Goings On: posted week of June 10, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. David Cale, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, now online
2. Laura Blacklow, FF Alumn, at Tufts University, Medford, MA, opening Sept. 5
3. Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, FF Alumns, at Circus Amok Loft, Brooklyn, June 11
4. Ted Berger, FF Alumn, at Urban Justice Center, Manhattan, June 20
5. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, at Belmont University, Nashville, TN, thru Sept. 6, and more
6. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, FF Alumn, in Sheridan Square, Manhattan, thru June 30
7. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, publishes new book
8. Susan Barron, FF Alumn, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, thru Sept. 2
9. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at whitehotmagazine.com
10. Alexander Hahn, Kay Hines, FF Alumns, at Deutsches Haus, NYU, Manhattan, opening June 14
11. Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
12. Regina Vater, FF Alumn, at Galerie Thumm, Berlin, Germany, thru Aug. 3
13. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, at Richard, Manhattan, June 11
14. Mama Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, June 21, and more
15. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at SevenDaysVT.com
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1. David Cale, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, now online
Please visit this link to the complete illustrated review. Text only follows below:
The first show I ever saw by David Cale happened to be his first solo piece produced in New York, “The Red Throats.” That was in 1987, and Cale, who was born in England, told the tale of Steven Weird, a young queer kid who lived in the world of his imagination, and in a world of violence. While Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, and others were the stars of that genre back then-which is to say, monologuists commenting on the underside of daily life-queer artists like Cale and the amazing Edgar Oliver told a different story, one in which different bodies got mangled, or were mangled by hope. Cale’s latest piece, “We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time” (at the Public, starting previews June 13), directed by Robert Falls and accompanied by a six-piece orchestra, is his sixth solo work. As in “The Red Throats,” Cale describes his parents’ fractious union, and the dreams of love and life that he fostered to survive it, including the cultivation of his voice as a singer and, thus, an artist.
– Hilton Als
Thank you.
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2. Laura Blacklow, FF Alumn, at Tufts University, Medford, MA, opening Sept. 5
Laura Blacklow’s adult pop-up book, “Uncovering Eden” will be in the Bookworks exhibit at Aidkeman Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA. , August 22-December 15, 2019. Opening reception is Thursday, September 5, 6-8:00 p.m..
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3. Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, FF Alumns, at Circus Amok Loft, Brooklyn, June 11
Tuesday, June 11!! Free! Free! Free!
Tuesday, June 11
7:30pm doors
8:00pm show
At the Circus Amok Loft
53 South 11th Street, #5A
(Between Wythe & Berry)
Free Free Free!
RSVPs Encouraged
THE EICHELBURGLERS:
an Ethyl Eichelburger cover band!
Featuring Lee Free, Heather Green and Jennifer Miller!
with dance by
Jennifer Monson
Installment 4: sink it (with Niall Jones)
and stories by
Lee Houck presenting “Crying Frodo Live”
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4. Ted Berger FF Alumn, at Urban Justice Center, Manhattan, June 20
New Yorkers for Culture and Arts is proud to honor and celebrate cultural activists Ted Berger* of NYCreate and Catherine MBali Green-Johnson of Arts East NY for their tireless work on behalf of arts and culture in every neighborhood of our city.
A reception will be held at the Urban Justice Center on Thursday, June 20th at 5:30pm, hosted by the cultural advocacy group New Yorkers for Culture & Arts (NY4CA). The reception will include drinks, bites, performances and presentations. Guests will also be able to take in the powerful photo exhibit SHOT… 101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America by Kathy Shorr, which is part of Art@UJC, an initiative that promotes social justice based art. We hope you’ll join us!
New Yorkers for Culture & Arts
Honor Cultural Activist
Ted Berger and Catherine MBali Green-Johnson
Thursday, June 20th @ 5:30pm
Urban Justice Center 40 Rector Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10006
RSVP HERE
About New Yorkers for Culture & Arts
Through broad coalition-based advocacy, public messaging, research and education, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts aims to ensure a vibrant future for culture and arts that will benefit all New Yorkers. Our coalition of cultural groups of every size is committed to securing sustainable government resources and advancing strong public policy to support cultural organizations as well as artists and the cultural workforce at large.
