Goings On: posted week of October 07, 2019
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1. Harley J. Spiller, Mary Campbell, Hector Canonge, Christen Clifford, Billy X Curmano, Irina Danilova & Hiram Levy, Laure Drogoul, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, LuLu LoLo, Linda Mary Montano, Donna Henes, Esther Smith, Vernita Nemec aka N’Cognita & Verónica Peña, Jody Oberfelder, Pat Oleszko, Arlene Rush, Miriam Schaer, Priscilla Stadler, Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumns, now online at patch.com now online
2. Xenobia Bailey, Alicia Grullón, Judith Simonian, FF Alumns, receive Colene Brown Art Prize 2019
3. Clifford Owens, FF Alumn, at Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, Dec. 12, and more
4. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, new publication
5. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at the National League of American Pen Women, Boca Raton, FL, Nov. 21
6. Divine Breath NYC at La Mama, Manhattan, thru Oct. 26
7. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Oct. 15 and 24
8. Rachel Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Espace DbD, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 12-13
9. Leila Nadir, FF Alumn, new publication in asapjournal.com now online
10. Susie Léger, FF Alumn, at Muchmore’s, Brooklyn, Oct. 9
11. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, in Artforum now online
12. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at WhiteHotMagazine.com now online
13. Lynne Tillman, FF Alumn, in TheNation.com now online
14. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, Autumn news
15. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at The Untitled Space, Manhattan, Oct. 12
16. Peter Baren, Seiji Shimoda, FF Alumns, at Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China, Oct. 12-22
17. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Party City, Manhattan, Oct. 18
18. Daze, FF Alumn, in The New York Times now online
19. Ayana Evans, Dominique Duroseau, Nyugen Smith, FF Alumns, at NYU, Manhattan, Oct. 18
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1. Harley J. Spiller, Mary Campbell, Hector Canonge, Christen Clifford, Billy X Curmano, Irina Danilova & Hiram Levy, Laure Drogoul, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, LuLu LoLo, Linda Mary Montano, Donna Henes, Esther Smith, Vernita Nemec aka N’Cognita & Verónica Peña, Jody Oberfelder, Pat Oleszko, Arlene Rush, Miriam Schaer, Priscilla Stadler, Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumns, now online at patch.com now online
Please visit this link:
https://patch.com/new-york/east-village/artists-older-60-will-present-art-odd-places-14th-st
thank you.
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2. Xenobia Bailey, Alicia Grullón, Judith Simonian, FF Alumns, receive Colene Brown Art Prize 2019
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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3. Clifford Owens, FF Alumn, at Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, Dec. 12, and more
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I hope this message finds you well.
I’m excited to share with you some exciting news from Baltimore, my hometown. On December 12, I perform a new iteration of Anthology including a new score by artist Joyce Scott, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This new version of the project also features scores by Charles Gaines, Senga Nengudi, Derrick Adams, and Shinique Smith. A post-performance installation of the Smith score and an ongoing restroom installation of the Adams score (from December 12) will be on view through December 15.
I’m also delighted to share that art collectors Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida have donated my 10-foot work on paper One for Ben Patterson to the Baltimore Museum of Art, which is currently on view in the museum with other works from their impressive collection.
Upcoming: Terry Adkin’s Lone Wolf Recital Corp at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and an exhibition catalog essay I’m writing about Terry’s art, his influence, and the LWRC.
Looking forward!
Best,
Clifford
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4. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, new publication
https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/constitution-illustrated
“Constitution Illustrated” by R. Sikoryak A new book coming in Summer 2020 from Drawn & Quarterly.
THE MASTER OF THE VISUAL MASH-UP RETURNS WITH HIS SIGNATURE IDIOSYNCRATIC TAKE ON THE CONSTITUTION R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth century comics. With Terms and Conditions, he made the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and no one reads, readable. He employs his magic yet again to investigate the very framework of the country with Constitution Illustrated. By visually interpreting the complete text of the supreme law of the land with more than a century of American pop culture icons, Sikoryak distills the very essence of the government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary.
