Goings On: posted week of September 17, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Dick Higgins, Martha Wilson, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hannah B. Higgins, Alison Knowles, Barbara Moore, FF Alumns, at The Emily Harvey Foundation, Manhattan, Sept. 26-29
2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, Sept. 26
3. Evelyn Eller, FF Alum, at The Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, opening October 3
4. Michelle Stuart, FF Alumn, at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA, opening September 20
5. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Untitled, Manhattan, opening Sept 26
6. Laurie Anderson, Michel Auder, Judith Bernstein, Barbara Bloom, Hans Haacke, Joan Jonas, Liz Magic Laser, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, Adam Pendleton, Martha Rosler, Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumns, at Jackson Square Park, Manhattan
7. Julia Scher, FF Alumn, at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany, Sept. 19
8. Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumn, in Hyperallergic, now online
9. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Alumn, September news
10. Rosamond King, FF Alumn, upcoming events
11. Magie Dominic, FF Alumn, receives New York Innovative Theater Award
12. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Studio La Città, Verona, Italy, opening Sept. 21
13. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, thru Nov. 3, and more
14. Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry, FF Alumns, upcoming screenings
15. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at C24 Gallery, Manhattan, Sept 19 and more
16. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, Oct. 6
17. Alva Rogers, FF Alumn, at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, Sept. 26
18. Orlan at Ceysson & Bénétière, Manhattan, thru Nov. 2
19. Simone Forti, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at The Box, LA, thru Oct. 19
20. Guy de Cointet, FF Alumn, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, thru Oct. 19
21. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, opening Sept. 26
22. Sally Greenhouse, FF Alumn, at Forbes Library, Northhampton, MA, Sept. 21
23. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 19-22
24. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, at Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan, Sept. 26
25. Doug Beube, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, at Qian Juntao Art Research Museum, Haining, China, opening Oct. 20
26. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 22
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1. Dick Higgins, Martha Wilson, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hannah B. Higgins, Alison Knowles, Barbara Moore, FF Alumns, at The Emily Harvey Foundation, Manhattan, Sept. 26-29
Something Else?
Thursday, September 26 – Sunday, September 29, 2019
The Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway #2
New York, NY 10012
This event is free but registration is required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please RSVP to ehf.newyork@gmail.com.
Organized by Christian Xatrec and Alice Centamore
This conference is devoted to the groundbreaking publishing house Something Else Press (hereafter SEP) founded by artist Dick Higgins (1938-1998) in 1963 and active until 1974. After participating integrally in the inaugural Fluxus activities in Europe from Fall-1962 to Summer-1963, Higgins returned to New York intent on making known all that he had been exposed to of the diverse new artistic tendencies: concrete and sound poetry, performance art, innovative forms of writing, and New Music. He committed himself to developing a platform for more sophisticated debates to contextualize these initiatives through their historical foundations. Presenting creative projects that resisted documentation in the format of text and book, his concept was to bring unconventional content (art/non-art/anti-art) to a wider public through the “Trojan horse” of conventional framing; the best possible publication standards (high quality, hard-bound books) became the support of often utterly ephemeral material. The SEP implemented a hybrid model, combining the traits of the artist’s book, historical documentation, and theoretical reckoning. It operated at a time when artists were foregrounding language as “material” and medium, and when such models of distribution constituted a political act. With one foot in Fluxus-Higgins incorporated the SEP in 1964 virtually in competition with Fluxus founder George Maciunas’s heterogeneous “publications” of boxes, posters, kits, and flyers-it relied on the sheer radicality of the content. The SEP’s operational strategy was to alternate the release of a book and a pamphlet: a “pricey” publication followed by an inexpensive 16-page booklet. In so doing, Higgins accomplished his dream of having SEP publications discoverable in grocery stores; he proudly recalled finding his Great Bear Pamphlets next to the vegetable counter at the Berkeley Coop in California. With its base in New York (and later, California and Vermont), Higgins made it a priority to extend the influence and distribution channels of his Press by connecting with Europe, Canada, Mexico, and South America. In articulating a series/system of sites for the circulation of book-publishing ideas and new and radical art forms, Higgins made his press discoverable at a global level, introducing many foreign publications and artists to the United States and vice versa. These strategies, advanced as a subtle critique of art’s commodification, created a circuit of distribution for the activation and reception of revolutionary ideas regardless of socioeconomic and geographic limitations.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Panel 1: The Something Else Factor
Thursday, September 26, 6:30-8:30pm
Participants: Jan Herman, Alison Knowles, Barbara Moore, Martha Wilson
Moderated by Hannah B Higgins
This panel discussion will elucidate the SEP’s strategies of design, production, and distribution in relation to Fluxus, as well as other artist-book initiatives of the time. Participants will include Alison Knowles, founding member of Fluxus, who was deeply involved with the Press (and the Something Else Gallery) from the start, and who in fact suggested Higgins to “call it Something Else”; Barbara Moore, the first editor (February 1965-Summer 1966); Jan Herman, the last editor and director (1972-4); and Martha Wilson, who gave Higgins and the SEP the first New York show at Franklin Furnace in 1979. Because of their direct and indirect involvement in the SEP, at different times and in diverse roles, the four participants are uniquely positioned to convey the historical circumstances of the Press’s daily operations and the motivations that drove it. Their accounts will exemplify the most relevant stages of the Press’s development-from founding through bankruptcy and to reception-and convey the challenges of reaching shelves all over the world without, ironically, ever making a cent.
