Goings On: posted week of September 30, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Public Library, Oct. 15
2. Coco Fusco, Pope.L, FF Alumns, at artbasel.com now online
3. Alina and Jeff Bliumis, FF Alumns, at “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus, opening Oct. 9
4. Tom Brady, FF Alumn, at MAN in the BOX, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 4
5. Bartek Remisko at The Kosciuszko Foundation, Manhattan, opening Oct. 10
6. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan, opening October 19
7. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, opening Oct. 4.
8. Mona Hatoum, FF Alumn, named Praemium Imperial Laureate 2019
9. Joseph Keckler, FF Alumn, at artforum.com now online
10. Perry Bard, FF Alumn, on 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 19-20
11. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at hyperallergic.com now online
12. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, thru Nov. 23, and more
13. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at West End Lounge, Manhattan, Oct. 1, and more
14. Pablo Helguera, Morgan O’Hara, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Center, Manhattan, Oct. 17-19
15. Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumn, at Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, thru Oct. 11
16. Lynda Barry, FF Alumn, receives MacArthur Fellowship 2019
17. Robert C. Morgan, Valery Oisteneau, Bina Sharif, at Tompkins Square Library, Manhattan, Oct. 1-Nov. 23
18. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at LA MOCA, CA, Oct. 27, 2019 -May 11, 2020, and more
19. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Martha Pace Swift Gallery, San Diego, CA, opening October 4
20. Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumn, now online in CriticalCollective.in
21. Peter Downsbrough, Simon Cutts, Erica Van Horn, FF Alumns, new publication
22. Paul Henry Ramirez, FF Alumn, at El Paso Museum of Art, TX, thru Mar. 8, 2020
23. Hidemi Takagi, FF Alumn, at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, opening Oct. 3
24. Iris Rose, FF Alumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, Oct. 20
25. Ann Butler, FF Alumn, at CUE Art Foundation, Manhattan, Oct. 10
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1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Public Library, Oct. 15
Franklin Furnace: Performance Is Public Artist Talk and Reception
Tue, Oct 15 2019 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Central Library, Dweck Center
ADULTS BPL PRESENTS EXHIBITIONS
We welcome you to an artist talk with visionary artist and Franklin Furnace Founder Martha Wilson. Reception to follow with light fare and refreshments served.
About:
Martha Wilson is an American feminist artist and gallery director who began her career in the early 1970s in Halifax while studying English Literature at Dalhousie University and teaching English at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Working in a male-dominated Conceptualist milieu at that time, Wilson generated pioneering photographic and video work that explored her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations and invasions of male and other female personas. She further developed her performative practice after moving to New York City in 1974 where she also founded and continues to direct Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., a downtown artist-run center dedicated to the exploration and promotion of innovative installation, performance and time-based art practices.
This lecture chronicles the interwoven stages of Wilson’s creative contributions within the context of early feminist and socially engaged studio practice as well as her dissemination of the work of like-minded individuals through the auspices of Franklin Furnace. Central to the discussion is Wilson’s presence as an agent of transformative change, initially in her artwork and then her facilitation of cultural change through her leadership of Franklin Furnace. Wilson’s selection of 40 projects from 40 years of programming at Franklin Furnace also becomes a self-portrait of sorts as she highlights works that are historically significant for pushing boundaries within exhibition and display culture as well as society at large.
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/franklin-furnace-central-library-dweck-20191015
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2. Coco Fusco, Pope.L, FF Alumns, at artbasel.com now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.artbasel.com/stories/pope-l-conquest-new-york-crawl
thank you.
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3. Alina and Jeff Bliumis, FF Alumns, at “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus, opening Oct. 9
Alina Bliumis
Classification Patterns: Christian, Muhammad, Lee
Curated by Irena Popiashvili
October 9 – October 31, 2019
Opening: Wednesday, October 9, 19:00
“Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art
Minsk, vulica Kastryčnickaja, 19
The “Ў” gallery of contemporary art is pleased to present a solo-exhibition by the Belarus-born artist, Alina Bliumis. The artist was born in Minsk, but she received her education in New York and has exhibited extensively in the US and in Europe. This is Bliumis’ first solo exhibition in her native Belarus.
The title of the exhibition refers to the artist’s 2018-2019 text-based series Most of Us Are. This 14 part work describes how “most of us” are born, believe, worship, don’t eat, consume, own, lose, dream, and spend our lives. Bliumis used statistics, demographic research and opinion poll data to define the main characteristics of a global citizen, and then construct a verbal portrait of “the most typical person.” Statistically, it is correct that “most of us are named Muhammad, last name Lee.” But as Stamatina Gregory noted in her text on Bliumis’s work (Political Animals, Aperto Raum, Berlin, 2018), “no citizen of the world cobbled together from shared demographic data truly exists.” And Bliumis’ statistic-based text portraits are anything but typical. Classifying, researching, collecting and creating new patterns of order is essential to the artist.
