Contents for June 20, 2022
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1. Josely Carvalho, FF Alumn, receives Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant
2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
3. Jaime Davidovich, FF Alumn, live online with Electronic Arts Intermix, thru June 30
4. Yoko Ono, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Lucy Lippard, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, FF Alumns, now online in The New Yorker
5. Jenny Polak, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at Brief Histories, Manhattan, thru July 30
6. Jeannette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Culture Lab, Long Island CIty, NY, July 28-31
7. Aricoco, FF Alumn, at Chashama, Manhattan, thru July 3
8. Nicky Paraiso, Lois Weaver/Split Britches, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
9. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, now online at Youtube.com
10. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, June 22
11. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, in Woodstock, NY, July 23
12. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, at Galerie DRUCK & BUCH, Vienna, Austria, June 23
13. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, thru Aug. 21
14. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at 321 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, thru June 26
15. The Harrisons Studio, Aviva Rahmani, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at VSF, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 25
16. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at Youtu.be
17. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at WESH TV Orlando, FL
18. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Rabun Country Civic Center, Clayton, GA, Aug. 5-7
19. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK, July 12
20. Laura Bernstein, Tamar Ettun, FF Alumns, at Artyard Hatch, Frenchtown, NJ, June 25
21. William Wegman, FF Alumn, now online at ArtNews.com
22. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, live online at Flow Symposium, thru July 2, and more
23. Cori Spencer, FF Alumn, at UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, thru Sep, 8
24. Barbara Bloom, FF Alumn, at David Lewis Gallery, East Hampton, NY thru July 10
25. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, now online at VillageVoice.com
26. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at The Morgan Library, Manhattan, thru Oct. 2
27. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA, opening June 24 and more
28. Kiyan Williams, FF Alumn, at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, thru Aug. 28
29. Dan Perjovschi, FF Alumn, at Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, thru Sept. 22
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1. Josely Carvalho, FF Alumn, receives Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant
Josely Carvalho Turtle News 2022: I am exultant of happiness and humble to tell you all my friends and followers that I was just notified that I received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
At this moment of the violent loss that came upon me, this grant took me out of the shadows of losses to an enlightened creative state. I can now see the horizon and will keep two appointments at Brooklyn Glass to work on new sculptures this week.
There are no words to thank Pollock Krasner Foundation that understands deeply needs of the artists, to award me a grant at the most anguished moments of my life. The first in 2016 when Ernest, my husband and companion was dying and now with a suitcase in hand, with the loss of my shelter in New York.
@pkfawardee and @pollockkrasnerfoundation
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2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/nyregion/alvin-eng.html
Thank you.
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3. Jaime Davidovich, FF Alumn, live online with Electronic Arts Intermix, thru June 30
Through the end of June, EAI is pleased to feature an episode of Jaime Davidovich’s The Live! Show, a legendary public-access program aired on Manhattan Cable Television from 1979 to 1984. This exemplary broadcast from summer 1982 demonstrates the artist’s singular approach to television revue, described by writer Ava Tews as “Dada cabaret, inspired in equal parts by Fluxus and Ernie Kovacs.” Published alongside the feature, this newly-commissioned piece by Tews considers the origins of Davidovich’s fascination with TV and videotape, locating it within ‘70s conceptual art’s desire to move beyond traditional gallery exhibition.
Davidovich is one of many artists featured in the 2018 exhibition Broadcasting: EAI at ICA at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, which probed how artists in EAI’s collection experiment with novel forms of public engagement, from television to internet-era platforms. The catalog, featuring essays by the show’s curators Rebecca Cleman and Alex Klein, a long-form oral history with EAI director emerita Lori Zippay, and conversations between artists from the exhibition, is now available for preorder, to ship later this summer https://shop.eai.org/product/pre-order-broadcasting-eai-at-ica
Watch here: https://fifty.eai.org/video-features/jaime-davidovichs-the-live-show-june-25-1982
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4. Yoko Ono, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Lucy Lippard, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, FF Alumns, now online in The New Yorker
Please visit this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance
Thank you.
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5. Jenny Polak, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at Brief Histories, Manhattan, thru July 30
Brief Histories presents Inheritance, a group exhibition, opening this Saturday, June 18, 2022, 6-8pm, 115 Bowery, New York City.
Inheritance is on view until July 30, 2022.
Gallery Hours are Thur – Sat 12pm – 6pm and by appointment.
Social @ brief_histories
Contact: info@briefhistories.art
Thank you!