Among Sikoryak’s spot-on unions of government articles and amendments with famous comic book characters: the eighteenth amendment that instituted prohibition is articulated with Homer Simpson running from Chief Wiggum; the fourteenth amendment that solidifies citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the USA is personified by Ms. Marvel; and, of course, the nineteenth amendment offering women the right to vote is a glorious depiction of Wonder Woman breaking free from her chains. American artists from George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts) to Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations.
We the People has never been more apt.
PAPERBACK
7″ X 5″
128 PGS
4-COLOR
9781770463967
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5. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at the National League of American Pen Women, Boca Raton, FL, Nov. 21
Claire Jeanine Satin will be giving a lecture for the National League of American Pen Women, Boca Raton Florida Branch On November 21, 2019. 11:30 am. “The Art of the Book and Other Matters”.
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6. Divine Breath NYC at La Mama, Manhattan, thru Oct. 26
Divine Breath NYC at La Galleria at La Mama, 47 Great Jones St. NYC, thru Oct. 26, Tuesdays-Sundays, 1-7 pm. For complete information please visit https://www.divinebreathnyc.com/ thank you.
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7. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Oct. 15 and 24
Writer, poet, performance, video and theatre maker Penny Arcade is celebrating her 50th year in the New York Art world in 2019.
Who else but Penny Arcade would keep tickets for her shows at $20.00?
“Penny Arcade gives one hell of a show…vital, dangerous, hilarious and a wake up call” Attitude Magazine
Longing Lasts Longer
Joe’s Pub October 15th and October 24th 9:30 pm
Come see the work NY audiences are raving about!
Longing Lasts Longer is a love letter to the values of downtown NY art and at the same time it is refutation on nostalgia that tackles not only the gentrification of neighborhoods and cities as we experience in NY but also the gentrifications of ideas.
The 80 minute show features a sound score of 100 sound loops from some of the best rock and roll music of the past 60 years created by Penny and her collaborator of 28 years
Steve Zehentner. Performed in over 45 cities around the planet over the past 3 years
Longing Lasts Longer debuted at St Ann’s Warehouse in December 2016.
Longing Lasts Longer is an evening of dangerous ideas and radical inquiry into what it means to be human, right now!
Penny Arcade, the undisputed Queen of Underground Performance, has never wavered or relaxed in her quest to entertain, challenge and expand both herself and her audience. Her rare ability to articulate ideas that are still forming in the collective psyche that have not yet emerged and been sanctioned by collective consciousness is a message of hope and optimism.
https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2019/p/penny-arcade-longing-lasts-longer/
“Exhilarating, passionate…A unique voice capturing the zeitgeist of a cultural genocide” The Stage
“Bursting with energy…hilarity and pathos” Edinburgh Evening News
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8. Rachel Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Espace DbD, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 12-13
Espace DbD/Rachel Rosenthal Company
present
TOHUBOHU!
Sat :: OCT 12 :: 8pm | Sun :: OCT 13 :: 7pm
“TOHUBOHU! (we always use an exclamation point, because it should be said with ferver) is Total Free Improvisation, which is nothing like a scripted, rehearsed, and repeatable show. Our form of theatre is difficult as no other art form is. We act and react, respond to surprises, challenges, accidents, the unknown, the unexpected, as we do in so-called ‘real’ life. Only in a way that we call ‘art’.
– Rachel Rosenthal | Founding Artistic Director
“If Keersmaeker’s compositions are scored orchestral works, TOHUBOHU! is a free jazz group. Every performance is unscripted, unrehearsed, and unrepeatable. The performers are so finely attuned to each other that their wordless visual and kinetic communication seems almost telepathic.”
– Jacki Apple | FABRIK [Read Full Review HERE]
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Because we have limited seating, reservations are encouraged.