To create the series entitled Amateur Watching at Passport Control, the artist studied all 195 passports currently in circulation worldwide. She dissected the symbolism of the coats of arms featured on the covers, and identified four major categories: plants and trees, birds, big cats and weapons. From Lebanon’s cedar to Mauritius’ dodo, to Georgia’s lions and East Timor’s AK 47, the four works in the series, Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control, Amateur Cat Watching at Passport Control, Amateur Flora Watching at Passport Control and Amateur Arsenal Watching at Passport Control (2016-2019), bring to life this curious intersection between nationalism and nature.
The exhibition also includes the works: My Soviet Childhood, He and My Soviet Childhood, She,2018. Bliumis created them together with her long time collaborator, Jeff Bliumis. The diptych comprises a collection of postcards of Soviet movie stars from the late 1960s through to the 1980s that he built up during his childhood. The artist says “the series is dedicated to all Soviet-era children who collected stamps, postcards, pins, cigarette and match boxes, soda bottles, candy wraps, juice box stickers” during that time. There is an implied association between identifying the symbols on modern passport covers and the curious eye that encouraged the collection of Soviet movie star postcards. Having past experience of this common childhood pleasure, of creating and curating collections of day-to-day objects, is essential in understanding both Most of Us Are and Amateur Watching at Passport Control series.
In My Soviet Childhood, He and She, the artists are trying to create a portrait of the most typical Soviet-era movie star. But there is a reverse process underway in Amateur Watching at Passport Control. Alina Bliumis is grasping the bigger picture of different coats of arms and dissecting them into their visual parts.
Concurrent to this exhibition, Alina Bliumis has a solo show at Anne De Villepoix gallery in Paris. Most recently Alina Bliumis has exhibited at The James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY (New York, USA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, USA) and the Jewish Museum (New York, USA) among others. Her works are in various private and public collections, including MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris, France; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Saatchi Collection, UK; The Harvard Business School, USA; The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, USA and the Missoni Collection, Italy.
Alina Bliumis was born in Minsk and lives in NYC. She graduated from Art College named after I. V. Akhremchik, Minsk in 1989, received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy in 2005.
The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Franklin Furnace, NY.
For more information and images please contact: info@ygallery.by
“Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art
Minsk, vulica Kastryčnickaja, 19
+375 29 366 75 16
www.ygallery.by
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4. Tom Brady, FF Alumn, at MAN in the BOX, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 4
Satori Presents
Artist/Dancer/Choreographer
Tom Brady Monica Newsam
40 Year Work-in-Progress
M A N i n t h e B O X
St. Louis Mo – Open – Free – Performance Preview
Performed first here in St. Louis – loaded on a truck to tour in San Francisco
at odc Theater Oct 24,25,26
Tom Brady and Monica Newsam create MAN in the BOX
in collaboration with video artist Zlatko Cosic
Man in the Box as performed in 2019 represents the culmination of a personal journey, witnessing the artistic growth as evolved over more than 40 years. Brady manipulates the original sound score, stage as sculpture, light and shadow weaves movement and video projections as a classical painter to stunning effect. He is patient with the process often taking decades to reach the goal of a mature work.
The journey for this project began with an original performance by Brady at Franklin Furnace in New York in 1979, then Three Sinks Gallery in 2003, at Satori in 2011 and a recent preview performance in collaboration with Monica Newsam.
Each performance creates an opportunity to push the work, to evolve the thinking that drives the movements and images. Brady’s approach to stage as sculpture creates physically challenging environments that demand movement invention. In the current deeply complex evolution of Man in the Box, Brady, choreographer/dancer/aerial artist Monica Newsam, and video artist Zlatko Cosic collaborate to stunning effect.
After nearly 10 years of collaborations, Brady and Newsam have evolved and developed a physical choreography that defies gravity. Recently Brady and Cosic have merged ideas and passion creating an abstract reality.
Man in the Box is a requiem honoring and at times cherishing the individual challenges, reversals, failings, insights, generosity and forward thrusts in the journey to wisdom. The audience pays witness to the collision of one’s final moments with the recollections of the younger self – and the life well lived. In the dialogue between one’s youthful past and aging now, the two performers create movement vocabulary through the complex sculptural space.
They share youthful insights reminding us that wisdom is not found solely in years earned, while recognizing that age does provide the young and ambitious needed perspective.
Man in the Box is a performance created by Tom Brady, Monica Newsam and Zlatko Cosic. Brady and Newsam perform together moving through a forest of eighteen -15′ poles set to Brady’s original music.
Audience is immersed in the vision as catalyst. The juxtaposition of the sculptural stage space, light and shadow, original sound track and innovative movement vocabulary, create a transformative, visceral response.
ANNONYArts emerges as S A T O R I
Mission:
Satori is dedicated to supporting a consortium of independent movement and performing artists, challenging, innovating and exploring the possible, defining the human experience through performance, presenting original works and providing arts education to students caught in generational poverty to inspire, motivate and discover their inner amazing.
History:
ANNONYArts emerged in the spring of 2003 an offspring of GASH/VOIGT Dance Theatre of St. Louis(GVDT) founded in 1985. ANNONYArts has continued to grow, bringing arts education and innovative performances to the St. Louis area. In April of 2019 ANNONYArts has reregistered as ANNONYArts DBA Satori.
