Goings On | 02/03/2025 - Franklin Furnace

Contents for February 2nd, 2025

CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):

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1. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, Feb. 5-22

2. Carlos Motta, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Ruth Foundation for the Arts Award

3. Peter Cramer, Bina Sharif, Sarah Schulman, Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Feb. 9

4. Yoko Ono, Peter Cramer, Clarinda Mac Low, Sur Rodney (Sur), Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at Park Avenue Armory, Manhattan, Feb. 16

5. Nima Nikakhlagh, FF Alumn, at Greenfield Community College, MA, thru Feb. 27 and more

6. David Hammons, Coco Fusco, Coreen Simpson, FF Alumns, new MIT Press publication

7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com

8. Mark Bloch, Ryosuke Cohen, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, FF Alumns, now online at JapanContemporaries.com

9. Sheryl Oring, Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumns, at National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 7-Sept. 8

10. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1050763162 and https://vimeo.com/1052570662

11. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, at Theatre for the New City, Manhattan, Feb. 11

12. Jacki Apple Fund, FF Alumn, fire relief efforts, Los Angeles

13. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at The Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, Feb. 13

14. Lynne Tillman, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, and online, Feb. 15

15. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, and online, March 1

16. Liz Phillips, FF Alumn, at e-Flux, Brooklyn, Feb. 8

17. Christo & Jeanne-Claude, FF Alumns, at The Shed, Manhattan, Feb. 23-Mar. 23

18. Ericka Beckman, FF Alumn, at Drawing Center, Manhattan, opening Feb. 6

19. Blue Man Group, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

20. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com

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1. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, Feb. 5-22

I acted as the movement director for SLAMDANCE garage, Ian Andrew Askew’s solo performance on punk and blackness.

SLAMDANCE garage is showing at The Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn February 5 – 22. Complete information and tickets at this link:

https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/slamdance-garage

Thank you. Justin Allen

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2. Carlos Motta, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Ruth Foundation for the Arts Award

Please visit this link:

https://www.rutharts.org/artists/ruth-awards

Thank you.

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3. Peter Cramer, Bina Sharif, Sarah Schulman, Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Feb. 9

Marathon reading of Audre Lorde’s “The Cancer Journals”

Sunday, February 9th from 1-5pm

Performance Space New York, 150 First Avenue

https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/marathon-read-cancer-journals/

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4. Yoko Ono, Peter Cramer, Clarinda Mac Low, Sur Rodney (Sur), Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at Park Avenue Armory, Manhattan, Feb. 16

A Dream You Dream Together: A Symposium Celebrating Yoko Ono

Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NYC

Sunday, February 16th from 4:45pm–5:45pm

Archiving and Inheriting the Avant-Garde—A Scream in the Dark

Board of Officers Room

A conversation featuring curator, writer, and archivist Sur Rodney (Sur); visual artist, film maker, writer, media artist, choreographer and performer Jack Waters; Co-Founder and Executive Director of Culture Push Clarinda Mac Low; and multimedia artist Peter Cramer.

https://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/a_dream_you_dream

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5. Nima Nikakhlagh, FF Alumn, at Greenfield Community College, MA, thru Feb. 27 and more

Zamharir (torture for the naked eyes)

On view:

January 27 – February 27, 2025

Gallery Talk:

Wednesday, February 19 at 12 noon

Gallery Hours:

M-Th, 7am – 9pm

F, 7am – 5pm

Sat, 8am – 6pm

The South Gallery is fully accessible.

Located in the South Wing of the Main Building

Greenfield Community College

One College Drive, Greenfield, MA 01301

South Gallery, GCC

Zamharir (torture for the naked eyes) is a mixed-media body of work by Iranian artist Nima Nikakhlagh that invites the viewer to sit with the scenes where the eyes turn red from political violence.