Walk-ups available on a first-come, first-served basis.
We are located at: 2847 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 [ MAP ]
Ample free parking at meters up and down Robertson after 8pm.
We are one block off the 220 Metro & 12 Big Blue Bus stops at Robertson & Cattaraugus.
We are a few blocks walk from the Venice/Robertson EXPO Metro [PLAN YOUR TRIP]
PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY! We lock the gates for showtimes at 8.00pm/7.00pm SHARP.
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9. Leila Nadir, FF Alumn, new publication in asapjournal.com now online
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Susie Léger, FF Alumn, at Muchmore’s, Brooklyn, Oct. 9
NO VOICE HUSH’D
A WOMXN ART PUNK FEST
OCT. 9TH / MUCHMORE’S, BK
The Brooklyn based, transnational Art Punk band “What Would Tilda Swinton Do’ is organizing “No voice hush’d”, an intimate, all-inclusive evening, showcasing New York City punk rock bands fronted by female identifying musicians, poets and interdisciplinary artists. Art Videos, paintings, installations and more share a literal and figurative stage with the bands and poets performing that night, united by creation from a non-male-identified perspective.
Here is the website for it: https://whatwouldtildaswintondo.com/novoicehushd/
According to recent studies, female-identified persons represent about a third of all gallery-represented artists globally; in the songwriting world this number goes down to a little more than a tenth. In the NYC rock/punk scene in particular, female-identifying musicians must fight several orders of magnitude harder than their male peers for their voices to be heard.
“No voice hush’d” is a representation of our method to rectify this, starting here in NYC through the uniting of female-identified artists across disciplines.
Reflecting upon current political circumstances, all proceeds from ticket sales will go towards the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) to support the fight against abortion restriction.
Where? Muchmore’s, 2 Havemeyer Street, NY 11211
When? Oct. 9th, dorrs 7pm, $10
SUZIE LÉGER
Artist ● Musician ● Actress
www.suzieleger.com
WHAT WOULD TILDA SWINTON DO
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11. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, in Artforum now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.artforum.com/print/201908/lauren-o-neill-butler-on-the-art-of-agnes-denes-80813
thank you.
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12. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, at WhiteHotMagazine.com now online
Here’s my latest article. about an installation, Origins, by artist Sharon Louden and Hrag Vartanian, the publisher of Hyperallergic magazine. PUBLISHED IN WHITEHOT MAGAZINE,
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/hrag-vartanian-at-signs-symbols/4396
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13. Lynne Tillman, FF Alumn, in TheNation.com now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.thenation.com/article/lynne-tillman-american-genius-book-review-profile/
thank you.
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14. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, Autumn news
Dear Friends:
We are launching our season covering 2020-2024.If you would like to get involved please contact Linda Sibio at bezerkpro@gmail.com
a. Sleep Deficit Dream – This is being done in coordination with 18th Street Arts Center and People Concern. They not only are giving us sponsorship but space to work in, housing, and administrative support. The piece deals with poverty of the poorest such as the homeless and mentally disabled. It takes elements of insanity and combines that with economic statistics and writings about these groups. The project takes place in a big yellow and black sewer-hose with 12 performers (11 from skid row).
The outcomes would include finding non-monetary solutions for poverty that empowers the individual to fight for their rights as human beings living on this planet.
b. Economics of Suffering, Part III – This piece is booked at Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles. I will be doing 14 8’x4′ paintings based on blue collar workers, orphans, hunger, aid, as well as other concepts that express oppressions. I also will be making some closets on wheels for the audience to dance with. I will paint objects such as strait jackets, gas masks, torture machines, etc.
