Contents for September 9th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art 2024-2025 grant recipients, announced today, 9th September 2024
1. Jacki Apple, Skúta Helgason, Dick Higgins, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, online Sept. 19, and more
2. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL, thru Oct. 26
3. John Cage, John Giorno, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Brad Melamed, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneemann, Sur Rodney (Sur), Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
4. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening Sept. 19
5. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, fall news
6. John Boone, Micki Watanabe Spiller, Karen Shaw, FF Alumns, at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, opening Sept. 20
7. Bojana Coklyat, FF Alumn, at Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, thru Dec. 22
8. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, FF Alumn, at Participant, Manhattan, opening Sept. 6
9. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, at Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain, opening Sept. 12
10. Alicia Grullõn, FF Alumn, named Mellon Community Fellow, The New School, Manhattan
11. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at Olympia, San Francisco, opening Sept. 27
12. Joe Lewis, FF Alumn, now online at bandcamp.com
13. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Sid Jacobson JCC, Greenvale, NY, thru Dec. 1
14. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Alumn, at Kultum, Graz, Austria, opening Sept. 27
15. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, fall news
16. Louise Lawler, FF Alumn, at 601Artspace, Manhattan, opening Sept. 13
17. Adriene Jenik, Aline Mare, Ed Ruscha, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at MOAH, Lancaster, CA, thru Dec. 29
18. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, new publication
19. Sally Apfelbaum, Katie Cercone, Day de Dada, Laure Drogoul, FF Alumns, at Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 18-20
20. Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, at The Art Room, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 28
21. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, fall news
22. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at International Festival of Live Arts, Forli, Italy, Sept. 14
23. Mark Bloch, Ray Johnson, FF Alumns, at NYU, Manhattan, opening Sept. 17
24. Charles Dennis, Bob Goldberg, FF Alumns, at Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, Sept. 27-28
25. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, Sept. 27-28
26. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, at 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, thru Oct. 6
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Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit these link:
https://lievengevaertcentre.be/news/passing-peter-downsbrough
https://www.argosarts.org/event/argos-tv67
Thank you.
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This season marks the 39th anniversary of the Franklin Furnace FUND. Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace has annually awarded grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to prepare major performance art works in New York. This season, Franklin Furnace received 252 applications.
Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art 2024-25 grant recipients are:
Malcolmx Betts (Bronx, NY)*
Jade Blackstock (London, UK)
j. bouey (Brooklyn, NY)*
Kyle b. co (Brooklyn, NY)*
Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny (Newark, NJ)
Estephania González (Tempe, AZ)
Stephanie Mercedes (Brooklyn, NY)*
Alex Romania (Brooklyn, NY)*
Lara Salmon (Los Angeles, CA)
Koloto Siraji (Jinja, Uganda)
Kimiko Tanabe (Brooklyn, NY)*
Anh Vo (Brooklyn, NY)*
* FUND award supported by Jerome Foundation.
* To view artist profiles and their project, please visit: https://shorturl.at/95Z8e
Panelists 2024-25
Francheska Alcantara, Bryan Zanisnik, Caroline Garcia, Ogemdi Ude and Justin Allen.
This year’s peer artist review panel met in early July and decided to award seven $5,500 and five 4,000 grants from support Franklin Furnace received from Jerome Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
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1. Jacki Apple, Skúta Helgason, Dick Higgins, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, online Sept. 19, and more
Visual Studies Workshop presents the online program Options in Independent Art Publishing conference https://www.vsw.org/vsw-salon/salon-fall-2024/september-options-in-independent-art-publishing/ at 7 PM ET streaming at Twitch.tv (no need to sign up in advance)
Visual Studies Workshop has launched their first Salon/line program of the fall season, featuring recently digitized archival material from the Options in Independent Art Publishing conference which took place at VSW in Rochester, New York in 1979. This historic symposium brought together “people interested in the field of independent art publishing to participate in a program of presentations, exhibitions and seminars covering the history and criticism of artists’ books….” (from conference brochure). The gathering included artist book makers, publishers, critics and enthusiasts from all over the world, including Jacki Apple and Martha Wilson (both of Franklin Furnace), Dick Higgins (Something Else Press), Ulises Carrión (book artist), and Felipe Ehrenberg (Beau Geste Press and Schmuck magazine).
