Contents for February 14, 2022
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Weekly Spotlight: Dee Dee Russell-Lefrak, FF Alumn, now online at https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/102/rec/1
1. Guerrilla Girls, Shaun Leonardo, Carlos Martiel, Ana Mendieta, Dread Scott, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, March 3-June 18
2. Yoko Ono, Jon Hendricks, FF Alumns, now online at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
3. China Blue, FF Alumn, live online with Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association, Feb. 15
4. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, now online at the University of Toronto, Canada
5. Chloë Bass, IV Castellanos, Christen Clifford, Dominique Duroseau, Ayana Evans, Anya Liftig, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Clarinda Mac Low, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, new publication
6. Francheska Alcántara, FF Alumn, at Liggett Studio, Tulsa, OK, thru Mar. 4
7. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, at Monterey Museum of Art, CA, thru April 23
8. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
9. Alexander Melamid, FF Alumn, live online at Rutgers University, Feb. 16
10. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online in Cape Cod Times
11. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly Gallery, Manhattan, opening March 3
12. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, in new Rogue Scholars Press anthology
13. William Scarbrough, FF Alumn, at Art is Art Gallery, Woodstock, South Africa, opening Feb. 16 and more
14. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, in Vienna, Austria, thru May 28
15. Rudy Burckhardt, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Feb. 17
16. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Manif d’Art Quebec City Biennial 2022, Canada, opening February 19
17. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, at Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, Feb. 20
18. Lucy Lippard, Vito Acconci, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Ana Mendieta, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, now online at artnet.com
19. Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, Feb. 17-Mar 6
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Weekly Spotlight: Dee Dee Russell-Lefrak, FF Alumn, now online at https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/102/rec/1
This week’s spotlight is on “The Adventures of Art Girl: Insane in San Francisco,” a fiery one-woman performance written and performed by filmmaker and performance artist Dee Dee Russell and directed by Alex Lee Chu and Dee Dee’s late and dear husband-collaborator Richard Lefrak, who also served as technical and lighting director. This 68-minute performance, the last in the 1996 series Franklin Furnace in Exile at Dixon Place, explodes on the stage with scenes of “Art Girl” preparing for a bisexual sex workers’ event, anxiously awaiting a grant from the “Bootlicking Foundation,” and travelling abroad all while improvising anti-fashion outfits and declaring her thoughts on anger, misogyny, racist “compliments,” commerce, and much more. Russell’s honest and explosive performance includes almost hypnotic imagery and popular music which adds to the enticing chaos of Art Girl’s world. Dee Dee demands that her voice will be heard! Today, Dee Dee podcasts daily, demystifying a now ridiculously dystopian San Francisco under the handle San Francisco Damn at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/san-francisco-damn-podcast-with-dee-dee-lefrak/id1506470893 and on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/6pWbp5TrFiQ34UnUEDIUD5?si=YaTq6yKxQZS0rzquBK5dZg and Twitter @SFDamnPodcast (text by Madelyne Wilson, FF University Intern, Winter 2022)
Please visit the following website:
https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/102/rec/1
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1. Guerrilla Girls, Shaun Leonardo, Carlos Martiel, Ana Mendieta, Dread Scott, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, March 3-June 18
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation At The 8th Floor Presents
Articulating Activism: Works From The Shelley And Donald Rubin Private Collection
The 8th Floor
17 West 17th Street, NYC
(Between 5th and 6th Avenues)
March 3 – June 18, 2022
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established. – John Berger
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to present Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection. Predominantly drawn from their Art and Social Justice Collection, which began in 2015, the formation of this branch of the collection celebrates the prescience and power of art at this particular location and moment in history. The exhibition will also encompass work from other areas of concentration in the Rubins’ collection, namely contemporary art from the Himalayan region and Cuba. Each of the artists are devoted to finding solutions rather than simply highlighting problems, visualizing issues that have been previously obscured, overlooked, or ignored.
Featured artists and artist groups: ACT UP, Belkis Ayón, Firelei Báez, Abel Barroso, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tony Cokes, Ángel Delgado, Antonia Eiriz, Carlos Garaicoa, Guerrilla Girls, Gonkar Gyatso, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Shaun Leonardo, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Armando Mariño, Carlos Martiel, Frank Martínez, Mary Mattingly, Ana Mendieta, Cirenaica Moreira, Michael Rakowitz, Hunter Reynolds and George Lyter, Dread Scott, Tsherin Sherpa, José Ángel Toirac, Betty Tompkins, Chungpo Tsering, José Ángel Vincench, and Jorge Wellesley.
