Goings On: posted week of May 28, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Tamar Ettun, David Everitt Howe, FF Alumns, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, June 25-26
2. China Blue, FF Alumn, at 2019 Venice Biennale, Italy, thru Nov. 24
3. Barbara Quinn, FF Alumn, at MWPCA Clubhouse, Mill Valley, CA, June 7-9
4. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT, June 22-Sept. 23, and more
5. Vito Acconci, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening July 11
6. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, June 1
7. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, at Quaker Meeting House, Manhattan, June 15
8. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at Université de Montréal, Canada, May 29-31, and more
9. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Suoja/Shelter Festival, Helsinki, Finland, opening June 7
10. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY, June 1
11. Meow Meow, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, May 24
12. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray, Manhattan, opening June 5 13. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, June 1
14. M. Lamar, FF Alumn, at Participant, Manhattan, June 2
15. AA Bronson, Dick Higgins, Geoff Hendricks, Willoughby Sharp, FF Alumns, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, opening June 21
16. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, receives 2019 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal
17. Terry Braunstein, FF Alumn, at Angel’s Gate, San Pedro, CA, June 1
18. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in Provincetown Film Festival, MA, June 12-16
19. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, June 1, and more
20. Don Hải Phú Daedalus, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, NY, June 1
21. Georgia Lale, Elaine Angelopoulos, FF Alumns, at Consulate General of Greece, Manhattan, opening June 4
22. Christa Maiwald, FF Alumn, at Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, NY, opening June 1
23. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Argos, Brussels, Belgium, opening June 5
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1. Tamar Ettun, David Everitt Howe, FF Alumns, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, June 25-26
Dear friends,
I’m thrilled to invite you to the premier of Dead Sea, brand new work I’ve been working on for a couple of years at Pioneer Works on June 25, 26!
https://pioneerworks.org/programs/tamar-ettun-dead-sea/
JUNE 25 – 26
TUE, JUN 25, 7:30 PM
WED, JUN 26, 7:30 PM
DOORS AT 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE AT 8 PM
This piece tells the story of Abigail who lives in Jerusalem and has never been to the beach. For the making of Dead Sea I joined a kabbalah study group, a women’s in the art group, a writing group, went back to therapy, started taking voice lessons, and, obviously, aqua zumba classes at the Y. The voices of this awesome community are part of this work, Im lucky to have you in my world!
Curated by David Everitt Howe, and created with an incredible team of collaborators:
Choreography: Mor Mendel
Performers: Laurel Atwell, Tamar Ettun, Mor Mendel, Tina Wang
Score: Helado Negro
Costume Design: Veronika Brusa of BERENIK
Fabric Design: Aimee Burg, Soule Golden
Producer: Amanda Grossman
Picture by Charlie Rubin, shot at the empty public pool in Red Hook.
Space is limited and you need to RSVP to come: tix have two price options — $20 or $5 to make it friendly for low income art workers (no preferential seatings!). If this is too much shoot me an email and we’ll make it work!
David wrote a beautiful and sensitive press release, attached below.
Tamar
Tamar Ettun: Dead Sea
June 25 and 26, 2019, 8pm
Doors 7:30pm
150 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn
www.pioneerworks.org
“Even though Jerusalem is less than an hour drive from the Mediterranean Sea,
Abigail has never been to the beach. She imagined the horizon making a contour
line, recording the shifts in movement of the shapes around it. When people died,
ghosted, or dropped out, the line layered grief on top of where they had been. The
line was also good for things that were too painful to remember.” -Tamar Ettun
Pioneer Works is very proud to present the world premier of Tamar Ettun’s performance Dead Sea. A new commission years in the making, it’s her largest-scale production to date, encompassing the entire main hall of Pioneer Works as well as an upper floor mezzanine. Building upon the artist’s continuing interest in trauma, emotional empathy, and the universality of shared human experience, this performance is also perhaps her most intimate.
Dead Sea is composed of a succession of unfolding actions, movement phrases, and short
stories that revolve around a fictional character named Abigail, who’s never been to the
beach. Gigantic sails made of parachute fabric, lifeguard stations, sculptural motifs,
larger-than-life curtains, and set pieces provide fantastical escape for her. In the style of
Magical Realism, Ettun’s narratives about Abigail’s life are both whimsical and horrific,
detailing not only first loves and the rush of dating, but also death and repeated sexual
assault at the hand of family members and boyfriends. Their guilt is complicated by the
fact that Abigail once loved all of them, and in a way they were also victims-of a
patriarchal society that passed on such behavior from generation to generation. Fault
belongs to the perpetrator, but also on the system that perpetuates it.
The performance begins and ends with the unraveling and then collapse of hand-dyed
parachute fabric, which serves as something of a symbolic horizon line, delineating an
above-water performance space from one “below the waves.” For Ettun, who was raised
an Orthodox Jew and was one of four females serving in an Israel Defense Forces
parachute unit, the fabric is rich with meaning; it has come to symbolize the brutality of
institutionalized violence. For Orthodox theorist and Holocaust survivor Emmanuel
Levinas, compassion is an ethical responsibility of humans, and Dead Sea conveys a
nuanced opinion on blame and forgiveness, finding in both a complexity that mirrors lived experience.
Tamar Ettun: Dead Sea was commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe.
