All past events from our FF LOFT
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2022-23 Past, Present and Future VIII Poster, designed by Yunjia Yuan, Designer-in-Residence, 2022.
Franklin Furnace Archive was excited to introduce the 2022-23 FF FUND recipients at the annual event Past, Present & Future. Each artist described their newly funded projects and explained the influences, thought-processes, and practices culminating in their eventual performances. Emcees Martha Wilson and Harley Spiller hosted this unique annual opportunity to listen to and engage with emerging performance artists of the highest caliber.
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
A Performance Art Trinity, designed by Lori Rodriguez.
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.
Poster designed by Irina Danilova.
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.
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.
Cracked Eggs is the pilot collaboration between interdisciplinary artist, Linda Sibio, and San Bernardino County’s Department of Behavioral Health (SBC-DBH.) Linda’s lived experience with schizophrenia has led her to develop creative exercises that channel mental differences into creative expression. She first designed the Cracked Eggs as an arts workshop series in 2002.
Join Korea Art Forum on Saturday, March 26, 2022 from 7PM - 8PM to kick off the 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space spring program. Share Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) is a series of one-day interactive art initiatives presented for free in NYC Parks connecting immigrant communities and underserved ethnic enclaves to visual arts and culture through language access and participatory art activities. Meet artists participating in the spring 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space program, preview their works, and learn about the varied processes behind creating public art works.
