Goings On: posted week of May 20, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, receives Nautilus Book Award
2. Candace Hill Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, Water Mill, NY, thru June 16
3. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 2
4. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly Asia, Taipei, Taiwan, thru July 31
5. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Manhattan, May 25
6. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, May 23, and more
7. Blaise Tobia, FF Alumn, at Viewpoint Photographic Center, Sacramento, CA, opening June 7, and more
8. Jenny Holzer, Christo, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, opening May 30
9. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, May 20
10. Verónica Peña with Hector Canonge, FF Alumns, at BAAD, The Bronx, May 23
11. Matthew Geller, FF Alumn, at Art Omi, Ghent, NY, opening May 25
12. Katya Grokhovsky, Nadja Verena Marcin , Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at The Boiler, Brooklyn, thru June 18
13. Lorin Roser, FF Alumn, at Museum of Chinese in America, Manhattan, June 7
14. Jeff Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Galleri Astley, Skinnasktteberg, Sweden, opening May 26
15. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, on television and online
16. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, in new publication
17. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Fifth Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial, Rhinebeck, NY, June 1-Oct. 31, 2019
18. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at ChaShaMa, Manhattan, May 28, and more
19. Rosamond King, FF Alumn, at Poet’s House, Manhattan, June 1, and more
20. Ericka Beckman, FF Alumn, at MIT, Boston, MA, opening May 23
21. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, summer news
22. Harley J. Spiller, FF Alumn, now online
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1. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, receives Nautilus Book Award
Donna Henes AKA Mama Donna wins a Nautilus Book Award
I am beyond thrilled to announce that BLESS THIS HOUSE: CREATING SACRED SPACE WHERE YOU LIVE, WORK AND TRAVEL is a 2018 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal Winner in the category of Non Fiction! Nautilus Book Awards has recognizes books that transcend barriers of culture, gender, race, and class, and promote conscious living & green values, spiritual growth, wellness & vitality, and positive social change.
The awards program celebrates books that inspire and nurture positive change. With the motto, “Better Books or A Better World,” Nautilus announces that “all the books selected as winners are potent seeds for the growth, coherence, and healing of our culture and world.
I am deeply humbled to be in the luminous company of such previous winners as Desmond Tutu, Barbara Kingsolver, HRH The Prince of Wales, Deepak Chopra, Maryanne Williamson and the Dalai Lama.
Every lovely blessing your way,
xxMD
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2. Candace Hill Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, Water Mill, NY, thru June 16
PARRISH ART MUSEUM
279 MONTAUK HIGHWAY, WATER MILL, NY 11976
T 631 283 2118 PARRISHART.ORG
2019 PARRISH ROAD SHOW OFF-SITE EXHIBITION SERIES PRESENTS
CANDACE HILL MONTGOMERY: HILLS & VALLEYS
SAG HARBOR WHALING AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM, MAY 17 – JUNE 16, 2019
The exhibition of Hill Montgomery’s weavings, imbued with personal narrative, opens with a public reception on Saturday, May 18
The Parrish Art Museum has selected Bridgehampton-based multimedia artist Candace Hill Montgomery (American, b. 1945) as one of two participants in the 2019 Parrish Road Show, the Museum’s creative off-site exhibition series featuring temporary projects by East End artists to connect creativity to everyday life. Recently, Hill Montgomery has focused her practice on weavings that reflect her life as well as current political/sociological issues. Approximately 25 of the weavings will be featured in the exhibition Hills & Valleys at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum, from May 17 – June 16, 2019. The location has deep meaning for Hill Montgomery, who spent summers in Sag Harbor from the age of ten. In addition to this off-site exhibition, the Parrish Art Museum will feature works by both 2019 Road Show artists (Hill Montgomery and Laurie Lambrecht) in the Museum from May 10 – November 10, 2019.
“I am thrilled to showcase Candace’s magnificent new weavings-they bring to life the layered and richly textured stories from the artist’s own experiences and her discerning observations of the world we live in,” said Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects. “There is a distinct sense of assertion, sense of humor, and originality in these works that demand to be seen.”
Hill Montgomery’s work addresses issues of race, feminism, poverty, and the environment, balanced by the artist’s personal poetic lyricism. She weaves complex layers of her life experiences, fabricated narratives of political figures and celebrities, and references to current social and political challenges into her abstract artworks. Each weaving invites the viewer to delve into its very fiber to understand the many layers of shapes and narratives.
Hill Montgomery uses found objects or vintage farm equipment parts from the South that reference her heritage to mount the weavings. She carefully chooses her threads, favoring handspun wool that absorbs dye unevenly thus producing nuanced colorations, as well as organically dyed yarns like cochineal, turmeric, and tansy. Her handmade looms produce irregularities that honor the uneven, individual qualities of artmaking. The varied materials and deliberately imperfect techniques bring strength and softness to tragicomedy contemporary narratives of particular concern to her: hunger, access to clean water, and homelessness. These issues are illuminated by titles such as migrant kids dying & lock um up & all that wall space.
The artist’s interest in the sewing arts traces back three generations to her great-grandmother, who owned a design and dressmaking store in Washington Heights, New York, as well as to her grandmother who taught her knitting, embroidery, and crocheting as a child. Today, Hill Montgomery uses a wide variety of threads: linen, cashmere, cotton, Japanese indigo, Italian mohair, sheep’s wool, Cotswold wool, plied or unplied; camel, yak, and horsehair; beads and metals.
About Candace Hill Montgomery
After a successful career in New York as a high fashion model in the 1960s working with designers such as Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta, and Anne Klein, Hill Montgomery became a part of the city’s art scene beginning the late ’70s, working in disciplines including photography, sculpture, painting, poetry, and performance. She relocated to the East End of Long Island in 2011 and focused on painting and, more recently, weaving.
Hill Montgomery’s work has been presented in exhibitions at major arts institutions, including the Bronx Museum for the Arts, New Museum, Printed Matter, Artists Space, Franklin Furnace, Fashion Moda, and Creative Time, among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum Harlem (1979), and a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1985) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1981). In 1985, Hill Montgomery curated a solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s work with Lucy R. Lippard titled Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together at Gallery 1199. Her work is in the Digital Archive of the New Museum. Her essays have been published in the Women’s Art Journal. She received a master’s degree in Art Education from Hunter College.
Parrish Road Show 2019 is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Dorothy Lichtenstein ArtsReach Fund, established by Agnes Gund; Deborah Buck Foundation; and Jane Wesman and Donald Savelson. Public funding provided by Suffolk County.
