Contents for January 24, 2022
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1. Rafael Sánchez, FF Alumn, at Martos Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 1
2. Blondell Cummings, FF Alumn, at Getty Research Institute, LA, CA, thru Feb. 19
3. Tish Benson, FF Alumn, now online on instagram
4. Raquel Rabinovich, FF Alumn, now online at https://youtu.be/Q9wcbjg1bcY
5. Beth Lapides, FF Alumn, publishes new audio book
6. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online
7. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, at the 57th Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland
8. LoVid, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, at Honor Fraser Gallery, LA, CA opening Jan. 22
9. Alan Sondheim, FF Alumn, new publication now online
10. Lillian Ball, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, thru April 30
11. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Barret Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, thru Jan 30 and more
12. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at artnet.com
13. Carl Andre, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
14. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
15. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 21
16. Jerri Allyn, Doug Ashford, Fatima Bercht, Josely Carvalho, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke, Jerry Kearns, Lucy Lippard, Dona Ann McAdams, Ana Mendieta, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sabra Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Martha Rosler, Gregory Sholette, Nancy Spero, Coosje Van Bruggen, at Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford and Boston, MA, thru April 24
17. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at joritokyo.com
18. Irina Danilova, Vitaly Komar, at All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, thru Feb. 20
19. Elise Engler, FF Member, now online at comicsgrinder.com
20. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, now online in the New York Times
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1. Rafael Sánchez, FF Alumn, at Martos Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 1
Opening Tuesday February 1st, 12PM – 6PM
Rafael Sánchez, Kathleen White:
Earth Work
February 1st – March 12th, 2022
Rafael Sánchez (b. 1960, Havana, Cuba) and Kathleen White (1960, Fall River, MA – 2014, New York) began to collaborate alongside their romantic partnership in Downtown New York in the mid-2000’s. Meeting one another amidst the ongoing AIDS crisis and post–9/11 New York, each artist found their practice touching on themes of grief, mortality, and caregiving, yet alongside these tragic themes, their most common point of intersection was an ability to glean raw material from New York City, down to its most urban and manmade details such as nightlife and concrete. Throughout the 1990s, White created the series Spirits of Manhattan, a multimedia installation integrating human hair into drawings and sculptures. The ostensibly organic matter around which the series was created was made from the discarded wigs of drag queens who had died of HIV and AIDS, marginalized figures with no one to claim their belongings. Meanwhile, Sánchez, a performance artist with a cross-gendered persona, would paint with what they termed “conductive” materials—medicine, makeup, asphalt sealant—materially connecting their delicately rendered, celestial and elusive imagery to the city streets and club scenes. One of the pair’s central, ongoing collaborations was a book table stationed on Hudson Street, in front of Sánchez’s apartment, from which the artists would sell used books, found objects, and at times, selections from their own libraries. Establishing a locus of intellectual exchange, on a busy street named for a historical site of trade and commerce, the artists, approaching the project as an ongoing performance, set up camp at the book table on a daily basis; their project refracting the city’s rhythms and traffic through the prism of its ecological footprint. Sánchez maintains the book stand to this day.
Upon White’s death from cancer in 2014, Sánchez became both the executor of her estate and the keeper of the Sánchez-White Archive, which preserves the artists’ work, collaborations, ephemera, and legacies. The forthcoming exhibition will survey each artist’s practice individually, while highlighting the points of intersection between their practices—both intentional and serendipitous, at times several decades apart, one artist unknowingly, perhaps unconsciously, predating the other. This exhibition will be the artists’ first two person exhibition in New York, and will coincide with the first museum presentation by the artists, Kathleen White & Rafael Sánchez: Messages to the Future, at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, in White’s hometown (on view through April 14th).
Martos Gallery
41 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10013
+1 212 560 0670
martosgallery.com
shootthelobster.com
Martos Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10AM – 6PM
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2. Blondell Cummings, FF Alumn, at Getty Research Institute, LA, CA, thru Feb., 19
Please visit the following website:
https://artandpractice.org/exhibitions/exhibition/dance-as-moving-pictures/
Thank you.
