Contents for November 25th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, new film trailer online at https://oldgirlinatutu.com/
2. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
3. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, at Soho Rep, Manhattan, extended thru Dec. 22
4. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, thru Feb. 15, 2025
5. Joyce Kozloff, Liz Phillips, Liliana Porter, FF Alumns, receive 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman Awards
6. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
7. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
8. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, upcoming events
9. Shelly Rice, FF Alumn, new publication
10. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at International Video Art Festival, Nice, France, Nov. 30
11. Vernon Fisher, FF Alumn, at Buffalo AKG, NY, Dec. 1
12. Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Denes, Barbara Hammer. Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro, Nina Sobell, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, in Harpers’ Bazaar China, now online
13. Martha Rosler, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic.com
14. Reverend Billy, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, and online, Dec. 1-22
15. Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at EarSay, Manhattan, Dec. 8
16. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, live online, Dec. 5
17. Mimi Smith, FF Alumn, at Art Basel, Miami, FL, Dec. 5-8
18. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at PAWA, New Zealand, November 25-30
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1. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, new film trailer online at https://oldgirlinatutu.com/
I’ve completed a new short film now entering the film festival circuit—Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History. Here’s the logline: Feminist scholar, Susan Rennie, seizes her iPhone and sneaks her queer, octogenarian body into master works of art, disrupting the narrative of the male gaze.
How does this connect to Acting Like Women? Each new film sharpens my skills. I filmed this entirely on my iPhone, navigated music licensing, and refreshed my editing abilities. It also reconnected me with film festival programmers, helping me build momentum and share that Acting Like Women will follow next year.
watch trailer here: https://oldgirlinatutu.com/
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2. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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3. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, at Soho Rep, Manhattan, extended thru Dec. 22
Dear Friends,
Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! is extending again for the final time through December 22!
For December 17–21, extension tickets will remain at $75. This is the lowest price at which an extension will “break even” in our 65-seat (for now) theater. Of your $75 ticket purchase, $70.50 will go directly towards paying the cast, creative team, and crew who bring this show to life every night.
There are still ways to see this show for any budget:
$20 Rush Tickets at almost every show. Cash only, first-come, first-served.
Our second and final 99¢ Sunday for Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! will be this Sunday, November 24!
Tickets through December 1 are $35-45. While many performances are sold out, tickets do become available as we receive returns and release holds, so keep checking our website.
At the wildly other end of the spectrum, the final performance of Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! on December 22, and the final ever show at 46 Walker, will be a benefit performance.
90% of Soho Rep’s budget comes from donations! If you have the means to make a year-end gift to Soho Rep, we hope you will consider joining us at Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! and celebrating the more than 30 years of memories we’ve made together at 46 Walker Street on December 22 at 7:30pm. Soho Rep is not a building, but rather a constellation of values. In true Soho Rep fashion, our intent is to direct as much of your donations as possible straight into our mission-driven work. So, the benefit evening will include a post-show pizza party with Soho Rep staff and artists, but most importantly it will underwrite our next wave of extraordinary productions by radical theater makers, keep our starting ticket prices cheap, and provide living wages to artists. Tickets for this benefit performance start at $1,000 and each ticket, less $75 per seat, is tax-deductible.
See you at the theater!
Love,
Soho Rep
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4. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, thru Feb. 15, 2025
Work by Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns is included in Hal Bromm Gallery’s The Queer Show Part 1, thru Feb. 15. 2022
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5. Joyce Kozloff, Liz Phillips, Liliana Porter, FF Alumns, receive 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman Awards
Please visit this link:
https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/2023-1
Thank you.
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6. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/25/give-me-carmelita-tropicana-theatre-review-gatz
Thank you.