The online exhibition showcases archival selections from the OIAP conference, including a gallery of images and ephemera, a playlist of the near-complete audio recordings of each featured speaker, and a selection of video interviews and excerpts captured during the conference. To revisit the many issues discussed in these recordings through a contemporary lens, we are hosting a conversation on September 19th with a panel of artists, critics and publishers, including conference organizer Don Russell, VSW Press founder Joan Lyons, D.A.P. Director of Artbook Retail Skúta Helgason, and Megan N. Liberty, Art Book editor for the Brooklyn Rail; moderated by Tate Shaw of VSW Press.
Online exhibition: https://www.vsw.org/vsw-salon/salon-fall-2024/september-options-in-independent-art-publishing/
Audio Recordings of Conference Presentations: https://soundcloud.com/user-501846314/sets/options-in-independent-art
Gallery of Ephemera: https://www.vsw.org/options-in-independent-art-publishing-ephemera/
Video Interviews and Excerpts: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11308005
September 19th roundtable with Conference organizers and participants: https://www.vsw.org/vsw-salon/salon-fall-2024/september-options-in-independent-art-publishing/sept-19-ind-publishing-panel-discussion/
Jacki Apple presentation audio: https://soundcloud.com/user-501846314/jacki-apple-bookworks-of-franklin-furnace?in=user-501846314/sets/options-in-independent-art
Martha Wilson presentation audio: https://soundcloud.com/user-501846314/martha-wilson-1?in=user-501846314/sets/options-in-independent-art
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2. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL, thru Oct. 26
OPENING | #23
Andrew Rafacz Gallery | September 6 – October 26, 2026
1749 W Chicago Ave | Chicago, IL
#23
In 1995, Leonardo was the captain of the Queens Falcons, a borough football team from Queens, NY. The artist grew up in an era punctuated by interracial strife. Events such as the Central Park jogger case in 1989, the Crown Heights Riot and beating of Rodney King both in 1991, the subsequent Los Angeles race riots the following year, and the acquittal of O.J. Simpson in the fall of 1995 all contributed to a complex backdrop of local and national conflicts defined by race. However, he and his teammates, under the mentorship of a diverse coaching staff led by an older Jewish head coach, moved beyond individual ethnic and cultural divides to truly bond as a team.
They were the only multiracial team in their league, and despite their differences, rough practices on asphalt and dirt, beatings from other teams, and epic inter-borough rivalries, they rallied over the course of one magical undefeated season to trounce their opponents and take home that year’s championship.
The artist has long since left football behind, but his work remains deeply influenced by his early experiences with masculinity, community, competition, identity and place. Utilizing interviews with coaches and teammates, Leonardo—with the help of actors— reembodies that unforgettable season and ponders the question, ‘was it really as good as we remember it?’
We Went Undefeated is a multichannel video installation centering on the relationships and memories of the artist’s younger self (performed by Nas Rodriguez), his former teammates (as themselves) and head coach Norman Kane (Alan Schneier). The footage moves between rehearsals of monologues extracted from transcribed interviews by the artist with his former coach and teammates, and the reenactment of those memories on the original field where they practiced and played. Transitioning between screens and moving between the studio and the field, the viewer is surrounded by Leonardo and his teammates’ attempts to embody those memories—a process of words moving to action, as the recalled past becomes a dynamic present.
In conversation with We Went Undefeated, Leonardo also presents large-scale charcoal on paper drawings from two ongoing series that explore the complexities of the sport, during and after. These works from his Concussion and CTE series draw on the artist’s own experiences as a football player and coach, and extend to his recent investigations into sports-related head trauma. Taken together, these series depict the intimate experience of engaging in a contact sport and the hard science of its deleterious results. They both embody Leonardo’s memories of the rituals of violence embedded in football—utilized to foster team unity as players are forced to not only collectively exert a certain level of aggression, but also suffer the same pain.
Referencing Leonardo’s own number as a player, #23 asks important and difficult questions. As the artist articulates, ‘why, as young men, would we commit ourselves to a rite of passage that necessitates violence as a means of obtaining a sense of belonging? What continues to draw us back to this concept of team and its associations of honor and glory, even when all evidence shows that the punishment quite literally eats away at our ability to think… to be human?’
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3. John Cage, John Giorno, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Brad Melamed, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneemann, Sur Rodney (Sur), Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening Sept. 19
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to present Scrawlspace, a new group exhibition curated by Emily Alesandrini and Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh at The 8th Floor on view from September 19 through December 7, 2024.