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6. Jeannette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Culture Lab, Long Island CIty, NY, July 28-31
“Taken by Artificial Surprise”
Performance and installation series exploring surprise, magic and machine learning
Thursday, July 28 – Saturday, July 31, 2022
7:30 pm
Free – reservation required – please use this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taken-by-artificial-surprise-tickets-340798446327
CultureLAB LIC: 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101
This performance and installation explores the relationships between magic, machine learning, and surprise. Participants are welcomed to step inside a performed thought-experiment where they find themselves within a Turing test of sorts. Presented with performances of historic pieces of magic with varying levels of surprise as well as magic developed with the help of AI, participants, while in the moment, might find themselves a bit unsure as to which may be which. Each presentation is immediately followed by a performed tea service.
Taken by Artificial Surprise dives into the interwoven concepts of the Victorian-era-esque parlor amusement ‘the imitation game’ imagined by Alan Turing, and the adjacent drawing-room magic of the same time period. The now-famous Turing test was inspired by this ‘imitation game’ and utilized the question, “can a machine take us by surprise?” as a way to investigate computational intelligence…. What might performances of the seemingly impossible demonstrate about the capabilities and limitations of both machine learning and the human mind? Andrews invites participants to think about what constitutes the experience of surprise itself and whether surprise is a unique, defining factor of human consciousness. The work also highlights how the mechanisms to create surprise lie deep within the gaps of lived and learned experience and are perhaps made using the ontological commitments and sense data of robust personal and cultural experiences. The work may also provoke questions as to whether a computer or a human is capable of producing more surprising results. Andrews also notes that, “this project was inspired by my time as an Affiliate at metaLAB (at) Harvard. During this time I was fortunate to have encountered a diversity of ideas and research, and discourse with metaLAB members also greatly assisted the ideation process.” This work is made possible by Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
About Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is a 501(c)(3) formed to bring accessible, high quality art of all genres to our community, and to support local artists by providing rehearsal, performance, exhibition space, as well as a robust residency program. CL is dedicated to upholding, equity, diversity and inclusion across all our platforms. Operating out of a 12,000 square foot art center, Culture Lab LIC hosts two fine art galleries, a 90 seat theatre, classroom space, and an 18,000 square foot outdoor venue, made possible by the generous donation of space from Plaxall Inc. CL is honored to host more arts programming than any other organization in New York City. Culture Lab is more than a venue, it is the heart of Long Island City.
A very special thanks to Plaxall Inc. for the donation of this amazing space and supporting us in turning it into this cornerstone of arts and community activity!
@culturelablic
https://www.culturelablic.org/
This project was also made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered by Flushing Town Hall.
Learn more: https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/taken-by-artificial-surprise
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7. Aricoco, FF Alumn, at Chashama, Manhattan, thru July 3
Dear friends, colleagues and families,
Haaaaaaai!!!! I hope this finds you all in good health and spirit wherever you are!!!
I’m happy to announce that an exhibition Dress for Today、and tomorrow。as the culmination of my 3-month Immigrant Artist Fellowship with ChaShaMa opens this Saturday, June 18th, on view through July 3rd, at 340 E64th Street, NYC (Lexington Av/63 on FQ) The gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday 1-6pm but please let me know if you’d like to swing by so I’ll make sure I’ll be there!!! (aricoco cell#: 646-388-1086)
The opening reception will be Saturday, June 18th 4-6pm and here’s the registration link (Not required! Oh, so, no live performance, but I made a new video for projection!):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dress-for-today-and-tomorrow-tickets-349834613747
Most importantly, there will be a series of public events at the space! I’m inviting a sustainable artist/designer and entrepreneur to lead an event and a talk, and I’ll be hosting a clothes swap session.
Here’s the schedule and their registration links, please come join us if you’re in town (Drinks will be served!):
Reclypt’s Mending Club X aricoco
Mending Workshop
Jun 23, 2022 6:00pm-8:00pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/354667127927
Sustainable Art & Activism Talk by Isabel Varela
Jun 24, 2022 6:00pm-8:00pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-art-activism-talk-by-isabel-varela-tickets-355329168107
Clothes Swap Session with aricoco
Jun 25, 2022 4:00pm-6:00pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clothes-swap-session-with-aricoco-tickets-366115420077
Thank you so much for your attention and I wish you a happy happy Summer!!!!!!
lovelovelove,
aricoco
https://www.instagram.com/runawayaricoco/
https://www.facebook.com/aricoco
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8. Nicky Paraiso, Lois Weaver/Split Britches, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/theater/la-mamas-mia-yoo.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thank you
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9. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, now online at Youtube.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, June 22
On June 22nd at 6pm, the Sharjah Biennial will host a panel discussion at MoMA. I will talk about my work in progress, The Eternal Night, a film based on the testimony of poet and former political prisoner Néstor Díaz de Villegas, about his imprisonment in the 1970s at the age of 18. All those interested are invited to attend – register here please: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/sharjah-biennial-15-thinking-historically-in-the-present-panel-at-the-museu
Thank you.
