Franklin Furnace’s Goings On
January 10, 2006
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1. Jean Toche, FF Member, at Artandgallery, Milan, Italy, opening Jan. 17
2. Vernita nCognita, FF Alumn, at Pompidou, Paris, Jan. 12, 3 pm
3. Simon Cutts, FF Alumn, at the Whitney Museum, Jan. 26, 7-10 pm
4. Stanya Kahn & Harry Dodge, FF Alumns, at Art in General, opening Jan. 14, 6-8 pm
5. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, honored at Korean Culture Service, NY, opens Jan. 20
6. Charles Moulton, FF Alumn, at Montclair State University, Jan. 20-21
7. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at Zebulon, Brooklyn, Jan. 17, 10 pm, and more
8. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Jan. 26, 27, 28
9. Tim Miller, FF Alumn, Winter 2006 newsletter
10. Larry Walczak, FF Alumn, at Union Pool, Brooklyn, Jan. 14
11. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at PPOW, opening Jan. 12, 6-8 pm
12. Sarah East Johnson, FF Alumn, at The Flea, Tribeca, thru Feb. 19
13. Conrad Atkinson, Louise Bourgeois, Liliana Porter, Mimi Smith, FF Alumns, at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, opening Feb. 5, 2-5 pm
14. Brody Condon, FF Alumn, at Voldere Gallery, NY, opening Jan. 12, and more
15. Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Katonah Museum, opens on Jan. 15, and more
16. Tracy Quan, FF Alumn, at Bluestockings, NY, Jan. 12, 7-9 pm and more
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1. Jean Toche, FF Member, at Artandgallery, Milan, Italy, opening Jan. 17
Jean Toche, FF Member, presents Burn, Baby Burn, from January 17 thru February 15 at Artandgallery, via Arese 5, Milan, Italy – www.artandgallery.it
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2. Vernita nCognita, FF Alumn, at Pompidou, Paris, Jan. 12, 3 pm
Vernita ncognita
Please come Thursday, January 12th, 3pm to the Pompidou in Paris where I will be performing… spread the word & see you there,
best,
vernita
www.ncognita.com
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3. Simon Cutts, FF Alumn, at the Whitney Museum, Jan. 26, 7-10 pm
Please join Simon Cutts, FF Alumn, and other poets for readings on the occasion of the Art of Richard Tuttle will be presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art on January 26 th, from 7-10 pm. www.whitney.org
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4. Stanya Kahn & Harry Dodge, FF Alumns, at Art in General, opening Jan. 14, 6-8 pm
Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge have a new video showing at Art in General, opening January 14th.
Homer by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, 2006 rt 7:42
8th Annual Video Marathon
Not a Marathon, Just a Traffic Jam
Art in General, Gallery 4
Exhibition: January 14 – February 18, 2006
Opening Reception Saturday January 14, 6-8 pm
This year’s video program is organized as a series of micro-exhibitions co-existing over a five-week period. Guest curators include TOBIAS BERGER, executive director and curator at Para/Site, a non-profit contemporary art space in Hong Kong founded by artists in the 1990’s; MICHAEL CONNOR, head of exhibitions at the British Film Institute in London, where he is currently developing a new exhibition space dedicated to artists’ film and video; and JAMES PEI-MUN TSANG, an artist and feminist organizer who lives in Los Angeles. A brochure with program information will be available at the gallery and on the Art in General website.
