Contents for November , 2023
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WEEKLY SPOTLIGHTS:
Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, 2022-23 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients, at Grace Exhibition Space, November 10
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Lina Azalea, Jesus Benavente, Buffy, Monstera Deliciosa, Shawn Escarciga, Flowers in the Basement, Sara Kostic, Elina Kulikova, Nima Nikakhlagh, Nickolas Vaughan, 2023-24 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients, at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, November 16
1. Sally Greenhouse, FF Alumn, now online at secretlivesofthedisabled.com
2. Anna Banana, FF Alumn, at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
3. Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumn, now online at Timeout.com and more
4. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, online with MAPSpace, November 6 and more
5. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, Nov. 7-Dec. 16
6. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Equity Gallery, Manhattan, opening Nov. 9
7. Janet Goldner, FF Member, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, thru Dec. 20
8. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, at Outpost Artists Resources, Ridgewood, Queens, Nov. 16
9. Julia Scher, FF Alumn, at Kunstinstitut Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, December 8 2023-May 12, 2024
10. Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, James Siena, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumns, at Venus Over Manhattan, Manhattan, opening Nov. 16
11. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at UC Berkeley, CA, Nov. 8
12. Doug Beube, Joyce Kozloff, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, at Hudson, NY, opening Nov. 11
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WEEKLY SPOTLIGHTS:
Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, 2022-23 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients, at Grace Exhibition Space, November 10
Upcoming FUND performance:
Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, FF FUND 2022-23
“shrieking, wailing, sobbing (or raw emotions in general)”, November 10, 8pm at Grace Exhibition Space
“shrieking, wailing, sobbing (or raw emotions in general)” is a vocal-text-visual performance created by Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra and performed by a collective choir of women. The performance experiences a diversity of intense female vocal tones that exist in a hybrid space between pain, pleasure, joy and emotional discharge, combined with spoken words of autobiographical experiences that dissolve between these sounds. This work deals with the patriarchal project of closing women’s mouth and the tremors that the female voice can produce to break pacts of silence.
Anna Costa e Silva @annacostaesilva and Nina Terra @nina_terra
Participating artists: Angélica Barbosa @danced.fantasies , Anna Parisi @aluparisi, Anna Costa e Silva @annacostaesilva, Lisette Morel @lisettemorel, Maria Carol @mcmariacarolmc, Nina Terra @nina_terra, Rafaelina Tineo @it_will_be_born.
This work was made possible in part by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2022-23, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
The “South-American Performance Art” cycle is a program of three night events at @TeatroaLatea (Nov.2) & @GraceExhibitionSpace NY curated by Natacha Voliakovsky @natachavoliakovsky
This cycle transcends Argentine borders to enrich the artistic landscape. With the use of their bodies as vehicles of expression, the artists address critical and essential subjects of South-America, such as political instability, inequality, resistance, gender, trauma, and more. The purpose of this cycle is to highlight the power of performance as a vehicle for cultural preservation, resistance, and transformation. The cycle will emphasize the interrelated nature of Latin American artists and their diaspora, building a connection of narratives braided with strands of memory, resistance, and transformation.
Please visit this link for tickets:
Thank you.
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Lina Azalea, Jesus Benavente, Buffy, Monstera Deliciosa, Shawn Escarciga, Flowers in the Basement, Sara Kostic, Elina Kulikova, Nima Nikakhlagh, Nickolas Vaughan, 2023-24 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients, at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, November 16
Past, Present & Future IX
Join us on Thursday November 16, 2023, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm ET at the Alumni Reading Room of Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY for live presentations by 2023-24 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients.
This event offers a special chance to applaud the ten fundwinners of this year and introduce them to a broader audience.
Each artist will share details about their newly funded projects, shedding light on the inspirations, thought processes, and methods that shape their upcoming performances.
Emcees Martha Wilson and Harley Spiller, as well as some panelists for this year, along with the general public, are invited to attend in person. Franklin Furnace and Pratt Institute are proud to host this exceptional annual opportunity to connect with emerging and top-tier performance artists.