Violence and melancholy permeate the experience of his work. Nima Nikakhlagh, who arrived in the United States from Iran in 2014, is a multidisciplinary artist working across mediums, such as performance art, photography, video, and poetry. Nima’s practice concerns itself with socio-political power dynamics and political resistance approached in a poetic manner. Most of his works are performance-based, and he perceives performance art as not only a form of visual art, but much more, a social-political art form and a social-political art practice. His work frequently uses situation orchestration and some provocation—interruption of daily life—as mechanisms of audience internalization of his concepts – the real action takes place within the consciousness of the viewer. In his words, “the togetherness that performance art establishes is something truly necessary.” Nima’s works have appeared/been performed in Iran, Europe, Canada, and the United States. He has published two literary-performative books: “Bodies, Languages, Truths” and “This Is Not a Book.” Nima is a recipient of the Franklin Furnace FUND for the Performance Art 2023-24 Award.

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6. David Hammons, Coco Fusco, Coreen Simpson, FF Alumns, new MIT Press publication

Please visit this link:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549363/david-hammons/

Thank you.

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7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel in Conversation with Jennifer McGregor

Please visit this link:

https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/jennifer-mcgregor

Thank you.

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8. Mark Bloch, Ryosuke Cohen, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, FF Alumns, now online at JapanContemporaries.com

Please visit this link:

https://japancontemporaries.com/articles/shozo-shimamoto-in-the-postal-art-network/

Thank you.

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9. Sheryl Oring, Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumns, at National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 7-Sept. 8

Opening Feb 7 @ National Liberty Museum

321 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Word Powered: Exploring Free Speech Through Art is a juried exhibition that examines the dynamic relationship between censorship, freedom of expression, and diverse perspectives. Bringing together a range of voices, mediums, and subject matter, the exhibition challenges visitors to reflect on their role in safeguarding our right to free speech, and better understand how language can be manipulated, suppressed, or celebrated. The works on display invite audiences across the political and cultural divide to engage with the potency of words, demonstrating how art can spark vital conversations, and illuminate our collective voice.

The artists for Word Powered were selected from a national call by a panel of jurists that included: Chenoa Baker, independent curator; Talia Barnes, Multimedia Designer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE); Fisher Derderian, Founder and Executive Director of the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation; and Danielle Marino, Director of Programming at First Person Arts.

for complete information please visit this link:

https://www.libertymuseum.org/exhibits/word-powered/

Thank you.

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10. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1050763162 and https://vimeo.com/1052570662

Please visit this link:

https://vimeo.com/1050763162

https://vimeo.com/1052570662

PZ, JANUARY 26, 2025

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11. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, at Theatre for the New City, Manhattan, Feb. 11

‘how easy it would have been to be alive for love’

Theater for the New City Theater Crystal Field, presents

“Afterwards” by Pamela Enz – directed by Sarah T. Schwab*

Feb. 11th 7pm – libation and conversation to follow

with: Austin Pendleton – Marlon Xavier – Heather Littler – Annette Fox – Elizabeth Yeoman – Juanita Casto-Ochoa & Kim Savarino

“Afterwards” is based on the true story of Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve’s older sister who burned to death in a car crash following an argument with her boyfriend who’d stormed away only to hear shortly after that she had died.

Her lover was the son of Sam Shaw, famous for his subway shot of Marilyn and esteemed Cassavetes producer, whose lawsuit of biblical proportions with his only son evolves into a blueprint for forgiveness that gives the piece its resonant heart.

Using information freely shared in real time and spiritually imparted Enz’s Afterwards considers the generations of suffering these people’s stories hold along with the sanctifying power of their mythic love.

Inspired by Edward Snowden’s BitCoin2024 address, itself a yowling howl of a reaction to an increasingly technological world we’ve little power to decide how much we might want to be subsumed by Afterwards ends with a plea for kindness.