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3. Tish Benson, FF Alumn, now online on instagram
For the entire cov Pandemic I have not had
Running Water
This whole
Thing is its own show
Anyway
Please check out my ig
And
If you know someone who just
Hit the
NFT lotto
Please just let them know
My situation is the most
Strangely
Destitute in Texas
With a
Suprahnatural glorystory attached
Please visit the following website:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CY3JSbnLoPB/?utm_medium=copy_link
Thank you.
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4. Raquel Rabinovich, FF Alumn, now online at https://youtu.be/Q9wcbjg1bcY
I had a video interview in my studio about a month ago, and I am sending you the link to it in case you would like to check it out.
Please watch the following video:
Thank you.
In the Studio with Raquel Rabinovich
I hope you are well, and that you have a wonderful and healthy 2022!
Raquel Rabinovich
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5. Beth Lapides, FF Alumn, publishes new audio book
Hi Friends!
Hope this finds you and yours well.
I’m soooo excited to finally be able to say tomorrow is release day of my original audio book, So You Need To Decide!
I’ve spent the past two years – doing what we have all been doing – and also having intimate conversations with people like Bob Odenkirk, Merrill Markoe, Margaret Cho, Phoebe Bridgers, Julia Sweeney, Judy Gold, Baron Vaughn, Scott Frank, Sandra Bernhard, Tim Bagley, Dave Homes, Byron Bowers, Isaac Mizrahi etc etc about their decisions, and their ideas and beliefs about decision making. And then writing about my own decisions and decision making process.
Then I quilted it together into chapters about the biggest decisions: work, love, spirituality, family and moving.
And then Mitch created beautiful original music for it.
People are starting to listen and telling me they love it – that it is helpful, funny and ‘compulsively listenable’. #blushingemoji
And now I’m so thrilled to finally be able to share this unique 8.5 hours of listening with you!
It’s everywhere audio books are.
To access the audiobook, please visit either of the following websites:
On Apple…
And here it is on Amazon/audible….
Thank you.
If you have other favorite places – it’s there too.
If you want to hear more about it I’m making the podcast rounds and you can find my episodes in the Sirius archives of Sandyland on RadioAndy and What a Joke with Papa and Fortune on the Netflix is a Joke channel. Also the Stephanie Miller Show on The Progress Chanel. There are others I’ll link to in socials – if we’re not already in touch there links are below. Next week I’ll be on Dave Holmes’ show, and recording Barry Katz’s Industry Standard. And I’ve recorded a few others I can’t wait to tell you about!
There’s also a playlist of excerpts on Sound Cloud.
To listen to the excerpts, please visit the following website:
Thank you.
I’m so grateful to everyone who took part in this project and to you who have supported it and UnCabaret through these two years.
And if you listen to stuff…. do a girl a solid and click, enjoy and share!
Gratefully and with excitement…
xx
Beth Lapides
213-706-3630
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6. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online
Hello everyone!
I’m very excited to share my latest studio update with you all, this time taking a look at my monochrome paintings from the 70’s. I hope you enjoy…
Truly,
George
To view the paintings, please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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7. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, at the 57th Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland
I’m delighted to inform you that Indocam, my latest video will premiere at the 57th Solothurner Film Tage in Switzerland. The Solothurner Film Days are the most prestigious festival of Swiss film.
Indocam By Alexander Hahn (2022, 85 Min.)
World Premiere 57th Filmtage Solothurn
Friday, January 21, 2022, 12:15 at the Canva Blue.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 17:30 at the Canva Club.
Indocam is a video about an artist’s travels from the US to India. Secretly shot with a cheap Chinese camera watch, it’s an attempt to capture the unforeseen reality unaltered by the apparent presence of a lens. The viewers travel along like stowaways: visa office, subway, airport, immigration, supermarket, civic reception, art opening, religious ritual, protest vigil.
Experimental in genre, composited frame by frame from shaky footage and an erratic codec,
Indocam looks at the fortuitous crisscross of the artist’s itinerary with other private lives and
public events, some of which would shape the politics of India to this day.
To view the trailer for the video, please visit the following website:
https://alexanderhahn.com/indocam.html
Thank you.
Alexander Hahn
www.alexanderhahn.com
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8. LoVid, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, at Honor Fraser Gallery, LA, CA opening Jan. 22
If you’re in LA, you can see two of our new tapestries at Honor Fraser Gallery
These works are presented in combination with NFTs as part of our series: Hugs on Tape
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90034
Digital Combines
January 19, 2022 —April 02, 2022
Opening Reception January 22, 2022 2:00 — 5:00 PM
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://honorfraser.com/?s=upcoming&eid=184&c=press
Thank you.