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11. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, in Woodstock, NY, July 23
Saturday, July 23, 10 – 5pm $110
Nancy’s Studio in Woodstock, NY
If we relate to our circumstances with…openness…it can be said that whatever occurs can be regarded as the path and that all things, not just some things, are workable. This teaching is a fearless proclamation of what’s possible for ordinary people like you and me.
-Pema Chödrön
Paths – directions; A real path with many known and unknown parts and an imagined path with limitless possibilities. Using art making and meditation, we will explore these different ideas and subjects. Participants will make collages and drawings using various materials such as watercolor, pencil, crayon, etc.
FYI: During the art making process, there is plenty of room on the upper deck and outside in the fresh air and in the barns which are light and airy. My lower studio is temperature controlled.
Open to all. To reserve a place, call or email Nancy at 917-572-7461, nancy@nancyazara.com
Nancy Azara is a sculptor who works in wood and whose scroll rubbings and tracings are collaged on mylar and paper. Her work has been shown extensively, most recently in a solo show VOTIVES at Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY (2022), High Chair and Other Works, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021), Labyrinths of the Mind at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock, NY (2019), Nancy Azara: Nature Prints at Saint John’s University, Queens, NY, and Crossing Boundaries: Material as Message at (RoCA), West Nyack, NY. Upcoming: A Sense of Place, curated by Doug Sheer at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock, NY (Aug 13- Sept 25, 2022). She is the author of Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art available through Red Wheel/Weiser. She has taught many workshops and classes. www.nancyazara.com
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12. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, at Galerie DRUCK & BUCH, Vienna, Austria, June 23
Robbin Silverberg –
“Living with Tassels and Trim”
Artist Talk on June 23 at 7pm
I am very pleased to have Robbin Silverberg from New York as our guest on June 23 at 7pm.
We will speak alternately in German and English about her book “Living with Tassels and Trim”.
Robbin Silverberg is known for her equally conceptual and sensual artist books – making her own papers is usually part of her books. But here now is a textile book!
Robbin Silverberg:
I stumbled upon plastic bags filled with samples of textiles, tassels & trim when we were cleaning out my mother’s closets after she died. The remnants found in those bags were pieces of her story: dreams of creating a space and place, a home that defined beauty, projected refinement, and what she would have clarified as happiness.
The result is a cloth book with richly embroidered text & patterns, sewn onto a wooden clothing hanger. The text focuses on the idea of ritual as movement and movement as reading. Each copy has a unique case made from clothing, which becomes the protection of these words instead of the human body. The viewer must ‘undress’ the book in order to read it.
Looking forward!
Susanne Padberg, Galerie DRUCK & BUCH, Vienna
and..:
– In June, the gallery will be closed on Fridays, furthermore, is also still closed on Wednesday, June 15 because of fair visit in Basel .
– We are working on a new version of the website which will be launched in summer! stay tuned
– On September 1 we will open the exhibition of the American artist Clifton Meador – Meador seems to have a special way of thinking printmaking. His subtle, often historical-political and photography-based books are created using experimental offset printing.
– On October 6, we will open the exhibition of artist Ulrich Wagner, known for his works with paper. He will debut his new book project BORDERLINE.
– There is a current catalog list with many new additions, if you are interested just send an email to info@druckundbuch.com
Currently still on view:
BOOK REFERENCES – artists’ books with reference to the old book (until June 30).
The following works are in the exhibition:
Ken Botnick on Diderot
Thorsten Baensch on Milton and Hamburg-Venezia
Sian Bowen on the Hortus Malabaricus
Romano Hänni on an imaginary book of the 16th century
Monika Rohrmus on Satie “Sport et Divertissement
Josef Schwaiger on Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge’s color researches
Ulrike Stoltz on Giordano Bruno
Click here for more details: http://www.druckundbuch.com/
We are looking forward to your visit.
Susanne Padberg
Galerie DRUCK & BUCH, Vienna
Galerie DRUCK & BUCH
Susanne Padberg
Berggasse 21/2
(Next to the Freud – House)
A – 1090 Vienna
Austria
+43 1 586 68 54 14
+43 664 7657361
BOOK REFERENCES
5/5 – 6/30/22
Mon – Fri 11am – 6pm
In June the gallery will be closed on Fridays!
