Contents for September 12, 2022

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Weekly Spotlight: Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty, FF FUND 2021-22 recipients, at Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan, September 14

1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

2. Javier Tellez, FF Alumn, at Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland, thru Dec. 27, 2023

3. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, named 2022-2023 Hemispheric Institute Mellon Fellow

4. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at  https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109361-002-A/tracks/ 

5. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, aboard the Lilac, Hudson River Park Pier 25, Manhattan, Sept. 14 and more

6. Arantxa Araujo, Verónica Peña and Yali Romagoza, FF Alumns, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, Sept. 18

7. Joyce Yu Jean Lee, FF Alumn, Autumn events

8. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, Autumn events

9. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, live online with Proa Foundation of Argentina, Sept. 14

10. Judith Bernstein, Nicole Eisenman, Lorraine O’Grady, Pope.L, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at David Zwirner Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 15

11. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Mason Sharfenstein Museum, Demorest, GA, Oct. 27-Nov. 29

12. Glenda F. Hydler, FF Alumn, at Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, Sept. 16-17

13. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, Fall events

14. Donald Sultan, FF Alumn, at Ryan Lee, Manhattan, thru Oct. 22

15. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at AprilApril Gallery, Brooklyn, thru Oct. 23

16. David Cale, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

17. Kenneth King, FF Member, now online at Youtube.com

18. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, opening Sept. 17

19. Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times

20. Linda Sibio, Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumns, now online in brutjournal.com

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Weekly Spotlight: Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty, FF FUND 2021-22 recipients, at Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan, September 14

Novelitas de Niñas will premiere on September 14, 2022 at 7:30 PM as part of the Franklin Furnace Fund and also the inaugural performance of “Bowery Live,” a new series of events exploring the liminal spaces of language, performance and theater, at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY. 

We encourage guests to dress up as if it were your own quince’s birthday party! Link to tickets at: 

https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=10000402706705597

Novelitas de Niñas is an interactive bilingual musical novelita written by Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty, set within a quince where music and storytelling explore the intersections of fem, queer, Latinx identity.

Liz Ferrari Ouch (Liz) and Maripussssy (Bow)  act as interlocutors, addressing the audience directly with original reggaeton songs that reflect upon the evening’s events. Novelas de Niñas celebrates the Latinx fem experience, queering environments and genres traditionally associated with latinidad such as the quince, the telenovela, and reggaeton to create an opportunity for greater understanding, acceptance, and fun. 

Novelitas de Niñas has received support from Franklin Furnace Fund, LMCC Creative Engagement, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants. 

Niña is a reggaeton duo and performative art project featuring Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty. They started this project to bring diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. 

Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City.

Bowery Poetry Club and Bowery Live are presented by Bowery Arts & Science, a 501 C3 non-profit arts organization established in 2002, committed to the public programming of poetry, language and performance.

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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/arts/design/latino-indigenous-art-fall-preview.html

Finally, I’m mightily intrigued by something called “Indecencia” at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Manhattan (Sept. 16-Jan. 15). A gathering of queer Latin American and Latino artists who specialize in performance art, it focuses on what the museum describes as a meeting of religion and sexuality, or “theologizing without underwear.’” Organized by the Dominican-born, Bronx-based conceptualist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, founding director of the Interior Beauty Salon, it’s sure to be of interest at a time when religious belief threatens to dictate public policy in L.G.B.T.Q. matters.

https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/indecencia

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2. Javier Tellez, FF Alumn, at Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland, thru Dec. 27, 2023

Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools) 

Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools) finally arrived at its first stop: Kunstmuseum Thurgau at the Kartause in Ittingen. The Swiss museum will show for an entire year the short film I shot last spring with an amazing crew at the lake Constance. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch painting of the same title the film installation uses music and poetry to reflect on mental illness today. Made in collaboration with Vanessa Bach, Agathe Bellwald, Werner Brandenberger, Cocó Céspedes, Irene Fischbacher, Niklaus Garbini, Brigitta Grüter, Ilona Horn, Nadine Iseli, Astrid Rast Mota Campos, Birgit Semle, Maja Vogel, Gregor Wick. Music by Johannes Ötzbrugger.