Digital Combines Participating Artists: Nancy Baker Cahill, Jakob Dwight, Claudia Hart, Tim Kent, Gretta Louw, LoVid, Sara Ludy, Daniel Temkin, and Saya Woolfalk, with contributing scholar, Charlotte Kent
The artist Claudia Hart has appropriated the term Combines from Robert Rauschenberg to propose a new genre, the “Digital Combine,” which joins a tangible object with its virtual equivalent – two halves to unite the tactile with the ephemeral. Rauschenberg’s radical version of expanded painting mixed sculptural and painted elements together into a single work. In a parallel construction, Digital Combines pair a painting with a related digital file, one that also holds the work’s metadata, to create a single conceptual object. Although imagined for a series of her own paintings, Hart’s concept can be applied generally, whenever artists conceive of the physical and virtual worlds as continuous.
In our forthcoming exhibition, Hart has invited eight friends to join her to expand on the idea of an object by combining materials with things immaterial – whether a digital image, movie, sound or music – bound together by an NFT pointing at instructional metadata. This metadata, an addendum to the NFT “smart” contract, is a figure of speech and a poetic proposition, developed in collaboration with NFT conservation specialist Regina Harsanyi, which in its performative, legal language represents a profound ontological shift in our cultural imagination.
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9. Alan Sondheim, FF Alumn, new publication now online
The Computing Literature Book Series
Thanks to Sandy Baldwin and Dene Grigar, and the Electronic Literature
Organization, the following series is available for free download!
I’m so grateful to Sandy Baldwin for editing and introducing my Writing
Under volume – see below. It’s probably the clearest statement of my work
to date. And the whole series is excellent, amazing –
Available now for free download at ELOs The NEXT
The Computing Literature Book Series
Series Editors: Sandy Baldwin and Philippe Bootz
Please visit the following website:
https://the-next.eliterature.org/collections/34
Thank you.
Computing Literature is a book series published by the Center for Literary
Computing at West Virginia University in collaboration with the
Laboratories Paragraphe at Universit Paris 8 and with a distribution
agreement with the West Virginia University Press. The press produced
eight volumes of books from 2010-2017 authored by some of the most renown
artists and scholars in the field. The eighth volume, #WomenTechLit edited
by Mara Menca, was awarded the prestigious N. Katherine Hayles Prize for
Electronic Literature Criticism in 2018. In November of 2021.
The series includes:
Volume 1: Regards Croiss: Perspectives on Digital Literature (2010),
edited by Philippe Bootz and Sandy Baldwin
Volume 2: Writing Under: Selections from the Internet Text (2012), by Alan
Sondheim, with an Introduction by Sandy Baldwin
Volume 3: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in
Practice (2014), edited by Scott Rettberg with Sandy Baldwin
Volume 4: Po.Ex: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia
(2014), edited by Rui Torres and Sandy Baldwin
Volume 5: Word Space Multiplicities, Openings, Andings (2015), by Jim
Rosenberg and edited by Sandy Baldwin
Volume 6: Electronic Literature Communities (2015), by Scott Rettberg,
Patricia Tomaszek, and Sandy Baldwin
Volume 7: Text as Ride (2016), by Janez Strohovec and edited by Kwabena
Opoku-Agyemang and Sandy Baldwin
Volume 8: #WomenTechLit (2017), edited by Mara Menca
For a free download, please visit the following website:
https://the-next.eliterature.org/collections/34
Thank you.
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10. Lillian Ball, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, thru April 30
“Envisioning Seahorse National Park” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
November 29, 2021 – April 30, 2022
“From Forces to Forms” is a group show on view at Pratt Manhattan Gallery through April 30, 2022. Participating artist Lillian Ball exhibits two pieces highlighting the complex ecosystem of Sweetings Pond located in Eleuthera, Bahamas; GO Sweetings Pond, is an interactive video game designed to raise awareness for the proposed Seahorse National Park. It incorporates research and media gathered by a team of on-site scientists. The triptych Envisioning Seahorse National Park is a hand painted glass panel companion piece with layered etching. It was created specifically for this installation and uses backlight to create a sense of being underwater, immersed in the unique ecosystem of Sweetings Pond, home to over 700,000 seahorses.