Choreography: Mor Mendel
Performers: Laurel Atwell, Tamar Ettun, Mor Mendel, Tina Wang
Score: Helado Negro
Costume Design: Veronika Brusa of BERENIK
Fabric Design: Aimee Burg, Soule Golden
Producer: Amanda Grossman
About the Artist
Tamar Ettun is a sculptor and a performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Ettun
received her MFA from Yale University in 2010 where she was awarded the Alice English Kimball Fellowship. She studied at Cooper Union in 2007, while earning her BFA from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. She has had exhibitions and performances at The Barrick Museum UNLV, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, The Watermill Center, e-flux, Sculpture Center, Knockdown Center, Madison Square Park, Bryant Park, Socrates Sculpture Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Uppsala Art Museum, Fridman Gallery, Braverman Gallery, Herzelia Biennial, and PERFORMA 09, 11 and 13, among others. She received awards and fellowships from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Franklin Furnace, MacDowell Fellowship, Marble House Project, RECESS, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Production Fund, and Iaspis. Ettun founded The Moving Company, an artist’s collective creating performances in public spaces and a social engagement project with Brooklyn teens hosted by The Brooklyn Museum. Ettun teaches at Columbia University School of Arts, Lehman College, and The New School Parsons School of Design.
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2. China Blue, FF Alumn, at 2019 Venice Biennale, Italy, thru Nov. 24
THE ENGINE INSTITUTE
China Blue 347-885-9494
chinablueart@gmail.com
China Blue’s Cassini’s Dreams at the 2019 Venice Biennale
Cassini’s Dreams is an installation, painting and virtual reality exhibition that will be presented in Room #6 at the Palazzo Bembo in the prominent Venice Biennale, in Venice IT, beginning May 9th, 2019 through November 24, 2019.
To this day Saturn is still one of the solar systems prime objects of wonder. In 1997 we launched the Cassini probe the sheer magnitude of new information begged for new ways to explore the planet and the data.
“Cassini’s Dreams” the installation features an inflatable of Saturn being “read” in real time by a Cassini laser-to-audio system to produce a rich audio experience, built from raw data and artistic interpretation of the two decades of Cassini’s tour. The bases of this sound work was based on her team’s discovery of the sounds of Saturn’s rings.
The painting is also inspired by the rings of Saturn as viewed by the spaceship Cassini. For this body of work China Blue is utilizes the infrared color spectrum. Although humans cannot see in this color range, with China Blue’s appropriation of the palette she cites the scientific application which aides visualizing photographic images in higher detail.
The final element, the Virtual Reality app is a wayfinder that can be used in Venice to find the exhibition as well as by those who are not able to attend. Likened to Cassini’s search for the Saturn, the app enables everyone to participate in their own exploration of Saturn and her rings through the app.
China Blue is a US and Canadian artist who lives and works in Rhode Island and New York. She has spent over two decades investigating and discovering unheard sounds. She works in collaboration with the space scientist Dr. Seth Horowitz and composer Lance Massey the creator of the T-Mobile ring tone.
This work is supported in part by a NASA/RI Space Consortium, Canada Council of the Arts and The Engine Institute a non-profit dedicated to promoting artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology.
The Engine Institute (theengineinstitute.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the intersection of art, science and technology.
Mat Kaplan of The Planetary Society says: The songs are both “beautiful and evocative.”
Art Critic Lilly Wei says: “Cassini’s Dreams…is a remarkable visual arts and sound project that is partly scientific and partly poetic”
Art Historian Stephanie Jeanjean states: “as China Blue demonstrates…nothing is still nor silent, the void is filled with the sounds of in-commensurable invisible forces that can be heard by those who listen to them.”
To read about the CD, Cassini’s Dreams and listen to the work go to: http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/chinablue5
For more information contact China Blue at that contact information listed above.
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3. Barbara Quinn, FF Alumn, at MWPCA Clubhouse, Mill Valley, CA, June 7-9
Barbara Quinn, FF Alumn, is exhibiting at the MWPCA Clubhouse, 40 Ridge Avenue in Mill Valley California with a preview party from 6-8 on June 7 and continuing on June 8 and 9, 2019 from noon to 5pm. For complete information please visit mounttamartists.org
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4. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT, June 22-Sept. 23, and more
Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts
Exhibition dates:
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Brattleboro, Vermont
June 22 – September 23, 2019
Castleton University Bank Gallery
Rutland, Vermont
October 13 – January 4, 2020
Catamount Arts
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
February 5 – April 3, 2020
Helen Day Art Center
Stowe, Vermont
June 19 – August 22, 2020
Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn
Burlington, Vermont
August 29 – November 21, 2020
BMAC launches Vermont tour of photographs by Dona Ann McAdams (5/17/19)
Essay by curator John Killacky
Essay by Leighton Brown and Matthew Riemer
Artist statement by Dona Ann McAdams
Biography of Dona Ann McAdams
Related events (subject to change):
June 22, Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Opening of Six New Exhibits
July 16, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Dona Ann McAdams
August 13, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Exhibit Tour: Stories Behind the Photographs
September 7, Saturday, 5 p.m.
Author Talk & Book-Signing: We Are Everywhere
September 12, Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Back to the Land Redux: Vermont’s New Generation of Artist-Farmers
September 20, Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Four Decades of Queer Activism in Vermont
Key contacts:
Dona Ann McAdams
DonaAnnMcAdams@gmail.com
212-982-2005
DonaAnnMcAdams.com
John Killacky, curator
jrkillacky52@gmail.com
Danny Lichtenfeld
Director, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
director@brattleboromuseum.org
802-257-0124, ext. 108
Acknowledgments:
This exhibit was made possible by a generous gift from Molly Davies and the James E. Robinson Foundation. The accompanying catalogue was supported in part by the Vermont Humanities Council, seeking to engage all Vermonters in the world of ideas.