The project brings together work by artists of the African diaspora who conceptually mine and
aesthetically manipulate text, writing, and language. Artists include Sadie Barnette, Lukaza
Branfman-Verissimo, Sonya Clark, Tony Cokes, Renee Gladman, Kameelah Janan
Rasheed, Steffani Jemison, Glenn Ligon, Adam Pendleton, Jamilah Sabur, Gary
Simmons, and Shinique Smith.
Scrawlspace explores the in/ability of language and writing to fully encapsulate Black
experiences. Through the visual re/working, re/imagining, and de/construction of texts, Black
artists examine historically charged relationships to the written word while revealing new
possibilities for and beyond writing. Some render phrases and words illegible, glyphic, or coded
to the point that letters and graphic gestures no longer constitute language but become images,
demonstrating an opacity, complexity, and multiplicity of meanings beyond sanctioned readings
and definitions. The act of annotating and obscuring words and documents often serves as an
intervention into difficult histories, such as the threat and power of state documentation and
unknowable silences and omissions within the archive. And yet, artists also demonstrate how
language can be utilized in acts of refusal, sabotage, and liberation, serving as instruments in
community and world-building, and to explore pleasure and identity.
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, fall news
Dear Friends!
I hope this note reaches everyone in good spirits as the seasons change!
I’m thrilled to share a series of events that my work will be showcased in over the next months and into the new year. Each of these projects is a personal exploration of identity, movement, and space—expressed and performed with love and care. I hope you’ll join me on this journey.
Cheers,
Brendan
Brendan Fernandes: In Two
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Performance Dates: September 7, November 8 & 9, January 17 & 18
Exhibition: September 7, 2024 – February 2, 2025
At the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, I’ll be presenting “In Two,” a dance performance series that interacts with Scott Burton’s “furniture sculptures.” These works, which were originally intended for public use, serve as a backdrop for a series of duets. The performances explore themes of queer camouflage, visibility, and embodiment, highlighting Burton’s lasting impact on artists today.
Build up the House
Art on the Mart
Performance Dates: September 12 – November 27, 2024
With “Build up the House,” I am exploring the idea of decolonizing architecture across the Western world by projecting “new” doorways and windows onto the façade of the Mart building. This will be accompanied by a house music soundscape, transforming the Riverwalk into a lively gathering and dancing space.
Movements Towards Freedom
MCA Denver
Exhibition Dates: September 20, 2024 – February 2, 2025
At MCA Denver, “Movements Towards Freedom” examines the power, possibility, and vulnerability of bodily movement in contemporary life. The exhibition features a new work of mine, “We came to dance,” a hybrid of sculpture, sound, and performance space. This piece, along with others, explores how the articulation of our bodies, collectively and singularly, informs and shapes a vital society.
Soft/Cover
The Fabric Workshop
Program Dates: November 14, 2024 – 2025
In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, “Soft/Cover” presents new works that delve into the subtle intersections of digital and physical spaces. Inspired by Scott Burton’s “Shape Shift,” this installation features translucent fabric and soft props that contrast with the hardness of traditional sculpture, creating a tactile, interactive experience.
On Flashing Lights
Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home
Performance Date: February 2, 2025
Finally, at Prospect.6 in New Orleans, I will close the biennial—consisting of newly commissioned work of 49 artists spanning approximately 20 venues and unconventional spaces—with “On Flashing Lights.” This performance, set within a barricade of police vehicles, juxtaposes the vibrant sounds of DJs from queer, immigrant, and racialized communities with the stark lights of law enforcement, prompting a confrontation between these tense groups and envisioning a different future.
Brendan Fernandes
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6. John Boone, Micki Watanabe Spiller, Karen Shaw, FF Alumns, at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, opening Sept. 20
No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor
Clothing conveys impressions of social background, economic status, and ethnicity. Much like physical features, it serves as a powerful tool for self-expression and understanding others. Our inclination to categorize people based on their attire also shapes our reactions to them. How often do we subconsciously assign meanings to clothing that may not truly represent the wearer?
The altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies disrupts our automatic responses by challenging perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs, and portraiture itself. Free from physicality, these works compel us to confront our assumptions, as well as the ever-growing societal tendency to compartmentalize people, behavior, and social media that increasingly rules our thinking. What does it mean to deconstruct a garment by unraveling it, burning it, or transforming it into another material? What does clothing symbolize when there never was, or will be, a body inside?
Curated by independent curator Alva Greenberg.
