Contents for May 6, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Paul Auster, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
- Dread Scott, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
- Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, now online at leftartreview.org
- Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
- Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, now online at USAToday.com
- Catherine Chun Hua Dong, Chrysanne Stathacos, FF Alumns, longlisted for Sobey Art Award 2024
- Paulette Richards, FF Alumn, online puppetry seminar, July 4-16 and more
- Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, at Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, May 15
- Larry List, FF Alumn, at Initiatives in Art and Culture conference,Manhattan, May 10
- Jim Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at discopie.com
- David Cale, FF Alumn, at Theater Works Hartford, CT, May 30-June 23
- Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at college campuses across the U.S., until protests stop.
- Micki & Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, now online at NYPost.com, and more
- Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at Vimeo.com
- Jamie Martinez, FF Member, at GHOSTMACHINE Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 10
- Charles Clough, FF Alumn, at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 16
- Iris Rose, FF Alumn, now online at Etsy.com
- Billy X Curmano, FF Alumn, at Broken World Records, Winona, MN, May 11
- Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, at LIC Art Center, Queens, May 18-19
- Heidi Hatry, FF Member, at 207 Front Street, Manhattan, thru May 11
- Power Boothe, FF Alumn, at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, opening May 10
- Mark Bloch, Robert Morgan, FF Alumns, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
- Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at theannualgroupphotograph.com
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Paul Auster, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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1. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
The Artist Who Burned the U.S. Flag Raises a New One in Venice
Dread Scott’s unabashedly activist art once led to a Supreme Court ruling on free speech. Now during the Biennale, he tackles racist immigration policies.
Thank you.
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2. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, now online at https://leftartreview.org/
Check out new online journal. I have a piece in it.
Very Best,
Todd Ayoung
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3. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
Four videos introducing Ikeda’s frontline activities have been uploaded from YouTube. This is a transmission from the IPAMIA Archive, which is diligently developed by Sakiko Yamazaki. This is a precious documentary footage of artwork and performances that directly dive from art to the global environment issue. Anyway, if you look at it once and again to see how this is done, Earth Art that confronts the Earth’s environment will definitely power you up.
https://www.youtube.com/@ipamiaarchive/videos
The four videos are unique, each with a sense of scale and without any doubt.
“Water Factory for the Earth in 2025” The entire former waste factory in Yokawaguchi City has been transformed into a “Water Factory Water Factory”. Please support Ikedaichi, who works diligently to create water for the future.
“80L water tank @ Hanazaki river, Okinawa.” Documentary of people who cross rivers carrying 80 litres of water tank needed to survive a standard daily life. Is “hippo” a new breed?
“Singapore Marine” I hope you see the fruitful challenge of capturing life-sized human revival at Marina Bay Sands, a symbol of Singapore that is rapidly becoming ultra-modernized.
Water Orchestra@Yakushima Inside the “Fountain Water Tower” installed on the coast of Yakushima, a World Natural Heritage Island, the water plays magnificently at noon, evening, night, and dawn. Pay attention to earth art sounds, unlike any other in the world!
Feel relaxed and share earth environment art (earth art). As a step forward together.
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4. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, now online at USAToday.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Catherine Chun Hua Dong, Chrysanne Stathacos, FF Alumns, longlisted for Sobey Art Award 2024
Please visit this link:
https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sobey-art-award
Thank you.
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6. Paulette Richards, FF Alumn, online puppetry seminar, July 4-16 and more
Literature of World Puppetry
Why do puppets excel at telling the world’s most beloved stories?
Puppets can fly. Puppets can swim. They can be enormous or >ny. They can bring
animal, mineral, or vegetable as well as human characters to life. This introduc>on
to puppet dramaturgy will explore the enduring magic of staging the world’s literary masterpieces with puppets. Provided texts include:
The Ramayana
Raven stories
Punch and Judy
The Love Suicides at Amijima
Anansi stories
Orlando Furioso
Recommended text:
Reading the Puppet Stage: Reflec@ons on the Dramaturgy of Performing Objects by Claudia Orenstein
The seminar will meet virtually for 6 sessions on Tuesday evenings 7:30 – 9pm Eastern Time from June 4th to July 16th (no class July 2nd).
Come discuss selected scenes and video clips of performances in a supportive community of artists, educators, and puppet enthusiasts. Atlanta-based teaching artist and independent researcher, Dr. PauleUe Richards co-curated the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit at the University of Connecicut’s Ballard Instotute and Museum of Puppetry with Dr. John Bell. Her book, Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States won a 2024 Nancy Staub Award for excellence in wriitng on the art of puppetry from UNIMA-USA.