This action was in recognition of our decades long journey defining the creative imperative coupled with the merging of our physical and organizational operations with Satori, an artist space.
ANNONYArts will continues to function as the administrative, organizational and creative force DBA (doing business as) Satori.
Today:
Satori will become the public name of the creative efforts going forward.
It is important to us to retain the ANNONYArts name created by Beckah Reed, defined as a vessel into which all possibilities may flourish.
Satori is a sanskrit word that is defined as: A sudden state of understanding, comprehension, enlightenment achieved after a decades long journey seeking intuitive knowledge.
Each year, Satori will continue to unveil a new season of original movement, contemporary dance works and performance art with performances produced by consortium and guest artists. The yearly performances may include contemporary dance, dance theatre, performance art, and aerial dance.
S A T O R I
Artist Opportunities
S A T O R I
Co-Produces
ORIGINAL works by artists who are all in, wanting to be heard
interested in redefining the message and content
willing to challenge their known in favor of hunches, exploration,
in pursuit of intuitive knowledge – insight
Contact: Tom Brady Artistic Director
3003 Locust Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
Tel: 314-503-8441
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5. Bartek Remisko at The Kosciuszko Foundation, Manhattan, opening Oct. 10
Kosciuszko Projects Inaugural Exhibition
Curated by Bartek Remisko
Thursday, October 10, 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
@ The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th Street, New York, NY 10065
This invitation is valid for two persons and is non transferable.
” (…) It is only now, nearly one hundred years after the artist’s debut, that the time has come to evaluate the work and artistic stature of Tamara de Lempicka in 20th century art. And not only her, but also the wave of women who overcame barriers in access to artistic education and an independent career. (…) “
– Agnieszka Morawinska
This intimate exhibition examines the work of Polish painter, Tamara de Lempicka, who in her portraits and depictions of chic figures simplified volume and space into tubular and crystalline forms. Lempicka is one of the first widely recognized female artists and her artistic language and independence continue to inspire new generations today (re)discovering her oeuvre in the era of Instagram and Social Media.
The exhibit will be on view through November 1, 2019 during the hours of 12:00 to 6:00 p.m., Monday – Friday, with the exception of Oct. 14, and on Saturday-Sunday (Oct. 12-13); it is free and open to the public.
https://www.thekf.org/kf/events/UE/many-faces-of-tamara-de-lempicka/
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6. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan, opening October 19
Happy Equinox friends and colleagues!
I am traveling to Taiwan to open my solo exhibition Forts and Flowers on October 19th at Taipei Contemporary Art Center. This will be my first time exhibiting in my parents’ homeland so this is a very significant endeavor. Please follow me on Instagram for more timely updates or come by the exhibition!
Lunaapeew culture bearer Brent Stonefish, creative technologist Alexandre Girardeau and I will be sharing the Mannahatta VR experience at SUNY-Oneonta’s Martin-Mullen Art Gallery on October 2nd, 5-7pm. As two non-native artists, Alexandre and I are deeply grateful to be included in this Native-centered exhibition with videos and prints and to be invited to show our work on the occasion of President Morris’ inauguration.
The past months as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow have been incredibly eye-opening! I was graciously advised by curators at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History to research in the collections. I also got to present my work to the interdisciplinary brain trust at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian.
In June and July, I flew to San Francisco for the Amplify Symposium at SFAI co-organized by ZERO1 and postcommodity artist Cristóbal Martinez; showed prints from Mannahatta VR and Rhunhattan as part of the Waterways Exhibition at Concordia University; spoke at GAX 2019: Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art, the American Folk Art Museum and the School of Visual Arts. Here is a recent podcast interview on Art Uncovered.
I look forward to staying in touch and thank you for your ongoing support!
Warm wishes,
Beatrice
beatriceglow.org
Copyright (c) 2019 Beatrice Glow, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Beatrice Glow
50 White Street
White Street Studio
New York, NY 10013
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7. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, opening Oct. 4.
Norm Magnusson, solo exhibition at the cma gallery at Mount Saint Mary College
“kuh-myoo-nih-kay-shun” October 4 through Dec. 15
cma gallery at Mount Saint Mary College
Aquinas Hall, 1st floor
330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY 12550
The cma gallery is pleased to announce our first ever solo show: Norm Magnusson’s “kuh-myoo-nih-kay-shun”, an exhibition examining and expressing the difficulties, perils and pitfalls of communication in our contemporary culture. Ranging from the political to the deeply personal, Magnusson has delved deeply into this wildly interesting realm which affects all of us every day, if not every minute, of our lives.
Artist’s statement:
Communication is a bitch.
I know.
I’ve tried and tried and studied and thought and considered and crafted and been extremely careful with my words and yet still I find that it’s rare to be heard exactly how I intend to be heard, understood precisely how I wanted to be understood. There are barriers. Barriers in my mind, blocking my clean expression of thoughts; and, even more, there are barriers in the hearts and ears of the listeners. And, of course, in my own ears when I am the listener. But there are also barriers in between: different kinds of ambient noise, for example, that can drown out the attempt to hear and be heard, as illustrated in the short video above, which highlights the warm murmur of unintelligible connections.
