Goings On: posted week of April 4th, 2018
Contents for April 4, 2018
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1. Moe Angelos, Peter Cramer, Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Holly Hughes, Erin Markey, Rafael Sánchez, Peggy Shaw, Sur Rodney (Sur), Diane Torr, Carmelita Tropicana, Jack Waters, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online
2. American Folk Art Museum at Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY, April 16
3. David Cale, Jon Kinzel, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, April 8
4. Halona Hilbertz, Lisa Moren, Janet Nolan, Vernita Nemec, FF Alumns, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru April 21
5. Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Julie Tolentino, FF Alumns, now online
6. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, thru April 29
7. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, in Art Times Journal, now online, and more
8. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, June 1-2
9. Ursula von Rydingsvard, FF Member, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, opening April 26
10. Adrian Piper, FF Alumn, in The Wall Street Journal, March 27
11. Ursula von Rydingsvard, FF Member, at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, opening April 27, and more
12. Jonathan Berger, Jacki Apple, FF Alumns, now online
13. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online and more
14. Alyson Pou, FF Alumn, at Central Booking, Manhattan, April 4
15. Sol LeWitt, Kazuko Miyamoto, Nancy Spero, FF Alumns, at gallery onetwentyeight, Manhattan, opening April 6
16. Anne-Marie Lequesne, FF Alumn, at studio 1.1, London, UK, opening April 5
17. LuLu LoLo, FF Member, at Art in Odd Places, Charlottesville, VA, April 5-6
18. E. F. Higgins III, Istvan Kantor, Nina Sobell, Krzysztof Zarebski, FF Alumns, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, April 5-30
19. Sabrina Jones, Anton van Dalen, FF Alumns, in WWIII Illustrated magazine, April
20. Mona Hatoum, FF Alumn, at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, opening Apr.6
21. Ellen Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, IL, April 4
22. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Soho20 Gallery, Brooklyn, April 27
23. Linda Carmella Sibio, FF Alumn, at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center, Joshua Tree, CA, April 14, and more
24. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, at The National Arts Club, Manhattan, April 17
25. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at the Lab, San Francisco, CA, April 5
26. LAPD, FF Alumns, on Skid Row, Los Angeles, CA, April 21
27. Pablo Helguera, Shaun Leonardo, Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumns, now online at paddle8.com
28. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumns, at Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, April 21-Aug. 12
29. Graciela Cassel, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, on cable television, April 6, 7, 18
30. Harley J. Spiller, FF Alumn, in the Wall Street Journal, March 28
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1. Moe Angelos, Peter Cramer, Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Holly Hughes, Erin Markey, Rafael Sánchez, Peggy Shaw, Sur Rodney (Sur), Diane Torr, Carmelita Tropicana, Jack Waters, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online
Performing Difference: Gender in the 1980s Downtown Scene, a daylong symposium at MoMA, New York, on March 22, 2018, was streamed live and can now be watched online at this link:
Thank you
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2. American Folk Art Museum at Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY, April 16
Join the American Folk Art Museum on Monday, April 16, from 6-7 PM, for a behind-the-scenes tour of Franklin Furnace and a discussion with its founding director, Martha Wilson, and senior archivist, Michael Katchen. Franklin Furnace staff will share the evolution of the organization’s cataloging projects, and stories related to specially selected objects and artist’s books from the archive that focus on narrative. Staff from the American Folk Art Museum will also be in attendance, connecting discussion to themes in the current exhibition, Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, which unites more than two hundred and fifty works by twenty-one seminal and recently discovered self-taught artists. The exhibition incorporates rare manuscripts, series of drawings, illustrated notebooks with coded texts, expanding cartography, journals, and multi-part collages, providing an art historical and pluridisciplinary perspective on the mechanisms behind visual storytelling.
Meet at Franklin Furnace, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Free; reservation required
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3. David Cale, Jon Kinzel, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, April 8
April 8th, 2018 at 6pm: Sundays on Broadway and guest curator Jon Kinzel present an evening of works by David Cale, Christoph Gielen, and Neil Goldberg.
Kieren McGrath is David Cale’s portrait of a charismatic Irish horse-drawn carriage driver in Central Park whose life takes an unexpected turn when he’s offered a provocative job he can’t refuse. Christop Gielen’s “California Growth Machine” is a 13-minute experimental documentary that details the potential ramifications of unchecked urbanization. Neil Goldberg will present Three or Four Steps Through a Shadow (2003-05), a silent video that examines the shadows that pass across pedestrians’ faces as they walk beneath a mulberry tree near his apartment.
Due to unforeseen events, Julie Spodek will regretfully no longer be able to present this season.
All events begin at 6:00 pm. Doors open at 5:45 pm at WeisAcres, 537 Broadway, #3. There are no reservations. Seating is first come, first served. Keep in mind, this is a small space! Please arrive on time out of courtesy to the artists. Beginning this season, we suggest a $10 contribution at the door. With this small contribution, we are able to continue bringing unique performances every Sunday and giving artists an intimate space to share their ideas.
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4. Halona Hilbertz, Lisa Moren, Janet Nolan, Vernita Nemec, FF Alumns, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru April 21
“EVIL PLASTIC”
an “Art from Detritus” exhibit
Curated by Vernita Nemec
March 27-April 21, 2018
Reception: Thursday, March 29, 6-8PM
Lynn Neuman & Artichoke Dance Company, Thursday April 5th, 7 PM
Art Talk, Saturday April 21st, 4pm
10 percent of all sales to go to an environmental organization that is working against the Evils of Plastic…
Denise Adler * Catherine Armistead * Annaliese Bischoff * Ellen Burnett * Wendy Cloud * Merill Comeau* Harry Delorme * May DeViney * Rachel Green * Julia Healy *
Ed Herman * Halona Hilbertz * Michelle Lougee * Gail Mitchell * Lisa Moren* Lynn Neuman * Janet Nolan * Katherine Powers * Carol Quint * Helaine Soller * Jenifer R Stern * Courtney Lee Weida * Helen Zajkowski
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present the exhibit “EVIL PLASTIC”, featuring fine art made primarily from plastic trash. The heart of this exhibit is the message of the three R’s: Reduce/Reuse/Recycle. The exhibit will open March 27th and continues through April 21st with a reception March 29, 6-8pm, a dance performance April 5th at 7PM & an Art Talk Saturday April 21st at 4PM. 10% of sales of these artworks in this exhibit will be given to an environmental organization fighting the evils of plastic.
