Contents for September 25, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Weekly Spotlight: Billy X. Curmano, LuLu LoLo, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, Ed Woodham, FF Alumns, live online at Franklin Furnace LOFT, September 29, 5-6 pm et.
1. Crystal Z Campbell, Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art 2020-21 recipient, at Union Docs, Ridgewood, Queens, NY, October 12
2. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, at ONX Studio, Manhattan, Sept 30 and more
3. Caroline Garcia, FF Alumn, receives 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
4. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, at The Japan Society, Manhattan, Oct. 13, 2023 thru Jan. 21, 2024
5. Coreen Simpson, Hidemi Takagi, FF Alumns, now online at enfoco.org
6. Reginald Walker, FF Alumn, at Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 13
7. Analia Segal, Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumns, receive Fulbright Specialist Awards
8. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France, thru March 4, 2024
9. Sarah Safford, FF Alumn, at Scholes St. Studio, Brooklyn, Oct. 20, and more
10. General Idea, FF Alumn, at Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, thru Jan. 14, 2024
11. Monty Cantsin, E.F. Higgins, FF Alumns, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 1
12. Isabel Samaras, FF Alumn, at Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, opening Sept. 28 and more
13. Charles Dennis, Nancy Ostrovsky, FF Alumns, at The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, Oct. 20-21
14. Kenneth King, FF Member, publishes new novel, and online at BBC
15. Maya Ciarrocchi, FF Alumn, fall events
16. Gilbert & George, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in NYTimes.com
17. John Cage, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
18. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
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Weekly Spotlight: Billy X. Curmano, LuLu LoLo, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, Ed Woodham FF Alumns, live online at Franklin Furnace LOFT, September 29, 5-6 pm et.
Full Moon Exhumed Zoom: Billy X Curmano – 40th Anniversary of “Performance for the Dead”
The event will take place in Franklin Furnace’s LOFT via Zoom: September 29th, 2023, 5:00-6:00pm ET.
Please visit to this link to pre-register:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrceiqqTovHdx4Bz1935hLW0Vc8OAzp8nv#/registration
September 29, 2023, 5-6 pm ET: The Full Moon Exhumed Zoom celebrates the 40th anniversary of Billy X Curmano’s 3-day burial and exhumation Performance for the Dead. It will feature a pallbearer, mourner and gravedigger from the original, an appearance by the exhumed corpse and a studio, gravesite and Leaning Grotto of Witoka visitation. In Sympathy performances by the critically acclaimed artists Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, LuLu LoLo, Ed Woodham and Bellavia will mirror the In Sympathy international postal exhibition that complemented the live burial.
After an Italian Wake, traditional New Orleans style Jazz Funeral and 4-day fast, the soloist was buried (with adequate life support systems) to perform activities beyond the realm of any live audience. His fast continued in absolute darkness as he attempted to lift the veil, perform and commune with the other side. The isolated meditation was carried out in the context of a larger public work. Much as a funeral is meant to comfort survivors, the wake, jazz funeral and postal art were all meant for the live audience. Artists from around the world responded via post and package to the performance, end of life issues and death.
The Performance for the Dead drew the community together as participants and collaborators. They filled the void when traditional funding sources were scared off. Winona Monument Company donated the granite tombstone. The coffin and burial vault were constructed by volunteers. Catherine Mora Cleary brought her whole family for grave digging. Kevin Pomeroy served as a pallbearer. Catherine Schuler Vargas joined the mourners. The three will offer first hand reflections from 40-years past.
Climate… War…slow down. Maybe we’re better off underground.
We believe your participation would greatly enrich the discussions and allow us to delve deeper into this fascinating chapter of art history.
*The event will be recorded and archived for public access via Franklin Furnace’s online LOFT at www.
To commemorate Billy X. Curmano’s performance, The Interior Beauty Salon launched a Q&I between the artist and Nicolás.
Read the full interview here:
https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/billy-x-curmano
Billy X. Curmano is an award winning artist and former McKnight Foundation Fellow that fuses the performative with more traditional objects. His work has been exhibited and collected extensively from the III Vienna Graphikbiennale to the Museum of Modern Art Library and the Malta National Collection. A 2,367.4-mile Mississippi River Swim from source to gulf, 3-day live burial, 40-day desert fast and sojourn to the Arctic Circle are among his more eccentric environmental performances. Amused journalists have dubbed him, “The Court Jester of Southeastern Minnesota” with comparisons to P.T. Barnum, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and even…a happy otter.