Jack-hammers, garbage trucks, chirping birds, other speakers, thunderstorms, my feelings about the speaker: do I like them? Do I love them? Do I hate them? Respect them? Resent them? Do I think they’re smarter or dumber than I? More or less informed? Older? Younger? Remind me of my annoying Aunt? Do I know them to be truth-tellers or habitual liars? Are they trying to sell me something? Win my vote? Is my mind wandering? Do they drone on and on? There are so many factors that shade or even obscure words by the time they’ve entered my ears and my consciousness.
At some point in the course of thinking about all this, I started to see that it could be the foundation for a really fun and engaging body of work. An exhibition devoted to the difficulties, frailties and fickleness of verbal and non-verbal communication, in both the analog and digital domains. Come see some select pieces from this series expressing and embodying or even illustrating some of these difficulties and impediments at the CMA Gallery at Mount Saint Mary College.
Norm Magnusson
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8. Mona Hatoum, FF Alumn, named Praemium Imperial Laureate 2019
September 17, 2019 at 12:06pm
MONA HATOUM AND WILLIAM KENTRIDGE AMONG 2019 PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE LAUREATES
On Tuesday, September 17, the Japan Art Association announced the winners of the 2019 Praemium Imperiale awards, which honor practitioners in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater/film. The six recipients are William Kentridge, Mona Hatoum, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Bando Tamasaburo. Recognized for their achievements in the arts, each laureate will be awarded 15 million yen, roughly $139,000, and will be honored at an award ceremony in Tokyo on October 16.
In an interview with Artforum earlier this month, Hatoum spoke about her current exhibition, “Remains to be Seen,” at White Cube in London, which runs until November 3. “People often talk about the sense of threat or danger in my work, but for me the feeling of precariousness is more important,” the British Palestinian artist said. “I try to reveal an undercurrent of hostility within something that usually looks inoffensive. It’s a way of making people question everything around them.”
While Kentridge received the award for the painting category, the South African artist is better known for his charcoal drawings and video installations such as More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015, which comprises eight screens depicting a procession of travelers who march as music by South Africa’s African Immanuel Essemblies Brass Band plays in the background. In a review of his work, David Frankel described the piece as “both new and hauntingly familiar.” “It expertly mines both current and ancient forms of art and community as well as both novel and established devices within Kentridge’s practice, producing both wonder and recognition.”
Architects Williams and Tsien have designed numerous cultural and academic buildings since they began working together in 1977, including the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the former American Folk Art Museum building in New York, and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center in Hong Kong. They also led the expansion of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, which reopened at the beginning of the year.
A German-born violinist, Mutter was invited to play with the Berlin philharmonic by the legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan when she was only thirteen years old. Since then, she has collaborated with leading conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, and Daniel Barenboim and has received numerous honors, including four Grammys.
Artist Tamasaburo specializes in kabuki, a traditional Japanese theater production performed by an all-male ensemble. He often is cast to play the onnagata, or female roles, including the nursemaid Masaoka in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (The Precious Incense and Autumn Flowers of Sendai). Non-kabuki pieces he has performed include Kumiodori, a Japanese performing art found on the Okinawa islands, and Chinese Kunqu opera.
Artforum.com
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9. Joseph Keckler, FF Alumn, at artforum.com now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.artforum.com/interviews/joseph-keckler-80757
thank you.
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10. Perry Bard, FF Alumn, on 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 19-20
FAÇADE. Perry Bard with Walking the City SVA MFA Fine Arts
at AIOP Promenade October 19,20- 2-4PM
Contents-
o October 19,20 from 2 – 4
Curated by performance artist and curator Lulu Lolo
Project Description
We are wearing buildings!
Inspired by the 1931 Architects Masquerade Ball in which architects wore their buildings as hats FAÇADE Addresses Gentrification, Preservation, human scale city to protest the economic homogenization of NYC.
We welcome collaborators to represent buildings in their neighborhoods by creating a hat/costume or carrying a photo.
For more details contact Perry Bard pbard@sva.edu
www.perrybard.net
Born in Quebec City, living in NY, Perry Bard’s work is fueled by observations of her immediate environment and their interpretations in a global context. The space between fact and fiction, the role of technology, control of media, its proliferation in public space, play out in installations and videos presented internationally: at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, Toronto, Moscow, Rotterdam, IDFA International Film Festivals, at museums including Guggenheim Museum NY/Berlin, MoMA PS1, Reina Sofia, MOCA Zagreb and Bucharest. Her work was included in Sao Paolo, Montreal and Cartagena Biennials. Man With A Movie Camera:The Global Remake, a crowd sourced mashup of Vertov’s1929 film was named by Google one of the 106 most creative uses of the internet, won Honorary Mentions at Ars Electronica, Transitio_MX, Liedts-Meesen, was presented at Transmediale, File, Share media festivals, installed in over 70 venues including public LED displays in the UK and Australia. Her video No Flak in collaboration with Richard Sullivan was included in Rencontres Paris/Berlin 2018. Bard also teaches and curates.