“EVIL PLASTIC” attempts to say it straight: plastic trash has come to be a primary force in the destruction of our environment. The ocean is filled with gyres of plastic floating like islands and harboring dangers that lure fish, birds and sea mammals with a promise of food that has no nourishment. Coral reefs are being chocked by plastic debris. It is up to humans to master their creative energies to devise solutions to this eminent threat of annihilation.
Slowly we are beginning to develop compostable plastic or recycling & upcycling these materials into useful objects but will we do so quickly enough?. In the North Pacific Ocean, there are 6x more plastic debris than plankton. We have an island in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch composed mostly of plastic. 10% of the plastic we use yearly ends up in the ocean.
Artists have long used trash as a medium but their message in this exhibit is clear. All these works are created primarily from plastic debris. Some of the works speak through the mere use of these materials, others are more decisive in their message of the evil of plastic if left untethered.
Since 1994, the changing groups of artists in these environmentally conscious exhibits, have opened a dialogue through their art making, about the importance of protecting the environment. “Art from Detritus”, or art from waste, was conceived by artist/ curator Vernita Nemec, that same year in Portland Oregon during the annual conference of the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) and presented in the lobby of a recycled Sears Roebuck building, the corporate head quarters for municipal waste & recycling there. Since then, the exhibit has re-occurred with funding from the Kauffman Foundation, the Puffin Foundation and sponsorship by the NRC. Past Detritus exhibitions have occurred in Pittsburgh, Kansas City MO, Phoenix AZ, Turners Falls MA and NYC. See more information and images of past Detritus shows at www.ncognita.com.
Vernita Nemec, a.k.a. Vernita N’Cognita, is a visual & performance artist, a curator, the director of Viridian Artists and formerly the Director of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA). She is also on the board of Advisors of ATOA & Soho20.
Gallery hours Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact the gallery at 212-414-4040, viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view our website: viridianartists.com
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5. Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Julie Tolentino, FF Alumns, now online
I just wrote an experimental review of Julie Tolentino’s work .bury.me.fiercely., which was part of SF MoMA’s Limited Edition performance series, and published in their Open Space interdisciplinary platform:
thank you. Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa
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6. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, April 17, and more
Double Take
Tues. April 17, 8 pm
Visual Presentation + Discussion
Five artists who write + five writers who make art are one and the same.
Roberta Allen, Sharon Butler, Carol Diehl, Douglas Florian and Geoffrey Young will discuss how they have negotiated two or more successful careers, their inspirations, choices, practice and frustrations. Some have written about art and artists, others write poetry, short stories, memoir and novels, children’s books and essays. All have had exhibitions of the art and their works included in museum, corporate and private collections. Some also find time to teach and lecture, blog and run art galleries. The participants will read excerpts from their works and screen images of their visual artwork.
Free + Open to the public.
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th Street)
A conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist, Roberta Allen is the author of 9 books. Her recent short story collection, The Princess of Herself, was featured by Michael Silverblatt on BOOKWORM, KCRW Radio, live in Los Angeles and is online at https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/roberta-allen-the-princess-of-herself She has exhibited worldwide. Her conceptual art is held in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan
Museum and in many other collections.See more at www.robertaallen.com
and
“From the Flat Files: Ritual,”
Group Show
Kentler International Drawing Space, through April 29
Curated by curated by Jarrod Beck
353 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn, NY 11231
Thurs.- Sun. 1pm – 5pm
Roberta Allen + many other artists
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7. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, in Art Times Journal, now online, and more
Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, has pubished an article on Cuban murals and Street Art in La Voz magazine, a Spanish language publication of Bard College. The article is translated into Spanish and includes four color photographs from Palaia’s ongoing photo series of Cuban murals. The March issue also displays a cover photo by Palaia. This same article with different photographs is published in the Art Times Journal online at
https://www.arttimesjournal.com/speakout/march_15_18_franc_palaia/cuba_2018_murals.html
Palaia will also have a profile article in Main Street magazine in the April issue a color magazine from Connecticut.
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8. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, June 1-2
The Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust would like to invite you to attend the premiere performance of Rapoport Remembered – a new musical composition based on Rapoport’s Anasazi Series (1977) by Hae Voces (Majel Connery and Kristina Dutton).
This event represents the first of the posthumous collaborations that Rapoport mandated when she established her trust, in keeping with her history of interdisciplinary collaboration and continuous reimagining of her older work.
We hope you will join us on the evening of June 1st or 2nd at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley. Tickets are $25 each, and are available online.
The Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust presents
Rapoport Remembered
Premiere performance of an original musical composition by:
HAE VOCES
(Kristina Dutton and Majel Connery)
With an installation of artist Sonya Rapoport’s Anasazi Series
“Hae Voces treats Rapoport’s drawings like graphic scores, reading them like notes on a page…”
June 1st and 2nd, 2018
Doors: 7:30 PM | Performance: 8PM – 9PM
Kala Art Institute
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tickets are $25 via EventBright
Rapoport Remembered is a musical tribute to the work of visual artist Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015). Imagined and developed by the composer-performer team Hae Voces, Kristina Dutton and Majel Connery, Rapoport Remembered is a musical meditation on Rapoport’s Anasazi Series, vivid color pencil drawings from the 1970s.
Performing live with violin, vocals, keyboards, and a technical array of live processing, Hae Voces treats Rapoport’s drawings as graphic scores, reading their visual intensity and playfulness like notes on a page. Lighting design, projection of Rapoport’s drawings, and Meyer Sound speakers complement this immersive live performance.
Rapoport Remembered is commissioned and co-organized in partnership with the Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust, and includes an installation of Rapoport’s Anasazi Series. We are delighted to appear at the Kala Art Institute, where Rapoport exhibited during her lifetime.