2019 PARRISH ROAD SHOW
Candace Hill Montgomery: Hills & Valleys
Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum
200 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963
May 17 – June 16, 2019
Museum Hours: Daily 10am -5pm
OPENING PUBLIC RECEPTION
SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Saturday, May 18, 6-8pm
Free and open to the public
RSVP required at parrishart.org
RELATED PROGRAM
Friday, November 1, 6 pm
ROAD SHOW ARTISTS’ TALK
Candace Hill Montgomery and Laurie Lambrecht with Corinne Erni,
Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects
Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY
About Parrish Road Show
In 2019, the Parrish Art Museum will present the eighth annual iteration of Parrish Road Show, its highly anticipated, creative off-site cultural engagement program. Every year, East End artists are invited to create new work for temporary projects and engage residents in their process. To deeply connect art and creativity to everyday life, the exhibitions take place at public sites across the region-cultural and historical organizations, public parks and highways, and community centers-and the artists offer public talks and artmaking workshops for children and adults. Road Show 2019 features projects by Candace Hill Montgomery and Laurie Lambrecht.
About The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum
The mission of the museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the culture of Sag Harbor through its collection of historical objects related to the village’s whaling history, as well as the presentation of contemporary exhibits and events that reflect the culture of the village today and put Sag Harbor’s past and present into context. Built in 1845, the building was originally the home of Benjamin Huntting II, the owner of whaling ships. The building was designed by the architect Minard LaFever who incorporated exquisitely detailed plaster ceilings and carved wooden door frames inside, with the temple-fronted portico and ornate Corinthian columns on the outside. Upon visiting the Museum in 1998, President Clinton enticed the First Lady initiate the process of declaring the building a National Treasure. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
About the Parrish Art Museum
Inspired by the natural setting and artistic life of Long Island’s East End, the Parrish Art Museum illuminates the creative process and how art and artists transform our experiences and understanding of the world and how we live in it. The Museum fosters connections among individuals, art, and artists through care and interpretation of the collection, presentation of exhibitions, publications, educational initiatives, programs, and artists-in residence. The Parrish is a center for cultural engagement, an inspiration and destination for the region, the nation, and the world.
CONTACT: Susan Galardi, Communications Director 631-283-2118 x122 galardis@parrishart.org
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3. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 2
My installation at Mitchell Algus Gallery is up until 2 June.
Part of the installation is a table set up with documents created to protect human rights as well as all the equipment one would need to do a handwriting session. Many photos of people holding their handwritten pages as well as 60+ examples of peoples handwritten documents loaned for the installation cover the walls.
People are invited to sit and read and write any document or a part of any document. Envelopes are also available as well as addresses of congresspeople to whom a handwritten document can be sent. There is a USPS mailing tub on the floor by the table. Envelopes dropped there will be mailed by the gallery at the end of the show June 3.
Mitchell Algus Gallery
132 Delancey Street, corner of Norfolk and Delancey Second floor Gallery hours are 12-6 Wednesday – Sunday
http://mitchellalgusgallery.com/morgan-ohara-exhibition-information/
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4. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly Asia, Taipei, Taiwan, thru July 31
JAMES CASEBERE
Built Images
Sean Kelly Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
MAY 18 – JULY 31, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18, 2pm – 6pm
Sean Kelly Asia is delighted to present Built Images, a one person exhibition that surveys the four-decade long career of James Casebere. Spanning 1980 to 2017 the exhibition will feature some of the most iconic images in Casebere’s oeuvre. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, May 18, from 2pm – 6pm. The artist will be present.
James Casebere’s pioneering work, as a member of the Pictures Generation, presaged what subsequently came to be known as constructed photography. The models Casebere extensively researches and constructs explore architectural, art historical, and cinematic sources. Made of everyday materials pared down to essential forms, the models are subsequently carefully lit and photographed in his studio. These empty, abandoned spaces are hauntingly evocative and often suggest either prior, or forthcoming usage or events, encouraging the viewer to imagine a narrative, or otherwise construct a symbolic, emotional and iconic reading of the work.
Casebere’s early works are devoid of color and focus on the dramatic emotional impact of the work, much like early black and white films. In works such as Storefront, 1982 and Venice Ghetto, 1985 he eliminates extraneous details to create dynamic lighting effects which intentionally evoke memories and feelings triggered by the architectural spaces he invents. In the early 2000’s Casebere demonstrated his interest in a diverse range of iconic, international architectural spaces including the momentarily empty, but flooded space of Yellow Hallway, inspired by a stairwell at Versailles, and the traditional and ancient styles of both religious and vernacular architectures such as a Sienese palazzo in Sienna (Vertical). The most recent works in the exhibition were inspired by world-renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán. These works incorporate Barragán’s sumptuous use of color, dramatic light and simple haptic, planar surfaces evoking a serene austerity reminiscent Casebere’s early series of work.
Casebere has been the recipient of numerous fellowships most recently the 2019 Rome Prize, three from the National Endowment for the Arts, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts and one from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work is collected by museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Los Angeles County Museum; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, among many others. In 2016, Casebere was a New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Honoree and the subject of important survey exhibitions: Fugitive at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, curated by Okwui Enwezor; Immersion at Espace Images Vevey in Switzerland; and After Scale Model: Dwelling in the Work of James Casebere, at the BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium.
For additional information on James Casebere, please visit skny.com
For press, please contact Adair Lentini at the gallery, 212.239.1181 or via email at Adair@skny.com
To make an appointment to visit Sean Kelly Asia, or for sales inquiries in Asia, please contact Gladys Lin via email at Gladys@skny.com
For all other inquires, please contact Cecile Panzieri at the gallery, 212.239.1181 or via email at Cecile@skny.com
Sean Kelly Gallery
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
(212) 239-1181
info@skny.com
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5. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Manhattan, May 25
Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents
Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious Objects in concert
Sat. May 25th
7pm, doors at 6:30 $10.
Tibor de Nagy
15 Rivington St. NYC
212 273-5050
www.tibordenagy.com
The artist-musician performs mesmerizing world textures and driving melodic grooves with passion and purpose on an amazing arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household objects and tools. Duchampian Dada meets Hybrid Hindu Hendrix as function and form collide in an environment of hyperactive hardware.
Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose Hybrid musical instruments, performances and other works explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, and sounds as function and form collide in the intersection of art and music. Butler blends Indian, Mid-Eastern, and Flamenco modes with jazz, rock, funk, and blues, all held together by an open, edgy “downtown” improv aesthetic.
