CONTENTS:
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1. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, performs at the Chashama Theater, Wednesday, September 4th and 25th, 2002.
2. Cloud Seeding Circus, Susana Cook and Jess Dobkin – all FF Alumn – at the Kitchen Neighborhood Street Fair on Saturday, September 14th, 2002.
3. Diane Ludin, FF Alumn, presents Kingdom of Piracy at Ars Electronica and online – September 7-12, 2002
4. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn responds to the past 12 months in “After the 11th” at Bridgewater Fine Arts Gallery – Sep 10-October 31
5. Erika Yeoman, FF Alumn, presents HARDHEAD FLAIR at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum’s POPCORN 2002, Saturday, September 21, 8pm.
6. Yoshiko Chuma and Ann Carlson, FF Alumn, will perform as guest choreographers in Christopher Elam’s Misnomer Dance event at chashama, September 12, 22, 23, 26 and 29.
7. Visual Books artist Scott McCarney gives Book Binding Workshop at Visual Studies Workshop
September 21-22, 2002
8. Organic garlic ordained as new social currency in public network project conceived by Shu Lea Cheang. Public garlic exchange – September 27,28,29 in New York
9. James Siena, FF Alumn to present talk at Triple Candie, Harlem’s New Venue for Art and Ideas, Monday September 9th.
10. Voice of Anna Mosby Coleman, FF Alumn in performance by Sarah Drury, at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival
11. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, FF Alumn, in exhibition at Topkapi Museum, Istanbul opens September 11th
12. Jess Dobkin, FF Alumn to MC a night of performance – “Drag is a Many Gendered Thing” at Pope Joan, Toronto – September 7, 2002
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1. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, performs at the Chashama Theater, Wednesday, September 4th and 25th, 2002.
George Ferrandi annotates her family’s history using a funeral photograph, projections of cartoon rabbits and a toy saxaphone in this darkly whimsical monologue, A Tracing in Lighter Colors. This piece closes out an amazing 2 hour show featuring a wonderfully eclectic bill of musicians, puppeteers and performance artists: Sxip Shirey, Lisa D’Amour, Rema Sands, John Moran and Erin Eagar.
8:00 pm
Wednesday, Sept 4th and 25th
Chashama Theater
125 W. 42nd Street
$10.00 at door
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2. Cloud Seeding Circus, Susana Cook and Jess Dobkin – all FF alumns – at the Kitchen Neighborhood Street Fair on Saturday, September 14th, 2002.
Cloud Seeding Circus of the Performative Object and their disgruntled fairy, Tink, host The Kitchen’s Annual Neighborhood Street Fair. Cloud Seeding will premier a mini-musical featuring a low tech Busby Berkeley-esque love story: Boy meets girl, Boy falls into a volcano and is eaten by a host of giant cardboard crustaceans after a lovely synchronized swimming sequence. Also included in the Kitchen’s Street Fair event are: Jess Dobkin, who will be offering portraitures, and Susana Cook – doing drag make-overs, accompanied by local drag kings.
The Kitchen’s neighborhood Street Fair
Saturday, September 14th
2:00 – 5:00
512 W. 19th Street
free
(212) 255-5793
Cloud Seeding will perform the piece again in an evening of live performance at Chashama Theater on September 18th.
8:00 pm
Wednesday, 18th
Chashama Theater
125 W. 42nd Street
$10.00 at door
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3. Diane Ludin, FF Alumn, presents Kingdom of Piracy at Ars Electronica and online.
Kingdom of Piracy <KOP>
Online Project
Premiere: Ars Electronica, September 7-12,2002.
http://www.aec.at/kop
Joint Curation: Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata
Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is an online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content – often condemned as piracy – as the net’s ultimate art form. Commissioned by the Acer Digital Art Center [ADAC] in Taiwan for ArtFuture 2002, <KOP> was designed to include links, objects, ideas, software, commissioned artists’ projects, critical writing and online streaming media events. Hailed as the first international online exhibition sponsored by Taiwan’s computer giant Acer Group, a pilot website <kop.adac.com.tw> was launched in December 2001 and presented with a press conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipai, Taiwan.
In April 2002 the leadership and direction of ADAC changed. At about the same time a major anti-piracy initiative was launched in Taiwan. <KOP> became a politically sensitive issue in Taiwan and by May, the curatorial and artists’ FTP access to the <KOP> server was denied. By mid-June, <kop.adac.com.tw> was taken offline. ADAC demanded editorial rights to artists’ links and requested a change of the title, Kingdom of Piracy. The joint curatorial team rejected this demand and sought ways of preserving the project as both a Taiwanese initiative and an International online art project. Through the efforts of ADAC’s former director Ray Wang, <KOP> server access at ADAC was resumed. However, an IP address 211.73.224.150 was assigned, the use of the domain name is denied.