The performance lasts approximately 1 hour and concludes with remarks from the artists and Farley Gwazda, Director of the Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.
If you want to come to this show but have difficulty with the price point, we are offering $15-dollar student tickets at the door, or please talk to us about other options: haevoces@gmail.com
Read more about the performance on our EventBright page
Supported by a generous grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation
Hope to see you there!
Farley Gwazda
Director, Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
sonyarapoport.org
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9. Ursula von Rydingsvard, FF Member, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, opening April 26
Dear Friends,
Please join me at the OPENING of The Contour of Feeling, curated by Mark Rosenthal, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, from 6-8pm on Friday April 27th. This exhibition coincides with my installation Now, She: Two Sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard on view in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden from April 27, 2018 through April 2019.
Additionally, there are two public events I hope you can attend:
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Speaking About Her Sculpture and Conversation with Guest Curator Mark Rosenthal
Thursday, April 26, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Moore College of Art and Design
Graham Auditorium
1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own Film Screening
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 2:00 – 4:30 PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Perelman Auditorium
2525 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Followed by a BYO Picnic in the Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden
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10. Adrian Piper, FF Alumn, in The Wall Street Journal, March 27
Please visit the complete illustrated article linked here (text only follows below):
An Influencer Among Artists, Adrian Piper Gets a Retrospective at MoMA
An Adrian Piper retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York shows an artist years ahead of the zeitgeist.
‘Catalysis III’ (1970) by Adrian Piper, the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York PHOTO: ADRIAN PIPER RESEARCH ARCHIVE FOUNDATION BERLIN
By
Andrew LaVallee
March 27, 2018 8:50 a.m. ET
When the Museum of Modern Art opens its Adrian Piper retrospective this week, visitors walking through a passageway in the exhibition will be required to hum in the presence of a museum guard.
“The Humming Room” evokes the idea of “silly authority,” as Ms. Piper has put it. That work and her prize-winning installation “The Probable Trust Registry,” which prompts viewers to sign declarations like “I will always mean what I say” on bureaucratic-looking paperwork, “probably arise from my jaded attitude toward institutional authority,” the 69-year-old artist says in an essay accompanying the retrospective. (Through a MoMA spokeswoman, Ms. Piper declined an interview request.)
Those “participatory” works are part of MoMA’s exhibition of nearly 300 of her drawings, photographs, sculpture, multimedia and other creations. In New York, it takes up all of MoMA’s top floor, the first time the New York museum has devoted that entire level to a living artist.
“We wanted to give it that scale because we felt that not only Adrian’s work spans more than 50 years, but her works keep changing,” said Christophe Cherix, MoMA’s chief curator of drawings and prints, who organized the show with Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and David Platzker, a former MoMA curator. The show, which will move to the Hammer Museum later this year and the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2019, has been in development for four years.
“The idea of art having a social goal, art being part of life, I think Adrian is maybe not the only one, but she’s one of the most singular and powerful voices,” Mr. Cherix said. “And I think the fact that the work is so coherent, for over 50 years, makes her quite unique in that generation.”
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Born and raised in New York, Ms. Piper has lived in Berlin since 2005. She has studied and taught philosophy, earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University. The subject’s influence can be seen in works like “Food for the Spirit,” a 1971 series of photographs she took of herself in which she seems to fade from view, something she has said was prompted by a feeling she was disappearing while reading Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason.”
Adrian Piper’s 1981 work of pencil on paper: ‘Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.’PHOTO: ADRIAN PIPER RESEARCH ARCHIVE FOUNDATION BERLIN
Ms. Piper, who is African-American and racially mixed, has addressed race in several works, particularly those from the 1970s to ’90s, such as “Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features” (1981). The show, with works dating back to 1965, comes as race, gender, instability and social attitudes have become explosive and constant topics of debate.
“Over and over again Adrian Piper is hitting on certain ideas or certain strategies way ahead of their time, or way ahead of when they become politically expedient to talk about,” Ms. Butler said. At times, she added, people have even questioned the dates of Ms. Piper’s pieces, suspecting they are more recent.
At the 2015 Venice Biennale, Ms. Piper received the Golden Lion best artist award for “The Probable Trust Registry.” The MoMA exhibition is her first U.S. museum show in more than 10 years, but it comes as museums across the country are intensifying their efforts around female and nonwhite artists. A partial list of what is currently on view: “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” a group show at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.; “Figuring History,” featuring contemporary black artists Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall and Mickalene Thomas, at the Seattle Art Museum; ” Jean Shin : Collections,” a solo show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art by the American artist, who is of Korean descent; and “Take My Breath Away,” a survey of the work of Danh Vo, whose family fled Vietnam in 1979, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
At MoMA, curators have been examining the recent past and at times asking “what have we maybe missed,” Mr. Cherix said. Ms. Piper’s influence on younger artists is unmistakable, said Ms. Butler, who previously worked with her while curating the 2007 show “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
‘Everything #2.8,’ a 2003 work by Adrian Piper. PHOTO: ADRIAN PIPER RESEARCH ARCHIVE FOUNDATION BERLIN
“There haven’t been that many opportunities to see her work in any depth in this country, so I’m not sure the average viewer knows how influential she is,” Ms. Butler said. “Her impact, particularly on a generation of artists from the ’90s to the present, has been absolutely huge.”
The curators cited Glenn Ligon -with solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and who last year curated “Blue Black,” a critically lauded exhibit looking at race at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis-as one of those artists. Asked about her influence, Mr. Ligon said: “Adrian Piper taught me the words ‘artist’ and ‘citizen’ are synonymous.”
Write to Andrew LaVallee at andrew.lavallee@wsj.com
Appeared in the March 28, 2018, print edition as ‘an art-world influencer GETS A RETROSPECTIVE IN nEW yORK piper.’
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11. Ursula von Rydingsvard, FF Member, at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, opening April 27, and more
Dear Friends,
Please join me at the OPENING of The Contour of Feeling, curated by Mark Rosenthal, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, from 6-8pm on Friday April 27th. This exhibition coincides with my installation Now, She: Two Sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard on view in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden from April 27, 2018 through April 2019.