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Sincerely,
Linda Sibio for Bezerk Productions
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15. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at The Untitled Space, Manhattan, Oct. 12
EXPOSED
Grace Graupe-Pillard & Robin Tewes
A Duo Exhibition Curated by Indira Cesarine
ARTIST TALK
Saturday, October 12th
3pm – 5pm
RSVP
events@untitled-space.com
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
September 24 – October 26, 2019
THE UNTITLED SPACE
45 Lispenard Street
NYC 10013
Join The Untitled Space on Saturday, October 12th for an artist talk with Grace Graupe-Pillard and Robin Tewes, featured in our current exhibtion on view, “EXPOSED”. Curated by gallery director Indira Cesarine, the exhibit opened on September 24th, and has been extended through October 26th, 2019.
Practicing since the 1970’s and 80s, pioneering feminist artists Grace Graupe-Pillard and Robin Tewes have both explored through their works over the last several decades portraits of contemporary America, depicting individuals and environments that resonate with our collective conscious as familiar, recognizable and yet unconventional. Duo exhibition, “EXPOSED” presents their unique female perspective on this universe with works that inspire an ongoing dialogue and challenge the outdated notions of men and women’s conventional roles. Their signature styles reveal portraits that address a shift in consciousness by examining the way we perceive one another. Voyeuristic themes have consistently inspired both artists, yet their individual styles approach it conceptually from unique angles. Exhibition “EXPOSED,” through a selection of recent as well as historical works by both artists, reflects on the fragility of being human, and reveals a vision of our culture that is at once subtle yet a remarkable reminder of the struggles faced in these challenging and changing times. Their works communicate past and present narratives, chronicling moments in time as if from their own private journals, unfolding complex identities through their confidential lens.
In Graupe-Pillard’s realist portraits and paintings of nudes, the backgrounds are stripped bare as are the subjects. The naked and larger than life portraits give her an opportunity to emphasize the subject’s individualism, as well as address the human condition and aging process. States the artist, “I metaphorically dissolve into my subjects. I am admittedly a “voyeur” in the sense that I like observing something that is considered to be private. I feel that voyeurism in the context of art requires a penetrating look at the human physiognomy – be it the face or the naked body fully exposed – conjoined through the medium of paint, a sensual phenomenon that occurs when I work without restraint, without self-consciousness, taking poignant risks that reveal a shared humanity.”
Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraiture since her early charcoal drawings which she exhibited at The Drawing Center, NYC in 1981. Her work, which has been exhibited at notable institutions such as MOMA PS1 and galleries including Cheim & Read Gallery (NY) and Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), has evolved from over the years from pastels to large-scale oil paintings and installations of people who she describes as “having not been integrated into mainstream society.” Her more recent paintings, inspired by selfies and iPhone photographs, attempt to convey the vitality and diversity of 21st century contemporary culture while capturing the ineffable moments in our lives. “The sensuality and radiant beauty of youth and ethnic diversity are depicted in my choice of subjects, as well as the ravages of time which are imprinted on our being. All stages of life are filled with humanity that both elevates and dissipates the spirit.”
Robin Tewes’ work reflects not only the artist’s expression of her inner thoughts and feelings but also her fascination with the interconnection of interior and exterior spaces. Her paintings invoke a complex and often surreal narrative of voyeurism that draws the viewer into an intimate dialogue. “I’m interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about our selves and the culture we live in. My work is involved with expressing paradoxical truths and the short stories have psychological theory. I think of the world as a stage, loaded with images that I’m interested in redefining or evaluating, so that I become the voyeur along with the viewer. Repeated images such as brick, plants, crumpled paper, windows and sky, reflect the surreal subtleties that lurk in the mundane and peripheral experience of contemporary life,” states Tewes. The walls or backgrounds of her paintings are minimal, but at a closer glance are covered with words and images scratched or painted on the surface. Her intention is that nothing is what it seems, especially at first glance.
