Contents for April 15, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace receives renewed Jerome Foundation support for 2024-26
1. Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, Modesto Jimenez, Lorraine O’Grady, James Scruggs, FF Alumns, receive Guggenheim Fellowships 2024
2. Pearl Ubungen, FF Alumn, at Clarion Performing Arts Center, San Francisco, CA, May 4 and more
3. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, April 22, and more
4. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, opening April 18
5. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Amherst College, MA, April 23
6. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, at Shoshinkan, Nagano, Japan, May 23-28, and more
7. Sarah Paulson, FF Alumn, at The Belasco Theatre, Manhattan
8. Ruth Wallen, FF Alumn, at Phes Gallery, Carlsbad Village, CA, thru June 15
9. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
10. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, now online and more
11. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at Pix11.com
12. Carole Naggar, FF Member, at Yoho Artists Open Studio, Yonkers, NY, May 4-5
13. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at vimeo.com
14. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, April 24-25
15. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at Paris Koh Fine Arts, Fort Lee, NJ, thru April 2
16. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at University of Athens, Greece, April 17-20
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace receives renewed Jerome Foundation support for 2024-26
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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1. Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, Modesto Jimenez, Lorraine O’Grady, James Scruggs, FF Alumns, receive Guggenheim Fellowships 2024
Congratulations to Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn, Modesto Jimenez, Lorraine O’Grady, James Scruggs, FF Alumns, on their 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships – more information at this link:
https://www.gf.org/announcements/
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2. Pearl Ubungen, FF Alumn, at Clarion Performing Arts Center, San Francisco, CA, May 4 and more
Lady Justice’s Cabaret Sandia | watermelon cabaret
May 4th @ Clarion Performing Arts Center in Chinatown.
Seating is limited.
Special $27 tickets for front row seats available until April 22nd.
Direct message pearlubungen for details.
Procession with Lady Justice starting at Jack Kerouac Alley near City Lights + Vesuvio Cafe 6:30pm.
Cabaret Sandia | watermelon cabaret at Clarion Performing Arts Center 2 Waverly Place 7pm.
Featuring:
Salim Washington, saxophone
Bruce Ackely, saxophone
David James, guitar
Randy Odell, drums
Caroline Chung, bass
Alison Cao, viola + movement
KJ Dahlaw, movement
Directed and conceived by pearl ubungen.
Cabaret Sandia | watermelon cabaret is a project of
Sacred City | pearl ubungen
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3. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, April 22, and more
Thursday, April 18th, 9:30 pm at Fringearts – Philadelphia
https://fringearts.com/event/dynasty-handbag-the-bored-identity/
HAGGS at NIGHT OF 1000 Kates, Union Transfer, 7:30 pm Philadelphia
Monday, April 22, The Bored Identity, Joe’s Pub, 9:30 pm NYC
https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2024/d/dynasty-handbag
Sunday, May 12 – Los Angeles
Weirdo Night, Zebulon – 7:30
Singles Retreat – Solo Performance Workshop
coming in late May – stay toont >>> email me for pre-sale info! dynastyhandbag@gmail.com
and online with Stanya Kahn, Joseph Keckler, FF Alumns,THE CANNES OF TUNA FILM FELTSIVEAL is streaming now for your discomfort
To fill your giant Weirdo Night gap this month, please enjoy March’s magnificent WN with very short films and special live performances by gay performers Joseph Keckler and Love Conni
Hosted by Dynasty Handbag as Max the Lobster
Cannes of Tuna
Official Selections + Run Of Show
Kat Toledo – 200K
Michela Micalizio – Lunch
Christina Catherine Martinez – Waldeaux – Ou-Es Tu
Stanya Kahn – Magic Is Hard
Calvin Reeder – The Procedure Part 1
performance by Love Connie
Kate Saubestre – Late Night Snack
Beth Pickens + Nicole Georges – (failed) Amazing Race Submission Tape
Todd Moellenberg (untitled Folgers)
Grace Whiteside – Water Me Daddy
Scotty Slade Wagner – PT Cruiser
performance by Joseph Keckler
Jeremy Jacob – dirt(y) bag
Chris Vargas – Affrimations_Manifesations
Amy Von Harrington + Candy Pain – Official Candy Pain The Movie trailer
Carla de Jesus Jerez – Johnny Tosses Your Salad
Rose Chirillo + Alix Bloom Corn Hub
Abby Lloyd – Baby Wonderland
*content warning – babys assses
Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs – Driveway Dance
Calvin Reeder – The Procedure Part 2
*this guy got 2 submissions cuz they were the grossest and best production value buttholes
surprise mistake video
the end thank gottesssssssssssss
WN live – shot and edited by Matt Savitsky
Thank you.