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11. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at hyperallergic.com now online
Please visit this link:
https://hyperallergic.com/518565/what-properly-addressing-the-migrant-crisis-might-look-like/
Thank you.
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12. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, thru Nov. 23, and more
Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, Tours with new project; City Lore, WNYC in NYC, KPFA and Letterform Archive in Bay Area, CA.
Sept 19 ¬ Nov 23 Five Oceans in a Teaspoon Exhibition City Lore Gallery <http://citylore.org/the-gallery/>, City Lore, 56 E 1st Street, New York, NY 10003
September 20, Listen to the segment on Five Oceans <https://www.wnyc.org/story/seeing-poetry/> on WNYC’ Brian Lehrer Show.
Sept 27, 7pm, NYC Book Launch Reading/Performance <https://tinyurl.com/FIVE-OCEANS-LAUNCH>. Chelsea (Market) Wine Vault Event Space.Bernstein & Lehrer with Special Guest Performers including Andrew Griffin, Judith Sloan, Alicia Waller, J-Ha Hasegawa , Dominic Frigo with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, Hosting. Click on the link above to make a reservation. Seating is Limited. 410 West 16th Street at Ninth Avenue.
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Performance begins at 7pm.
Oct 5, 4pm Warren Lehrer Five Oceans Gallery Tour/Talk
<http://citylore.org/event/five-oceans-and-a-teaspoon-gallery-tour-reading-
2/>, City Lore Gallery, 56 E 1st Street, NY, NY. Part of the Open Arts LES (Lower East Side) Festival. Make a reservation HERE <https://tinyurl.com/GalleryTalkLehrer>
Oct 10, 7:30pm Bay Area Book Launch/KPFA Benefit <https://kpfa.org/event/kpfa-radio-94-1-fm-presents-dennis-j-bernstein-warr
en-lehrer/>, Reading/Performance with Bernstein & Lehrer and Guests.
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA
Oct 11 Live At the Archive
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-at-the-archive-the-visual-literature-of-
warren-lehrer-registration-70324427255> , Letterform Archives
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-at-the-archive-the-visual-literature-of-
warren-lehrer-registration-70324427255>, Lehrer & Bernstein. 1001
warren-lehrer-registration-70324427255>Mariposa
Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Oct 24 ¬ 27 EAB Fair (Editions Artists¹ Books Fair) with Paper Crown Press, The Caldwell Factory, 547 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
Oct 31 Vis Lit of Warren Lehrer Lecture ending with Five Oceans, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL. Workshop and critiques with students during the days Oct 31 & Nov 1. Stay tuned for more details.
Nov 8, 9 Lehrer Vis Lit presentation SUNY Council on Writing Conference, Purchase College, SUNY Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY
Nov 15 7pm Performance/Reading Flushing Town Hall <http://www.flushingtownhall.org/event/b2cc9fde1b335b160fe96cef6f87de3b>,
Lehrer & Bernstein and Guests including Emily Wexler, Judith Sloan and Meah Pace. 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing NY
Jan ¬ March 2020 Warren Lehrer Featured Artist Project Exhibition, Center for Book Arts Foyer Gallery, 28 West 27th St, 3rd Flr, New York, NY
10001
About the project:
Collaborators of the one of a kind French Fries are back with a new project.
https://fiveoceansinateaspoon.com/
³Brilliant and beautiful! Thank you for bringing in the new.²Alice Walker / Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author of The Color Purple
³In the long history of graphic word works, few, if any, have this range and repleteness.²Johanna Drucker / foremost Visual Literature scholar, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA
³Five Oceans in a Teaspoon re-envisions a poetry memoir via a textual kaleidoscope.²Bob Holman / poet, poetry activist and chronicler,
founder: Bowery Poetry Club
³The gutsiness and raw emotion of the writing, revelatory appeal of the visual compositions, and brevity of the form creates an intensely moving, experiential journey.²Steven Heller / design and visual culture historian, columnist, author of over 180 books
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is a book and multimedia project written by muckraking journalist/poet Dennis J Bernstein, visualized by pioneer designer/author Warren Lehrer. A large collection of short visual poems, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon consists of a book (Paper Crown Press), animations, an exhibition, and reading/performances by the author and artist.
In 1979, Bernstein and Lehrer began working on a book of short poems, originally titled Stretch Marks. Instead of completing that book, Dennis and Warren leapt into writing their first play together, and over the intervening years they collaborated on three books including French Fries (now considered a classic in experimental literature and expressive typography). A few years ago they began collaborating again on poems.
Dennis¹ writing. Warren¹s visualizations. Now, on the 40th anniversary of their original effort, they have completed the book of poems. Comprised of
225 poems (including a dozen or so from the original effort), Five Oceans in a Teaspoon reflects Bernstein¹s life experiences and the artistry of Bernstein and Lehrer at the height of their creative powers.