<KOP> will now be premiered at Ars Electronica, September 7-12,2002
[Artists’ projects]
-Low Level_All_Stars (BEIGE vs. RSG)
-Global Village Health Manual v.1 (Raqs Media Collective + Joy Chatterjee),
-Stealth Waltz (Mukul Patel & Manu Luksch)
-injunction generator (ubermorgen.com)
-The File That Wouldn’t Leave(0100101110101101.org)
-ResourceHanger+ (doubleNegatives)
-I love you, world (Vladimir Radisic)
-Explorer 98 game (EASTWOOD – Real Time Strategy Group)
-HIGH BALL (exonemo)
-Warriors of Perception: Search and Manifest (Agnese Trocchi)
-i_Biology Patent Engine: (i-BPE)(Diane Ludin)
-All Universe for heike, dragan and internet explorer (Olia Lialina)
-Top 100 Net Blockers (Dragan Espenschied, Alvar Freude).
[Writers’ projects]
-The Right to Copy: Local study on piracy as an art form (Whiteg weng)
-Distributed Media -> Digital Abundance: Property Decay in C21? (J.J. King)
-Culture Without Commodities:From Dada to Open Source and Beyond (Felix Stalder).
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4. Norm Magnusson, FF alum responds to the past 12 months in “After the 11th” at Bridgewater Fine Arts Gallery – Sep 10-October 31
In “After the 11th,” I’ve identified the emotional and intellectual states I’ve gone through since Sept. 11, 2001 and have created a piece of art corresponding to each. There are 45 pieces in all, beginning with Disbelief and Admiration of bravery, and ending with the Feeling that things will be okay, Dread, and Nostalgia. An enormous ransom note from terrorists represents Violation. For Resentment, I created a noose from nearly 200 U.S. dollar bills, and for The Willingness to trade civil liberties for protection there is a gas mask made from parchment reproductions of The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. The largest piece in the show will be Magnitude of loss, two 60 foot long coat racks upon which will hang 2,819 empty hangers.
Visitors to the exhibition will be invited to write the name of one of the victims on a claim check and hang it on a hanger, keeping the claim stub as their own remembrance. Donations for participation in this will be requested and given to a fund benefitting children who lost a parent in the tragedy.”
BridgewaterFineArts will be located at 70 Wooster St., between Spring and Broome for September and October, 2002.
Contact: Paul Bridgewater (917) 406-3644, Norm Magnusson (917) 686-0451
bwfinearts.com/magnusson.htm
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5. Erika Yeoman, FF Alumn, presents HARDHEAD FLAIR at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum’s POPCORN 2002, Saturday, September 21, 8pm.
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
PH 805.966.5373 FX 805.962.1421
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6. Yoshiko Chuma will be a guest choreographer September 16, and Ann Carlson will be guest choreographer September 22 in Christopher Elam’s Misnomer Dance event at chashama.
Chris Elam presents five evenings of dance, September 12, 22, 23, 26 and 29. In addition to his repertory, each show includes a piece by a guest choreographer, including Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky, Edisa Weeks, and Thoth (of 2002 Academy-Award winning documentary “Thoth”.) The result of a full year’s work, this concert features 7 dances, 19 performers, original music by Andrew Teirstein, and a photo exhibition by Mark Murray.
Elam’s extended stay in Turkey, dance studies in Indonesia, and personal artistic exploration influence these new works. Music ranges from Tuvian throat singing to Judy Collins.
Dancers include: Julian Barnett, Christina Briggs, Eliza Carollo, Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Sean Curran, Abbey Dehnert, Chris Elam, Sarah Galender, Nick Goldsmith, Jennifer Harmer, Heidi Latsky, Maria Mavridou, Catey Ott, Jessica Reed, Amber Sloan, Thoth, Jocelyn Tobias, Edisa Weeks.
Lighting Design: Gregg Carville
Costumes: Sarah McMillian
Sept 16th 8pm (with Yoshiko Chuma)
Sept 22nd 8:30pm (with Ann Carlson)
Sept 23rd 8:30pm (with Sean Curran)
Sept 26th 10:15pm (with Edisa Weeks, and Thoth)
Sept 29th 9pm (with Heidi Latsky)
CHASHAMA THEATER (www.chashama.org)
Presented by Chip Deffaa Invitational Festival
135 W. 42nd Street (bet. 6th ave. and Broadway), NYC
Tickets: $10 Advance ticket sells at 212.206.1515 www.smarttix.com
**Check out the new Website www.misnomer.org for photos and info
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7. Visual Books artist Scott McCarney gives Book Binding Workshop at Visual Studies Workshop
September 21-22, 2002
A LEATHER BINDING AND DROP SPINE BOOK BOX WORKSHOP will be presented by Scott McCarney and Keith Smith on Saturday and Sunday: September 21-22; 9:30-4:30pm.
Weekend and short-term evening workshops at Visual Studies Workshop are beingoffered in Boookbinding and Boxmaking, Video Production, Digital Video Editing (Final Cut Pro), Web Design, Photoshop, Digital Photography, After Effects, Digital Audio (Pro Tools), Computer Text and Image, Simple Programming for Artists and Pinhole Photography.