Additionally, there are two public events I hope you can attend:
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Speaking About Her Sculpture and Conversation with Guest Curator Mark Rosenthal
Thursday, April 26, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Moore College of Art and Design
Graham Auditorium
1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own Film Screening
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 2:00 – 4:30 PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Perelman Auditorium
2525 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Followed by a BYO Picnic in the Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden
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12. Jonathan Berger, Jacki Apple, FF Alumns, now online
“Peripheral Visions: Perspectives on Culture, Media and Performance” is now online at http://thisisfabrik.com/peripheral-visions/
The latest feature essay in Jacki Apple’s monthly column “Peripheral Visions: Perspectives on Culture, Media and Performance” is “My Lai Revisited: On Man’s Journey” – a chamber opera by composer Jonathan Berger & librettist Harriet Scott Chessman written for The Kronos Quartet, tear Rinde Eckert, and musician Vân-Ánh Võ., Now available on the Fabrik website at http://thisisfabrik.com/peripheral-visions/Previous essays also available are:
Sept 2017 Intro / Bearing Witness
Oct. 2017 Faustin Linyekula’s Journey From Darkness To Light
Dec. 2017 Staging Politics: Allegory vs. Satire
Jan. 2018 Time Lost/Time Found
Feb. 2018 1969 Speaks For Itself
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13. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online and more
film now online at http://intermediaprojects.org/pages/UrFilm.html
ursonate/URSONATE, a film directed by interdisciplinary artist Jacki Apple on Jack Ox’s visualization of Kurt Schwitters sound poem, is now online. The sound track, mixed by Apple and Glenn Nishida, features Ursonate vocals by Kurt Schwitters from an original 1930s recording, in duet with a new interpretation by Kirsiten Loree. Speakers include Marina La Palma, Joseph Franklin, Kristen Loree, Jack Ox and Jacki Apple. Camerawork by photographer Miguel Gandert. Produced by Intermedia Projects, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The structure of the film, shot in Ox’s Albuquerque studio, mirrors conceptual and formal structure of the room-sized montage painting in the four movements of the original sound poem. See 16 minute film at
http://intermediaprojects.org/pages/UrFilm.html or link to it from Apple’s website page at http://www.jackiapple.com/video/artDocumentary/ursonate/ursonate.html.
and
“ghost.dances/on the event horizon” by Jacki Apple is a series of multilayered photographic images taken between 1996 and 2001 that are metamorphic, evolutionary, archaeological. They are images of the fossilized “body” imbedded in the landscape, the ephemeral “spirit” body passing through it, the “skin” of an action left behind, as well as the book and architecture as cultural artifacts merged with land and water. Working with dancers as performers these works employ the body as instrument, as vehicle, an expression of a state of humanity, not of individual persona. The texts address environmental catastrophes and the confrontation between nature and culture. The physical forces of nature slam headlong into human will.The integrated layers of images create a stratified “map” of converging realities that span time, place and consciousness. The prototype book was arranged and edited by Mark Johnstone in 2001. All works are straight photography. There is no digital photoshop manipulation involved.
http://www.jackiapple.com/photography/ghost/ghostStoryboard/ghostStoryboard.html
Thank you.
Jacki Apple
jaworks1211@gmail.com
www.jackiapple.com
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14. Alyson Pou, FF Alumn, at Central Booking, Manhattan, April 4
Dear Friends,
My mystery series The Case of the Mysterious Lenticular Glass returns to CENTRAL BOOKING for it’s 9th Anniversary celebration. I hope you can join us for the performance and party! Alyson
The Case of the Mysterious Lenticular Glass
APRIL 4, 2018
Performance 7pm + Party 9pm
Central Booking 21 Ludlow St. NYC 10002
Purchase tickets here: https://www.artful.ly/store/events/14878
Performance: $15.00 Anniversary Party: $25.00
An astronomically inspired adventure about Alessandra, the young apprentice who might have made the lenses for Galileo’s famous telescope and Marietta a passionate 19th Century collector in search of her lens making secrets.
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15. Sol LeWitt, Kazuko Miyamoto, Nancy Spero, FF Alumns, at gallery onetwentyeight, Manhattan, opening April 6
Free Mind in Spring
April 5 – May 5, 2018
Reception: Friday, April 6, 6-8pm
Hours: Wed-Sat 1-6pm, Sun 1-5pm
Orin Buck • Christopher Craig • David Fenn • Naoaki Funayama • Kunio Izuka • Gloria Klein • Akiko Kosaka • Helmut Krackie • Mieko Mitachi • Sol LeWitt • Kazuko Miyamoto • Nancy Spero • Bill Phipps • Cari Rosmarin • Akemi Takeda • Fumio Yamaguchi • Clover Vail • April Vollmer • Yoichiro Yoda, and more…
gallery onetwentyeight
128 Rivington Street
(between Essex and Norfolk)
New York, NY 10002
212-674-0244
galleryonetwentyeight.org
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16. Anne-Marie Lequesne, FF Alumn, at studio 1.1, London, UK, opening April 5
Fanfare for Crossing the Road
studio1.1
57A Redchurch St, London E2 7DJ
April 5-29 (Thurs – Sun)
PV – Thurs April 5 – 6-9
Fanfare for Crossing the Road is an ongoing international project that adds ceremony to a common event. The project began in the spring of 2011 at the crossing in front of the Albert Hall. Since then it has been performed in Helsinki, Lisbon, Cardiff, New York and Philadelphia. A Dublin Fanfare will be filmed in the autumn.
Musicians and their instruments:
London – 2 cornet players; Helsinki – 3 trumpet players and 2 percussionists; Lisbon – 4 trumpet players; Cardiff – 8 opera singers; New York – 2 speakers and 2 percussionists; Philadelphia – 3 speakers and 3 piccolo players; Dublin (upcoming) – 2 violinists and 2 percussionists.
The work has been shown at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, 2012; the 4th Wall Film Festival, Pedwaredd Wal, Cardiff, 2012; Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2013; AC Institute, New York, 2014; Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, 2015. It will be shown projected onto the street after the Dublin performance.