Please be aware that RSVP is encouraged for visitors from outside the Pratt campus. Friends and family are warmly invited to join us in celebrating this evening, and light refreshments will be available during the event.
Please visit this link to RSVP:
https://forms.gle/BSexE7dvap51a7256
2023-24 Recipients
This season marks the 38th anniversary of the Franklin Furnace FUND. Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace has annually awarded grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to prepare major performance art works in New York. This season, Franklin Furnace received 252 applications. Peer Review Panelists this year are Arantxa Araujo (FUNDwinner 2019), Amy Khoshbin (FUNDwinner 2017), Jill McDermid, Gylbert Coker (FF Alumn 1980), and Angel Nevarez (FUNDwinner 2006).
This year’s peer artist review panel met on July 18, 19, and 20, 2023 and decided to award five $5,900 and five 4,000 grants from support Franklin Furnace received from Jerome Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
Thank you.
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1. Sally Greenhouse, FF Alumn, now online at secretlivesofthedisabled.com
secretlivesofthedisabled.com by Sally Greenhouse is up & running
Please visit this link:
Catch it there or on Spotify, Apple, Buzzsprout.
Conversation with fiction writer Andre Dubus lll on his new novel Such Kindness & original monologue originally developed @ Dixon Place, “Faraway Island: On Becoming Disabled in America : An Allegory”.
New episodes posted Fridays.
Thank you.
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2. Anna Banana, FF Alumn, at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Anna Banana Archives moving to University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
In 2021 Anna Banana generously donated a portion of her library and archives to the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library.
Please visit this link to view the first installment of research:
https://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/anna-banana-fonds
Anna Banana (b. 1940, Anne Lee Long) is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, known for her performance work, interactive events, and independent publishing heavily embedded in the avant-garde, Dada, and Fluxus practices. While predominantly working in British Columbia, Anna Banana is internationally recognized for her contributions in the Eternal Network for mail art; counter-culture small press publications such as Banana Rag (1971-1991), VILE (1974-1979), and Artistamp (1990-present); and participatory performances such as the Banana Olympics (1975) held in San Francisco where she became involved with the Bay Area Dadaists. Most recently from 2015-2016, Anna Banana held a traveling retrospective exhibition titled 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana hosted by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in collaboration with Open Space artist-run centre in Victoria. The exhibition traveled to Pratt Institute in New York and Kunstverein in Toronto, Amsterdam, and Milan. For nearly 50 years, Anna Banana collected banana themed ephemera from a vast network of mail art correspondents to create Encyclopedia Bananica, a massive collection accrued since the 1970s that reflect decades of interventions, collaboration, and iterative art making.
With the excitement of discovering the contents in the first installment we are thrilled to have been offered a second and final installment. However, storage over the years has led to the need for conservation work to ensure the material is free of contaminants (mould, insects, etc.) before the library can bring the material on site to begin work on processing the collection. There are costs – moving, treatment, cleaning and the like.
Based on the first accrual we anticipate an additional cost of CDN $20,000 to move and clean and a further $30,000 to process the material and develop the finding aid as we did in the link above.
If you would like to donate to UBC to cover these costs and help us make the remaining archives accessible for scholarship, research, exhibition, loan and searchable online.
Please visit this link to make your donation online to the Rare Books and Special Collections Fund:
www.give.ubc.ca/anna-banana-archives
If you would like to discuss other donation options, please email Library.development@ubc.ca
Thank you.
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3. Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumn, now online at Timeout.com and more
Public Art Commission | New York
As a public transit fangirl, I loved working on this 750 foot mural commissioned by Amtrak that kicks off the 10-year construction of a new underground tunnel linking New York and New Jersey. Curated by Debra Simon, the piece I designed, “Re/Connections,” can be seen on the West Side Highway along 29th and 30th Street.