Please visit this link:
https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/no-bodies
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7. Bojana Coklyat, FF Alumn, at Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, thru Dec. 22
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, FF Alumn, at Participant, Manhattan, opening Sept. 6
“flipping through pages keeping a record of time”:
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert
Curated by Jacob Korczynski
September 6 – November 3, 2024
Opening Friday, September 6, 7-9pm
Performance
Jimmy Robert – Object/My affection (2007-2024)
Performed by Raymond Pinto
Sunday, September 8, 5pm
And Sundays through November 3
From September 6 – November 3, 2024, PARTICIPANT INC presents “flipping through pages keeping a record of time”: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert, curated by Jacob Korczynski.
“flipping through pages keeping a record of time” proposes an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Sharing a prolific engagement with performance, Super 8 film, and text, this assembly of their work in all three mediums takes the limit of the page as both material and a contested site of meaning.
New location
116 Elizabeth Street, floor one
NY NY 10013
bottom buzzer for entry
Hours
Wednesday–Sunday, noon-7pm
Image: Jimmy Robert, Untitled (2005), A4-sized painted aluminum sheets and cardboard box. Collection of Hugo Brown. Exhibition view from Persona (2008) at the Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain. Photo: Aurélien Mole © Parc Saint Léger [A color installation view of a brown cardboard box sitting on a concrete floor. On top sits two white objects that resemble slightly curled, white pieces of paper. Another leans on the box, and two more are scattered behind the box.]
The work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha appears through the generous cooperation of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
“flipping through pages keeping a record of time” is made possible by a Fall 2020 Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Additional support for the exhibition is kindly provided by the Villa Albertine.
PARTICIPANT INC’s exhibitions and public programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Our programs are supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Archiving and documentation projects are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Online projects are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of NYSCA and Wave Farm.
PARTICIPANT INC’s exhibitions and online programs are made possible by Teiger Foundation.
PARTICIPANT INC is supported by an Artists Council Grant of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
PARTICIPANT INC receives generous support from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust; Agnes Gund Foundation; Marta Heflin Foundation; Marieluise Hessel Foundation; The Ruth Ivor Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation; VIA | Wagner Incubator Grant Fund; The Jacques Louis Vidal Charitable Fund; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; FRIENDS of PARTICIPANT INC; numerous individuals; and Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Dept. of Education.
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9. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, at Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain, opening Sept. 12
Liliana Porter
Otra Cuentos Inconclusivos
opening 9/12/2024, 13:30-22 pm
Galeria Espacio Minimo
Doctor Fourquet, 17. 28012 Madrid. Spain
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10. Alicia Grullõn, FF Alumn, named Mellon Community Fellow, The New School, Manhattan
Happy to announce that I am a Mellon Inivitate Community Fellow at the New School. I will be working on PERCENT FOR GREEN, a project supported in the past by Franklin Furnace for INclimate in 2014. PERCENT FOR GREEN is a campaign to pass climate change legislation which addresses environmental racism and systemic social inequities.
https://mellon.newschool.org/2024/08/introducing-the-2024-2025-mellon-initiative-fellowship-cohort
Thank you.
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11. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at Olympia, San Francisco, opening Sept. 27
Please visit this link:
https://olympiart.org/wall-street-guillotine
Thank you.
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12. Joe Lewis, FF Alumn, now online at bandcamp.com
I just released an audio recording – de las sombras – in collaboration with Marisabel Bazan and John Chiodini. It is part of an ongoing performance piece, “Freightliner on the Underground Railroad – Freightliner en el Ferrocarril Subterráneo.”
Adapted from the “Song of the French Partisan,” the audio performance refers to undocumented people’s secretive lives, the tribulations of entering the US illegally through Mexico, and the reality of sacrificing everything for a chance at a better life for themselves and their families in America undocumented people’s secretive lives, the tribulations of entering the US illegally through Mexico, and the reality of sacrificing everything for a chance at a better life for themselves and their families in America.
https://joelewisthreeblackbungalows.bandcamp.com/album/de-las-sombras-from-the-shadows-the-single
Thank you.
Joe Lewis
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13. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Sid Jacobson JCC, Greenvale, NY, thru Dec. 1
“Getting There” is an exhibition of earlier work at the Sid Jacobson JCC at 300 Forest Drive, Greenvale, Long Island, NY (across from the Nassau County Museum of Art). The exhibit runs from September 3- December 1, 2014. Bicycle paintings from the 1980’s flank 45 small paintings of cityscapes and landscapes made between 2000 and 2010. Hours are: Monday-Thursdays: 6am-10pm, Friday: 6am-5:30pm Saturday and Sunday: 7am-6pm. Parking is at the Center.
