Contents for September 19, 2022

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1. Jayoung Yoon, FF Alumn, at Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Sept. 24 – Nov. 6

2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at Arte, French television (corrected link)

3. Josely Carvalho, Guadalupe Maravilla, Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alums, at Hutong, Manhattan, Sept. 20

4. Sable Elyse Smith, FF Alumn, at JTT, Manhattan, NY, thru Oct. 21

5. Pamela Sneed, Kiyan Williams, FF Alumn, at the Ford Foundation Gallery, Manhattan, NY, opening Sept. 30

6. Vira Colorado, Blondell Cummings, David Hammons, Janet Olivia Henry, Nina Kuo, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Coreen Simpson, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times

7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, named Art Prospect Residency Fellow, CEC ArtsLink

8. Carlos Motta, FF Alumn, online at ISLAA, Sept. 20

9. Essex Hemphill, Adam Pendleton, Marlon Riggs, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times T Magazine

10. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, selected for Silver Art Projects 2022-23 Residency Program

11. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, thru Dec. 31

12. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumn, at the Gallatin Galleries, Manhattan, NY, thru Oct. 13

13. Kenneth King, FF Member,now inline in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art

14. Istvan Kantor, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, opening October 6, and more

15. Dara Birnbaum, Jaime Davidovich, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Bruce Yonemoto, FF Alumns, at Electronic Arts Intermix, Manhattan, Sept. 26, and more

16. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Eckert Fine Art, North Adams, MA, Oct. 8-Nov. 5, and more

17. Beverly Naidus, Jacki Apple, Bruce Barber, Lucy R. Lippard, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online

18. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

19. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Gulbenkian Arts Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

20. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Bronx River Art Center, openijng Sept. 22

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1. Jayoung Yoon, FF Alumn, at Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Sept. 24 – Nov. 6

I am very excited to announce my upcoming Solo exhibition, ‘Sowing Seeds of Emptiness’ at Garrison Art Center, featuring ‘I Am The Emptiness,’ an installation of hair embroidery on silk fabric and ‘The Offering Bowl’ a series of seven bowls made of hair and other natural materials.

I’m looking forward to sharing these new works and more!

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2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at Arte, French television (corrected link)

We apologize for sending a link that does not work outside France in last week’s Goings On and ask you to please visit this corrected link to “Tracks” on Arte, a French television program with a 7-minute feature on Martha Wilson.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXfgnDXF_PTrAkRxNfUvQ4hsn_0JJUAq/view?usp=sharing

Thank you.

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3. Josely Carvalho, Guadalupe Maravilla, Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alums, at Hutong, Manhattan, Sept. 20

Fundraising event on September 20 honors trailblazing visionaries including Larissa FastHorse, first female, Indigenous playwright to have a play on Broadway 

Creative Capital is excited to announce its inaugural Artist Benefit + Banquet, which will take place on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 in New York City. Christine Kuan, President and Executive Director said, “We are thrilled to be celebrating wild, irreverent creators at a time when the world needs transformative ideas. This banquet will be a feast for the senses—overflowing with abundance and generosity for artists.”

Visionary artists and leaders will be celebrated, representing the range of Creative Capital project grants for artists: Lorraine O’Grady (2015 Creative Capital Grantee) for her pioneering performance, conceptual and Black feminist art; Guadalupe Maravilla (2016 Creative Capital Grantee) for his exceptional work with undocumented immigrant communities and healing; Larissa FastHorse (2019 Creative Capital Grantee), the first female Indigenous playwright to have a play on Broadway, for her community-engaged plays built upon radical inclusion with Indigenous tribes; and JiaJia Fei for amplifying artists’ voices and founding the first digital agency for art. 