The artist wishes to thank Peggy Fehilly, Karen Finley, Catherine Gray, Amy LeBarron, Yvonne Owens, Fabienne Powell, and Lori E. Seid for their continued support and vision; Sarah Freeman, Katherine French, Anna Marie Gewirtz, Erin Jenkins, John Killacky, Danny Lichtenfeld, Rachel Moore, and Oliver Schemm for their help in bringing this exhibition and publication to fruition.
Very special thanks to Brad Kessler and Larry Connolly.
Selected media coverage:
Angles on the Revolution – Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (May 2019)
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5. Vito Acconci, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening July 11
THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN FOUNDATION PRESENTS
The 8th Floor
17 West 17th Street, NYC
(between 5th and 6th Avenues)
July 11 – October 12, 2019
Opening Reception
Thursday, July 11
from 6 to 8pm
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to present The Watchers, an exhibition that focuses on the multi-faced nature of surveillance and privacy in contemporary society, and the subsequent production and obscuration of information and news. Artists in the exhibition include Vito Acconci, American Artist, Elaine Byrne, Lieven De Boeck, Anne Deleporte, Hasan Elahi, Karin Ferrari, Orkhan Huseynov, Pedro Lasch, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Arnold Mesches, Trevor Paglen, and Amie Siegel.
Opening on Thursday, July 11th, The Watchers is loosely organized as a narrative about surveillance, presenting examples of stalking, sousveillance, fortified borders, facial recognition technology, as well as proposals for World Trade Center Memorials in cities across the world. Artworks featured in the exhibition that cite oppressive uses of tracking devices are juxtaposed with artistic manipulations of surveillance that model political agency and resistance. The exhibition sets the stage for dialogue examining the relationship between the technologies used to produce surveillance and the construction of news media.
The Watchers reveals gaps where our individual and collective senses of privacy have been disrupted, pointing to instances when knowledge that ought to be publicly accessible has been obscured. It is the second installment in a two-year series of exhibitions titled Revolutionary Cycles. Each of the six installments is organized thematically, to consider how labor, gender, the media, surveillance, and family shape our collective experience in the current political climate.
The exhibition is curated by Sara Reisman, Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. A program of events will be organized in conjunction with the exhibition and details will be announced soon.
About The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
The Foundation believes in art as a cornerstone of cohesive, resilient communities and greater participation in civic life. In its mission to make art available to the broader public, in particular to underserved communities, the Foundation provides direct support to, and facilitates partnerships between, cultural organizations and advocates of social justice across the public and private sectors. Through grantmaking, the Foundation supports cross-disciplinary work connecting art with social justice via experimental collaborations, as well as extending cultural resources to organizations and areas of New York City in need. sdrubin.org
About The 8th Floor
The 8th Floor is an exhibition and events space established in 2010 by Shelley and Donald Rubin, dedicated to promoting cultural and philanthropic initiatives, and to expanding artistic and cultural accessibility in New York City. the8thfloor.org
The 8th Floor is open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Please email info@the8thfloor.org for any gallery and tour inquiries.
the8thfloor.org
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation | 17 West 17th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10011
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6. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, June 1
Susan Mogul’s “Everyday Echo Street” (1993, 32 min) will be screening
at the Museum of the Moving Image June 1st at 4 PM
in Queens
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106
718 777 6888
the other film looks very interesting.
Screening
Insiders and Outsiders: Everyday Echo Street and Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Part of Essay L.A.
Saturday, June 1, 4:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room
Everyday Echo Street (Dir. Susan Mogul. 1993, 33 mins.)
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (Dir. Reyner Banham. 1972, 52 mins.)
Filmmaker Susan Mogul, who was involved in 1970s feminist circles in Los Angeles, documents life in and around her Highland Park apartment complex. The comings and goings of neighbors, handymen and delivery personnel, connections which at first appear diffuse, are revealed to be a quilt of interdependencies in a city of transplants and regular acts of kindness. British architectural historian Reyner Banham, who wrote The Four Ecologies about Los Angeles (Autopia, Surfurbia, Foothills, and The Plains) does in fact love Los Angeles, and infamously learned to drive in order to cavort most intimately with the multi-centered city that fascinated him. In the film, he drives around in a talking car, visits with vernacular architecture, and gets hot dogs with Ed Ruscha. He reads the city as one borne of automated movement and waves of migration, a uniquely twentieth-century invention. Together the two films provide an insider / outsider gaze on the city, expanding and contracting from vast horizontality to the emotional networks that sustain a single building.-Courtney Stephens
Susan Mogul
www.susanmogul.com
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7. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, at Quaker Meeting House, Manhattan, June 15
The Stop Shopping Choir is like many communities – under attack by ICE. So, while we aim our theatrics at toxins like Glyphosate, gentrification, pipelines… – we always return to Immigration Rights. Join us Sat June 15 at the Quaker Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place, 8 PM, in downtown Manhattan, pay what you can… It’s a benefit for the New Sanctuary Coalition.