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4. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, opening April 18
Excited about showing my underwater practice as part of HOW SOFT YOU WANT IT.
In love with the work of the selected artists, and the curation of Kexun Zhang @corlboro_z SVA MA Curatorial Practice.
Posted @withregram • @corlboro_z
How Soft You Want It
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 18, 2024, 6:00-9:00 PM
April 18 – May 1, 2024
On view Monday – Sunday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
To schedule an appointment to view the exhibition, please dm me or contact kzhang21@sva.edu
Artists: @santina_amato , @f___________mr , @veronica.pena.live.art , @barbject , @k.a.t.e.s.t.o.n.e
Curator: Kexun Zhang
This exhibition investigates the concept of softness as an inherent trait of humanity and as a revelation of human vulnerability. It is a call to reexamine the definition of power in a time of escalating conflict and violence, and an invitation to unearth the virtue of resilience when grappling with chaos.
Through her doughy sculptures, Santina Amato interprets the aesthetics of softness, guiding us to redefine power amid destruction and reconstruction. Verónica Peña exposes her body to delve into the suffocating current that deprives people of their subjectivity, inviting us to breathe in unison and acknowledge our unavoidable vulnerability. Kate Stone’s idiosyncratic sculptures, made from carpeting, highlight the human paradox of desiring while avoiding softness, and question our fear of failing in the face of the unknown. Fernando Monroy’s work presents an interweaving of pain, confrontation, and desire, playfully interrogating the allure and brutality of violence. Barb Smith‘s installations involve an interaction between bodies and memory foam, intimating our longing for intimacy and the power dynamics beneath it.
The exhibition is an open question—an incomplete sentence waiting to be completed by a collective narrative that underscores the courage to embrace softness. Vulnerability is an essential element of our humanity, though it invites suffering. Here, we acknowledge and celebrate softness as it helps us to endure, adapt, and transform ourselves and the world around us.
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5. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Amherst College, MA, April 23
Alicia Grullon will be in conversation with Elizabeth Ferrer on Tuesday April 23rd, 2024 from 6-7 pm at Amherst College on her new work for the Mead Museum of Art, “Like a Slow Walk with Trees,” a meditation on land and labor and the unity of these seemingly divergent topics.
https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/events/node/909410
“Artist Alicia Grullón speaks with art historian and curator Elizabeth Ferrer in connection with Grullón’s current solo exhibition at the Mead, Like a Slow Walk with Trees. Reflecting research on recent protests in a range of industries, such as mining, shipping, and entertainment, Grullón poetically knits together the direct language often used in protests with other references that layer and complicate associations while addressing current issues.”
Like a Slow Walk with Trees January 26, 2024 through June 23rd, 2024. *Please note that the exhibition will be closed to the public May 3rd – 24th while an adjacent gallery is undergoing installation.
Alicia Grullon
Like a Slow Walk with Trees
https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2024/like-a-slow-walk-with-trees-alicia-grullon
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world and you have to do it all the time.”- Angela Davis
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6. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, at Shoshinkan, Nagano, Japan, May 23-28, and more
Small Artwork Shot – Art for Happiness, at Shioskinkan, Nagano, Japan, May 23-28, 2024, 10am-6pm.
and at
Studio 34, 34-01 38th Avenue, 4th Floor, Long Island City, Queens, opening November 6, 5-8 pm and continuing thru Nov. 10, 1-6 pm.
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7. Sarah Paulson, FF Alumn, at The Belasco Theatre, Manhattan
You’re invited to one helluva family reunion.
Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Paulson leads “one of the best casts on Broadway” (Deadline) in APPROPRIATE, a darkly comic American family drama by Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Neighbors) under the direction of Drama Desk Award winner Lila Neugebauer (The Ally).
“A blockbuster, knockdown, drag-out drama.” — The New Yorker
Tickets & Tables
Access tickets starting at $69
full info online at http://appropriateplay.com
in person at the Belasco Theatre, 111 W. 44th Street, Manhattan
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8. Ruth Wallen, FF Alumn, at Phes Gallery, Carlsbad Village, CA, thru June 15
Ruth Wallen has work in the group exhibition Roots at Phes Gallery, 2633 State St., Carlsbad Village, CA, thru June 15
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9. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Berlin Was a Beacon of Artistic Freedom. Gaza Changed Everything.
Thank you.
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10. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, now online and more
After Mallarmé
12 April—19 July 2024
Opening: 11 April | 6–8pm
Dear Friends,
Join us for the opening of ‘After Mallarmé’, a group show in three parts curated by Michael Newman, on Thursday 11 April 6-8pm.