In Sympathy Artists:
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have created multi-media art projects about love, sex, and queer ecologies together since 2002. Annie was a sex worker from 1973 to 1995 and morphed into a feminist performance artist and sex educator. In 1994, Beth became a professor of sculpture and intermedia at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she still teaches and directs the E.A.R.T.H. Lab. These days the duo make environmental films with an ecosexual gaze; they also create theater, performance art, eco-activism, and produce symposiums and workshops. Their Wedding to the Earth and the Ecosex Manifesto launched the Ecosex Movement in 2008. Notably, they were official documenta 14 artists, received a 2019 Eureka Fellowship, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Their new book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position—the Earth as Lover, available at the University of Minnesota Press, chronicles their epic love story and art/life adventures.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011. He is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism moving at the intersection of creativity and healing.
LuLu LoLo is a performance artist, playwright/actor and activist. Performing in six Art in Odd Places festivals, her public actions in Where Are the Women? (2015) highlighted the lack of public monuments to women in New York City and was featured in the New York Times. LuLu curated Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2019: Invisible, 82 artists celebrating the indomitable spirit of artists who are sixty years of age or older. LuLu has written and performed eight one-person plays pertaining to the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past. Exploring cemeteries. and reading obituaries has inspired her work.
Ed Woodham is an elder Southern queer. He/they is a Manhattan-based artist, educator, producer, and curator entangled in a mélange of NYC activities across media and culture for over 45 years. Woodham employs humor, irony, subtle detournement, and a striking visual style in order to encourage greater consideration of – and provoke deeper critical engagement with – the urban environment. Woodham created Art in Odd Places (AiOP) to present visual and performance art exploring communication in the democratic space of the public sphere.
Bellavia received her BFA from Buffalo State College and MFA from Alfred University. She exhibits widely from local to international shows. Bellavia was a visiting artist in Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Buffalo NY, and Pittsburgh PA. Bellavia’s performative art includes the “Spirit Guide” live and on the “Death Valley Desert Classic” DVD. More recently she has been at Art In Odd Places and WinterStar/Starwood. Bellavia’s multimedia works include: Sculpture, Painting, Performance, Collage and Drawing. Her works are in collections in the US, Latvia, Finland and China. Bellavia lives both in Angola, N.Y. and New Orleans, LA.
Original Collaborators of Performance for the Dead:
Kevin Pomeroy is a metal sculptor, builder, designer, city planner and all around tinkerer. His academic degrees are in architecture and urban planning, although he’s happiest behind a tool belt, cutting, assembling and manipulating materials, especially Corten steel. In a past life, over 40 years ago, he owned the Vision Quest Printshop in Winona, MN, a specialty letterpress and offset shop that worked with artists, writers and community organizations. During that era he met Billy X. Curmano and they collaborated on a wide array of projects, including printing, construction and performance. He had the distinct privilege to be pallbearer at Billy’s Jazz Funeral, and to help lower his coffin into the burial vault to begin Billy’s three day Performance for the Dead.
Catherine Mora Cleary: I’m a practitioner of therapeutic bodywork, The Wallace Method, and a minister (like many Hollywood stars!) in Universal Life Church. I lived in the Twin Cities for 40 years or more, but never got to dig a grave until I moved to Winona MN, met Billy, and became involved in his performances. My children, Adam, Michael and Suzanne were young teenagers when we all helped dig Billy’s grave, attended his New Orleans-style jazz funeral, and were present for both his internment and his exhumation. I know Billy had several reasons, both personal and political, for creating the Performance for the Dead. I’m glad to be celebrating this milestone in his long career as a performance artist.