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13. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, thru Aug. 21
Claire Jeanine Satin
Exhibiting three of her bookworks at The Art and Culture Center Hollywood Florida in
BookBound: The Art of Books and Printmaking, June 11-August 21, 2022
a. Suspended Book Pages (I installation)
Homage to John Cage’s theory of indeterminacy. Powder coated metal mesh, silver and gold inks/handwritten reassembled script from John Cage’s book “M”, markings from Jasper John’s paintings Dancers On a Plane. Aluminum rods,
40”x 48” x 60”’h
b. The Typewriter Book With Ribbons II
Printing on transparencies, metallic overprinting, silver ink/handwritten reassembled script, typewriter keys, monofilament
9”x 12”w x 5”d
c. A-Z, Z-A. Book
Aluminum, found objects, miniature aluminum letters, printing on transparencies, hardware fundings
4 1/2” h x 5”w 4” d
Inquiries and comments welcome
ClairejeanineSatin
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14. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at 321 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, thru June 26
I invite you to see my miniature weavings series, Civilization, Extinction, and Loss at the 321 Atlantic Avenue Window as part of:
ArtWalk on Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, June 18-26
A 1.5-mile self-guided ArtWalk through Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill will include the works of local artists such as paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture, and large installations. Over 100 artists will display their works in over 60 local businesses’ storefronts, windows, roll down gates, doors, and open galleries. Attendees are encouraged to walk from Fourth Avenue down to the Waterfront to enjoy art, stop for lunch and rediscover the businesses on Atlantic Avenue and the triumphant return of New York City life.
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15. The Harrisons Studio, Aviva Rahmani, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at VSF, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 25
Please visit this link:
VSF Los Angeles
812 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90038
+1 310 426 8040
Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm
Thank you.
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16. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at Youtu.be
We often say that we would love to read what Frank would be writing now about all that has been going on.
But there are many other people trying to make sense of what is going on with the deep, deep fragmentation in our world right now. What is interesting is that more and more we are finding other people talking about our current reality in a way similar to how Frank did. Here are some of those people…
Chris Martenson: Systemic Destruction w/ CJ Hopkins
Keeping Sane: Bret Weinstein Speaks with Neil Oliver
The Pathogenic Excuse for Attacking Liberty: Interview with Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, author of The Bodies of Others, assesses the future of human liberty after catastrophic Covid policies and what they mean for human rights. She is interviewed by Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute.
https://odysee.com/@brownstone:6/naomi-wolf:30
“Are We Being Hypnotized, And Do We Like It?” – A Conversation with Professor Mattias Desmet, PhD
xo Linda, Mikee, Alexi, Erika & Corey
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17. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at WESH TV Orlando, FL
I was privileged to bring the Prayer Ribbons from Provincetown to Orlando to honor the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
“Angels are still dancing”; Pulse victims remembered in Orlando six year later
https://www.wesh.com/article/pulse-victims-remembered-orlando/40257224
Thanks, Jay Critchley
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18. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Rabun Country Civic Center, Clayton, GA, Aug. 5-7
See the World’s Largest Elvis Belt!
The 18th Big E Festival & Elvis Tribute Artists Competition will be held at the Rabun County Civic Center in Clayton on August 5-7.
The festival starts on Friday with a Meet & Greet from 5pm to 6pm in the downstairs Rock N Roll Café at the Civic Center. The concert begins at 7 PM with World Champion David Lee from Birmingham, AL, along with 2021 Big E winner Austin Irby and Youth winner Braxton Sykes.
Doors open at 6pm.
Saturday at noon the ETA Competition begins. Doors open at 11am. The Youth Division (ETAs under the age of 16) will start the competition.
Adults ETAs from as far away as Australia will be competing.
Elvis’s favorite foods—Bar-B-Que and peanut and banana sandwiches—will be provided by the Ferst Readers for purchase. The festival will feature a silent auction, craft vendors, a raffle, door prizes and an Angel Memory Board benefiting Habersham County Humane Society. A special People’s Choice Award with all proceeds benefiting John B. Gesbocker Animal Shelter will be awarded.
A Country Hoe Down Dinner will take place Saturday night at 7pm at the Civic Center with food provided by award winning Clayton Café.
This catered event will feature Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, and Patsy Cline tribute artists plus an array of country stars.
David Lee’s Gospel Brunch will take place Sunday at 11am at the Civic
Center. Clayton Cafe will serve the southern-style food.
