Contents for June 19, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at ICI – Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier/Occitanie, France, July 3-8, and more
2. Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumn, online and at Disruption Lab, Berlin, Germany, June 23
3. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaJX1uvRMc
4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at Teatro Casa de la Paz, Mexico City, MX, June 21
5. Yali Romagoza, FF Alumn, selected for 2023-24 EFA Studio Program
6. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, at 3 Dollar Bill, Brooklyn, June 20
7. Stefan Hayn, FF Alumn, at 48 Hours Neukölln, Berlin, Germany, June 24-25, and more
8. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, at Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria, thru June, and more
9. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at The Box, LA, CA, thru Aug. 12
10. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, now online at podcasters.spotify.com
11. Dakota Gearhart, FF Alumn, at Pier 17, Manhattan, thru July 2, and more
12. Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, announce a new edition
13. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, June 20
14. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at ArteFuse.com
15. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com and more
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1. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at ICI – Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier/Occitanie, France, July 3-8, and more
Julie Tolentino co-teaching with Lauren Bakst in the Uarts MFA Summer Program/ICI in Marseille, France, July 3-8, 2023
Julie Tolentino at ICI – Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier/Occitanie, Montpellier, FranceICI – Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier/Occitanie Montpellier, FranceCouvent des Ursulines, Bd Louis Blanc, 34000 Montpellier, France
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Julie Tolentino receives a Joyce Award 2023-2024 with SPACES and the LGBT Center of Cleveland, OH, on June 6, 2023
The 2023 Joyce Awards have been awarded to Regina Agu with the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago; Sonny Mehta with Mandala South Asian Performing Arts; Marisa Morán Jahn FF Alumn with the National Public Housing Museum; Marlena Myles with Franconia Sculpture Park; and Julie Tolentino with SPACES, Cleveland. This year’s awardees explore and strengthen connections between diverse communities, urban environments, and nature to imagine new forums for cultural exchange and assembly. The five awardee pairs of artists and organizations will each receive a grant of $75,000.
Interdisciplinary artist Julie Tolentino will build connections with a diverse group of LGBTQ+ community members in Cleveland to develop _UNTITLED_ (Queer Futures), an experimental performance installation within a larger gallery setting at SPACES that explores the possibilities of collectivity and intergenerational exchange. Deconstructing and defying normative approaches to political pressure and discrimination, the project proposes processes including local oral history interviews, archival research, and community workshops to build solidarity and radical forms of recognition between LGBTQ+ youth and elders. Participants will join Tolentino in conversation, creation, and reflection to inspire a vital series of artworks around their shared vision, dialogues, and values, working together to celebrate visionary queer life.
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Julie Tolentino recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant 2023 for “On Touch/The Pressure”, Philadelphia, PA as part of the School for Temporary Liveness programming (Spring 2023)
Links:
http://temporaryliveness.org/Link
Julie Tolentino
her/she/they – interchangeably
Thank you.
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2. Tobaron Waxman, FF Alumn, online and at Disruption Lab, Berlin, Germany, June 23
‘Gender Diasporist’, Disruption Network Lab (Group) symposium ‘Artivism: The Art of Subverting Power’, Kunstquartier Bethanien
Disruption Network Lab (Group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/315783472623707/
Berlin & Streaming: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/artivism/
https://www.disruptionlab.org/artivism#domination
Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki (Artists, US), Yasmine Boudiaf (Artist, DZ/UK), Tobaron Waxman (Artist & Curator, CA/US/PL). Moderated by Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver (Associate Professor of Digital Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, PL/UK/DK).
This panel connects three different experiences of the role of art in fighting systems of control and exploring technologies and bureaucracies of domination. The line-up conceptually combines Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki’s artistic works dealing with financial instruments, facial recognition, dataveillance technologies, social media misinformation and disinformation; Yasmine Boudiaf’s artistic research and practice on AI and algorithms of domination, and how technological biases are targeting minorities in the UK; Tobaron Waxman’s project “Gender Diasporist”, which traces his complex experience through Polish bureaucracy in the context of gender transitioning, theocracy and citizenship, examining ways in which the state determines the parameters of our bodies.
Thank you.
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3. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaJX1uvRMc
As director of the Provincetown Community Compact, I was invited by the City of Orlando, Florida to the commemoration of the Pulse nightclub massacre to install a special strand of Prayer Ribbons outside Orlando City Hall for a week marking the seventh anniversary on June 12, 2023.
In the invitation to The Compact, the Mayor of Orlando, Buddy Dyer writes: “The Prayer Ribbons were another reminder for our residents that communities around the nation were standing with us during a difficult time. Having the Prayer Ribbons return to Orlando would help our city continue the healing process and provide another way to celebrate the unity of our community and inclusive communities like Provincetown.”
