Contents for October 18, 2021
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1. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at 21 Pell Street, Manhattan, Oct. 23
2. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, NYC, Oct. 23
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, online & at Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, Oct. 23
4. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, at Windmuller Park, Woodside, Queens, Oct. 23
5. Irina Danilova and LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at First Contemporary Art Biennial of Murgia, Bari, Italy, thru Jan. 10, 2022
6. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Oct. 21
7. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at The James Harmon Community Center, Hastings on Hudson, NY, Oct. 23
8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan,, Oct. 21
9. Kenneth King, FF Member, in PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art, Fall 2021
10. Split Britches, FF Alumns, at the Barbican, London, UK, Oct. 19-23, and more
11. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, thru Dec. 4
12. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at Pentiments
13. Ariane Dewey, FF Alumn, now online
14. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Alma, Brooklyn, opening Oct. 23
15. Cortney Andrews, FF Alumn, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 27-28
16. Thana Alexa, FF Member, at BRIC Jazz Fest, Brooklyn, Oct. 22
17. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online in White Hot Magazine
18. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, autumn news
19. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, thru Dec. 17
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Weekly Spotlight: Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, in Paris, France and online in brutjournal.com
Edward Gómez, FF Alumn, has published an article about Martha Wilson’s three exhibitions in Paris in the current Oct 2021 issue of brutjournal. This article is accessible to all visitors to the website, free of charge and in its entirety. It will not reside behind the subscription-only paywall.
You’ll find the article announced in a box on the website’s home page. Please visit the following website:
www.brutjournal.com
Thank you.
Click on the box, and it will link you to the article or click on this link for the article itself:
https://brutjournal.com/article/martha-wilson-interview/
merci beaucoup.
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1. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at 21 Pell Street, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 23
2021 Chinatown Arts Week
Performances & Reading
Sat. Oct 16 at app. 3:45pm and 5:10pm
Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk)
10-minute excerpts from solo acoustic punk raconteur work
Outside 21 Pell Street, NYC
Sat. OCT 23, btw. 5:30 – 7pm
Reading of “It’s Only a Paper Son” from Our Laundry, Our Town
memoir to be published by Fordham University Press in May 2022
Inside 21 Pell Street, NYC
Free
Inside 21 Pell St on Sat OCT 23, between 5:30-7pm is “Story Night.” Alongside the premiere of five new short films from Think! Chinatown’s storytelling project, I will be reading “It’s Only a Paper Son” from Our Laundry, Our Town: Portraits of a NYC Chinese American Life-in-Progress.
I am honored to be performing for the second time in Chinatown Arts Week. Please check out the entire schedule and come on down to Chinatown!
For more information, please visit the following websites:
https://www.thinkchinatown.org/artsweek2021
Alvineng.com
Thank you.
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2. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, NYC, Oct. 23
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow presents a live performance of her series, “Junkanooacome” followed by a costume design workshop for kids of all ages. This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.
Special Events On Governors Island In conjunction with the island-wide event Pumpkin Point 2021
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/upcoming-events/pumpkin-point
Thank you.
“Junkanooacome to Governors Island to Crown the Governed”
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Saturday, October 23rd
1-2:30 PM
Visit the Triangle site for directions to Nolan Park House 7B:
https://www.govisland.com/map
Thank you.
Visit the following website for ferry schedules and more info on visiting Governors Island:
https://www.govisland.com
Thank you.
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, online & at Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, Oct. 23
Elemental Awareness: A Warm Up for Growing a Green Heart
An Improvisation By Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (Ndere) And Priscilla Marrero
Presented as part of The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival organized by CEC ArtsLink
Saturday, October 23, 2021, 10:00 AM 11:00 AM
To join the broadcast on IG LIVE, please visit the following website:
https://www.instagram.com/cityaslivinglab/
Thank you.
To watch live meet us at Van Cortlandt Park right by Tibbetts Brook. For map, please visit the following website:
https://www.google.com/maps?q=https://www.instagram.com/cityaslivinglab/
Thank you.
Presented with The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival from CEC Artslink, City as a Living Lab, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and supported by grants from Bronx Council on the Arts
Join Nicolas and Priscilla for a performative online experience via instagram live in Van Cortlandt Park, near the Tibbetts Brook inflow. This program will be livestreamed between 10am-11am on CALL’s instagram account. There is no need to register- simply pop into our instagram stories between 10-11am on Saturday the 23rd!
