Goings On: posted week of June 03, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Mark Tribe, FF Alumn, recent events
2. Leila Nadir, FF Alumn, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, July 9
3. Matthew Geller, FF Alumn, at Art Omi, Ghent, NY
4. Anne Bean, FF Alumn, at The Sotheran Building, London, UK, opening June 6
5. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at The Untitled Space, Manhattan, opening June 6
6. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, at ONCA, Brighton, UK, June 8
7. Mark Mendel, FF Alumn, at The Mount, Lenox, MA, thru Oct. 27
8. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Anita Rogers Gallery, Manhattan, June 4
9. Cassils, Deb Margolin, Eileen Myles, Laura Parnes, Sarah Schulman, Ed Woodham, FF Alumns, receive MacDowell Fellowships
10. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Club Cumming, Manhattan, June 10, and more
11. Rachel Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Craig Kull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, thru July 13
12. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, at 2019 New York Electronic Art Festival, Governor’s Island, NY, through August 11
13. The Dark Bob, FF Alumn, at the Smithsonian Archive of American Art
14. Yao Ruilin at C’mon Everybody, Brooklyn, opening June 7
15. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online and more
16. Cheri Gaulke, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, FF Alumns, at ArcLight, Los Angeles, CA, June 11
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1. Mark Tribe, FF Alumn, recent events
Dear Friends,
For the past several years, I’ve been making landscape images. Initially, I made videos and prints that looked critically at the aesthetics of military games and the new American Empire. More recently, I’ve turned my attention to the effects of climate change on wilderness. I am struck by the fact that, over the coming decades, even the most carefully protected wild places will be radically transformed. What will our few remaining wild lands look and sound like a century from now? It was with this question in mind that I set out to make a series of archival landscape recordings that capture the preciousness and fragile beauty of nature on the brink and, equally important, preserve endangered wilderness experiences for future generations.
Each recording in this ongoing series is 24 hours long, captured in real time with a stationary digital cinema camera and multiple microphones, and exhibited as an ultra-high-definition video that is synchronized with the time of day (so, for example, at 11am one sees and hears what was recorded at 11am).
The first of these recordings, Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY, October 15, 2016, is on view through June 2 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine.
This July, I’m making a second 24-hour landscape recording in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon with support from the Schneider Museum of Art, where the work will be exhibited in 2020, the Puffin Foundation, and the Gordon and the Jeanne Shepard Family Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation. I hope to make future recordings in the Florida Everglades, the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, and Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine.
In other news, StarryNight, a work of net art I made for Rhizome with Alex Galloway and Martin Wattenberg in 1999, was recently exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. StarryNight was offline for several years, but Rhizome’s preservation team brought it back to life for this exhibition: a major effort for which I’m deeply grateful. Deep bows of respect and appreciation to Dragan Espenschied for his wizardlly powers of technological resurrection, and to Michael Connor and Aria Dean for curating the exhibition.
With kind regards and warm summer wishes,
Mark
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2. Leila Nadir, FF Alumn, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, July 9
CPR Presents NViLP: (Re)Patterning Performance
June 7-9, 2019
@ Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave
http://www.cprnyc.org/new-voices-in-live-performance/repatterning-performance-nvilp-2019/
Curated by Lauren DiGiulio
All performances and sessions are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
New Voices in Live Performance invites curators to shape a weekend of performances and events at CPR that highlight creative practices in dance, theater, and performance art. This season will consist of two distinct weekends of work.
(Re)Patterning Performance will bring together artists, curators, and scholars to explore how language can be retooled by the performing body to create new ways of thinking about who can speak, and how. In a series of talks and performances, we will think through methods by which the body can be “re-patterned” to open out into a network of exchange among cultural communities, modes of self, and the ecological environment.