Questions? Contact paulette.richards3@gmail.com. To enroll visit:
Literature of World Puppetry
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Virtual seminar on the Metaphysics of Object Performance
Find inspiration for new work or useful insights about your current practice
through reflection on how object performance illuminates the
relationship between human consciousness and the material world.
The seminar will meet for 6 sessions on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 pm Eastern Time from June 6th to July 18th (No class July 4th). Each session will be devoted to one theorist whose writings are part of the “ontological turn.” Selected theorists will include Manuel DeLanda (new materialism), Bill Brown (thing theory), Graham Harman (object oriented ontology), Karen Barad (agential realism), Rosi Braidotti (the posthuman), and Jane Bennett (vibrant matter).
No written assignments, no required reading. Watch video presentations and discuss how the issues they raise apply to object performance in a supportive community of artists and puppet enthusiasts. Atlanta-based teaching artist and independent researcher, Dr. Paulette Richards co-curated the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit at the
University of Connecticut’s Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry with Dr. John Bell. Her book, Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States won a Nancy Staub Award for excellence in writing on the art of puppetry from UNIMA-USA. Questions? Contact paulette.richards3@gmail.com.
To enroll visit:
Metaphysics of Object Performance
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7. Peter d’Agostino FF Alumn, at Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, May 15
World-Wide-Walks @50 (1973-2023) Video screening and master class
at the Center for Art & Environment, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) Spain, May 15, 2024.
Peter d’Agostino: World-Wide-Walks @50 (1973-2023) The Polytechnic University of Valencia presents a selection of Peter d’Agostino’s climate and nuclear related video installations. Initially presented by Harvestworks Digital Arts Center to coincide with COP 28, the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2023, the May 15, 2024 presentation at UPV includes a master class. The videos focus on the broad global concerns addressed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock highlighting threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change and prevailing wars.
Video preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWJZitLryVM
Poster
http://www.upv.es/entidades/CIAE/menu_urlc.html?/entidades/CIAE/info/U0956196.pdf
UPV
http://www.upv.es/entidades/CIAE/noticia_1239154c.html
EAI
https://www.eai.org/artists/peter-d-agostino/titles
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8. Larry List, FF Alumn, at Initiatives in Art and Culture conference,Manhattan, May 10
Friday, May 10th, FF Alumn Larry List will be lecturing on “Modernism, Surrealism, Man Ray & Chess” at the Initiatives in Art and Culture (IAC)’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, Multiple Modernities to take place May 9 – 11, 2024 in New York City. For more information:
https://artinitiatives.com/2024-american-art-conference-multiple-modernities/
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9. Jim Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at discopie.com
Good morning, I’m happy to announce that I have posted two new paintings on my web site. You can see them here: http://www.discopie.com/paintings.html COMINGS & GOINGS, 2024, acrylic/canvas, 20 X 20” This painting was inspired by a passage from the Zen master, Dogen. “The coming and going of birth and death is the coming and going of radiant light.” X-SQUARE, 2024, acrylic/canvas, 20 X 20” I found the study (from 1985) for this painting in my flat files recently and realized that I never did anything with it. It only took about 40 years, but here it is! Peace, Jim
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10. David Cale, FF Alumn, at Theater Works Hartford, CT, May 30-June 23
Please visit this link:
https://twhartford.org/portfolio-items/sandra/
Thank you.
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11. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at college campuses across the U.S., until protests stop.
I wanted to add my voice in solidarity with the voices of free speech and divestment in the machinery of war and oppression. AR(t)* was the only way I could do that quickly and in multiple locations.
So far, I’ve placed guerilla AR(t) on the campuses of NYU and Columbia University, MIT, Yale, U of W–Madison, SUNY New Paltzz, Cornell, USC and 15 others.
To do this, I’ve used the “Scavengar – Easy AR creation” app & to view these pieces, you must also have the same app. (it’s free and works on most ios devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision pro.) When you get the app, simply use the “Map” button to find “experiences” near you or search under my name: “Norm Magnusson”. Then follow the arrows and see my sculptures right in an environment where they don’t actually exist. It’s pretty cool and makes me happy to be able to be join the protesters who are calling for peace.
* AR(t), or “Augmented Reality art”, is a transformative technology that overlays images, onto the physical world, enriching our perception of our surroundings.
About me:
I’ve been making “art of social conscience” for over 35 years. My “On This Site Stood” series subverts the format of a typical roadside historical marker to add the weight of historical importance to today’s most pressing social and political issues. This series has always been somewhat subversive and AR really heightens that element – allowing infinite additional opportunities to expand my on-going culture-jamming art. My art is in the permanent collections of places like NY’s MoMA, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Dorsky Museum, amongst many others.