Art in General
79 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013-3523
T (212) 219-0473 F (212) 219-0511
E info@artingeneral.org
http://www.artingeneral.org
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6pm
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5. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, honored at Korean Culture Service, NY, opens Jan. 20
Moving Time: Tribute to Nam June Paik
KCS Video Art Exhibition Presenting 30 International Video Artists
Korean Culture Service 460 Park Ave. 6 th Fl. New York, NY 10022
Jan. 20th-Feb. 23 th Opening Reception: Jan. 20 th, 6-8p.m. Curated by Yu Jin Hwang, Jeeyun Kim, Inhee Iris Moon
Artists:
Alessi & Bradbury
Elastic Group of Artistic Research
Terry Berkowitz
Krista Birnbaum
Jonathan Brainin
Ariadna Cappaso
Cleversons
Karina Diepens
Graciela Fuentes
Mariam Ghani
Sigrid Hackenberg
Gye Ryeun Han
Claudia Joskowicz
Jung Kang
Gob Yong Kim
Tae Jin Kim
Young Mi Kim
Mayumi Kimura
Hyun Jean Lee
Hyun Soo Lee
Joo Young Lee
Seung Joon Lee
Katherina Liberovskaya
Carlos Motta
Wanda Ortiz
Jaye Rhee
Terresa Serano
Sang Ho Shin
Jeanne Susplusgus
Traci Tullius
Shiying Vicki Yang
Exhibition Concept:
In celebration of a new year and the diversity of art and culture in New York, Korean Culture Service (NY) has organized < Moving Time: Tribute to Nam June Paik, a media exhibition showing 30 international artists. As its title indicates, the exhibition’s primary objective is to give homage to one of the most revered pioneer video artists of the world, Nam June Paik, by presenting his earlier video works from the 60s and the 70s. We are pleased and honored to be able to introduce such rare works to the general public. Also, by projecting artists within the global- or even what we call a glocal i.e. New York- community, the exhibition wishes to provide an arena of interchange for younger media artists and to understand the idiosyncracy and phase of contemporary video art and to consider video art’s meanings and development possibilities.
Explanation of the Title:
The title makes use of the words Moving and Time in their fullest meaning and their symbolic extensions. The viewers should be able to exercise their cognition, perception and imagination to engage with works of art or more specifically with video as technical subject and medium. For example, word Moving Time should be understood in relation to its noun and verb forms. It could be referring to a time for change, migration, journey back to memory, fast forwarding, rewinding etc.. The possibility of interpretation is endless.
Sponsored by: KCS, LG, Nam June Paik Studios, EAI
Contact Information:
a. Inhee Iris Moon: 1-914-815-1284, 1-914-779-0868, irisinheemoon@hanmail.net , inheemoon@hotmail.com
b. Jee Yun Kim: 1-212-203-6629, playbackstudio@yahoo.com
c. Yu Jin Hwang: 1-212-759-9550, eugine_h@koreanculture.org
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6. Charles Moulton, FF Alumn, at Montclair State University, Jan. 20-21
LAND OF DREAMS : A VAUDEVILLE REQUIEM
CONCEIVED, DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY CHARLES MOULTON
COMES TO PEAK PERFORMANCE AT MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
JANUARY 20TH AND 21ST.
LAND OF DREAMS: A VAUDEVILLE REQUIEM conceived, directed and choreographed by Charles Moulton comes to Peak Performance at Montclair State University Friday January 20th and Saturday, January 21st at 7:30 at the Kasser Theatre. Charles Moulton is perhaps best known for the prominence he attained in the late 70’s for his choreographic work and the string of virtuosic dances in the 80’s, regarded then and now as post-modern classics. He was also amongst the pioneers who co-founded the groundbreaking Performance Space 122, and was a prime mover in the Lower East side arts scene. He uses all these experiences plus, his family’s vaudeville background to create a bawdy, touching, hilarious and often heartbreaking new work.
LAND OF DREAMS: A VAUDEVILLE REQUIEM is an elegy to the dream of a brash and hopeful America that never existed. As if shot out of a cannon, the show’s 7 virtuosi performers, create a postmodern juggernaut of slapstick, street theater, dance and clowning in a sensational effort to exorcise Moulton’s own personal history of 20th century performance. Employing text by two such divergent sources as Thornton Wilder and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and music by Randy Newman, Moulton creates a work as American as a hot and bubbling apple pie, washed down by a vodka chaser. By boldly employing children’s party balloons in unacceptable ways, the enterprising and audacious Moulton risks bringing his career to a screeching climax or positing himself, once again, as the Comeback Kid of Post Modern Dance!
Fresh from City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival where his signature routine, “48 Person Precision Ball Passing”, brought down the house, Charles Moulton promises to break every rule of dance imaginable with Land of Dreams, boldly blending genres to capture the joys and perils of the American experience.