Billy Talen
http://www.revbilly.com/
Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir · PO Box 1556, New York, NY 10013, United States
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8. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at Université de Montréal, Canada, May 29-31, and more
three upcoming events in Montreal and Quebec City, May & June
Devora Neumark, FF Alumn is presenting “Palimpsests of Wellness: Dialogic Performance and the Co-Creation of Ephemeral Communities” at the Public Art, Sites and Digital Cultures colloquium (May 29, 30 and 31) sponsored by the City of Montreal, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Université de Montréal.
http://www.artetsite.org/evenements/2019/5/29/art-public-sites-et-cultures-numriques
Her performance work, titled s(us)taining, will be interpreted during the Playing Up Activation (OFFTA 2019) participatory / live art event (May 24-June 2), sponsored by projets hybris and LA SERRE – arts vivant at the Place de la Paix, Montreal. http://offta.com/en/evenement/se-la-jouer-playing-up-place-de-la-paix/
She will also be presenting “What’s at stake? Place, Wellness, and Performing Climate Justice” at the L’art dans l’space public [Art in public space] colloquium (June 6-7), sponsored by the City of Quebec and l’Université Laval, in collaboration with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/art-culture/activites/colloque-art-espace-public/index.aspx [Website in French only.]
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9. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Suoja/Shelter Festival, Helsinki, Finland, opening June 7
I am pleased to share with you my participation in the Suoja/Shelter Festival, Helsinki, Finland curated by Corina L. Apostol, Ksenia Yurkova and Anastasia Vepreva, with two projects: Nature of Nations 2019, watercolor series and Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control (2019) series of 43 digital prints on silk.
Cosmopolitics, Comradeship, and the Commons
Suoja/Shelter Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Space for Free Arts
June 7-9, 2019
Opening: June 7, 18.00
Address: Vilhonvuorenkuja 15-16, 00500 Helsinki
EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, ECOFEMINISM, QUEER ECOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE THROUGH KEY PROJECTS BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS, SOME ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FINLAND.
This year the festival will consider some of the most pressing issues of our times under the conceptual umbrella of eco-feminism, queer ecology, environmental philosophy, and ecological resilience. Entitled “Cosmopolitics, Comradeship, and the Commons” the 2019 festival-laboratory will feature diverse works including performance, installation art, poetry, film screenings, as well as discussions, artistic research, and an online publication bringing together artists and cultural practitioners from the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, and beyond. Drawing on Isabelle Stengers’ concept of “Cosmopolitics,” where diverse stories, perspectives, and practices connect to lay the foundation for new strategies and radical possibilities, the Festival will act as a temporary commons for diverse approaches to the ecological crisis and its economic, social, and cultural affects and effects.
The festival invited artists, activists, educators, musicians, and all cultural producers in the greater Helsinki area and beyond to propose projects at the intersection of deep ecology, climate resilience, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, and socially engaged practice.
Russian performative and experimental musical collective Techno-Poetry (Roman Osminkin, Anton Komandirov, Marina Shamova); Sweden-based art-collective HAMNEN (artist and filmmaker Klængur Gunnarsson; artist Maria Safronova Wahlström; artist Josef Mellergård; award-winning filmmaker, journalist and writer Johannes Wahlström); ex-academic turned video essayist Natalie Wynn based in the US; artist, activist and filmmaker Oto Hudec based in Slovakia; collaborating Romanian artists Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan; artist and filmmaker Oliver Ressler based in Austria; curator and art critic Raluca Voinea based in Romania; Sami artist, author and journalist Máret Ánne Sara based in Norway; Polish poetic choreographer, performance maker, curator of experiences Valentine Tanz/ Vala Tomasz Foltyn based in Denmark; UK-based art historians and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes; and Belarusian-American artist Alina Bliumis are amongst this year’s participants.
More than 20 participating artists, musicians, curators and theoreticians were selected via an international open call: Anna Sopova and Antanas Jatsinevichys (Russia); Inês Tartaruga Água (Portugal); Ipek Burçak (Turkey); Collective HEXY (Justyna Jakóbowska, Roksana Kularska-Król, Justyna Stopnicka) (Poland); Lea Roth (Germany); Laurene Bois-Mariage (Finland); Maria Veits (Russia/ Israel); Andréa Stanislav (US); Axel Straschnoy (Finland); Vo Ezn (Georgia); Mathilda Franzén (Sweden); Natalia Skobeeva (Russia/ Belgium); Rabota (Marika Krasina & Anton Kryvulia) (Germany/ Belarus); Roman Golovko (Russia); Silvia Amancei and Bogdan Armanu (Romania); Susi Disorder (United Kingdom); Saša Nemec (Slovenia/ Finland); Taisia Korotkova (Russia); Valerii Shevchenko (Russia); Vera Kavaleuskaya (Finland/ Belarus); Verneri Salonen (Finland); zh v yu (Natasha Zhukova, Katya Volkova, Dasha Yurychuk) (Russia).
The festival also presents the Suoja/Shelter Reader, a compilation of educational materials in conversation with the performances, art installations, films, music, and discussions taking place throughout the festival. The Reader has been put together by the festival curator and organizers. The reader also contains a themed glossary of terms.
Suoja/ Shelter is held at the Space for Free Arts under the Auspices of the University of the Arts Helsinki ( UNIARTS). It is supported by the City of Helsinki, the Finnish Cultural Foundation (SKR), and the Arts Promotion Center Finland ( TAIKE). Spanning three full days of programming between June 7-9 at the public shelter turned into the Space For Free Arts/ Vapaan Taiteen Tila in the Sörnäinen neighbourhood of Finland’s capital, the festival is free and open to the public. It is curated by Corina L. Apostol, an independent curator and writer based in New York/US and Constanța/Romania, together with artist and curator Ksenia Yurkova (Finland/ Russia) and artist and curator Anastasia Vepreva (Russia).