As with his journalism, Dennis J Bernstein¹s poems reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. Divided into eight chapters, the book reads like a memoir in short visual poems. It spans a lifetime, lifetimes: growing up confused by dyslexia and a parental gambling addiction; graced by pogo sticks, boxing lessons and a mother¹s compassion; becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermaths, to prison, street life, love and loss, open heart surgery, caring for aging parents and visitations from them after they¹re gone.
Warren Lehrer¹s typographic compositions give form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of the poems. Together, the writing and visuals create a new whole that engages the reader to become an active participant in the navigation, discovery, and experience of each poem. As the title suggests, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon distills a wide expanse of territory with minimal means.
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13. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at West End Lounge, Manhattan, Oct. 1, and more
BARBARA ROSENTHAL, FF Alumn, two shows the first week of October, 1 in Manhattan, 1 in Bklyn.
Barbara Rosenthal performs
TUES., OCT 1, 9PM
THE WEST END
“Mind-Roaming Journeys: Surreal Photo Stories from Sensations
Projected Images and Mediated Live Reading”
MC: Ronnie Norpel
LOCATION:
West End Lounge
955 West End Ave (at 106th St) New York, NY 10025
(212) 531-4759
Subway: 1 to 103
9PM show
8:30 doors open
http://thewestendlounge.com/
Barbara Rosenthal Screening and Discussion
FRI., OCT 4, 8pm
PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE
@ the SATELLITE ART SHOW
“Satellite’s official video screening program features 23 dynamically diverse artists exploring performance, ritual and body politics. We are also honored to host a special screening featuring the work of seminal video artist, Barbara Rosenthal. She will present 12 works spanning her career as a NYC video artist.” -Quinn Dukes, Curator
Words Come Out Backwards and Other Shorts comprises the following image-text-performance videos by Barbara Rosenthal to be screened at 8pm on Friday, Oct. 4, followed by a talk with Q and A:
Words Come out Backwards, 2003, 1min 5sec.
I have a NY Accent, 1990, 1min 7sec.
This is A, 1984, 1min 31sec.
Postcards, 1992, 1min 54sec.
News to Fit the Family, 1988, 2min 22sec.
News Wall, 1987, 2min 59sec.
The Screen Will by Black and Silent for Some Time, 1988, 3min 10sec.
World View, Space and Time Omitted, 1990, 3min 22sec.
Whispering Confession, 1995, 3min 40sec.
Secret Codes, 2010 4min 35sec.
Toil of Three Cities, 2012, 15min 23 sec.
LOCATION:
PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE
@ the SATELLITE ART SHOW
Pfizer Building
630 Flushing Avenue, 1st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Subway: G to Flushing Ave.
https://www.facebook.com/events/368810594005921/?event_time_id=368810604005920
Barbara Rosenthal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal
http://www.barbararosenthal.org/
Twitter: @BRartistNYC
Facebook: barbara.rosenthal1
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14. Pablo Helguera, Morgan O’Hara, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Center, Manhattan, Oct. 17-19
EFA OPEN STUDIOS
SAVE THE DATE:
October 17, 18, & 19
FREE and open to the public
Thursday, October 17: 6-10 PM OPENING NIGHT
Friday, October 18: 6-9 PM
Saturday, October 19: 2-6 PM (new start time!)
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
EFA OPEN STUDIOS is an annual event of the EFA Studio Program that invites the public to come explore and interact with our member artists in the intimate setting of their studios. It is an opportunity to see the most recent works by artists at the site of their origin and to gain meaningful insight into their process of creation. The EFA Studio Program is a vibrant and diverse community of over 65 artists working in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities. All are professional artists with an established studio practice and recognized career. Rarely can curators, collectors, dealers, artists, and art lovers see so many internationally recognized artists working under one roof in Midtown Manhattan.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Samira Abbassy | Clytie Alexander | Fanny Allié | Noel W. Anderson | Shimon Attie | Keren Benbenisty | Wafaa Bilal | Rhona Bitner | Martha Burgess | Mattia Casalegno | Jordan Casteel | Patty Cateura | Cecile Chong | Elizabeth Colomba | Vicky Colombet | Sarah Dineen | Michael Eade | Sally Egbert | Jonathan Ehrenberg | Cui Fei | Del Geist | Alex Gingrow | Mahmoud Hamadani | Valerie Hegarty | Pablo Helguera | Amy Hill | Adam Hurwitz | Akira Ikezoe | Edgar Jerins | Richard Jochum | Sophie Kahn | Tamiko Kawata | Arghavan Khosravi | Justin Kim | Yongjae Kim | Greg Kwiatek | Doron Langberg | Sarah Leahy | Patricia Leighton | Dana Levy | Patte Loper | Katinka Mann | Jeanette May | Park McArthur | Cheryl Molnar | Amy Myers | Morgan O’Hara | Thomas Pihl | Shahpour Pouyan | Simonette Quamina | Armita Raafat | Maria D. Rapicavoli | Javier Romero | Heather Bause Rubinstein | Alex Schweder | Karina Skvirsky | Howard Smith | Suzanne Song | Xin Song | Steed Taylor | Dannielle Tegeder | Scott Teplin | Liselot van der Heijden | Carlos Vega | Marjorie Welish | Saya Woolfalk
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15. Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumn, at Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, thru Oct. 11
Dear Friends,
I’m so happy to let you know ” Reclaiming the Vision ” solo exhibition at QCC Art Gallery the closing date will be extended to October 11. Please let me know if you are interested in coming: chinchihyang@gmail.com
Exhibition Dates: August 28 – October 11, 2019 from 9 to 5pm
QCC ART GALLERY/CUNY: 222-05 56th Ave, Bayside, NY 11364
Chin Chih
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16. Lynda Barry, FF Alumn, receives MacArthur Fellowship 2019
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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17. Robert C. Morgan, Valery Oisteneau, Bina Sharif, at Tompkins Square Library, Manhattan, Oct. 1-Nov. 23
TOMPKINS SQUARE LIBRARY PRESENTS
A Celebration of East Village Publishing
AN EXHIBITION AND EVENTS
October and November
recovering
COVER MAGAZINE
OPENING
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Join us for a glass of wine in the Library, 6-8
Now, 33 years since its inception, we take a look back at the stories and personalities that Cover Magazine covered for almost 15 years.