Panel 2: Something About Intermedia
Friday, September 27, 3:00-6:00pm
Participants: Ina Blom, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Joan Retallack
Moderated by Julia E Robinson
This symposium will explore Higgins’s concept of Intermedia–first re-appropriated for a “lecture” in 1963-64 and then turned into an essay in 1966–to theorize the artistic mandates of a new creative moment. The term referred to an artwork, project, or conceptual formulation that fell outside the conventional limits of any one medium, and indeed resisted categorization. A group of four scholars-representing different academic subjects including art, music, poetry, performance, and philosophy-has been invited for their interdisciplinary approach to the formulation of new scholarly positions: their critical investigations stand at the intersection of diverse fields. Each participant will focus on a selection of texts from the complete SEP run of publications that they would find compelling for their areas of expertise and current research interests. The discussion will focus on the relevance of Higgins’s model of the mid-1960s to the contemporary. That is, how the medium orientation and theoretical apparatus of Intermedia might affect the formulation and presentation of new academic reckonings. The aim of this symposium is to nurture collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches, while generating alternatives to more established practices and formats in contemporary scholarship.
Panel 3: Archive, Object, Space
Saturday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm
Participants: Mica Gherghescu, Danielle Johnson, Lucy Mulroney, Jorge Ribalta
Moderated by Sébastien Pluot
This symposium intends to explore methods of treating and exhibiting immaterial forms of art and to conceive new, valid modalities to translate archives into exhibitions. The five participants, who all share scholarly and/or curatorial practices anchored in the possibilities of the archive, will discuss innovative means to critically recognizing and “extracting” works from the printed object for an exhibition. Examining past shows and historical accounts of radical publishing projects that have impacted and implicated artists, panelists will reflect on how exhibition approaches have been adapted to accommodate the needs of the book-format and the effects of this change on academic/critical writing. Each speaker will address contemporary challenges in preservation, distribution, and reception at the point when a publication enters a museum. The goal of this symposium is to unbind the book as an object, as a kind of speculative inversion of Higgins’s transformation of artistic projects into this very format. Drawing from the fluid interchange between text and object, the discussion will explore the potential of publications, distribution strategies, and mailings, which have become the support for the actualization of history.
Panel 4: Anything Else?
Sunday, September 29, 3:00-6:00pm
Participants: Kaye Cain-Nielsen, James Hoff, Jonas (J) Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg, David Reinfurt, Matvei Yankelevich
Moderated by David Platzker
For this symposium, we have identified a group of experts primarily concerned with books treated as art, and publication strategies that become objects of intellectual inquiry in and of themselves. Representatives from contemporary presses (e-flux journal, Primary Information, OEI, Dexter Sinister, and Ugly Duckling Presse) and rare-book/edition specialists will discuss radical publishing practices, which are vital to any adequate historicizing of the immense impact the 1960s occupy in contemporary art. By confronting the radicality of these platforms with reference to the “founding principles” of the SEP-such as the ambition to give voice to the newly emerging consciousness of the time or the network/collective of the Press’s mailing list-the participants will cast their historical considerations in the light of recent and currently-operating initiatives.
The Something Else conference is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The elevator at The Emily Harvey Foundation is currently under repair, so the second floor space is not wheelchair accessible. Please write at least three days before the event and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
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2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, Sept. 26
50 YEARS OF LA COLECCIÓN
September 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
FREE
In celebration of El Museo del Barrio’s 50th anniversary and in the context of the exhibition Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio 1969-2019, join us for a conversation among artists and current and former staff regarding the origins and evolution of our Permanent Collection. Comprised of more than 8,000 objects from across the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean, El Museo’s ever-expanding collection is as an important tool for the institution’s educational mission that reflects upon its specific cultural identity. Panelists include: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (Artist); Juan Sánchez (Artist); Susana Torruella Leval (Director Emeritus of El Museo del Barrio); Nitza Tufiño (Artist & Director of Taller Boricua); and Noel Valentin (Permanent Collection Manager of El Museo del Barrio). The discussion will be moderated by Susanna Temkin, Curator of El Museo del Barrio.