“Ken Butler and his performance with the Golf Club Sitar/Tabla — is winner of the first place prize …. he played a spectacular improvisation that, to the ear, seemed to transform his instrument into a sitar, a rock star’s guitar and a Baroque virtuoso’s fiddle ….. Butler’s improvisation was the most dazzling and truly musical performance we’d heard.
– Allan Kozinn, the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Atlanta, 3/2016
website kenbutler.squarespace.com
Copyright (c) 2019 Ken Butler’s Hybrid Visions, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Ken Butler’s Hybrid Visions
427 Manhattan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
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6. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, May 23, and more
Dearest Friends,
A few upcoming events bring me to New York over next week+
Hoping you might visit, attend, support, share
May 23rd
https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/stonewall-50-new-york-historical-society
Opening *Group show features items from our beloved Clit Club archive, 1990-2002 for Stonewall 50
May 24th
https://whitney.org/Collection/Research/ISP/CuratorialProgram/2019Exhibition
Opening * Group show – amazing artists.
Thrilled to work with brilliant, visionary young curators & share new object/installation/sound work & catalogue essay
Also I will be back in NYC in June for two VERY special special events on one date
SAVE THE DATE & PREPARE TO BE DOWNTOWN on June 21, 2019 ->You will NOT want to miss! + back in July too.
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7. Blaise Tobia, FF Alumn, at Viewpoint Photographic Center, Sacramento, CA, opening June 7, and more
Blaise Tobia FF Alum in
“Slight Perturbations of the Surface,” Viewpoint Photographic Center, Sacramento CA, opening June 7.
and
Woodmere Museum Annual (Philadelphia), opening June 1.
– Blaise
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8. Jenny Holzer, Christo, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, opening May 30
GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo presents
Jenny Holzer. Tutta la verità (The Whole Truth)
Curated by Lorenzo Giusti
Palazzo della Ragione, Upper Town, Bergamo
And
Libera. Tra Warhol, Vedova e Christo / La Collezione Impermanente #2
Curated by Beatrice Bentivoglio-Ravasio, Lorenzo Giusti and A. Fabrizia Previtali
Opening on Thursday, May 30, 2019, h. 6.30 pm
via San Tomaso, 53
Palazzo della Ragione opens at h. 7.00 pm
May 30-September 1, 2019
Jenny Holzer. Tutta la verità (The Whole Truth)
Curated by Lorenzo Giusti
Palazzo della Ragione, Upper Town, Bergamo
Tutta la verità (The Whole Truth), an exhibition of Jenny Holzer’s work at the Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo, marks the return to Italy of one of the most highly acclaimed and influential artists on the international scene.
Holzer’s work employs the written word as a means of critical reflection and creative expression. In her art, modes of presentation more often associated with institutional information, news, and advertising become a powerful tool to address political and social issues. She uses language to challenge social norms, prejudices, and violence. The immediacy of Holzer’s message is a weapon against the mystification of reality, as implemented on a daily basis by media organisations, government agencies, and advertisers who engage in the banalisation of language.
The walls of the Sala delle Capriate, a symbolic place where historically local justice was administered, will provide the backdrop for a series of new light projections. The texts chosen by Holzer for this special occasion will touch on important themes in her work – identity, gender, and dialogue – and in particular will address the ongoing migrant crisis.
An integral part of the installation will be nine marble benches produced for the occasion thanks to the generous support of the Fondazione Henraux. Placed in a circle in the centre of the room, the seats will provide a stopping point, a place to pause and reflect on both the illuminated walls and the sentences carved into the surfaces of the benches themselves.
and
May 30, 2019 – January 6, 2020
Libera. Tra Warhol, Vedova e Christo / La Collezione Impermanente #2
Curated by Beatrice Bentivoglio-Ravasio, Lorenzo Giusti and A. Fabrizia Previtali
The rooms of the Gallery will host Libera. Tra Warhol, Vedova e Christo, the second project in the cycle “La Collezione Impermanente”: the platform which since 2018 has served to make the museum collection an instrument for the activation of memories and the involvement of the public through the use of innovative exhibition formats.
Originating from the encounter between the GAMeC collections and a set of prestigious works confiscated in Lombardy and managed by the National Agency for the Administration and Destination of Assets Seized or Confiscated, the exhibition will be split into four thematic areas, providing a unique opportunity to explore some of the key international artistic currents -from the Informal to geometric abstraction, from Nouveau Réalisme to Pop Art, from Minimalism to Arte Povera -through stimulating comparisons and associations.
Entrusted to Bergamo Town Council on the request of the Regional Secretariat of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities of Lombardy, the confiscated collection will for the first time be placed in dialogue with major works from the GAMeC Collection, and will present a rich selection of works by some of the most famous international artists of the second half of the 20thcentury -Jean Arp, Alberto Burri, Christo, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Sol LeWitt, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Spalletti, Emilio Vedova, Andy Warhol, Wols, to name but a few- celebrating the creative freedom and the emancipation of art from its restrictions of tradition.
INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Via San Tomaso, 53
24121 Bergamo
Tel. +39 035 270272
gamec.it
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9. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, May 20
At the Museums
Ballet Kink at the Guggenheim
Brendan Fernandes drills dancers in rope bondage and consent for the museum’s Young Collectors Party.
By Betsy Morais
May 13, 2019
“I’m thinking about the dynamics of power,” Brendan Fernandes, an artist, said the other day, on the Upper East Side. He is thirty-nine, with a shaved head, a trimmed beard, and an industrial earring that runs across the top of his left ear like a curtain rod. He wore a sweatshirt that read “Reigning Champ.” Fernandes, a former dancer, was about to headline the Young Collectors Party, at the Guggenheim, and had been given license to put on “performative interventions” with the theme “ballet kink.” The casting call was for “authoritative bodies.” Dancers would also have to be trained in ballet and O.K. with rope bondage.
Tickets were selling for two hundred and fifty dollars. “When I was a young dancer, we would be at the barre and développé our legs up, and the teacher would sometimes bring a flame underneath,” Fernandes recalled. “If you bring a leg down, you get burnt!” That’s power, he’d thought. “We call our teachers ballet masters.” That’s kind of kinky, he’d considered. After college, two of his dancer friends became dominatrices. “There is pain in ballet, but there is also pleasure,” he’d concluded. This was on his mind when the Guggenheim called.
