Contents for May 08, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Taroni-Cividen, FF Alumns, online at FF LOFT, May 9, 3-4 pm et
1. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, May 20-21
2. General Idea, FF Alumn, at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, through July 16
3. Conrad Gleber & Gail Rubini, FF Alumns, open The Gail Rubini New Media Design Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee
4. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, receives California Documentary Project grant from California Humanities
5. King Cobra, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan
7. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at City Reliquary, Brooklyn, May 10
8. Blake Matthew Brousseau, Linda Carmella Sibio, FF Alumns, at Firestation, North Joshua Tree, CA, May 20
9. Beth B & Scott B, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Barbara Ess, Dan Graham, Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumns, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, thru June 19
10. Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, at 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Los Angeles, June 3-24
11. Zachary Fabri, FF Alumn, now online at ArtAtATimeLikeThis.com
12. Arlene Rush, FF Member, at West Chelsea Artists Studios, Manhattan, May 13-14
13. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, now online in Performance Art Journal Spring 2023
14. Marina Abramović, Guerrilla Girls, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
15. Bibi Lenček, FF Alumn, at One Art Space, Manhattan, May 22-25
16. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, May news
17. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, now online with Adam Baumgold Fine Art, thru June 28
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Weekly Spotlight: Taroni-Cividen, FF Alumns, online at FF LOFT, May 9, 3-4 pm et
Roberto Taroni with Flora Pitrolo
Milan-New York. Taroni-Cividin: Performance, Video and Expanded Cinema 1977-1984
May 9th, 2023, 3-4pm ET via FF LOFT:
The practice of Milan-based duo Taroni-Cividin constitutes one of the most groundbreaking yet rarely traversed areas of the Italian experimental performance archive. Active between 1977 and 1984 – during which they produced over 30 performances and films both in Italy and internationally – the duo pushed at the edges of the live and the recorded, of cinematic, bodily and spatial practices. In this online LOFT event, which celebrates a new monograph by Jennifer Malvezzi and Flora Pitrolo which for the first time comprehensively chronicles their practice and sets it into today’s context, artist Roberto Taroni and the book’s authors show and discuss material from the Taroni-Cividin archive.
Find out more about the event, please visit: https://franklinfurnace.org/taroni-cividin-loft/ or register via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYoduCurzMuHdwlq0BKwIPd6laPAZbVECWL#/registration
Thank you.
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1. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, May 20-21
Hellotus everyone!
I just completed a week long generous residency at Center For Performance Research in Brooklyn, where we rehearsed Titanic Depression. I have a lot of lobsters with googley eyes to draw and a lot of voice overs of grumbling men and insufferable ladies to record still, but I shall do it – C+ job is my goal. Get tickets now! They are selling fast for the opening/closing weekend May 20th + 21st at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, as part of New York Live Arts Live Ideas Festival.
I couldn’t be happier with my team, which includes gender non-confirming love of my life and longtime collaborator Mariah Garnett, who is now the visual director. And my long time non-sex wife Amanda Verwey is on board as co-writer and producer, along with the other solid team members – true brilliant weirdo Amy Von Harrington doing animation, the talented Sacha Yanow doing dramaturgical work and Chloe Alexandra Thompson, technical wiz director and sound designer. We are also working with gentle vegan Dylan Phillips on lighting. I am so proud to have a real vegan on board. A classic 90’s vegan who just eats junk food. Although I am pretty sure he was born circa 2010.
The show asks…Who will die? Who will live? Will I be able to fit into all the old fashioned underpants I will be wearing? Stay toont for more process pics and Titanic Depressing news. See you May 20th at the premier homos!
Thank you.
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2. General Idea, FF Alumn, at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, through July 16
General Idea at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is on view through July 16, 2023.
Thanks to its special relationship with General Idea, the Stedelijk can now present the largest-ever survey of their oeuvre. In 1979, the Stedelijk was the first museum in the world to host an exhibition of their work and began collecting it. Because of this history, General Idea came to consider Amsterdam as their ‘second home’ and gifted the Stedelijk a large part of General Idea’s archive in 2018, making the museum a major knowledge center for their work. With over 300 works, this traveling exhibition’s stop in the Netherlands is a second homecoming for General Idea.
The exhibition General Idea is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Curated by Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada, and Beatrix Ruf for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Thank you.
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3. Conrad Gleber & Gail Rubini, FF Alumns, open The Gail Rubini New Media Design Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, receives California Documentary Project grant from California Humanities
Cheri Gaulke says, “I am pleased to share that California Humanities recently announced the California Documentary Project grant awardees and my film Acting Like Women is a recipient! Thank you California Humanities for granting us $45K for production. In 2019 we received a $10K Research and Development grant from California Humanities that really got our project off the ground. It means so much to us to receive this support as California itself is such an important part of our story.”
