Contents for April 7th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, opening April 17 and more
1. Ken Dewey, Damir Bartol Indoš, FF Alumns, at Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, April 9
2. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, now online at https://comicskingdom.com/six-chix/2025-03-31
3. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumn, at BAM, Brooklyn, June 5-8
4. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at frankmoorepaintings.com
5. Nao Bustamante, FF Alumn, at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 25, and more
6. Pamela Sneed, Karen Finley, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
7. Patty Chang, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
8. Alicia Grullón, Christen Clifford, FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, April 8
9. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at Calandra Institute, Manhattan, April 26 and more
10. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, traveling performance starting in Manhattan, May 18
11. Ellen Kahn & Lynda Kahn, FF Alumns, at Gary Wexler Studio+Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, opening April 11
12. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, now online at www.Funism.org
13. Guerrilla Girls, Adrian Piper, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, now online at Artnews.com
14. General Idea, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at Amant, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 17
15. Arlene Rush, FF Member, at Artists Equity, Manhattan, thru April 26
16. Vito Acconci, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
17. Stewart Wilson & Personaland, FF Members, at Westbeth, Manhattan, April 26-27
18. Kathleen Chalfant, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
19. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, 20th Big E Fest, Mt. Airy, GA, Aug. 1-3
20. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Soft Network, Manhattan, thru May 10
21. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, now online with Oxford University Press
22. James Siena, FF Alumn, at Jim Kempner Fine Art, Manhattan, opening April 10
23. Bradley Eros, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, April 7
24. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at Minsk Museum, Potsdam, Germany, May 9
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Weekly Spotlight: Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, opening April 17 and more
Join us for the first-ever New York solo exhibition of trailblazing photographer Dona Ann McAdams
Dona Ann McAdams
Black | Box
April 18–June 7, 2025
Public Reception: Thursday, April 17, 6–8pm
Black | Box is an exhibition by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combining 50 years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts. Her photographs, taken between 1974 and 2024, document astonishing moments and people across decades of American life. These striking historical images paired with personal reflections that read like prose poems work together to convey an unapologetic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the release of McAdams’ recent monograph, Black | Box: A Photographic Memoir, published by Saint Lucy Books.
Special Event: In Conversation
Thursday, May 15 at 6:30 pm
Dona Ann McAdams and poet Eileen Myles discuss her five decades of photography.
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1. Ken Dewey, Damir Bartol Indoš, FF Alumns, at Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, April 9
Moot Roach; For the city of Zagreb; by Ken Dewey
We kindly invite you to the Institute for Contemporary Art program as part of the 33rd Zagreb Music Biennial, whose theme this year is Broken Relationships. A happening prepared but also interrupted in 1963 will receive its first full performance, preceded by an introductory lecture.
Institute for Contemporary Art,
Music Biennale Zagreb,
House of Extreme Music Theatre
Public Open University Zagreb
Ulica grada Vukovara 68
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Lecture at 4:30 PM / POUZ, Ground Floor, Small Hall
Janka Vukmir, The first happening in Zagreb
https://www.mbz.hr/en/2025/program/09-04/the-first-happening-in-zagreb
Happening at 6:00 PM / POUZ, Entrance Porch
Moot Roach, For the city of Zagreb
Performed by: Damir Bartol Indoš and Tanja Vrvilo, House of Extreme Music Theatre
https://www.mbz.hr/en/2025/program/09-04/mo-ot-roach-for-the-city-of-zagreb
As part of the 33rd Music Biennale Zagreb, the Institute for Contemporary Art and Janka Vukmir present a happening by American artist Ken Dewey, which he prepared in 1963, began the performance with his colleagues, but was quickly interrupted by the police.
Ken Dewey came to Zagreb as a member of the Ann Halprin Dancers’ Workshop, which performed her play Chair with 5 Legs at the 2nd MBZ. In Zagreb, he met a group of students that included the artist Josip Pepi Stošić, whose non-verbal play Bone and Stone he would later direct in Rome that year.