*Pamela is especially thrilled to be working with Ms. Schwab who creates stories for both film and onstage celebrating compassion and community.

www.cardinalflix.com/

Like the whole of Ms. Enz’s recent work particularly the film AIRTIME co-written with Alexandra Guerineaud Afterwards posits the importance of a resurgence of empathy,

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12. Jacki Apple Fund, FF Alumn, fire relief efforts, Los Angeles

In light of the disastrous fires and their aftermath, the Jacki Apple Fund has made grants to both Grief & Hope (sponsored by The Brick) and to LACE, both Los Angeles based organizations, to assist artists impacted by the recent fires in Los Angeles. As a longtime resident of LA, and a committed voice for preservation of the natural world, Jacki would have been horrified at the personal and environmental destruction wrought by these fires. Our efforts are to help those who lost homes, studios, and livelihoods, and we urge others to contribute as well.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-the-lives-of-las-artists-and-art-workers

Thank you.

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13. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at The Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, Feb. 13

Hello Wonderful People,

Join me and Hilma’s Ghost as we host Late Shift at the Guggenheim on February 13th. To accompany the Harmony and Dissonance show at the museum, we’ve planned a mystical and delicious evening inspired by Orphism: Connect to female identifying artists in Harmony and Dissonance throughout the museum using channeling cards, enjoy a Magickal Elixir with outrageous garnishes designed for the evening, join Hilma’s Ghost for a Magickal Feminist Ritual at the Chromatic Altar to close the evening at the top of the Spiral Ramp. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you’ll just have to come and experience all of it. <3 <3 <3

Late Shift x Hilma’s Ghost and Eve Biddle: Chromatic Altar

Thursday, February 13, 5:30 – 8 pm

The Guggenheim – 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128

Tickets

Sending Love,

Eve

More on Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930

Featuring over 90 artworks in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition examines the vibrant abstract art of Orphism. It explores the transnational movement’s developments in Paris, addressing the impact dance, music, and poetry had on the art, among other themes.

Orphism emerged in the early 1910s, when the innovations brought about by modern life were radically altering conceptions of time and space. Artists connected to Orphism engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic compositions, investigating the transformative possibilities of color, form, and motion. Selected works by artists including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, and by the Synchromists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, are on view.

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections and Senior Curator, and Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, with the support of Bellara Huang, Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions.

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14. Lynne Tillman, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, and online, Feb. 15

Segue Reading Series:

Winter 2025 Season

Curated by Stella Cilman and Jay Sanders of Artists Space

Saturdays at 5pm

11 Cortlandt Alley and online at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89395947519#success

“Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Winter 2025 Season / February/March curated by Stella Cilman and / Jay Sanders of ARTISTS SPACE / Saturdays at 5pm: 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom”]

Artists Space is pleased to announce a new season of the Segue Reading Series, curated by Stella Cilman and Jay Sanders of Artists Space, continuing throughout February and March.

Upcoming readings include:

February 15: Lynne Tillman & Audrey Wollen

For more information https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series

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15. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, and online, March 1

Segue Reading Series:

Winter 2025 Season

Curated by Stella Cilman and Jay Sanders of Artists Space

Saturdays at 5pm

11 Cortlandt Alley and online at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89395947519#success

“Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Winter 2025 Season / February/March curated by Stella Cilman and / Jay Sanders of ARTISTS SPACE / Saturdays at 5pm: 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom”]

Artists Space is pleased to announce a new season of the Segue Reading Series, curated by Stella Cilman and Jay Sanders of Artists Space, continuing throughout February and March.

Upcoming readings include:

March 1: Marina Abramović & William Parker

For more information https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series

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16. Liz Phillips, FF Alumn, at e-Flux, Brooklyn, Feb. 8

Please visit this link:

https://www.e-flux.com/events/651598/reclaiming-nbsp-space-through-sound-liz-phillips-and-joseph-zeal-henry-nbsp

Thank you.

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17. Christo & Jeanne-Claude, FF Alumns, at The Shed, Manhattan, Feb. 23-Mar. 23

Please visit this link:

https://www.theshed.org/program/441-christo-and-jeanne-claude-the-gates-and-unrealized-projects-for-new-york-city?vgo_ee=coX4WY2LAy3qC5QNs5uLa%2Bv8GnsY2nrUIQeGVUou1eO51%2BgQCszJ6uzY%3As4C5kxpa8V7ikfd9O1YluruOhskQU%2B6M