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
www.amlequesne.com
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17. LuLu LoLo, FF Member, at Art in Odd Places, Charlottesville, VA, April 5-6
LuLu LoLo as Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants
BLESSINGS AND COMPASSION FROM MOTHER CABRINI
SAINT OF THE IMMIGRANTS
Thursday, April 5, 2018: 12-2 PM Roaming & 3-5 PM Amphitheater
Friday, April 6, 2018: Downtown Mall:1-3 PM Roaming & 6-9 PM Roaming
Art in Odd Places 2018: MATTER Charlottesville is produced and curated by UVA Studio Arts Board with artist Ed Woodham. www.uvaartsboard.com
LuLu LoLo, in homage to Mother Cabrini-Saint of the Immigrants, will offer blessings and compassion to passersby on her pilgrimage in Charlottesville, Virginia. This performance will honor the many immigrants in the world who leave (flee) one land for another.
Mother Cabrini sailed from Italy to New York City in 1899 to ease the suffering of the Italian immigrants. LuLu has performed as Mother Cabrini in Rome and Campagna, Italy; Paris, France; New Orleans; and New York. www.lululolo.com
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18. E. F. Higgins III, Istvan Kantor, Nina Sobell, Krzysztof Zarebski, FF Alumns, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, April 5-30
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY presents THE RIVINGTON SCHOOL at:
57 Stanton Street,
New York City, April 5-April 30, 2018;
Opening reception, Wednesday, April 18, 6-8 p.m.
Van der Plas Gallery is pleased to present The Rivington School at our temporary home at 57 Stanton Street. The exhibition will take place April 5-April 30, 2018, with an opening reception Wednesday, April 18, 6-8 pm. The artists include:
Scot Borofsky, Jim C. (James Cornwell), Michael Carter, Linus Corragio, Angel Eyedealism, Richard Hambleton, E.F. Higgins III, Ken Hiratsuka, Istvan Kantor, Julius Klein, Shalom Neuman, Robert Parker, Therese Rodrigues, Susan Strande, Toyo Tsuchiya, Kevin Wendall (aka FA-Q), NIna Sobell, and Krzysztof Zarebski
The Rivington School presents an excavation which explores a group of artists who creatively thrived around Rivington and Forsyth Streets on New York’s Lower East Side during the 1980s. The Rivington scene was centered around three tiny galleries, Nada (helmed by artist Jim C.), Freddy the Dreamer and No Se No (formerly the site of the social club/performance space of the same name) and a sculpture garden created in an adjacent vacant lot. This Wild East scene attracted hundreds of painters, sculptors and performers, drawn by its free-form wild energy and largely non-commercial atmosphere. While all of these artists were doubtlessly influential in the creation and promulgation of the Rivington scene, the network in the Rivington School stretched far and wide and had international reach, further prompting exhibitions in Japan and Europe. Similar to both the graffiti movement and the DIY tradition of punk rock, the Rivington artists generally evinced a kind of street energy, impossible to replicate today. It was the product of a place and time, and this exhibition affords a vital glimpse into a still-too-little-understood cavern in time called The Rivington School.
For more background and history, please see The Rivington Street School: 80’s New York Underground, edited by Istvan Kantor (Black Dog Publishing, 2016), and Invisible Underground, photos by Toyo Tsuchiya (Howl! Publishing, 2016.)
Please contact VAN DER PLAS GALLERY at 212-227-8983 or visit the website at www.vanderplasgallery.com
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19. Sabrina Jones, Anton van Dalen, FF Alumns, in WWIII Illustrated magazine, April
News of drawings in the current issue of “WORLD WAR 3 Illustrated” contains three pages of Anton van Dalen’s “The Biggest Loser” and work of Sabrina Jones with eight pages: “Peace Pilgrim”
World War 3 Illustrated, sprung out of the East Village world in 1980. Two young students at Pratt began the political comic book, still activist today.
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20. Mona Hatoum, FF Alumn, at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, opening Apr.6
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
April 6-August 11, 2018
Opening reception: April 6, 6-9pm
Artist talk with Mona Hatoum: April 7, 2pm
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
3716 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
United States
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm,
Friday 10am-8pm
T +1 314 754 1850
pulitzerarts.org
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma, the first major U.S. exhibition of Hatoum’s work in over 20 years. Organized by the Menil Collection, in Houston, Texas, where it was on view earlier this year, Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma will include more than 30 sculptures and installations by the London-based Hatoum (b. 1952), installed throughout the Pulitzer galleries.
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma will be on view from April 6 through August 11, 2018, at the Pulitzer, the exhibition’s final venue. The exhibition was curated by Michelle White, Senior Curator at the Menil Collection; the Pulitzer Arts Foundation presentation is organized by Curator Tamara H. Schenkenberg.
Hatoum creates work that evokes the growing unease of a world that seems ever-expanding and as technologically networked as it is politically fractured by war and exile. Since the late 1980s, her sculptures and installations have been grounded in questions about how shifting geography and institutional structures can redefine our understanding of “home,” as she investigates place and the body through a minimalist language of form and a wide range of materials, from glass and steel to light and sand.
Pulitzer Director Cara Starke states, “Mona Hatoum is one of the most important international artists of our day, and we are delighted to collaborate with the Menil Collection to bring her work to St. Louis. With a thoughtful and poetic use of form and material, Hatoum offers nuanced perspectives on universal human questions. Probing ideas of home, borders, and political upheaval, her practice is particularly relevant to our contemporary moment of global migration, displacement, and political uncertainty.”
At the Menil Collection, Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma was realized through the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; the Levant Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc. / Herman L. Stude; Leslie and Brad Bucher; Bettie Cartwright; Day for Night; Nijad and Zeina Fares; Scott and Judy Nyquist; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Adelaide de Menil; Franci Neely; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; Anne Schlumberger; and the City of Houston.
About Mona Hatoum
Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, Hatoum studied at the Byam Shaw and the Slade Schools of Art in London, where she settled after having been stranded because of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 while on a short visit to the city. Over the past 40 years, her work has been presented in major exhibitions around the world, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, among other institutions. Hatoum was nominated for the 1995 Turner Prize and has been included in important group exhibitions such as Documenta, Kassel, in 2002 and 2017, and the 1995 and 2005 Venice Biennales. In 2011, Hatoum was awarded the Joan Miró Prize by Fundacio Joan Miró.