The Queens-born, New York City-based artist Robin Tewes, known since the early 1980s for her representational paintings of frozen and narrative-like moments, has shown her work in numerous solo exhibitions as well as museums including P.S. 1, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and The Drawing Center. Tewes paints everyday people and domestic interiors in a precise, almost deadpan style that Artforum critic Ronny Cohen called “searingly direct” in its presentation of information and emotional impact. She often incorporates subtle, graffiti-like text into her paintings, suggesting pointed or disquieting thoughts, conversations or social commentary on the scene being portrayed. ARTnews’ Barbara Pollack described Tewes’s work as maintaining “an edgy balance between surrealism and soap opera.” In addition to her art practice, Tewes has worked as an educator, lecturer, curator and activist. She has contributed socially-minded works to numerous exhibitions and benefits focusing on issues including women’s reproductive rights, human trafficking, aggression, environmentalism, and the Iraq War. Tewes has long been rumored to be one of the original members of the controversial, anonymous feminist collective the Guerrilla Girls, known as member “Alice Neel.”
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Grace Graupe Pillard has exhibited her artwork throughout the USA with one-person exhibitions in Hartford, CT., Jackson MS., Chicago Ill., Newark, NJ, in addition in NYC at The Proposition, Bernice Steinbaum, Donahue/Sosinski and Hal Bromm as well as The Frist Center in Nashville, TN, The NJ State Museum and the NJ Center for Visual Arts. In 2015 and 2006, she had solo exhibits at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago; other solo exhibitions were at Payne Gallery at Moravian College, PA., Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ., and Rider University, NJ. Graupe Pillard has exhibited her work in group exhibitions at P.S.1, P.S. 122, The Drawing Center, and Cheim & Read Gallery among others and as has been the recipient of many grants including four from The NJ State Council on the Arts, as well as from The National Endowment for the Arts. She has received Public Art commissions from Shearson Lehman /American Express, AT&T, KPMG, Wonder Woman Wall at The Port Authority Bus Terminal, Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ. Commissions from NJ Transit for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System at Garfield Station in Jersey City, and 2nd Street Station in Hoboken, and Aberdeen-Matawan Station in Aberdeen, NJ. Her work has been written about in The Village Voice, The NY Times, Art News, The Star-Ledger, Newsday, Flash Art, Artforum, Art in America, Arts, and Tema Celeste.
Celebrated artist Robin Tewes was born in Queens New York in 1950. She received her BFA from Hunter College in 1978 and her MST from Pace University in 2012. She is the Recipient of many notable and prestigious awards, including the 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Painting Award, the 2007 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Award, and the 2004 and 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts-Painting. Selected solo exhibitions include Wright Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Headbones Gallery, Klapper Hall Gallery, Bill Maynes Gallery, John Weber Gallery. Some group exhibitions include: at P.S. 1, P.S. 122 Painting Association, The Drawing Center, Aldridge Museum, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Hunterdon Museum. Tewes is interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about ourselves. Became a founding member of P.S122 Painting Association and now on the Board of Directors. She has been included recently in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Her work has been recognized and written about in NY Times, Village Voice, The Drawing Society, Soho News, Artforum, Artiness, Art in America, Tema Celeste, and Arts to name a few.
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16. Peter Baren, Seiji Shimoda, FF Alumns, at Up-On Live Art Festival, Chengdu, China, Oct. 12-22
Peter Baren, FF Alumn, performs and lectures during 7th UP-ON Live Art Festival in Chengdu, China. 12 – 22 October 2019.
The 7th art festival will be held in Chengdu from October 12 to 22, 2019, and will invite 28 artists (8 from oversea and 20 from China) to participate, among them are senior artists who began to create performance in the late 1960s, such as the Finnish artist Helina Hukkataival, and the newcomers after the 90s.
Organized by UP-ON Live Art Space. Artists will create their live performance on five scenes in the afternoon time from October 17th to 21st. At the same time, there are 12 critics who participated in the academic discussion of the festival in multiple ways as observers. In addition, during the festival, there will be a literature exhibition and related seminars for all participating artists, as well as some artists’ sharing lectures and workshops and other public education projects.