Please visit this link:
https://media.amtrak.com/2023/10/art-at-amtrak-block-675-fence-nyc/
I created the mural starting by blowing dye onto rice paper and then making a series of incisions inspired by the Chinese and MesoAmerican traditions of perforated paper (‘papel picado’) in which the holes are said to let the past come through. After scanning and scaling the image, it was then printed on a mesh fabric whose holes I see as portals connecting times and places. Situated adjacent the Hudson, the work meditates on our interdependency on water and the transformative role of transportation and trade.
Please visit this link to view TimeOut’s review:
Performative Sculpture | Guggenheim New York
Across the globe and across time, humans have always dreamed of flying, soaring above, and defying gravity. In fact, architecture has played a role of capturing and expressing these aspirations in buildings that express upward movement. The architecture of the Guggenheim is one of those iconic inspirations wherein visitors feel the vertical thrust of space and often have the impulse to roll objects down the ramp, drop objects through the rotunda, or imagine choreographies that respond to the museum’s play of gravity. How can we design objects that float, glide, or fly within the Guggenheim?
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A project I initiated with Rafi Segal in partnership with the Guggenheim Education Program, Kite City is a performative sculpture that taps into the human desire (and hubris) for flight — from Icarus to da Vinci to the Wright Brothers to Chinese lanterns. Students from Parsons/The New School will be involved in Kite City’s research and development which culminates in Spring/Summer 2024. Follow me on Instagram for real time updates and geek outs about kites, inflatables, and other aerodynamic fun facts. Co-teacher: Neva Kocic; Guest Instructors: Architect Rafi Segal; Curatorial Collaborator Amy Rosenblum Martín, Kite Expert Chuck Jones.
Please visit this link:
https://www.instagram.com/marisa_jahn/
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New Gallery Representation
I’m happy to share that Sapar Contemporary, a woman-led gallery based in Tribeca, NY, is now representing my artwork! Since meeting the gallery’s founder, Raushan Sapar, a few years ago, we’ve developed a lovely family-wide friendship that includes travels to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan where I met fellow artist Faig Ahmed (whom they also represent). I’ve also gotten to work on several occasions with the gallery’s director, Ukrainian-born Nina Levant, whose keen eye for craft-based approaches to contemporary, conceptual work I appreciate and trust — as well as her no-nonsense acumen and dry humor. Global in their perspective, Raushan and Nina share my goals to redistribute power through art, and expand possibilities of how my practice might do so!
Please visit this link:
https://www.instagram.com/saparcontemporary/
Thank you.
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4. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, online with MAPSpace, November 6 and more
Artist Virtual Panel
Monday Nov 6, 7pm
Join the artists from A Pot Nudged Into Oblivion (on view thru Nov 11) in conversation with curator Jenn Cacciola and MAPSpace director Patricia Miranda. Artists: Annika Earley, Shabnam Jannesari, Elena Kakova, Zahra Pars, Meriel Pitarka, Cynthia Reynolds, Hannah Rothbard, and Jen Schoonmaker.
Please visit this link:
Curated by Jenn Cacciola
Please visit this link:
Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldu2rpj4uHN25keV-e3i9xamVVNZXlHw8#/registration
In Conversation, with Jodi Colella + Roya Amigh
Boston Sculptors Gallery
November 11, 3 pm
Reception: 2-5 pm
Please visit these links for more information:
I head to Boston soon to lead a conversation with artists Jodi Colella and Roya Amigh about their respective solo exhibitions. A thrill to be in dialogue with these powerhouse artists!
Writing the catalog essay for Colella’s exhibition was such a treat, a chance to spend time with the work and the artist.
Please visit this link to read the essay and see images of the exhibition:
I hope Boston friends can join us!
Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Ave., SOWA Boston MA 02118
Open: Wed – Sun 11-5 pm
Please visit this link:
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Informal Artist Talk
Wednesday, Dec 13, 6-8pm
A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
Co-curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra
I will be there with many of the artists in the exhibition. Always interesting to see new ways the work can adapt and respond.