Tickets available on Eventbrite or for VIP Reserved seats call 706-768-5749 or 706-540-3915. For Vendor or ETA applications visit: www.bigefest.com
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19. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK, July 12
The Courtauld Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Playback Session is on the 12th of July from 4pm to 5pm.
Location: The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW, United Kingdom
Here is the full program:
Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Playback Session
Joseph Nechvatal
Launched in 1983 from Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in Downtown Manhattan as a nonprofit audio art publication project, Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine produced cassette tape editions to distribute curated cutting-edge audio tracks. The founders and executive editors of the Tellus project—that ran for a decade—were Joseph Nechvatal, Claudia Gould, and Carol Parkinson.
Nechvatal, who originated the concept of the project, chose the name Tellus from Tellus Mater, the Roman earth goddess of fecundity. Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine published audio art, no wave noise music, electroacoustic music, contemporary classical music, spoken word tracks, tango, sound poetry, post-industrial music, Fluxus sound art pieces, and sound collage. The series included some landmark sound works now regarded as historical: Raoul Hausmann’s “Poemes Phonetiques” (Tellus #21), (Louise Lawler’s “Birdcalls” (Tellus #5-6), Sonic Youth’s “Scream” (Tellus #1), Christian Marclay’s “Groove” (Tellus #8), Rhys Chatham’s “Guitar Trio” (Tellus #1), Kiki Smith’s “Life Wants to Live” (Tellus #2), Minóy’s “Tango” (Tellus #20), Alison Knowles’s “Nivea Cream Piece” (Tellus #24), La Monte Young’s “Poem for Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc.” (Tellus #24), and Y Pants’s “Magnetic Attraction” (Tellus #21), among many others.
In 2007, French music blogger Continuo and Stephen McLaughlin created an online mp3 archive of all of the Tellus tracks and accessibly archived them at Ubuweb. Joseph Nechvatal’s “Ego Masher” (Tellus #1) has been anthologized on An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music #6 CD. In 2011, selections from Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine recordings were included in the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) exhibition Looking at Music 3.0. On June 24th, 2021, a two-hour Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Special aired on Dublab with Tellus co-founders Carol Parkinson and Joseph Nechvatal.
Dr. Joseph Nechvatal’s visual and sound art practice engages in a fragile assimilation of production and resistance. His book of art theory essays Towards an Immersive Intelligence was published in 2009 by Edgewise Press. He has also published three books with Punctum Press: Minóy (ed.) (2014), Destroyer of Naivetés (poetry, 2015) and Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! (poetry, Fall 2022). The second edition of his book Immersion Into Noise was published by Open Humanities Press in 2022. His audio works Selected Sound Works (1981 – 2021) and The Viral Tempest (2022) were published by the experimental music and sound art label Pentiments. Nechvatal is currently exhibiting an a-life animation Viral Venture in the Micro Mondes exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.
Best regards,
Joseph Nechvatal
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20. Laura Bernstein, Tamar Ettun, FF Alumns, at Artyard Hatch, Frenchtown, NJ, June 25
Hello!
I am excited to unfurl a new evolution the Miracle Tapestries Project as part of ArtYards Fifth Anniversary HATCH in collaboration with Rebecca Pristoop and The Moving Company and Friends, featuring miracles and performances by Natessa Amin, Georgina Arroyo, Jana Benitez, Claire Bidwell, Kryta Brayer, Tamar Ettun, Ava Hassinger, Emily Reilly, Lydia Rosenberg, L. Ryan Smith, Lexy Ho-Tai, Leah Victoria, and Amalia Wilson.
This event will take place on Saturday, June 25th at 11am at ArtYard—an interdisciplinary contemporary art center based in Frenchtown, New Jersey and located along the Delaware river, 13 Front St. Plan your visit!
ArtYard Hatch features live music, performance, storytelling, and a parade of locals dressed as birds who hatch from a giant 14-foot egg to celebrate creative incubation and community.
About the Miracle Tapestries Project:
A meditation on the climate crisis and a container for the unknown—cascades of extreme weather and news events—Miracle Tapestries Project seeks to stimulate curiosity and wonder toward the natural world through movement, color, and form. The tapestries create a hand sewn calendar of symbols stitched from recycled fabrics and adorned with real and imagined creatures and elemental phenomena, recording events that initially occurred each month of 2020 as processed by multidisciplinary artist Laura Bernstein.
Exploring the malleability of memory and symbols, Miracle Tapestries Project is an evolving invitation for public processional and collective meaning making, a way to mark (and celebrate) the passage of time and shifts within seasons, through performance and group play in collaboration with Rebecca Pristoop and The Moving Company and Friends.