Javier Téllez, Das Narrenschiff

From September 4, 2022 to December 27, 2023

Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland.

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3. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, named 2022-2023 Hemispheric Institute Mellon Fellow

As part of World Making and Social Emergency, an initiative funded by The Mellon Foundation, the Hemispheric Institute welcomes the Fall 2022 cohort of Mellon Fellows in Residence. These accomplished thinkers and makers create art, conduct research, chronicle the hemisphere, and strengthen activism. Their work engages hemispheric communities, scholars, and learners. We are honored to support their work, which enriches the Institute’s mission across the Americas. Carlos is joined by Fellows Camille Lawrence, Dr. Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, and Juan Carlos AlomCarlos Martiel (born 1989, Havana) lives and works in New York and Havana. He graduated in 2009 from the National Academy of Fine Arts, “San Alejandro,” in Havana. From 2008 to 2010, he studied in the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, directed by the artist Tania Bruguera. Martiel’s works have been included in the Biennial of the Americas; 4th Vancouver Biennale; 14th Sharjah Biennial, UAE; 14th Cuenca Biennial; 57th Venice Biennale; Casablanca Biennale; Biennial “La Otra,” Colombia; Liverpool Biennial; Pontevedra Biennial; and Havana Biennial. He has had performances at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; La Tertulia Museum, Cali; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, among others. He has received several awards, including the Franklin Furnace Fund (New York, 2016); “CIFOS Grants & Commissions Program Award” (Miami, 2014); and “Arte Laguna” (Venice, 2013). His work has been exhibited at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP); Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee (ZAC), Palermo; Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami; Benaki Museum, Athens; and National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, among others. His works are in public and private collections such as the Guggenheim Museum; the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM); and Museu de Arte do Rio.As part of his residency, Martiel will finalize the curation of his upcoming collection in Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library.

www.carlosmartiel.net 

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4. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at  https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109361-002-A/tracks/ 

Please visit this link to “Tracks” on Arte, a French television program featuring Martha Wilson:

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109361-002-A/tracks/

Merci!

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5. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, aboard the Lilac, Hudson River Park Pier 25, Manhattan, Sept. 14 and more

We’ll gather on Wednesday for grooves, vibrations and song on the Buoy Deck with Peter Zummo, Ernie Brooks, and Mustafa Ahmed. Sets begin at 6:30 and 7:45. Special appearance by the Indiggo Twins. Gallery talk by multimedia artist Graciela Cassel, creator of our current exhibition. And a poetic passport for you from performance artist Julia Justo. Concert is free and open to the public.

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6. Arantxa Araujo, Verónica Peña and Yali Romagoza, FF Alumns, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, Sept. 18

SIRRERAS FEM III: TRINITY will premiere on Sunday, September 18, 2022, at 2:00pm ET at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NYC. Join us on an ambulatory participatory performance in which three “Santas” (the Spanish word for female saints) invite individuals in a ritualistic journey to question systemic oppression of the individual, negative stereotypes of the Latinx community, and violence towards the women’s body. 

The performance will start at the Unisphere in front of the Queens Museum (see map for reference). 

SIRRERAS FEM is an ongoing collaboration between the artists Arantxa Araujo (Mexico/US), Verónica Peña (Spain/US), and Yali Romagoza (Cuba/US) that proposes an unlocking, a turn, a challenge to the barriers that limit what we want to be. This collaboration is a roar, not to impose the law of the strongest, but to claim a space of freedom through the work of three immigrant women who come together to say this body, this place, this moment, this community is also us.