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10. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY, June 1
MADE in Queens (Site City Future)
Saturday, June 1st, 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Variety Show and Exhibition
In Collaboration with LIC Artists
The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Ave. Long Island City
FREE
Over the past four months, we’ve explored urban development and growth in Long Island City from the design perspective and now we turn to its artists to show us what it means to be MADE in Queens! Spend the afternoon celebrating all things LIC with this eclectic mix of home-grown pop-up-performances, music, dance, circus acts, visual art, and more!
In Collaboration with LIC Artists at The Plaxall Gallery
Performances By:
-Ba Ban Chinese Music
-Circus Warehouse / Kelsey Strauch
-Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
-LIC Reading Series / Trace DePass, Lisa Marie Basile & Valerie G. Keane
-Local Project / Damali Abrams
-Pat Irwin & J. Walter Hawkes
-Shampa Chanda
-The Chocolate Factory Theater / Tess Dworman & Tingying Ma
-Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
On View:
-LiC-Artists 2019 Members Showcase
-Urban design solutions for LIC created at the LIC NYC: A Good Neighbor? design charrette held by Van Alen Institute, Henning Larsen and Ramboll
https://www.vanalen.org/events/made-in-queens-site-city-future/
That’s it for now!
Thanks,
Jodie
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11. Meow Meow, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, May 24
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/arts/bam-next-wave-festival.html
thank you.
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12. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray, Manhattan, opening June 5
Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Exhibition Dates: June 6 – July 12, 2019
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Alexander Gray Associates presents an exhibition of ten unrealized projects by multidisciplinary artist Regina Silveira. Emphasizing Silveira’s ongoing formal experimentation and conceptual interventions in architecture, the works on view provide an overview of site-specific installations and public art projects that were never realized in physical space. Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito is the Gallery’s fifth solo presentation of Silveira’s work, and celebrates a decade since her first Gallery exhibition in 2009.
A pioneering figure in Brazilian art, for over five decades Silveira has utilized surprise and illusion as methodologies for the destabilization of perspective and reality. Silveira began her career in the 1950s under the tutelage of expressionist Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, studying lithography and woodcut, as well as painting. In the 1970s, Silveira experimented with printmaking and video, spearheading a movement of radical artistic production during a time of military repression in Brazil. Since the 1980s, Silveira has executed numerous large-scale installations in libraries, public plazas, roadways, parks, museum facades, public transit centers, and other institutional sites. The works on view in Unrealized / Não feito offer a unique glimpse into Silveira’s process and methodology and catalyze possibilities for future experimentation.
Developed in many cases with detailed schematics, preparatory drawings, digital renderings, and physical models, all of the projects in the exhibition encapsulate the artist’s ongoing engagement with the distortion of space. Perception, for Silveira, is a malleable playing field, in which the artist’s imagination plays a critical role. Informed in part by the democratic virtues of horizontal pedagogy, she focuses on the ways in which the public uses common spaces. Most of her large-scale installations are temporary, highlighting ephemerality and reproducibility in her use of materials.
The exhibition features projects that span more than three decades and expansive geographies. Ahead of her time in her use of technology, Silveira began to utilize plotter-cut vinyl and other digital means in the 1990s as flexible materials that allow for large-scale architectural interventions. In All Nights (1999), Silveira fractures light and casts imaginary shadows throughout the interior architecture of El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico. Conceived for the the plaza rotunda of a busy thoroughfare in Bogotá, Colombia, in Iluminada (2015), Silveira interrupts the urban landscape with a labyrinth and digital waterfall, displayed as animations on three curved LED panels. A soccer ball, imagined as a planetary body in orbit, cascades down the bleachers of the Pacaembu Soccer Stadium in Supersonic Goal (2004). In Stray Bullet (2018), a large-large-scale vinyl appliqué on the facade of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany suggests the illusion of glass punctured and shattered by a firing gun–alluding to gun violence in Brazil, as well as the fragility of the site for which it was envisioned. In Clouds (2001), blue and white threads of vinyl appear as if embroidered in cross-stitch over the glass ceiling of Florence’s Santa Maria Novella train station.
Regina Silveira’s large-scale work is currently on view at the PACCAR Pavilion of the Seattle Art Museum, WA. A retrospective of Regina Silveira’s work is being organized by SITE Santa Fe, NM, which opens in Fall 2020. Silveira’s work has been shown in recent solo exhibitions at Museo Brasileiro de Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2015); Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014); Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2013); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2012); Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (2009); the Køge Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark (2009); Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (2008); Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia (2007); Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2005); Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil (2004). Her work is represented in public collections internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Miami Art Museum, FL; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Brazilian Art Critics Association gave her the Award for Life and Work in 2012. Silveira received the Prêmio Governador do Estado de São Paulo and the MASP- Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Award for Career, accompanied by an exhibition, in 2013.
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Alexander Gray Associates is a contemporary art gallery in New York. Through exhibitions, research, and artist representation, the Gallery spotlights artistic movements and artists who emerged in the mid- to late-Twentieth Century. Influential in cultural, social, and political spheres, these artists are notable for creating work that crosses geographic borders, generational contexts and artistic disciplines. Alexander Gray Associates is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.