Fernandes was born in Nairobi. His family emigrated when he was nine (“It wasn’t a safe place at that point”), settling in the suburbs of Toronto. He was Mr. Mistoffelees in “Cats” and then got into ballet and punk rock. “I danced all the way through college,” he said. But he injured his hamstring: “I had to leave ballet.” He got a master’s degree, moved around a lot, and kept making art. His recent work includes “Emergency Rave,” an homage to those who lost their lives in the Pulse night-club shooting, in Orlando, and “The Master and Form,” in which dancers hold ballet poses on metal structures-that one he’s putting on anew for the Whitney Biennial. Then he’s off to the Smithsonian, M.C.A. Chicago, and the Noguchi Museum, where his dancers will have to sit perfectly still in rocking chairs.
Before the party, Fernandes arrived at the Guggenheim to meet the nine dancers he’d recruited. He wouldn’t give them choreography so much as patterns and ideas. The ballet world, like everywhere, is still reckoning with sex scandals in its institutions, some of which his collaborators had danced for. Might this performance objectify their bodies? “This piece is about creating empowerment,” Fernandes said. The key to kink is consent, he explained. “I’m a really nice master.”
The group gathered in a circle. On either side of Fernandes sat a big guy, Vincent Tiley, wearing military boots, and a small guy, Ming Chang, dressed in a black T-shirt. They were the rope-bondage aficionados. Fernandes’s plan was to dress each dancer in a decorative harness, then constrict the men and suspend them one at a time from a truss while the female dancers bourréed and slinked around. “I want you to think, How do I create freedom if I don’t have that body part to move?” he said. The dancers nodded. “If you think, I don’t want to be tied up anymore, talk to Vincent.”
“I just want to say a few things about rope?” Chang interjected. “What I want to emphasize is safety. So, whatever you do, don’t go around the neck with the rope.” The dancers nodded.
“Who wants to be first?” Fernandes asked.
Nico Brown, a dancer with a mustache, raised his hand: “Ohmigod.”
“Nico’s first,” Fernandes said.
“Looking at them from way up here is making me hungry for lunch.”
“The first one to get murdered,” another dancer joked. The group tittered.
Chang began tying people into harnesses of white rope, with the end loose, like a dog’s leash. The others milled, practicing combinations borrowed from “Swan Lake”; the women lined up along one of the Guggenheim’s low walls, which they used as a barre.
“What level of restricted movement are you interested in?” Tiley asked Fernandes. “Like, if someone wanted to get hog-tied?”
“Well, no,” Fernandes said. “Then there’s no movement.”
“I’ve never tied up a ballet dancer,” Chang said. He started with rope a couple of years ago. He has a day job, in fashion, doing product development. “I’m very crafty,” he explained. “It’s really macramé. I know how to knit, I know how to sew.” Tiley is a painter. “I started tying canvases,” he said. (He has a mixed-media approach.) “Now I tie people.”
When all the dancers were roped in, they began arranging themselves in intricate tableaux. Fernandes spun a dancer into him by his leash, ballroom style. “This is the perfect neighborhood to do this-so Upper East Side,” he said.
Two guys lifted a ballerina upside down, in parallel plié, her toes pointed toward Fernandes. “Is this too weird?” she asked.
“Be careful!” he said.
Tiley wandered over. “In case of an absolute emergency,” he said, “I will have scissors in my pocket.” ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the May 20, 2019, issue, with the headline “Ballet Kink.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/ballet-kink-at-the-guggenheim
Betsy Morais, who was previously on The New Yorker’s editorial staff, is the managing editor of Columbia Journalism Review.
(c) 2019 Condé Nast. All rights reserved.
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10. Verónica Peña with Hector Canonge, FF Alumns, at BAAD, The Bronx, May 23
Verónica Peña with Hector Canonge, at ITINERANT Performance Art Festival, BAAD Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx, NY, May 23.
Verónica Peña with Hector Canonge
ITINERANT Performance Art Festival
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, BAAD
May 23, 2018
7:00 – 10:00 PM
2474 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, NY
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/itinerantpafnyc
http://www.itinerant.website
New York City welcomes the arrival of ITINERANT, the annual Performance Art Festival NYC, to take place from May 21 to 25 featuring local, national and international artists selected from an international open call. ITINERANT will launch its 2019 program with video screenings and performances in Manhattan at Grace Exhibition Space on Tuesday, May 21. The festival will continue to the other boroughs with live performances and public interventions in Brooklyn at Smack Mellon (Wednesday, May 22), in the Bronx at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, BAAD (Thursday, May 23), Manhattan at Grace Exhibition Space (Friday, May 24), and in Queens at Queens Museum and Flushing Meadows Corona Park (May 25). The closing event of the festival will be hosted at Last Frontier NYC on Saturday, May 25.
ITINERANT 2019, organized and curated independently by interdisciplinary artist Hector Canonge, focuses on works that explore, treat, propose, and consider somatic (re)constructions and (re)presentations regarding gender, nationality, identity, and civil status. Departing from the current socio/politico/economic transformations around the globe, ITINERANT will feature performance art works by emerging and established local, national as well as international artists from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and North America.
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VERÓNICA PEÑA is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator from Spain based in the United States. Her work explores the themes of absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Peña is interested in migration policies, cross-cultural dialogue, and women’s empowerment. Recent works include participatory performances that create shared moments amongst strangers. Peña has performed in various countries around Europe, Asia, and America. In the United States, her work has been featured at Times Square, Armory Show, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Queens Museum, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Grace Exhibition Space, Triskelion Arts, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, Momenta Art Gallery, Gabarron Foundation, Dumbo Arts Festival, and Consulate General of Spain in New York, amongst others. She is a recipient to the Franklin Furnace Fund 2017-18. She was a recipient of the Socrates and Erasmus Grants, a Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fellowship, and a candidate for the Dedalus Foundation Grant. She has published “The Presence Of The Absent”, a thesis about her body of work. She was a visiting artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She curates “Collective Becoming”, an initiative to make cities a place less hostile. She is currently at work on her new project about freedom, fear, and resistance, “The Substance of Unity.” http://www.veronicapena.com
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11. Matthew Geller, FF Alumn, at Art Omi, Ghent, NY, opening May 25
Matthew Geller’s “Babble. Pummel, and Pride II” opens at Art Omi, Saturday, May 25, 1-4 PM
http://artomi.org/calendar/opening-day-2019
http://artomi.org/exhibitions/matthew-geller-babble-pummel-and-pride-ii
Kick off the summer season at Art Omi! The Summer Season Opening celebrates the 2019 exhibition program with a lively afternoon of events, performance, refreshments, and more!