FREE ADMISSION. To RSVP, click here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/50-years-of-la-coleccion-tickets-69768239683
Details:
Date: September 26
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Cost: FREE
Venue: El Museo del Barrio. 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029 United States
Organizer: El Museo del Barrio
Phone: 212-831-7272
Website: [elmuseo.org]elmuseo.org
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3. Evelyn Eller, FF Alum, at The Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, opening October 3
I am pleased that my paper collage Walt Whitman, is included in this exhibition.
WALT WHITMAN’S WORDS; INSPIRING ARTISTS TODAY
The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th street, New York, NY 10001
Oct.4 -Dec 14, 2019
Reception on Thursday Oct. 3 – 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Curator – Deirdre Lawrence
Thank you,
Evelyn Eller
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4. Michelle Stuart, FF Alumn, at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA, opening September 20
Michelle Stuart
Earth as a Map of Time
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
9953 South Santa Monica Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
September 21 – November 2, 2019
Opening Reception : Friday, September 20, 6:00 – 8:00pm
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5. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Untitled, Manhattan, opening Sept 26
Exposed
Grace Graupe-Pillard and Robin Tewes
at
Untitled
45 Lispenard Street Manhattan 10013
Opening September 26, 6-8 pm
Continues thru October 12
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6. Laurie Anderson, Michel Auder, Judith Bernstein, Barbara Bloom, Hans Haacke, Joan Jonas, Liz Magic Laser, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, Adam Pendleton, Martha Rosler, Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumns, at Jackson Square Park, Manhattan
Art Production Fund and White Columns Present:
“The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden”
In Partnership with NYC Parks
On view at Jackson Square Park, New York – starting April 30, 2019
(New York, NY) Art Production Fund and White Columns, in partnership with NYC Parks, are pleased to present “The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden,” a new long term public art project on view and integrated into Jackson Square Park, located at the intersection of 8th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, starting April 30, 2019.
Based on a curatorial initiative of White Columns’ director Matthew Higgs, “The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden” is an extension of NYC Parks existing “Adopt-A-Bench” program that allows individuals to create a personal memorial for a loved one in a public space, through the dedication of a park bench.
For “The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden” Art Production Fund and White Columns invited thirty-four New York- based artists to each dedicate a park bench to an individual – or an entity – that is significant to them. Thirty-four of the benches in Jackson Square Park will feature a simple engraved plaque inscribed with each artist’s personalized dedication.
“The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden” subtly transforms an existing public park into a collaborative public artwork, one that celebrates the lives of an extraordinary group of people – from James Baldwin to Maya Deren, and Alice Coltrane to Linda Nochlin – who have, in turn, inspired an extraordinary, and inter-generational group of contemporary artists.
“Art Production Fund is thrilled to partner with White Columns and Parks on this long-term public art project,” said Casey Fremont, Executive Director, Art Production Fund. “The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden” is seamlessly integrated into a highly visible and widely used public-park and will be enjoyed by New York City’s diverse communities for years to come.”
“The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden is a public space for contemplation and reflection, a space that mirrors the rhythms of the city and its people,” said Matthew Higgs, Director, White Columns. “It is a space for artists – and passersby alike – to acknowledge and celebrate the lives and contributions of others.”
“‘The New York Artists’ Memorial Garden’ is a beautiful tribute to the heroes of some of our city’s own creative forces, and we are proud to support it through our Adopt-A-Bench program,” said NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP. “Throughout our lives, there are countless individuals that deeply impact and inspire us, and this project in Jackson Square is a striking homage to them.”
The participating artists are: Hilton Als, Laurie Anderson, Michel Auder, Judith Bernstein, Barbara Bloom, Mike Cloud, David Diao, Rafael Ferrer, John Giorno, Hans Haacke, K8 Hardy, Rachel Harrison, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Alex Katz, Glenn Ligon, Liz Magic Laser, Maggie Lee, Margaret Lee, Zoe Leonard, McDermott & McGough, Jonas Mekas, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, Adam Pendleton, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, Jessi Reaves, Martha Rosler, Diamond Stingily, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, T.J. Wilcox, and Jessica Vaughn.