Janka Vukmir will present the development of that event, and the Moot Roach event, for the first time in its entirety and 62 years after its creation, will be recreated by Damir Bartol Indoš and Tanja Vrvilo; House of Extreme Music Theatre.
Ken Dewey (1934-1972), American performance artist, playwright, director and arts administrator. He was active in the happening movement in the 1960s. After spending almost two years in Europe, in 1966 Ken Dewey became an employee of the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA). He was the director of program development and director of research. In 1970, he was appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve on the New York State Commission on Cultural Heritage, a temporary state commission that Rockefeller established to study the current and long-term fiscal needs of cultural institutions. That same year, he was also the director of the Planning Corporation of the Arts, a year-long research project, partially funded by NYSCA, on the role of the arts in democracy. He served until his death as chairman of the National Committee for John and Yoko. Dewey died in a plane crash in 1972.
A posthumous retrospective of his work, Action Theatre: Happenings by Ken Dewey, was organized by the Franklin Furnace Archive in 1987, curated by Barbara Moore.
The film Ken Dewey – This is a Test, directed by Sally Williams, premiered at DOC NYC 2016.
Josip Stošić (1935–2009) was a poet, visual artist, and art historian. He worked at the Institute for the History of Art in Zagreb from 1967 until his retirement in 2000.
In 1951, as a sixteen-year-old, he published as a samizdat, a collection of poetry Đerdan, which was censored and banned because of “decadent forms and literary excess, alien to the socialist spirit and reality”.
Radical in its modernist experiment with the form and banalization of poetic language, in the spirit of concretist and letristic poetry, the collection, although preserved in only ten copies, was later recognized as a forerunner of Croatian intermediate and neo-avant-garde poetry, and the complete manuscript was reprinted in 2001.
His Visual Poetry is also presented in the form of conceptual and multimedia exhibitions, with catalogs or graphic maps, sometimes in the form of maps. The Institute for Contemporary Art organized an exhibition on the fifth anniversary of his death in 2014. A catalog/publication about his work is also in preparation.
Support:
Trust for Mutual Understanding, City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Croatia
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2. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, now online at https://comicskingdom.com/six-chix/2025-03-31
Please visit this link to a cartoon invoking Franklin Furnace by Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn:
https://comicskingdom.com/six-chix/2025-03-31
Thank you.
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3. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumn, at BAM, Brooklyn, June 5-8
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at frankmoorepaintings.com.
We have created a new website that features Frank’s paintings with
galleries of his Oil Paintings, Digital Works and Early Works. It will
also be where we announce upcoming news about exhibitions of his paintings.
https://frankmoorepaintings.com
Thank you.
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5. Nao Bustamante, FF Alumn, at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 25, and more
Nao Bustamante’s Skowhegan plays at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 25 @7:30 pm.
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/nao-bustamante-01948afa-2f68-8604-700d-70aae55b3c64
Undefinable interdisciplinary artist Nao Bustamante has an incredibly authentic array of work that carries impactful relevance and influence on new generations of artists as well as her own. Whether performing live on stage, making films, sculpting, or writing, she employs tropes that embody various aspects of her own history and that of her communities, explored through the language of dramatized satire and bold manifestation. Her output is simultaneously gutsy, raw, and overwhelmingly beautiful in its accessibility.
In 1999, Bustamante was an artist-in-residence at the renowned artist’s colony Skowhegan in rural Maine. During the residency, she collaborated with her cohort to create a one-of-kind film based on stories that cross the boundaries between reality and fantasy. This project featured such artists as John Waters, Dana Shutz,… Byron Kim, and Tom Finkelpearl. Shot on both mini-DV and Hi8 tapes, these recordings had been put away in a “time capsule” until now—making this screening the world premiere of her 1999 feature-length film, Skowhegan.
Programmed and note by Hyesung ii.
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2025 Infinite Expansion Grants The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the 2025 recipients of its Infinite Expansion Grants to ten Los Angeles organizations totaling $400,000. This year’s grantees are 18th Street Arts Center, The Brick, CalArts REDCAT, Fulcrum Arts/home LA, Future Roots/Canary Test, Human Resources Los Angeles, JOAN, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND),Pieter Performance Space, and Self Help Graphics & Art.