For Artyard’s 2022 Hatch Biennial, June 25, 2022, Bernstein has asked 14 artists and performers to contribute to the Miracle Tapestries Project with their own exploratory practices. Collectively drawing on each month of the year from past, present, and future, the artists will recall miraculous and mysterious encounters with nature in their offerings. In the spirit of ArtYard’s Crankie tradition, a collective poem will be composed and performed.
This collaboration includes: Natessa Amin, Georgina Arroyo, Laura Bernstein, Jana Benitez, Claire Bidwell, Kryta Brayer, Tamar Ettun, Ava Hassinger, Rebecca Pristoop, Emily Reilly, Lydia Rosenberg, Ryan L Smith, Lexy Ho-Tai, Leah Victoria, and Amalia Wilson.
Laura Bernstein
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21. William Wegman, FF Alumn, now online at ArtNews.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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22. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, live online at Flow Symposium, thru July 2, and more
Hello One and All,
Greetings and welcome to summer. What a whirlwind these past few months, stretching boundaries with live site inspired performances in public spaces: Splash Dance at the V&A in the courtyard fountain pool, and the very first iteration of Walking to Present in Brooklyn. It is time to process and dream. Summer slowing down, reading, researching, and sipping cool drinks.
However, I’d be remiss not to tell you about these upcoming events. JOP is thrilled to participate in three festivals, two on your screen and one live screening. I hope you can tune in or perhaps I’ll see you at ADF in Durham NC!
1. Flow Symposium presents Walking to Present (Brooklyn)
Streaming Live Sunday, June 19 on YouTube 1pm-3 pm EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_pIXhMSeQ
Yaryna Shumska (Lviv, Ukraine) ’
Carali McCall (London, U.K.)
Vanessa Dion Fletcher (tkaronto, Toronto, Canada)
Jody Oberfelder (NYC, U.S.)
2. Dumbo Dance Festival
https://www.whitewavedance.org
Catch cool colleagues during the whole festival June 24-26
Saturday, June 25, 4pm Rube G. on Program 4
3. ADF Movies by Movers
http://https//americandancefestival.org/movies-by-movers/
American Dance Festival
There are four weekend of screenings
We’re on July 2nd at 3:15
Curated by Cara Hagen
Thank you as always for your belief and support. Let’s make and experience art this summer.
Jody Oberfelder Projects | 917.518.6227 | jody@jodyoberfelder.com
455 FDR Drive B902 New York, NY 10002
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23. Cori Spencer, FF Alumn, at UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, thru Sep, 8
I hope you are well and enjoying a wonderful summer. Thank you once again for all your help and support with the grant. I really appreciate it!
I am writing to share some exciting news about my newest project, Splendor. Earlier this year Splendor opened as a solo exhibition at the University of Rochester, supported in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The exhibition was a wonderful success and work from the show has since traveled to UMass Dartmouth as a part of the exhibition Sheltered, open through September 8th. In addition to these exhibitions, I am thrilled to share that I am at work expanding Splendor into an artist book as a 2022 Fellow at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, where I will be in residence through mid-July.
I am incredibly excited about this body of work and am writing to ask for your support in expanding the reach of this project.
Splendor is an immersive multimedia project which uses photo, video, text, and sound to explore the restorative connection between Black women and the natural world, re-envisioning the historically violent relationship between Black bodies and the American landscape as one steeped in romance, sensuality, and the spiritual introspection of solitude.
Creating Splendor connected me to a sense of belonging to the world, which as a Black woman in America, has often been vacant in my life. I hope to share this healing work through the development of a Splendor artist book. The book will build upon the lush and immersive world created by the show, featuring full color photographs and video stills interwoven with poetic text. It will be an artwork in its own right that will expand upon the exhibition and allow for a larger audience to experience the project.
The core of this work was created in solitude, but it cannot grow without the investment of my community. It is with this in mind that I am writing to ask for your support. To fund the initial stage of this independently published book, I must raise $10,000 by June 30th. This funding will provide support for consulting with a designer, creating an immersive website to support the project, and allowing me studio time to complete the development of the book’s content.
Thanks to the generosity of early donors, I am just $500 away from reaching my funding goal. If you are moved by my work and would like to uplift this project, please donate today. Donations of all sizes are meaningful acts of support, which I am deeply honored to receive.
https://app.thefield.org/home/donation/crowd/83/0
All donations are tax deductible through my affiliation with The Field.
Splendor is a work of love that invites each of us beyond singular narratives of pain and into a space where healing, self-recovery, and reunion with the vitality of life is possible. I hope you will join me in bringing Splendor out into the world.