With society as their perpetually moving inspiration, artists no longer observe and make from a distance, but include the public directly, seeing them as participants and collaborators. Works in this exhibition exemplify a compulsion, or passion, to deconstruct reality in a variety of media. How we see our bodily reality, reality as information through text-art, political reality, and the reality of injustice are the central threads of this presentation. The Foundation is proud to present works by groups and individuals that are at times deeply personal, revealing, and bordering on confessional, frequently made in protest, but always hopeful, and aiming towards a better future for us all.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art, published by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Reflecting on the Foundation’s art and social justice initiatives, the two-volume publication features thematic essays, roundtable discussions, newly commissioned artworks and documentation of visual art exhibitions.
Press Release
Visitor Guidelines
Please note that upon arrival, all visitors age 5 and older will need to provide proof of vaccination. Visitors 18 and older will also need to present a valid ID. Visitors’ names and emails will be recorded for contact tracing purposes. Only 2 guests are allowed in the elevator at one time. Masks are to be always worn inside the building, including the gallery, bathrooms, and elevator. If you are not able to wear a mask, you will be required to wear a plastic face shield. As a courtesy and if necessary, we have personal protective equipment including masks and face shields. Accessibility and further policies can be found here.
Any associated events will be announced in due course as we continue to monitor the ongoing public health emergency.
About the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
The Foundation believes in art as a cornerstone of cohesive, sustainable communities and greater participation in civic life. In its mission to make art available to the broader public, in particular to underserved communities, the Foundation provides direct support to, and facilitates partnerships between, cultural organizations and advocates of social justice across the public and private sectors. Through grantmaking, the Foundation supported cross-disciplinary work connecting art with social justice via experimental collaborations, as well as extending cultural resources to organizations and areas of New York City in need. sdrubin.org
About The 8th Floor
The 8th Floor is an independent exhibition and event space established in 2010 by Shelley and Donald Rubin to promote artistic and cultural initiatives. Inspired by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the gallery is committed to broadening the access and availability of art to New York audiences. Seeking further cultural exchange, The 8th Floor explores the potential of art as an instrument for social change in the 21st century, through an annual program of innovative contemporary art exhibitions and an events program comprised of performances, salon-style discussions, and those organized by external partners. the8thfloor.org
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2. Yoko Ono, Jon Hendricks, FF Alumns, now online at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
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3. China Blue, FF Alumn, live online with Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association, Feb. 15
The Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association interviews China Blue on her science based artist’s journey with China Blue a sound based visual artist who incorporates science and often astronomy into her work will be interviewed by Alex Passas Speaker organizer & board member of the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association. You will hear us discuss and explore her unusual art journey and even the lasers she uses!
Where: Meetup
When: Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Time: 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST
Please visit the following website to attend this Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/mhastro/events/283556890/
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4. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, now online at the University of Toronto, Canada
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5. Chloë Bass, IV Castellanos, Christen Clifford, Dominique Duroseau, Ayana Evans, Anya Liftig, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Clarinda Mac Low, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, new publication
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6. Francheska Alcántara, FF Alumn, at Liggett Studio, Tulsa, OK, thru Mar. 4
I’m excited to share my solo exhibition, Skin Le Fleur
Skin Le Fleur is recontextualizes and reclaims the histories of brown paper bags, Hispano cuaba soap, and organic elements like soil, flowers, leaves, and fruits. These works reflect on the racialized, colonial and social complexity that reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a Black diasporic subjectivity and imagination.
The name itself, Skin Le Fleur, is a play on words where literal interpretations are truncated, sliding in between English, Spanish and French. It derives from the phrase “A flor de piel” which cannot be literally translated into English, but its closest phrase would be “to wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve.” The exhibition is a rumination on complex emotions that aren’t rationalized at times but manifest visually onto surfaces that function as skins.
As a whole, this work considers processes of accumulation and deterioration related to organic cycles where everyday materials are preserved and conjured into sacred capsules for collective memory.