Acting Like Women is a feature documentary-in-progress about feminist performance art and the Woman’s Building in 1970s-80s Los Angeles. The film is written, directed and produced by Cheri Gaulke, with co-writer-producer Anne Gauldin (of The Waitresses performance art group), lead producer Meg Linton and producer Cheryl Bookout. The fiscal sponsor is Women Make Movies.
The California Documentary Project (CDP) is a competitive grant program of California Humanities. CDP grants are awarded to support film, audio, and interactive media projects that add a new layer to a complex and growing portrait of California. Since 2003, California Humanities has awarded more than $5 million in research and development, production, and public engagement grant awards to media makers who go deep and reach broadly to capture California in all its complexity.
“The projects we are supporting through this year’s California Documentary Project grants represent the richness and range of our state and its people,” said Julie Fry, President and CEO of California Humanities. “We had such a large number of excellent proposals submitted and are pleased to be able to offer support to deserving projects such as Acting Like Women that offer relevant, powerful, meaningful ways to connect and help us better understand the human condition.”
California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, promotes the humanities – focused on ideas, conversation and learning – as relevant, meaningful ways to understand the human condition and connect people to each other in order to help strengthen California. California Humanities has provided grants and programs across the state since 1975. To learn more about other grant recipients visit https://calhum.org/grant-deadlines-overview/california-documentary-project/list-of-california-documentary-project-grants/
You can learn more about Acting Like Women at https://actinglikewomen.com/
Thank you.
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5. King Cobra, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/arts/design/nyc-art-galleries-may.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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6. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan
Judith Bernstein
Horizontal, 1973
Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchased with funds from Derald H. and Janet Ruttenberg Gift, 2023
Judith Bernstein and Kasmin Gallery are proud to announce the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent purchase of Bernstein’s iconic work Horizontal (1973), a 9 x 12 ½ feet charcoal drawing of a phallic screw rendered in her signature emphatic style. Famously censored from the exhibition FOCUS: Women’s Work—American Art in 1974 at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center despite protests from major artists, curators, and critics—among them Louise Bourgeois, Linda Nochlin, Lucy Lippard, Clement Greenberg, and Alice Neel—the work is now widely celebrated as an exemplar of feminist critique. The acquisition marks Bernstein’s first work in the museum’s renowned permanent collection.
Since receiving her MFA from Yale in 1967, Judith Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation. For over 50 years, her work has explored connections between the political and the sexual. Steadfast in her cultural, political, and social critique, Bernstein surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental anti-war and feminist charcoal drawings of penis-screw hybrids—one of the artist’s most recognizable motifs, of which Horizontal is a prime example. Bernstein has been awarded numerous accolades throughout her career and has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at museums in New York and abroad. She is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship Award Recipient.
Horizontal has been exhibited in: New Museum, NY; Hauser & Wirth (Zurich & London); The Box, Los Angeles; Mitchell Algus Gallery, NY; MoMA PS1, NY; Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris; A.I.R. Gallery, NY.
For more visit this link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/891360?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Judith+Bernstein&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=1
Thank you.
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7. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at City Reliquary, Brooklyn, May 10
“Augenblick Studios X Carousel”
Carousel, the live comics performance series, returns with more readings, projections, and music from cartoonists and other visual artists.
This special episode features artists from Augenblick Studios, the independent animation studio based in Brooklyn.
Featuring:
Aaron Augenblick
Devin Clark
Jeremy Jusay
Joy Kolitsky
Nichola Latzgo
Josh Pilch
Katie Wendt
Hosted by R. Sikoryak
At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Times: 7:30 pm door, 8:00 pm show
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Please visit this link for tickets: https://withfriends.co/event/16096999/augenblick_studios_x_carousel
Thank you.
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8. Blake Matthew Brousseau, Linda Carmella Sibio, FF Alumns, at Firestation, North Joshua Tree, CA, May 20
Hey everyone,
This is Linda Carmella SIBIO. I’m in a life crisis because my hubby Blake Matthew Brousseau died and I’m trying to have a memorial with no money. Come RSVP and if you have a garden bring some flowers or vegetables from your garden, if you want to help go to Gofundme.com and search for “Blake Brousseau”. I’ve gotten a lot of help from my friends so far on a personal level, so if you can help me in this moment I would appreciate it.
Linda
Blake Matthew Brousseau Memorial Service
May 20, 2023 /// 5-7 pm
at Firestation
(Part of Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center)
65336 Winters Rd
North Joshua Tree, CA
Thank you.