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13. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, June 1
Saturday June 1, 8pm
doors open 7:30pm show starts at 8pm
CITY LORE
56 East 1st Street, Ground Floor, NY NY 10003
Tickets: HERE $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
Borderless Narratives Past, Present, Future
Hosted by Judith Sloan featuring performances by Alicia Waller, Bianca Vitale, Emily Wexler, Raffi Marhaba, Salomé Egas, Kimberly Morales and excerpts from writing by youth from the International High School at LaGuardia Community College.
An evening of stories, songs, monologues about migration, refuge and finding home.
About the Artists: Judith Sloan is co-founder of EarSay a non-profit dedicated to documenting and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. Sloan is an actress, audio artist, and educator who will present excerpts from It Can Happen Here and Crossing the BLVD with Bianca Vitale. An American soprano, vocalist and songwriter, Alicia Waller seeks to spread the joy of singing through inventive performances that integrate a range of diverse cultural and “soul” music traditions. Her work centers on the practice of music diplomacy. ES Wex (Emily Wexler) is a Brooklyn-based queer femme vocalist, musician and song writer. She seeks to create spaces of healing, joy, contemplation and empowerment through her music. She deeply values collaborations with other artists and young people. Raffi Marhaba is a trans nonbinary vegan activist, proud Arab, graphic designer, poet, multi-media artist and most importantly… a big dreamer who makes things happen. Writers and performers Salomé Egas and Kimberly Morales will perform an excerpt from their collaborative work (with Donna Gary) Stereoflight, a play inspired by FUN collective’s individual experiences with immigration.
Thanks to our supporters!
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Queens Council on the Arts, Viper Records, LaGuardia Liberty Partnership, International High School at LaGuardia Community College, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, The Network of Ensemble Theaters, and the generous donations of many individuals.
EarSay | PO Box 4338, Sunnyside, NY 11104
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14. M. Lamar, FF Alumn, at Participant, Manhattan, June 2
Participant After Dark (Vol. 5): NEGROGOTHIC Garden Party
Sunday, June 2, 2019, 7-10pm
A benefit in celebration of M. Lamar’s book, NEGROGOTHIC
With a special performance by M. Lamar
Purchase tickets now at
participantafterdark.org
PARTICIPANT INC’s exhibitions are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Our programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Archiving and documentation projects are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
PARTICIPANT INC receives generous support from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust; Artists’ Legacy Foundation; Michael Asher Foundation; The Greenwich Collection Ltd.; Marta Heflin Foundation; The Ruth Ivor Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation of Tides Foundation; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; FRIENDS of PARTICIPANT INC; numerous individuals; and Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Dept. of Education.
PARTICIPANT INC is W.A.G.E. Certified and a member of Coop Fund.
www.participantinc.org
Our mailing address is:
Participant Inc
253 E Houston St
New York, NY 10002-1023
Copyright (c) 2019 Participant Inc. All rights reserved.
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15. AA Bronson, Dick Higgins, Geoff Hendricks, Willoughby Sharp, FF Alumns, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, opening June 21
Image Bank
22 June – 1 September 19
Opening: 21 June 19, 7 pm
Image Bank was founded in 1970 in Vancouver, Canada, by artists Michael Morris (born 1942 in Saltdean, GB), Vincent Trasov (born 1947 in Edmonton, CA) and Gary Lee-Nova (born 1943 in Toronto, CA). A model for a utopian, alternative system of art distribution operating outside institutions like the museum and the market, Image Bank engaged in an international exchange of images and correspondence by mail. Among the artists participating in the ever-growing network of exchange were (besides Morris, Trasov, and Lee-Nova) Dana Atchley, Robert Cumming, Dick Higgins, Geoff Hendricks, Glenn Lewis, Eric Metcalfe, Kate Craig, Willoughby Sharp, General Idea and Ant Farm. Image Bank maintained close ties with Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School as well as Robert Filliou and his concept of the Eternal Network. Using frequently changing Duchampian, gender-crossing aliases, and appropriating and reworking images and texts from mainstream media was both a subversive take on post-war individualism and consumer culture, and a way of partaking in an accelerated flow of data. At the same time, Image Bank’s production affirmed the mythological and libidinous power of mass distributed visual imagery and puns. Its interest in the idea of the fetish-which it shared with General Idea in Toronto-in rituals, and in archives shaped the collective’s manifold activities until 1978, when, due to a copyright challenge, it was renamed the Morris/Trasov Archive.
The archive is comprised of more than 10,000 files of ephemera (correspondence, postcards, stationery, notes, collages, and concept drafts) as well as photography, film and props. In collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA), KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the most comprehensive retrospective of Image Bank to date. The exhibition gives an overview of the collective’s most important projects emerging from a moment of collaborative production that fundamentally questioned the boundary between art and life and anticipated topics relevant today, such as networks, tagging/keyword indexing, collective authorship, and UGC (user generated content). The exhibition will travel to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Summer 2020.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, featuring texts by AA Bronson, Zanna Gilbert, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Angie Keefer, Maxine Kopsa, Hadrien Laroche, Felicity Tayler and Scott Watson.
Curators: Krist Gruijthuijsen, Maxine Kopsa, Scott Watson
Assistant Curator: Kathrin Bentele
Public Program
Guided tour with curator Scott Watson and artists Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris
22 June 19, 2 pm
In English
The exhibition is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Audain Foundation and the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V.