For more info, email or track me down on instagram.
normmagnusson@aol.com
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12. Micki & Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, now online at NYPost.com, and more
Please visit this link:
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Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at TheGuardian.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/oldest-chinese-american-restaurant-chicago-cafe
Thank you.
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13. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at Vimeo.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Jamie Martinez, FF Member, at GHOSTMACHINE Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 10
Jamie Martinez: The Shadow of Colonialism curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés at Ghostmachine. The opening night is on May 10th from 6-9 pm. We will be serving drinks with a performance. Come and have some fun.
Please visit the link: https://www.ghostmachine.nyc/projects/jamie-martinez%3A-the-shadow-of-colonialism
“The shadow—that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guild-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors.”
Carl Jung
In Jamie Martinez’s solo show, The Shadow of Colonialism, history reverberates through time, posing questions to the collective unconscious and inviting reflection on the past to understand the present. Through performance and sculptures, Martinez exposes the profound repercussions of colonialism on both individual psyches and societal structures.
At the core of this exhibition is Carl Jung’s concept of the “shadow,” representing the hidden, unconscious aspects of our personality that we suppress or deny traits perceived as undesirable or shameful and often projected onto others instead of acknowledged within ourselves. Martinez, born in Colombia and raised in the United States, analyzes his own identity within a continent grappling with enduring colonial shadows.
At the heart of the exhibition stands a towering figure—an inflatable 15-foot Christopher Columbus—symbolizing historical significance. This performative sculpture evokes the dominant narrative of conquest and triumph that has overshadowed indigenous voices and histories in the Americas. Columbus embodies the triumphalist narrative of colonialism, yet deeper understanding prompts viewers to confront the shadows lurking beneath the surface. The most significant element, however, is the deflation of the towering Christopher Columbus figure after its rise. This act evokes a departure from the typical narrative of the conquistador always triumphing, re-examining the narrative of the Americas from the perspective of native peoples. By deflating Columbus, Martinez challenges the overpowering conquistador narrative that has historically dominated discussions about America, allowing marginalized voices and alternative histories to emerge.
Four clay-covered books, including Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes to Emperor Charles V, symbolize the brutal realities of conquest and exploitation, highlighting the erasure of indigenous voices from historical narratives obscured beneath layers of colonial propaganda.
GHOSTMACHINE Gallery, 23 Monroe Street, Manhattan
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15. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 16
Please visit this link:
https://anitashapolskygallery.com/newsite/
Thank you.
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16. Iris Rose, FF Alumn, now online at Etsy.com
Happy spring to one and all!
Back in 2016 I had my left leg in a cast for 2 months and all I wanted to do was crochet. I spent the first month crocheting a different kind of flower every day, but during the second month I found myself crocheting and embroidering 2-D images of household objects: a stepladder, a honey bear, a bottle of Shalimar perfume, a hat rack, a plaid thermos.
By the time I emerged from my confinement, I had 47 of these objects but no idea what to do with them. At last I have turned them into something practical: big, soft pillows, each bearing 11 or 12 of my beloved creations. A one-of-a-kind, handmade pillow would make a considerate gift for a dear friend or relative, or it could add new character to your own home after your dutiful spring cleaning. This project will certainly never be repeated, barring another lengthy convalescence, so get them while you can. Now available at my Etsy shop Haddock and Roses: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HADDOCKandROSES?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
Have a lovely month of May,
Iris Rose
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17. Billy X Curmano, FF Alumn, at Broken World Records, Winona, MN, May 11
Billy X Curmano and the New X Art Ensemble – 7th Annual Free Music Winona – May 11, Broken World Records, 3rd Street, Winona, MN, 8 pm.
Very special event – Musicians perform George Maciunas’ “Piano Piece #13” (The Carpenters’ Piece) around about 9.
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18. Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, at LIC Art Center, Queens, May 18-19
Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, is exhibiting at LIC Art Center, 4402 23rd St. Suite 310 LIC NY, May 18-19, 12-6 pm.
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19. Heidi Hatry, FF Member, at 207 Front Street, Manhattan, thru May 11
Dear Friends,
I’d like to share some very exciting news with you:
Two of my works are included in
The Golden Thread:
A Fiber Art Exhibition
curated by the visionary gallerists,
Karen Bravin and John Post Lee,
in a stunning old building at
207 Front Street, South Street Seaport
The show will run through May 12
https://www.bravinlee.com/#/current-exhibition
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20. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, opening May 10
Power Boothe, FF Alumn, presents Nothing, Then Everything, at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, opening May 10, 5-7 pm
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21. Mark Bloch, Robert Morgan, FF Alumns, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
Please visit this link:
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/books-made-by-three-artists/6341
Thank you.
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22. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at theannualgroupphotograph.com
The 26th Annual Group Photograph is now online. Filmed in The Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
Thank you.
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