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7. Julia Scher, FF Alumn, at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany, Sept. 19
dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are very happy to inform you about our upcoming extensive programme of events on the occasion of the current exhibition Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf:
September
Thu, 19.09., 6 pm
Show and Tell #4: Discipline Masters
A long night with night with Julia Scher (Professor, Academy of Media Arts Cologne) and guests including a screening of her 4-hour film “Discipline Masters” (1988) – a cathartic retelling of her youth, which informs Scher’s interest in themes of surveillance and the notion of a sexualized and controlling gaze. (in English)
Venue: Kölnischer Kunstverein
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8. Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumn, in Hyperallergic, now online
New York Saturday, September 7, 2019
Dear art lovers and media colleagues:
My article about the American art historian and researcher Jo Farb Hernández’s exploration of outsider artists’ unusual, site-specific art environments in Spain and her efforts to rescue them before they deteriorate or are destroyed has been published in HYPERALLERGIC.
You can find this new article here:
For many years, Hernández, the director of SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), has been traveling routinely to Spain, where she has discovered dozens of mostly rural art environments, documented them, and worked with local and regional art enthusiasts and cultural activists to try to preserve them in the face of various destructive forces.
My article describes the work she and her associates have done so far and highlights some of the financial, bureaucratic, and technical issues that arise in trying to preserve large-scale, site-specific, artistic creations that are hard to classify and, for some observers, challenging to appreciate.
(By the way, SPACES, which was founded by the photographer Seymour Rosen in California, where Hernández is based when she is not in Spain, now operates in partnership with the Kohler Foundation of Wisconsin, an organization that focuses on the conservation and preservation of site-specific art environments made by self-taught artists. To date, however, it has not been involved in the preservation of such sites in Spain.)
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this magazine article.
I send you all best wishes…
EDWARD M. GÓMEZ
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9. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Alumn, September news
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Happy Fall 2019!
I’d like to let you know about my news and events happening this September and beyond!
*GROUP EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE:
The Syncope
Curated by Kathie Halfin
Opening: September 14th 2019 6-9pm
Performances: September 14th 7pm
On view: September 14th – October 19th 2019
Workshop: Katya Grokhovsky, September 18th 2019 4-6pm
ARTISTS: Yali Romagoza-Cuba/Queens, Jean Carla Rodea-Mexico/Brooklyn,Pei-Ling Ho-Taiwan/Queens , Carlos Wilfredo-Puerto Rico/Bronx, Katya Grokhovsky-Ukraine/Brooklyn, Jacqueline Bishop-Jamaica/New York, Aneta Wegrzyn-Poland/Brooklyn,Lionel Cruet-Puerto Rico/Bronx, Gavin Tao-Scotland/Brooklyn,Graciela Cassel-Argentina/Queens, Emma Yi-China/Queens.
Bronx River Art Center
1087 E. Tremont Ave.,
Bronx, NY 10460
*RESIDENCY
Creator-in-Residence
September 10th – December 13th 2019
Katya Grokhovsky
The Immigrant Artist Biennial
Kickstarter HQ
58 Kent st,
Brooklyn, NY
*CURATORIAL:
Art and Social Activism Festival
Special Presentation: The Immigrant Artist Biennial
Featured Artist: Yali Romagoza
Curated by Katya Grokhovsky
September 26th 2019 – October 20th 2019
Performance event: October 5th 6-8pm
Public Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 7:00pm
Location: 32 Orchard St.
New York City, NY
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10. Rosamond King, FF Alumn, upcoming events
Dear Friends,
Recently, I was listening to a radio story on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. The BBC reporter first asked a protester about why the rebellion was significant. His final question was: “Do you think you will win?”
The woman began to cry and answered “I know we will lose. We have to fight anyway!”
I think I – and many of us based in the global north – have much to learn from the protesters in Puerto Rico and Hong Kong. (I’ve selected a poem with video related to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the current issue of sx salon.)
I will be writing more about this at some point – in the meantime, will you join me in fighting anyway? Fight in all of the ways that make sense for you: making art, supporting others’ art, voting, teaching, raising children, caring for elders, protesting in the street. And consider helping The Bahamas climb its way out of devastation (you can send relief supplies directly here
– thanks Angelique V. Nixon!)