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 243459-0
info@kw-berlin.de
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16. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, receives 2019 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal
VISUAL ARTS / FEATURES / ARTICLE
Jenny Holzer is Recipient of 2019 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | MAY 27, 2019
Jenny Holzer is Recipient of 2019 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal
The University of Chicago has announced to honor pioneering artist Jenny Holzer with 2019 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal for outstanding achievement in the creative and performing arts. Holzer will receive her award at the University’s Convocation ceremonies on June 15.
Holzer, a pioneer in using public art as social intervention, is famous for her Truisms – aphorisms such as “Abuse of power comes as no surprise” and “Protect me from what I want” featuring posters, billboards, LED signs, light projections, and more.
The release states that the New York-based Holzer has been showing her works in public places and international exhibitions for four decades now. The public dimension is an integral part of Holzer’s work. Her large-scale installations have included advertising billboards, projections on buildings and other architectural structures, and illuminated electronic displays. LED signs have become her most visible medium, although her diverse work incorporates a wide array of media including street posters, painted signs, stone benches, paintings, photographs, sound, video, projections, the Internet, and a race car for BMW. Text-based light projections have been central to Holzer’s work since 1996. Her works have been showcased in 7 World Trade Center, the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She was also the first woman artist to exhibit at Blenheim Palace.
Holzer studied painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of Chicago in the 1970s and further received her BFA from Ohio University and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was nominated for the Rosenberger Medal by faculty members in the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Art History with the support of the Smart Museum of Art.
Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects. Her contemporaries include Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth, and Louise Lawler.
In collaboration with Zachary Cahill, director of programs and fellowships at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Holzer created a large-scale exhibition “Wall Text” in 2012, which was hosted throughout the spaces of UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts.
Established in 1917 by Jesse L. and Susan Colver Rosenberger, the medal recognizes “achievement through research, in authorship, invention, discovery, unusual public service, or for anything deemed to benefit humanity.” Holzer is the 54th recipient of the Rosenberger Medal. Past winners include musician and educator Steve Coleman and artist Kerry James Marshall.
https://www.blouinartinfo.com/
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17. Terry Braunstein, FF Alumn, at Angel’s Gate, San Pedro, CA, June 1
Hello, Friends,
soundpedro is returning to Angel’s Gate this Saturday, June1st, from 6–10PM (3601 S. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA) There will be many performances, works of sound art, and projections.
Marco Schindelmann, Angela Willcocks and I have created a short video for the “Earmaginations” (Video Projections) element of soundpedro, and have attached a small clip of our video below.
If you are interested, would love to see you there.
With my best,
Terry Braunstein
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18. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in Provincetown Film Festival, MA, June 12-16
Cure for Insomnia
Provincetown International Film Festival
June 12-16
Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) introduces Ed Morgan and family as they go for a ride through the forest and meet Smokey the Bear. After Joanna Cassidy delivers a public service announcement, Ed starts a fire with his cigarette butt. The children plead in song for a country up in flames as the fire is engulfed by surging seas. Alfred Hitchcock provides the perfect antidote.
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19. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, June 1, and more
TWO SPECIAL HANDWRITING SESSIONS:
1 JUNE 2019 FROM 1:00 – 3:30PM
MITCHELL ALGUS GALLERY
132 DELANCEY STREET (CORNER NORFOLK)
LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK CITY
WE WILL HANDWRITE SECTIONS OF THE US CONSTITUTION AND OTHER DOCUMENTS CREATED TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS.
WRITERS MAY TAKE THEIR DOCUMENTS HOME OR SEND THEM TO POLITICIANS. ADDRESSES IN WASHINGTON AND ELSEWHERE WILL BE PROVIDED. A USPS MAIL TUB IS IN THE GALLERY COLLECTING ENVELOPES WHICH THE GALLERY WILL MAIL ON 3 JUNE AT THE END OF O’HARA’S EXHIBITION. ALL MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED, INCLUDING ENVELOPES.
4 JUNE 2019 FROM 4:00 – 7:00PM
THE ANITA ROGERS GALLERY
15 GREENE STREET, SOHO, NEW YORK
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE IN BEIJING WE WILL BE HANDWRITING CHARTER 08, THE HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENT REATED BY LIU XIAOBO IN 2008 FOR WHICH HE WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2010 AND FOR WHICH HE PAID WITH HIS LIFE IN PRISON.
PLEASE JOIN US.
Morgan O’Hara and the Handwriters of the Constitution
323 West 39th Street
Studio 610
New York, New York
USA 10018
handwritingtheconstitution@gmail.com
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20. Don Hải Phú Daedalus, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, NY, June 1
The Art & Science of Urban Gardens and Soil
Dr. Anya Paltseva and Don Hải Phú Daedalus, Project: Soils artists-in-residence in discussion.
During years of collaboration, Dr. Anya Paltseva and Don Hải Phú Daedalus have focused on improving the health of urban gardens and soils through art and science. Dr. Paltseva’s research concerns heavy metals in soils and the amendment that interact with them. Daedalus’s artistic intervention, the Illinois River Project, tries to connect two problems: invasive carp and urban soil conditions, in order to solve both problems, by using the bones of invasive carp to treat toxic urban soil. They will each present ongoing research on soil remediation, the legacy of heavy metals, and scientific and artistic approaches to environmental justice.
Moderated by Alexander Campos.
This event is free and open to the public.
Date and Time
Sat, June 1, 2019
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Location
Governors Island
15 Nolan Park
New York, NY 11231
Please RSVP on eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-science-of-urban-gardens-and-soil-tickets-62157088525
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21. Georgia Lale, Elaine Angelopoulos, FF Alumns, at Consulate General of Greece, Manhattan, opening June 4
Inside, Outside and Beyond Exhibition and Auction
Dear friends,
The last few months have challenged and changed my life.