Join us on IG by visiting the following website:
https://www.instagram.com/cityaslivinglab/
Thank you.
This performance is a ‘warm up’ for our in-person workshop, the following weekend, October 30th.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/events/growingagreenheart
Thank you.
The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival transforms familiar urban landscapes filling streets, courtyards, parks, and other public spaces with works of contemporary art.
Visit the CALL page for Nicolás’s participation in The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival:
https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/growing-a-green-heart
Thank you.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, CALL, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and MacDowell. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, a space working at the intersection of creativity and healing.
For more information, please visit the following websites:
www.interiorbeautysalon.com
@interiorbeautysalon
Thank you.
Priscilla Marrero(ella/she) is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taino and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with interdisciplinary artistas through live performance or filmmaking. She has performed and presented her collaborations in the Musée Dapper (Paris, FR), The Empty Circle (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Miami, FL), Inkub8 (Miami, FL), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY) y más. Priscilla has received support from grants such as Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade Community Grants, Here and Now Grant, and Gluck Fellowship Grant, MFA Graduate Fellowship, and currently the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship Award. She graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Performance and Choreography (09’) and is currently an MFA Candidate for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22’) for her research practice on La Pelvis. Priscilla lives and works on/with Munsee Lenape land, known as Harlem, NY and often travels to Miami Beach for el mar and some familia time.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.priscillamarrero.com
Thank you.
Growing a Green Heart and all of its components are an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and the Bronx Council on the Arts . This project is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts. Nicolás will be working with Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in video.
For more information, please visit the following websites:
https://www.cityaslivinglab.org
https://vancortlandt.org
https://www.bronxarts.org
Thank you.
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4. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, at Windmuller Park, Woodside, Queens, NYC, Oct. 23
Micki Watanabe Spiller will present an outdoor exhibition/event, “Game Sharing” on October 23rd, 2021 @ 10am-2pm (Rain Date 10/30) at Windmuller Park, Woodside, Queens, as part of the City Artist Corp Grant; presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.
Windmuller Park is a 5-minute walk from the 52nd Street stop on the 7 train. For directions, please visit the following website:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B044’50.0%22N+73%C2%B054’37.8%22W/@40.7472222,-73.9115943,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d40.747212!4d-73.9105086
Thank you.
Over the course of the 18 Covid months, Micki has collected and created games to play with family and friends socially distanced and on Zoom as a way for her and her family to keep sane. This outdoor installation compiles references from her research as well as games to share with the community. Special guest Inspector Collector will also be on site with games and fun activities including what may be the world’s first Ostrich Egg Spoon Races.
For more information please contact the artist by visiting the following website:
www.mickispiller.com
mickispiller@gmail.com
646-391-3113
Thank you.
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5. Irina Danilova and LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at First Contemporary Art Biennial of Murgia, Bari, Italy, thru Jan. 10, 2022
[please excuse last week’s Goings On mistake – the work of Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, is not included in this exhibition – mea culpa. Harley Spiller]
Irina Danilova and LuLu LoLo exhibiting
First Contemporary Art Biennial Of Murgia, Province of Bari, Italy
25th September 2021-10th January 2022
Environment Memory Future
Dedicated to the Victims of All Massacres.
painting – sculpture – photography – architecture – video art – cinema-performance
Cassano delle Murge – Altamura – Gravina in Apulia – Matera
Artistic Director: Michele Di Leo
164 Artists from the following Nations:
Italy-Switzerland-Turkey-Germany-Japan-Russia-Estonia-Ukraine-France-Greece-China-Bulgaria-Spain-India-Iran-Lithuania-Canada-USA-Argentina-Australia
For more information, please visit the following website:
biennale d’arte contemporanea della murgia
Thank you.