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Liggett Studio 314 S Kenosha Ave, Tulsa OK
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7. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, at Monterey Museum of Art, CA, thru April 23
I’m pleased to announce that the Courage Within Women Without Shelter exhibition is finally up at the Monterey Museum of Art through April 23rd. It’s been an inspiring three year journey with my three marvelous local colleagues, Dora Lisa Rosenbaum , Amanda Salm and Denese Sanders and of the Critical ground collective. In 2018, Fund for Homeless Women, a stellar non-profit specializing in raising funds and advocacy for unaccompanied women, hired us to help raise awareness of this mounting problem for women in our community. Long story full of belief in the transformative power of art.
For more information, please visit the following websites:
https://montereyart.org/upcoming-exhibitions/courage-within-women-without-shelter/
https://montereyart.org/visit/general-information/
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Artist in the Gallery. Every Thursday afternoon, there will be an artist (or 2 or 3) at the museum. I’m on duty February 17 and March 17, should you wish to sign up and stop by then.
Please visit the following website to sign up:
https://montereyart.org/event/artist-in-the-galleries-courage-within/
Thank you.
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8. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, now online at www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
Play
The Play Deck
80 Lincoln Court
London N16
28/11/21
Participants were asked to “play”, using the suggestions for games painted on the concrete.The Play Decks between Lincoln Court’s buildings are unusual. There is space at ground level between all three towers for kids to play. Visible from the flats above, children can move securely between the blocks.
PLAY was filmed through a fourth floor window in the middle tower.It was the 24th Annual Group Photograph.
www.amlequesne.com
www.vimeo.com/annmarielequesne
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
Ann-Marie LeQuesne
Studio 4, Space Studios
184 Stoke Newington Church Street
London, N16 0JL
United Kingdom
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9. Alexander Melamid, FF Alumn, live online at Rutgers University, Feb. 16
Alexander Melamid: Of The Two Worlds
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Virtual Artist Talk: February 16, 2022, 7pm
zimmerli.rutgers.edu
Alexander Melamid has lived in the United States since 1978. In this lecture, he looks back at his career to offer “kind of a manual of how to emigrate to the country of Art. Warning: emigration is not for the faint-hearted.”
This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from an icon of Soviet Nonconformist art, who then became a vital part of the New York art scene. With longtime artistic partner Vitaly Komar, Melamid created “Sots Art,” fusing satire to the unforgiving rules of Soviet culture, creating incisive yet humorous critiques of both life in the USSR and the excesses of the Western art world in general. The Zimmerli’s Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union includes more than 100 works by the artists.
A Q&A follows the talk. Free and open to the public. Register to receive Zoom Link.
Please visit the following website to register:
https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/event/virtual-talk-alexander-melamid-two-worlds
Thank you.
This program is supported by the Avenir Foundation Endowment Fund. Visit the Zimmerli’s website for a full list of programs.
The Zimmerli Art Museum is one of the largest and most distinguished university-based museums in the country, and is located on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The museum collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits world-class works of art to provide the university community and diverse regional, national, international audiences with direct experience of the visual arts. Scholarly activities make art accessible through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs.
The Zimmerli’s holdings of Russian and Soviet art are unmatched in the United States, providing a unique overview from the fourteenth century to the present day. The museum’s George Riabov Collection of Russian Art showcases Russia’s diverse artistic heritage, and includes examples of art from icons to paintings by the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), Ballet Russes set and costume design, and works by the Avant-Garde.
The Zimmerli holds the largest collection in the world of Soviet nonconformist art, thanks to a remarkable 1991 donation from Norton and Nancy Dodge. Over 20,000 works by more than 1,000 artists reveal a culture that defied the strict, state-imposed conventions of Socialist Realism. This encyclopedic array of nonconformist art extends from about 1956 to 1991, from the beginning of Khrushchev’s cultural “thaw” to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In addition to art made in Russia, the collection includes nonconformist art produced in the ethnically-diverse Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. A generous gift by Claude and Nina Gruen extended the Zimmerli’s Russian art holdings to the post-Soviet era, with later works by nonconformist artists as well as by new generations active in the 1990s and 2000s. Large archival holdings support scholarship in the collection.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities, with 71,000+ undergraduate and graduate students, as well as 530,000 alumni around the world. Founded in 1766, as one of only nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution, Rutgers is the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning.