October 8 at 6pm A panel on downtown’s alternative publishing scene with David Hershkovitz, co-founder and former co-editor of Paper Magazine; Leonard Abrams, Publisher of the East Village Eye; and Calvin Reid of 108, East Village Review. Moderated by Ilka Scobie, Deputy Editor of Cover Magazine.
Oct 26 3pm Presentation of art and photography by artists who were featured in Cover. Luigi Cazzaniga, Judy Rifka, KK Kozik, and Peggy Cyphers. Moderated by Ilka Scobie.
November 9 3pm 2nd Avenue through the eyes of Bohemia. A panel on the writers of the Lower East Side with Andrei Codrescu, Elinor Nauen, and special guests. Moderated by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.
November 23 3pm Closing reception and a reading of former Cover contributing writers with Robert C. Morgan, Greg Masters, Valery Oisteanu, and Bina Sharif. MC: Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.
With a special thanks to Librarian Alyona Gluschenkova and web designer Lori Ortiz
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18. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at LA MOCA, CA, Oct. 27, 2019 -May 11, 2020, and more
I am included in With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in America Art 1972-1985 at LAMOCA October 27-May 11
Also a solo exhibition, Largely Petite, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas October 26 – Nov 23 reception November 2nd
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19. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Martha Pace Swift Gallery, San Diego, CA, opening October 4
Moya Devine Showing at
Martha Pace Swift Gallery
“That’s What She Said”
Opening
October 4th 6-8 pm
Martha Pace Swift Gallery
2820 Roosevelt Rd.
Liberty Station
San Diego, Ca 92106
“This activity of Moya Devine’s was supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Arts and Disability Center at the University of California Los Angeles.”
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20. Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumn, now online in CriticalCollective.in
Tobaron Waxman “Singing with Architecture” and “Fear of a Bearded Planet”
at Gallery MMB, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai. “as it rises into air: listening in practice” Juana Awad, Zeenat Nagree curators.
Recently reviewed in CriticalCollective.in “Echoes of Sound and Silence” by Zahra Amiruddin
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21. Peter Downsbrough, Simon Cutts, Erica Van Horn, FF Alumns, new publication
Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts of Coracle Press are delighted to announce STREET SIGNS a new book of photographs by Peter Downsbrough: coracle.ie/street-signs/
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22. Paul Henry Ramirez, FF Alumn, at El Paso Museum of Art, TX, thru Mar. 8, 2020
Dear Friends,
“The El Paso Museum of Art: 60 Years of Collecting” is now open at the El Paso Museum of Art, featuring an art work from my Elevatious Transcendsualistic series.
It has been sixty years since the founding of the El Paso Museum of Art, and two decades since the museum moved into its downtown building. Now, for the first time, EPMA presents an exhibition about its history.
Through artworks representing significant moments for the El Paso Museum of Art, 60 Years of Collecting shares stories of a museum that has grown through the generosity of families and individuals in the region.
Highlights of the exhibition include paintings, sculptures, and prints from across EPMA’s significant holdings, and accounts by people key to the museum’s success. 60 Years of Collecting reflects the history of the El Paso Museum of Art, and of El Paso.” If you are in town I hope you have a chance to check it out!
All best,
Paul Henry
http://paulhenryramirez.art/
The El Paso Museum of Art: 60 Years of Collecting September 27 – March 8, 2020
El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso, Texas 79901
915.212.0300
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23. Hidemi Takagi, FF Alumn, at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, opening Oct. 3
Dear Friends,
I am very excited to announce my upcoming solo exhibition “The Bed Stuy Social ‘Photo’ Club” at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza. I will be showing selected works from this project. The opening is on Oct 3 (Thursday) 6-8:30pm.
if you’re in town, please come join us, it would be great to see you and I would like you to meet my wonderful neighbors. Also if you know someone who is living in Bed-Stuy, or might be interested, please feel free to forward this information to them.