Inaugurations:
September 21 Event Presentation 18:30-Civic Museum via Sagges 13-BARI
September 25 at 16:30 pm – Ministry of Culture – National Museum of Matera – Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pascoli Square 1-MATERA
September 25 at 17:30 Archaeological Museum Via Santeramo 88-Altamura
September 25 at 19:30 Pomarici Santomasi Foundation (formerly Santa Sofia Convent) Via Museo 20-GRAVINA in Apulia
September 26 at 17:30 Pinacoteca Perotti, Via Miani Perotti 15-Cassano delle Murge
September 26th at 19:30 pm – Holy Art Capitular Museum, Benedict XIII Square, 25-GRAVINE in Apulia
Exhibition venues:
Cassano delle Murge – Altamura – Gravina in Apulia – Matera
Artistic Director: Michele Di Leo
Section 1: figurative arts
′′ Between tradition and innovation ′′Pinacoteca Lanfanchi Palace
edited by dr. Anna Maria Amato director of the national museum Matera
and Silvia Padula Art Historical
2th Section: painting – installations – performance′′ Between tradition and innovation ′′Former Saint Sofia Monastery and Castle Svevo Gravina of Apulia edited by dr. Mario Burdi President of the Pomarci Santomasi Foundation
3nd Section: Painting – Art Video
′′ Between tradition and innovation ′′Pinacoteca Armando Perotti and Civic Museum in Cassano delle Murge by Dr. Ferdan Yusufi Historic Art-Istanbul
4th Section: Experimental cinema – contemporary architecture – photography – sculpture-video art
Altamura Archaeological Museum edited by dr. Elena Saponaro director of the Museum 5nd Section: Painting
Artists:
LuLu LoLo, Irina Danilova, Rossella Laterza, Eleonora Del Brocco, Ferruccio Alo è, Tarcisio Pingitore, Filippo Mastropasqua, Gianfranco Sergio, Angelo Riviello, Flavia Nasrin Testa, Teo De Palma, Giuseppe Riccardo Cosenza, Romeo Battisti, Anna Iskra Donati, Giuseppe Barone, Valter Vari, Patricia Del Monaco, Elisabetta Maistrello, Barbara Berardicurti, Bianca Beghin, Claudia Bortolami, Silvana Di Lorenzo, Sandro Perelli, Sandra Menoia, Carolyn Starr Ellis, Gurmehar Singh, Diana Kirova, Vive Noor, Hufreesh Dumasia Chopra, Athina Kotsoni, Matina Sioki, Androniki Passalidou Pravita, Camille Ross, Stella Chaviaropoulou, Raffaella Losapio, Vincenzo Ceccato, Carmelo La Gaipa, Cristina Fornarelli, Vincenzo Pezzella, Rachele Viggiano, Pierino Rossoni, Fabrizio Sorrentino, Giuseppe Di Guida, Emanuele Giannetti, Ali Kaba ş, Emre Yusufi, Aysel Kul, B rara G öksu, Ertu ğrul Tuna, Esra Meral, Nezihe G ök çe, Serdal Kesgin, Seren Ceren Asyal ı, Y üksel Özen, Zekiye Tellio ğlu, Manuela Maroli, Costantino De Sario, Carlo Molinari, Bahar Heidarzade, Rita Rosati, Rocco J. Mazziotta, Ermanno Senator, Marco Iannaccone, Naoya Takahara, Elena Radovix, Alfonso Caccavale, Lucia Buono, Roberto Comini, Sabino Lerario, Viviana Quattrini, Antonio Nasuto, Athina Kotsoni, Massimo Nardi, Adeleh Saleh, Niloofar Delalat, Mahbob Safari, Houri Farzaneh Sabet , Valentina Gasparre, Corrado Pizzi, Valérie Bourdel, Nicola Rettino, Cor Fafiani, Ieva Liaugaudait ė, Daniel Barroso, Jacqueline Gllicot Madar, Hojat Salarmohamadi, Christel Sobke, Manuella Muerner Marioni, Guido Folco, Paolo Livrea, Leonardo Scarinzi, Valentina Scarinzi, Alfredo Celli , Mimmo Laterza, Peppe Esposito, Alba Amoruso, Salvatore Vargas, Giuliano Knife, Nello, Luisa Valenzano, Gennaro Telaro, Grazia Salierno, Rocco Sciaudone, Elena Dell ‘ Andrea, Francesco Cuppone, Anna Colmayer, Pierluigi Ratti, Carlo Pozzoni, Francesca Cuppone, Eva Rachele Grassi, Rocco Salvia, Manuela Bedeschi, Francesco Di Mauro, Carlo Molinari, Pino Lauria, Roberto Piccinni, Ivano Parolini, Maria Bonaduce, Giovanni Morgese, Claudio Vino, Mario Calcagnile, Rolando Perotti, Jara Marzulli, Andrea Rolli, Elio Bianco, Rffaele Gelao, Mario Rondi, Giovanni Papi, Elham Hamedi, Arvydas Kasauskas, Salvatore Ring, Giancarlo Costanzo, Walter Gadda, Monica Sarandrea, Nicola Strippoli – Tarshito, Lidia Pentasuglia, Antonio Sassu (Synesthetic Group), Francesca Romana Colonna, Elisabetta Maistrello, Pasquale Column, Anastasia Briart, Maddalena Marfelli, Piero Di Terlizzi, Lijun Zhang, Antonella Ventola, Misha Dare, Anna Rita Del Piano, Leo Morelli, Zahra Rahnama, Roberto Strafella, Beppe Labianca, Maria Bogacheva, Elena Ksanti, Elena Razumkova, MrVibem, Maria Pia Di Medio, Bita Forouzanfar, Rosalba Di Leo, Luigi Viapiano, Michele Di Leo.