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7. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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8. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, upcoming events
Upcoming live stuff
Dec 1st – Weirdo Night – at Zebulon, Los Angeles https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/2w97x7-weirdo-night-with-dynasty-handbag-1st-dec-zebulon-los-angeles-tickets?dice_id=4545174&dice_channel=web&dice_tags=organic&dice_campaign=DICE&dice_feature=mio_marketing&_branch_match_id=1384536561034301614&utm_source=web&utm_campaign=DICE&utm_medium=mio_marketing&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9ZLyUxO1UvL1S%2B2SDNPsTBPMjZPSrSvK0pNSy0qysxLj08qyi8vTi2ydc4oys9NBQDiFVvOOwAAAA%3D%3D
Dec 16th – READING! from my upcoming book – at Scribble more TBA
Jan 4th – Weirdo Night 2024 edition LOL
Jan 17th + 18th – Bored Identity at The Lab, SF – tickets – https://www.thelab.org/projects/2024/6/18/dynasty-handbag-the-bored-identity-h8ckj
March 27th – 29th – Titanic Depression – On The Boards, Seattle – tickets: https://ontheboards.org/events/24-25/dynasty-handbag
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9. Shelly Rice, FF Alumn, new publication
Image Making: Essays on Visual Culture 1978-2018
Shelley Rice
Long before social media created a surfeit of globally interconnected images, the art world opened its previously narrow confines to include the true diversity of image production. Image Making chronicles Shelley Rice’s skillful navigation of two pivotal moments in this transformation: the pluralism of New York in the 1970s and the global outreach of digital networks in the 2010s. As one of our era’s most incisive and inspired photography and multimedia critics, Rice’s insightful reviews and articles chronicle this seismic shift, offering a deeply resonant exploration of art’s intersection with society. Her critical engagement with renowned artists and curators such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Ana Mendieta, Francesca Woodman, Lorraine O’Grady, Duane Michals, Gerhard Richter, Okwui Enwezor, Walid Raad, and Cindy Sherman sets a standard for understanding contemporary art and the vital role a seminal critic plays in shaping our visual culture. Image Making is indispensable reading for anyone interested in contemporary art, the role of criticism, and the deep interdependence of images and social, cultural, and political forces.
Shelley Rice is a renowned art critic and historian who has lectured on photography and visual media art worldwide. She is the author of Parisian Views and Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman; co-author of The Book of 101 Books, Paris et le Daguerreotype, JacquesHenri Lartigue, Vik Muniz: Incomplete Works, Candida Höfer: In Portugal, Marc Ferrez: Rio, and Unbranded: A Century of White Women by Hank Willis Thomas. Her writings have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Art Journal, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Tate Papers, Bookforum, and Aperture, among others. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hasselblad Center grant, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, Fulbrights to France and Turkey, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and the PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay. In 2010 she was named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. She teaches at New York University.
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10. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at International Video Art Festival, Nice, France, Nov. 30
videos by N-VR, Zoé Gruni, Daniel Rothbart, Simon Couvin, Nicole Cohen, Adrianne Wortzel and Hélène Mukhtar screened in synergy with OVNI (the International Video Art Festival), Audio Video Design, Bang & Olufsen, and the Depardieu gallery, at an international day of art videos. art. November 30. Nice, France.
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11. Vernon Fisher, FF Alumn, at Buffalo AKG, NY, Dec. 1
Join us on Sunday, December 1st, for a film screening of “Breaking the Code,” a documentary film about the life and career of artist Vernon Fisher, followed by a conversation with Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director Janne Sirén and the film’s director, Michael Flanagan.
The Buffalo AKG hosted a major retrospective of the work of this Texas-based artist in 1989 and the film features interviews with former curator Cheryl Brutvan and former chief curator Michael Auping.