About the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation believes in the power of direct experiences with art. The museum presents historic and contemporary art in dynamic interplay with its celebrated Tadao Ando building, offering unexpected experiences and inspiring new perspectives. Valuing close looking and civic engagement, the Pulitzer is a place for contemplation and exchange that brings art and people together.
Located in the Grand Center Arts District of St. Louis, Missouri, the Pulitzer is free and open to the public between 10am-5pm on Wednesday through Saturday, with evening hours until 8pm on Friday. For more information, visit pulitzerarts.org or T 314 754 1850.
Pulitzer Arts Foundation Media Contacts
Lucy O’Brien: lucy@ennisobrien.com, T 646 590 9267
Stephanie Markovic: smarkovic.comm@gmail.com, T 347 628 4688
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21. Ellen Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, IL, April 4
“Language is migrant. Words move from language to language, from culture to culture, from mouth to mouth. Our bodies are migrants, cells and bacteria are migrants too. Even galaxies migrate. What is then this talk against migrants? It can only be talk against ourselves, against life itself.
Language is the translator. It could translate us to a place where we cease to tolerate injustice, abuse and the destruction of life.
Life is language.” ~ Cecilia Vicuna, Marzo 2016
Cecilia Vicuña: performance on migration and movement
in association with Ellen Rothenberg’s exhibition:
ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant at Spertus Institute.
The exhibition responds to the global refugee crisis and the resurgence of xenophobia, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and racism post-election. Research took place at Tempohome Dorf, a currently the largest temporary settlement of refugee housing in Berlin, behind the historic Tempelhof Airport and the Spertus Archive and Collections.
Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist whose work often addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction, human rights and cultural homogenization.
Ellen Rothenberg’s work has been concerned with the politics of everyday life and the formation of communities through collaborative practices.
Wednesday, April 4 at 6 PM
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago
FREE and open to the public
co-sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and The Spertus Institute
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22. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Soho20 Gallery, Brooklyn, April 27
(RE)PRESENT:
A Feminist Dialogue Across Generations
SOHO20 GALLERY
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(718) 366-3661
Friday, April 27, 2018, 6-8pm
Feminist Practice
Many people in today’s society identify as feminists but we often don’t verbalize HOW we’re feminists. For this meeting, we will talk about feminism as a practice and how it manifests in daily life with personal stories and anecdotes.
(RE)PRESENT 2018: What do we want from Feminism and how can we achieve it? Continuing in the tradition of the New York Feminist Art Institute, NYFAI (1979-1990). www.nyfai.org
An event of
For further information contact: Nancy Azara (917) 572-7461 nancy@nancyazara.com
Rachel Vera Steinberg, Director, Soho20 Gallery (718) 366-3661 info@soho20gallery.com
Directions: L Train to Morgan Street, stay in back of train and exit at Bogart Street. The gallery is directly across the street.
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23. Linda Carmella Sibio, FF Alumn, at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center, Joshua Tree, CA, April 14, and more
Join us for the next and last Insanity Principle Workshop of the series, taught by painter and performance artist Linda Carmella Sibio! The workshops include a variety of multilayered psychological techniques, developed by Sibio, tapping into memory, play, and personal narrative as a source for art making. Workshops include experimental writing, performance, and visual art exercises.
Here is a description of the upcoming April class: “The sixth Insanity Principle class will delve deeper into the schizophrenic model through the exploration of dismemberment using methods that are emotional, physical, visual and intellectual. For this class I recommend bringing something you have been working on and maybe are a little stuck with. Dismemberment as I use it is about tearing apart what’s inside and reforming it to be something different that has a more specific path into the subconscious inner world. I have a painting called “Holy Dismemberment.” It has a person with a spike down their back. On the altars around her are her physical self – her body organs. The goal is to put the self back together while rebuilding, growing and learning more about the world inside.” -Linda
Classes are two hours long and are scheduled on the second Saturday of every month, with an upcoming class on Saturday, April 14th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. “The Insanity Principle Workshops” are held at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center located at 65336 Winters Road in Joshua Tree, CA 92252. No prior attendance or experience neccessary to participate.
Participants should wear clothing that will allow them to move freely and do unusual things. They should bring a healthy snack as the schedule includes a short break. Attendees are also encouraged to bring high-quality drawing paper, Charkole, kneaded erasers, a #2B pencil, as well as any objects they may want to work with such as musical instruments, found objects, and/or costumes.
A $30 donation per class is requested. For questions and to reserve a spot, please email info@highdeserttestsites.com. For more about Sibio’s past work and a wonderful description of past workshops, check out this recent article about the Instanity Principle Workshops in The Sun Runner, this article in the Hi-Desert Star, and visit Sibio’s website!
The Insanity Principle Workshops
The workshops explore the philosophy of chaotic thinking, multiple storylines, and insanity principle insights into how emotions work in the body. The class includes fragmentation, interrupters, and the psychological model as methods of making art.
“These classes were initially developed when I worked with disabled individuals on Skid Row in Los Angeles,” says Sibio. “That project led me to realize that these tools, that explore personal experience thorough a variety of methods, are an empowering way for every genre of artist to harness inner creativity while digesting the insanity in their lives…The fragmented thinking of the schizophrenic is a window into the placement of our culture. We are living in a deconstructed world, no longer thinking linear thoughts. Our perceptions are continually interrupted by television, the internet, video surveillance, and the media – we no longer have a single thought; we think in multilayered complex patterns. For our culture to go forward, the darkness of the dismembered body needs to come into the light. We need to fragment to become whole again.”
Linda also offers private lessons and is available to work with groups. Email the artist for more details on privately scheduled classes.
