Halona Hilbertz’s 1998 “Pseudo Studio Walk” took place at the Manhattan loft of Pseudo.com, an early streaming content service. For 50 minutes, Hilbertz walked and ran back and forth between the camera and a far wall.
An in-person interactive workshop led by Pratt Institute Archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez on finding meaning in the archive. Working with and around objects highlighted through the current Live at the Library exhibition Dragging the Archive, participants are invited to look beyond the content of an archive in order to focus on its structure, context, and significance.
The Serious Business of Doll Play: Alva Rogers, Dr. Paulette Richards & the Legacy of Lenon Holder Hoyte was a free month-long program in three main stages: a) new and unlimited public online access to an excerpt from the script of artist Alva Rogers’ the doll plays with Alva’s videotaped introduction created for this project; b) one 90-minute interactive teleconference conversation with artist Alva Rogers, humanities expert Dr. Paulette Richards, and the general public, with closed captioning, on United Nations International Day for Tolerance, November 16, 2022, 6-7:30 pm est; and c) the launch of permanent archival documentation of the program at FranklinFurnace.org
What happens when three Queer Latina/x performance art luminaries gather for an evening of laughter, conversation and reflections. Considering humor as a strategy for survival in navigating race, gender, immigration through the generations and today, what does it mean to be Latina/x right now?
Arantxa Araujo, Tam Gryn and Andrea Lerdo explored ways to codify new spaces such as the digital Metaverse with its simulated environments, Web3, and others. FF seeks to support artists in the process to formalize the knowledge to reach large audiences, build communities, and create spaces for rich user interactions with the latest in tech. We will examine opportunities, challenges and real life examples of performance collectives experimenting with Web3 from the process of building communities to potentially achieving perpetual royalties.
Jeanette Andrews as she spoke on the choose-your-own adventure companion book to her GPS-based, user-activated audio AR work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen.” Jeanette presented a short reading of the book, spoke on the creation and execution of both iterations of the piece including the research, writing, app testing and experience design. She also presented a piece from her performance repertoire to round out the evening.
Art and war are mutually exclusive concepts: creation and destruction, while the concept of destruction is not a stranger in modern art. War deteriorates life, becoming part of it.
Contents for May 31, 2022 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weekly Spotlight: FF and Pratt Institute's Live at the Library VII exhibition, opening online, May 31 1. Kiyan Williams, FF FUND recipient 2021-22, at Lyles and King, Manhattan, June 5 2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, live on NPR at wnyc.org May 31 3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, at Bronx Academy of Arts, June 3 4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray Associates, Manhattan, June 23-Aug. 6 5. Carlos Martiel,…
A free public panel discussion about artists’ books in relation to the new exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022. This panel brought together three artists whose work is featured in the exhibition: Elly Clarke, George Ferrandi, and Xinan (Helen) Ran, to share their experiences in self-publishing books and cross-disciplinary practice, and discuss the role of artists' books in the creation of dialogues and engagement.
The virtual opening of the exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022 when co-curators Fang-Yu Liu and Nicole Rosengurt provided a guided tour of the exhibition at Pratt Library in Brooklyn and the companion virtual exhibition online. The curators shared insights on how they selected these books, explored thematic threads connecting the works, discussed the variety of forms featured in the exhibition, and engaged in Q&A with the audience.