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6. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 21
hey, folks, it’s that time again – time for another moonlight tour of green-wood!
melissa elledge and i will accompany the renowned cemetery historian jeff richman through the landscape.
Thursday the 21st of October, starting at 6:30 pm.
information and tickets – please follow the link.
https://www.green-wood.com/event/moonlight-tour-2/
Thank you.
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7. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at The James Harmon Community Center, Hastings on Hudson, NY, Oct. 23
Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at The James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706. October 23 11 AM – 6 PM, along with 10 other artists: A.Bert, D.Press, Denahy, Levine, Rabinowitz, W.Naidich, L.Oswald, C.Herd-Rodriguez, EB Gregor, V. Youngman. This group show is part of the return of the River Arts Studio Tour, a multi-village adventure, offering a treasure hunt through local studios and storefronts.
More information is available at the following website:
https://riverarts.org/programs/art/studio-tour/
Thank you.
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8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 21
FF AlumGalinsky hosts “Poetry In New York” featuring Max Blagg and theViine Thursday October 21st 8pm at Book Club Bar
3 performers (Max Blagg, theViine and Galinsky – followed by DJ “Forget Your Password” at: Book Club Bar! Poetry in New York Thursday October 21st 8-10pm LIVE not Virtual! Join: brilliant poets/authors Max Blagg, The Viine, hosted by Galinsky at Book Club Bar (197 E. 3rd Street by Ave B) followed by a musical set by DJ “Forget Your Password”!
More about Max Blagg can be found at the following website:
http://maxblagg.com
More about theViine can be found at the following website:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCmH579mwxC8kzuZHM5XIPA
Thank you.
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9. Kenneth King, FF Member, in PAJ: A Journal fo Performance Art Art, Fall 2021
Kenneth King essay “Art–Media–Manipulation” in the current September/Fall issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art surveys the historical precedents of multimedia and how the 1960s NYC’s downtown avant-garde art and performance scenes’ mixing of media pioneered the interactive virtuality of our digital world.
“The artist Kenneth King provides a far-reaching history of media and technological developments from the 1960s on up to today, resulting in what he calls ‘cyberthesia.’ He plots out developments across the arts
and humanities and sciences in a much-needed historical view of how we got here, speculating on what the proliferation of platforms, streaming, and social media after a year of lockdown will produce as post-pandemic art.” (Bonnie Marranca, Editor, PAJ)
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10. Split Britches, FF Alumns, at the Barbican, London, UK, Oct. 19-23, and more
Announcing Last Gasp: A Recalibration
October 19-23, 2021
presented at the Barbican
We almost can’t believe we’re opening our first live performance after nearly 2 years away from the physical stage!
Reserve a Ticket at the following website: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2021/event/split-britches-last-gasp-recalibration
Thank you.
Landing somewhere between the realms of the live and the virtual, presence and absence, between staying home and venturing out, we’ve created a performance combining spoken word, movement and Zoom technology to respond to a world turned upside down. And it’s been quite the journey to get here!