Commemorating the opening of installations by Andrea Bowers, Sarah Braman, Atelier Van Lieshout, Matthew Geller, Goshka Macuga, Virginia Overton, Arlene Shechet, Brian Tolle, and Christopher Wool.
Plus the opening reception for the solo exhibition David Shrigley: To Be Of Use, featuring a live performance at 3 p.m. in the Newmark Gallery by Melissa Auf der Maur, Arone Dyer, and Rebecca Ruth Borrer.
In the Architecture Fields, experience the debut of new pavilions by Yolande Daniels, Hou de Sousa, Aleksandr Mergold, and BASE Studio.
From 1 to 4 p.m., Art Omi: Education hosts its annual Block Party in the Education Pavilions, where children and families embark on a collaborative building project. All are welcome to spend a short or a long time working on this temporary installation.
Art Omi welcomes the public to its events and grounds free of charge.
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS:
matthew@matthewgeller.com
Matthew Geller
www.matthewgeller.com
917-804-0118
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12. Katya Grokhovsky, Nadja Verena Marcin , Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at The Boiler, Brooklyn, thru June 18
*Re:ON SITE
Curated by A young Yu and Bat-Ami Rivlin
Artists: Lizzy De Vita, Pamela Sneed, Katya Grokhovsky, Nadja Verena Marcin, Phoebe Osborne
Opening Reception and Performances: Saturday, May 18, 6-9 pm
Exhibition on view: May 18 – June 18, 2019
The Boiler
191 North 14th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
Exploring intersections of different bodies in space, Re:ONSITE investigates the physical and conceptual range of performance work. On May 18, five female, trans, and non-conforming artists will perform work that activates the unique architectural structure of The Boiler.
The objects, marks and remains of the performance event will continue to be exhibited in the space. The second life of the performances, existing as physical residue, will explore ideas of action embodied through tangible material, bodies expressed in space, and time articulated as an echo of action.
Katya Grokhovsky, Mythical Beings, 2018
*Every Woman Biennial
Opening Reception: May 19th 2019 1-7pm
1-4pm @La MaMa Galleria
47 Great Jones st
New York, NY
4pm FLASH MOB
4:15-7pm @ 222 Bowery
New York, NY
On view May 20-29th 2019 1-7pm
http://www.everywomanbiennial.com
The EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL is the all woman and women-identified art biennial founded and curated by C. Finley. What began as the Whitney Houston Biennial, a wild one-night event of art and performance celebrating women in 2014, and expanded to a two-week exhibition in 2017 in the awakening of the #MeToo movement, will present its third iteration, titled Every Woman Biennial, from May 20 – May 29 in NY, and a sister biennial featuring LA-based artists June 2 – 12 in LA.
And….I am now on PATREON, become my Patron and come on a wild journey with me!
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Recent Press:
Art New England Magazine, May/June 2019
The New York Times, March 2019
The Brooklyn Rail, March 2019
Brownstoner, February 2019
Asylum Arts Magazine, February 2019
Hyperallergic, January 2019
Yours in Art,
Katya Grokhovsky
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13. Lorin Roser, FF Alumn, at Museum of Chinese in America, Manhattan, June 7
https://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/the_moon_represents_my_heart_concert_series_presents_erduo_duo
FRIDAY – June 7 , 2019 “Animated Nite of Ear Visualizations” Concert
Museum of Chinese in Americas , 215 Centre St., NYC 7:30 pm –Free if you rsvp
ER DUO DUO- Lorin Chow Roser( guitar & 3d video ) and RIP Hayman (guqin) will synthesize Chinese inspired compositions & present a musical interlude based on Fluxus sound works. This sound environment is based on travel experiences and past Chinese American scholar exchanges brings dynamics into play as they entice audiences to new expressions.
Feel the Ear Duo and experience what their Ear cannot hear as creator Rip Hayman brings us with Lorin Roser’s 3d anime video & Guitar
RIP Hayman – composer/inventor of sound art. Tiananmen Echo is his early Guqin work commissioned by NPR for his time in China, He help create Ear Magazine, worked with David Tudor, Chou Wen Chung, C. Morrow at MoMA etc . His just released LP “Dreams of India and China” and features at the Ear Inn. As a mariner he finds inspiration for his music.
Lorin Chow Roser – experimental soundscape composer will perform electro -guitar and 3d Videos. Often working with performance artists and painters. His created 3d geometry and music s utilizing Asian influences and instruments that reveal ties to new tradition and identity. He has performed/screened videos at Museums, CBGB’s, Puffin Room, Harvestworks, White Box, Spectrum, Remote etc.
Note: Guqin is China’s oldest stringed musical instrument, with a history of more than 3,000 years -Er dou is Ear in Chinese : Both invent sounds that shake the psyche.
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14. Jeff Bliumis, FF Alumn, at Galleri Astley, Skinnasktteberg, Sweden, opening May 26
JEFF BLIUMIS
GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY
Curated by Irena Popiashvili
May 26 – June 23, 2019
Opening: May 26, 2019
Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, 739 92 Skinnskatteberg, Sweden
Gallery Astley is pleased to present Gotta Serve Somebody, a solo exhibition of paintings by Jeff Bliumis. This is his first solo show of paintings in Europe. About 45 paintings on view, all created from 2015 until 2019, are grouped in the following series: Service, Jamaican Dining, American Dining and Dreamers. A series of drawings that the artist did in various public spaces and later used as starting point of his paintings will also be on view.
If there is a defining message of the Gotta Serve Somebody exhibition, it is to make us think about how much – and how little – we appreciate ‘service,’ the critical role that service workers play in the day-to-day life of modern societies. The way he achieves this makes that message even more intriguing – because Bliumis has somehow managed the contortion of creating portraits that are not really portraits.
The works in the show feature a wide cross-section of jobs and individuals. We meet bartenders, baristas, kitchen staff and waitresses, a restaurant hostess and a masseuse, Uber drivers and souschefs. There is a scene from an airport waiting area and a person behind a coffee stand. But not only does the artist show these people from afar – observed at a distance much as we, the viewers, would likely do if we were there – he also cuts out much of their body and form, relegating them to the background.
