Content for Goings On July 22, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Asia Stewart, FF FUND for Performance Art recipient 2022-23 at The Shed, Manhattan, July 25 – 27
1. Jay Critchley, Lauren Ewing, Mira Schor, FF Alumns, in new publication
2. Katie Cercone, FF Alumn, at Jane Bailey Community Garden, Brooklyn, July 27
3. Joseph Nechvatal, Gretchen Bender, Nancy Burson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, FF Alumns, in new publication.
4. Nicholas Vargelis, FF Alumn, at Le Petit Versailles, Manhattan, July 27
5. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at archive-it.org
6. RT Livingston, FF Alumn, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, thru July 28
7. Adele Ursone, FF Member, at Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, opening Aug. 2
8. Jenny Graf Sheppard, FF Intern Alumn, at Trafo, Szczecin, Poland, August 3
9. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at T Space Rhinebeck, NY, opening July 20
10. Karen Finley, Hans Haacke, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
11. Meghana Karnik on Governors Island, NYC, opening July 27
12. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, at JFK Airport, Queens, NY
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Weekly Spotlight: Asia Stewart, FF FUND for Performance Art recipient 2022-23 at The Shed, Manhattan, July 25 – 27
Thursday, July 25th – Saturday, July 27th, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Description:
A ritual response to Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, for the survival of young Black women.
Asia Stewart’s Fabric Softener is a theatrical response to Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, offering an imagined ritual with the power to revive young Black women and insist on their survival. Stewart draws on three characters from the many who populate Morrison’s 1977 novel: Pilate, her daughter Reba, and granddaughter Hagar. In the original text, Hagar dies of a broken heart after deeming herself unworthy of love, beauty, and acceptance.
In her performance, punctuated by musical outbursts of spirituals and passages from the novel, Stewart presents three new characters who are not recreations of these women but are instead archetypes: The Laundress, The Celebrant, and The Witness. The performance begins as The Celebrant and The Witness prepare The Laundress for an intervention: a baptism, a becoming, and a funeral for what used to be and can no longer exist.
Artist Bio:
Asia Stewart is a Brooklyn-based performance artist whose conceptual work centers the body as a living archive. She transforms the language specific to studies of race, gender, and sexuality into materials that can be felt by and worn on the body. As a National YoungArts Winner in Musical Theatre and a former National Arts Policy Roundtable Fellow with Americans for the Arts, Stewart uses her past experiences on stage to inject her work with a heightened sense of theatricality. Stewart has received various honors and support for her works in performance from organizations that include The Bronx Museum, The Shed, Franklin Furnace, A.I.R. Gallery, Marc Straus Gallery, Marble House Project, GALLIM, the Watermill Center, and the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Stewart routinely questions how performance, movement, and live art can be documented and represented across multiple mediums. Her works in video and installation have been exhibited at venues across the United States, including the Mercury Store, Untitled Space, NARS Foundation, Goodyear Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Kellen Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives. Her first series of prints is also held in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
Credits:
Fabric Softener was commissioned by The Shed as part of Open Call 2023-2024.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2022-23, supported by the Jerome Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Fabric Softener is also supported by YoungArts. Additional thanks to Robert Rising & NYCitySlab, Nicholas K, and Gotham Production Studios for supplying set pieces, costumes, and audio recording equipment. Development was made possible by The Watermill Center, NARS Foundation, GALLIM, ART/ New York Theatre, and Amanda + James.
In memory of Barbara Jean Lockhart.
All text and dialogue in this performance is reprinted and performed by permission of Estate of Chloe A. Morrison Copyright © Estate of Chloe A. Morrison, 1977.
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1. Jay Critchley, Lauren Ewing, Mira Schor, FF Alumns, in new publication
Please visit this link to Ron Amato’s new book Artists of Provincetown
https://www.ronamato.com/artists-of-provincetown-book
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2. Katie Cercone, FF Alumn, at Jane Bailey Community Garden, Brooklyn, July 27
Community Healing Day
https://mailchi.mp/dda2c096a2ef/astral-beast-yoga-starts-10328295
7/27 11am-5pm Jane Bailey Community Garden, Bedstuy, sponsored by NYRP & Urban Asanas
LINK: https://mailchi.mp/dda2c096a2ef/astral-beast-yoga-starts-10328295
Thank you.
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3. Joseph Nechvatal, Gretchen Bender, Nancy Burson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, FF Alumns, in new publication.
Art historian Patrick Frank has publishing a new book on the artists Joseph Nechvatal, Lynn Hershman, Nancy Burson, George Legrady and Gretchen Bender called “Art of the 1980s: As If the Digital Mattered.” https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111384696/html
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4. Nicholas Vargelis, FF Alumn, at Le Petit Versailles, Manhattan, July 27
Le Petit Versailles presents
Nicholas Vargelis staged reading of ELLIS ISLAND and HÔTEL NEPTUNE
July 27 Saturday 8-10 pm.
Le Petit Versailles
247 East 2nd St.
Nicholas Vargelis’ new text ELLIS ISLAND (published in LPV’s Plot #4), centers on a recent visit to the NYC landmark where both Nicholas’ maternal and paternal grandparents arrived after having traveled from Greece to the United States. Nicholas’ journey to the island provoked a series of dreams reflecting both on the trauma of this passage and his own struggles of integration in France. As George Perec states in his 1980 text, Récits d’Ellis Island, histoires d’errance et d’espoir, “Ellis Island is the very place of exile, that is to say, the place of placelessness, the non-place, the nowhere”. In Nicholas’ text on Ellis Island, he forms a narrative situating himself somewhere between France and the United States, albeit, haunted by a departure from Greece.