About The Honorees
Ted Berger is Executive Director Emeritus of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) where he began in 1973 as the country’s first statewide Artists-in-Schools Coordinator, becoming Executive Director in 1980 until retiring in 2005.
Ted helped to create many national and local initiatives, including ArtsConnection, Studio in a School, the NYC CETA Artists Project, the Montauk /Orcas Conferences for Support for Individual Artists. ArtsWire, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Urban Artist Initiative/NYC- part of LINC (Leveraging Investment in Creativity), Grantmakers in the Arts ‘Individual Artist Committee, and NYCreates.
A Trustee of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, he serves on other boards and committees, currently including: ArtsConnection, Center for West Park, CUE Art Foundation, Cathy Weis Projects, Design Trust for Public Space, HB Studio/Playwrights’ Foundation, and the National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER.) Considered one of the country’s foremost advisors on living artist support, Ted consults, writes, and speaks extensively on artists and arts/cultural policy.
Ted is also a board member of New Yorkers for Culture and the Arts (NY4CA.) As one of the founders of one of its predecessors, the NYC Arts Coalition, he is grateful for the seminal influences of many colleagues, friends, and artists who shaped, prodded, and challenge him – and us all – to keep pushing, especially Bill Aguado, Holly Block, Randy Bourscheidt, Cornelia Carey, Kinshasha Conwill, Anne Dennin, Jane Delgado, Jenny Dixon, Carol Fineberg, Sara Garretson, Agnes Gund, Linda Janklow, Trudy Kramer, Arnold Lehman, Ginny Louloudes, Nathan Lyons. Wai Look, Diane Mataraza, David Mendoza, Greg Millard, Fran Richard, Norma Munn, Jane Remer, Cynthia Ries, Amy Schwartzman, Shelly Slovin, Steve Tennen. Charlene Victor, Patrice Walker Powell, Martha Wilson.
Their spirit and commitment – with so many others – past, present, and future – make a major difference to free expression, arts and cultural advocacy, and greater social and economic justice in ever-challenging, crazy times.
Catherine MBali Green-Johnson is the Founder and Executive Director of ARTs East New York Inc. (AENY), a non-profit arts organization whose mission is to provide access, affordability and exposure to the arts for the East New York community while using the arts as a tool for social change. Founded in 2009, AENY has served more than 10,000 constituents and 1 million dollars in charitable assets under management to date, is the only arts CBO in the East New York, Brooklyn area, one of the largest arts specific providers of services to youth, and among the community’s top organizations.
Her innovative and thought-provoking approach to programming has gained the attention of media outlets such as The New York Times, New York Daily News as well as Good Morning America, and garnered support from Pratt Institute, Union Square Awards, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2015, alongside the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Green – who has background in retail management and previously launched her own clothing line – spearheaded the opening of the reNew Lots Market and Artist Incubator, a pop-up marketplace and artist incubator located on formerly vacant lots and featuring food and retail from local entrepreneurs, an artist incubator and exhibition space for local artists, and diverse programming and events for community members.
Hosted by the NY4CA Board of Directors: Co-Chairs Jennifer Wright Cook and James King, Randall Bourscheidt, John Calvelli, Jacqueline Davis, Suzy Delvalle, Lane Harwell, Andrea Louie, Mike Marinello, Sara Marinello, Eve Moros Ortega, Eric Pryor, Voza Rivers, Shadawn Smith, and Michael Unthank
*Ted Berger is a founding and current board member of NY4CA
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5. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, at Belmont University, Nashville, TN, thru Sept. 6, and more
My Blue Heaven
MAY 20 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
LEU ART GALLERY
On the Campus of Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Susan Bee will be showing 15 new paintings at this solo exhibition.
Bee is a painter of scenes and screens. She borrows vignettes from life and creates dramatic images that are inspired by peak moments of imagined narratives. She is interested in the emotional forces that pulse through her canvases. Sometimes they are represented as idyllic reveries of seashore and waves – such as the depiction of a small boat on the water suggesting a romantic image of the self and psyche tossed by the fates. At other times, they may take the form of a colorful still life of fruits and flowers. The richness of Bee’s imagery — an eclectic potpourri of collaged and appropriated figures and forms – combines iconography that is both invented and observed.