LAND OF DREAMS : A VAUDEVILLE REQUIEM
Conceived, directed and choreographed by Charles Moulton
Songs: Randy Newman
Dramaturgy: Morgan Jenness
Text by Thornton Wilder and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Sets by Mimi Lien
Costumes by Oana Botez-Ban
Performance Schedule: Friday, January 20 th and Saturday January 21 st at 7:30pm
Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University
Admission: $25 Students and Ball Passers: $10 Reservations: 973 655 5112
Approximate Running Time: 60 minutes
www.montclair.kasser.edu
TRANSPORT
FRIDAY 20 January
The train leaves NEW YORK PENN Station and arrives at MONCTLAIR HEIGHTS station at the following time: (There will be someone waiting from the Box Office to walk you the 5 minutes to the Kasser Theater.)
Departs Arrives
06:18 PM – BNTNM 07:08 PM
The train leaves for PENN STATION from MONCTLAIR HEIGHTS at:
Departs Arrives
09:11 PM – BNTNM 10:00 PM
– to verify the train schdeules before departing – please direct enquiries to: http://www.njtransit.com (- go to train schedules and choose the Monclair Boonton Line). Or call 1-800-772-2222
SATURDAY 21 January
The bus departs from next door to the Maritime Hotel on 9th avenue (between 16th and 17th streets) at 5:45pm. The bus will leave the MSU campus after the show and return to the pick-up point in the city.
Call the MSU box office at 973-655-5112 to book the bus or check times.
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7. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at Zebulon, Brooklyn, Jan. 17, 10 pm, and more
Friends
brother guitarist John (JB) is in town for this one!
Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious Objects
KB – hybrid instruments, vibraband
John Butler – guitar
Essiett Essiett – bass (ex. Art Blakey, Denilo Perez, Billy Cobham)
Seido Salifoski – percussion
Tues. Jan 17th 10pm
no cover no minimum
ZEBULON
258 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn
(Metropolitan & N.3rd) Williamsburg, Brooklyn
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/
Hybridized world rhythms on instruments made from tools and household objects.
I am also performing at the benefit:
Stop Our Supersizing www.stopoursupersizing.com
A Night of Neighborhood Music and Fun with Williamsburg Musicians
Sat. Jan. 14th 7:30-12:30
Union Pool
484 Union Ave. Brooklyn
Donation $10 at the door
I also have works in 2 exhibitions:
Sideshow Gallery (opens Jan 14th)
http://www.sideshowgallery.com
(where I have a big solo show in April)
and
The East Williamsburg Show at
Tastes Like Chicken Art Space (opens Jan 20th)
http://www.tasteslikechickenartspace.com/
(I will be in Ithaca performing opening night)
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8. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Jan. 26, 27, 28
I have been working on Chris Rael’s Araby for the past year as artistic director and dramaturg this is going to be an extraordinary project.–.three nights only
ARABY: an operetta by Chris Rael, inspired by James Joyce’s Dubliners. Thursday-Saturday, January 26-28, 2006, at 8 pm. Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, 3rd floor (south of Houston & Bowery, near Broadway-Lafayette subway). Sliding scale tix $10-$15, advance tix $12 at www.theatermania.com . TDF vouchers accepted Thursday only. Reservations 212-219-0736 x111, www.dixonplace.org . Dubliners is a collection of portraits of ordinary people in an ordinary town. The intensity of their suffering is in stark relief to the mundane environment from which it springs. The depth of these psychological portraits inspired composer/lyricist Rael to re-tell the stories in words and music accentuating the universal human experience of Joyce’s characters. The beauty and horror in these stories could happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone. Araby explores the grey area between popular music, chamber music, and musical theater. Fifteen short stories are recounted in 3-to-6-minute songs, arranged for six singers and chamber ensemble. This work-in-progress will focus on vocal performance, creating the effect of a minimally staged concert. Vocalists: Brian Dewan, John Kelly, Chris Rael, Dudley Saunders, Gwen Snyder, Shara Worden. Ensemble: Marlon Cherry (percussion), Rima Fand (violin), Marla Hansen (viola), Serena Jost (cello), Joe Quigley (bass), Chris Rael (guitar). Artistic direction and dramaturg: Penny Arcade
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9. Tim Miller, FF Alumn, Winter 2006 newsletter
Tim MILLER 2006 NEWSLETTER- WINTER TOUR! “1001 BEDS” NEW SHOW! NEW BOOK!