My short, Grass-fed Capitalism (def-ssarG msilatipaC) will premier at the Provincetown International Film Festival June 14-18, 2023. The film captures the 40th anniversary of the Re-Rooters Day Ceremony held january 7, 2023.
https://www.provincetownfilm.org/films/grass-fed-capitalism-def-ssarg-msilatipac/
Jay Critchley
Thank you.
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4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at Teatro Casa de la Paz, Mexico City, MX, June 21
La Noche Eterna
a film by Coco Fusco
based on the testimony of Nestor Diaz de Villegas
June 21, Centro Cultural y Academico, Teatro Casa de la Paz, Cozumel No. 33, Col. Roma Norte, Alcaldia cuauhtemoc
Free Entrance.
Thank you.
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5. Yali Romagoza, FF Alumn, selected for 2023-24 EFA Studio Program
EFA Studios is thrilled to announce the six new artists joining our community of 75 jury-selected member artists. They will receive two-year renewable memberships to the EFA Studio Program which includes a private subsidized studio and access to professional development resources including studio visits, open studios and exhibitions.
Thank you to our thoughtful panelists: Rachel Vera Steinberg, Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, Jonathan Rider, Director at The FLAG Art Foundation, Nina Mdivani, Critic and Curator, Jackie Klempay, Owner and Director of SITUATIONS, Eva Mayhabal Davis, Co-Director of Transmitter.
Please welcome:
Pamela Council
Noormah Jamal
Calvin Kim
Helina Metaferia
Yali Romagoza
Finnegan Shannon
Thank you.
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6. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, at 3 Dollar Bill, Brooklyn, June 20
Pals! It’s pride month…we need it this year. Many of the local drag kings posted they weren’t getting enough pride bookings this year. So….we’re putting on a big show and invited as many kings as we could fitl! If you are in NYC next week, please come and support the drag kings! Show is Tuesday, June 20 at 3 Dollar Bill in BK. Doors at 7, show at 8. Full-line up on tix page. Get ’em know while you still can!
Tickets: https://www.3dollarbillbk.com/
Murray Hill
Thank you.
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7. Stefan Hayn, FF Alumn, at 48 Hours Neukölln, Berlin, Germany, June 24-25, and more
Open studio as part of 48 hours Neukölln
https://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/programm/open-studio-5th-floor-4og-stefan-hayn
Saturday / Sunday, June 24 / 25 , 2023, 2 p.m. – 7 p.m
Donaustraße 83, 1st courtyard on the right (staircase 1, 4th floor), 12043 Berlin
Screening »Pain, Vengeance ? | Brot, Rache ?” and discussion at MAERZ Sprachkunst
https://www.maerz.at/event/sprachkunst-25-idiome-praesentation/
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 6:30 p.m. + 8 p.m
MAERZ Gallery, Eisenbahngasse 20, 4020 Linz Austria
The essay “Research and reflections on the work of the French writer Robert Antelme (1917 -1990)” was published in issue no. 16 of the literary journal IDIOME, published by Klever Verlag Vienna, edited by Ralph Klever and Florian Neuner.
https://moviespaintings-stefanhayn.com/
Thank you.
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8. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, at Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria, thru June, and more
FF Alumn Robbin Ami Silverberg has her work in “Mapping”, an exhibition of artist books at Galerie Druck & Buch, Berggasse 21, Vienna, May & June, 2023.
And: on June 22, at 7pm, she will talk via Zoom about her recent book “Simulacrum (or Mapping)”, about the (brutal) relativity of borders while discovering maps of Ukraine through the centuries.
Zoom link at info@druckundbuch.com
Thank you.
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9. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at The Box, LA, CA, thru Aug. 12
The Box 805 Traction Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Opening Saturday, June 17, 6-9PM
June 17 – August 12, 2023
Wednesday – Saturday, 11-6PM
213.625.1747
Judith Bernstein presents her new, meteoric series We Don’t Owe U A Tomorrow in her sixth solo exhibition with the Box LA. Her psychological paintings are inspired by the catastrophic political climate that dominates the current zeitgeist. Bernstein tackles extremism that threatens the core of democracy through fluorescent paint and gestural brush strokes against infinite black canvases. Swastikas and assault rifles allude to not only a nightmarish tomorrow, but the current reality that we face today. As with much of Bernstein’s work, humor provides an entry point to contemplate themes of bigotry, abuse, fascism, war, and death. Her iconic imagery intersects with knock out maxims: “Trumpenschlong,” the intentionally misspelled “Gasligting Ukraine,” and “We Don’t Owe U A Tomorrow.” In Bernstein’s universe, there are no guarantees.