Benefit guests will enjoy spirited cocktails and contemporary Northern Chinese cuisine in the jewel-box dining room of Hutong, New York. A centrepiece of the evening will be a performance by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun (2022 Creative Capital Grantee) and her experimental band, Ok Miss, followed by a dance party with music by Oscar Nñ of Papi Juice. Bespoke fragrance art made by Brazilian-born multimedia artist Josely Carvalho (2000 Creative Capital Grantee), in partnership with Ananse Química LTDA and Givaudan do Brasil, will be gifted to all benefit guests. Marcela Guerrero, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, James Schamus, Elena Soboleva and Job Piston will make toasts and personal tributes to the honorees.

All proceeds from the event will support critical grant funding for groundbreaking artists.    

Leaders

Jane Brown, The Linda Genereux and Timur Galen Family Fund, Reggie and Aliya Browne, and Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham

Creator Committee

Agnes Gund, Annie Han, Bayeté Ross Smith, Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi, Catharine R. Stimpson, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Colleen Keegan, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, David and Michele Yokell, Dorothy Tapper Goldman, Edgar Arceneaux, Elaine Goldman, Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, Jae Rhim Lee, James Schamus, Josely Carvalho, Joseph V. Melillo, Kathleen O’Grady, Legacy Russell, Lyda Kuth, Marquise Stillwell, Matthew Moore and Carrie Marill, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, Ruby Lerner, Sam Van Aken, Sanford Biggers, Sarah Meyohas, Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons and Sunny Bates

Individual dinner tickets to the Creative Capital Artist Benefit + Banquet are $1,500 per person, with tables starting at $10,000. The event has a very limited capacity. For tickets or additional information, visit creative-capital.org/benefit or contact benefit@creative-capital.org.

About Creative Capital

Creative Capital is a nonprofit, grantmaking organization with the mission to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work, to amplify the impact of their work, and to foster sustainable artistic careers. 

In 1999, Creative Capital was established as a nonprofit public charity after the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ended the majority of its grants for individual artists. Archibald L. Gillies, then President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, believed that fostering artists’ freedom of expression was critical to democracy. At the heart of our organization is a deep commitment to a democratic process of grantmaking that is open call, national, and accessible to individual artists working in the visual arts, performing arts, technology, film/moving image, literature, socially engaged, and multidisciplinary forms. To date, Creative Capital has made grants to 835 artists to create 680 innovative projects, and its professional development programs, advisory services, and community gatherings have served more than 32,000 artists nationwide.

About Lorraine O’Grady

Lorraine O’Grady is an interdisciplinary artist, living in New York City, and born and raised in Boston to Jamaican immigrant parents. O’Grady mines such topics as diaspora, hybridity, and Black female subjectivity through performance, photo and video installation, and writing. Driven by the need to fully discover her own identity and to clarify its meaning to others, O’Grady established herself as an active voice in New York’s alternative art scene by the early 1980s while volunteering at the Black avant-garde gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM). There she produced much of her “signature” work, including her first performance Mlle Bourgeoise Noire (1980–83). Since then, she has continued critically reflecting on race, class, and social identity, calling out the classism and racial apartheid endemic in the mainstream art world. O’Grady’s practice utilizes the diptych—or at least the idea of the diptych—as both a tool for institutional critique and a conceptual framework to interrogate Western society. By insisting on a both/and framework and forwarding “miscegenated thinking,” O’Grady has developed a unique critical perspective on the art world and a trailblazing approach toward artmaking.

About Guadalupe Maravilla

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2016, Maravilla became a U.S. citizen and in 2016 he adopted the name Guadalupe Maravilla in solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name. As an acknowledgment to his past, Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to the undocumented and cancer communities. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Additionally, Maravilla has performed and presented his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and many more.

About Larissa FastHorse

Larissa FastHorse will be the first female, Indigenous playwright to have a play produced on Broadway. She is a Sicangu Lakota playwright, director, and choreographer, living in Santa Monica, California. FastHorse’s work radically engages Indigenous collaborators to explore onstage representations of the joys and challenges that the Native community faces. Her latest comedy, The Thanksgiving Play, is a hilarious and poignant play that touches upon weighty issues such as privilege, representation, and appropriation, but never loses its sense of humor. FastHorse won the PEN USA Literary Award for Drama, NEA Distinguished New Play Grant, Joe Dowling Annaghmakerrig Fellowship Award, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, the UCLA Native American Woman of the Year and the Ford, Mellon, and NEA Grants. She is a proud officer of the Board of Directors for Playwright’s Horizons.