Hi Everybody!
Happy New Year! Hope everyone’s holidays were good and we are all re-charged for culture-making, world-changing, seats-filling, hearts opening performance adventures!
Time to hit the road for my busy WInter tour! North…South…East…West!
Allentown! Savannah! Seattle! San Francisco! Chicago! Winston-Salem!
Exciting news! I have a new book and performance coming soon! At theaters and bookstores near you! I will have a new performance called “1001 Beds” based on my brand new book of the same name that will be out in March 06 from University of Wisconsin Press. It’s a kinky and funny journey thru the beds and hotels and politics of a life on the road as a traveling salesman- oops I mean a solo performance artist! I was doing the math recently and I figured that if I continue to tour as a performer for another twenty years, I will end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime on the road. For maximum poetic oomph, let’s say 1001 beds! Yikes! The book “1001 BEDS” will be out in Feb and is a collection of my essays, performances, manifestos, performance touring stories from Tokyo to Chattanooga and my journals. Will be a fun and fierce new performance based on excerpts from the book. More info to follow as we get closer to the pub date and the premiere of the new show in March at New Conservatory Theatre in S.F.
Meanwhile, I am really looking forward to my busy winter of performing. I will be doing many juicy University performance & teaching residencies this Winter at Muhlenberg College, Savannah College of Art and Design, Roosevelt University and Wake Forest University. Here’s a nice essay from the Women’s Playwriting Newsletter that was written by a participant about my 2004 workshop residency like this at Univ of Minnesota theater program which was a great expeience.
http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/ICWPnewsletterNov2004-Seeing.html
Here are highlights from my fall performing and residency schedule below. Hope to see you on my travels!
Jan. 9-20 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Jan. 21-28 Savannah College of Art and Design
Feb. 16-18 Seattle, Consolidated Works
March 2-12 New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco
March 13-19 Roosevelt University
March 15 -18 Chicago, Bailiwick Theatre
March 27- April 2 Wake Forest University
March 29 Winston Salem, NC Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Best, Tim Miller
http://hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmiller.html
PS Very excited about my new book of essays & performances 1001 BEDS! Will Be out March 1, 2006
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10. Larry Walczak, FF Alumn, at Union Pool, Brooklyn, Jan 14
eyewash, Wiliamsburg’s migratory gallery & StopOurSupersizing present…
AN EVENING OF FUN AND MUSIC
SATURDAY, January 14th 7-12:30 at
UNIONPOOL in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
484 Union Ave. right off the BQE at North 10th near the Lorimer L stop
donation $10
featuring singer/songwriter’s
Marykate O Neil
&
Lianne Smith
Ken Butler’s VOICES OF ANXIOUS OBJECTS with special guests
David First of the NOTEKILLERS with guests Bubblyfish on Gameboy and Alexander Waterman on cello
All funds go to the legal fees in the Williamsburg Community’s fight against the proposed 22 story condo development on North 7th right in the heart of the Northside.
MORE info-718-387-2714
thanks so much–
Larry Walczak
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11. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at PPOW, opening Jan. 12, 6-8 pm
Carolee schneemann, FF Alumn, at PPOW Gallery, January 12 th thru February 14, 2006, opening Jan. 12, 6-8 pm. 555 W. 25 th Street, NY 212-647-1044
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12. Sarah East Johnson, FF Alumn, at The Flea, Tribeca, thru Feb. 19
LAVA’s new show, (w)HOLE, the (whole) History of Life on Earth, is at the Flea Theater in Tribeca, NYC, January 5 to February 19. For information: www.lavalove.org, For tickets: www.theatermania.com or 212-352-3101
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13. Conrad Atkinson, Louise Bourgeois, Liliana Porter, Mimi Smith, FF Alumns, at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, opening Feb. 5, 2-5 pm
THREADS OF MEMORY
Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
February 5 – April 17, 2006
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 5: 2 to 5pm
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects
Open Thursday through Monday 11 – 6
11-03 45th Avenue (corner of 11th St.)