Here are some ways I am raising my voice and helping others to raise theirs (scroll down for details):
a) I’m teaching a Poetry Reading/Performance Workshop at Poets House this October and November, for fee
b) In case you missed it, my Poem of the Day went up on 5 June!
c) LitHub published my reflection on the work of Paule Marshall, who recently joined the ancestors.
d) River River presents me with poet phenomenon Purvi Shah 20 Nov in Nyack, NY. free
e) VIVA! Performance Art Festival will present Leave It Behind, a durational, interactive performance, 28 Sept. free
f) I’ll read in the Segue Foundation’s series on 2 Nov, $5
g) I am part of the Living Gallery series at Gibney on 8 Nov., free
h) I am the arts curator for the National Women’s Studies Association’s 2019 conference, 14-17 Nov, for fee; and I’m reading at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA on Sunday, 17 Nov, 4pm, free
a) Witness: A Poetry Writing and Performance Workshop with Rosamond S. King
Register by 1 October Six Wednesdays, 6-8:30, $325, Poets House:
What does it mean to witness through poetry? We will practice witnessing others’ lives, our own, and the city around us, reading poets from Edna St. Vincent Millay to Jayne Cortez. Performance exercises will explore modulation, breath, pacing, and rhythm, while writing exercises will alternate between diving into ourselves and witnessing the world.
b) “Breathe. As in. (shadow)” was Poem of the Day on 5 June!
c) “Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn’t Always Love Me Back” is up on LitHub!
d) I’ll read with Prize-Winning Poet Purvi Shah at River to River on 20 Sept, 1-3pm, in Nyack, NY (Carson McCullers House). Free.
e) I’ll perform Leave It Behind at VIVA! Performance Art Festival on 28 Sept., 3-7pm, Montreal. Free.
This piece was originally presented as a work-in-progress at Call and Response.
f) Segue’s Reading Series presents me on 2 Nov., 4:30-6:30pm, Manhattan. $5.
g) I read in Gibney’s Living Gallery Series, 8 Nov. 7-7:30. Then stick around for Nia Love’s 8pm performance of g1(host): lostatsea! (My reading is free; tickets to Love’s work are $20.)
h) I’m curating Arts@NWSA, 14-17 November, San Francisco – and I’m reading at Moe’s Books on Sunday 17 Nov at 4pm!
Thank you to all of the curators, presenters, and workers who will facilitate these works!
Shout-Outs:
Samiya Bashir won the prestigious Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature! And used the moment talk about equity in the literary world: http://samiyabashir.com/what-im-thinking/39c8v31m35djz2375xglpywel86lvp
Chloë Bass’ first major solo show will be at…wait for it…The Studio Museum in Harlem! Sept 2019-Sept 2020: https://www.studiomuseum.org/wayfinding
Jen Bervin has a major solo show going up in November at the University Galleries of Illinois State University – so major it’s funded by the NEA and the Andy Warhol Foundation! Coming in 2020: https://jenbervin.com/news
keep fighting – and change what it means to “win!”
RSK (Rosamond S. King)
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11. Magie Dominic, FF Alumn, receives New York Innovative Theater Award
Hi,
I was informed a few days ago that I will be receiving the Artistic Achievement Award from The New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
Article in BroadwayWorld.com
https://bit.ly/2lSfRFu
I’m very, very honored!
Best always,
Magie
http://magiedominic.blogspot.com/
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12. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Studio La Città, Verona, Italy, opening Sept. 21
Scatter Painting
21 settembre – 16 novembre 2019
opening 21 September at 11:30 AM.
Studio La Città*
Lungoadige Galtarossa 21
Verona, Italia.
The paintings of the Scatter Group were started a few years ago. They are painted with acrylics on stretched canvas. I start by placing the canvas flat on the floor and spreading one coat of diluted paint as a ground onto which, once dried, I then spread another liquid coat. After both are dry, I hang the canvas on the wall and warm myself up by imitating and translating into geometric areas outlined by masking tape some of the chanced stains. To do so, I use thick paint applied with a palette knife. Then, I proceed following the vagaries of thought and emotion, by covering again and again what’s there with thick unpredictable areas of knife-applied paint. Most of the time, as I only add coats of paint, I feel I must risk further and cover previously applied forms even if they please me. The outlines of what was covered transpire under the new coats of paint. I never know when the painting is completed.
*in collaboration with Rizzutogallery.
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13. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, thru Nov. 3, and more
I am in residence at Watermill Center in 2020 & my exhibit of sculptural weaves “Hills & Valleys ” is still up at The Parrish Art Museum in Watermill , NY until Nov.3. I will be speaking there with the curator & the other Road Show artist Laurie Lambrecht on Nov.1st.
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14. Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry, FF Alumns, upcoming screenings
Gloria’s Call, a short documentary by Cheri Gaulke (FF alum) screens in upcoming film festivals.
September: WOFF19 Best of Fest London; Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Pennsylvania.
October: Highland Park Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles; Santa Cruz Film Festival; Seattle Queer Film Festival; Edinburgh Short Film Festival; Nashville Film Festival; and Napa Valley Museum.
November: Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival; Female Eye Film Festival, Ontario, Canada; and Marciano Art Foundation with presentation by Gloria Orenstein, Los Angeles.