This performance is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 

More info at:

sirrerasfem@gmail.com

https://sirrerasfem.blogspot.com/

@arantxaaraujo

@veronica.pena.live.art

@cuquitathecubandoll

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7. Joyce Yu Jean Lee, FF Alumn, Autumn events

Autumn greetings, my favorite season! I invite you to my upcoming group shows:

Upcoming   

I am pleased to invite you to the group show Perplexity, presented by Hamiltonian Artists and The Kreeger Museum. Using photography and metaphoric imagery, I reflect on how we consume, and produce waste, and directly impact our environment. Artists include: Amy Boone-McCreesh, Brian Dunn, Michael Dax Iacovone, Sarah Knobel, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Helina Metaferia, and Jerry Truong

Kinetic Launch Party | Art Rental Program

Terzo Piano: Saturday, October 1st, 2022 @ 7-9pm. $75 tickets on sale here: 

https://checkout.stripe.com/pay/cs_live_b1MUjuRvOSll6PhptnsaosLcQcnqff3QG5EYV8Paq2YdATCUKLZwf07UMA#fidkdWxOYHwnPyd1blppbHNgWm1BdlB2R0cxZ2BtMDE2TlNGVVBGcUpyYScpJ3VpbGtuQH11anZgYUxhJz8nPERUZ0hgZG9vZH11Z3BIMG51Jyknd2BjYHd3YHdKd2xibGsnPydtcXF1dj8qKmZtYGZuanBxK3Zxd2x1YCtmamgqJ3gl

1515 14th Street NW #300, Washington, DC 20005

The party will feature the first look at artworks by Hamiltonian Fellows and Alumni available for rent. I will have 2 artworks on view (pictured above) and 5 available works for rent/purchase! If you are not yet a Kinetic member, you can join at the party and the price of your party ticket will be credited to your membership… or consider becoming a Kinetic member now!

Opening Tonight   

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 9th, 2022 @ 5-7pm

FIREWALL pops-up in a new media group exhibition about the future curated by Lydia Grey Barnes and coordinated by Darren McManus. Artists include: Alisha B Wormsley, Jim Jeffers, Jonathan Leiter, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Lauren Rosenthal McManus, Paul Rucker, Rebekah Taussig, Sonia Garcia, Vivian Vassar, Lydia Grey

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8. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, Autumn events

Word on the street is still going strong for my memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond! Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read the book, shared the book and shared a reflection––it is all greatly appreciated. Thanks as well to all of the bookstores that are carrying the book (I am pictured above in front of Word Bookstore in Green Pt, Brooklyn.) 

Also glad to share some new media coverage: Last month, I was interviewed on the esteemed The Brian Lehrer Show (NPR/WNYC). This month, the memoir is being featured on two CUNY-TV programs, the Emmy-winning Asian American Life and Book It with Ca.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/playwrights-journey-laundromat-stage/

https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/asianamericanlife/

https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/bookitwithca/

This Fall, I will be participating in some exciting Author Events and Group Readings and performances in NYC, as well as in the Hudson Valley.  Here are listings and links to the September events. My next update will include October and November event links. Next year, I hope to arrange events in other states––so please let me know if you have any recommendations, thanks!

Finally, speaking of other states, my play, Three Trees, will be presented as a staged reading on Sunday, Sept. 18 @ 3pm in the Sandbox Gallery in the Monterey, California area. More info on all of the above follows. Happy almost Autumn!

Upcoming Events

I have lined up a very busy Fall Schedule of Events. As soon as event links are live I will send them to you. 

October 

alvineng.com 

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9. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, live online with Proa Foundation of Argentina, Sept. 14

This Wednesday, September 14, I will be giving a talk sponsored by the Proa Foundation of Argentina about the misunderstandings that are held about the public from artistic practice—both from individual practice and from structures in Constitutional.

It will be via zoom at 5pm Buenos Aires, 4pm NY time.

http://proa.org/proanoticias/2022/08/25/reset-conversacion-con-pablo-helguera-publicos-museos-y-un-sin-fin-de-malentendidos/ 

Thank you.

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10. Judith Bernstein, Nicole Eisenman, Lorraine O’Grady, Pope.L, Betty Tompkins. FF Alumns, at David Zwirner Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 15

David Zwirner and Performance Space New York are pleased to present a group exhibition organized by Ei Arakawa, Kerstin Brätsch, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Owens at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street location in New York. They will create a living exhibition exploring the dynamics between performance and painting. The unconventional design, conceived collaboratively by the four artist-organizers, examines how time is manifested on and off the canvas and invokes both risk and serendipity.