Dee Shapiro
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14. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Alumn, at Kultum, Graz, Austria, opening Sept. 27
Erasion
Zlatko Kopljar
The fundamental questions of ethics, guilt, and sacrifice are a recurring motif in Kopljar’s work. Over almost four decades, he has explored practically all forms of artistic expression, from performance, photography, film, and sculpture to (memorial) art. In his 22 Ks (Constructions), he gradually develops the figure of a man in a reflective suit: the protagonist of his video works, a persona like a lightning rod for human longing. Four years ago, Kopljar decided to paint for the first time—and only paint henceforth. He consistently avoids any obvious message in these “stripe paintings.”
OPENING: Fr, 27th of September 2024, 6. p.m.
KULTUM, Mariahilferplatz 3, 8020 Graz, Austria
INTRODUCTION: Dr. Johannes Rauchenberger, Curator
Tue–Sat 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun 3 to 6 p.m. (winter: 2 p.m.–5 p.m.)
CURATOR AND ARTIST-TALK: Sat, 28th of September, 3 p.m.:
Johannes Rauchenberger in conversation with Zlatko Kopljar
27. SEPT 2024—12. JAN 2025
Mariahilferplatz
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15. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, fall news
Hello there on the other side of the screen,
I’m sharing news of upcoming events and releases in the coming months (and this evening).
[Tonight] September 3 2024 Tiger D and KUZU. fm
This evening, Tuesday, September 3rd: Tune in to Tiger D, on the radio and online at KUZU.fm The program runs from 8-10 PM Central (9-11 PM Eastern) where I am for a guest session with host, Sarah Ruth Alexander. Sounding out in Denton, TX, and streaming everywhere else at KUZU.FM.
Here is a link to tune in: https://www.kuzu.fm/
New Album is now available
My album, P’shal Pshaw, is now out with Raster Media as part of the “White Noise” series.
P’shal Pshaw, (white noise #002) is a limited edition vinyl record with an accompanying booklet that details my work and research in conversation with curator, Eike Walkenhorst. The project is a multimedia exploration delving into phonetic expression’s auditory and rhythmic nuances of phonetic expressions through an amalgamation of text, sound, video, data, and customized learning software. The album delves into the sonic landscape of 8 diphthongs in US English through exemplary words in stages of repetition, recorded with participants from diverse backgrounds.
Here is a link to the album: https://raster-media.net/shop/pshal-pshaw?c=12
and: https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/pshal-p-shaw
The project originated during a residency at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt in 2023. A culmination of this project was realized as a sculptural sound installation with the same title and was exhibited at The Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany from May 16 to July 28, 2024.
Here is a link to view /read : https://www.victoriakeddie.com/pshal-pshaw
Upcoming Exhibit + Performance:
September 19-29th, Various Artists, 19 Essex St, NYC
For the release in the US, I will be exhibiting a sculptural sound installation, For the Record, at Various Artists Gallery in New York City. For this, I have incorporated custom lathe cut “singles” of selected arrangements from the album played back through a 1982 Rockola Jukebox, and further manipulated by microphone-based custom software in the room.
Friday, September 27 at 7 PM
As part of this durational staging, I will perform live within the installation, incorporating my neural instrument sounding 28 voices in dialogue with my modular synthesizer.
Various/Artists is a project space operating throughout the Fall 2024, directed by Garret Linn & Scott Kiernan. Open Thurs-Sun | 4-8pm or by appointment.
(There will be a separate PR about this soon).
In other news:
Fall Issue, Walker Reader, Walker Art Center/ Contemporary Art Museum, Minneapolis
Im contributing a bit of writing on my work with sounding spaces for an upcoming series for the Walker Reader, which features artists inspired by, or created in tandem with architecture/built environments. In addition to this online publication, copies of my record, P’shal Pshaw, will be available at the Walker Art Center/ Contemporary Art Museum store. (More on this when it is published).
The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, explores new horizons for writing about the arts and culture. Each year, the Walker Reader presents an evolving series comprised of original scholarly essay, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas that reshape us and our world.
September 13th and 14th, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
I was invited to reimagine a part of the soundtrack for, Prometheus’ Garden by animation legend, Bruce Bickford. Prometheus’ Garden is a 2008 film by the acclaimed clay animator Bruce Bickford (1947–2019). Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe of dark and magical images, unfolding in a dreamlike stream of consciousness of competing characters engaged in a violent struggle for survival.