About JiaJia Fei

JiaJia Fei is a digital strategist, based in Brooklyn, New York and working at the intersection of art, culture, and technology. As founder of the first digital agency for art, she is consulted by museums, galleries, and artists to tell their stories online. From 2016–2020, she served as the first Director of Digital at The Jewish Museum in New York. From 2010–2015, she served as Associate Director of Digital Marketing at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Fei received her Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art from Bryn Mawr College and has lectured on the impact of art and technology worldwide.

About Du Yun

Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, and currently based in New York City, works at the intersection of opera, orchestral, theater, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, electronics, visual arts, and noise. Her body of work is championed by some of today’s finest performing groups and organizations around the world. Known for her “relentless originality and unflinching social conscience” (The New Yorker), Du Yun’s second opera, Angel’s Bone (libretto by Royce Vavrek), won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Classical Composition category for her work Air Glow. Her collaborative opera Sweet Land with Raven Chacon (for The Industry) was the 2021 Best New Opera by the North America Critics Association. Four of her feature studio albums were named The New Yorker’s Notable Recordings of the Year, in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, respectively.

About Josely Carvalho

Josely Carvalho is a multimedia artist, born in São Paulo, Brazil and maintains studios in Rio de Janeiro and New York. In the last four decades, her artwork has embraced several mediums and sought to highlight memory, identity, women’s issues, and social justice while consistently challenging frontiers between artist and public and art and politics. Her work can be found in several museum’s collections as Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, MoMA, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, among others. One of her public works is Memorial Armênia at the Armenia subway station in São Paulo. Her archives are included in the Smithsonian American Art Archives. Carvalho has received numerous awards, most recently including her second Pollock Krasner Foundation Award for 2022–23.

For press inquiries, please contact Hannah Gottlieb-Graham or Sarah Miller, ALMA Communications.

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4. Sable Elyse Smith, FF Alumn, at JTT, Manhattan, NY, thru Oct. 21

Order here: mail@jttnyc.com 

View images of Tithe: https://jttnyc.com/exhibitions/2022/sable-elyse-smith 

This is the first major monograph dedicated to the New York–based artist Sable Elyse Smith. Through her wide-ranging multimedia practice, Smith elucidates how the carceral state (read America) quietly inflicts violence and is constantly reinforced by the seemingly banal: from furniture found in prison visitation rooms, to pages from children’s coloring books. Included in this publication are works produced from 2015 to the present day to provide a comprehensive overview of Smith’s videos, sculptures, photography, texts and printed matter. Accompanying over 140 color images are texts by Horace Ballard (Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums), Johanna Burton (Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (author of Friday Black), and Christina Sharpe (writer, professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University).

jttnyc.com

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5. Pamela Sneed, Kiyan Williams, FF Alumn, at the Ford Foundation Gallery, Manhattan, NY, opening Sept. 30

The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning, curated by Jessica A. Cooley and Ann M. Fox.

Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning is the follow-up to Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act, a three-year collaboration with more than thirty artists and scholars that emerged as eight online chapters each addressing the urgent questions of the moment where COVID-19 pandemic and demands for racial justice laid bare that some lives—especially disabled, queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)—are deemed disposable. These chapters serve as a unique archive of the ways in which artists and scholars responded to the intertwined histories of ableism and racism.

Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning focuses on two topics critical to the online iteration of the exhibition: care and mourning. The artists of Indisposable address the difficult work of not just how to care and to mourn for those deemed disposable but how to activate that work into tactics for insisting on our indisposability. The artists in the exhibition are committed to resisting the oppressive ideologies of bodily productivity and “normalcy” that have been used as markers of human worth. Their work offers audiences the chance to consider new tactics for care and mourning, activist strategies emerging from within and uplifting communities living in precarity.