From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. The short film, Gloria’s Call, uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure and bring alive an often unseen history of women in the arts.
The film is produced by artists Cheri Gaulke (director, FF Alumn), Cheryl Bookout, Anne Gauldin (FF Alumn), Sue Maberry (FF Alumn), and Christine Papalexis.
Gloria’s Call received the “Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film” at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival, “Best AA+D Short Film” at Newport Beach Film Festival and the “Audience Award” at Nevada City Film Festival.
For links to tickets and more information: Gloriascall.com
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15. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at C24 Gallery, Manhattan, Sept 19 and more
Dear friends,
Happy fall! I have some September and October shows coming up that I wanted to share with you.
This Thursday, there is a closing reception for Pool Party at C24 Gallery:
Pool Party
My beaded tree sculpture will be in this exhibition. I also curated the video program in the exhibition.
Curated by Field Projects and C24 Gallery
Field Projects Presents: Pool Party at C24 Gallery
560 W 24th Street, New York, NY
Closing Reception: Thursday, September 19th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
July 11- Sep 21, 2019
In October, my solo show, Thresholds will be opening at MOCA Tucson. On a personal note, I was really so devastated to learn last week that construction has begun on a border wall in Organ Pipe National Monument along the border in south Arizona. I camped and filmed in this area and the other current habitats of the Sonoran Pronghorn to make the video and research for this show.
Thresholds at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
Thresholds takes its name from my featured video, made while in residence at MOCA Tucson and filmed within the fragmented current habitats of the Sonoran Pronghorn in Arizona. The video considers the establishment of wildlife corridors, passageways that allow for the movement of animal species between habitats separated by manmade development. Alongside several sculptures and installations, I use the wildlife corridor as a synecdoche for issues impacting the ecosystems of the southern Arizona Sonoran Desert’s borderlands: wildlife fragmentation; migration; borders; climate change; droughts; and the changing uses of the desert.
Rachel Frank: Thresholds
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
265 S Church Ave, Tucson, AZ
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5th, 8:00 – 9:00 pm
October 5 – December 29th, 2019
Also, now open, the Triennial at KMAC Museum in Louisville, KY is up until December 1st. Some exhibition photos can be found here.
KMAC Triennial: Crown of Rays
This exhibition will feature artists based, or artists whose formative years were spent, in Kentucky. I will have an installation of sculptures and wall works in the show.
Curated By Joey Yates
KMAC Museum
715 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky
August 24 – December 1, 2019
Best wishes,
Rachel Frank
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16. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, Oct. 6
FF alum Annie Lanzillotto announces a Table Read of her new play “The Lasagna Stands Alone,” a one-act Italian-American dramatic comedy, with songs. Presented by The Forum @ St. Ann’s. Sunday October 6th, 2019, at 4:00 pm. Followed by a Q&A, and lasagna & vino. At The Parish House, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street (corner of Clinton Street), Brooklyn, New York, 11201. Cast: Karen Cellini, Alex Coe, Jordan Elizabeth Gelber, Adam Feingold, Jade Mason, Chiara Montalto, Silvia Morigi, Dean Scotti, Simba Yangala. Also featuring: Emily Kunkel-Narration, Alex Coe-Guitar, Rose Imperato-Sax/Flute. The Rev. Canon John Denaro will bless the lasagna. Rosette Capotorto will read her new piece, “Sunday Dinner.” Suggested Donation $10. Wheelchair accessible. Kids welcome.
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17. Alva Rogers, FF Alumn, at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, Sept. 26
Hello Friends,
Here is a link to an upcoming reading of my new play- in-progress. Hope you are all well. Best, Alva
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18. Orlan at Ceysson & Bénétière, Manhattan, thru Nov. 2
SOLO SHOW ORLAN
CEYSSON & BÉNÉTIÈRE, 956 Madison Avenue, NY 10021 NEW YORK, USA
FROM THE 12TH OF SEPTEMBER TO 2nd OF NOVEMBER 2019
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19. Simone Forti, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at The Box, LA, thru Oct. 19
Small World Somewhere Street
September 14 – October 19
Opening Saturday, September 14
Exhibition with Los Angeles-based record label Small World. Featuring releases by artists Thomas Bayrle, Simone Forti, Jeff Hassay, Dan Peterman, Bernhard Schreiner, Barbara T. Smith, LeRoy Stevens and Lisa Williamson, as well as a new four channel video installation made especially for the show and documentation from the past decade.