In November, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I am still working on restoring my health but the prognostics are good and I feel strong. My family, my friends and my art have been my rock. I am more than happy invite you to my upcoming group show at the Consulate General of Greece. I hope that will see you there.
The work “F” is an American flag made out of an emergency heat blanket. The same blanket material that is being provided to migrant children in the iceboxes of U.S.A. border detention centers. The fifty stars and the thirteen stripes of the flag have been cut out of the blanket. The fragility of the piece visualizes the current political situation. When racism, xenophobia, sexism and political instability are rising, art owns to stand up and reflect the social and political realm.
“F”, emergency mylar thermal blanket, 5′ x 7′, 2018
Inside, Outside and Beyond
Online Auction
The Online Auction, hosted on the Paddle8 platform, will launch with bidding on June 4, 2019 and close on June 18, 2019. Profits will benefit the Academy of Hellenic Paideia’s “Sponsor a Student” program.
Timarete Hellenic Art Festival and the Consulate General of Greece in New York are pleased to announce Inside, Outside, and Beyond, a group exhibition that explores diverse manifestations of interiority and exteriority in space and time. Curated by Antonia Papatzanaki. The exhibition is organized by the Academy of Hellenic Paideia, Inc., a not-for-profit educational organization.
Inside, Outside, and Beyond explores interiority set against exteriority, spaces outside or beyond what is expected or internalized, concepts and imagery prompting the artists’ most urgent questions regarding place and time. The exhibition includes drawings, paintings, mixed media art, prints, and sculpture in a rich array of materials. Traditional oil, acrylic, and graphite move beyond conventional uses. Printing embodies the manipulation of images through the use of diverse technologies that result in a printed image on aluminum or paper, and in some cases, includes an added layer of hand drawing revealing a long artistic process. Paper folds into book pages and serves as the material for collage; fabric embodies poetry and a sense of space and time; the political and personal stream out of an emergency heat blanket and images of colorful displaced cloth. The show itself is situated in multiple conceptual locations as it moves among and beyond the smallest particles to whole, imagined worlds via plastic, clay, and mirrors. Feelings and relationships are further probed in leather, copper wire, metal, and even ping pong balls and cardboard, where they are literally contained and dismantled. The past is dynamically projected into the present and beyond, where the viewer is enabled to gaze from multiple positions at our ever-changing moment.
Opening Reception:
June 4, 6:00-8:00 PM
Consulate General of Greece
69 East 79th Street,
New York, NY 10075
June 4-June 28
Exhibition Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9:00 – 2:30 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed
Contact: apapatza@yahoo.com
ARTISTS
Eozen Agopian
Maria Anasazi
Elaine Angelopoulos
Laura Dodson
Angie Drakopoulos
Peter Gerakaris
Cris Gianakos
Morfy Gikas
Mark Hadjipateras
Maria Karametou
Zoe Keramea
Georgia Lale
Eirini Linardaki
Aristides Logothetis
Despo Magoni
Demetrius Manouselis
Jenny Marketou
Eleni Mylonas
Antonia Papatzanaki
Costas Picadas
Panayiotis Terzis
Lydia Venieri
Adonis Volanakis
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22. Christa Maiwald, FF Alumn, at Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, NY, opening June 1
Opening 5-7 pm June 1 and continuing thru September 2, 2019 at 5 Hampton Street Sag Harbor NY. For open hours and details please call 631-725-0128
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23. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Argos, Brussels, Belgium, opening June 5
PETER DOWNSBROUGH – DIGITAL FILMS
BLACK BOX – SCREENING
Opening 05.06.2019 // 18:00-21:00
In conjunction with the exhibition PETER DOWNSBROUGH – OVERLAP/S at Botanique (06.06.2019 – 18.08.2019), Argos presents a selection of 10 short films Downsbrough has made since 2003. Ranging in duration from 1′ 45″ to 10′ 11″, these works provide an essential link to the artist’s current production.
Brussels-based Peter Downsbrough (born New Jersey, USA, 1940) has developed a highly distinctive, strongly cohesive body of work that includes sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, videos, books, wall pieces and room pieces, architectural maquettes, and sculptural interventions in public space. Frequently heightening his famously sparse visual vocabulary with an equally sparse linguistic component—often just a single word—Downsbrough calls attention to a vast landscape of structures both physical and social, cultural and political—that shape modern life.
This programme is a collaboration with Botanique.
A ticket purchased at Argos gives free entrance at Botanique and vice versa.
PROGRAM:
THRU (2003, 9’32”, b&w, some color, sound)
AS ] THEN (2003, 9’29”, b&w, sound)
ET[- (2008, 8’11”, b&w, some color, sound)
I, Y, AND (2010, 6’30″, b&w, some color, sound)
IN [ TO (2012, 2’47”, b&w, silent)
AS … (2013, 1’46”, b&w, sound)
… AND (2014, 2’39”, b&w, sound)
UNTITLED 2015 (2015, 3’07”, b&w, silent)
THE [AS (2015, 10’11”, b&w, sound)
AND TO (2018, 3’01”, b&w, sound)
Argos
Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier
1000 Brussels
info@argosarts.org
+32 2 229 00 03
https://www.botanique.be/en/exposition/peter-downsbrough-overlaps-opening
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