Please visit this link for the Calandra Institute:
https://calandrainstitute.org/
Please visit this link for the Italianità website:
Please visit this link for the exhibition catalog:
Please visit this link for the Italianità book:
The book features texts from 59 artists with a foreword by Joseph Sciorra, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College (City University of New York).
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10036
on view thru Jan 12
Artist Virtual Panel
Monday Nov 6, 7pm
Join the artists from A Pot Nudged Into Oblivion (on view thru Nov 11) in conversation with curator Jenn Cacciola and MAPSpace director Patricia Miranda. Artists: Annika Earley, Shabnam Jannesari, Elena Kakova, Zahra Pars, Meriel Pitarka, Cynthia Reynolds, Hannah Rothbard, and Jen Schoonmaker. Curated by Jenn Cacciola
Please visit this link to rsvp:
Thank you.
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5. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, Nov. 7-Dec. 16
Please visit this link:
https://www.krakowwitkingallery.com/exhibition/peter-downsbrough/
Thank you.
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6. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Equity Gallery, Manhattan, opening Nov. 9
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Janet Goldner, FF Member, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, thru Dec. 20
Hello. I wanted to make sure you know about my current installation, Woven Journey on view at Carter Burden Gallery, 548 W. 28th Street, 5th FLoor, NYC til December 20.
Please visit this link:
Woven Journey celebrates my enduring artistic bond with West Africa, particularly Mali. Through photographs and text, the installation commemorates my first trip to the continent 50 years ago and my ongoing creative exploration and cultural engagement. The sculptures I usually exhibit are inspired by the stories and images included in Woven Journey. The sculptures I usually make/exhibit are inspired by the images and stories included in Woven Journey.
If you are in NYC this Fall, I’d be happy to meet you at the show. I’m usually there a few times a week. Or I’d be happy to send you more information and images of the show.
Best,
Janet
Thank you.
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8. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, at Outpost Artists Resources, Ridgewood, Queens, Nov. 16
Fire Over Heaven
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Outpost Artists Resources, 1665 Norman St. Ridgewood, Queens
Victoria Keddie (new work for synthesizer and vocal transients)
Che Chen: Ring Modes (solo guitar)
Please visit this link for tickets:
https://withfriends.co/event/16848222/foh_101923_time_trout_jonah_rosenberg_and_sean_ali
Outpost Artists Resources:
https://www.outpostartistsresources.org/donate
Fire Over Heaven Bandcamp:
https://fireoverheaven.bandcamp.com/
Thank you.
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9. Julia Scher, FF Alumn, at Kunstinstitut Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, December 8 2023-May 12, 2024
MyOma
Kunstinstituut Melly is delighted to announce its upcoming project My Oma. During its five-month time period, from 8 December 2023 to 12 May 2024, the project involves a group exhibition, concerts, performance, public programs and education activities. Conceptually interlaced throughout these formats are the figure of the grandmother, queries on ancestral knowledge, and ideas of cultural heritage.
The figure of the grandmother is the protagonist of My Oma. This female elder is approached as a real figure in some instances. At times, the grandmother is an imaginary character; a latent and already sentient figure; a specific position in time. The figure of the grandmother allows for various approaches to traditions, ancestry, and diaspora. It also welcomes the reconsideration of gendered and ageist determinations surrounding cultural and material legacy.
Participants
My Oma includes work by: A Maior, Funda Baysal, Yto Barrada, Meriem Bennani, Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim, Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev, Shardenia Felicia, Yoeri Guépin, Ola Hassanain, Melike Kara, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Charlie Koolhaas, Liedeke Kruk, Marcos Kueh, Berette S Macaulay, Raimundas Malašauskas, Silvia Martes, Hana Miletić, Jota Mombaça, Amanda Moström, Maria Pask, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Anri Sala, Sara Sallam, Stacii Samidin, Asa Seresin, Julia Scher, Katerina Šedá, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Judy Watson, and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. List in formation.