The blend of remade and remembered is so strong that viewers may even recognize images in these canvases; this is because they are familiar by association. Bee’s works are both homage and confrontation: they are in dialogue with, and borrow motifs from, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Marsden Hartley, Chaim Soutine, Casper David Friedrich, and other visionaries of the romantic and the sublime. Susan Bee’s compositions also speak vividly across their range of references, which include movie stills and canonical paintings, pop culture images of fantasy and diary, and reportage and widescreen drama.
Artist Talk And Reception
My Blue Heaven will open in the Leu Art Gallery on May 20, 2019 and run through September 6, 2019. The official opening, artist talk and reception will occur during the Academy week on Monday, July 15, from 4:30 – 6:30 PM in the Leu Art Gallery in the Lila D. Bunch Library on the Belmont campus. Susan Bee will present at Artist Talk at 5:15 PM on Monday, July 15, and will present an exclusive workshop for TAA attendees only on Tuesday, July 16.
My Blue Heaven is co-sponsored by the Belmont University Department of Art and is made possible by generous gifts from the Belmont University Department of Art, Solie Fott, and the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation.
and
A group show of A.I.R. artists at the NADA House
Colonels Row, House 403, 2nd Floor, Governors Island, NYC
May 2-August 4
Participating artists include Tomoko Abe, Susan Bee, Liz Biddle, Daria Dorosh, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Maxine Henryson, Luca Molnar, Jayanthi Moorthy, Aphrodite Navab, Ada Potter, Ann Schaumburger, Negin Sharifzadeh, Joan Snitzer, Susan Stainman, Erica Stoller, and Jane Swavely.
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6. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, FF Alumn, in Sheridan Square, Manhattan, thru June 30
As the leader in its field, Public Art Fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in New York City and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences with art and the urban environment.
“Untitled”, 1989 On View This June
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and WorldPride in New York City, we’re proud to present Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled”, 1989 for the month of June. The iconic billboard work was organized on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion by Public Art Fund and now, thirty years later, the work is installed in its original location: Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, above Village Cigars and across from the historic Stonewall Inn bar.
The first in the body of billboard works by Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled”, 1989 presents specific references to the AIDS crisis and the struggle for gay rights. In an artist statement from 1989, Gonzalez-Torres states: “This is not an ad; I don’t expect it to be readable while speeding down Seventh Avenue to the Holland Tunnel. I hope the public will stop for an instant to reflect on the real and abstract relationships of the different dates.” Gonzalez-Torres had a deep belief in the right for individual viewers to interpret the work on their own – we hope you are able to experience this impactful work while exploring New York City’s Pride celebrations!
Lead Support for Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “Untitled”, 1989 is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Susan & Jonathan Bram, Donald A. Capoccia & Tommie L. Pegues, and Google. Additional support is provided by Ann & Mel Schaffer and Anonymous.
Public Art Fund is supported by the generosity of individuals, corporations, and private foundations including lead support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, along with major support from Booth Ferris Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, The Marc Haas Foundation, Hartfield Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, and The Silverweed Foundation.
Public Art Fund exhibitions and programs are also supported in part with public funds from government agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.PUBLICARTFUND.ORG OR EMAIL INFO@PUBLICARTFUND.ORG
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7. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, publishes new book
“Instrumentarium” is now available from Black Scat Books! This delightful volume collects the drawings of imaginary musical instruments I contributed monthly to “Le Scat Noir,” plus many previously unpublished. Among the 180 selected here are such useful inventions as the Painpipes, the Sprinkler Trombone, the Clarimarionette, the Flugelflute, and the Cavalry Harmonium.
As our culture grows ever more reductive and conformist, this celestial orchestra brings to you the almost forgotten pleasures of musical variety, deep in your mind’s ear. Available from blackscatbooks(dot)com or Amazon.
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8. Susan Barron, FF Alumn, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, thru Sept. 2
SUSAN BARRON
THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
The Art of Collage & Assemblage, curated by Dr. Ann Percy.
June 8th – September 2nd.