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10. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online in Cape Cod Times
39th annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony is featured in Cape Cod Times:
Meta-purse and the Ten Commandments of Anticipatory Shipping.
Please visit the following website:
http://www.jaycritchley.com/39th-re-rooters.html
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11. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly Gallery, Manhattan, opening March 3
Marina Abramović
Performative
March 4 – April 16, 2022
Opening reception: Thursday, March 3, 6-8pm
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce Performative, Marina Abramović’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. Presenting four distinct turning points in Abramović’s five-decade career, the exhibition chronicles both the development of her oeuvre and how it has influenced performance art globally. The earliest work in the exhibition, in the main gallery, will feature Abramović’s iconic early performance, Rhythm 10, 1973. Also in the main gallery will be Abramovic’s acclaimed 2010 MoMA performance, The Artist is Present, represented by a video installation. The front gallery will include a selection of Abramović’s “transitory objects,” which visitors to the exhibition can use. A screening of Abramović’s film the 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, will be in the lower gallery. Presented together, these different bodies of work demonstrate how Abramović has shaped the trajectory of performance art over the last five decades and changed the public’s perception of and interaction with this art form. The artist will be present at the gallery on Thursday, March 3, 6-8pm.
From the beginning of her career in Belgrade in the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form. It was at this time that she created some of the most important early works in her practice, including Rhythm 10. Installed on the North wall of the main gallery, the piece documents the performance in which Abramović splayed her left hand on a large scroll of white paper and began to rhythmically stab the spaces between her fingers with a knife at increasing speed until she cut herself, paused, picked up a new knife and resumed the performance. Accompanying the images will be the sound recording of the performance. One of her first performance works, Rhythm 10, marked a pivotal moment when Abramović first began to consider herself a performance artist. She states, “This was the first time that I understood [the] energy of the audience, and how actually this energy, I could take and transmit it into my own and give it back. And it was the first time that I didn’t feel pain or any kind of discomfort doing it, that I understood that in performance, my body is object and subject, and I can push the limits in front of the public as far as I can, much more than if I would do in my own private life.” These first early solo performances pushed the boundaries of self-discovery, both for herself and her audience. They tested the limits of physical endurance, exploring ritual, gesture, even pain, to interrogate the parameters of art and challenge the fundamental relationship between performer and audience.
Originally presented in 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Artist Is Present was inspired by Abramović’s belief that extending the length of a performance beyond expectations serves to alter our perception of time and foster a deeper engagement with the experience. For a total of 716 and a half hours, eight hours a day, over nearly three months, Abramović sat silently at a wooden table across from an empty chair, as visitors to the museum were invited to take turns sitting across from her. Installed in the main gallery will be six film projections documenting, in real time, the performance at MoMA. On the left wall are the faces of each of the individuals who took a seat opposite Abramović, while the right wall shows the artist’s face. The back wall features a monitor showing Abramović and visitors seated at the table together.
In 1988, after completing one of her more grueling durational performances in which she walked nearly 3,000 kilometers from one end of the Great Wall of China to its center point, Abramović began to create what she refers to as “transitory objects.” In these works, the artist incorporated natural materials into interactive objects to transmit the various energy levels of different minerals. Four chairs, utilizing different materials and three quartz “pillows” the public can interact with will be installed in the front gallery. The public is invited to use these objects to become the performer and thus complete the pieces. Such works marked the first time the artist invited the public to participate in her practice directly. Abramović states, “All the transitory objects have one thing in common: they do not exist on their own; the public must interact with them. Some objects are there to empty the viewer, some to give energy, and some to make a mental departure possible.”
For its New York premiere, the film of Abramović’s 2020 operatic production the 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, will be presented in the lower gallery. This one-hour, one-minute, and thirty-second performance was a continuation of the artist’s lifelong meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain. In it, Abramović turns her focus to renowned opera singer Maria Callas, whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century. Through a mixture of narrative opera and film, Abramović recreates seven iconic death scenes from the American-born, Greek singer’s most important roles—in La Traviata, Tosca, Otello, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Norma—followed by an interpretive recreation of Callas’ own death performed onstage by Abramović herself.