Building on the exploration of identity and place, homeLA—sponsored by Fulcrum Arts—will host a site-specific installation at the Rowland Mansion, disrupting dominant historical narratives with works by Nao Bustamante, Victoria Marks, Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier, and Eva Aguila.
https://mikekelleyfoundation.org/grants/awardees
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6. Pamela Sneed, Karen Finley, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/04/criticspage/pamela-sneed-poetry-is-not-a-luxury
Thank you.
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7. Patty Chang, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/arts/design/monstrous-beauty-porcelain-exhibit-met.html
Thank you.
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8. Alicia Grullón, Christen Clifford, FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, April 8
Please visit this link:
https://dixonplace.org/performances/experiments-disorders-9/
Thank you.
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9. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at Calandra Institute, Manhattan, April 26 and more
I will speak on intergenerational war trauma legacy Saturday April 26th, 2025 4:30pm Calandra Institute 25 West 43rd Street 17th Floor NY NY 10036 4:30–6:10 pm as part of “The Bitter Bread of War” conference
FREE
ALL WELCOME
RSVP: (212) 642-2094
Our panel:”Remembering and Contending with the Trauma of World War II”Chair: Nancy Caronia, Chatham UniversityPanelists: Dennis Barone, Luisa Del Giudice, Eva Fischer, Rosina Martucci, Annie Lanzillotto.
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April 28, 6 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
Book Launch!
FREE
ALL WELCOME
PASS THE WORD
PLEASE RSVP HERE:
Https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/la-madre-italia/
Books available for purchase in Italian and in English.
Cash only.
Authors will sign.
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011-8604, United States
Anthologies are literary communities.
Come hear our voices together.
Join in for a prosecco & biscotti toast after the reading.We celebrate this new anthology from Radici Press.
Winner of “La letteratura delle radici” prize for anthologies.”And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere: Women’s Voices of the Italian Diaspora in North America.”
Edited and with a Forward by Valentina Di Cesare and Michela Valmori.
Afterword by Emanuele Pettener and Ilaria Serra.
Published and translated by Gianluca Salestri / Radici Edizioni.Featured Readers:
Kathy Curto
Chiara Montalto Giannini
Luisa del Giudice
Loretta D’Orsogna
Jean Feraca
Joanna Clapps Herman
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
Jennifer Romanello
Rosanna Staffa
Stefano Albertini introduces the night.
We will each read from our chapters for 5 minutes, and talk with the audience about what it means to be an Italian American woman living outside of la madre Italia
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10. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, traveling performance starting in Manhattan, May 18
You are cordially invited for the re-enactment of the BUS 59 Traveling Performance
on May 18th, 2025.
The charter bus booked to pick us up at 12:00 pm from 225 W 79 street.
Participants will gather at the Irving Farm Coffee Shop, 224 W 79th
street, NYC at 11:30 am.
Drop off at the same location, between 6 and 7pm.
The ride is FREE
Number of seats is limited, please reserve your free ticket by emailing project59inc@gmail.com
On May 9th, 1995, Irina Danilova, then a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts, invited her friends and classmates to a Traveling Performance BUS 59: Trip on NY Route 59, from Nyack to Suffern at a speed 59 km/hour. There were several stops on the way for landscape performances and a food stop at the end. With guests bringing up spontaneous creative ideas, BUS 59 became a one day traveling creative community. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Project 59, Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy invite to join Project 59,inc. for a re-enactment of the BUS 59 performance.
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11. Ellen Kahn & Lynda Kahn, FF Alumns, at Gary Wexler Studio+Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, opening April 11
1+ [twinart]
A template of structure and spontaneity. New work that brings together the unexpected synergy of TwinArt multi-disciplinary artists Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn with Gary Wexler graphic screen print studio. A gallery exhibition of collaborative work resulting from a 4-week residency of TwinArt at Wexler Studio in Palm Springs. @twinart
@garywexlerdesign
Opening Reception
April 11
5—8pm
Gary Wexler Studio+Gallery
Backstreet Art District
Palm Springs, CA
Exhibition runs May 7
Thanks
Cheers,
ELLEN KAHN | TWINART
646.244.9333
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12. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, now online at www.Funism.org.
Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, introduces his first mass-produced artwork, now online at www.Funism.org. Magnusson, long known for adding political messages to everyday objects, has subverted the classic children’s slider puzzle for his latest artwork. Manufactured in China, his piece resonates on many political and social levels. For more information, visit the artist’s new art commerce website: http://www.Funism.org
10% ($5.00) of each sale is being donated to the World Central Kitchen, which provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate and community crises.
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13. Guerrilla Girls, Adrian Piper, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, now online at Artnews.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. General Idea, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at Amant, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 17
Please visit this link:
https://www.amant.org/programs/788-on-education?mc_cid=1f73de76f2&mc_eid=2365311626
Thank you.
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15. Arlene Rush, FF Member, at Artists Equity, Manhattan, thru April 26
Please visit this link
Thank you.
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16. Vito Acconci, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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17. Stewart Wilson & Personaland, FF Members, at Westbeth, Manhattan, April 26-27
“Art for All and You”
Personaland – our online global art village will be celebrating at Westbeth Community Room, 55 Bethune Street for a spirited fundraising event.
Your attendance will assist us in better serving our global community with creative and supportive opportunities
On Saturday, April 26, 6:30 to 9:30 – art auction, performances, art talks, refreshments and happenings
On Sunday, April 27, noon to 4:30 – art workshops and music
We still have several 10 -15 minute performance slots available. Contact Stewart at personaman@snet.net, if you are interested.
Please join us!
Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.
Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 67 countries in 31 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
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18. Kathleen Chalfant, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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19. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, 20th Big E Fest, Mt. Airy, GA, Aug. 1-3
Please visit this link:
“Thank you. Thank you very much.”
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20. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Soft Network, Manhattan, thru May 10
In 1996 when photographer Sheyla Baykal was told she had 9 months to live after a 9 hour operation. Suffering from stage 4 cervical cancer, she sat up in her hospital bed at Beth Israel and asked me to be her “Death Mother” a term i had invented when i helped Jack Smith carry his death from AIDS. Before she died in 1997 she gave me her entire photographic archive outright as well as naming me the owner in her will. She entrusted me to go the distance as I had for the artist Jack Smith, to bring her work to public recognition.We have tried many times over the past 27 years sometimes showing up in the cracks of culture. Now we embark on this two year archival process with Marcelo Yáñez and Soft Network.
The first public showing of this process runs April 3rd thru May 10th at Soft Network 636 Broadway 2nd floor wed- saturdays 11am -5pm or by appointment
Sheyla Baykal was part of DeKooning’s circle when she first arrived in NY from Calgary in 1962, fresh out of highschool. She would soon join the circle around poet Frank O’Hara and then form lifelong creative relationships with photographer Peter Hujar and the artist Paul Thek, spending summers on Fire Island in Oakleyville with Hujar , Thek and Robert Wilson. Sheyla was a vibrant part of the East Village queer and creative culture from 1962 until her death.
Sheyla Baykal was a Ford model , not just a runway model but an original haute couture model photographed by Avedon, Penn and Ito who went behind the camera
Be amazed at the beauty and breadth of her work .
Be amazed at how she has been kept underground
You can’t make this shit up!