Exhibition Opens on Oct 3 – (open 7 days/wk)
Opening Reception: Oct 3, Thursday 6:00-8:30pm
The location: The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza (the lobby)
1368 Fulton Street / Brooklyn / NY / 11216
About The Bed Stuy Social ‘Photo’ Club
I live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the border of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, historically home to African American and Caribbean communities. The area has been under threat from gentrification and real estate development, but many of my neighbors were born and raised in this tight-knit, working-class community.
I have been working on the project “The Bed Stuy Social ‘Photo’ Club” since 2018. Creating a popup outdoors Photo Studio at my front yard. I offered free portraits for members of the community, where they would select props, and add-ons to create something unique. Despite there being an abundance of colorful characters with incredible histories and stories to tell, who you would pass by on the street and fail to see the spotlight that they are in – I wanted to treat them like superstars. Because they are.
Funding for this project provided by Culture Push and a Brooklyn Arts Fund grant from the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Special Thanks to:
Mr. Hollis King at The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration who provided free studio space while outside was cold and gave me an opportunity to show this project.
My neighbors, friends who came for being a part of the project (being subject, stylist, assistant and documentation) and my husband William who always help me.
BRIC Arts Media, invited me to have the project as BRIC editions pop up studio event twice in this year.
And lastly I would need to apologize. We could not include every subject due to limited space. I am so sorry. But I am looking forward to having future exhibition includes everyone, fingers crossed!
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24. Iris Rose, FF Alumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, Oct. 20
Iris Rose returns to Pangea with a brand new set of songs spanning the history of television. Iris has been busy collecting such treasures as an aria from an opera written for television in 1951, a haunting folk ballad from the final season of Game of Thrones, tunes by bands who wish they were the Beatles, songs that wish they were the themes to James Bond movies, and a heartfelt tribute to bourbon. Chris Berg returns on piano and keyboard, joined by Philip Sheegog on cello and Youssef Benomar on drums. Part of TWEED’S Sundays @ Seven Series, Kevin Malony artistic director.
Sunday, October 20th at 7pm
at Pangea
178 Second Avenue
212-995-0900
Tickets are $15 online or $20 at the door (cash only)
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4387077
There is a $20 per person food or beverage minimum at the tables.
DINNER SEATING BEGINS AT 6:00PM.
Seating at Pangea is communal. Other guests may be seated at the table.
Design by Chazz Petersen of Gatlin Dean.
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25. Ann Butler, FF Alumn, at CUE Art Foundation, Manhattan, Oct. 10
Method as Trace
with Ann Butler and Cori Olinghouse
Thursday, October 10, 6:30-8pm
60 minutes with time after for Q&A
FREE
In a conversation about different approaches and methods of working with archives, Cori Olinghouse and Ann Butler, Director of the Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College develop a poetic lexicon and way of thinking around the archiving of curatorial projects, time-based media, and performance practices. Moving through a series of words, gestures, and tempos to metaphorically unpack archival concepts, they explore what it means to physically encounter an archive.
This is the first event in Embodied Scores: Methods of Archiving, a series of collaborative lectures organized by Cori Olinghouse on behalf of The Portal (Portal) with Shona Masarin. This series explores multiple entry points into Portal, a living archives initiative, research studio, and visual storytelling platform formed in 2017 by artist, archivist, and curator Cori Olinghouse. Joined by acclaimed archivist and curator Ann Butler, filmmaker and visual artist Jules Rosskam, and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, we contemplate distinctions across theory and practice, preservation and the ephemeral. Embodied Scores: Methods of Archiving challenges known forms of archival practices, approaching the discipline as a generative tool for artists.
CUE Art Foundation
137 W 25th St
New York, NY 10001
RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/method-as-trace-tickets-72777556631
Ann Butler is the Director of the Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. For the past twenty years she has held positions within academic research libraries and museum archives and she has been instrumental in the building of several archival programs and research collections including the Library & Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the Downtown Collection at the Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU, and the Guggenheim Museum Archives. She serves as faculty at CCS Bard and lectures widely on subjects including: contemporary art archives methodologies and practices, intellectual property within the contemporary arts, and moving image preservation. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA in Media Studies from the New School, and an MLS from Rutgers University.
Cori Olinghouse is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of performance, archives, and visual storytelling. In 2017 she founded Portal as a way to explore the knowledge that arises in performance and improvisational systems towards the trajectory of social action. Her approach to performance archiving has been celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art, Duke University, Bard College, and Wesleyan University. As part of this work, she’s engaged in a constellation of projects with artist Autumn Knight, choreographers Jean Butler, Yanira Castro, Mina Nishimura, Kota Yamazaki, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Melinda Ring, Gwen Welliver, and visual and performance artist Sylvia Palacios Whitman. Recently, Olinghouse collaborated with video artist Charles Atlas on a moving image installation of Trisha Brown’s archival materials for Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, an exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art. Formerly, as archive director for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, she developed a cataloging and preservation initiative to assist in the legacy planning for Brown’s company and archive (2009-2018), a company she danced for from 2002-2006. She holds an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, and serves as visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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