Contents for January 02, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pope.L, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art now open
1. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
2. Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, at Eric Firestone Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 17
3. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
4. Stanya Kahn, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, receive Anonymous Was a Woman 2023 awards
5. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Mead Museum, Amherst College, MA, Jan. 26-June 9
6. Kenneth King, FF Member, new movie now online
7. Richard Alpert, FF Alumn, at The Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, opening Jan. 27
8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Jefferson Market Library, Manhattan, Jan. 13
9. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Provincetown Harbor, MA, Jan. 7
10. Paul Zaloom, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube
11. Ida Applebroog, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
12. Federico Hewson, FF Member, now online
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Pope.L, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/pope-l-dead.html?mibextid=Zxz2cZ#commentsContainer
Thank you.
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art now open
The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art is now accepting applications for 2024-2025.
FUND grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace.
Please visit this link and consider applying by the April 1 deadline:
https://www.franklinfurnace.org/grants-and-funding/the-fund/
Thank you and feel free to share this opportunity.
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1. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/january-is-experimental-theatre-month
Thank you.
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2. Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, at Eric Firestone Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 17
Rumi’s art will be in an Exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery this month. Hope to see you there:
Godzilla: Echoes from the 1990s Asian American Arts Network
4 & 40 Great Jones Street | New York, NY
Opening Reception: January 17, 6-8PM
January 17 – March 16, 2024
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3. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Stanya Kahn, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, receive Anonymous Was a Woman 2023 awards
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Mead Museum, Amherst College, MA, Jan. 26-June 9
Please visit this link:
https://www.aws.amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2024/like-a-slow-walk-with-trees-alicia-grullon
Thank you.
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6. Kenneth King, FF Member, new movie now online
Flash Points [5:34″] — Digital media enable us to perceive info, details, and nuances much more quickly. For this iMovie, I’ve “gene s(p)liced” movements from an ongoing dance solo by using iPhone and computer to transform the intervals and movement sequences. The voiceover is a revelatory text by Albert Einstein.
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Happy New Year and Thank You!
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7. Richard Alpert, FF Alumn, at The Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, opening Jan. 27
The Museum of Sonoma County (MSC), located in downtown Santa Rosa, will present A Question of Balance, featuring the work of the Pacific Rim Sculptors (PRS) from January 27 – May 26, 2024, with an opening reception Saturday, January 27, 3 – 5 pm. Among the selections is Richard H. Alpert’s “Suess’s Rain,” chosen by esteemed jurors: Jeff Nathanson, the MSC’s executive director and art curator, alongside Kate Eilertsen, executive director and chief curator of the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art.
The theme of “A Question of Balance” delves into the multifaceted interpretations of “balance.” Whether evoking concepts of gravity, mathematics, accounting, or juxtaposing ideas, the essence remains consistent. At its core, balance signifies a state of equilibrium, an even distribution, or a force that brings harmony.
Suess’ Rain is a sculpture balanced on a single point on top of a steel rod. Part of the Primary Traces series, it is a testament to the delicate equilibrium between curiosity, scientific inquiry, and empirical exploration. It captures the essence of child-like playfulness while simultaneously offering a profound reflection of unwavering respect for the world of science and its exacting investigative processes.
Museum of Sonoma County
425 Seventh Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Please visit this link:
https://museumsc.org/upcoming-exhibitions/
Thank you.
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8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Jefferson Market Library, Manhattan, Jan. 13
Galinsky presents: A Vigorous Reading of a new solo show “Everything In New York Goes BANG!”
New York NY: Following a sold out one-night performance in Hollywood CA, Galinsky brings a free vigorous reading of his newest solo show “Everything in New York Goes BANG!” to the Jefferson Market Library (in the Willa Cather program room on the first floor) Saturday January 13th, 3pm, FREE
In this much-anticipated-one-person show, Galinsky recounts his journey from childhood in the suburbs of Connecticut, through his interactions with hipsters in the Lower East Side of New York City, to his work with young people incarcerated on Rikers Island Jail. Expertly embodying multiple characters through storytelling and rock-star level poetry, he explores the harmony and turmoil of living in New York City from his arrival in the late 1980’s to his exile and banishment from the notorious Rikers Island Jail in 2022.