I am one of 28 artists including members of Osees, Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, The Residents, Foetus, TV on the Radio, Psychic TV, and Lightning Bolt, each creating a minute of sound for the 28-minute film.
More information and tickets: https://cuff31.eventive.org/films/66a3df3775d8be009f18aaf4
November 16, 2024, LA Phil, Los Angeles + online
LA Phil will present the 2024 edition of the Noon to Midnight program. The daylong festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall was curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid and based around the theme of field recordings. As part of this event, there is a feature of my work in the Sound Windows collection. More soon as all goes live.
My website is here: https://www.victoriakeddie.com/
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16. Louise Lawler, FF Alumn, at 601Artspace, Manhattan, opening Sept. 13
The Invention of Truth
Curated by Gabriela Vainsencher
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street, New York
September 14th – November 17th, 2024
Save the date for the opening reception: Friday, September 13th, 6-8pm
Tirtzah Bassel
Omer Fast
Louise Lawler
Katie Paterson
Sarah Peters
Zorawar Sidhu
Kara Walker
Betty Woodman
601Artspace is delighted to present The Invention of Truth, an exhibition that looks at the ways artists use history as material in their work: distorting it, building upon it, responding to it. Each artist in the exhibition uses history to tell a story about present realities. Some draw eerie parallels between the past and the present moment; some reenact the past with a ‘twist’; others create a whole new version of the past in order to imagine what our world would be like if only history had gone a little differently.
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge St, NY NY 10002
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17. Adriene Jenik, Aline Mare, Ed Ruscha, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at MOAH, Lancaster, CA, thru Dec. 29
I’m glad to be a part of “Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees” at MOAH, Museum of Art and History, in Lancaster, California through December 29, 2024. The exhibition, part of the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide sheds light on the unique and iconic Joshua tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it. I’ve attached the announcement below. Here is the link: https://www.lancastermoah.org/moah-exhibitions.
Or https://pst.art/en/exhibitions/desert-forest-human-impact-on-joshua-trees-and-their-habitat
Additionally this article features my work in the exhibition, “Calling for Action: PST Art and Science Collide,” in Aesthetica Magazine’s current issue https://aestheticamagazine.com/calling-for-action/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFFdS9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQpDIS12nLcWMEG8TlVW0fbHXT3rKuRNxcaRCZFwn24oVpKEU52Qk4-J8w_aem_jl10dzzvw8AblwH5_loeAQ.
(The article includes an interview with myself and the curator Sant Khalsa and a display of my photomontages).
Thank you.
Ruth Wallen
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18. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, new publication
Please visit this link:
https://www.redfoxpress.com/AB-held2.html
Thank you.
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19. Sally Apfelbaum, Katie Cercone, Day de Dada, Laure Drogoul, FF Alumns, at Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 18-20
Please visit this link:
https://care.artinoddplaces.org
Thank you.
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20. Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, at The Art Room, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 28
Save The Date! Sx Celebrated: Expanding Erotic Power
September 28, 2024 | 5 events 10:00am – 10:00pm
@ The Art Room, 908 S. Olive St., LA, CA 90015 (@theartroomdtla)
A one-day pop-up installation of Jerri Allyn’s portrait banners, celebrating colleagues in pro-sex gigs accompanied by a day of events by participants, including:
Safiya Darling (@sexpositivesafiya); Nicole Rademacher (@nicrrad); Badly Licked Bear (@badlylickedbear), Dr. Allie Melendez (@drallie_melendez), Fatima Malika Shabazz; Antonia Crane (@antoniacrane), Sydney Rogers (@missbarbieqla), Mz Neon (@mz_neon); Kayla Tange (@kayla.tange), Reagan (@jankyglamour) and Nats Honey (@natshoney).
Allyn and participants explore comprehensive sex-ed, body-positive activities, and erotic laborers’ rights, examining how these intersect in their lives and society at large, noting advancements made in the last few decades.
The artists are grateful this project is supported by The National Tanes Fund, LACE’s Lightning Fund (@welcometolace) & The Art Room (@theartroom@dtla).
