Contents for January 31, 2022
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Weekly Spotlight: ŠKART, FF Alumn, now online at https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/67/rec/117
1. Marja Samsom, FF Alumn, live online at the Franklin Furnace LOFT, Feb. 10
2. Gabriel Martínez, FF Alumn, at Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 7-Apr. 9
3. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, at Gazelli Art House, London, UK, opening Feb. 3
4. Jonathan Berger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jane Dickson, Coco Fusco, Daniel Joseph Martiez, Adam Pendleton, Sable Elyse Smith, Julie Tolentino, FF Alumns, in the Whitney Biennial 2022
5. Clifford Owens, John Ahearn, Patty Chang, David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumns, at New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, thru March 6
6. Buzz Spector, FF Alumn, at Rockford Art Museum, IL, Feb. 4-May 29
7. Sarah Schulman, Lucy Sexton, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, February 7 and more
8. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, now online at www.somewordsforlivinglocally.com
9. Nancy Buchanan, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, from January 28 thru June 12
10. Greg Sholette, PAD/D, FF Alumns, now online at darkmatterarchives.net and more
11. Jodie Fink, FF Alumn, live online at Artists Talk on Art, February 7
12. Marilyn R. Rosenberg, FF Alumn, now online in Otoliths
13. Colette Lumiere, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
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Weekly Spotlight: ŠKART, FF Alumn, now online at https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/67/rec/117
This week we spotlight “Survival Coupons,” a 22-minute VHS film from 2000 directed by the ŠKART group (Dragan Protic and Đorđe Balmazovic) of Belgrade, Serbia. “Survival Coupons” compiles multiple short clips from ŠKART’s Franklin Furnace sponsored project in New York City and Belgrade. The film depicts ŠKART’s diverse “critical communication” strategies and methods, with a focus on their approach to the general public in transit, revealing the contrast between the connotation of freedom attached to traveling and the erasure of personal freedom during the war in Serbia. Beginning with the distribution of ŠKART coupons on trains, and then at public demonstrations, and ending with street art, “Survival Coupons” calls attention to ŠKART’s progressive efforts to help people regain individuality and dignity. (Text by Jenna Kramer, FF University Intern, 2021)
Please visit the following website:
https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/67/rec/117
Thank you.
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1. Marja Samsom, FF Alumn, live online at the Franklin Furnace LOFT, Feb. 10
FF Alumn Marja Samsom presents Marja Samsom’s Motion Picture, Live at the FF LOFT, February 10, 2022
Marja Samsom’s Motion Picture
Please join us for a screening of work by Marja Samsom. The program includes selected new films alongside a special feature of Super-8 movies Miss Kerr Circus (1973) and Sardine Strip (1976). Screening followed by a conversation between Samsom and curator Laura Brown, closing with a zoom champagne toast from Madame Hulot en Vacances.
See you there!
February 10, 2022
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
RSVP here:
About the Artists
Marja Samsom
Marja Samsom is a conceptual performance artist living in New York City since the 1980s, connected to the early conceptual art movement in Amsterdam.
Laura Brown
Laura Brown is a curator, writer, and founding editor of BLUE.
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2. Gabriel Martínez, FF Alumn, at Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 7-Apr. 9
Gabriel Martínez
“Un Viaje Entre”
Feb. 7 – April 9, 2022
Taller Puertorriqueño is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Gabriel Martínez, curated by Camilo Alvarez.
In his first major show at Taller Puertorriqueño, “Un Viaje Entre” (A Trip Between), Gabriel Martínez returns to his Little Havana roots reflecting upon various topics related to his Cuban-American upbringing: culture, history, politics, and religion The works on view explore the cost of migration, the formation of memory, and the ongoing conversations and missed connections between Miami and Havana.
For more information on the exhibition, Taller Puertorriqueño, and related programming, please visit the following website:
https://tallerprorg/un-viaje-entre/
Thank you.
Take care,
Gabe
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3. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, at Gazelli Art House, London, UK, opening Feb. 3
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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4. Jonathan Berger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jane Dickson, Coco Fusco, Daniel Joseph Martiez, Adam Pendleton, Sable Elyse Smith, Julie Tolentino, FF Alumns, in the Whitney Biennial 2022
please visit this link:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/whitney-biennial-2022-artist-list-1234616604/
thank you.
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5. Clifford Owens, John Ahearn, Patty Chang, David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumns, at New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, thru March 6
I wish you and your family (born and chosen) great health and prosperity in the New Year!
I’m delighted to share the opening of We Are Family, a group exhibition I co-curated with artist Peter Drake on view at the New York Academy of Art from February 1 – March 6, 2022. Please find below a press release and the list of remarkable artists included in this complex, tender, and beautiful exhibition focused on family; born and chosen. New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St, New York, NY 10013 (212) 966-0300
On February 23, 2022, the Academy will host a virtual discussion between We Are Family exhibition artists Kathia St. Hilaire and Allison Elizabeth Taylor, with responses from Peter and myself. Please follow https://nyaa.edu/we-are-family/ for program announcements and a forthcoming virtual tour of the exhibition.
We hope that you can visit the exhibition in-person and join us for a virtual communion of family, friends, and colleagues!
Warmly,
Clifford
Copyright © 2022 Clifford Owens, All rights reserved.
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6. Buzz Spector, FF Alumn, at Rockford Art Museum, IL, Feb. 4-May 29
In “Reading Matter,” Buzz Spector’s exhibit at the Rockford Art Museum, the artist will feature his large-format Polaroid photographs of books, whether from his own library or from various private or public collections. This rarely exhibited body of work will show the range of Buzz’s interest in the books others read or collect.