Curated by Ellen K. Levy “From Forces to Forms” critically explores how artists and designers can generate vibrant forms using experimental media and processes derived from principles of development of complex organisms. The exhibition is currently open to Pratt faculty and students. Due to covid concerns it is anticipated to open for private and small group tours for the general public in the spring. “From Forces to Forms” will be the first professional artist’s exhibition to be displayed at the brand new renovated Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011).
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11. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Barret Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, thru Jan 30 and more
Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, will exhibit in two shows this month and next.
“Body Beautiful” at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Jan 8-30, 2022.
Noxon St, Poughkeepsie, NY .
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.Barrettartcenter.org
Thank you.
and
B.A.U. Gallery, 506 Main St Beacon NY. “Anniversary Show, Past & Present” Jan 8 – Feb 6,2022
Hours Sat and Sun 12-6pm. 845-440-7584.
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.BAU gallery.org
Thank you.
and
Franc is pleased to announce a new limited edition of archival color photographs of his “NightLife-Hambleton Shadow” series produced by Chase Contemporary gallery, Soho, NYC.
Edition of 25 signed and numbered prints of 6 different shadow images.
Chase Contemporary- 413 West broadway, NY 10012. 212-337-3203.
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.ChaseContemporary.com
Thank you.
and
Woodbury House: London UK. has recently published a new hard cover comprehensive volume entitled: “Richard Hambleton, the Godfather of Street Art”.
Franc has 20 color photographs in this book.
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.WoodburyHouse.org
Thank you.
and
Franc will be included in an upcoming 3rd Annual Lamp Show. at Head Hi gallery, 14 Clermont Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Tues.- Sat 9-4pm. hello@headhi.net
Feb 26-March 26, 2022
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12. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at artnet.com
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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13. Carl Andre, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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14. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit these 2 links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/theater/taylor-mac-the-hang.html?referringSource=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/theater/the-hang-review.html?searchResultPosition=2
Thank you.
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15. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 21
Morgan O’Hara
Conceptual Drawings
Opens Friday, January 21, 2022
Gallery Hours at the present time are Fridays and Saturdays,
Noon to 6 pm
The artist will be present this Saturday, January 22 from 4 to 6 pm
The Mitchell Algus Gallery presents “Conceptual Drawings,” an exhibition of work from three long-running series by Morgan O’Hara:
Live Transmission
Portraits For The Twenty-First Century
Time Study Under Covid
Live Transmission:
My work is culturally contextualized in the practice of drawing as a fundamental human endeavor and is continuous with the time-honored practice of drawing from life. It requires connection, direct observation and Live Transmission. I draw from and build on the historical continuum of the field. Through this work, I transcend the arbitrary “oppositions” between abstract and figurative art, between purely gestural expression and documentary intent, creating narrative work that results in a final product that is not figurative. The drawings themselves become a third actor or mediator in the experience. That which was beneath notice becomes concretized on the page as the paper receives the image.
Begun as an attempt to keep body and mind together in a foreign country where, at first, the language was unfamiliar, Live Transmission drawings track the movement of the hands of people engaged in life activities. With both hands and with two or many pencils used simultaneously, these seismograph-like drawings are done in real time in real life.
Modus Operandi:
The method I have perfected requires close observation and actual drawing in real time with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands. I condense movement into accumulations of graphite line, combining the controlled refinement of classical drawing with the sensuality of spontaneous gesture. My Live Transmissions render visible normally invisible or fleeting movement patterns, through seismograph-like drawing.
Portraits For The Twenty-First Century:
From the moment we are born our molecules go into the atmosphere. If the atmosphere were to remain stable and we could see these molecules, we could – theoretically – get away from the planet and look down and see the patterns of our own movement on the surface of the planet.
Following this idea, I interviewed people who told me their life stories in terms of geographic displacment patterns. We recorded everything onto maps and when the storytelling was completed, I traced the linear configurations off the maps onto heavy drawing paper. Using the principal city in the life of the person as axis, I register multiple maps over that particular point, letting the rest of the lines fall where they will.