The PERLEMAN BUILDING. Included with museum admission. First Sunday of every month is Pay-What-You-Wish.
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9. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at whitehotmagazine.com
Mark Bloch has written a new piece, a Q and A with Brazilian artist Debora Hirsch who is living in Milan. They discuss her Paris show, “Somewhere under a vast solid dome”
Debora Hirsch at Galerie Dix9, Paris
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/hirsch-at-galerie-dix9-paris/4300
An excerpt:
Mark Bloch: One description of your art refers to “the colonial period in America, particularly in Brazil and the digital colonialism that reigns in the contemporary world.” What is meant by the term “digital colonization”?
Debora Hirsch: Our data is being collected, analyzed. We are being profiled, controlled by mechanisms that become sophisticated over time. Big companies are selling our data to other companies and politicians, and this data is being used in several ways to influence our behavior and thoughts.
MB: And so you see parallels between that and other areas of colonization? In the “New World” or say, in Indonesia or Africa?
DH: I am focusing on the colonization of the Americas, especially Brazil, where the legacy of the Colonial period is extremely determinant of the way our society is structured today. And then I draw parallels between it and the digital colonization. For my work Firmamento, I built an archive of more than 4.000 images and indeed part of this archive relates to the colonization of the Americas imagery, part relates to graphic visualizations of algorithms that elaborates on our data.
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10. Alexander Hahn, Kay Hines, FF Alumns, at Deutsches Haus, NYU, Manhattan, opening June 14
the opening reception of
Art & Friends
Friday, June 14, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents Art and Friends,
an intimate summer show featuring works by associates and
friends using different mediums.
The show will run from June 14 – September 14, 2019
Participating visual artists:
Jon Dee
Doug Eisenstark
Alexander Hahn
Kay Hines
Bruno Jakob
Regula Rüegg
Silvelin von Scanzoni
Hans Witschi
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11. Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Dear art lovers and media colleagues:
My article about the bold, colorful, soulful paintings of the American outsider artist Mary T. Smith (1905-1995) has just been published in HYPERALLERGIC.
Mary T. Smith: I WE OUR, a rare, in-depth showing of Smith’s works, has just opened at Shrine, a gallery in downtown Manhattan’s Lower East Side district, and for admirers of the creations of the most original self-taught artists, this is an exhibition that should not be missed. It will be on view through July 28.
Smith was one of a group of visionary autodidacts of African descent from the Deep South of the United States whose art-making became known several decades ago thanks to the pioneering research of William S. Arnett and his collaborators. In the early 2000s, they published their findings, including biographies of these artists, in Souls Grown Deep: African-American Vernacular Art, an informative, two-volume encyclopedia. Since that time, Smith’s works have popped up at art fairs and in group exhibitions, but larger, focused showings of her art like the one Shrine is now presenting have been less frequently seen.
Mary T. Smith spent her life in rural, southwestern Mississippi. Because she was deaf, she was often assumed to have suffered from some kind of developmental impairment. In fact, she was an alert, active, capable person who used cast-off lengths of corrugated metal to make sheds, tables, and benches in the big yard surrounding her humble home. She painted many of their surfaces, along with stand-alone metal sheets of varying sizes, to create a large art environment that expressed her vision of a world blessed by God’s benevolence and grace.
Like the roadside billboards that were inescapably visible from her property, the graphic character of her painted messages was simple and emphatic.
Smith’s palette often includes black and red, set against white or brightly colored backgrounds. A natural Pop colorist, occasionally she ditched her signature dark outlines, instead using yellow or other bright hues to shape her central motifs and create energetic compositions.
A fine selection of Smith’s paintings is on view in the Shrine exhibition.
You can find my article about this artist and this new gallery show here:
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this critical report.
I send you all best wishes…
EDWARD M. GÓMEZ
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12. Regina Vater, FF Alumn, at Galerie Thumm, Berlin, Germany, thru Aug. 3
This exhibition presents works on paper from 1961 to 1981 by eight groundbreaking female artists: Jo Baer,Teresa Burga, Judy Chicago, Beatriz González, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Anna Oppermann, Barbara Rossi, and Regina Vater.