Exhibiting artists: Indira Allegra, Black Power Naps (Navild Acosta + Fannie Sosa), Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Jill Casid, Francisco echo Eraso, fierce pussy, Allison Leigh Holt, Raisa Kabir, Riva Lehrer, Alex Dolores Salerno, Sami Schalk, Pamela Sneed, What Would an HIV Doula Do?, Kiyan Williams.

Registration: https://indisposablecareandmourning.splashthat.com/?mc_cid=bb9e193e1a&mc_eid=UNIQID 

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6. Vira Colorado, Blondell Cummings, David Hammons, Janet Olivia Henry, Nina Kuo, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Coreen Simpson, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times

Please visit this link:

A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/arts/design/moma-black-artists-just-above-midtown-bryant.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, named Art Prospect Residency Fellow, CEC ArtsLink

https://www.cecartslink.org/program/art-prospect-residencies/ CEC ArtsLink is pleased to announce the Art Prospect Residency Fellows 2022. 18 artists and curators from USA, Ukraine, and Belarus will conduct research, create new work, and collaborate with arts communities at Art Prospect Network partner arts organizations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus/Germany, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

The Art Prospect Residencies focus on transnational collaborations in socially engaged and public art. The 2022 Art Prospect Fellows creatively work with host organizations and communities to address a spectrum of critical current issues, including forced migration, the transformation of the social environment, contested public monuments, energy infrastructure and climate change. 

Arts Prospect Residency Fellows 2022 Adrian Aguilera, conceptual multiform artist, TX, USA

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8. Carlos Motta, FF Alumn, online at ISLAA, Sept. 20

For this roundtable discussion, four of the artists featured in Eros Rising will discuss the role of the erotic in their work. Their conversation will be moderated by Mariano López Seoane and Bernardo Mosqueira, the curators of the exhibition. This event will take place in Spanish.

Find Out More: https://islaa.org/events/visions-of-the-erotic 

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__MdmRYR9QbuNaITMHcmqQA 

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9. Essex Hemphill, Adam Pendleton, Marlon Riggs, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times T Magazine

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/t-magazine/black-queer-artists.html

Thank you.

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10. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, selected for Silver Art Projects 2022-23 Residency Program

Silver Art Projects Announces Artist Roster for 2022-2023 Residency Program  The non-profit has selected 28 artists to receive year-long free studio space 

and career development opportunities at 4 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan 

Silver Art Projects is pleased to welcome 28 artists as part of its 2022- 2023 cohort, which will run from September 2022 to June 2023. For its next cohort, the project has recently  received funding from the Anti-Racism Fund, Booth Farris Foundation and Christie’s as Silver Art Projects  endeavors to expand its support and ambitions for its program. 

These artists, who were selected by artworld luminaries Swizz Beatz, Suzy Delvalle, JiaJia Fei, Roxane Gay,  Larry Ossei-Mensah, Eugenie Tsai, Jammie Holmes, Tyler Mitchell and Mickalene Thomas, span disciplines and backgrounds and show growth and success in the fields of painting, photography,  installation and more. The open call for 2022-2023 saw almost double the number of applications, with  over 1,200 submissions. 

At Silver Art Projects, the selected artists will be given the opportunity to expand their practice and amplify their work without the impediment of expensive New York City studio space. Selected for their  extraordinary artistic excellence, need for the studio space and potential to maximize the opportunity, this  year’s participants will each receive 500-1,000 square feet of free studio space at 4 World Trade Center, as  well as mentorship, peer-to-peer advising, a financial stipend, career workshops and networking  opportunities with leading museum directors, curators and other professionals in the art industry – all with  the aim of helping the artists build sustainable, successful long-term art practices. Artists Jared Owens and  Helina Metaferia, who were part of the 2021-2022 cohort, will stay on another year as peer-to-peer liaisons. 