Catherine Schuler Vargas: I live in Chicago now, but Winona will always be a part of me. Forty years ago, when I was 22, I was one of the many mourners at Billy Curmano’s Performance for the Dead. Mourning with me was my new friend, Pam Eyden, who had recently moved to town, and who must have thought this was all so strange… So Pam and I mourned together, trailing along behind the casket and a jazz band. Although a lot of that day is a blurred memory, what I do remember was my concern that Billy might not be okay when he was exhumed – but of course, he was, for which I remember being terribly relieved.
Thank you.
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1. Crystal Z Campbell, Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art 2020-21 recipient, at Union Docs, Ridgewood, Queens, NY, October 12
Slick, 7:30PM, UnionDocs 352 Onderdonk Ave
Please visit this link:
https://uniondocs.org/event/embodying-the-record-somatic-approaches-to-a-primary-source/
Crystal Z Campbell will be sharing a work-in-progress, tentatively titled SLICK––an experimental film employing history as a reverb. Focused on public secrets and sites entangled with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and Greenwood community, performers play the city of Tulsa like an instrument, striking chords of displacement that resonate in the city of Tulsa and beyond. The work is a somatic and sonic elegy for the underloved in response to a near century of silence. What stories does the body hold, and how can one tell a story without telling a story?
Crystal Z Campbell, is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Campbell’s works use underloved archival material to consider historical gaps in the narrative of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’ “immortal” cell line, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Select honors include a 2022 Creative Capital award, Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Award, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, and Whitney ISP. Exhibitions and screenings include MOMA, Drawing Center, SFMOMA, ICA-Philadelphia, REDCAT, SculptureCenter, and Berlinale Forum Expanded. Campbell was a featured filmmaker at the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar, and their film, Revolver, received the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. Campbell is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in Art and Media Study at the University at Buffalo and lives in New York and Oklahoma.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art, supported by Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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2. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, at ONX Studio, Manhattan, Sept 30 and more
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, at ONX Studio, Manhattan, panel discussion at 4pm on Saturday, September 30th:
https://www.onx.studio/public-events/dimoda
Ricardo was awarded the commission to conceptualize and execute an ad campaign for The School of Practical Philosophy & Meditation.
If you ride the subway, you may see Ricardo’s work across the subway system:
https://www.ambriente.com/philosophyWorks/
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3. Caroline Garcia, FF Alumn, receives 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Interdisciplinary artist Caroline Garcia, FF Alumn, has been recognized with a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Arts.
Garcia is 2021 New York Artadia Awardee, a 2021-22 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, and the 2018/19 American Australian Association’s AUSART Fellow. She’s participated in programs and residencies at LMCC, Recess Art, Pioneer Works, and International Studio & Curatorial Program, and recently exhibited work at Montclair State University. Garcia has an MFA degree in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School of Art, Media, and Technology.
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship makes unrestricted cash grants of $8,000 to New York State-based artists working in 15 disciplines, recognizing five disciplines per year on a triennial basis. This program is administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
please visit these links:
https://carolinegarcia.com.au/Bio
https://www.nyfa.org/blog/introducing-2023-nysca-nyfa-artist-fellows-finalists-and-panelists/
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4. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, at The Japan Society, Manhattan, Oct. 13, 2023 thru Jan. 21, 2024
Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus
October 13, 2023—January 21, 2024
This exhibition will be the first to fully explore the essential role of Japanese women in Fluxus, a movement instigated in the 1960s that helped contemporary artists define new modes of artistic expression. Near the 60th anniversary of the movement’s founding, this exhibition highlights the contributions of four pioneering Japanese artists — Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015), Yoko Ono (1933–), Takako Saito (1929–), and Mieko Shiomi (1938–) — and contextualizes their role within Fluxus and the broader artistic movements of the 1960s and beyond.
The exhibition is organized by Midori Yoshimoto, Guest Curator, and Tiffany Lambert, Curator and Interim Director, Japan Society, with Ayaka Iida, Assistant Curator, Japan Society. Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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5. Coreen Simpson, Hidemi Takagi, FF Alumns, now online at enfoco.org
Please visit this link to the virtual exhibition:
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6. Reginald Walker, FF Alumn, at Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 13
Hello,
I was awarded a Visual AIDS research fellowship to continue researching Reginald Walker https://visualaids.org/artists/reginald-walker, an artist whose work I included in my exhibition who died suddenly of an AIDS-related illness in the late 1980s without ever receiving recognition.