In early 2020 we set out to present Last Gasp working with a core team of collaborators Nao Nagai, Vivian Stoll, and Morgan Thorson. Last Gasp was a live performance questioning demise: the demise of ageing bodies, civil conversation, and a sustainable planet. The pandemic arrived and knocked the breath out of all of us, as did a period of civil unrest that marched under the banner of ‘I can’t breathe.’ The ironies were not lost as we locked down, stayed in and continued our investigations resulting in a digital performance, Last Gasp WFH.
Now almost two years later, Last Gasp: A Recalibration gathers us in the same room but not as the same people. Returning to the physical stage, Shaw and Weaver reevaluate what it means to be together in a theatre and what it means to perform in the aftermath of a foundation shattering crisis. With episodes entitled ‘The Trump in Me’, ‘How to Set a Table in an Emergency’, and ‘How to Survive a Loss’, Split Britches brings us together to recalibrate – not only facing demise but considering strategies for moving on.
And a Porch Sitting!
Once we close Last Gasp: A Recalibration, we’ve got a digital Porch Sitting October 27, 2021, 19:00 BST! Join us for a conversation on what we’re leaving behind and what we’re moving towards in our lives as we hover on the edge of change.
For more information on the Porch Sitting format visit the following website:
http://www.split-britches.com/porch-sitting
and visit the following website to reserve your place for a Porch Sitting on Stepping Out:
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2021/event/split-britches-online-porch-sitting
Thank you.
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11. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, thru Dec. 4
Excited to be in the three person show curated by Kalia Brooks with @pamelaphatsimo and @fireleibaez @moorecollegeart
Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion
On view October 2 – December 4, visiting curator Kalia Brooks presents Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion in The Galleries at Moore. The exhibition features the work of three artists, Firelei Baéz, Saya Woolfalk and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, whose practices model new modes of recognizing bodies in motion as emergent from the prospect (and consequence) of social and political forms, geographic and cultural mobility, technology and the stability of the environment in supporting the human condition.
Baéz, Woolfalk and Sunstrum are aware that migration generates identity positions that are not singular, but rather a combination of experiences, or hybrid. Hybrid identities contain within them the sensibility of in-betweenness having been derived from multiple sources. The transience of this kind of identification is made tangible through the aesthetic contribution of these artists. Their work helps the viewer understand how the exchange of materials, bodies and ideas resulting from the colonial project, become a current by which new associations of subjective experience are formed, and traditional histories and typologies are challenged and dismantled.
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12. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at Pentiments
Joseph Nechvatal’s retrospective Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) cassette / bandcamp release has dropped at Pentiments.
To view, please visit the following website:
https://pentiments.bandcamp.com/album/selected-sound-works-1981-2021
Thank you.
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13. Ariane Dewey, FF Alumn, now online
Please visit the link below anytime to watch the replay of the 2021 Kerlan Award ceremony with recipient Ariane Dewey, FF Alumn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0B3jfgrEI
Thank you.
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14. Alina Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Alma, Brooklyn, NY, opening Oct. 23
Opening: October 23th, 6-9 pm
Imagination Nation
October 23 – November 30, 2021
Alina Bliumis
“First, there is the old truth that ‘In the beginning is the body,’ with its desires, its powers, its manifold form of resistance to exploitation. As is often recognized, there is no social change, no cultural or political innovation that is not expressed through the body, no economic practice that is not applied to it.’”
— Silvia Federici “Beyond the Periphery of the Skin” 2020.
Entering the gallery, a visitor met by a floor to ceiling colorscape, hanging under its own weight, a linen from the artist series “Bruises.” Alina started the series last year, responding to the violence and battered bodies on the news coming from her birthplace Belarus. On August 8, 2020 the nation came together in unprecedented unity to protest against the rigged presidential election of the man who has held power over the last 26 years, Alexander Lukashenko. Thousands of peaceful protesters looking for justice poured to the streets where they were met by authorities conducting indiscriminate beatings and brutal mass detentions, and dispersing crowds with truncheons, stun grenades, and water cannons. Over the following weeks, protesters made their battered bodies public to record the evidence of a human rights crisis in the country. Lukashenko claimed that the opposition fabricated the abuse and “girls painted their butts with blue color.”
“Bruise #16” (2021) watercolor on printed linen was created for this exhibition. Beneath it lies the text-based and site-specific work “Concrete Poems” covering the floors of the gallery. Alina brings together art historical references such as Dada and Brazilian “Concrete Art” and the literal interpretation of concrete poetry inspired by city scribbles, graffiti, and absurdisms.