Marina Abramović was one of the first performance artists to become formally accepted by the institutional museum world, with major solo shows throughout Europe and the US for almost 50 years. In 2010, Abramović was the first performance artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at MoMA, and in 2023, Abramović will be the first woman to have a solo exhibition across the entire Main Galleries at the Royal Academy, London. Abramović’s first European retrospective The Cleaner was presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017, followed by presentations at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2107, Henie Onstad, Sanvika, Norway, 2017, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany, 2018, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torún, 2019, and Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia, 2019.
Her work has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; SESC, Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil; the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; the Contemporary Art Center, Malaga, Spain; the Park Avenue Armory, New York; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Abramović has participated in many large-scale international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976 and 1997, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist, and Documenta VI, VII and IX, Kassel, Germany in 1977, 1982, and 1992. Abramović has received numerous awards, most recently, the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, 2021. She also received the Globart Award in Vienna, 2018; the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officier for work in Bolero, Paris, 2013; and the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art in Vienna, 2008, amongst others.
For additional information on Marina Abramović, please visit, skny.com
For press inquiries, please contact Adair Lentini via email at Adair@skny.com
For all other inquiries, please contact Lauren Kelly via email at Lauren@skny.com
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12. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, in new Rogue Scholars Press anthology
Two of Barbara Rosenthal’s 26″ x 40″ “Surreal-to-Conceptual Photoworks with Figures” are reproduced as a two-page spread in “Un Bordado De Voces / An Embroidery of Voices,” edited by C. D. Johnson, published by Rogue Scholars Press, NY, NY. (ISBN-13: 978-1-942463-06-1, ISBN-10: 1-942463-06-5) This 2022 anthology comprises works by artists and poets who presented material during “The Alternative New Year’s Re-Deferred Spoken Word Performance Extravaganza,” which took place New Year’s Day on Zoom instead of its usual live mounting at Nuyorican Cafe.
Rosenthal’s two analog-to-digital pieces, on pages 188-189, are black and white distortion-composites of full-frame photos she shot in New York, Montreal, London and the German countryside from three of her Surreal Photo series “Trapped Figures,” “Tiny Houses,” and “Eerie Locations.”
More from the “Surreal-to-Conceptual Photo Project can be seen on the following website:
https://barbararosenthal.org/frameConceptual.htm
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The 308-pg 6″ x 9″ book is available for $9 from Lulu; please visit the following website:
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Barbara Rosenthal
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13. William Scarbrough, FF Alumn, at Art is Art Gallery, Woodstock, South Africa, opening Feb. 16 and more
Eclectika, Feb. 16-Apr. 2
Art is Art Gallery
Buchanan Square
160 Sir Lowry Road
Woodstock, South Africa
and now online at the following website
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14. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, in Vienna, Austria, thru May 28
Dear Friends and colleagues,
I would like to inform you about an interactive public sound sculpture made of 300 connected loudspeakers and radios that just opened in Vienna on January 28th for 4 months.
People from all over the world can call and express themselves for 3 minutes (among other forms of communication). Spectators on site can plug in a microphone or guitar or play their own music via Bluetooth. Via live streaming video one can communicate with people on site.
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://benoitmaubrey.com/streamers/
https://streamers-a-covid-sculpture.tonspur.at/
Thank you.
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15. Rudy Burckhardt, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Feb. 17
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16. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Manif d’Art Quebec City Biennial 2022, Canada, opening February 19
INVISIBLE MUSEUMS OF THE UNSEEN COMMISSIONED FOR THE MANIF D’ART QUÉBEC CITY BIENNIAL
A GPS-based, user-activated audio AR work, this citywide public art experience by Jeanette Andrews opens February 19.
(New York, NY – February 11, 2022) Invisible Museums of the Unseen / Musées invisibles de l’inaperçu opens across Quebec City on Saturday, February 19, 2022 for the Manif d’Art Quebec City Biennial.
WHEN: February 19 to April 24, 2022
DURATION: At your own pace
COST: Free
RESERVATION: Free access to the exhibitions
NOTE: To fully enjoy the experience, it is essential to have a fully-charged smart phone and headphones in hand. The experience is offered in French and English.