I am interested in making one drawing which represents the life of one individual. Color and detail have been added at the sitter’s request. The portrait is finished when the person recognizes and identifies his or her story rendered visible through drawing. Some of the Portraits have been done in a single sitting. Others have taken much longer.
In one case, the person requested permission to do the color himself – Alaine Touraine, French sociologist. Begun in 1984 and completed in 1998, extended once in 2007, the series consists of 153 portraits. Process: interview > storytelling > drawing on maps > tracing off maps. Materials: graphite, colored pencil, inks on rolls of heavy drawing paper. Several have been painted with acrylic paint on primed canvas. Average dimensions: 91,5 x 182 centimeters; 3 x 6 feet. Works in this exhibition have been done with India ink on Fabriano Michelangelo Roma paper. Dimensions: 19 x 26 inches, 48 x 64,5 cm
Time Study Under COVID:
Begun in 1970, O’Hara’s Time Studies account for her use of time in color-coded drawings.
This series accounts for three segments of her time spent in Tübingen, Germany teaching at the University of Tübingen a course entitled Life And Meaning…it’s personal. During this time the entrance of the COVID virus slowly turned into a pandemic and killed many people. The mounting threat of the virus is quantified day by day in the drawings.
(9 pages, graphite on cream drawing paper, 12 1/4 x 128 1/4 inches, 31 x 46,5 cm., plus an etching from Heinrich Seufferfeld made in the 1860s depicting the Hohentübingen Schloss, the castle in which I taught and worked during this period. My decision to do the drawings in grey scale instead of color was based on this print.)
Morgan O’Hara was born in Los Angeles, CA and grew up in post-war Japan. She received her MFA from California State University, Los Angeles and has lived in Berkeley, Paris, Berlin, Italy and, since 2011, in New York. Immediately before the period of Covid, the artist began teaching at the University of Tübingen in Germany where she remained during lockdown. As restrictions eased O’Hara moved to Venice where she established a new studio from which she continues her work. The artist has worked internationally in performance art festivals, mentoring young artists, and teaching master classes in drawing and the psychology of creativity.
Mitchell Algus Gallery
132 Delancey St, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10002
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12–6 pm
516-639-4918
office@mitchellalgusgallery.com
www.mitchellalgusgallery.com
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16. Jerri Allyn, Doug Ashford, Fatima Bercht, Josely Carvalho, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke, Jerry Kearns, Lucy Lippard, Dona Ann McAdams, Ana Mendieta, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sabra Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Martha Rosler, Gregory Sholette, Nancy Spero, Coosje Van Bruggen, at Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford and Boston, MA, thru April 24
January 20–April 24, 2022
For more information, please visit the following website:
Thank you.
Spanning Tuft University Art Galleries’ two campus locations in Medford and Boston, Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities explores the pivotal 1980s activist campaign, Artist Call Against US Intervention in Central America. The campaign, which sought to educate North Americans and protest US military interventions, included a vast array of political and artistic actions across nearly 30 cities that continue to reverberate in contemporary practice today.
The exhibition provides an expansive examination of the campaign through the work of more than 100 artists and archival materials, including materials drawn from the personal archives of Lucy Lippard and Doug Ashford as well as from the Museum of Modern Art Library & Archives and Franklin Furnace Archives. Art for the Future will remain on view through April 24, 2022, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated, bilingual English-Spanish catalogue, co-published with Inventory Press, that features essays by artists and the exhibition curators as well as interviews with Artists Call organizers.
Artists Call was grounded in the political organizing of artists and activists such as Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub, and Coosje van Bruggen and grew through solidarity networks and community organizing. The conscious-raising effort resulted in exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, film screenings, concerts, and other cultural and educational events, with more than 1,000 artists participating in New York City and many more in cities across the U.S. and Canada. The exhibition Art for the Future offers a robust history of the campaign and captures its enduring influence on art and activism today, inviting audiences to consider the significance of the campaign within our current contexts.
Major works by original campaign organizers and participants include those by artists Josely Carvalho, Jimmie Durham, Nancy Spero, Dona Ann McAdams, Ana Mendieta, Tim Rollins and KOS, Claes Oldenburg, Doug Ashford, Martha Rosler, Juan Sánchez, Sabra Moore, Gregory Sholette, Beatriz Cortez, Naeem Mohaiemen, Muriel Hasbun, Zarina, and many others.