Also on view will be Buzz’s drawings, handmade paper works, and prints, dating back to the 1970s. The centerpiece of the show is A Confluence, a new book construction for the museum, using more than 5,000 books donated from the Rockford and Evanston Public Libraries.
“Buzz Spector: Reading Matter” will be on view February 4 – May 29, 2022
Rockford Art Museum
711 N. Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
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7. Sarah Schulman, Lucy Sexton, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, February 7 and more
First Mondays: Readings of New Works in Progress
Organized by Sarah Schulman
Reading
February 7 – May 2
First Monday of every month | 6:30pm
An ongoing program with accomplished writers who give us an intimate insight into their work-in-progress, long before publication or performances.
February 7, 2022
I Hate Memory: An anti-musical in progress
Written by Eszter Balint, with songs by Eszter Balint and Stew, Directed by Lucy Sexton
Free with RSVP
To RSVP, please visit the following website:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1100039
Thank you.
and
Marathon Reading of Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
Organized by Sarah Schulman
Reading
April 24 | 1pm
Free with RSVP
To RSVP, please visit the following website:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/performance/10978233?performanceId=10978233
Thank you.
We continue our tradition of marathon readings, where we gather our community to share extraordinary texts by avant-garde women authors we have lost.
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8. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, now online at www.somewordsforlivinglocally.com
Please visit the following websites:
www.somewordsforlivinglocally.com
Thank you.
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9. Nancy Buchanan, Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumns, at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, from January 28 thru June 12
how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith
Open by Appointment January 28 through June 12
This exhibition is shaped by the forces of proximity, friendship, generosity, and longevity. Buchanan, Hafif, and Smith met in the newly formed MFA program at UC Irvine and remained friends for life. Structured around the subjects of bodies, communication, and dwelling, this exhibition reveals a remarkable range of pursuits explored by three artists for the past 50 years. Though each followed their own trajectory, this exhibition highlights the differences as well as the “empathic overlaps” of these life-long friends. Organized by guest curator Michael Ned Holte.
Reservations are now available through February 6. Admission is always free.
RSVP below:
On Fridays…
On Saturday or Sunday…
Thank you.
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10. Greg Sholette, PAD/D, FF Alumns, now online at darkmatterarchives.net and more
Please visit the following links:
http://www.gregorysholette.com/
https://gregsholette.tumblr.com/
http://www.darkmatterarchives.net/
Thank you.
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11. Jodie Fink, FF Alumn, live online at Artists Talk on Art, February 7
“Two Practices: Art & Therapy”
To join us on Zoom, please visit the following link:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71206737625#success
Thank you.
February 7, 2022
7 pm-8:30 pm
A panel about artists who are also therapists.
Organized and moderated by:
Barbara Lubliner
(barbaralubliner.com)
Panelists:
Beth Barry (bethbarry.com)
Jodie Fink (jodiefink.com)
Judith Luong (judithluongo.com)
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12. Marilyn R. Rosenberg, FF Alumn, now online in Otoliths
Issue sixty-four, the southern summer issue of Otoliths, has just gone live.
Please visit the following website:
https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2021/12/issue-sixty-four-southern-summer-2022.html
Thank you.
In Frank Herbert’s Dune, melange is an addictive drug that, among other things, turns a user’s eyes blue. This issue of Otoliths can’t promise that, but it is a mélange, an exciting mixture of many things by many people — Christian ALLE, R L Swihart, Cecelia Chapman, Heath Brougher, Jim Leftwich, Alyssa Gillespie, Edward Lee, Sanjeev Sethi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Elaine Woo, Craig Cotter, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Andrew Stys, Nathan Whiting, Clara B. Jones, George Moore, Joanna Walkden Harris, Pete Spence, Alan Catlin, Steve Carll, Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton, Jennifer Weigel, Lynn Strongin, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Scott MacLeod, Rhys Trimble, Vin Whitman, Cameron Morse, Grzegorz Wróblewski, David Jalajel, Tom Beckett, Jonel Abellanosa, Texas Fontanella, Jon Wesick, Jack Galmitz, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Diana Magallón, Joel Chace, Ruth Lepson, Robyn Groth, Ric Carfagna, Michael J. Leach, Dave Read, Carol Stetser, Randee Silv, József Bíró, Jeremy Scott, Daniel de Culla, Aysegul Yilderim, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Francisco Gálvez, Eric Hoffman, Les Wicks, Amrita Tandon, Bob Kotyk, Rosella Quintini, Joe Balaz, Jeff Crouch, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus, Mindaugas Žuromskas, Jeff Harrison, Keith McKay, Vernon Frazer, Hrishikesh Srinivas, John Levy, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Réka Nyitrai, James Grabill, Mark Danowsky, Austin Alexis, Judith Skillman, Seth Howard, hiromi suzuki, Anna Cates, DS Maolalai, Andrew Topel, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Tony Beyer, Harvey Huddleston, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Stephen Nelson, Christopher Barnes, Karl Kempton, Patrick Sweeney, Elmedin Kadric, Jon Cone, Ruggero Maggi, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Charles Freeland, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, Susan Gangel, Daniel Barbiero, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Betty Baxter, Jim George, Penelope Weiss, Jeff Bagato, Marilyn Stablein, Bob Heman, Keith Nunes, Eileen R. Tabios, Joshua Martin, J. D. Nelson, Danni Storm, Jane Simpson, Michael Brandonisio, Pearl Button, Melissa Clendenin Johnson, Sheila E. Murphy, Mario José Cervantes, Bob Lucky, Emmett Lewis, Márton Koppány, Barnaby Smith, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Kristian Patruno, Peter Yovu, Kate Tough, & Maggie Carson.
As always, enjoy. Marilyn
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13. Colette Lumiere, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Danelly Reyes, Franklin Furnace University Intern, Winter 2022