$20 general admission / $15 for AKG members
Lipsey Auditorium, Knox Building
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12. Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Denes, Barbara Hammer. Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro, Nina Sobell, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, in Harpers’ Bazaar China, now online
Many thanks to Peifen Sung for her article in #HarpersBazaarChina, reporting on the exhibit “Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991” at MUDAM Luxembourg, curated by the brilliant #MichelleCotton with the able assistance of #SarahBeaumont! Here is the original article: https://lnkd.in/drnZJQqa … and here is a Google translation into English: https://lnkd.in/d4KFAeXF
Artists in the exhibit:
Rebecca Allen
Elena Asins
Colette Stuebe Bangert & Charles Jeffries Bangert
Gretchen Bender
Gudrun Bielz & Ruth Schnell
Dara Birnbaum
Inge Borchardt
Barbara Buckner
Doris Chase
Analívia Cordeiro
Betty Danon
Hanne Darboven
Bia Davou
Agnes Denes
VALIE EXPORT
Anna Bella Geiger
Isa Genzken
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Lily Greenham
Samia Halaby
Barbara Hammer
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Grace C. Hertlein
Channa Horwitz
Irma Hünerfauth
Charlotte Johannesson
Alison Knowles
Beryl Korot
Katalin Ladik
Ruth Leavitt
Liliane Lijn
Vera Molnár
Monique Nahas & Hervé Huitric
Katherine Nash
Sonya Rapoport
Deborah Remington
Sylvia Roubaud
Miriam Schapiro
Lillian Schwartz
Sonia Sheridan
Nina Sobell
Barbara T. Smith
Tamiko Thiel
Rosemarie Trockel
Joan Truckenbrod
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Ulla Wiggen
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13. Martha Rosler, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Reverend Billy, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, and online, Dec. 1-22
Sundays, December 1, 8, 15, 22 @ 6 PM
Extinction…The Musical
Our songs ask us to know – The Earth is Alive! Extinction is a mass death mass life proceeding and through it all the Earth Lives! And our music is the communication pathway to the mysterious Earth, and to each other.
EXTINCTION! the Musical premieres on Sunday December 1st at 6pm, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette, Astor Place, NYC.
Livestream on Joe’s Pub Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@joespubnyc
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15. Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at EarSay, Manhattan, Dec. 8
Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer, co-founders EarSay
December 8th at 2:30 PM
Doors Open at 2 pm
Where: Art New York Studios, 520 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan 3rd floor
Tickets in advance recommended – limited seating
go to earsay.org and follow the link here directly: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/TWC6YJBDUN9BA
EarSay invites you to a Sunday afternoon of readings/performances about surviving under authoritarian rule, code-switching, escaping war, applying for grants, regaining language after a stroke, and more. All selections from new, not so new, and forthcoming books and theater works by Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan that combine pathos, humor, and a love of the absurd. Lehrer and Sloan are joined by Palestinian actor and comedian Grace
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16. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, live online, Dec. 5
12/5/24: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Susan Mogul w/Alexandra Juhasz
Thursday Dec. 5, hourlong virtual screening/discussion of the work of Susan Mogul, moderated by Alexandra Juhasz 7 pm EST
Note: this event will be closed captioned. For additional accessibility requests, please email info@mediaburn.org
Join us on Thursday, December 5 for a screening and discussion with pioneering video artist Susan Mogul, moderated by scholar and filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz. The screening will include selections of Mogul’s foundational early videos – essential parts of the feminist video canon – and more recent innovative work.
The screening will include:
Dressing Up (1973) (Excerpt)
Take Off (1974) (Excerpt)
Mogul Is Mobil Redux (1975/2022)
Comedy as a Back Up (1976) (Excerpt)
Sing O Barren Woman (2001) (Excerpt)
Tell Me About Your Mother (2024) (Excerpt)
Having been involved with video since the early 1970s, Susan Mogul is a pioneer of the medium. Initially producing an important and influential series of humorous and staunchly feminist performance videos, her practice quickly expanded to more complicated and experimental forms of narrative and documentary. Throughout her career, Mogul’s work has remained fiercely political and incisive while being accessible, entertaining, and often utterly hilarious.
Mogul moved to California in 1973 to study with Judy Chicago in the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, quickly becoming a central figure in the community of feminist artists in Los Angeles. Her early video pieces were sharply hilarious feminist critiques, taking cues as much from standup comedy as they did from performance art or documentary film.