This presentation includes photos of early 1960’s Harlem drag balls, film of The Angels Of Light – the group Hibiscus created after he was kicked out of the group he founded The Cockettes as well as films from Palm Casino 1974 and Bloolips the English drag group of the 1980’s
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21. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, now online with Oxford University Press
”Land Art Submerged: Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark and Art History Beyond Proximity:” analyzes Betty Beaumont’s work Ocean Landmark (1978-1980). The article was written by Dr Francesca Curtis, a London-based art historian and published in Art History, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2024 by the Oxford University Press. The article can be found online at https://academic.oup.com/arthistory/article-abstract/47/2/346/7718270?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Abstract:
“Comprising 17,000 blocks of coal fly-ash, Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark (1978–1980) is an artificial reef located off the coast of Fire Island, New York. This essay analyses the visual inaccessibility of the work and its reliance on an assemblage of media to highlight its significance for conceiving political, ecological and cultural meanings of the ocean. Land art’s fascination with the limits of visuality, the site/non-site dialectic and relationship with industry will provide a framework for this aim. Ocean Landmark’s situatedness and association with industrial ecology signals the wider juridical and political lack of transparency in industrial activity in the ocean spaces framed as sites of unseen environmental extraction. Demonstrating the political and epistemological consequences of a lack of visibility, it challenges the assumptions of total sensorial and epistemic access, highlighting the limitations of anthropocentric positions in and beyond the ocean.”
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards including the Distinguished Alumni Award (University of California, Berkeley), the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Gottlieb Foundation and Creative Capital grants, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships. In addition to exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Japan, South Korea, South America, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S., Beaumont has shown internationally at museums including the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo and Kyoto), Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt), Museum Het Nieuwe Domein (Netherlands), Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Marti (Havana), and in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Katonah Museum, and MoMA PS1. Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University. She has produced work in a variety of media including photography, sculpture, installations, public interventions, and new media.
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22. James Siena, FF Alumn, at Jim Kempner Fine Art, Manhattan, opening April 10
A Delicate Balance
A Survey of Contemporary Watercolor
April 10th-May 4th, 2025
Opening Thursday, April 10th, 6PM – 8PM
Watercolor has been captivating artists and audiences alike for centuries. Although it rose to prominence during the Renaissance for sketching or natural studies, it was not until the 18th century that watercolor was embraced as a true fine art form, admired for its delicate and fashionable aesthetic.
Through the works of this diverse group of artists, we see how watercolor is being used in innovative ways. Watercolor’s ability to capture both subtlety and intensity allows contemporary artists to convey complex emotions and narratives.
Artists exhibited include: Brooke Adams, Violet Baxter, Elizabeth Carlsson, Carole Freeman, Glenn Goldberg, Misha Goro, Jay Kelly, Jimmy Mezei, Susu Pianchupattana, Kim Pritsker, Tim Rodgers, Katia Santibañez, Jonathan Santlofer, James Siena, Tom Slaughter, Lynn Stein, Evan Venegas, Jim Watt, Stanley Whitney, Shanlin Ye
Jim Kempner Fine Art
501 W 23rd St
New York, NY 10011-1145
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23. Bradley Eros, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, April 7
Artists Space
Abasement #77
Monday, April 7th
7pm
Free, no RSVP required
Performances by I.U.D., Eucademix, and Dave Miko. DJ Superkraut! DJs Pia Dehne und Mark Ohe. Visuals by Cable Visions. Projections by Bradley Eros.
Abasement is a music series featuring performances, a guest DJ, and a projectionist. Beginning in 2015 at Max Fish bar in New York’s Lower East Side, the evening brings together artists and bands working in free improvisation, jazz, noise, minimalism, and experimental composition. When Max Fish permanently closed due to Covid, one of the few experimental music venues in Manhattan temporarily ceased to exist. Artists Space is pleased to continue hosting Abasement.
Biographies
I.U.D. is the percussion duo of Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) and Sadie Laska (Growing, Extreme Violence) who infuse industrial noise with abrasive screams and inventive drum work. Called “minimal, contagious noise” (Artforum), their album, The Proper Sex has gained cult status in the New York noise scene. During the 15 years they have been performing, I.U.D has traversed DIY venues and several continents. Notable performances include: Performance Space NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunsthalle Zurich, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. They have collaborated with Kim Gordon and Spencer Sweeney and have shared bills with OOIOO and The Royal Trux.