Jerri Allyn
Project Manager / Artist Educator Activist
(s/he, shimm/her)
310. 963. 8118
Working in Tongva & Lenape Nation territory’s
Sx Celebrated: Expanding Erotic Power
PopUp Art Installation & Events
Save the Date ! Sept 28, 2024 / 10:am-10:pm
The Art Room, 908 S. Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90015 USA
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21. Jody Oberfelder, FF Alumn, fall news
Hello all,
My mom passed away two weeks ago. I’m looking at life as a treasured thing, where each person lives as if in brackets, existing in period of history with others. I will continue making art that digs into what it means to be human, alive, and connected with you all, and the world. Thank you all for engaging with life and with my work.
Our May performance of And Then, Now at Green-Wood Cemetery explored this significance of reliance–with each other, the environment, or our collective humanity.. Nate Reininga and I are in the process of creating a short screendance with content from these performances. Here’s our two minute trailer: https://vimeo.com/958418291
Portland Dance Film Festival
My dance film, Earthly Beings, is screening at the Portland Dance Film Festival this September 26th-28th. In this poetic cinematic world, we ask: how can our embodied presence as humans yield a gentle impact on the future? How do we collaborate with each other and the earth? Click HERE for Festival Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1001390159
Life Traveler in Portland, Oregeon
While in town for the Portland Dance Film Festival, I am excited to reprise ‘Life Traveler,’ on the largest car-free bridge in the country. Join me on a walk across the “Bridge of the People,” also known as the Tilikum Crossing Bridge, and find yourself in the midst of site specific dance.
Saturday September 28th, 1-2:30pm (rain date Sunday September 29th)
Life Traveler is performed on bridges to a very simple score and vocabulary: playing with vintage prop suitcases, traversing space, and contemplating what it is to cross a bridge, all part of a life’s journey. Life Traveler is always free to the public. It has been performed on bridges in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Dusseldorf.
Feel free to reach out, check in, and be part of our process of creation. We appreciate your contributions to ongoing JOP’s projects. Click here to give: https://www.jodyoberfelder.com/donate-now
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22. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at International Festival of Live Arts, Forli, Italy, Sept. 14
The fleeting moment
Public painting / Public paintaction
Music selections by / Musical selections by Davide Fabbri and Elisa Gandini
Hyperbody 2024
International Festival of Live Arts, 20th year.
Address Address : Exit Via Ugo Bassi 16, Forlì FC
11/12/13/14 September 2024 all day
Ends at 7:15PM Saturday September 14.
On two loose canvases fixed to a wall of the large room where the Festival takes place, I paint with black acrylic shapes of all kinds piled up from edge to edge without order or preliminary drawings, sometimes with small colored retouches. I stop painting when a loud sound signal makes me lift the brush from the canvas. This painting is part of the group Crowd, paintings in black on white, sometimes composed in public.
With black acrylic I paint shapes of all types accumulated from edge to edge without preliminary order or drawings, sometimes with small colored touches, onto two loose canvases fixed on a wall of the large room in which the Festival takes place. I stop painting when a loud sound makes me take the brush off the canvas. This painting is part of the Crowd Group paintings, black on white, sometimes painted in public.
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23. Mark Bloch, Ray Johnson, FF Alumns, at NYU, Manhattan, opening Sept. 17
Opening Tues. Sept. 17, 2024 5:30-8pm
Location: Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South, Floor 2
NYU Libraries Exhibition Explores Mail Art Movement and Mark Bloch’s Postal Art Network
On view in NYU’s Special Collections Center, second floor of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, September 17-December 13, 2024
New York University Libraries present Panmodern!, an exhibition of artifacts from the Mark Bloch/Postal Art Network Archive exploring analog networks of communication, the distribution of art through international postal systems, and mail art as a precursor to present-day social networking. The exhibition will showcase examples of original mail art sent to Mark Bloch in New York City from all over the world in the form of objects, envelopes, publications, and postcards documenting avant-garde cultural activities from 1978-2024.
The show, curated by Bloch, will examine the decentralized, non-hierarchical and often misunderstood or mischaracterized nature of mail art, also known as “correspondence art” and “postal art.” Mail art developed out of Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School in the 1950s and became a global movement organized around sending small scale works through the postal system. The movement emphasized connection with other artists and egalitarian ideals that allowed artists to circumvent official art distribution and approval systems—such as art markets, museums, and galleries.
This exhibition will provide a provocative overview of the international mail art network, which has thrived below the radar of the traditional art world and the general public with its own rules and aesthetics since the mid-1950s, and continues today in the era of social media. The mail art scene has been cited as an important precursor to social media; Mark Bloch was an early convert from postal-centric to online communities, spearheading experiments in online art discussion groups and text-based teleconferencing systems.