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20. Guy de Cointet, FF Alumn, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, thru Oct. 19
Guy de Cointet
September 14 – October 19
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 14 at 7:30 PM
Two Drawings, 1973, performed by Mary Ann Duganne Glicksman
My Father’s Diary, 1975, performed by Sarah Vermande
Sunday, September 15 at 4:00 PM
Huzo Lunmst, 1973, performed by Sarah Vermande
Going to the Market, 1975, performed by Mary Ann Duganne Glicksman
Two Drawings, 1973, performed by Sarah Vermande
Performances are FREE and no RSVP is required to attend. Seating is first-come, first-served.
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21. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, opening Sept. 26
September 27-December 14, 2019
Special Events, Thursday, September 26, 2019:
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Opening Reception, 6-8 PM
Panel Discussion, “Talking to Action: Art and Politics in the Americas”
5:30-7 PM, Room 213 (adjacent to gallery)
Moderated by Macarena Gómez-Barris, cultural critic, in conversation with Bill Kelley, Jr., curator, and Jennifer S. Ponce de León, scholar.
Talking to Action investigates contemporary, community-based social art practices in the United States and Latin America while attempting to build a direct dialogue with artists and researchers across the hemisphere to discuss shared concerns, issues, and art practices. The artists in Talking to Action explore a range of transdisciplinary practices, blurring the lines between object making, political and environmental activism, community organizing, and performance.
Including artists:
Liliana Angulo (Bogotá, Colombia)
Efraín Astorga Garay (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico)
BijaRi (São Paulo, Brazil)
Bulbo and Galatea audio/visual (Tijuana, Mexico)
Giacomo Castagnola (Lima, Peru / Mexico City, Mexico)
Cog●nate Collective (Tijuana, Mexico, and Southern California, US)
Grupo Contrafilé (São Paulo, Brazil)
Sandra de la Loza and Eduardo Molinari (Los Angeles, US, and Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Dignicraft (Tijuana, Mexico)
Etcétera (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Frente 3 de Fevereiro (São Paulo, Brazil)
Colectivo FUGA (Otavalo, Ecuador)
Clara Ianni and Débora Maria da Silva (São Paulo, Brazil)
Iconoclasistas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Kolectivo de Restauración Territorial (Gonzalo Cueto Vera, Jorge A. Olave Riveros, Cristian Wenuvil Peiñan) (Temuco, Chile)
Suzanne Lacy (Wasco, California, US)
Alfadir Luna (Mexico City, Mexico)
Taniel Morales (Mexico City, Mexico)
Andrés Padilla Domene and Ivan Puig Domene (Mexico City, Mexico)
POLEN (Tijuana, Mexico)
Gala Porras-Kim (Bogotá, Colombia, and Los Angeles, US)
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico)
Ultra-red and School of Echoes Los Angeles (California, US)
This exhibition is curated by Bill Kelley, Jr., Curator and Lead Researcher. Karen Moss is Consulting Curator.
Talking to Action is organized by Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and managed as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI). The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with the generous support of the Getty Foundation, PST: LA/LA presenting sponsor Bank of America, the ICI Board of Trustees, and ICI’s International Forum.
Free and open to the public
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, Second Floor
New York, NY 10011
Gallery Hours
Monday-Saturday, 11 AM-6 PM
Thursday until 8 PM
#TalkingToAction @prattexhibits @curatorsintl
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22. Sally Greenhouse, FF Alumn, at Forbes Library, Northhampton, MA, Sept. 21
The Greenhouse Effect Resurrected
… a surprisingly satirical yet serious performative video documentary on surviving a broken neck.
Saturday September 21 2-3pm
Forbes Library
“Hilarious & harrowing…the thinking person’s performance artist.”
– The Boston Globe
SALLY GREENHOUSE wrote, directed, produced, and was featured in the long-running series on NCTV The Greenhouse Effect, for which she was awarded the New England Women in Video Foundation Award and the Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Greenhouse is a previous recipient of numerous grants and awards including an endowed residential artist fellowship at Yaddo in Performance Art/Video, The Djerassi Foundation, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art. Her artwork is interdisciplinary, drawing from original writing, theater, video, comedy, and sound art. She has previously performed at several downtown New York City as well as national venues and was an artist-in-residence at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Forbes Library, Northhampton, MA https://forbeslibrary.org/
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23. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 19-22
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Book Art Lovers!
Please join us for new editions, new artists and good ol’ times!!
Best wishes,
Peter
PS. Jack Waters and we NYOBS will be at PSNY on October 7th @6:30pm for “Songs” for
First Mondays: Readings of New Works in Progress organized by Sarah Schulman.
https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/first-mondays-readings-of-new-works-in-progress/
Allied Productions / Le Petit Versailles is proud to return to Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair.