Jeff Bliumis is a New York-based artist. He received his BA from Columbia University. He has exhibited internationally at the First Moscow Biennales of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), Busan Biennale (Busan, South Korea), Assab One (Milan, Italy), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, US), Centre d’art Contemporain (Meymac, France), the James Gallery, Graduate Center CUNY (New York, US), Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, US), Museum of Bat Yam (Bat Yam, Israel), the Jewish Museum (New York, US), the Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), the Museum of Immigration History (Paris France), MAC/VAL, the Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum (France) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK).
His works are in various private and public collections, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), Museums of Bat Yam (Israel), the Saatchi Collection (UK), the Harvard Business School (US), MAC/VAL, the Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum (France), the Museum of Immigration History (France) and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK).
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Irena Popiashvili, Andres Serrano, Raphy Sarkissian, and Ksenia M. Soboleva.
For further information and images please contact: galleri.astley@tele2.se
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15. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, on television and online
Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alum
On TV and ONLINE
TUES, MAY 21, 8pm
CABLE TV INTERVIEW. “Sex and the Modern Homo Sapien.”
Tune in or click on to watch Barbara Rosenthal Interviewed by Pacifica Radio’s Paul DiRienzo on “Let Them Talk” about her forthcoming book, “Dual to the Finish: Erotic Poetry Of Love, Chagrin and Irony,” (Xanadu Press, NYC) vis a vis some of her ideas regarding the current state of affairs (i.e. The #MeToo, dress codes, whistle blowers and whistling wolves, art/lit/feminism, and what she thinks we, planet-wide, first must wrap our heads around.) The station will experiment with a call-in technology.
In Manhattan, on these 4 cable stations
FiOS 34, RCN 83, Spectrum 56 & 1996
On the Web, on these 2 channels
MNN.org
Lifestyle channel
Barbara Rosenthal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal
http://www.barbararosenthal.org/
Skype: barbararosenthal
Twitter: @BRartistNYC
Facebook: barbara.rosenthal1
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16. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, in new publication
Frank Moore, FF Alumn, featured in a new book, How To Handle An Anthropologist
How to Handle an Anthropologist
Russell Shuttleworth, PhD interviews shaman/performance artist Frank Moore
https://www.eroplay.com/hthaa
In 1997, shaman/performance artist Frank Moore was contacted by Russell Shuttleworth, a then University of California, Berkeley graduate student, working on his doctoral dissertation. The thesis was a research study to help understand how men with moderate to severe cerebral palsy experience and interpret their search for intimacy and sexual relationships in the face of significant social and cultural barriers, or as Frank called it, “The Sexual Practices of Bay Area Men with Cerebral Palsy.” He wanted to interview Frank for this thesis. That interview quickly segued into 12 years of Russell interviewing Frank about Frank’s life. Meanwhile, Frank encouraged Russell to live his dreams, which resulted in the discovery of Russell’s alter-ego Dr. Gruve, who dj’d a show on Frank’s LUVeR internet radio station, and played the harmonica in Frank’s Cherotic All-Star Band. They did 88 interviews in all, even continuing via Skype when Russell moved to Australia to teach there. Russell is now a Medical Anthropologist PhD and a member of the faculty at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria Australia.
Inside this book are the full transcripts of these interviews.
Visit https://www.eroplay.com/hthaa for more … including ordering information, a preview of the table of contents and introduction by Russell Shuttleworth, plus animated segments based on stories from the book, created for the web video series, Let Me Be Frank, and videos of some of the early sessions between Frank and Russell.
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17. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Fifth Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial, Rhinebeck, NY, June 1-Oct. 31, 2019
Franc Palaia, FF Alum has curated the 5th Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial in Rhinebeck NY.
Franc curated the 4th sculpture biennial in 2017 with 18 sculptures, and this year the regional outdoor exhibition includes 25 sculptures from 25 artists coming from five states, NY, NJ, CT, PA and VT. The works vary in scale and materials from traditional wood, stone, ceramic, metal and gold leaf to unconventional works made with found objects, bicycle parts, plastic bottles, Hudson Valley bricks and feathers. Artists include: James Meyer, Andres San Millan, Dave Channon, John Van Alstine, Bernard Klevickas, William Scholl, Chuck Von Schmidt, Suprina, Joe Chirchirillo, Bill Rybak, Vincent Murray, Beth Haber, Julia Whitney Barnes, Ken Hiratsuka, Willie Cole – FF Alumn, Hans Van Meeuwen, Casey A. Schwarz, Naomi Teppich, Emil Alzamora, David Provan, Christoper Lewis, Stuart Farmery, Dan Goldman and Alison McNulty. Visitors can hear artist statements on their cell phones for free on Otocast. Franc will lead two free guided tours of the show on Sunday July 21 and Sept 22 at 1pm.
The show is on view from June 1- Oct 31 2019. It is open to the public free from 9-4 daily. The address is 330 Morton Rd Rhinebeck, 12572. Just 2 miles from Route 9 in Dutchess County. 25 minutes north of the Poughkeepsie train station. tel- 845-876-4818, www.wilderstein.org. The opening reception is June 1st from 5-7pm. Please RSVP before May 28th.
The Wilderstein is a grand Queen Anne style mansion built in 1852 by the Suckley family distant cousins to FDR. The grounds were designed by Calvert Vaux and is located along the banks of the Hudson River.
Franc Palaia is a veteran artist/curator with over 45 curated shows since 1981. Some of his shows were presented at the Alternative Museum, the Newark Museum, City Wihout Walls Gallery, Newark, Collaborative Concepts in Beacon, NY, The American Academy in Rome and Arte Contemporanea in Torino, Italy. Some reviews include the New York Times, Village Voice, Artbyte, Parachute Magazine, Tema Celeste magazine, L’Espresso magazine, Italy and WNET TV Channel 13. for more info- 845-505-3123
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18. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at ChaShaMa, Manhattan, May 28
Contact: Laura James
Phone: (917) 407-6678
E-Mail: bx200pd@gmail.com
BX200 and ChaShaMa Presents –
WHAT: The Non-Professional Development Workshop
WHERE: ChaShaMa West 23rd Street Gallery, 320 West 23rd St, NYC, NY 10011
WHEN: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 6:30 PM
Free event but space is limited and Registration is required
RSVP at bx200pd@gmail.com by May 26th
Join us for this special round table discussion with Mary Ting, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, and Jodi Waynberg!