Linda Carmella Sibio
Linda Carmella Sibio’s practice investigates the fringe of society, exploring how it affects culture. Madness has been a dominant theme in her work, having been influenced by her own diagnosis as schizophrenic and her mother’s incarceration in mental hospitals in West Virginia during Sibio’s childhood. Sibio’s philosophy reflects a combination of personal experience and intellectual pursuits. She has been influenced by Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even,” Foucault’s Madness and Civilization, Artaud’s The Theatre and its Double, and Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. Her work addresses strong social themes such as homelessness, mental illness, and the underbelly of society. Sibio is interested in the raw power of human emotional contact.
Saturday, April 14th, 2pm-4pm
Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center
65336 Winters Rd. Joshua Tree, CA
OTHER HAPPENINGS IN THE DESERT
Come visit us at the HDTS HQ at the Sky Village Swap Meet on Saturdays from 9am-1pm. You can pick up a copy of our driving map to HDTS projects and other local sites of interest. We’re also stocked with rocks from our Gem and Mineral Expo and HDTS publications!
Kip’s Desert Book Club meets on the first Monday of every month! Join us on Monday, April 2 at 7pm to discuss Mirage: The False Promise of Desert Agriculture by Russell Clemings.
Join us on the third Monday of every month for High Desert Test Kitchen, organized by artist Sarah Witt. We will meet on April 16th at 7pm to share Yucca dishes!
Visit A-Z West, where you will be led on an intimate tour of the house, studio, guest cabin, Regenerating Field, and shipping container compound. Our next tours are on Saturday, April 14th.
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24. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, at The National Arts Club, Manhattan, April 17
Fine Arts
Double Take
Tuesday, April 17
8:00 PM
Visual presentation and discussion
Five artists who write and five writers who make art are one and the same. Roberta Allen, Sharon Butler, Carol Diehl, Douglas Florian and Geoffrey Young will discuss how they have negotiated two or more successful careers, their inspirations, choices, practice and frustrations. Some have written about art and artists, others write poetry and novels, children’s books and essays. All have had exhibitions of their art and their works included in museum, corporate and private collections. Some also find time to teach and lecture, blog and run art galleries. The particpants will read excerpts from their publications and screen images of their visual artwork.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A RESERVATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
Double Take
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 8:00 PM
Fine Arts
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY 10003 212.475.3424
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25. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at the Lab, San Francisco, CA, April 5
I am presenting my Robotic Quartet, Group Play Machines.
There are three compositions with video scores with three randomly chosen audience volunteers (with me) get to operate the band. It is a lot of fun and hearkens back to my old noise band days in the ’80’s.
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
8:00pm Doors / 8:30pm Sound
$20 Guests / $12 for Members
I will be starting promptly at 8:30+
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In about 1986 I heard about a band called SWANS. I started buying their albums and was floored by their raw intensity. I saw them soon after and have followed their journey since. So I couldn’t be happier to be performing with some of them!
Hope to see you there!
http://www.thelab.org/projects/2018/4/5/norman-westberg-thor-friends
On a troubling note, after 23 years, I am getting evicted from my studio from the edge of San Francisco. Gah! (it’s been a good run) Anyone with any tips on how to continue to make art in this nutty city and/or Bay area please let me know. I am stumped.
Hope to see you there!
All best,
Kal
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26. LAPD, FF Alumns, on Skid Row, Los Angeles, CA, April 21
A PARADE CELEBRATING THE UNSUNG HEROES OF SKID ROW!
*ALL ARE WELCOME*
Los Angeles Poverty Department Honors the History and Heroes of Skid Row at 2018 edition of biennial Walk the Talk Parade
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2018 11:00AM- 3:00PM
WHERE: Parade route begins at 800 East 6th Street (corner of East 6th Street and Stanford Ave.)
COST: FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!!!
LOS ANGELES — Join the iconic and acclaimed performance company Los Angeles Poverty Department for the 2018 edition of its biennial Walk the Talk Parade and Performance chronicling the ongoing history of Skid Row, celebrating the accomplishments of the Skid Row community, and honoring some of the individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the community of Skid Row, making a difference in people’s lives every day.
This year’s honorees are Tiffany Rose – founder of My Friends House LA; Steve Diaz – Deputy Director of Organizing at Los Angeles Community Action Network; Bobby Buck – Skid Row’s video / photographer and founder of The Bobby Buck Show; Vijay Gupta – founder of Street Symphony; Demetra Wilson-Washington – outreach Minister with Central City Community Outreach; Andy Bales – Executive Director of the Union Rescue Mission; Eddie H. – Skid Row advocate, active in creating the ReFresh Spot; Pastor Cue – founder of Tha Row- Church Without Walls.
Led by the brass band of L.A. Philharmonic violinist Vijay Gupta’s Street Symphony, together with community musicians, the parade makes its way through Skid Row, stopping at eight locations in the neighborhood. At each stop the actors and musicians of L.A. Poverty Department will do a short performance recounting the history and significance of each site and the story of the individual who is making a difference there. The audience is encouraged to follow this fun, funky and festive parade with its floats, costumes and sets designed by community artists, featuring portraits of the honorees by Skid Row artist and muralist CruShow Herring. Bring your tambourine, cowbell, laughter and spirit – be a part of the celebration!
Audience members are encouraged to dress festively but appropriately for the weather and wear comfortable shoes, bring water and snacks. Additional information, including the exact parade route, is available online at www.lapovertydept.org.
L.A. Poverty Department’s Walk the Talk is made possible in part by grants from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
ABOUT L.A. POVERTY DEPARTMENT
Founded by Artistic Director John Malpede in 1985, Los Angeles Poverty Department is made up of people who make art and live and work in Skid Row. LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row.
Walk the Talk celebrates a long process of community engagement that has included performances, exhibitions, public conversations, interviews – with the aim of enlisting community brain power to identify initiatives and people whose actions who have helped weave the social fabric of Skid Row. Walk the Talk is a peoples’ history of the community. LAPD tells the parts of the story that you won’t hear elsewhere: the story of the community as told by the community. Walk the Talk supports LAPD’s larger social practice methodology, a body of acclaimed work widely acknowledged as “some of the most uncompromising political theater.” (Artforum).
ABOUT JOHN MALPEDE
John Malpede is a recognized pioneer in the field of socially-engaged and community-based art who directs, performs and engineers multi-event arts projects that have theatrical, installation, public art and education components. He has produced projects working with communities throughout the US and in the UK, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Bolivia.