ARTISTS/SCHEDULE
Friday June 7 | 6:30pm
Keynote Address: Hồng-Ân Trương (Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Our Bodies Can Bear Almost Anything”
Saturday June 8 | 2pm
2pm: Reading by Sibyl Kempson
Talk by Greta Hartenstein (Independent Curator)
3pm: Lecture Demonstrations and Panel
Ilya Vidrin (Harvard University)
Leon Hilton (Brown University)
6:30pm: Recent Poems, a performance by Christopher Knowles
7pm: Reception with DJ session by Christopher Knowles
*Christopher Knowles’s vinyl LP, The Typing Poems (2017) will be available for sale in partnership with White Columns to benefit White Columns and the Center for Performance Research.
Sunday June 9 | 2pm
2pm: Readings and Panel
Leila Nadir (University of Rochester)
Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Dartmouth College)
Candace Williams (Poet)
5pm: plural(love), a performance by Kristine Haruna Lee and Jen Goma
For more information, please visit: http://www.cprnyc.org/new-voices-in-live-performance/repatterning-performance-nvilp-2019/
Presented with support from the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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3. Matthew Geller, FF Alums, at Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Matthew Geller’s “Babble. Pummel, and Pride II” at Art Omi
Matthew Geller creates public art works whose visual vocabulary doesn’t immediately telegraph its status as art. Geller employees the objects we see regularly in public spaces-pipes, railings, roofs, and benches-and assembles them in a way that changes our experience and creates a new social interaction. Babble, Pummel and Pride, II is sited in a picturesque corner of the Art Omi’s wetland pond, and creates a unique gathering space. The roofed structure with its swinging benches and fountain pumping water from the pond onto the roofs gives viewers a chance to be lulled by the babble of the fountain, but also threatened by the possibility of entering the spray zone. A true folly in the landscape.
http://artomi.org/exhibitions/matthew-geller-babble-pummel-and-pride-ii
Also new installations at Art Omi by Andrea Bowers, Sarah Braman, Atelier Van Lieshout, Goshka Macuga, Virginia Overton, Arlene Shechet, Brian Tolle, and Christopher Wool.
In the Architecture Fields, new pavilions by Yolande Daniels, Hou de Sousa, Aleksandr Mergold, and BASE Studio.
And in the Newmark Gallery, David Shrigley: To Be Of Use, May 25 – July 21
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4. Anne Bean, FF Alumn, at The Sotheran Building, London, UK, opening June 6
ANNE BEAN: HOW THINGS USED TO BE NOW
5 – 24 June 2019
England & Co at The Sotheran Building
2a Sackville Street, London W1S 3DA
Private View: Thursday 6 June 5 – 8.30pm
Closing event: Saturday 22 June at 3.00pm
Short performances and dialogue: Anne Bean and Toine Horvers
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 11am-6pm
Anne Bean is a legendary and very active exponent of live art and performance in the UK, who since 1970 has presented numerous solo and collaborative projects throughout Europe, USA, Africa, Mexico, Japan and even Iraq. Based in London, this many-faceted artist has resisted a conventional art world career and from the beginning has followed her own personal trajectory of enquiry: ‘What is Art and What am I Doing in It?’
Described as ‘a prolific maker of acts, objects, and multiple selves’, Bean’s wide-ranging practice encompasses slide projections, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, text, photography, video and sound. Her materials have ranged from paint and clay, to film and the use of fire and pyrotechnics, wind and steam. She has utilised natural processes such as decay as acts of transformation and used fireworks on thermal paper to produce ephemeral drawings. Bean’s works and acts come together in a ‘continuum’, what she describes as ‘life-art’: her life and art are a constant work-in-progress, veering from acts of physical immediacy to artworks and installations that evolve over time.
This exhibition includes iconic photographs and works resulting from Bean’s early performances in the 1970s. They emerge from her fearless dialogues with the elements, fire and water; from risk-taking, often perilous performances that tested her endurance and fearlessness as evidenced in Shouting ‘Mortality’ as I Drown (1973/performed for camera 1977). Many of these images were produced in a collaborative process far beyond mere documentation, and Bean often later re-engaged with the images, attacking the printed photographs with flame or corrosives or cutting up, collaging and inscribing them.