We will launch PLOT #3 -Land/Landscape, a limited edition portfolio of 24 artist works in a handmade fabric envelope, in the Friendly Fire section, Booth P03, 2nd Floor.
Artists include Mary Campbell, Peter Cramer, Mike Diana, Andrea Evans, Hudson, Joseph Keckler, Stephen Lack, Judith Leinen, Scott McCarney, Brad Melamed, Ricardo Horatio Nelson, ParadoxVestedRelics, Carlo Quispe, Lorin Roser & Nina Kuo, Susan Salinger, Antonio Serna, Ethan Shoshan, Mark Street, Sur Rodney Sur,
Gail Thacker, Victor F M Torres, Jack Waters, Lili White.
Allied Productions,Inc. / Le Petit Versailles (Booth P03)
PRINTED MATTER’S NY ART BOOK FAIR
September 19-22, 2019
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Opening Night: Thursday, September 19, 6-9 pm (ticketed)
Public Hours- Free Admission.
Friday, September 20, 1 pm-7 pm
Saturday, September 21, 11 am-8 pm
Sunday, September 22, 11 am-7 pm
PLOT # 3- Land/Landscape.
To plan out as in a map or set of coordinates, careful foresight to planning complex scheme, inventing a literary device, a small piece of land as in a cemetery or planted ground. Land, its uses, stewards, lords, plunderers, and protectors; the eminent domains, the melted surfaces yielding time capsules, the lungs of a region; its borders, territories, and biomes – both micro and macro; the skins of the Earth, ourselves, and the curious, sensual overlaps. Our focus is solutions, diatribes, politics, the environment from your window garden to ozone emissions, indigenous land, decolonizing space in an artful approach queer & otherwise.
Since 1981 Allied Productions, Inc. has been a vital resource for social change through activities and projects in art and activism. Represented by queer radical engineers as an artist-run non-profit that fosters community building and collective process, Allied created in 1995, Le Petit Versailles, a Greenthumb/NYC Parks garden on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. LPV is a green public social space that presents live art, exhibitions, cinema, music, poetry, readings, public forums, and more. www.alliedproductions.org
Plots 1, 2, and 3 are available at Printed Matter, Inc. and Allied Productions, Inc. .
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24. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, at Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan, Sept. 26
Janet Olivia Henry Rite is subject of an oral history by BOMB Magazine thatt’s being introduced on Thursday, September 26 at the Museum of Arts and Design.
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25. Doug Beube, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, at Qian Juntao Art Research Museum, Haining, China, opening Oct. 20
The Juntao First National Book Art Exhibition will be held in the Qian Juntao Art Research Museum, Haining, China, from 20 October to 20 November 2019. The exhibition is sponsored by the Illustration and Binding Arts Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, the Haining Municipal People’s Government, the Haining Federation of Literature and Arts, and the Qian Juntao Art Research Museum.
The three part exhibition includes a collecting show of book arts and binding by Chinese artists; an invitational exhibit of artists’ books and book objects by Doug Beube, Inge Bruggeman, Robbin Ami Silverberg, and Buzz Spector; and a collaboration of scholars from Pejing University and students from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Ningbo University, and Guangzhou Academy of Fine arts. Students from these three schools have made books on various themes of scholars’ books, including sociology, literature, Bible studies, film studies, law, Taoism, and other bodies of knowledge.
The collecting show will be staged in the Qian Juntao Art Research Museum, the invitational exhibit will be held in the Xu Bangda Art Museum, and the thematic exhibition will occupy the Zhang Zongxiangao Museum. The three venues are close by each other.
In addition to the work of the four invited artists, Buzz Spector and Njara Stout are lending more than 100 artists’ books and book objects from their personal collection, offering an international selection of items from the 1970s to the present moment. The opening will be Saturday, October 20, and the four invited artists will each speak at symposium that follows on Sunday, October 21.
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26. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 22
WHOSE SQUARE IS THIS? WHOSE SAMPLE IS THIS?
A mash-up performance combining text and image from Paul Zelevansky’s visual essay WHOSE SQUARE IS THIS? with sound pieces from J Dilla’s famed hip-hop CD “DONUTS.”
Artbook & MOMA PS1 Bookstore, 2:00pm, Sunday, September 22, 2019 during the New York Art Book Fair. 22-25 Jackson Avenue (at 46 Ave.), Long Island City, NY 11101
WHOSE SQUARE IS THIS? WHOSE SAMPLE IS THIS? speculates on the magnetic power and mutability of the graphic symbol and the musical sample. There will be overlaps of association, and word and music duets, but much of this mix will happen in your head.
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