With tenderness,
Cori
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24. Barbara Bloom, FF Alumn, at David Lewis Gallery, East Hampton, NY thru July 10
Barbara Bloom: Gold Custody
David Lewis
June 18 – July 10, 2022
53 the Circle, East Hampton
Opening Reception: June 18, 2022, 5-6 PM
David Lewis is pleased to present Gold Custody featuring thirteen works by the artist Barbara Bloom spanning from the 1980s to the present. The works featured in this solo exhibition were inspired by her recent publication of the same name and co-authored with Ben Lerner. This is the artist’s third show with the gallery and her first at the East Hampton location.
Bloom’s work all use a wide variety of framing and reframing devices. They hang salon style on the gallery walls, accompanied by rectangular markings, quiet traces of several works that are absent, perhaps lost, stolen, sold, or forgotten.
“The single cogent statement was never [Bloom’s] style. She could never have been happy with one frame, one tidy, gilded quadrangle of edges. Her preference, both literal and metaphorical, was for Salon Style, the antimodernist cacophonous chorus of objects and images above and below and around the corner from one another; each piece framed on its own but hardly independent.
It made sense that [Bloom] should be so interested in framing, given the fact that framing is an art form that, in some sense, aspires to invisibility. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, aide-de-camp to the goodwill ambassador of art, éminence grise to the rouged tart of art, framing is there to flatter the subject of its embrace, not to be loved for itself.
To say she was interested in framing is not to say she was interested in frames. The frame is just an object. To be interested in frames was to miss the point (or to point to the miss). BB was interested in the compositional device, the tricky way of putting things together—a picture, an argument, a question—in such a way that they seem to make complete sense, that no little itch is left at the back of the brain querying, “what about . . .?”
Excerpted from Susan Tallman’s Introduction to “Framing” Chapter; The Collections of Barbara Bloom, 2008
For press inquiries please contact Kim Donica at kd@vidoun.com
For all other inquiries please contact us at info@davidlewisgallery.com
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25. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, now online at VillageVoice.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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26. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at The Morgan Library, Manhattan, thru Oct. 2
Now Open | PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs
A widely connected pioneer of Pop and mail art, Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was described as “New York’s most famous unknown artist.” Best known for his multimedia collages, he stopped exhibiting in 1991, but his output did not diminish. In 1992–1994, he used 137 disposable cameras to create a large body of work that is coming to light only now. Staging his collages in settings near his home in Locust Valley, Long Island—parking lots, sidewalks, beaches, cemeteries—he made photographs that pull the world of everyday “real life” into his art. In his “new career as a photographer,” Johnson began making collages in a new, larger format that made them more effective players in his camera tableaux. The vast archive he left behind at his death included over three thousand of the late photographs. Now, his final project makes its debut alongside earlier photo-based collages and works of mail art: fruits of a romance with the camera that spans the four decades of the artist’s career.
Open through October 2, 2022
Plan Your Visit:
Featured Programs
June 24, 5:00pm, (In-Person), Talks and Tours | On Ray Johnson, Real Life, and Photography. In conjunction with PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs, join Caitlin Haskell and Joel Smith as they discuss the “career in photography” that absorbed artist Ray Johnson in his final years. Caitlin Haskell is Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Director of Ray Johnson Collections and Research at The Art Institute of Chicago. Joel Smith is Richard L. Menschel Curator at The Morgan Library & Museum and the organizer of the exhibition.
September 16, 6:00pm, (In-Person), Film Screening | How to Draw a Bunny. Ray Johnson was a mystery wrapped in an enigma who lived his life like a Pop Art performance piece. This enthralling documentary – edited and directed by John Walter, photographed and produced by Andrew Moore – is at once playful and haunting, an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends.
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27. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA, opening June 24 and more
Greetings,
Summer has kicked in and my tomatoes and beans (as well as kale) are in the ground!
I’d like to invite you to
Baby Boomers, an exhibition at AMP Gallery, June 24 to July 13, 432 Commercial St, Provincetown
Opening Friday, June 24, 6-9pm
“Baby Boomers? Often called the Greatest Generation despite overseeing unequaled climate catastrophe, economic and racial inequality, unbridled neoliberal globalism, the Viet Nam, the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and “American exceptionalism.”And the children?
At an artist residency last fall in County Kerry, Ireland on a ruin-strewn cliff overlooking the Atlantic with Provincetown across the pond, I created work related to the potato famine genocide, utilizing the very potato and the revered turf, honoring, in particular, the children who starved to death under British colonial domination.