One series of work, investigations of concepts of ‘erasure’, spans decades, and is first evidenced in the early 1970s in a partially paint-obliterated photograph, Painting Myself Out, where Bean is depicted in the process of ‘whiting’ herself out of the image. More recent is an installation of self-portraits that she later erased with white paint in a performance titled Unpaintings in 2016, leaving only a few randomly selected surviving portraits as reminders of this loss of ‘self’. A film of this event is one of several of Bean’s films on view during this exhibition.
Born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1950, Anne Bean moved to England in 1969 after studying Fine Art in Cape Town, and at Reading University, where she graduated in 1973. While at Reading, she founded Moody and the Menstruators – self-described as a ‘musical and performance art group which linked the worlds of fine art, pop and rock music, subcultural fashion and avant-gardist tactics’ – taking on the gender shifting, wild personae of ‘Anne Archy’. It was the start of Bean’s collaborative engagements with other artists and participants in her activities. The roll-call of her collaborators included the pyrotechnic sculptor, Stephen Cripps (1952-1982) and the anarchic Kipper Kids. With the percussionist and performance artist, Paul Burwell (1949-2007) and sculptor Richard Wilson, Bean formed the Bow Gamelan Ensemble. During its existence (1983-1991), they produced extraordinary site-specific art installation events, often on the Thames, involving explosions and fireworks while they performed using instruments improvised from industrial objects.
Other friendships with artists are illuminated in Bean’s moving film Night Chant (2015), which explores what she describes as ‘the shared communication that performance practice offered, particularly to women artists in the 1970s’. In a brief period before the making of this work, five of her artist contemporaries died in quick succession: Monica Ross, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alexis Hunter, Sue Arrowsmith and Rita Harris; and this film is a response to that loss.
Guy Brett wrote in 2006 that ‘reading Anne Bean’s CV is like following a continuous performance, a continuous response to the world …a “magification” of the world. The panoply of places she has worked, times of the day or night, interiors, exteriors, seasons, publics, materials, concepts, tools, is astonishing: all shifting but all attuned to unique situations.’ In 2008, Bean was awarded the Legacy: Thinker in Residenceaward by Tate Research and the Live Art Development Agency. Last year, the book, Anne Bean: Self Etc, an extensive and substantial survey of her practice, was published in a collaboration between Intellect Books and the Live Art Development Agency.
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5. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at The Untitled Space, Manhattan, opening June 6
IRL: Investigating Reality
A Group Show Curated by Indira Cesarine
OPENING RECEPTION: June 6, 2019
PREVIEW (by invitation) 4pm – 6pm OPENING RECEPTION 6pm – 9pm EXHIBITION ON VIEW
June 6 – June 21st, 2019
THE UNTITLED SPACE
45 Lispenard Street Unit 1W New York, NY 10013
The Untitled Space is pleased to present “IRL: Investigating Reality” a group exhibition of 46 contemporary artists exploring what “IRL” means to them in today’s digital world. Curated by gallery director Indira Cesarine, “IRL: Investigating Reality” will open on June 6th, and run through June 21st, 2019. The group show examines themes of “real life” and “reality” versus fictional, internet or idealized worlds through a wide array of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, video art, and textiles. Each artist reveals their own personal vision of “reality” with works in the show juxtaposing the mundanities of everyday life, addressing themes of “authenticity” versus edited, retouched or fictitious realities, nature versus cyber constructed content, as well as exploring the intersection of digital and physical worlds.