Three rolling exhibitions will trace aspects of the legacy of the poet Stéphane Mallarmé in contemporary art, drawing on his poem ‘A throw of the dice will never abolish chance’ and his posthumously published notes towards a ‘book performance’. Mallarmé has had a great influence on visual art, ranging from text and newspaper collage in Cubism, through Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, to Marcel Broodthaers. Rather than direct influence, these exhibitions will ‘read’ the work of certain contemporary artists through Mallarmé.
The exhibitions will open with an exploration of the page as a place and the place, including the gallery, as a page, on which and in which the work of art becomes an event and a journey. Could these ‘pages’ form a book, and what, then, would be the relation between book and world.
We all look forward to seeing you.
Large Glass | 392 Caledonian Rd London N1 1DN UK
and please visit this link to a 1 min. 45 second video by Peter Downsbrough
https://publication.place-plateforme.com/hors-serie15-peter-Downsbrough
Thank you.
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11. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at Pix11.com
Please visit this link to a two minute news report:
https://pix11.com/video/nyc-program-saves-supplies-for-teachers-artists/9591626
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12. Carole Naggar, FF Member, at Yoho Artists Open Studio, Yonkers, NY, May 4-5
Carole Naggar is participating in YohoArtists.org’s 20th Anniversary Open Studios, May 4-5, 11am-5 pm, 540 and 578 Nepperham Avenue, Yonkers, NY.
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13. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at vimeo.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, April 24-25
Survey of Susan Moguls films at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna
April 24 and 25 2024
Thank you.
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15. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at Paris Koh Fine Arts, Fort Lee, NJ, thru April 2
“Verba Volant, Scripta Manent: Despo Magoni, Heejung Kim, Mark Bloch
From April 2nd – 27th, 2024
Heejung Kim
https://www.facebook.com/heejung.kim.33886305
Mark Bloch
https://www.facebook.com/panmodern
Paris Koh Fine Arts (201 Bridge Plaza North, Suite 1, Fort Lee, NJ)
Curator: Thalia Vrachopoulos
Paris Koh Fine Arts proudly presents Verba volant, Scripta manent: Despo Magoni, Heejung Kim, Mark Bloch an exhibition of artist books running from April 2nd through 27th, 2024 and celebrated with an opening reception on Saturday April 6th from 5-7PM.
Despite the omnipresent dominance of Gutenbergian mass production, since the 18th century, many artists and poets like William Blake endeavored to reverse the industrial secularization of this printed medium, by designing and painting their hand-made books like medieval scribes. This artistic practice reached its zenith during the 20th century with the Russian avant-garde, as well as the Futurists in Italy or the Surrealists and the Dadaists in France, giving birth to the so-called artist books. After World War II, numerous conceptual artists and Fluxus members utilized the artbook form as a novel way of personal expression and artistic creation in the world of contemporary art.
For example, Despo Magoni, in her mixed media series entitled A Thousand and One Nights, consciously uses the book format to narrate via her expressionist figures, the iconic story of Scheherazade and her personal struggle against a violent and patriarchic culture. Mark Bloch as a conceptual artist utilizes the written word (advertisements, postcards, correspondence letters etc.) to reflect on the constant reshaping and the eventual variation of script or the book medium in today’s electronic and digital world. Finally, Heejung Kim’s artist books push the imaginative production of the medium to its outmost limits of formal innovation wherein her artbooks reforge in a sculptural-haptic manner, everything we know about the book format.
Despo Magoni, Mark Bloch and Heejung Kim manage through their artist books to overcome the limiting boundaries of their art medium. They re-introduce to the viewer an imaginative play of all the senses, reverting to a primordial state of artistic creation, where each book constituted a unique work of art of a holistic quality (combining image, text, sculpture, calligraphy and design); something that had been missing in Western culture for almost 300 years.
For More Information:
Paris Koh Fine Arts, 201 Bridge Plaza North, Fort Lee, NJ 07024. — 201 724 7077 pariskohfinearts@gmail.com
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16. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at University of Athens, Greece, April 17-20
University of Athens, Greece. 17 – 20. April 2024.
The Conference organisers and yours truly welcome artists, friends, scholars, colleagues and visitors around to join a great variety of speakers including performers on the topic of EXPANDED SCENOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SPACE –
Friday 19. April 16.30 h. my live performance: I Can’t Stop The Volume! Peace Will Come To Me!! takes place at the Hall with the Statues, University Campus.
ARK [Unknown Pleasures] – Video of fragmented performances in Tel Aviv 2007 [BLURRR 5. Biennial of Performance Art. Camera: Ruti Sela] will be presented in the Screening Programme, throughout the conference a.o.
Programme:
www.peterbaren.com
Thank you. Peter Baren
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