One of the poems reads Imagination, Imagination, Nation.
Alma
216 Plymouth St.
Brooklyn, NY
11201
by appointment
info@elmanyc.com
607 379 3133
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15. Cortney Andrews, FF Alumn, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 27-28
Cortney Andrews
“Contact”
October 27th and October 28th, 2021
Performances at 7:00 pm
Doors Open at 6:50 pm
327 Broome Street, First Floor
New York, NY 10002
Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to announce “Contact,” a new performance choreographed and directed by Cortney Andrews. The performance will begin promptly at 7:00 pm on October 27th and 28th at 327 Broome Street. A reception with the artist will follow each performance. This is Andrews’s first project with the Gallery.
To RSVP, contact Sarah at 212.594.0550 or sarah@cristintierney.com.
Cortney Andrews creates cinematic videos, performances and installations that investigate physical and psychological thresholds. In her new work Contact, Andrews will stage a site-specific performance that reflects upon the experiences of disruption, loss, and the desire for security and stability that have resulted from the pandemic.
Working with a group of dancers, Contact continues that exploration while confronting new global constraints and anxieties, incorporating everyday domestic items including laundry lines, mirrors and sheets.
Staged in a vacant building, the dancers perform the conflicting experiences of confinement and being held, disorientation and grounding in place, watching and being watched. When unsettled, we look to each other as points of orientation to find solace. In “Contact,” Andrews seeks to invent different representations of the contradictions with which we continue to be confronted.
“Contact” is partially funded through City Artist Corps Grants, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.
Cortney Andrews (b. 1983, Emporia, Kansas) is an artist working in video, choreography, and performance. Andrews received her MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014 and Yaddo in 2013. Andrews has exhibited in London, throughout the US including New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles. She staged performances at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, and Jack Hanley Gallery. She is the recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund Grant for Performance Art and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Andrews is also the Co-Founder and Director of Offshore Residency, a traveling artists residency program on a sailboat. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Founded in 2010, Cristin Tierney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on The Bowery with a deep commitment to the presentation, development, and support of a roster of both established and emerging artists. Its program emphasizes artists engaged with critical theory and art history, with an emphasis on conceptual, video, and performance art. Education and audience engagement is central to our mission.
Performance Times
Wednesday, October 27th and Thursday, October 28th at 7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:50 pm
RSVP and Inquiries
Sarah Comegno, sarah@cristintierney.com or 212.594.0550
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16. Thana Alexa, FF Member, at BRIC Jazz Fest, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 22
Please visit the following website:
https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-jazzfest-back-bric-house
Thank you.
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17. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online in White Hot Magazine
FF Alumn Mark Bloch’s article on the Image Bank show in Vancouver, an exhibition focusing on the collective that helped expand Robert Filliou’s Eternal Network to what it is today, touches on the work of many FF Alumns.
To read the article, please visit the following website:
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/vincent-trasov-gary-lee-nova/5137
Thank you.
A few excerpts:
“In 1973, the Image Bank artists generously handed their mailing list over to Giancarlo Politi of the international magazine Flash Art, who parlayed it into Giancarlo Politi Editore and started publishing Art Diary, a landmark occurence for the current art system’s institutions, museums, galleries, art critics and artists. Those who were around then know Art Diary jumpstarted the world of international contemporary art as we know it today…
“A case can be made that it was the three Canadian artists known as the Image Bank: Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov and Gary Lee-Nova, that ushered in the situation in which we, as contemporary artists and art professionals, currently live. The trio helped create not one, but two significant international art networking machines that never stopped churning once their pumps were primed in the early 1970s: one, the international mainstream market-based art circuit sometimes (erroneously) called the “The Art World” and, two, its double: an alternative “Eternal Network” of self-publishing do-it-yourself (mail) art practitioners that have spent over half a century developing an ability to mimic the market-based mainstream, poke fun at it, circumvent it and perhaps most productively, ignore it…
“What happened was that after Morris’ Problem of Nothing appeared in ‘68 in Artforum and Ray Johnson sent an introductory letter, the Image Bank suddenly had a means to their desired end, a way to get to the networked place they wanted to go.