Mogul’s video work would take many forms over the subsequent years, often finding new and surprising ways of approaching autobiography, mixing memoir and personal musings with a wide range of styles, genres, and mediums. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Trust, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and the ITVS Commission. Her work has been exhibited and screened around the world, including the Getty Museum, the Pompidou, the Kunsthaus Graz, and the Austrian Film Museum. Her 2008 documentary Driving Men played to great acclaim at film festivals around the world. In 2022, a major, career-spanning survey of Mogul’s work, “Susan Mogul: What Becomes a Legend Most?,” was mounted at Warsaw’s Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Alexandra Juhasz is a scholar and media artist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005), Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking, co-edited with Yvonne Welbon (2018), We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, with Thedore Kerr (Duke University Press, 2022), and My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy (2022). She has directed the feature documentaries Women of Vision: 18 Histories of Feminist Film and Video (1998), Dear Gabe (2003), Video Remains (2005), and SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age (2008), and the short videos RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Film (2000) and Naming Prairie (2001). She is the producer of the featuring films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010), both directed by Cheryl Dunye. Juhasz’s current work engages with COVID and AIDS, fake news, online feminist pedagogy, and other radical uses of digital media.
Register for this event for free here: https://mediaburn.org/events/12-5-24-virtual-talks-with-video-activists-susan-mogul/
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17. Mimi Smith, FF Alumn, at Art Basel, Miami, FL, Dec. 5-8
I have been showing with Luis De Jesus Gallery in LA. They are featuring my work with the television drawings from the ’70s at Art Basel Miami, Dec 5-8. Thank you. Mimi Smith
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18. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at PAWA, New Zealand, November 25-30
ALBARKAS PERFORMANCE
“Faced with the approaching steps of the inevitable, I felt the impulse of taking with me the little pair of albarkas my hands had saved for so many years. What do we carry with us? What is so important as to drag it against the asphalt beyond the sea, time, and distance? What impractical objects are close to your chest at home, or echoing the past in your migrating suitcase?”
For her durational performance ALBARKAS, Verónica Peña will wander through the streets of Wellington, embraced by the fragrance of memory. She will carry—and be carried by—a large, foreign object inspired by a traditional albarka, footwear originally made of calf-leather from the Basque Country (Spain), where the artist spent her childhood with her grandparents.
Motivated by the uncontrollable nature of change, this performance challenges the familiar of the everyday. It reveals a body caught between the fortune and pain of existence—moving and pausing, filled yet empty, grounded yet trapped, collective yet solitary. Through her journey, the artist’s numbness dismantles, leaving behind traces of emotion, care, and liberation.
Albarkas invites spectators to reflect on the deeper layers of their own lives, questioning what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what is carried forward.
https://www.performanceartweekaotearoa.com/
VERÓNICA PEÑA (US/Spain) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Her performance installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, empathy, and women’s empowerment. Peña performs/exhibits primarily in Europe and America. In America: Museo Ex Teresa (ZonaMACO, Mexico City, 2022), SatelliteArt Fair (Miami Art Week, 2021), ChaShaMa (NYC, 2021), Grace Exhibition Space (NYC, 2021), Franklin Furnace (NYC, 2021), NARS Foundation (Artist-In-Residence, 2021), Coaxial Arts Foundation (LA, 2021), Pioneer Works (2020-canceled due to Covid-19), Smack MellonFoundation, Triskelion Arts, Hemispheric Institute, Queens Museum, SAIC (Visiting Artist), Times Square, Armory Show, Defibrillator Performance Gallery, Momenta Art Gallery, Dumbo Arts Festival, Consulate of Spain in NY, among others. Europe: Fundación Bilbaoarte (Bilbao, 2021), Museo La NeomudéJar (Madrid, 2019), Friche La Belle De Mai (Marseille, 2018), Festival Intramurs (Valencia, 2018), Zaratan Arte Contemporáneo (Lisbon, 2017), among others. She was selected for the Creative Capital NYC Taller 2020, received a QAC Fund 2022, FCA Grant 2022, and a Franklin Furnace Fund 2018, among others. She published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She leads Performance Art Open Call, a +33,000 member FB Community. Peña received an MFA from Stony Brook University. https://veronicapena.com @veronica.pena.live.art
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