The Oxford dictionary defines the word shero as: A woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities; a heroine, ‘what an amazing experience to be able to meet your shero’ ‘she is undoubtedly one of my generation’s most iconic and influential sheroes’.
Surprisingly, the word first appeared in the mid 19th century and must be linked to the Suffragette movement.
It was only fifty years ago that, lifted by the feminist activism of the 1960s and 1970s, women became permanently and centrally involved in art theory and practice.
It was in that context, that American art historian Linda Nochlin first applied the renewed feminist perspective to art history, with her now legendary article “Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?”, published in Artnews in 1971. This article initiated an ongoing recovering of female artist, which were undervalued and ignored.
In 1981, Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker published Old Mistresses: Woman, Art and Ideology” which shifted the discussion away from looking at the exclusion of female artists towards a dismantling of what they still perceived as a dominantly male canon. In 1994 they asked the poignant question: “Can art history survive feminism?”
Now, almost half a century into the debate, we still find ourselves counting statistics of percentages of female participations in the art market in art institutions and exhibitions.
To me, at this point, it seems relevant to look at the strategies at the artistic languages that were invented by female artists in the paradigm-shifting decades oft he 1960s and 1970s in order to see how these languages resonate today. Undoubtedly what connects them all, is their courage and outstanding achievements, they ARE sheroes.
I chose to add the # to the title, not only to make a tongue in cheek reference to the fashionableness of the subject, (it is all over Instagram), but also to refer to the connectedness and international cross references that one can find between the various artistic positions. The choice of American, Latin American and European artist reflects the galleries current radius of activities. Another non Western and Afro-American selection might follow.
Jo Baer (*1929/USA) is a key figure of the Minimalism scene in NY of the 1960s. In the mid 1970s she announced her leaving Minimalism in her polarizing article “Why I am no longer an Abstract Artist”. She went to Ireland and turned to what she then called “Radical Figuration”. Her most recent series of paintings “The Land of The Giants” was presented at the Whitney Biennial in 2017.
Teresa Burga (*1935/Peru) is the most influential Peruvian artist of early Peruvian Pop as part of the Arte Nuevo Group as well as later Conceptual Art. After a hiatus of almost 30 years, her work was presented at Istanbul Biennial, Venice Biennial and most recently at the Radical Woman show touring from the Hammer Museum LA to Brooklyn Museum NY, to Pinakotheka in Sao Paulo. Burgas retrospective toured from the Migros Museum Zürich to the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover in 2018.
Judy Chicago (*1939/USA) is an icon of American feminist art, having played a central role in feminist art practice, she organized the famous installation “The Womanhouse” in 1972 in California. The Dinner Party ( 1974-1979) her most iconic artwork celebrates women throughout history and is permanently installed at the Brooklyn Museum in NY. Together with Teresa Burga, they both received the honorary doctorate of the Art Institute Chicago in 2017.
Beatriz González (*1938/Kolumbien) Growing up in Colombia in the 1940s and 50s, during an era of political unrest known as La Violencia (The Violence), González became a pivotal figure in the Latin-American art scene. In the late 1950s, González established an artistic practice strongly influenced by icon painting, art-historical motifs, local styles, and mass media. Since then, González’ work has been concerned with everyday scenes, public protest rituals, and scenes of collective pain in her home country, Colombia. The artist broke with the anonymous, impersonal style of Pop Art by addressing political events from the country’s recent history through personal and intimate matters. Gonzalez recently showed a large retrospective at Kunstwerke Berlin (2018) as well as at the PAMM in Miami, (2019). She was presented at the last documenta in Kassel.
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (*1951/ Belgium) Working across historical boundaries and artistic disciplines, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven explores different ways of describing the world, which she locates between the anti-these of eros and ratio. In terms of content, this is linked on the one hand to concepts oft he sexualized female body and on the other hand to a technoid algorithmic logic; formally this tension manifests itself in both computer generated and hand drawn images. Her work was recently presented at the touring retrospective of Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Kunstverein Hannover, MHKA Antwerp and Fridericianum Kassel.