Since receiving her MFA from Yale in 1967, Judith Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation. For over 50 years, her work has explored connections between the political and the sexual. Steadfast in her cultural, political, and social critique, Bernstein surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental anti-war and feminist charcoal drawings of penis-screw hybrids—one of the artist’s most recognizable motifs. Bernstein has been awarded numerous accolades throughout her career and has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at museums in New York and abroad. Her monumental 9 x 12 1⁄2 feet charcoal drawing Horizontal was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in 2023.
Judith Bernstein’s exhibition We Don’t Owe U A Tomorrow is curated by Paul McCarthy.
In 2016, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recognized Bernstein’s accomplishments in the fine arts by awarding the artist its prestigious annual fellowship, and the National Academy of Design elected her a member of the National Academicians. Additional accolades include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art in 2019, among several others. Bernstein has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York (2017-18); the New Museum, New York (2012-13), Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2016), and Studio Voltaire, London (2014), among numerous galleries and venues internationally. She has also exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich (2021); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2020); the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2019); Migros Museum, Zurich (2019 and 2015); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2019); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013); and Hauser & Wirth, Zurich and London (2011-12). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Jewish Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others.
Thank you.
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10. Melissa Smedley, FF Alumn, now online at podcasters.spotify.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Dakota Gearhart, FF Alumn, at Pier 17, Manhattan, thru July 2, and more
NEW INC Creative Science exhibition on Pier 17 in NYC opening this Friday, June 16th 6-8pm, runs June 16 – July 2
https://theseaport.nyc/events/demo2023-creative-science-showcase/
DEMO at the New Museum in NYC on June 22nd, where I will give a public presentation about the Life Touching Life project – if you can’t be there, you can livestream it.
DEMO at the New Museum: https://www.demo2023.org/
Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQqu-hHkeGM
Thank you.
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12. Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, announce a new edition
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese announce a new edition.
Borrowed Time (edition of 9) is a set of four, lenticular wall clocks that address how the climate crisis is altering our landscape. The clocks represent Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones of the continental United States.
We sourced and licensed photos from government agencies and photojournalists to render the images as lenticular scenes using digital mapping tools and 3D software, framing them in mass-produced, imported plastic clocks.
Images flip between bucolic before and devastating after images of drought, wildfire, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Inspired by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ yearly Doomsday Clocks, we modified Staples wall clocks to count down scenes of the climate changing in seconds.
For more information: https://ligoranoreese.net/borrowed-time/
Thank you.
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13. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, June 20
Filming Queer Archives
Women’s History Salons
Michelle Handelman and Catherine Gund
in conversation with Ksenia Soboleva
Tuesday June 20, 2023
6-7PM | Free
Reception to follow
New-York Historical Society
Museum & Library
170 Central Park West, NYC
Queer communities have often functioned as their own archivists; documenting, collecting, and preserving their histories after centuries of continued erasure. Filmmakers have played a critical role in translating archival materials into visual narratives that capture collective and individual queer histories.
Join us for a conversation with Catherine Gund and Michelle Handelman, two distinguished filmmakers whose work engages with queer archives.
Michelle Handelman is an award-winning director and visual artist who works in film, video, and multiscreen installation. She is a John SImon Guggenheim Fellow (2011), and recipient of a Creative Capital award (2019). Her films include Beware the Lily Law, Hustlers & Empires, and Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism.
Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated and Academy-shortlisted producer, director, writer, and activist. Her media work focuses on strategic and sustainable social transformation, racial justice, arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and reproductive justice, and the environment. She is the founder and director of Aubin Pictures.
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation titled “Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States.” She is currently our Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society.
Location:
Dexter Hall at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
Ticket instructions:
Online: Click the button above. If you need assistance, email womenshistory@nyhistory.org
By phone: Call (212) 873-3400 ext. 528
Lead support for the Center for Women’s History programs provided by Joyce B. Cowin, Diane and Adam E. Max, Jean Margo Reid, and the Mellon Foundation.
Thank you.
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14. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at ArteFuse.com
The art of healing and the healing of art. I wrote this article on Costas Picadas’ show at Tenri Institute for ARTFUSE magazine.
He has collaborated with doctors at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Max Pratt Institute in Berlin, the Jacobs Medical Center at the University of California at San Diego, the Pacific Neuroscience Institute, and other professionals to create his imagery.
Please have a look!! Thanks!!!
Mark Bloch
Thank you.
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15. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com and more
Review of Who You Staring At?: Visual Culture of the No Wave Scene in the 1970s and 1980s at the Centre Pompidou Paris at Whitehot Magazine: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/at-the-centre-pompidou-paris/5832
A video documenting the Centre Pompidou, Paris March 8th event XS: The Opera Opus: An Operatic Transvaluation of No Wave Aesthetics by Joseph Nechvatal and Rhys Chatham has been published online at the Centre Pompidou website: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/ressources/media/duO44r3
Thank you.
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