Founded in 2018, Silver Art Projects aims to provide equity of opportunity for artists whose lives and careers  would be transformed given free studio space and contribute to changing a culture of inequality. As part of  Silver Art Projects’ commitment to social justice, and specifically pernicious mass incarceration, the 2022- 2023 cohort will include a total of four formerly incarcerated artists. Mary Baxter, Russell Craig and Jesse  Krimes will be welcomed by fellow artist and peer-to-peer advisor Jared Owens. These artists were selected  through nomination and recommendation, their participation in the Art for Justice program and their  involvement with criminal justice reform programs and organizations. 

2022-2023 Artists in Residence:  

“It’s with excitement and great anticipation that we announce Silver Art Projects’ next cohort of artists for  2022-2023,” said Cory Silverstein, Cofounder of Silver Art Projects. “Each one of these artists is making  work the world needs to see, and I cannot wait to witness how their practice will grow as a result of this  program and the influence of the community they create together.”  

“Affordable studio space is so hard to come by in NYC, and Silver Art Projects not only offers artists fantastic  studios with great views, but is organized to build community amongst the cohort and provide valuable  networking opportunities. For many artists it offers a ‘golden’ opportunity to further advance their careers,” said Suzy Delvalle, interim executive director, Blade of Grass and cultural strategist.  

“Jurying this year’s cohort reminded me just how vital and energizing it is to be in community with fellow  creatives in New York City. It humbles me to have had just a small role in the future expansion of an artist’s  practice by giving them this incredible opportunity for space and growth,” said JiaJia Fei, digital strategist. 

“One of the most important things an artist needs to thrive is also one of the most basic–adequate studio  space and material support. As such, it was a real honor to serve on the jury of the Silver Arts Projects  residency. We considered an incredible range of talented artists and the artists who will have a studio for the  next year have remarkable art to share with the world. I look forward to seeing how they use the studios of  Silver Arts Projects and what they conjure up next,” said Roxane Gay, acclaimed writer, professor, editor  and social commentator. 

“Silver Art Projects is a great platform that can be a game changer in artists’ careers. It is a place where artists  can build critical artist-to-artist relationships that lead to further inspiration and exploration of new  ideas. The community aspect of this program is so valuable for the growth of each individual practice,” said  Jammie Holmes, artist. 

“It was a pleasure to sit on the selection panel for the next artist cohort at Silver Arts. It’s my first time doing  this sort of thing and as a young artist myself it’s inspiring to see the work of the amazing artists that are  applying for this residency. I’m excited thinking about the selected artists who will come into the spaces,  create beautiful work, and exist in community with other artists in New York City. It’s still an all too rare  thing,” said Tyler Mitchell, artist.  

“It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the team at the Silver Art Projects and my fellow jurors. I’m  excited to see what this new cohort will do with this special opportunity individually and collectively. Year  by year, Silver Art Projects is continuing to illustrate the heightened importance of the residency,” said Larry  Ossei-Mensah, independent curator, critic, and co-founder, ARTNOIR.  

“A suitable studio is truly invaluable to an artist and there are few spaces more invigorating than those at the  World Trade Center. It has been a pleasure to work with Silver Art Projects in securing such extortionary,  young artists with the tools they need to flourish as they professionally develop a strong studio practice,”  said Mickalene Thomas, artist.  

Media contact:  

Irini Zervas, Sutton New York 

E: irini@suttoncomms.com 

T: +1 212 202 3402 

About Silver Art Projects: 

Silver Art Projects is a non-profit organization that supports, incubates and accelerates overlooked artists by  providing free, year-long studio space at 4 World Trade Center, community-driven patronage and career focused mentorship designed to enable artists to conduct sustainable business practices. Founded in  response to existing models of art patronage that perpetuate a culture of inequality in which artists not  represented by large galleries enter a cycle of disadvantage by not receiving business support, Silver Art  Projects helps artists build strong thriving practices while also contributing to the creative energy of Lower  Manhattan. Silver Art Projects is currently supported by the Anti-Racism Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Art for Justice Fund, Booth Farris Foundation, Christie’s and Silverstein Properties.  