SITES:
Place d’Youville : Invisible Museum of Reflections (Musée invisible des reflets)
Passage Olympia, parc Berthelot et parvis de l’église Saint-Jean-Baptiste : Invisible Museum of Sound Waves (Musée invisible des ondes sonores)
Jardins du Parlement : Invisible Museum of Air (Musée invisible de l’air)
Terrasse Dufferin et Terrasse Pierre-Dugua-de-Mons : Invisible Museum of Gravity (Musée invisible de la gravité).
For more information:
http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/visiteurs/programmation-citoyenne/musees-invisibles-de-linapercu.html
The Work:
This work invites participants to wander fictitious sonic museums dedicated to how invisible forces of nature (gravity, air, reflections, and sound waves) act upon the body and psyche. Participants’ movements activate these auditory expressions of the unseen world as they traverse the invisible spaces, allowing them to explore and interact with the unseen forces enveloping them.
Upon entering a designated outdoor park site, participants utilize an app to be guided through a sound-based augmented reality experience where their movements activate audio. The walking paths they choose to traverse dictate which audio they hear and thus which invisible spaces of the museum are revealed. In other words, it is a “choose your own adventure” format.
The audio that participants hear is, at first, reminiscent of a museum audio guide, and slowly morphs into obscure, layered poetic texts with references to the scientific and historical contexts of the unseen force being evoked. The sonic architecture of the museums is based on that of traditional museums, with exhibition wings, corridors, and gallery spaces. Visitors may experience the wings in different orders and each visitor causes the galleries to appear in slightly different locations in the landscape. Thus participants are both listener and performer, rendering and activating the unseen spaces with their movements. Participants ultimately discover two realms of the invisible: the architecture of an imaginary museum, and the contents of the museum’s unseen “galleries” dedicated to invisible forces.
This work investigates the mysterious forces that act upon us and asks if our world is just a sensory illusion constructed of an infinite number of invisible building blocks. Each invisible structure is rooted in extensive research in contemporary physics as compared and contrasted with phenomenological philosophy. The work explores issues including what it means to place one’s body in a space, the act of being seen in public while being prompted to move in non-traditional ways, the definitions of indoors and outdoors, the phenomenology of sensing the unseen, and what constitutes a museum.
The work was originally commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, opening November 7, 2020, and was extended through May 31, 2021. It is hosted on the Gesso app. Gesso is an audio AR platform that creates access to explore the world through sound.
The Artist:
Jeanette Andrews is an artist, magician and researcher. Andrews’ work focuses on the development of interactive magic and sensory illusions via performance, sculpture, installation and audio. Over 27 years of specialized study and technical training in parlor and sleight of hand magic has now afforded her a distinct perspective on crafting experiences with nuanced surreal visuals and designing objects that function completely differently than they appear. Her research-based process centers around phenomenological philosophy, contemporary cognitive science, and physics. Her work is rooted in highlighting astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible. Themes of pieces have included invisibility, impossible objects, the relationship between scent and magic, unseen communication, and how illusions can construct reality. Andrews works closely with museums and galleries to recontextualize magic within the cultural arts and explore this craft as a performance art medium. She has presented commissioned and site-specific works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Elmhurst Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art and International Museum of Surgical Science. She is an artist in residence for CultureLab LIC and has previously held residencies at High Concept Labs in Chicago and The Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles. She is an Affiliate of metaLAB (at) Harvard and illusion is Andrews’ life’s work and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS, and the New York Times.
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17. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, at Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, Feb. 20
I’ll be presenting a concert/talk on “Music From Elsewhere: the music of
spirits, fairies, aliens, and other questionable beings” at the
Minneapolis Institute of Art on February 20. It’s in conjunction with
the show “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art,” curated
by Robert Cozzolino, which runs from February 19 to May 15. The program
runs from 1:00 to 3:30; my fellow speakers will be Jeffrey Kripal, Renee
Stout, Susan Aberth, and Tony Ousler. The pandemic is still
pandemicizing, so all talks will be over Zoom. To register please visit this link:
Stop by if you can!
Doug Skinner
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18. Lucy Lippard, Vito Acconci, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Ana Mendieta, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, now online at artnet.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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19. Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, Feb. 17-Mar 6
Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, presents Grand Panorama at La Mama.
For details and tickets please visit:
https://www.lamama.org/shows/grand-panorama-2022
and/or call 646-430-5374.
Thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Danelly Reyes, Franklin Furnace University Intern, Winter 2022