“Galinsky’s ‘BANG!’ is touching, sweet, grungy, and saturated with humor. The word play has a musicality to it that is likened to the beat poets of the 50s and at times, dips into the coolness and complexity of a Charlie Parker bebop jazz piece.” Mark Schoenfeld, Creator of “Brooklyn the Musical.”
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9. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Provincetown Harbor, MA, Jan. 7
Greetings,
Happy Holidaze!
You are invited to the 41st annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony
Sunday, January 7, 2024, 4:00 pm, Provincetown Harbor (MA) USA
In the darkest days of a New England winter, after the “Twelve Days of Stockpiling” of the consumptive holidays, a band of people will huddle together on the sand flats in Provincetown Harbor to sing, chant and purge personal, political and psychic detritus from the previous year. It’s January 7, 2024 and time for the president of the IRS (International Re-Rooters Society), Jay Critchley, to preside over this deep-rooted, historic, global ritual at 4:00 pm, East End, Harbor Hotel beach, Provincetown Harbor.
This post-Christmas, post-consumptive binging start up was born in 1983 at the Provincetown dump when Critchley created a forest of discarded Christmas trees and stood them up in the piles of wrapping paper, ribbons, turkey bones and garbage. For 40 years, the annual community ritual has been enacted in Provincetown Harbor on January 7, a purging of political and personal distress from the year gone by. The mission of the IRS is to re-root ourselves to and embrace the earth body and all of our human and non-human relatives.
In preparation for the ceremony, the artist builds a makeshift boat and compiles words, ideas and extrapolates from the evolving language of the year from various media sources and writings. The words form the basis of the theme and content of the ceremony, culminating in the “Ten Commandments” call and response.
Previous themes include: Grass-fed Capitalism, 2023; Meta-purse, 2022; Viral Warming, 2021; Extractive Democracy, 2020; Oil My Lips,1991; Free ‘rade, 2002; Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 1994; Sports Futility Vehicles, 1999; and 2013’s Pistol Cliff; ). The ceremony is officiated by the artist, with song, ranting, chanting and the placement of participants’ discarded (non-toxic) messages on the tree/boat. The rite concludes with the dramatic burning of a recycled Christmas tree on the vessel, sent out into the harbor at sunset.
Jay is a conceptual and multidisciplinary artist, writer and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Ireland and Columbia.
He was honored by the Massachusetts State Legislature as an artist and founder and director of the Provincetown Community Compact, producer of the Swim for Life, which has raised $6M for AIDS, women’s health and the community.
Jay has had residencies at: Santa Fe Art Institute, NM; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain; CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NYC; Milepost 5, Portland, OR; Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry, Ireland; and Harvard University where he also lectured.
His movie, Toilet Treatments, won an HBO Award and he recently gave a TEDx Talk: Portrait of the Artist as a Corporation.
Jay Critchley
Founder & Director
Provincetown Community Compact
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Thank you.
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10. Paul Zaloom, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
Lynn Jeffries + Paul Zaloom present their latest satirical short, ‘Twas, just in time for the butt end of the holidaze!
In a hilarious contemporary adaptation of Clement Clark Moore’s epic poem ‘Twas the Night before Christmas, a gaggle of vintage Xmas knickknacks are wiggled around as puppets in the most naughty but nice way.
Please like, share, and slobber over the brief epic and subscribe to YouTube channel FruitofZaloom Instagram: paulzaloom + realbeakman for more ribald amusement.
Made possible with support from our own moth-eaten pockets.
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Thank you.
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11. Ida Applebroog, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
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Thank you.
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12. Federico Hewson, FF Member, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdWOgMA2t9k
Thank you.
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