Robin Tewes, All I Want Is My Equal, Oil on Panel, 22″x18″
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Aela Labbe, Alexandra Rubinstein, Alison Jackson, Alison Stinely, Anne Barlinckhoff, Annika Connor, Becky Flanders, Buket Savci, Camilla Marie Dahl, Cara Lien, Chelsie Kirkey, Colin Radcliffe, Daniela Kovacic, Danielle Lessnau, Dara Vandor, Dolly Faibyshev, Elisa Garcia de la Huerta, Erin Victoria Axtell, Fahren Feingold, Giulia Livi, Grace Graupe Pillard, Gray Swartzel, Indira Cesarine, Jave Yoshimoto, Jeanette Hayes, Jennifer Dwyer, Jessica Lancaster, Karen Bystedt, Karen Mainenti, Kat Toronto, Katie Commodore, Katy Itter, Leah Schrager, Linda Friedman Schmidt, Logan White, Mairi-Luise Tabbakh, Mary Henderson, Mary Tooley Parker, Michael Liani, Nichole Washington, Reisha Perlmutter, Robin Tewes, Sarah Leahy, Sydney Kleinrock, Tara Lewis, and Tracy Kerdman.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
“We live in a culture so immersed in social media, it is often impossible to distinguish reality from the edited, retouched, fantasy lives led online. As we become more dependent on the digital world, we equally crave authenticity and the truth. “IRL” which is an abbreviation of the term “in real life” is a phrase that emerged in the early days of the internet when people saw a need to distinguish things that were presented online versus the realities of offline or the “real world”. The expression “irl” has become increasingly relevant as apps and edited realities created for likes shift the paradigm towards unrealistic and often unobtainable virtual worlds that defy reality with perfect holidays, perfect bodies, cyber romances, and artificial followers. I felt it was time to get back to “IRL” and invited an international selection of emerging and established contemporary artists of all genders and generations to “investigate reality.”
THE UNTITLED SPACE
45 LISPENARD STREET UNIT 1W NYC 10013 EMAIL: INFO@UNTITLED-SPACE.COM
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6. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, at ONCA, Brighton, UK, June 8
HOW ARE YOU?
Durational #Sergina performance by Elly Clarke & Vladimir Bjelicic at ONCA, Brighton, 8th June 2019
With the support of Chase Feminist Network, #Sergina – embodied by both me and Vladimir Bjeclic – takes over ONCA to present a new performance entitled HOW ARE YOU? to reflect upon the aggressive, increasingly capitalist nature of this question and other questions that inevitably follow. These include:
What do you feel?
What are you feeling right now?
What feeling do you evoke?
How do you make others feel?
Can you be good to people?
Can you make people feel good?
Can you heal people, can you heal yourself?
Can you be reformative?
Can you be positive?
Can you be hopeful?
What is unity?
Can you make us feel in solidarity?
Can we make each other feel good?
Can we be reformative together?
Is our collective conscious still intact?
The performance will take place over Three Acts. This is the first time Clarke and Bjeličić will have performed together in the same physical space.
#Sergina would like you to join in – with questions, answers, actions, and images. Voyeurs, participants, fans, spies and cyborgs of all species welcome.
Free entry. No need to book.
Bring your phone.
More info HERE. https://onca.org.uk/event/how-are-you-sergina/
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7. Mark Mendel, FF Alumn, at The Mount, Lenox, MA, thru Oct. 27
Stance by Albert Paley
An Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
June 1 – October 27, 2019
The Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA
2019
SculptureNow
P.O. Box 600
Becket MA 01223
Opening Celebration
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:30-4:00 Meet the Artists and their sculptures
4:00-5:30 Reception on Terrace
4:30 Opening Remarks by
Joseph C. Thompson, Director, MASS MoCA
Mark Attebery
Peter Barrett
Barney Bellinger
Ricky Bernstein
Ashley Blalock
Dove Bradshaw
William Brayton
William Carlson
Joe Carpineto
Joe Chirchirillo
Peter Dellert
Anthony Garner
Ann Jon
Fitzhugh Karol
Justin Kenney
Peter Kirkiles
Madeleine Lord
Philip Marshall
Thomas Matsuda
Mark Mendel
Susan Miller
Gary Orlinsky
Albert Paley
Judith Peck
Chris Plaisted
Antoinette Schultze
Leon Smith
Michael Thomas
Bill Tobin
Robin Tost
Erika Zekos
Free Artist Guided Tours: July 14 • August 11
September 15 • October 13 • 1:30-3:00
sculpturenow.org edithwharton.org
(413) 358-3884 (413) 551-5111
The SculptureNow fund is a project of the Berkshire Taconic
Community Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit corporation
registered in Massachusetts
becket, MA
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8. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Anita Rogers Gallery, Manhattan, June 4
ON TUESDAY 4 JUNE 2019 FROM 4 -7 PM
THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE IN BEIJING
WE WILL BE HANDWRITING CHARTER 08,
THE HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENT
CREATED BY LIU XIAOBO IN 2008
FOR WHICH HE WAS AWARDED
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 2010
AND FOR WHICH HE PAID WITH HIS LIFE IN PRISON.