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9. Beth B & Scott B, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Barbara Ess, Dan Graham, Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumns, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, thru June 19
The No Wave exhibition “Who You Staring At?: Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris has been extended until June 19th! So if you didn’t have the opportunity to visit it, you still have time. It is on the 4th floor. With XS exemplification of XS: The Opera Opus (1984-1986) excerpt by Rhys Chatham & Joseph Nechvatal. You can also see there my early work Peace The New Sleep (1985-6) and four of my drawings (1983-84) ~ Curated by Nicolas Ballet, the Centre Pompidou show contains artworks by Kathy Acker, Karole Armitage, Beth B & Scott B, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Vivienne Dick, Barbara Ess, Dan Graham, Joseph Nechvatal and Raymond Pettibon. A selection of archival material is presented in dialogue with each work: books, fanzines, flyers, magazines, photographs, tapes and vinyl records.
My pieces in the show are: 1) Rhys Chatham, Joseph Nechvatal, XS exemplification of XS: The Opera Opus (1984-1986), 2022, sound slideshow. Collection Joseph Nechvatal 2) Joseph Nechvatal, Black Spring, 1983-1984, graphite on paper drawing. Collection Joseph Nechvatal 3) Joseph Nechvatal, Supreme Court, 1984, graphite on paper drawing. Collection Joseph Nechvatal 4) Joseph Nechvatal, It’s Not Funny, 1983, graphite on paper drawing. Collection Joseph Nechvatal 5) Joseph Nechvatal, Fuck Death, 1984, graphite on paper drawing. Collection Joseph Nechvatal 6) Joseph Nechvatal, Peace The New Sleep, 1985-1986, graphite, photomechanical paper, Masonite. Collection Joseph Nechvatal
More information here: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/collection/films-et-nouveaux-medias/who-you-staring-at
Joseph Nechvatal
Thank you.
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10. Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, at 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Los Angeles, June 3-24
Dahn Hiuni’s new docu-dramedy Sick featured at 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival
Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, presents his full-length play Sick at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival, June 3-24, at the Broadwater Mainstage in Los Angeles.
Sick tells the story of the early 1970s struggle to remove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. With humor and poignancy, 70s music, and the ghost of Freud himself, the play affirms the power of the individual to reach toward equality and human rights. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the historic declassification.
Sick follows the story of real-life journalist Ron Gold, an aversion therapy survivor who played a pivotal role in the declassification. Other historical figures featured in the play include Barbara Gittings, John E. Fryer, Robert Spitzer, Evelyn Hooker, and Charles Socarides. In light of recent, nation-wide anti-LGBTQ laws, SICK is a timely reminder of the importance of resistance.
Written and Directed by Dahn Hiuni
Music by Grammy-nominated composer Larry Williams
Starring Mikel Farber, with Nick Blocha, Keith Bush, Maya Knell,
Daniel Kuhlman, Robert E. Lee, Michael Garcia Otavo,
Kevin Michael Moran & Gregg Rogen
Previews:
Saturday, June 3, 12:30pm
Tuesday, June 6, 8pm
Performances:
Friday, June 9, 7pm
Sunday, June 11, 2pm
Thursday, June 15, 7pm
Saturday, June 17, 8pm
Sunday, June 18, 4pm
Wednesday, June 21, 5pm
Saturday, June 24, 10:30pm
All tickets $20 at www.hollywoodfringe.org
More information at www.sicktheplay.com
Thank you.
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11. Zachary Fabri, FF Alumn, now online at ArtAtATimeLikeThis.com
Art at a Time Like This is pleased to present the culminating digital exhibition for the 2022 In Focus Fellows of the Jamaica Art Society. Launching on May 10, 2023, the exhibition can be found at https://artatatimelikethis.com/intervention-of-possibility. This is the second collaboration between the organizations, which also worked together on the 2021 In Focus Fellows exhibition.
The exhibition presents work by six artists of Jamaican descent who work in photography, drawing, painting, video, textiles, performance, and multimedia installation: Katrina Coombs, Zachary Fabri, Timothy Yanick Hunter, Zinzi Minott, Oneika Russell, and Shoshanna Weinberger. Biographies of the participating artists follow below.
Curated by Gervais Marsh and Petrina Dacres, and titled “Rupture: Interventions of Possibility,” the exhibition sees these artists grappling with the difficult realities, and imaginative potential, that arise from ruptures. It takes as its context a contemporary Caribbean shaped by the ruptures of settler colonialism, transatlantic slavery, and ruinous Western-imposed economic policies, drawing on the work of thinkers like Sylvia Wynter, Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and Stuart Hall.