Anna Oppermann (1940-1993/Germany) is a key figure of German Conceptual Art and Post-Conceptual Art. In the sixties, she developed her radial open and dialogical language. Her intricate assemblages of drawings, photographs and objects grew into large-scale over-boarding installations, for which the artist coined the phrase “Ensemble”. Currently her early works which preceded the ensembles and consisted of single images is being brought to greater attention. It is currently presented at Kunsthalle Bielefeld as well as at the Carpenter Centre for Visual Arts in Boston.
Barbara Rossi (*1940/USA) Rossi first exhibited her work in late-1960s Chicago where she became associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of young artists known for their shared interest in non-Western and popular imagery, their pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and their fondness for comic gags or puns. Rossi’s disorienting compositions, however, remain idiosyncratic even among an eclectic set of peers. Rossi turned inward to find a visual language independent of contemporary tendencies and art historical traditions. By the rules of a self-devised method, she started each work without any compositional plan and adopted an open and introspective process that allowed her “magic drawings” to emerge, unconsciously, through one form at a time.
Regina Vater (*1943, Brasil) In a research that encompasses the relationship between society, nature and technology, Regina Vater has developed a complex and sophisticated body of work over the last four decades that contributes significantly to the debate on the emergence of media ecology in the areas of art and contemporary life. The poetic, activist and ecological nature of her work has always been woven into trans-media impulses, where the language of each work presents itself as a further development of the artist interests. It is from these relations that emerge some of her reflections on the cultural constructions around the female body. Because of this, it is impossible not to mention her figure as protagonist within a whole generation of Brazilian women artists who conquered their institutional space, travelled, debated and persevered in a circuit still so dominated by men.
https://bthumm.de/category/news-upcoming/
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13. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, at Richard, Manhattan, June 11
Gustavo Prado in conversation with Saul Ostrow
Tuesday June 11, 6:30 pm
Richard
121 ORCHARD STREET NEW YORK NY10002
NEWYORK@GALERIERICHARD.COM +1 212 510 8181
WWW.GALERIERICHARD.COM TUE – SAT 11AM – 7PM
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14. Mama Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, June 21, and more
Join New York’s “Unofficial Commissioner of Public Spirit”, urban shaman Mama Donna Henes, for two sizzling celebrations of summer!
First, find Mama Donna at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, for her 44th Annual celebration of the exact solstice moment. Later, seek out her annual Sunset Solstice Celebration at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens.
Mama Donna has been performing public rituals in various locations around New York City for going-on 45 years!
Both events are free and family friendly. Bring kids, dogs, drums, and lots of spirit.
Event #1: Summer Solstice Celebration
June 21, 2019
Friday, 11:45 AM, event starts; Solstice moment, 11:54 AM
A sizzling ceremony to drum in the season of long light-filled days and heat. The shortest night of the year is traditionally spent forging our intentions for the summer season.
Where: Grand Army Plaza, Bailey Fountain, Park Slope, Exotic Brooklyn, NY
Cost: FREE
Contact:718-857-1343 cityshaman@aol.com
and
Event #2: Sunset Solstice Ceremony
June 21, 2019
Friday, 7:45 PM
A rousing ceremony to drum down the sun on the longest day of the year.
Where: Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, Queens, NY
Cost: FREE
Contact: 718-956-1819
www.socratessculpturepark.org
*Unofficial Commissioner of Public Spirit of NYC. – The New Yorker
* For 35 years Ms. Henes has been putting city folk in touch with Mother Earth. – The New York Times
* Part performance artist, part witch, part social director for planet earth. – The Village Voice
* A-List exorcist!” – NY Post
* The Original crystal-packing mama. – NY Press
Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman, contemporary ceremonialist, spiritual teacher, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She has published five books, a CD, an acclaimed Ezine and writes for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum. A noted ritual expert, she serves as a ritual consultant for the television and film industry. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancy in Exotic Brooklyn, NY where she works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every
imaginable occasion.
Read her on the
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Mama Donna’s Tea Garden &
Healing Haven
PO Box 380403
Exotic Brooklyn, New York, NY 11238-0403
Phone:
718-857-1343 / cityshaman@aol.com
www.donnahenes.com
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15. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at SevenDaysVT.com
Please visit this link to the complete illustrated article:
thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Harley Spiller
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