The festival will be hosted by UP-ON Live Art Space and funded by the Luxelakes ·A4 Art Museum, the Luxehills Art Museum, and the Tianfu College of Art and Design of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. It is co-organized by the Luxelakes ·A4 Art Museum, Luxehills Art Museum, DoBo E-Manor of Chengdu, College of Architecture and Design of Southwest Jiaotong University, The Art Museum of Sichuan University, Gao Xiaohua Art Museum of Southwest Minzu University, Oil Painting Department of Fine Art Institute of Sichuan Music University, Kinmirai Art Gallery Hostel.
Festival Initiators: Zhou Bin, Liu Chengying
Project Director: Zhou Bin
Executive Coordinator: Zeng Jie
Executive Group: Li Lifeng、Wang Yin、Wang Qingyang、
Wang Xingxing、 Zhang Yaofang
Academic Observers: Cheng Mo、Cui Fuli、Ding Fenqi、Huang Xiaorong、
Lan Qingwei、Li Jie、Lin Hanjian、Sophia Kidd (USA)、Tang Peixian、Tian. Meng、Zha Changping、Zhang Yinchuan
UP-ON
Organizers：UP-ON Live Art Space
Sponsors: LUXELAKES·A4 Art Museum、 Luxehills Art Museum、
Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance And Economics
Partners: LUXELAKEES·A4 Art Museum、Luxehills Art Museum. DoBo E-Manor of Chengdu、Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance And Economics、College of Architecture and Design of Southwest Jiaotong
University, The Art Museum of Sichuan University、Gao Xiaohua Art Museum of Southwest Minzu University、College of Fine Art of Sichuan Conservatory of Music、Kinmirai Art Gallery Hostel
Media Supports: 1314 Magazine、Tai Art、 Artorn Net、
SKD International Art Education、
In 2007, artists Zhou Bin and Liu Chengying established UP-ON Live Art Space to build an international platform for on-site art creation, exchange and research, in Chengdu. The first UP – ON international live art festival was held in October 2008, as a very important international art exchange program of the UP-ON art space organization. Since 2018, it has held five sessions, and has invited 76 oversea artists and 87Chinese artists to attend. At present, UP-ON International live art festival has been widely recognized as a professional live art activity in the international art field.
UP-ON the international live art festival was originally plannned to held on a regular basis every October of each year, but after the first UP-ON in 2008, it took three years gap, until in 2012, the second UP-ON finally was held continually, and then the in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, it respectively held third, fourth, fifth consecutive terms. The major reason of second and the third festival haven’t been held with the original plan, caused by the difficulty of fundraising, but after the UP-ON festival was held continuity in later time, gradually obtained from various understanding, support and participation.
Four principles of the UP-ON international live arts festival:
1.Non-profit: the organizers and many volunteers of the festival work without pay. After the festival, the accounts of the festival are published to the sponsors and artists.
2. Internationalization: the artists participating in the art festival come from different countries and regions, including the elders who have been engaged in on-site art creation since the 1960s, as well as the representatives of their respective countries and regions in this field.
3.Academic: the art festival organizes artists to create, discussing and holding of literature exhibition, to discuss and exchange of the topics that area at the leading edge of the international live art.
4. Publicity: during the art festival, artists not only create works, but also hold lectures, workshops and educational activities in some art institutions and universities, so as to cultivate the public’s understanding of the live art and better understand the unique appeal of the live art.
Artist introduction
At the 7th UP-ON International Live Art Festival, we invited a total of 28 artists, including 7 oversea artists and 20 Chinese artists.