Eucademix is the moniker of Yuka Honda, a producer, composer, performer, and visual artist renowned for her innovative, genre-defying approach to music and multimedia. Through her compositions and self-crafted video art, Honda seeks to transport audiences and expand the possibilities of sound and visual expression. Born in Tokyo, Honda spent her formative years in Germany and Denmark before later living in Aix-en-Provence and Paris. These cultural experiences deeply inform her sonic explorations, resulting in a distinct and boundary-pushing body of work. Recently, Honda has continued to explore new creative directions with her two-part EP series Farm Psychedelia I and Farm Psychedelia II, released under the Eucademix moniker. Alongside her solo work, she collaborates in the duo CUP with her husband, guitarist Nels Cline, blending poetic lyrics with experimental soundscapes. She also performs in Mycorrhiza, a project with multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (of Boredoms and OOIOO), exploring vibrant, improvisational music that reflects their deep creative synergy. Find out more at www.yukahonda.com.
Dave Miko: New York City vocalist
Mark Ohe has been involved in music since his childhood in the 1960s, playing String Bass in his grade and high school orchestras and being captivated by his parents hi-fi system and LP records at their home in the far western suburbs of Chicago. The first 7-inch he remembers buying was Santana’s (not Fleetwood Mac’s, sadly), “Black Magic Woman” in 1970 and first LP, T-Rex’s, “Electric Warrior” in the fall of 1971. With this solid foundation his record collection has had absolutely no problem growing by leaps and bounds for the past fifty years. A short employment at Wax Trax Records in the early 1980s, followed by a few years of graphic design work for Lydia Lunch’s Widowspeak Productions, and later as Art Director at Matador Records from 1992 – 2009, greatly facilitated further record collecting. Extended stays in Europe, during the 1980s in Berlin and later Düsseldorf in particular, brought his attention to German Progressive, Geniale Diletanten, Neue Deutsche Welle and eventually German avant club music. His live DJ resume is thin, but he did time as a radio DJ at WZRD and Antidote Radio on WVVX in the 1980s and occasionally spun at NY’s Cat Club in the 1990s. This will be his, and partner Pia Dehne’s, Abasement debut.
Pia Dehne grew up in Düsseldorf and was part of the punk and new wave scene at the city’s Ratinger Hof club in the 1980s. Mittagspause, Fehlfarben, D.A.F., Die Krupps, Der Plan, Liaisons Dangereuse and Kraftwerk were among her friends and favorite bands during those years. The first record she bought with her own pocket money as a 10 year old girl was George McCrae’s dancefloor hit, “Rock Your Baby” in 1974. As a teen Pia explored music by playing guitar and cello after being inspired by the Public Image album, The Flowers of Romance. Her focus then shifted, realizing that her skills for expression were more in the visual arts. Yet the exploration of musical ideas has continued to spiral through Pia’s art in many projects over the last 30 years, such as her first solo show Naked City, based on Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’ album at Deitch Projects, and her recent solo show of paintings inspired by Brian Eno’s ‘Oblique Strategies’ cards, currently on view, at IS-Gallery in Tribeca.
Working primarily with video synthesizers and bygone broadcast equipment, Cable Visions explores the chaotic and colorful nature hidden in feedback loops and anachronistically analog signal paths.
Bradley Eros, as always, (since the very beginning of Abasement (.001), 77+ months, or sessions, ago) will project their “hand-made” analog slides, and/or film ~ all night long! *** “eau de cinema”, ‘musique plastique’, “philosophical jaywalker”, “Eros C’est L’amour!”
Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015.
Accessibility-
Artists Space is fully accessible via a wheelchair lift and automated door in front of the entrance on 80 White Street. The cellar gallery can be accessed via the ground floor elevator. Artists Space welcomes assistance dogs, and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. If you have any further questions about access please email info@artistsspace.org.
Supporters –
Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Stephen Cheng, Allan Schwartzman, and David Zwirner.
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24. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at Minsk Museum, Potsdam, Germany, May 9
Intersonanzen Festival in Potsdam/Germany in May.
The “legendary” Audio Ballerinas Project (Benoît Maubrey FF Fund for Performance Art recipient 2006 ) will be performing at the Minsk Museum on May 9th at 19h.
https://benoitmaubrey.com/audio-ballerinas/
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