A panel discussion on the exhibition will be held in partnership with Ian Schrager’s PUBLIC Hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Tuesday, May 16, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The conversation will be moderated by Ashley James, who is of Jamaican descent and is the associate curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she is organizing the show “Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” which opens in October.
2022-2023 In Focus Fellow Biographies
Katrina Coombs holds an M.F.A. in creative practice from Transart Institute via the University of Plymouth. Her practice employs fiber and the body to engage the role and existence of women, and she is a mentor and independent curator through the art initiative Blaqmango. She lives and works in St. Andrew, Jamaica, where she was born.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/katrina-coombs
Petrina Dacres, Ph.D., is an educator and curator on contemporary Caribbean and African Diaspora art and visual culture. She is head of the art history department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. Dacres is a founding member of the Tide Rising Art Projects and has curated internationally.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/petrina-dacres
Zachary Fabri is a Jamaican/Hungarian interdisciplinary artist engaged in lens-based media, language systems, and public space. Based in Brooklyn, he is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and other prizes. He has presented his work at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Barnes Foundation, and many other venues.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/zachary-fabri
Timothy Yanick Hunter is a multidisciplinary artist and curator in Toronto. His practice employs strategies of bricolage to examine non-neutral relationships relating to Black and Afro-diasporic experiences. A University of Toronto graduate, he has been artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario and PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/timothy-yanick-hunter
Gervais Marsh is a writer, scholar, and curator whose work is deeply invested in Black life, concepts of relationality, and care. They are a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and an editor for Ruckus Journal, and they have published and curated widely. They grew up in Kingston.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/gervais-marsh
Zinzi Minott, a dancer and filmmaker, seeks to complicate the boundaries of dance, seeing her performances, filmic explorations, and objects as different but connected manifestations of dance and body-based outcomes. She is specifically interested in telling Caribbean stories and highlighting the histories of those enslaved and the Windrush Generation.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/zinzi-minott
Oneika Russell is a visual artist, art educator, and cultural producer. She obtained a diploma in painting from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Russell received the Commonwealth Arts & Crafts Award in 2007, and is the founding director of Tide Rising Art Projects, which champions Caribbean art.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/oneika-russell
Shoshanna Weinberger earned her M.F.A. from Yale University and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is based in Newark, New Jersey, and her work references her Caribbean-American background, exploring the complexity of heritage; it is held in numerous public collections in the United States and abroad. She is from Kingston.
https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/shoshanna-weinberger
Thank you.
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12. Arlene Rush, FF Member, at West Chelsea Artists Studios, Manhattan, May 13-14
I’m back by popular demand
The West Chelsea Artists Studios
12th Annual Spring Art Season
Saturday and Sunday, May 13-14, 2023
Arlene Rush
526 West 26 Street rm 302
New York NY 10001
Saturday 12:00-6:30
Sunday 1:00-5:30
Or by appointment
Contact: 646-285-8706, arushnyc@gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
It’s been a number of years since I’ve participated in The West Chelsea Artists Studios and many have asked to visit my studio, so here I go!
The West Chelsea Artists Studios: http://westchelseaartists.com/index.htm
Please spread the word.
Thank you.
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13. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, now online in Performance Art Journal Spring 2023
Please visit this link:
https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/article/45/2%20(134)/i/115840/Table-of-Contents
Thank you.
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14. Marina Abramović, Guerrilla Girls, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit these links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/style/katy-hessel.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thank you.
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15. Bibi Lenček, FF Alumn, at One Art Space, Manhattan, May 22-25
Bibi Lenček: A Retrospective
Opening reception:
May 22, 2023
6:00 – 9:00 pm
May 22-25
One Art Space
23 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
Thank you.
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16. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, May news
75 still alive
I just celebrated my 75th birthday and happy to begin the next chapter in my life as an artist.
“Out Of Body” is still on view by appointment. Many came to the open studio—thanks for your input.
Some upcoming exhibitions:
“Scribbles” at Carter Burden Gallery, curated by Amy Cheng and Lois Bender, opens June 1-28
548 W 28 St
Making SPACE, curated by Eileen Hoffman and Sarah Haviland, an online exhibition through New York Artists Circle (NYAC). Live June 1, 2023.
“Salon 37”
If you are interested in meeting up with other artists to discuss mutually related issues please express your interest and come to a brainstorming foundation meeting.
(Friday) June 2—7pm
37 Canal St (@ Ludlow) #3
917-929-0403
Thank you.
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17. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, now online with Adam Baumgold Fine Art, thru June 28
Exhibition: Paris
April 28 – June 28
https://www.artsy.net/show/adam-baumgold-gallery-painting-pairs?sort=partner_show_position
Thank you.
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