Tours of Silver Art Projects’ studios at 4 World Trade Center are currently by appointment only. Please visit  silverart.org and follow @silverartprojects for more information on the organization, news, events and  updates on the program.

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11. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, thru Dec. 31

Claudia DeMonte’s Bronze Sculpture: Exercise Duo, is included in the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Ct exhibition: “WORK IT! Women Artists on Women’s Labor”, Opening Sunday, Sept 18th until Dec 31st 2022.  It is an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary female-identifying artists working in a variety of media touching on the many aspects and types of labor done by women. 

Curated by Cecilia Keffie Feldman.

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12. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumn, at the Gallatin Galleries, Manhattan, NY, thru Oct. 13

The Gallatin Galleries Presents Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Chasing the Humming of Life

Opening reception will be held this Thursday, September 15th, 2022 5pm, at the Gallatin Galleries located at 1 Washington Place, New York, NY 10002

An exhibition of eleven video works by artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles will be presented in conjunction with the Discard Studies Conference

September 15, 2022 – October 13, 2022

Please see below for the invitation to the upcoming keynote address and exhibition Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Chasing the Humming of Life. The address will open the Discard Studies Conference to be held at Gallatin School at New York University September 15- 17 2022. Much of the exhibition can be viewed simultaneously from within the gallery and from the Washington Place sidewalk. “In the case of my work,” Ukeles said, “the public-facing side of the show is very apt.”

Please note:

The exhibition and conference are free. The conference features both an in-person and virtual attendance option.  All in-person attendees for the exhibition and conference must RSVP.  All in-person attendees must be cleared by the NYU VEOCI team which requires uploading your vaccination and booster information.  

RSVP Here:

https://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2022/09/Mierle-Laderman-Ukeles-Exhibition.html

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13. Kenneth King, FF Member,now inline in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art

My wide ranging article “Transmission Mysteries: Art and Technophilia” has just been published in the Fall (September) issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.  Editor Bonnie Marranca, who has done a heroic job for decades illuminating the performing arts, writes in her introductory editorial: 

“Transmission of meanings and experiences is taken up by Kenneth King (incidentally, also a dancer/writer), who brings his historical understanding of science and technology and a poetic imagination, to this subject ranging from the ancient world of cave paintings and the pyramid of Giza, to technological invention and industrialization, and to the arts of painting, cinema, photography, and on to biogenetics, computers, AI, and, of course, viruses. King reflects on what the computer screen and internet are doing to the human mind in the ceaseless transmission of information.”

The opening paragraph and more information can be found on PAJ’s website:

https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/article-abstract/44/3%20(132)/55/112846/Transmission-Mysteries-Art-and-Technophilia?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Thank you.

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14. Istvan Kantor, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, opening October 6, and more

Grace Exhibition Space proudly presents the work of legendary performance and media artist Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin Amen throughout the month of October. 

On this occasion Kantor/Cantsin intends to narrate the stirring accounts of his life  events through a large-scale installation/performance. His aim is to create an intense  atmosphere by staging a critical commentary on today’s extremely control-freak,  dictatorial society. To achieve this goal and widen its territories he also invited a large  number of guest performers from the local scene and from other parts of the world,  including Clayton Patterson, Burning Buddha, Perpetua Rodriguez, X-Pitts, Melanie  Tomsky, Cai Qing, Ori Carino, Julius Klein, Boryana Rossa, Roman Primitivo, Blattella  Germanica, and others to be announced later.  

The month-long event designed to be a durational performance splits into four parts:  Week1 – The Call of The Wild / Week2 – Endangered Species / Week3 –  Extinct In The Wild / Week4 – The Last Stand. These metaphoric titles refer to historical stages of creative communities which freely emerged in the LES during the early 80s  but vanished a decade later as a result of the loss of their nourishing territories due to gentrification.  

