as well as online. (Ticket Link)
Nina Sobell took an early interest in the idea of interactivity, sculptural environments, performance, video, as well as other electronic and early web technologies. From her experimentations with foam rubber sculptures and environments circa 1967 — as well as ephemeral sculptures made of dead leaves or grass — the search for audience participation in Sobell’s public installations of that time led her to embrace the medium of video, not only as a way to document those interactions, but also to prolong and extend such outdoor experiences into indoor spaces via CCTV cameras and monitors.
Subsequent works using TV monitors, telephones, and eventually the addition of the connective possibilities of the world wide web — such as her collaboration with Emily Hartzell VirtuAlice from 1995, which consisted of a wireless tele-robotic webcam on a motorized chair that took sequential images that were shared in real time and was able to be controlled remotely by users on the web or passerby — emphasized the elements of live play and performance, blurring the boundaries between audience and artist, personal and public, real and virtual.
The evening begins with a 1993 documentary by Hartzell, “Pioneer in Interactivity” that discusses the artist’s works through actual footage including of such groundbreaking pieces as BrainWave Drawings, initiated in 1972, in which the viewers’ brain activity is captured through electroencephalographic electrodes and reproduced on a TV screen, an “electronic theater” where participants are both actors and observers.
The program continues with early videos such as “Hair Comb” and “Elements,” from 1973, which are testaments to the independence offered by the medium, presenting performances and stagings of sculptures for the camera while investigating the visual possibilities of black & white video. Other works including “BrainWave Drawings (1973-1983)” involves documentations of multiple iterations of a participatory installation, while “Breaking Glass” (1973) is edited from footage of an extreme performance for the camera. “Murder with Mother” (1982), “Into the pot you go” (1982) and others, find the artist revisiting personal trauma’s through allegorical and more theatrical restagings. Later works, consider the brain and its functions — both conscious and unconscious — and more recently involve AI-generated imagery based on the prompt “Humans evolving into animals.”
Best wishes,
Nina
Thank you.
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22. William Wegman, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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23. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, at Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, thru Jan. 14, 2024 and more
Making Their Mark
Works from the Shah Garg Collection
curated by Cecilia Alemani
548 West 22nd Street, New York
November 2, 2023 – January 27, 204
Re/Sisters
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Through January 14, 2024
Orayta: From Content to Form
The Jerusalem Biennale
Museum on the Seam
November 10 – February 29, 2024
Thank you.
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24. Nora York, FF Alumn, new album release Nov. 17
Please visit this link:
https://www.norayorkmusic.com/music
Thank you.
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25. James Johnson, FF Alumn, new publication now available
Hot off the press!
I’m happy to announce the publication of Beyond Words, a book of words, phrases and images that transcend text.
Now available at Lulu.com.
Please visit this link:
Happy Halloween!
Thank you.
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26. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 26, Dec. 10 & 17
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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27. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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28. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Nov. 6-7
Kathy Brew will be a visiting artist at the University of Puget Sound next week. She’ll screen her short documentary, Following the Thread, detailing the revitalization of indigenous weaving and textile creation in the Cusco region of Peru on Monday, November 6th. And then on Tuesday, November 7th, she’ll present a workshop on documentary production to students and faculty, with a focus on ethical issues and gender.
For more info, please contact:
Thank you.
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