While sneaking into the Truro swap shop back home, undetected (only Truro residents may partake), I spotted a large, surprising photomontage of baby girls (1948, left side) and baby boys (1950, right side). I carted it off and stared at it daily at home. It became, the Baby Boomers project.What did cute, white, happy, privileged babies have to look forward to in their lives? And their disenfranchised peers? What did we create? What part did we play in the shaping of our post WWII world? What do today’s children have to look forward to?”
I will be showing along with Martin R. Anderson, Shez Arvedon, Linda Leslie Brown, Barbara E. Cohen, Anne Corrsin, Jeanne-Marie Crede, Heather Kapplow, Zehra Khan, Jackie Lipton, Nancy Rubens and Jicky Schnee.
CHEEKY – NFT-DANCE, a short film in Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, June 15-19, and online.
BOUND EAST FOR EASTER REBELLION, Int’l Conference on Eugene O’Neill, Boston, July 6-9, 2022.
A play adapted by me from Eugene O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff. The play, which includes rewritten lyrics to standard Irish-American songs, was first performed at AMP Gallery in 2016, the centennial of both O’Neill’s debut in Provincetown and the Irish Rebellion. O’Neill and Padraig Pease, revolutionary poet, meet as lonely, overworked mates on the S.S. Glencairn.
The play will be performed, along with one by Susan Rand Brown: Eugene O’Neill and Marsden Hartley on the Backshore (“The Great Summer”), both directed by Margaret Van Sant. Actors include Go Mahan and Phoebe Otis, with pianist Louis Falconi.
Introducing Michael J. Andrews co-curated with Berta Berta Walker, Berta Walker Gallery through June 25 – a self-taught visionary artist of complex simplicity!
Looking forward to a safe and open summer. Hope to see you.
Thank you.
Peace, Jay
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28. Kiyan Williams, FF Alumn, at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, thru Aug. 28
Kiyan Williams
Between Starshine and Clay
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
May 28 – August 28, 2022
Between Starshine and Clay (2022) marks the first solo museum exhibition for artist Kiyan Williams (b. 1991, Newark, New Jersey) and is an installation that takes its name from a phrase in writer and educator Lucille Clifton’s 1993 poem “won’t you celebrate with me.” Williams, who collects earth from familial sites and spaces that hold Black American histories, creates sculptural forms that slowly reveal traces and gestures of the body. Using dirt, sandstone, and other materials such as kanekalon hair, bricks, and wax to mold faces, limbs, and hands, Williams meditates on the notion of the “ruined” body and its potential to transcend and generate new genealogies.
Hammer Projects: Kiyan Williams is organized by Erin Christovale, associate curator.
For images and complete information please visit this link:
https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2022/hammer-projects-kiyan-williams
Thank you.
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29. Dan Perjovschi, FF Alumn, at Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, thru Sept. 22
Documenta Fifteen
Curated by ruangrupa
June 18 – September 22, 2022
Participating artist:
Dan Perjovschi
Jane Lombard Gallery is pleased to celebrate gallery artist Dan Perjovschi’s participation in Documenta Fifteen.
Curated by the Jakarta-based art collective, ruangrupa, who invited 14 collectives to participate in the 100-day show, Documenta officially opens this Saturday, June 18.
Via Documenta Fifteen’s site:
With biting irony, Dan Perjovschi takes up the absurdities and cynicism of the “brave new world” in his daily drawings made with just a few strokes. The drawings comment on current events from all over the world as well as general social phenomena or things that affect the artist personally. Perjovschi’s figures and scenarios populate the walls, floors, corridors and windows of various art institutions. He lives and works in Sibiu and Bucharest.
Perjovschi is the “editor” of the Horizontale Zeitung , which reports on current events using observation, conversation and “hearsay” as sources. It is drawn by hand on a 30 meter long piece of wall in Sibiu and is constantly updated. Unlike today’s media channels, which deliver news quickly and directly, Perjovschi examines the act of “updating” itself – in his practice it is analogue, slow and technically outdated.
In Kassel, Perjovschi publishes a special issue of the Horizontale Zeitung with reports on culture, politics, society and sport. In the course of documenta fifteen, this will be updated again and again. It can be read on the floor of the square in front of the KAZimKuBa , Kassel’s former main train station. The Kassel edition is to be linked to the mother sheet in Sibiu. There the artist initiates a network of social and cultural institutions called the Visual Art Platform (PAV).
In addition, Perjovschi converted the columns of the facade of the Fridericianum into “columns” (Latin columna, pillar), so that something like a magazine is created here as well. This is dedicated to the lumbung values . Inside the Fridericianum, Perjovschi shows his artistic research on brand politics, identity formation and sponsorship.
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