Chinese Artists中国艺术家：
Cang Xin苍鑫 北京Beijing
Dong Jie董洁 成都Chengdu
Frank Fu 付尧 内蒙古 Inner Mongolia
Hijack打劫小组 上海Shanghai
He You何悠 北京Beijing
Liu Bin刘宾 西安Xi’an
Liu Xianglin刘香林 深圳Shenzhen
Crystal Liu 刘小妤 广州Guangzhou
Mu Yan木芫 上海Shanghai
Peng Xiang彭湘 南宁Nanning
Qiu Wenqing邱文青 成都Chengdu
Shi Yonghua时永华 贵阳Guiyang
Song Xi宋兮 上海Shanghai
Tong Wenmin童文敏 重庆Chongqing
Wang Yanxin王彦鑫 成都Chengdu
Wang Ximan 王溪曼 沈阳Shenyang
Yang Hui 杨辉 昆明Kunming
Yu Mingjing于名晶 成都Chengdu
Yang Junfeng 杨俊峰 成都Chengdu
Oversea Artists国外艺术家：
Carlos Llavata (Spain)/卡洛斯·利亚韦罗（西班牙）
Helinä Hukkataival (Finland)/赫琳娜·哈克泰薇（芬兰）
Inari Virmakoski (Finland)/伊纳里·维尔马克思基（芬兰）
Janusz Bałdyga (Poland)/雅努什·鲍尔迪迦 （波兰）
Peter Baren (Netherlands)/彼特·巴伦 （荷兰）
Ralf Berger (Germany)/拉夫·伯格（德国）
Seiji Shimoda (Japan)/霜田诚二（日本）
On-SIte Performance
Oct 17 14:00-18:00 LUXELAKES·A4 Art Museum
Oct 18 14:00-18:00 DoBo E-Manor of Chengdu
Oct 19 14:00-18:00 Luxehills Art Museum
Oct 20 14:00-18:00 Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance And Economics
Oct 21 14:00-18:00 College of Architecture and Design of Southwest Jiaotong University (Xipu Campus)
讲座Academic Lecture
Oct 14 19:00-20:30 pm The Art Museum of Sichuan University
Artist: Helina Hukkataival (Finland)
Address: The Art Museum of Sichuan University, West Section of Ring Road, Jiang ‘an Campus of Sichuan University
Oct 15 19:00-20:30 pm Gao Xiaohua Gallery,
Southwest MinZu University
Artist: Seiji Shimoda (Japan)
Address: Third floor, Administrative Building, Wuhou Campus, Southwest MinZu University
Oct 16 19:00-20:30 pm Building 1, Oil Painting Department of Fine Art Institute at Sichuan Conservatory of Music
Artist: Carlos Llavata (Spain)
Address: Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Xindu Campus), Middle section of Shulong Avenue, Xindu District, Chengdu
Oct 14 11:00-12:00 am LUXELAKES· A4 Art Museum Academic HalI
Artist: Ralf Berger (Germany)
Address：Luxelakes Arts Exhibition Center（Luxelakes Eco-City), South Extension Tianfu Avenue, Tianfu New Area, Chengdu
Oct 19 11:00-12:30 am Luxehills Art Museum
Artist: Cang Xin (Beijing)
Address: Hilltop Square of Luxetown No.18 Section 2, Luxehills Boulevard, Tianfu New Area, Chengdu
Oct 20 10:30-12:00 am East Teaching Building, Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance And Economics
Artist: Peter Baren (Netherlands)
Address: The second section of the East Third Ring Road, Longtan economic city
Oct 21 11:00-12:00 am The School of Architecture and design, Southwest Jiaotong University
Artist: Janusz Bałdyga (Poland)
Address: No. 8 teaching building of Xipu campus, The School of Architecture and design, Southwest Jiaotong University
Literature Exhibition
Oct. 13-22 Kinmirai Art Gallery Hostel（U37）
Oct. 22 20:00 pm UP-ON Art Festival/Literature Exhibition Closing Party
工作坊Performance Workshop
Artist: Carlos Llavata (Spain)
Oct 16 14:00-18:00 pm Postgraduate classroom, 6th floor, No.5 Teaching Building, Oil Painting Department of Fine Art Institute at Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Xindu campus)
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17. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Party City, Manhattan, Oct. 18
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2019: INVISIBLE, in it’s 15th year iteration is scheduled for October 17-20 along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River. Curated by longtime AiOP artist provocatrice LuLu LoLo, INVISIBLE is vaporous and propels itself intangibly out into the air celebrating the indomitable spirit of artists who are sixty years old and older-undaunted by the passage of time-supported by their intergenerational collaborators: parent/child; mentor/ protégé; partners; lovers; and others from babies to our oldest artist who is 94 years old.