Professional development programs endeavor to give artists the practical tools to survive in the art world in this time of rising expectations, and education and living costs. This training, with its emphasis on “how to emerge, how to network and build your name” is often focused on art as a means of production for the market, instead of art as a form of creative expression. In its well-intentioned mentoring on strategic planning for the career track, it –purposefully or not– sets expectations about what constitutes professional success, constraining the possibilities for making art and being an artist. The Non-Professional Development Workshop seeks to provide alternative approaches, reflections and humor on the evolving realities of the creative person and extend the definition of what it means to be an artist in the 21st century. This series of events is being presented in collaboration with non-profit organizations throughout New York City, including Critical Practice Inc, Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, ChaShaMa, among others.
The Non-Professional Development Workshop was conceived by Mary Ting and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful with support from Artists Alliance Inc. Founded in 1999 by a group of 40 artists on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Artists Alliance Inc (AAI) is committed to advancing opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists and curators through residencies in the LES Studio Program, exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and special projects through our Public Works initiatives. Over the past 17 years, AAI has played a pivotal role in launching and strengthening the careers of more than 600 artists and presented more than 250 exhibitions and projects.
This program is made possible in part by Chashama and BX200, with funding from Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Chashama supports artists by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate into spaces for artists to create, present, and connect. Operating in the 5 boroughs and beyond, they give artists work and presentation spaces, and also provide free art workshops in underserved communities. Chashama currently presents over 150 events a year, has workspace for 120 artists, and hosts free community workshops throughout NYC.
BX200 is an online platform showcasing a curated selection of artwork by 200 Bronx-based visual artists. Since its launch in 2014, BX200 has presented numerous events, exhibitions and professional development workshops aimed at highlighting the creativity of Bronx artists.
About the Presenters:
Mary Ting is a visual artist working in installation, drawing, sculpture, and community projects. The ravaging of the earth and all its inhabitants is what keeps her up at night and also impels her work forward. A two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2016 Joan Mitchell Center New Orleans Residency, 2016 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council In Process Residency, 2010 Gottlieb Foundation individual grant, Lambent Fellowship, and a Pollack Krasner Foundation among others. Residencies include MacDowell Colony, Lower Eastside Printshop Special Editions, Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace, and others. Ting currently teaches at CUNY John Jay College in both the studio art department and in the Sustainability and the Environmental Justice Program. Ting is also a cultural thinker and just returned from a lecture tour through South Africa on the topic of Chinese Modern History and the Demand for Wildlife Products. Ting is an avid gardener, Master Composter, independent curator and writer.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo, Center for Book Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Estévez Raful Espejo holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. He has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Montano and Estévez Raful Espejo have also collaborated on several performances. Publications include Pleased to Meet You, One Person at a Time, Life as Material for Art and Vice Versa (editor), and For Art’s Sake. He has curated exhibitions and programs for El Museo del Barrio; the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary; Art in Odd Places; Cuchifritos; the Center for Book Arts; Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, and Longwood Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts, New York; and for the Filmoteca de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain. Estévez Raful Espejo is the founding director of The Mangú Museum (pronounced man-goo). He was born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic. In 2011, he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx.
Jodi Waynberg is the Executive Director of Artists Alliance Inc, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the careers of emerging and underrepresented artists and curators through residencies, exhibitions, and commissioned projects. Rooted in the Lower East Side community (a longstanding epicenter for creative experimentation and cultural diversity) and in New York City at-large, AAI focuses on advancing contemporary art practices and fostering dialogues through the use of alternative and atypical art spaces, ensuring that the LES remains a powerful place for making and viewing art. Since joining AAI in 2012, Waynberg has curated several solo and group exhibitions including Philip Emde Destroyed My Life (2013), The Real Estate Show, What Next: 2014 (2014), Some Great Modern Mediums (2015), Peekskill Project 6 (2015), and “SHADOW CABINET” A Loyal Opposition Response (2017). Waynberg has also served as a visiting critic and juror at ArtSlant, Residency Unlimited, Wassaic Project, Hunter College MFA Program, AHL Foundation, NARS Foundation, Wave Hill, and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. Waynberg began her career in San Francisco as the Associate Curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where she curated and supported numerous exhibitions including Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949, Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) and Are We There Yet?: 5000 Years of Answering Questions with Questions.
On View at The Gallery
A play on family values, Valores Esteticos/Aesthetic Values is a group exhibition featuring the work of 11 artists from Chashama’s Space to Connect program. All of the artists reside in the Bronx and Washington Heights, NY. Converting the value of our everyday aesthetics, these artists use their practice to explore environment, textiles, identity, gender, history and empowerment through various forms of art making
including photography, video art, sculpture, and more. Exhibiting artists include Adalky Capellan, Diane Davis, Charles Esperanza, Melanie Gonzalez, Dianne Hebbert, Mengly Hernandez, Alexis Mendoza, Wyeth Moss, Jessica Spence, Yelanie Rodriguez, Carolina Rubio MacWright, and Carlos Wilfredo
ChaShaMa 23rd St Gallery is ADA compliant.
and
The Tree and I – new date – Tuesday May 21, 2019
Presented as part of Call//City as Living Laboratory
Led by artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo and John Butler, this WALK will help participants connect viserally with local trees, while developing a deeper understanding of the role of the riparian forest in Van Cortlandt Park.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6 PM – 7:30 PM
Van Cortlandt Park
115 Van Cortlandt Park S, NY 10471
During this experiential walk, participants will be guided through an unfolding series of performative exercises seeking to kindle one’s intimate relationship with trees. Walk and talk therefore go hand-in-hand with each other as we pursue as a group our path through Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx, and then move on to forge one-on-one connections with specific elms, oaks, maples, and dogwoods, among the other species in the area. We will have the opportunity to join in the goings-on of our tree through different breathing approaches, move to the dance of the branches while finding bonds between the sentient being in-front of us and our bodies, disclose orally or in writing a personal conundrum to our tree while using silence to receive advice from our listener, and open up to the possibility of forging a lasting friendship with the tree we have befriended.
Friends of Van Cortlandt Park ecological project manager John Butler will help participants understand the relationship between tree heath and overall environmental health, and will discuss efforts to restore the riparian forest in Van Cortlandt Park.
During the last 25 years Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo has been teaching, writing, collaborating, learning, dancing, walking and performing in the Bronx, thus generating a rare archive of the goings on in the borough that includes: videos, photographs, publications, documents, memorabilia, audios and embodied experiences.
John Butler is a cartographer and stream ecologist. He is currently the Friends of Van Cortlandt Park’s Ecological Project Manager and a graduate student at City University of New York (Lehman College). He has worked for the past five years in urban conservation project management within the public land system, securing grants and running stewardship projects.