“Morris’s 1966 painting ‘The Problem of Nothing’ appeared on page 70 of Artforum, inspiring Johnson to send two postcards in care of the gallery it was credited to: ‘Find your Problem of Nothing very interesting since I have performed Nothings’during the years of Happenings and now am concerned with meetings of New York Correspondence School letter-writers,’ he scrawled. Morris, Trasov and Lee-Nova and others around Canada soon were corresponding with Johnson including three more in Toronto who would eventually take on pseudonyms: Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson and their collective title General Idea. They are important here because their File Megazine would become the vehicle through which the Image Bank distributed their all-important address lists…
“Today we can see that the network that Image Bank imagined was a hard copy, mini-version of Instagram. They attempted to manage the circulation of a large volume of images that made their art form not painting, drawing or photography but the exploration of pictures and typography or both, in patterns, playing off of each other, that were now accelerated into an active, constant, living information flow that magnifies new challenges, one of the first studies of how an open-ended, collectively-created pictorial language might function in a wired, mass media society. Is it possible that if the results of their research had been more widespread and well-known, some of the ensuing dystopia we now find ourselves in might have been prevented? Perhaps we should assume that was their mission and we should take them up on it.”
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18. Cheri Gaulke’s film about Alma Thomas in multiple screenings
October 6 – November 8, Portland virtually: MISS ALMA THOMAS can be viewed in the Portland Film Festival at the festival’s virtual website: https://pdxff21.eventive.org/films/miss-alma-thomas-a-life-in-color-614e08297fb2a20055aab474
Comcast customers can access a free lineup by saying “Portland Film Festival” into their Xfinity X1 remote. Gaulke’s film is in the Black Voices Shorts Block.
October 21, Naples, Florida live: MISS ALMA THOMAS is being featured opening night at the Naples International Film Festival celebrating The Art of the Short. More info can be found here: https://artisnaples.org/naples-international-film-festival/2021/opening-night
October 21-24, Brooklyn virtually: Gaulke has two films in the BROOKLYN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL® (BWFF), a female focused film festival, run by women, about women and for everyone. Founded in 2016, BWFF showcases films made by female filmmakers and gives special preference to films that contain women in key creative roles. Their films are fierce, edgy, and relevant. The 2021 Edition has gone virtual with programs available for one weekend only: October 21-24th. Purchase a pass at https://bwff.festivee.com/. MISS ALMA THOMAS plays in Program E. In addition, Gaulke’s animated film about the friendship between a pre-teen and a Holocaust survivor, TRUDIE’S GOOSE, plays in Program A. All profits from this year’s ticket sales will be donated to Black Girl Film School who do amazing work for girls looking to learn about filmmaking.
October 30 – January 23, 2022, Washington DC live: Cheri Gaulke’s film MISS ALMA THOMAS: A LIFE IN COLOR has a number of upcoming screenings. The film is about African-American artist Alma Woodsey Thomas and is accompanying a traveling museum exhibition of her work. The film can be viewed in the exhibition Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, October 30-January 23, 2022 at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC.
November 6, Washington DC live: Gaulke and members of her production team will be doing a screening and talk on November 6, 11 am EST at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington DC. The premiere DC screening of the 20-minute documentary will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director Cheri Gaulke, cinematographer Tim Wilson, and producer Jon Gann. Sara Barger, filmmaker and President of Women in Film and Video (DC) will moderate. Learn how the film was created in the midst of lockdowns and physical distances.
For more information about the film, visit the film’s website: https://missalmathomas.com/
Cheri Gaulke launches documentary about feminist performance art
Cheri Gaulke announces launch of her first feature documentary film ACTING LIKE WOMEN, about feminist performance art and the Woman’s Building in 1970s Los Angeles. The film is in pre-production and a trailer can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/630613055 Logline: When feminist performance art burst onto the L.A. scene in 1970, a community of women artists changed their lives and the very role of art. ACTING LIKE WOMEN is a personal and collective journey into gender, art and activism – intimately told by those who lived it. Visit the film’s website: https://actinglikewomen.com/ or follow the film on facebook and instagram.
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19. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, thru Dec. 17
So pleased to be showing a new iteration of my Endless Junkmail Scroll at Rowan University!
The exhibit continues through December 17th, 2021 https://sites.rowan.edu/artgallery/
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Joanna Seifter, Fall Intern, 2021