My Oma is organized by Kunstinstituut Melly and curated by Rosa de Graaf, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Jessy Koeiman, Julija Mockutė, and Vivian Ziherl. Its key producers are Shana Lewis, Pilar Mata Dupont, and Wendy van Slagmaat-Bos. Advisors to the research and planning process of My Oma : Diana Campbell (chief curator, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh), Edward Gillman (director, Auto Italia, London, UK), Sun A Moon (director, Space AfroAsia, Dongducheon, South Korea), and Manuela Moscoso (director, Cara, New York, USA).
Special Initiatives
Show and Tell
Artist’s talks, lectures, and performances take place inspired by personal grandmother stories, as well as by ideas, objects, or traditions inherited by their grandmothers or passed on through generations.
Music for My Oma
A line-up of concerts and sound performances organized by Kunstinstituut Melly in partnership with the Amarte Foundation, as part of the ‘Melly X Amarte’ sound art and music program. The program was initiated in September 2023 with an open call for existing or newly proposed music or sound pieces inspired by grandmothers or ancestral knowledge. The selected musicians and artists will be announced in November.
Education Activities
Public programs and mediator-led exhibition walkthroughs are among the offerings that will be scheduled during the exhibition period of My Oma. These programs are meant to deepen the personal and public experience of the artworks in the exhibition, and to relate these to issues of the present experience of culture.
Bewaard by Sijben Rosa
In creating a new body of work, Sijben Rosa engages with people whose sense of mortality is in greater focus due to aging or illness. Through conversation, they, together with Sijben, identify meaningful objects from their personal surroundings. However idiosyncratic, these pieces mark, encapsulate, or speak the story of their lives. Inspired by these conversation pieces an installation of biodegradable sculptures is created by Sijben. An exploration of how objects attain significance and value through lived experience, Bewaard is a solo-exhibition by Sijben and the last iteration of Kunstinstituut Melly’s Solo Duets exhibition series.
Kunstinstituut Melly’s mission is to organize activities on the latest developments in contemporary art and theory. It creates exhibitions, publications, and educational programs of artistic merit and cultural significance. It also commissions new art, supports innovative research, and advocates for cultural partnerships. Kunstinstituut Melly welcomes audiences year-round in its +3,500m2 nineteenth-century building, located at 50 Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Kunstinstituut Melly is supported by the City of Rotterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in The Netherlands. Project support is earned through fundraising activities, individual donations, and foundation grants. In 2023, additional support was provided by grants from Droom en Daad and Hartwig Foundation. My Oma has received support by Amarte Foundation, Ammodo, Creative Australia, Czech Centre Rotterdam, Fonds 21, Saha Association, Stichting Doen / Vriendenloterij Fonds, and Teiger Foundation.
This supporters list is in formation; if you would like to contribute to My Oma with a grant or donation, please reach out.
Witte de Withstraat 50 NL-3012 BR Rotterdam
Open: Wed-Sun, 11am—6pm
Fri, 6—9pm, Kunstavond, free entrance
Thank you.
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10. Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, James Siena, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumns, at Venus Over Manhattan, Manhattan, opening Nov. 16
Please visit this link:
https://viewingroom.venusovermanhattan.com/viewing-room/retinal-hysteria-curated-by-robert-storr
Thank you.
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11. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at UC Berkeley, CA, Nov. 8
A Conversation on Commemoration
Claudine Rankine & Pamela Sneed
Please visit this link:
https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/219781-claudia-rankine-pamela-sneed-a-conversation-on
Thank you.
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12. Doug Beube, Joyce Kozloff, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, at Hudson, NY, opening Nov. 11
Pamela Salisbury Gallery, ‘Booked’ exhibition opening on Nov 11, 3-5 pm in Hudson, NY,
from November 11 – December 10, 2023.
Thank you.
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13. Call for fellows, Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History, deadline May 15
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Thank you.
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