Related exhibition programs:
Programs will be presented in English with Spanish Interpretation.
“Re-calling Artists Call,” keynote address by Lucy Lippard with Beatriz Cortez
Thurs, Jan 27, 6pm
Zoom program
Curator tour
February 13, 1pm
SMFA at Tufts, Boston
Faculty talk: Katrina Burgess
February 16, 12:15pm
Aidekman Arts Center, Medford
Decolonial Alliances panel
March 3, 6pm
Zoom Program
Curator tour
March 13, 1pm
Aidekman Arts Center, Medford
Arte Voz workshop: Muriel Hasbun
March 16, 6pm
Aidekman Arts Center, Medford
Latinx Solidarities in Boston: panel
April 15, 2pm
SMFA at Tufts, Boston
Closing artist roundtable
April 23, 2pm
Aidekman Arts Center, Medford
Each presentation across TUAG’s two campus locations in Boston and Medford offers cohesive and fully articulated examination of the campaign and its enduring impact. The exhibition is curated by Abigail Satinsky, Curator and Head of Public Engagement at TUAG, and Erina Duganne, Associate Professor of Art History at Texas State University, who spent five years researching, compiling materials, and engaging with artists to develop the presentation.
Support for Art for the Future, its catalogue, and related programming was provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Tufts University AS&E Diversity Fund, and Tufts University Toupin-Bolwell Fund.
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17. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at joritokyo.com
Barbara Rosenthal participated in the sound-art/visual-art Fluxus Media Art Performance “Arts Birthday Pomodoro Bolzano originating on January 17 via JoriTokyo, at the invitation of Max Weil, now in Antwerp.
Please visit the following website:
https://joritokyo.com/2022/01/17/art-birthday-1-000-059-your-voice-your-word/
Thank you.
Each participant was asked to send up to three audio files of their voice speaking one word each, which was then composited into an electronic music piece and streamed online “live” at 22:00 CET.
Here’s Rosenthal’s back-story of Your Voice Your Word:
“This international project originated in Antwerp by Max Weil, whom Bill Creston and I first met in 1996, when he invited us (with three children we brought from NY) to present our video and film works, plus my curatorial “Old and New Masters of Super-8,” at his film festival in Regensburg, Germany. He hosted us royally, with all meals, train fair to the next Danube city we were touring, and hotel rooms in the glorious Art Deco hotel, the Orpheus. We’ve stayed in touch.
The three word files I sent for his Your Voice Your Word call for the Bomodoro Bozano event are:
all pronounced the same: w-ir-ld
W-O-R-L-D
W-H-I-R-L-E-D
W-H-O-R-L-E-D
The reason I decided to do it this way, is that I’ve been experiencing some unexplained medical issues calling for ambulances, emergency room visits, hospital stays, ineffective meds, etc, that sent me to a neurologist last week. Besides three different kinds of unrevealing brain scans, all he seemed to do, with apparan† annoyance, was, in an irritated voice, ask some textbook questions, one of which was “Can you spell ‘w-ir-ld.”
Without hesitation, I first spelled “W-O-R-L-D.” He began to fold his laptop. I then realized, and also spelled “W-H-I-R-L-E-D,” which he didn’t expect, so he made an unpleased face. I felt defiant, but only smiled, and said, “also W-H-O-R-L-E-D.” He didn’t like that at all!! (He wrote a prescription for a tilt-table test and an inner ear balance test by other docs.)
Well, I’m glad that for this project I have better use of those words, as the Art and Audio World shall have some benefit of all our creative endeavors!
Please tune in!
Happy New Year!
Barbara Rosenthal
Barbara Rosenthal
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18. Irina Danilova, Vitaly Komar, at All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, thru Feb. 20
Russian-American art exhibition It’s About Time to Launch the Quick Brown Fox Again… Isn’t It? at All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Delegatskaya st., 3 Moscow, on view until February 20, 2022.
On August 30, 1963, Washington sent the first text message to Moscow, which read: “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’s back 1234567890”. What is it about, and is there a hidden meaning in it? No, this was the phrase used to test all letters of the alphabet. It is the most famous pangram in English, the shortest sentence in which all the 26 letters of the alphabet as well as Arabic numerals are used. It was commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and any other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the alphabet is needed. It was also common for testing the teletype services, a procedure known as “foxing”. This phrase is used to test all the keys on the device in order to avoid mistakes and misunderstandings in message texts.