In Kantor’s hypothetical exhibition concept, the ground floor of the gallery will be  designated as a Prison Courtyard while the basement space will be referred to as the Interrogation Room. Walls will be covered by a broad assortment of Kantor’s Neoist  propaganda art including red banners echoing 60s Cultural Revolution, unframed  photographic prints of his blood-x action at the MOMA juxtaposed with unstretched  sexbot-cult paintings, wolf and crow drawings, all hanging below long lines of concertina  wires surrounding the gallery ceiling as explicit ornaments of power and authority.  

Infamous for his art-crimes in museums, Istvan Kantor was born in Budapest, Hungary  but spent the majority of his life spreading Neoist propaganda around the world.  Recruited to mail-art by David Zack in 1976, Kantor adapted the Monty Cantsin open pop-star identity and initiated the Neoist Conspiracy in Montreal with the collaboration of  a new generation of anti-institutional deserters in 1979. During the 80s he lived in NYC  and joined the Rivington School, a large gang of renegade street artists. He declared  himself “Self-appointed Leader of the People of the Lower East Side,” a 24h day job in  the name of NEOISM?!.

neoism.news@gmail.com 

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15. Dara Birnbaum, Jaime Davidovich, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Bruce Yonemoto, FF Alumns, at Electronic Arts Intermix, Manhattan, Sept. 26, and more

Broadcasting: Book Launch and Screening

https://www.eai.org/public-programs/317

RSVP here:

https://eai.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=597d3625fb057c438746393d6&id=67c4cf472b&e=23335431da

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is pleased to present an evening of video and television works celebrating the publication launch of Broadcasting: EAI at ICA. This free screening features selections from the 2018 exhibition of the same name and reflects on artist responses to themes of media saturation, commercialization, duration, and public engagement. Copies of the catalogue will be for sale. 

https://icaphila.org/exhibitions/broadcasting-eai-at-ica/

Following the mass adoption of cable TV and home video recording technology in the early ‘80s, many artists had access to a new arsenal of strategies for intervening directly with televised media. Public broadcast carved out a space for experimentation, a sensibility showcased in such series as Jaime Davidovich’s The Live! Show (1979-84) and Robert Beck’s The Space Program (1985-86), both aired on the Manhattan Cable Network. The advent of specialized networks also presented new opportunities to mingle artists’ media with “normal” televised content: MTV, with their hip youth audience in mind, invited a number of artists to create culture-jamming interstitials between music videos including video art pioneer Dara Birnbaum; initiatives such as TRANS-VOICES commissioned artists including Birnbaum, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Philip Mallory Jones, and Tom Kalin to produce 60-second spots for American and French broadcast. As the choices on the TV remote became more vast, so too did an overwhelming sense of content glut and advertising onslaught. New consumer video formats like VHS and Betamax gave a new generation of artists the license to remix and deconstruct these images, a practice exemplified by Cable Xcess (1996), a faux-infomercial by Kristin Lucas that warns of the long-term consequences of exposure to electromagnetic fields, and No Sell Out… or i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/ machine (Malcolm X Pt. 2) (1995), a stunning MTV-style indictment of consumerism and racial capitalism by “art-band” X-PRZ. 

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)’s venue is located at 264 Canal Street, 3W, near several Canal Street subway stations. Our floor is accessible by elevator (63″ × 60″ car, 31″ door) and stairway. Due to the age and other characteristics of the building, our bathrooms are not ADA-accessible, though several such bathrooms are located nearby. If you have questions about access, please contact cstrange@eai.org in advance of the event.

Masks are strongly encouraged. If you are experiencing a fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell, or other symptoms that could be related to COVID-19, we ask that you please stay home. 