COPIES OF THE DOCUMENT
AND PENS AND PAPER WILL BE PROVIDED.
YOU AND FRIENDS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN.
ANITA ROGERS GALLERY
15 GREENE STREET, SOHO, NEW YORK
MORGAN O’HARA
www.handwritngtheconstitution.com
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9. Cassils, Deb Margolin, Eileen Myles, Laura Parnes, Sarah Schulman, Ed Woodham, FF Alumns, receive MacDowell Fellowships
May 21, 2019 at 3:00pm
MACDOWELL AWARDS MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN FELLOWSHIPS TO NINETY-THREE ARTISTS
The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, has awarded more than $1 million in fellowships to ninety-three artists who hail from twenty-five states and seven countries. Recipients will be invited to the colony for a period of up to eight weeks; they will each be provided with accommodations, meals, and studio space.
The cohort includes composer Fred Hersch; experimental filmmakers Shon Kim and Mitch McCabe; performance artists Cassils and Michelle Ellsworth; playwright Max Posner; visual artists Becca Albee, Heidi Hahn, and Victoria-Idongesit Udondian; and writers Ross Gay, Suki Kim, Amitava Kumar, Eileen Myles, and Sarah Schulman.
The MacDowell Colony was founded by composer Edward MacDowell and pianist Marian MacDowell in 1907 to nurture the arts by supporting creatives in various disciplines. The next application deadline for a MacDowell fellowship is September 15, which is for the winter and spring 2020 residency period.
A complete list of the program’s new fellows is as follows:
Architects: Viola Ago, Matt Burgermaster, Erik Herrmann, Michael Jefferson, Aaron Jones, Suzanne Lettieri, and Rosalyne Shieh
Composers: Philippe Bodin, Eric Chasalow, Fred Hersch, Martha Mooke, Matthew Ricketts, Joshua Stamper, Moses Sumney, and Dalit Warshaw
Filmmakers: Sam Ashby, Andrea Bussmann, Amelia Evans, Shon Kim, Mitch McCabe, Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez, Dani Restack, Sheilah Restack, Albert Serra Juanola, J.P. Sniadecki, and Leslie Tai
Interdisciplinary Artists: Cassils, Michelle Ellsworth, Samantha Johns, Devin Kenny, Neil Mendoza, Laura Parnes, and Ziyang Wu
Theater Artists: Franky Gonzalez, Stephen Gregg, Kathryn Hamilton, Candrice Jones, Melissa Li, Deb Margolin, Sylvan Oswald, Max Posner, Ed Woodham, and Kit Yan
Visual Artists: Beverly Acha, Becca Albee, Yewen Dong, Joshua Dorman, Jane Fine, Heidi Hahn, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Em Rooney, Laurel Sparks, Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, and Anna Wehrwein
Fiction Writers: Coryn Brown, Joseph Cassara, Ashley Davidson, Madeline ffitch, Janalyn Guo, Catherine Kudlick, Amitava Kumar, Aryn Kyle, Stephen Macone, Lydia Martín, Deena Mohamed, Sigrid Nunez, Eric Sam Orner, Katy Simpson Smith, and Esme Wang
Poets: Kristen Case, Ross Gay, Joan Larkin, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Victoria Ramírez, Iliana Rocha, Charif Shanahan, Tsering Wangmo, and translator Patty Crane
Nonfiction Writers: Jessica Dawson, Elizabeth de Souza, David France, Darcy Frey, Jason Katzenstein, Suki Kim, Francesca Mari, Ben Mauk, Eileen Myles, Matthew Ortile, Micah Perks, Sarah Schulman, and Danielle Spencer
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10. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Club Cumming, Manhattan, June 10, and more
Weirdo Night, New York show, Workshop in Brooklyn and mœre
Dearest fans and victims,
Lots to plan on and not show up to. Sorry for the long productive email.