Directions:
E,V to 23rd St/Ely Ave
7 to 45 Rd/Courthouse Sq
G to 21st St/Van Alst
Long Island City
718-937-6317
email: info@dorsky.org
“Threads of Memory” includes the work of 30 artists who use thread as a mark-making device and reference to memory – both personal and universal. Artists included are Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Conrad Atkinson, Doug Bosch, Louise Bourgeois, Ambreen Butt, Orly Cogan, Elisa D’Arrigo, Marguerite Day, Elena del Rivero, Lesley Dill, Tracey Emin, Fred Fleisher, Amanda Guest, Kent Henricksen, Nene Humphrey, Nina Katchadourian, Ke-Sook Lee, Sarah Lovitt, Bonnie Lucas, China Marks, Meridith McNeal, Katherine Porter, Liliana Porter, Micharel Raedecker, Elaine Reichek, Rachel Selekman, Donna Sharrett, Mimi Smith, and Stephen Sollins.
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14. Brody Condon, FF Alumn, at Voldere Gallery, NY, opening Jan. 12, and more
Brody Condon
WORSHIP
Virgil de Voldere Gallery
526 West 26th Street, Room 416
Jan. 12th – Feb. 11th
Opening Jan. 12th 6-9 pm
and in
BREAKING AND ENTERING
(with cory arcangel, brody condon, jon haddock, jodi, paper rad, rsg, and eddo stern)
Pace Wildenstein
545 West 22nd Street
thru Jan 28th
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15. Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Katonah Museum, opens on Jan. 15, and more
Beaumont is participating in a group show: “I___the Burbs”
January 15 – April 9, 2006
“For the first time in history, the majority of American citizens live in the suburbs,” writes curator Ellen Keiter in her catalogue essay for the exhibition I ♥ the Burbs. A multimedia exhibition I ♥ the Burbs explores how this major demographic shift has influenced American culture, economics, lifestyle and politics is expressed in works by contemporary artists. Paintings, photographs, sculpture and video presentations created by Diane Arbus, Beaumont, Gregory Crewdson, David Hockney, Bill Owens, Joel Sternfeld and Larry Sultan, among others, delve into the myths and realities of modern day suburban life.
Artists examine the icons of suburban life—the home, the lawn, and the family—and question whether the American dream is still alive. They also explore the communal character of suburbia: the automobile, the neighborhood, and unbridled suburban sprawl. I—the Burbs is not a sociological study but rather an expanding discourse on the predominant way of life for most Americans.
Directions
By Train: From Grand Central Terminal (Harlem Division of Metro North): The Katonah Museum of Art is located 1/4 mile east of the Katonah railroad station. Taxi service is available.
By Car: Take Exit 6 off Interstate 684. Go east on Route 35. Take the first right onto Route 22 south. The Museum is located 1/4 mile on the left.
Museum Hours
Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Sunday 12 to 5pm, Closed Mondays
Admission
10 AM – 12 Noon: free; 12 – 5 PM: admission $3; Members and children under 12 free
Free Guided Tours: Tuesday through Sunday, 2:30 PM
Katonah Museum of Art
Route 22 at Jay Street
Katonah , New York 10536
Telephone: 914 232 9555
Fax: 914 232 3128
Publicity: Mimi Shanley Taft
914 232 9555 x2998
mtaft@katonahmuseum.org
www.katonahmuseum.org
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16. Tracy Quan, FF Alumn, at Bluestockings, NY, Jan. 12, 7-9 pm and more
Thursday, Jan 12 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm
**Benefit Reading for $pread Magazine**
Double Event!
$pread Coffeehouse Reading + Sex Work Olympics at the Afterparty
Who: $pread contributors Audacia Ray, Jo Weldon, Shane Luitjens, Tracy Quan and others will read, followed by a sizzling discussion with all present.
When: 7pm til 9pm, Thursday Jan 12, 2006
Where: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St (between Rivington
and Stanton) Subway: F, V to 2nd Ave
Admission: $4 – $8
Afterparty: Around the corner, at the Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St (corner
of Stanton St.) $7 – $10. Sex Work Olympics will feature events to
represent all sectors of the sex industry! Dance the night away. DJs spin
till 2am.
Discount entry price if you attend both events.
Questions? Email info@spreadmagazine.org
Relevant websites:
http://www.spreadmagazine.org/
http://www.tracyquan.net/index.php3
http://www.bluestockings.com/
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