VERNITA NEMEC AKA N’COGNITA
38 W 14th Street (Party City).
Friday, October 18, 3-6pm
I STILL AM: A Participatory Performance Art
Project description: “I STILL AM” proposes an exercise of liberation that explores fears THAT COME TO US AS WE AGE. Inviting participation, I propose a durational performance in which I attempt to free myself from the hidden weights that aging brings.
Vernita Nemec AKA N’Cognita (www.ncognita.com) has presented over 70 performances in the U.S, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Hungary, Ireland and France. Nemec’s themes involve the insecurities of desire; the inevitability of aging and death; female empowerment and the terrible things humans do to the planet and themselves. Her work has been discussed in numerous publications including Lucy Lippard’s “The Pink Glass Swan”, Linda Montano’s “Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties” “Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975”. Nemec participated in Linda Montano’s 7 Years of Living Art and has performed at the Pompidou Museum in Paris, the opening of Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the Woman’s Building in LA, & at the 7th Performance Studies Conference, Mainz, GR to name just a few. She received a Franklin Furnace Fund Award for Performance Art in 1988, and presented work in Movement Research’s Monday Night Series in 2019, 2015, 2013 & 2009. Her complete biography is @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernita_Nemec.
Best,
Vernita
www.ncognita.com
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernita_Nemec
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18. Daze, FF Alumn, in The New York Times now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/arts/design/henry-chalfant-graffiti-bronx.html
thank you.
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19. Ayana Evans, Dominique Duroseau, Nyugen Smith, FF Alumns, at NYU, Manhattan, Oct. 18
Hey!
As many of you already know, Black Portraiture[s] is coming up in a couple of weeks!
I organized a panel discussion with some of my performance art homies: Dominique Duroseau, Tsedaye Makonnen, Nyugen Smith, Uri McMillan and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste) and OF COURSE I want you to attend!
We promise the presentations will be informative and well… PERFORMATIVE! Come ready for an unusual panel.
Below is the link to the Black Portraiture schedule (includes when the snacks are served):
https://www.blackportraitures.info/friday-october-18-2019/
This links to the Friday, Oct 18th schedule, which is the day we are presenting.
Click the links at the top of this page to view Thursday and Saturdays schedules.
Here is the Eventbrite link to register for the conference for FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-portraitures-v-memory-and-the-archive-past-present-future-tickets-56570974307
And last but not least, listed below is the info for our panel! Please share this along with the registration link with your friends and colleagues who you want to attend the conference.
Friday, 18th, 9am t 10:30 am — Black Portraiture[s] Conference at NYU.
PANEL TITLE: Slavery to the Present: Black Performance Art and the Archive
LOCATION: NYU, Kimmel Center for University Life – 60 Washington Square South, Rosenthal Pavillion, 10th floor, New York, New York 10011 (Get Directions)
DATE AND TIME: 2019/10/18 | 9:00 am-10:30 am
SPEAKERS:
• Dominique Duroseau, Rutgers University Interdisciplinary Artist/ Prof
• Ayana Evans, Performance Artist/Brown University;
• Tsedaye Makonnen, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow;
• Uri McMillan, UCLA, Associate Professor;
• Nyugen Smith, Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Art, Southern Methodist University;
• Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Performance Artist/Professor
MODERATORS:
• Ayana Evans, Performance Artist/Brown University
• Uri McMillan, UCLA, Associate Professor
Hope to see you all there! ~ More reminders to come.
Xx,
Ayana
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