Weirdo Night Special Anniversary Special!
By popular request I will be performing Handbag classic “Bags” where I talk to a bunch of bags. Performance art is e-z don’t let anyone tell you diffnt.
June 2nd at Zebulon with fucked line up!
Malik Gaines, Amelia Bande, Kate Berlant, Charles Galin
7PM Zebulon TICKETS
New show coming to Club Cumming June 10th!
jokes include checking in on your New Year’s resolutions, abortion and it’s rites, mammogram as panini machine, new songs “Out and Proud to be Binary” and “I Prefer to Stay In Me Bubble.”
June 10th, Club Cumming NYC, 7PM TICKETS
beautiful poster made by brilliant comedian and drawer Lorelei Ramirez
JUNE 9th! WORKSHOP ALERT!
Writing for a Performance Persona – learn the tools of the trade I invented.
at Wendy’s Subway – June 9th
1-4PM REGISTER ONLINE
I will be hanging out at the Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair, June 8th at Abron’s Art Center – signing copies my new self help novella,
Lesbian Separatist Colony Mad Libs.
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Los Angeles, California 90026
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11. Rachel Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Craig Kull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, thru July 13
Rachel Rosenthal – Early Works on Paper
SAT JUNE 1 @ 5-7pm RECEPTION
JUNE 1 – JULY 13, 2019
CRAIG KRULL GALLERY
www.CraigKrullGallery.com
RACHEL ROSENTHAL – EARLY WORKS ON PAPER
RECEPTION: SATURDAY JUNE 1 5-7PM
JUNE 1 – JULY 13. 2019
Rachel Rosenthal was one of the key figures in West Coast performance art, creating works that combined theatre, dance, multi-media staging and live music. Born in Paris in 1926 of Russian Jewish parents, she studied at the High School of Music and Art in New York, and then the Sorbonne in Paris. Moving back and forth between the two artistic capitals, she studied with Hans Hoffman, danced with Merce Cunningham, and formed relationships with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. A little known aspect of her early career centers on her study of engraving and etching with the English artist, Stanley William Hayter. Hayter founded his printmaking studio in Paris in 1927 and, after moving to No. 17 rue Campagne-Premiere in 1933, it became known as Atelier 17. In Paris, Hayter worked with artists such as Picasso and Giacometti and when he moved to New York during WWII, he worked with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and others. The circle of artists studying with Hayter with whom Rosenthal became friends included, Terry Haass, Wifredo Lam and Pierre Courtin. These artists exhibited their etchings and engravings together at the IX Salon de Mai in Paris in 1953. The exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will include Rosenthal’s works from this period, as well as works by those of her circle with whom she traded prints. Rosenthal moved to Los Angeles in 1955, becoming involved with the art scene surrounding Ferus Gallery; that same year, she created the experimental “Instant Theatre,” performing and directing it for ten years. She played a major role in the Women’s Art Movement in LA, co-founding Womanspace Gallery in 1973. Her place in performance art is legendary and her influence vast. She died in Los Angeles at the age of 88 in 2015.