Check out the catalog at http://www.vsw.org/
for a printed catalog: mailto:info@vsw.org
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, NY 14607
tel: 585-442-8676
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8. Organic garlic ordained as new social currency in public network project conceived by Shu Lea Cheang – public garlic exchange – September 27,28,29 in New York
GARLIC=RICH AIR is the second and third phase of “St(r)eaming the Fields”,a field harvesting and public network project, conceived by Shu Lea Cheangwith funding from the “Challenge to the Field” award of Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Media.
In a fictional “After the crash” scenario, organic garlic is recently ordained as new social currency, serving as “credito” for the global shared network in common exchange. 10,000 garlic plants cultivated by organic farmer, Tovey Hallec, in the span of 10 years in upstate New York, were harvested by crew hands this summer.
On September 27, 28, 29, a designer truck flaunting loads of garlic and wireless technology, will serve as mobile urban farm stand and claim selected New York City wireless network nodes for online and onsite street trading activities. Members of online credito trueque club are invited to exchange their virtual garlic with edible organic garlic at the designated truck posts. Members of the public are invited to participate in garlic trading with their own offers.
GET GARLIC. GO WIRELESS
Wireless network nodes as Mobile Urban Farm Stands
ONSITE in New York City
9-27-2002 9am-11am, New York Stock Exchange,
9-27-2002 12pm-3pm, Bryant Park New York Public Library
9-27-2002 5pm-7pm, MalcolmX BLVD at W.126 st. Harlem
9-28-2002 9am-1pm, Union Square Farmer’s market
9-28-2002 3pm-6pm, Dumbo, Brooklyn
9-29-2002 3pm-8pm, Tompkins Square Park, East Village
CONSUME AND SHARE
RICH AIR GARLIC
RICH AIR BANDWIDTH
Please use Netscape 6.0 or ie 5.x to access
http://www.rich-air.com
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9. James Siena, FF Alumn to present talk at Triple Candie, Harlem’s New Venue for Art and Ideas, Monday September 9th.
James Siena opens a series of seven informal evenings with seven visual artists at Triple Candie. Other artists include: Brett Cook-Dizney, September 10; Tony Gray, September 19, Sheila Pepe, September 23, David Humphrey, September 26, Nadine Robinson, October 3 and Laylah Ali, October 4.All talks are FREE and open to the public, and begin at 7.00pm
Triple Candie is located at 461 West 126th Street in Harlem.
For more information visit www.triplecandie.org or call (212)865 0783
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10. Voice of Anna Mosby Coleman, FF Alumn in performance by Sarah Drury, at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Vocalalia: an interactive sound and video performance/installation with two singers and active microphones, elaborating the song “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
Performance/Installation by Sarah Drury
Performers: Kendall Roark, Sarah Drury
Video: Vicken Kazanjian, Sarah Drury
Technician: Chase Bowman
Recorded Voices: Anna Mosby Coleman, Anna Dembska, Sarah Drury, Kendall Roark
at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival
The Sound & Word Warehouse
108 Arch Street
Info and Tickets: 215-413-1318
Performances:
Thursday, Sept 5, Friday, Sept 6, Thursday, Sept 12, Friday, Sept 13,
Saturday, Sept 14
All shows 8:30-9pm
5$ admission
The installation will also be open from Sept. 6 through Sept. 14, during intermissions in the Sound & Word performance schedule.
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11. FF Alumn Stephanie Brody-Lederman in exhibition at Topkapi Museum, Istanbul opens September 11th.
“True Colors,” a traveling exhibition of 59 artists, organized by The Meridian Traveling Exhibitions Service, will open at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, Turkey on September 11th, 2002. The Department of State is underwriting the shipping. The show will subsequently travel to: Ankara, Turkey, The Allied Museum in Berlin, Germany, Atlanta, and LA with other venues to be announced.
The show’s tour ends in January 2004.
Among the artists represented in the exhibition are: FF alumn Stephanie Brody-Lederman, plus John Alexander, Carol Anthony, Benny Andrews, Carmen Einfinger, Bruce Davidson, Sam Gilliam, Red Grooms, Jayne Holsinger, David Levinthal, Sally Mann, Sam Messer, and Faith Ringgold.
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12. Jess Dobkin, FF Alumn in “Drag is a Many Gendered Thing” at Pope Joan, Toronto – September 7, 2002
A Night of Performance with MC Jess Dobkin featuring performances by JesseJamesBondage, Papito, The New Cocks on the Block, Jess Dobkin and many others.
Saturday, September 7th 10pm
at Pope Joan
547 Parliament Street, Toronto
Admission: $7.00 before 10pm, $10.00 after.
There are a limited number of subsidized tickets available for underemployed/students. Those interested in a subsidized ticket should e-mail bigdaddykings@hotmail.com.