Malpede is a 2013 recipient of the prestigious Doris Duke Performing Artist Fellowship, has been a fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and has taught at UCLA, NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts, and The Amsterdam School for Advanced Research in Theater and Dance.
He has received New York’s Dance Theater Workshop Bessie Creation Award, San Francisco Art Institute’s Adeline Kent Award, a Durfee Sabbatical Grant, the L.A. Theater Alliance Ovation Award, individual artist fellowships from New York State Council on the Arts, NEA, California Arts Council, City of Los Angeles’ COLA fellowship, California Community Foundation’s Visual Artist Fellowship and numerous project grants.
Los Angeles Poverty Department • P.O. Box 26190 • Los Angeles, CA 90026 • (213) 413-1077 • https://www.lapovertydept.org
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27. Pablo Helguera, Shaun Leonardo, Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumns, now online at paddle8.com
No Longer Empty Benefit Auction: Bid Now!
Bidding closes on Paddle8 on
Tuesday, April 10 at 9:30PM EST
Featuring works by:
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Grimanesa Amoros, Alexandre Arrechea, Jane Benson, Isidro Blasco, Deborah Brown, Mel Chin, Linda Cunningham, Ghost of a Dream and Jennifer Dalton, Blane De St. Croix, Nona Faustine, Derek Fordjour, Pablo Helguera, Timothy Hull, Rejin Leys, Shaun Leonardo, So Yoon Lym, Esperanza Mayobre, Shervone Neckles, Emilio Perez, Cheryl Pope, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Michael Sharkey, Diana Shpungin, Xaviera Simmons, and a special limited-edition print by Rico Gatson commissioned on the occasion of the Future Perfect Ball. All proceeds raised allow No Longer Empty to continue supporting the creation of ambitious new works by emerging and established artists through our site-responsive exhibitions, and to provide educational programs for underserved youth in New York.
For more details about No Longer Empty’s 2018 Spring Benefit contact Julia Hickey by email at benefit@nolongerempty.org or phone at 917.426.2666
No Longer Empty curates site-responsive exhibitions, education and public programs in unconventional locations around New York City. We create artistic platforms for collaboration and dialogue around social, cultural and political issues. Our exhibitions and educational programs amplify existing community networks and cultural resources.
Copyright (c) 2018 No Longer Empty, All rights reserved.
No Longer Empty
122 West 27th Street
Floor 10
New York, NY 10001
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28. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumns, at Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, April 21-Aug. 12
The Spring Exhibition Opening of En Mas’ is April 21 at the Ulrich Museum of Art
http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=ulrichmuseum&p=/art/futureexhibitions
On view April 21 through August 12
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean
April 21 – August 12, 2018 | Amsden – Beren – Polk/Wilson Galleries
EN MAS’ introduces performance art with a focus on the influence that Carnival and related masquerading traditions in and of the Caribbean and its diasporas have had on contemporary performance discourse and practice, in both the artistic and curatorial realms. Indeed, EN MAS’ takes into account performance practices that do not trace their genealogy to the European avant-gardes of the early twentieth-century but rather to the experiences of slavery and colonialism through the mid-nineteenth century, the independence struggles and civil rights movements of the mid-twentieth century and population migrations to and from the former colonial centers for most of the last century. EN MAS’ takes its title from a pun on “Mas'” (short for masquerade and synonymous with Carnival in the English-speaking Caribbean) and “mass” (as in the French colloquial “en masse,” meaning all together).
Throughout the 2014-2015 Caribbean Carnival season, EN MAS’ tracked nine artists-John Beadle, Christophe Chassol, Charles Campbell, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke, Lorraine O’Grady, Ebony G. Patterson, and Cauleen Smith-as they engaged, transformed, or critiqued historical and contemporary Caribbean performance practices from Carnival in Santiago de los Caballeros, Port of Spain, Fort-de-France, Kingston, London and Brooklyn, to Junkanoo in Nassau and the New Orleans second line-or in their own imaginary cartographies and invented performance traditions. The resulting newly commissioned works took place according to different modes of public address and audience engagement including semi-private rituals at the margin of the festival celebrations and street processions in the midst of the carnival revelry.
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean is an exhibition curated by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson; organized by the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
The exhibition is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Additional support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and by the Institut Français in support of African and Caribbean projects. The exhibition debuted at CAC New Orleans in spring 2015, and will tour through 2018.
The Ulrich presentation is made possible by contributions from The Gridley Family Foundation, John and Nancy Brammer, Celebrity Cruises, The Khicha Family Foundation, Dr. Sam and Jacque Kouri, Martin Pringle Law Firm, Ron and Lee Starkel, Clark and Sharon Bastian, Jane McHugh, Louise L. Beren, Eric Engstrom and Robert Bell, Sondra M. Langel, Liz and Bob Workman and an anonymous donor.
Additional generous support provided by Denise and Rex Irwin, Marcia and Ted D. Ayres, Charles E. Baker, Laurie and Mark A. Finucane, Justus H. Fugate, George and Eleanor Lucas, Dr. Pat Purvis, Dr. Dennis and Ann Ross, Don and Ellie Skokan, Dorothy Shannon, Stev Overstreet, John and Kay Morse, Bill, Julia and Luke McBride in honor of Bob Workman, and Dasa and Nalini Gangadhar.
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29. Graciela Cassel, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, on cable television, April 6, 7, 18
Transborder Art TV presents
Dis.com.fort
With Katy Halfin, Judith Page, Charlotte Schulz, Art Vidrine, Charles Yuen, airs
April 6 at 1:30 and 5:30 pm’ April 7 at 8 am on Optimum 67, Spectrum 34, Verizon FIOS 42, RCN 82, WEB: BRIC Channel 1;
and on
April 18 at 5:30 pm on FIOS 34, RCN83, Spectrrum 56 & 1996, WEB: MNN Channel 2
Please tune in. Thank you.
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30. Harley J. Spiller, FF Alumn, in the Wall Street Journal, March 28
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thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Harley Spiller