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SANTA MONICA, CA 90404
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12. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, at 2019 New York Electronic Art Festival, Governor’s Island, NY, through August 11
The 2019 New York Electronic Art Festival
[June 1 – Aug 11]
A Summer Celebration of Cutting-Edge Electronic Art – Calendar
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces the seventh New York Electronic Art Festival held
biennially on Governor’s Island and other venues in New York City. Presented in partnership with the
Trust for Governors Island, ISSUE Project Room, Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, Urban Field
Station and others. The festival is a summer exhibition of new media art and a series of concerts, artist
talks and workshops from June 1 through August 11, 2019.
Curated by the Harvestworks Arts Committee, the festival challenges the audience through the presentation of artworks created by
artists of different genders, different cultures and different points of view. All have in common new works that comment, criticize and
make us question technology.
The 2019 Festival theme is Physical and Digital: multifaceted visions in electronic art, an exhibition with Julia Sinelnikova, Amy
Youngs, LoVid, ahra Poonawala, Alexander Hahn, Susie Ibarra, Michael Schumacher, Morehshin Allahyari and Amanda Gutiérrez.
The first two weekends will feature the Russian Sound Art Showcase (RSAS) – a compilation of multi-channel Sound Art works of Russian
sound artists, active in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
Building 10a / Nolan Park / Governors Island
Open to the Public: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Holiday Mondays
from 11 am – 5 pm June 1 thru August 11, 2019
CFL : : CODED FLUORESCENT L IGHT
Alexander Hahn
CFL: Coded Fluorescent Light is a video triptych where the random flickering of a failing light bulb in a Varanasi garage is dragooned into sync with various visual and aural codes to deliver a fast-paced recital from the Rigveda, the sacred book of Hinduism. MAY Surya guard us out of heaven, and Vata from the firmament, and Agni from terrestrial spots.
THOU Savitar whose flame deserves hundred libations,be thou pleased:from failing lightning keep us safe.
MAY Savitar the God,and may Parvata also give us sight;may the Creator give us sight.
GIVE sight unto our eye, give thou our bodies sight that they may see: may we survey, discern this world.
THUS, Surya, may we look on thee, on thee most lovely to behold, see clearly with the eyes of men.
Alexander Hahn (b. 1954, Rapperswil, Switzerland) has worked at the forefront of the electronic and digital media arts in Europe and America since the mid 1970s, integrating the time-based forms of video with practices of computer imagery and print, animation, virtual reality, installation, and writing. A graduate of the Zurich University of Arts with a degree in art education (1979), he participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York (1981). He lives and works in Zürich and New York.
www.alexanderhahn.com
PRESS QUOTES
“Hahn’s method of engaging with the very small, the fleeting, and the momentary, is part of an intimate, deeply personal and reflexive
practice that offers a way to reproach the world through this change of scale – a world in miniature – and to reflect on this
strangeness, vastness and beauty of what is found within the context of a changing anthropogenic worldview … His work draws from
history, art, architecture, science and the labyrinths of western knowledge – its machines of sight and thought – and shuttles uneasily
between a past and a future time. In his works the contemporary world – mental, physical, psychic, social, and geographical – appears
to exist eerily between archaeology and mind map …”
Cathie Payne, in Miniature and Series: The Re-invention of the Epistolary Form in the Work of Alexander Hahn in Digital Media and Documentary – Antipodean
Approaches (Springer, 2018)
“It is this luminous realm of dream that Hahn’s great art of light and shadow rediscovers, using video likethose infinite eyes which night has opened in us (Novalis) … The terrains explored by Hahn are not those of the terrestrial globe anymore, but rather those of the ocular globe, the inward looking hemisphere of the eye.”
Dominique Radrizzani, in Astral Memories of a Flying Man (Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2002)
CFL was shot in India during a ProHelvetia artist residency. The Lottery Endowment Fund of the Canton St. Gallen generously contributed to the production.
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13. The Dark Bob, FF Alumn, at the Smithsonian Archive of American Art
The Dark Bob (FF Alum) has been inducted into the Smithsonian Archive of American Art for his early collaborations with The Light Bob as BOB & BOB. The infamous, Los Angeles based groundbreaking performance art duo who also did paintings, drawings, record albums, films, videos and more.