ELLIS ISLAND will be accompanied by a reading of a short excerpt of Nicholas’ text HÔTEL NEPTUNE; an account of the author’s final visit to his grandparent’s hotel prompted by a clairvoyant dream about the hotel’s infrastructure that led him to an existential voyage revisiting an architecture that during his childhood was in constant movement and transformation and sets the stage for a family drama.
The program will feature a light show along with a surprise sound intervention.
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5. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at archive-it.org
We have spent the last year creating a digital archive of the Frank Moore online empire at Archive-It. At this point, there are two “Collections” in the archive:
Frank Moore’s Web of All Possibilities
https://archive-it.org/collections/21616
This is the archive of Frank’s web site eroplay.com. This collection is not quite finished yet and you may find some missing content. For example, the Frank Moore Archives blog at eroplay.org has not been archived yet. In the near future, we will subscribe for another year and complete everything.
Frank Moore – Frankly Speaking on Substack
https://archive-it.org/collections/21976
This is the complete collection of Frank’s writing that we have posted on Substack through March 2024.
Archive-It collections use the Wayback Machine to display website archives. If you are unfamiliar with the Wayback Machine, after you click on a link to view a page, a calendar will open where you can select an archive to view. The date/s when an archive was created is highlighted with a light blue dot. Click on one of the dots to open the archive. Please note that Wayback Machine archives take longer to fully open than a normal web page.
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6. RT Livingston, FF Alumn, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, thru July 28
One of my fingerprint pieces from the IDENTITY CRISIS series is in this inaugural exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art called The New Salon Arte del Pueblo. Please visit in person or visit this link:
https://www.mcasantabarbara.org/event/the-new-salon-arte-del-pueblo/
Thank you. RT Livingston
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7. Adele Ursone, FF Member, at Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, opening Aug. 2
Adele Ursone
New Paintings
August 2nd through September 2nd
Opening reception, Friday, August 2nd, 2-5:30
TURTLE GALLERY
Fine Art, Sculpture, and Contemporary Craft PO Box 219 ~ 61 N. Deer Isle rd. ~
Deer Isle, ME 04627
theturtlegallery.com
207 348 9977
Thursday thru Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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8. Jenny Graf Sheppard, FF Intern Alumn, at Trafo, Szczecin, Poland, August 3
Jenny Graf Sheppard
Speaker Release
Saturday August 3, 7 pm
Trafo, Szczecin, Poland
trafo.art
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9. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at T Space Rhinebeck, NY, opening July 20
‘T’ Space Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, NY
Solo exhibition, July 20 – October 13, 2024
Artist Q&A, Saturday, July 20, 3-5pm
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Shou Sugi Ban, a solo exhibition of new sculptural works by James Casebere at ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck, NY. For this exhibition, Casebere will present a series of large-scale wooden geometric sculptures that engage notions of synthetic nature and bio-design, referencing organic and inorganic growth. The exhibition will open to the public during Upstate Art Weekend (July 18 – 21). James Casebere will be at the gallery in Rhinebeck to speak with visitors on Saturday, July 20 from 3-5pm.
Throughout Casebere’s oeuvre, he has addressed architecture by photographing table-sized models he constructed. In the late ’80s and early ‘90’s, Casebere built larger sculptural installations, but only recently has felt compelled to design structures as stand alone objects. The impulse behind these sculpture was partly to create real life experiences instead of on-screen ones, and to address materiality, space, and the use of light—crafting an analog experience that engages all the senses in a social context.
In this new body of work, Casebere embraces the unique process of Shou Sugi Ban, a traditional Japanese method of preservation, where pieces of wood are burned and charred to create a warm, soft, and organic surface in place of something cold, hard, and like steellike. Using a sustainable bamboo plywood as the base material, the works are constructed in a similar method to the way Casebere builds his original table-top models.
Exhibition programming
Artist Q&A Saturday, July 20, 3-5pm
The Archive Gallery, ‘T’ Space Rhinebeck
60 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY, 12572
Artist Talk with James Casebere Tuesday, July 23, 11am
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10. Karen Finley, Hans Haacke, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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11. Meghana Karnik on Governors Island, NYC, opening July 27
Dear friends,
It’s my pleasure to invite you to the opening of Hope is a discipline (July 27 – September 29, 2024) at The Arts Center at Governors Island. This is the culminating exhibition of my Curatorial Fellowship at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, an inaugural residency for curators launched in March. The exhibition was curated with Marina Christodoulidou, Billy Fowo, and Eugene Hannah Park, three curators I met during de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam. They will join me in person Saturday, July 27, 3 PM for a listening session, followed by an opening reception, 4-6 PM. I hope you can make it.
Hope is a discipline inhabits the words of Mariame Kaba, who conceptualizes hope as neither just a feeling, nor a horizon but something we do together, using the resources we already have. A previous iteration took place in Amsterdam. LMCC’s iteration on Governors Island foregrounds memory and political inheritance, featuring Adama Delphine Fawundu, Kyuri Jeon, Suneil Sanzgiri, Bread and Puppet Theater, and Maggie Wong.
This exhibition marks a return to New York for me and I hope it can be the occasion for us to reconnect! If not at the opening, let me give you a curatorial tour during the show (Weekends 12-6 until September 29). Please reach out and we can plan a visit together.
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12. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, at JFK Airport, Queens, NY
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