In advance of publishing, I will be sharing my research from the fellowship at a symposium on Friday Oct 13 @ Whitney Museum (in-person and online).
Please visit this link:
https://whitney.org/events/visual-aids-archive
I am excited to share the work of this artist with a new audience, and present his work outside of a book art context. I hope you will tune in or attend in person!
It’s free with RSVP: here for in-person
https://visit.whitney.org/Tickets/ItemList.aspx?node_id=1038484
or here for the livestream
https://whitney.zoom.us/webinar/register/9316294629937/WN_cDZ7UjV6SYahGgjuVzfnKA#/registration
Thank you for all your continued support of my work.
Best,
Megan N. Liberty
@meganlib | meganliberty.com
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7. Analia Segal, Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumns, receive Fulbright Specialist Awards
Please visit this link:
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8. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France, thru Mar. 4, 2024
Mira Schor
Moon Room
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
2 Rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris, France
September 20, 2023 – March 4, 2024
An artist, writer, publisher, educator, and art critic, Mira Schor’s multiple engagements have secured her a singular place in the contemporary art scene. She is known mainly for her painting, a medium that she explores and advocates for in particular, and for her contributions to the history of feminist art. All the works featured in Mira Schor’s exhibition “Moon Room” come from the Pinault Collection.
Her work expresses her political and theoretical concerns as much as it testifies to her passion for formalism, material, and language. For Schor, language is not a way to illustrate political battles, instead an example of what a female artist’s gaze can produce. Through the personal, intimate narratives that she instills in her works, Schor explores thought, memory, perception, and affects, with an abiding, deep interest “in the return of visual pleasure as a feminist intervention in painting”.
This first-ever exhibition in France features works on rice paper made by Schor in the second half of the 1970s along with a recent painting made in 2022. With their fragile, solitary presence, the masks and dresses are covered with highly personal, handwritten texts about her dreams and her interpretations of them, along with reflections on the Holocaust, to which she lost some of her family, and political writings. “In these works on paper, all that remains of the body are traces of its active, thoughtful character: writing,” which appears in transparency, as an overlay, or as an erasure, “which thus complicates women’s legibility”, wrote Mira Schor. With her incessant interrogation of painting, Schor presents a representation of her own body in the heart of this exhibition Time/spirit (New Red Moon Room), an oil on canvas from 2022. This recent work bookends with the one she made in 1972 at Womanhouse. Lit by a bright, red moon, the artist’s completely painted figure, standing, as if in motion, is now depicted lying in bed, drawn with a furtive stroke of just a few lines.
When one enters the very unique space of the Studio in the Bourse de Commerce, it is as if one penetrates a very intimate space, a “room of her own”, a creative space in which visitors experience the passage of time in the gaze of a feminist, politically engaged woman artist. In this layout, designed by Schor herself, this group of enigmatic figures expresses all the power and vitality of a group and of the individuals who constitute it. These works testify to the artist’s passion for language. In her canvasses, words appear at times as fully legible, and at others, more discretely and transparently, embedded in the different layers of materials of the dresses and masks. The representation of language has formed a constant, recurring motif of her pictorial oeuvre, even before she began to write critical texts on art and the history of feminist art:
“My interest in language as image has been based from the beginning on feeling that women are filled with language, and by language I mean not only feelings, hopes and fears, but also ideas, philosophies and stories, even if they are not generally considered as such.”
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9. Sarah Safford, FF Alumn, at Scholes St. Studio, Brooklyn, Oct. 20, and more
Sarah Safford, FF Alumn presents a segment of her new musical EcoDisaster in the Hundred Acre Wood as part of Brooklyn Musical Theater Workshop Showcase on October 20th at Scholes St Studio, 6 and 8 pm (live streaming an option) and October 22 at Pink Frog at 2:30.
Tickets available online:
https://www.bkalttheater.com/showcase
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10. General Idea, FF Alumn, at Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, thru Jan. 14, 2024
General Idea At Gropius Bau
Berlin, Germany
September 22, 2023 – January 14, 2024
General Idea opens at Gropius Bau on September 22 and will showcase more than 200 works from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with AA Bronson. Bringing together key installations, publications, videos, drawings, paintings, sculptures and archive materials the exhibition provides an overview and insight into the development of General Idea’s artistic practice.