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14. Yao Ruilin at C’mon Everybody, Brooklyn, opening June 7
Hello Friends,
Ali Rossi here! I am very excited to share news of an upcoming Olympia exhibition with you.
Olympia is a social-enterprise/art platform dedicated to promoting gender-marginalized artists. Since our 2015 establishment, Olympia has hosted 18 exhibitions, representing more than 60 artists.
Please join Olympia for the opening of 掀起Veil at our favorite gallery/bar C’mon Everybody.
https://www.cmoneverybody.com/
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7th, 7 to 10pm
Exhibition Dates: June 4 – June 29
For the last three months, Yao Ruilin and I have been collaborating closely, carving out a body of her photographic journey that directly investigates Ruilin’s Chinese identity, while also questioning the significance of personal-histories as global citizens of an atemporal world. The result of this endeavor?掀起Veil, Yao’s first solo exhibition.
RSVP HERE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olympia-presents-yao-ruilin-veil-opening-reception-tickets-62236192126
We would love for you to join us and celebrate Yao’s success as well as this exciting moment in our curatorial journey!
It’s a Friday opening; y’all have no excuses!
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Kindly,
Ali Rossi
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15. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online and more
Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online “Let Them Talk” streaming TV Talk Show. Interviewed by Paul DeRienzo about Rosenthal’s ideas re “Sex and the Modern Homo Sapien” and forthcoming book, “Dual to the Finish: Erotic Poetry of Love, Chagrin and Irony.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3qdipTA1AlM&feature=share
Barbara Rosenthal
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Skype: barbararosenthal
Twitter: @BRartistNYC
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16. Cheri Gaulke, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, FF Alumns, at ArcLight, Los Angeles, CA, June 11
Gloria’s Call
Tuesday, June 11, 8 pm
Slamdance Cinema Club at ArcLight Hollywood, Los Angeles
https://www.arclightcinemas.com/movie/arclight-presentsthe-professional-a-stevie?mc_cid=0d13fb4162&mc_eid=1d3313875d
“From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism.” Directed by Cheri Gaulke, Gloria’s Call won Best Documentary at Ann Arbor Film Festival; Best Art, Architecture + Design Short Film award at Newport Beach Film Festival; and was voted number two audience favorite at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. Hot Docs programmer Eileen Arandiga says this about the film: “Blending animation, interviews and a trippy soundscape, this is a fitting look at the life of radical academic and writer Gloria Feman Orenstein’s serendipitous life. She vividly conjures an alternative history of art, surrealism and eco-feminism in the 20th century, with lively anecdotes about Leonora Carrington, Méret Oppenheim and Jane Graverol, to name a few.”
Gloria’s Call was directed by Cheri Gaulke, produced by Cheryl Bookout, Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Christine Papalexis and Sue Maberry.
The special screening of Gloria’s Call at ArcLight Hollywood is presented by Slamdance Cinema Club, on Tuesday, June 11, 8pm, with Q&A with Gloria Orenstein and filmmakers. The short doc will be followed by the feature The Professional: A Stevie Blatz Story directed and produced by Daniel LaBarbera and Dylan Avery. “Eccentric 27 year old self-proclaimed entrepreneur Stevie Blatz wrestles with some of life’s basic challenges. While gaining local notoriety as a wacky entertainer in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Stevie’s egregious spending habits are on full display, forcing him to move back into a toxic home with his mom and dad.”
Other Los Angeles screenings of Gloria’s Call:
June 8, 2pm, Handmade Puppet Dreams, Downtown Independent Theater, Los Angeles; June 29, 4:30pm, New Filmmakers Los Angeles, South Park Center.
Other June screenings in the US:
June 9, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL; June 29, Vidlings& Tapeheads FilmFestival, Detroit, MI.
For more info and links to tickets: www.gloriascall.com
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