This was the first direct contact between the USA and the USSR, which was supposed to prevent the possibility of a nuclear conflict. Then a military clash was avoided.
Since January 23, 2020, the hands of the Doomsday Clock show 23:58:20, leaving us only 100 seconds. On January 20, 2022, another decision on the location of the clock hands is expected.
Based on the analysis of the atmosphere of relations between the great powers on the planet Earth, the arrows are unlikely to remain in place.
The art project is bringing together 30 projects by American and Russian artists practicing different media including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, video, new media and interactive installations who are interested in the above proposed topic; evoking a wide range of responses to the contemporary political, cultural and historical context and social environment. The curator of American projects is Natalia Kolodzei, executive director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. The curators of Russian projects are Ivan Kolesnikov and Sergei Denisov.
List of American projects:
1. Ellen K. Levy, Conversation at a Nuclear Plant.
Эллен К. Леви «Беседа на атомной станции»
2. Yevgeniy Fiks, Washington-Moscow (Security Risk Diptychs)
Евгений Фикс, «Вашингтон-Москва» (Диптихи угроз безопасности)
3. Anne Spalter, The Josh Craig, Control.
Энн Спалтер, Джош Крейг, Контроль.
4. Anna Frants in collaboration with CYLAND MediaArtLab, Peck of Salt
Анна Франц и CYLAND MediaArtLab «Пуд соли»
5. Danielle Siembieda, Raphael Arar, DM MEME / Лс Мем
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Даниэль Симбида, Рафаэль Арар, DM MEME / Лс Мем
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6. Vitaly Komar, Color Code (from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Alexander I ).
Виталий Комар, “Цветовой код” (из письма Томаса Джефферсона Александру I)
7. Carla Gannis, Another Day Another Doom.
Карла Ганнис, «Что ни день, то новый фатум»
8. Olga Lamm, SoULcial Connection: Impulse of Time.
Ольга Ламм, “Социально Духовная Связь: Импульс Времени”
9. Irina Danilova, Вe 59. Stay Сool
Ирина Данилова, Be 59. Stay Сool
10. Julian Montague, 1983
Джулиан Монтаг, 1983
11. Patricia Olynyk, Dark Skies
Патриша Олиник, «Темные небеса»
12. Adam Hogan, Laura Stayton, Before, After, (400’)
Адам Хоган, Лаура Стейтон «До, после (400’)».
13. Clea T. Waite, Helga Pogatschar, Moonwalk – Variation V
Клеа Т. Уэйт, Хельги Погачар «Лунная походка – Вариант V»
14. Asya Reznikov, Migration #2
Ася Резникова, «Миграция №2»
15. Yuliya Lanina, Jose Martinez, Misread Signs
Юлия Ланина, Хосе Мартинес, «Прерваная связь»
List of Russian Projects
1. Vladimir Chaika, Motya+Mickey
2. Ivan Kolesnikov, Sergey Denisov, Meta-Transit
3. Viktor Loukin, Valeriy Korchagin, Mikhail Pogarsky, Pipe of Peace
4. Sergei Dorokhov, Last Dance
5. Viktor Ponomarenko, The Theory of Golden Arches
6. Serge Golovach, Bolshoi Theater. The Iron Curtain
7. Khudyakov & Art Multi-Touch, The Chess. Apocalypse
8. Alexander Lishnevsky, The Red Square
9. Julia Winter, The Flag
10. Annouchka Brochet, The Brains in the Net
11. Andrey Karpov, Looking to the Future
12. Konstantin Batynkov, Untitled
13. Alexander Zakharov, Vladimir Kotov, Transformation
14. Natalie Lamanova, Sputnik
15. Yevgeny Semenov, Ice Age
Please visit the following website:
https://damuseum.ru/exhibitions/samoe-vremya-snova-zapustit-bystruyu-korichnevuyu-lisu-ne-tak-li/
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19. Elise Engler, FF Member, now online at comicsgrinder.com
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20. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, now online in the New York Times
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Danelly Reyes, Franklin Furnace University Intern, Winter 2022