Curated by Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada and Beatrix Ruf, in collaboration with Zippora Elders, for the Gropius Bau. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Gropius Bau.
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11. Monty Cantsin, E.F. Higgins, FF Alumns, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 1
Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin E.F. Higgins III Showroom Exhibition
September 17th to October 1st
E.F. Higgins III (1949-2021) grew up in a small town outside of Chicago, IL. He majored in Fine Arts at Western Michigan University but quit school two weeks before graduating. Higgins later attended the University of Colorado to receive his BFA and then went on to receive an MFA in 1976 from the same school, majoring in Painting and Printmaking. In the same year, Higgins left for New York City where he lived and worked as a professional artist. After moving to NYC, he began extensively producing correspondence art, leading to his invention of the Doo Da Post. The Doo Da Post is a stamp created for the made-up country of Doo Da. He has created 780 editions of Doo Da stamps. Higgins continued to develop his creative language with stamp-making in his back pocket. The Fire Cracker paintings from the late 80’s and early 90’s, which are on display, show vibrant colors and graphic lettering, a trademark that Higgins carried on from his previous stamp-making processes. These pieces incorporate a pop art aesthetic, availing imagery of the American West placed in a logotype context to portray playful renditions of folklore, nostalgia, and circumstances.
Van Der Plas Gallery 156 Orchard Street, NYC
https://www.vanderplasgallery.com/
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12. Isabel Samaras, FF Alumn, at Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, opening Sept. 28 and more
Isabel Samaras will have a selection of large scale painting, prints, posters and even a jigsaw puzzle as part of the exhibition “Keepin’ It Surreal” at the Haight Street Art Center in San Francisco on (you guessed it!) historic Haight Street.
The show also features the work of Dennis Larkins and Dave Klok. “This exhibition features more than 100 pieces and looks at surrealism through the eyes of these three artists, all of whom still use handheld tools like pencils, pens, and brushes to give shape to their thoughts, though each approaches the early 20th-century genre from different angles to achieve different effects.”
* Small opening Thursday Sept. 28th, 6-8pm
* Large opening Friday October 20th, 5-8pm, held in conjunction with The Rock Poster Society’s Festival of Rock Posters
Exhibition info:
https://haightstreetart.org/pages/keepin-it-surreal-dennis-larkins-isabel-samaras-dave-kloc
And The Festival of Rock Posters itself: https://trps.org/
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13. Charles Dennis, Nancy Ostrovsky, FF Alumns, at The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, Oct. 20-21
Greetings,
Avant-Garde-Arama, the performance festival I co-created at P.S. 122 in New York City in 1980, returns to the Lace Mill in Kingston, NY October 20-21.
The festival offers a smorgasbord of short works of dance, film, music and performance art featuring performances and work by Lina Azalea Dahbour, Paul Chambers, Charles Dennis,
Hanna Bass & Spaghetti Eastern Music, Jean Taylor and Nancy Ostrovsky & Megan Gugliotta.
Information & Tickets available on Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/avant-garde-arama-returns-to-the-lace-mill-tickets-716004698327
Also here is a link to the Avant-Garde-Arama Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090056089224
Hope to see you there!
Cheers, Charles
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14. Kenneth King, FF Member, publishes new novel, and online at BBC
Exciting news — my new novel The Disappearing Game has just been published by Club Lighthouse Publishing. It’s available in paper from Amazon and the publisher, as well as in all digital formats for e-readers and mobiles.
Please visit this link:
An actor adept at impersonations encounters unusual adventures when he moonlights at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum performing doubles of the effigies, which leads, through unexpected circumstances, to an explosive scandal that exposes the hidden secrets behind worldwide politics.
Kirkus Reviews: “…shocking events unfold. King’s story is ambitious in its attempt to tackle a range of sociopolitical issues.” This novel might well forecast the future of AI and politics!
This short 11:30″ BBC interview features me reading selections from the novel and is on my YouTube channel Kenneth King Media.