Butler blends together a passion and understanding in the field of ecology with map design and development abilities to build representations that tell the stories the raw data does not easily do. He plans to continue down the path of creating cartographic pieces as additions to his work in land conservation and biogeography.
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19. Rosamond King, FF Alumn, at Poet’s House, Manhattan, June 1, and more
THANK YOU to everyone who’s been asking “when are you reading in New York City???” Three times in June, it turns out! If you’re not in NYC, look out for my recent publications – and my forthcoming Poem of the Day!
scroll down for details
a) 1 June (Saturday), 6pm Performance at Poets House, free
b) 10 June (Monday), 6:30-9:30pm, Poetry Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, benefit for Poets House
c) 29 June (Saturday), 8pm, Reading to celebrate Purvi Shah’s Miracle Marks
d) Sometime in June…Poem of the Day!
e) Publication in Daughters of Africa
f) Publication in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry
a) 1 June (Saturday) 6pm Zong! performance at Poets House. FREE!
Alongside the amazing poets LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Erica Hunt, and Sean D. Henry Smith, I will be performing a collaborative interpretation of M. NourbeSe Philip’s earthshattering book length poem Zong! about the massacre of enslaved people on the ship of the same name. Come at 3pm to hear Philip herself talk about “The Caribbean (Un)Epic,” and stay for the performance!
The performance is free; admission to the talk is $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members
https://poetshouse.org/event/epic-voices-the-caribbean-unepic-with-m-nourbese/#
b) 10 June (Monday) 6-9:30pm Poetry Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Fundraiser; tickets required.
I am honored to have been asked to support Poets House as a reader in their annual walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. This event is a fundraiser; with your ticket you will also hear the beloved poets Robert Pinsky, Gregory Pardlo, Jenny Xie, and Anne Waldman.
https://poetshouse.org/event/poets-house-walk-across-the-brooklyn-bridge-2019/
c) 29 June (Saturday), 8pm, Reading to celebrate Purvi Shah’s Miracle Marks. By invitation; email me for information.
Purvi Shah is a poet, consultant, friend, and eye shadow enthusiast; I’m so pleased to read as part of the celebration of her second book of poems, Miracle Marks!
Preorder Purvi’s Miracle Marks here: http://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/miracle-marks
or here: https://smile.amazon.com/Miracle-Marks-Poems-Purvi-Shah/dp/0810140381/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=purvi+shah&qid=1558094416&s=gateway&sr=8-2
d) Sometime in June…Poem of the Day. FREE!
My poem “Breathe. As in (shadow)” will be part of the “Poem-a-Day” series! I was curated into this program of the by rockstar Somali-American poet (and recent winner of the ) Samiya Bashir (www.samiyabashir.com).
This program posts not only the poem, but also a contextual note and audio. Here is my note about the poem: I often revise poems using my “shadow poems” exercise detailed in the book Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry (2019). I take a poem, and then rewrite it in different ways or contexts: the poem’s shadow, the poem with mustard, the poem divorced, etc. This poem is the “shadow” of “Breathe. As in.”, a response to Eric Garner’s murder by police, which was originally published in Transition magazine. Both poems are part of my “Living in the Abattoir” series, set in a speculative space similar to the USA, in which people of color live in an abattoir (slaughterhouse) in which they are both workers and meat. The poems address how under difficult circumstances people pursue both survival and joy.
Subscribe to Poem of the Day here: https://poets.org/poem-a-day
Once my poem is posted, you should be able to find it easily here:
https://poets.org/poet/rosamond-s-king
e) Publication in Daughters of Africa
I am honored and overjoyed to have six (6!) poems included in the new Daughters of Africa. In 1992, editor Margaret Busby published the first Daughters of Africa anthology, groundbreaking in its breadth, including writers from dozens of countries in and beyond Africa. My poems include two from Rock | Salt | Stone, and one from my new manuscript, All the Rage.
Order Daughters of Africa here:
https://smile.amazon.com/New-Daughters-Africa-International-Anthology/dp/0062912984/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=daughters+of+africa&qid=1558094504&s=gateway&sr=8-1
f) Publication in Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry
I continue to teach writing and performance workshops, and I’m so pleased to have a pedagogical publication in my colleague Matthew Burgess’ new collection Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry. Great to kick start your own writing as well as for teachers, this book includes dozens of exercises and prompts. As the editor writes, “When we are immersed in the act of writing…we are spellbound.”
Shout-out to: my students, who are inquisitive and fierce, engaging their studies and intellectual inquiry while working full time and taking care of children and elders. I’m honored to sit on the dais during BC’s graduation (with activist Tarana Burke, our commencement speaker, and actor Jimmy Smits, who is an alum!). May they achieve all of their goals.
In resistance and art,
Rosamond
www.rosamondking.com
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20. Ericka Beckman, FF Alumn, at MIT, Boston, MA, opening May 23
Please visit these links:
https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/ericka-beckmanhttp://www.erickabeckman.com/portfolio/11666-2/
thank you.
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21. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, summer news
Greetings,
Hope all have weathered the winter and the airwaves and you are open to the possibilities of spring!
I’d like to introduce my new project: Democracy of the Land.
With the 400th anniversary in 2020 of the arrival of the Pilgrims on Native American land and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor, this exploration takes us back to pre-Colonial Americas, the Spanish Conquest and the Pope’s declarations about religion, race, property and destiny.
With an historic election next year and the Centennial of women’s right to vote, we ask: What does democracy mean in 2020? Whose democracy is it?
June 12-17: Film short, Cure for Insomnia, Provincetown In’l Film Fest
June 21-July 10: Exhibition: Launching the Re-signing of the Mayflower Compact 2020, AMP Gallery, Provincetown
July 29-Aug 2: Workshop: Democracy of the Land. Make a stand, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
July 30: Artist Talk: Democracy of the Land, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
What a summer! Also join me for the 32nd Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla
Thanks for your support. Hope to see you in town.
Peace & resilience, Jay
Check out my TEDx Talk: Portrait of the artist as a corporation. Thank you to Ian Edwards and all the other presenters on TEDx Provincetown
Jay Critchley 7 Carnes Lane, Provincetown, MA 02657
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22. Harley J. Spiller, FF Alumn, now online
Please visit this link to a 45 minute podcast about fortune tellers with Wizard Devin Person and Harley J. Spiller – the crystal ball says you will have fun listening!
https://m.soundcloud.com/thispodcastisaritual/how-to-seek-your-fortune-w-harley-j-spiller
thank you.
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