Now available! Broadcasting: EAI at ICA

Order here:

https://electronicartsintermix.bigcartel.com/product/broadcasting-eai-at-ica

Broadcasting: EAI at ICA marks the 50th anniversary of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), one of the first nonprofit organizations dedicated to the advocacy for and development of video as an art form, providing a crucial space of production and mode of distribution. This volume pays tribute to EAI as a site of exchange between an inter-generational group of artists whose time-based artworks are produced in concert with their means of circulation, from the democratic platform of public access television to the instantaneity of social media. The book features an oral history with Lori Zippay, EAI’s Director Emerita, that charts the growth of EAI against the backdrop of a changing New York art world, alongside critical essays by the curators and contributions by artists Antoine Catala, Tony Cokes, Ulysses Jenkins, and Sondra Perry.

Featuring works in the ICA exhibition by Beth B, Robert Beck/Buck, Dara Birnbaum, DCTV, DIVA TV, Tony Cokes, Ulysses Jenkins, JODI, Philip Mallory Jones, Tom Kalin, Shigeko Kubota, Kristin Lucas, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Shana Moulton, Nam June Paik and Paul Garrin, Radical Software Group (RSG), Martha Rosler and Paper Tiger Television, Trevor Shimizu, Squat Theatre, TVTV, Video Venice News, X-PRZ, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.

Back to school! Resources for schools and libraries

EAI’s Educational Streaming Service (ESS) offers online access to artists’ works for virtual classroom and remote-learning use. An ESS subscription provides institutions with the ability to stream an expanding list of nearly 2,000 works by over 60 artists, including Barbara Hammer, Ulysses Jenkins, Vito Acconci, Carolee Schneemann, Ryan Trecartin, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sondra Perry, Stanya Kahn, and Eleanor Antin, as well as new additions such as Nam June Paik, Chris Burden, and Bill Viola. 

The ESS interface is embedded in EAI’s Online Catalogue, a comprehensive resource on the artists and works in the EAI collection, featuring expansive materials on media art’s histories and current practices. Once set up, students and educators are able to easily stream high-quality files directly from the EAI website for individual or classroom presentations.

Subscription fees vary by school size, budget, endowment, and expected usage, and we will work with you on finding a price point appropriate for your institution. These fees not only help us maintain the Educational Streaming Service, but also directly support the artists we work with by returning royalty revenue to them. We offer annual and semester-long subscriptions. 

In additional to our subscription-based service, we offer individual streaming rentals for works across our catalogue, including works not currently available as part of our Educational Streaming Service.

For further information, or to initiate a free institutional trial, please email info@eai.org, or click below:

https://www.eai.org/educational-streaming

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16. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Eckert Fine Art, North Adams, MA, Oct. 8-Nov. 5, and more

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17. Beverly Naidus, Jacki Apple, Bruce Barber, Lucy R. Lippard, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, now online

Please visit this link:

https://beverlynaidus.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR2q6XvI4qsyx57PrMKx9QLcL-v8coZyC2v5Uvoih8CixxQtoQ8IHkurwu4  [beverlynaidus.wordpress.com] 

Thank you.

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18. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

Jeff McMahon in The New York Times

Published letter online 9/16 and in-print 9/17.

Scroll down to bottom (final letter)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/opinion/letters/dr-fauci-covid.html

If you didn’t catch Jesse’s original piece (the article I’m responding to), it ran in September 4 Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/theater/theater-diversity-equity-inclusion-racism.html 

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19. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Gulbenkian Arts Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Duplicates of mediaworks dealing with pregnancy and childbirth from the Barbara Rosenthal Archives at CUNY (the City University of NY) have been acquired by the Birth Rites Collection at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre, University of Kent in Canterbury.

The Birth Rites acquisition comprises the following:

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20. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Bronx River Art Center, openijng Sept. 22

In celebration of Bronx River Art Center, BRAC, 35th Anniversary, Hector Canonge will present the performance “35 Reasons For Doing It” as part of the exhibition: CONVERGENCE: Artists & Community.

The exhibition which opens on September 22nd at 7:00 PM will run until October 22nd.  Canonge’s presentation is scheduled at 7:30 PM.

For the past few months, Canonge has spearheaded the development of performance art programs and presentations at BRAC.

More information: https://bronxriverart.org/gallery-upcoming

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