Please visit this link:
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15. Maya Ciarrocchi, FF Alumn, fall events
Fall is upon us! I hope your summer was restful and restorative. Mine was fleeting as always but there were moments of beach and forest bathing in the Michigan woods.
I’m sending this to share an invitation, upcoming events and announcements.
I’m also sharing video of Site: Yizkor from the May performance at King Manor Museum in Jamaica, Queens. I’m still working on the full length edit and hope to have that finished by December.
For now, here are a couple of excerpts.
I’m extremely proud of this work and am grateful to my collaborator Andrew Conklin and the incredible team of dancers and musicians who made this work possible. Also thanks to the folks at the King Manor Museum who so graciously hosted us.
This Place has a Body: https://vimeo.com/837735457?share=copy
Vanished Places: https://vimeo.com/837753429?share=copy
Thanks for reading, and as always, please drop me a line and let me know what you’ve been up to!
warm wishes,
Maya
Where the Water Goes
Curated by Barbara Galazzo
October 14 – November 22, 2023
Reception, Saturday, October 14, 1-4pm
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road,
West Nyack, New York 10994
Gallery Hours: Mon.-Sat. Ilam-4pm (Closed Sundays)
Free to the Public
I am pleased to be in this upcoming group exhibition at the Rockland Center for the Arts, in West Nyack along with Tarryl Gabel, Mara Haseltine, Pat Hickman, Basia Irland, Sto Len, and Mary Mattingly. The exhibition focuses on the surrounding area of the Hudson River, and how we are both affected and inspired by this waterway.
I will be creating a mural for the gallery along with new and existing cyanotypes.
Picturing the Constitution
Curated by Katherine Gressel
October 22, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Artists Reception, Sunday, October 22, 4-6pm
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Free to the Public
As part the of exhibition I am leading Remedy for a Constitutional Crisis an ongoing project comprising durational readings of the US Constitution in multiple languages by multiple performers, facilitated long table discussions on topics such as the separation of powers, Federalism, and individual rights, and areas where attendees write their own amendments or modify existing ones.
The performance will occur on Sunday, October 29 from 11am – 3pm in front of the Old Stone House.
The rain date is Saturday, November 4 from 11am – 3pm.
Cyanotypes of proposed Amendments gathered during previous performances will be installed in the gallery.
I am still seeking readers so let me know if you are interested in participating!
Art Lab Wyspa
I am overjoyed to announce that I have been awarded a Research and Create Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts which will fund a 2024 residency in Gdańsk, Poland at Art Lab Wyspa. Art Lab Wyspa is an arts center located on Gdańsk’s Sobieszewo Island, whose mission is focused on forming connections between ecology, performance studies, new media and new theories, with an emphasis on post-humanism.
During the residency I will spend two weeks developing LoopCurrent, a new performance installation that imagines our environmental impact on the planet and the imminent, irrevocably altered future. I will research the impact of war and climate change on the Baltic Sea and work with Gdańsk-based collaborators to create the project’s sound and movement score.
New Studio!
And finally, after many months in limbo, I have a new studio at Bronx River Arts Center. I moved in in August and have been busy at work.
Come visit!
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16. Gilbert & George, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online in NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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17. John Cage, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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18. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Mark Bloch and Ay-O
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/artseen/Ay-s-Happy-Rainbow-Hell
In the Brooklyn Rail, Mark Bloch reviews the Fluxus artist Ay-O’s first museum show in the United States. Centering around eighty rainbow serigraphs the museum has acquired, the treasure trove creates an ideal port of entry for a presentation that also includes a few Fluxus-related objects to provide context, either refabricated according to Ay-Ō’s wishes or borrowed from the Walker Art Center or MoMA.
In the 1971 “From the Dictionary” section of a suite of the artist’s silkscreens, chance-generated diagram-like compositions became silkscreens after Fluxist Emmett Williams gifted Ay-Ō a German-language picture dictionary. Another 1974 portfolio on view began when another Fluxus friend, Alison Knowles, invited him to collaborate on an early 3M color copier. All these rainbows are a performance to attend, not objects to see—a performance extracted at a cost from its creator. How did an inclination to engulf everyone else in light, somehow engulf him in a self-described “Rainbow Hell”?
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