This exhibition will feature a range of works, the sale of which will benefit Performance Space. The artists include: Ei Arakawa, Math Bass, Katherine Bernhardt, Judith Bernstein, Kerstin Brätsch, Cecily Brown, Theresa Chromati, Leidy Churchman, Matt Connors, Patricia Cronin, Nicole Eisenman, Thomas Eggerer, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, Wade Guyton, K8 Hardy, Charline von Heyl, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Sanya Kantarovsky, Marie Karlberg, Deborah Kass, Jutta Koether, Maggie Lee, Nick Mauss, Marilyn Minter, Jill Mulleady, Jeanette Mundt, Willa Nasatir, Jonny Negron, Lorraine O’Grady, Sarah Ortmeyer, Laura Owens, Pope.L, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Borna Sammak, John Sandroni, Dana Schutz, Katja Seib, Ser Serpas, Will Sheldon, Raphaela Simon, Josh Smith, Ryan Sullivan, Mickalene Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Betty Tompkins, Stewart Uoo, Ambera Wellmann, and Jonas Wood.

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11. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Mason Sharfenstein Museum, Demorest, GA, Oct. 27-Nov. 29

“I ain’t no Hick from Habersham,” JONI MABE, Mason Scharfenstein Museum, Demorest. GA. Oct. 27 to Nov. 29, 2022.

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12. Glenda F. Hydler, FF Alumn, at Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, Sept. 16-17

Please note my studio is on the 4th floor and there is no elevator. If needed the freight elevator can be arranged. Once you reach the top there will be refreshments.

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13. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, Fall events

Note: If you haven’t already ordered the book, please order directly from New Village Press. If you’re in Europe order here.

Upcoming Live Appearances:

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14. Donald Sultan, FF Alumn, at Ryan Lee, Manhattan, thru Oct. 22

Please visit this link:

https://ryanleegallery.com/exhibitions/donald-sultan-the-nature-of-things/?utm_source=RYAN+LEE+Gallery&utm_campaign=b91876dac2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_24_09_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4244d2231f-b91876dac2-1327416824

Thank you.

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15. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at AprilApril Gallery, Brooklyn, thru Oct. 23

Poem Objects

“The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.”1

Poem Objects assembles self-recursive artworks that speak at the periphery of language. Among them exists a propensity for language-like utterance, the use of language as mark, or language as framework. They facilitate expressions of an eternally locked, private or obscure narrative. They portend: poetry is more object than objective; also, that the threshold of comprehension is a portal. Here exists the extralinguistic space of contradiction that behaves like a whirlpool or blackhole. Each artwork tracks a path of infinite regress, by the fate of its own internal logic, to a third space where there are flowers. “The flowers just pour upwards / to be organized towards sugar / why not”2

Resisting straightforward communication is the poem rejecting its own trappings; the poem objectsto the force of naming through an unbending abstraction. A spell is cast—as when dusk disappears the light’s descriptions—and the mind builds its fictions.

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16. David Cale, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/theater/plays-musicals-this-fall.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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17. Kenneth King, FF Member, now online at Youtube.com

Kenneth King, FF Member, New YouTube Movie: POLITICS 4 KIDS (& adolts) WITH MR. SNAIL

While politics continues to cause a dizzy tizzy, Mr. Smail, who may be a little goofy (a iittle?),  manages to whimsically explain the essentials to kids “lickey split 1-2-3” in this short (8:55 minute) movie. New York Times: “Mr. King creates works that are exercises in perception.” Info: kennethkingmedia.com. Here’s the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYXVshd__q4&t=28s

Thank you.

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18. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, opening Sept. 17

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19. Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times

Please visit this link:

After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/artels/design/art-abortion-whitney-javits-museums-galleries.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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20. Linda Sibio, Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumns, now online in brutjournal.com

Edward M. Gómez, “Linda Sibio: From ‘Cracked Eggs,’ Powerful, Personal Artistic Expressions,” brutjournal, September 2022 issue 

Please visit this link:

https://brutjournal.com/article/linda-sibio-from-cracked-eggs-powerful-personal-artistic-expressions/

Thank you.

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