An American mail artist whose practice is entrenched in long distance communication, Bloch is a prominent figure in the mail art scene. Since 1980, he has published Panmag, a zine documenting the New York mail art scene, and has written extensively on Fluxus—an international avant-garde collective of artists and composers founded in the 1960s—performance, communication, conceptual art, mail art, and contemporary art, including many early texts on Ray Johnson.
“It is a thrill to finally get to share this stuff with the world. I now find myself to be the caretaker of a beautiful archive of people’s heartfelt expressions. This archive tells the story of lesser-known people who are following in strong, important international art traditions, like Dada and Surrealism, and who never stopped the experimentation that was important in the first half of the twentieth century,” said Bloch.
Bloch has organized the show around ten focal points which allow visitors to explore the overarching narrative of the mail art movement through the lens of Bloch’s personal collection and history and the work of individual artists. These narrative themes include: mail art’s connection to broader communication media; Bloch’s globally-distributed artwork; the more obscure objects people mailed that pushed the boundaries of the postal service; the various tools employed by artists (such as collages, zines, and artist books); the relationship between mail art and broader artistic movements; a seminal moment in the 80s where key artists collided and re-conceptualized the mail art movement; the sub-movement of Neoism which emphasized confusion and ambiguity as the cure for societal isolation and alienation; the differences between mail art practices in different countries; and the progression from physical networks to digital communities.
Public programming, including panel discussions and screenings, will be announced at a later date.
Panmodern is on display in the NYU Special Collections Center, Second Floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place) from March 26, 2020. [Subways A,C,E, B,D,M to West 4th Street; 6 line to Astor Place; R train to 8th Street.]. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
About Mark Bloch
Mark Bloch (b. 1956), author of Robert Delford Brown: Meat Maps and Militant Metaphysics (Cameron Art Museum, 2008) and writer for Brooklyn Rail, Whitehot Magazine, New Observations, Factsheet Five and other publications, is an American artist and writer whose work uses both visuals and text to explore ideas of long distance communication.
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24. Charles Dennis, Bob Goldberg, FF Alumns, at Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, Sept. 27-28
Charles Dennis Productions announces the presentation of Avant-Garde-Arama Rises Again, a festival of short works of dance, film, music and performance art that will be presented Friday and Saturday September 27-28 at 6pm at the Lace Mill, 165 Cornell Street in Kingston, NY. Suggested admission is $20. Attendees can pay what they can afford. Parking is available on Manor Avenue and Progress Street. For further information call 917-673-9023 or email charles@charlesdennis.net.
Avant-Garde-Arama was originally created in 1980 by performance artist Charles Dennis and musician/visual artist Jeffrey Isaac at the legendary East Village, Manhattan venue Performance Space 122 (P.S. 122) now Performance Space New York. Producer Charles Dennis was a co-founder of P.S. 122 and presented his critically acclaimed inter-disciplinary dance, performance art and video in that space for over 40 years.
In 2019 Charles Dennis moved from Brooklyn, NY to Hurley, NY and began searching for opportunities to present avant-garde, experimental works in the Hudson Valley. During the summer of 2021 he curated and produced 2 Avant-Garde-Arama Programs in Woodstock NY and for the past 3 years has been presenting the festival at The Lace Mill in Kingston, NY.
The Lace Mill is an anchor of the Ulster County arts community. Built in 1903, the US Lace Curtain Mill employed hundreds of Kingstonians – particularly women – over several generations. RUPCO purchased it in late 2013. The building currently houses 55 affordable apartments with a preference for artists. The building offers several gallery spaces and designated shared and private work studios.
Avant-Garde-Arama Rises Again at The Lace Mill offers a smorgasbord of short works in an informal, cabaret setting hosted by Charles Dennis.
Performers include:
Bob Goldberg/Famous Accordions of the Universe (Fri. only)
David Van Tieghem (Sat. only)
DeFacto Dance
Charles Dennis
Jean E. Taylor
Jill Burton (Fri. only)
Paul Duffy (Sat. only)
Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller
For tickets and info visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/avant-garde-arama-rises-again-tickets-1005860875957?aff=oddtdtcreator
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25. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, Sept. 27-28
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Thank you
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26. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, at 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, thru Oct. 6
Please visit this link
https://www.1708gallery.org/exhibitions/exhibition-detail.php?id=136
Thank you.
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