Contents for October 7th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Justin Allen, Sur Rodney (Sur), FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 11
2. Naeem Mohaimen, Carlos Motta, FF Alumns, at The New School, Manhattan, Oct. 25-26
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Hunts Point, The Bronx, Oct. 12
4. Donna Henes, Daile Kaplan, Disband, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
5. Modesto Flako Jimenez, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Nov. 2
6. Arantxa Araujo, Sara Kostic, Georgia Lale, FF Alumns, at Trisk, Brooklyn, Oct. 24-26
7. Cheri Gaulke, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, FF Alumns, at Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 2-4
8. Asia Stewart, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Nov. 21
9. Tehching Hsieh, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com and more
10. Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose, FF Alumns, now online at Artforum.com and more
11. Shelly Mars, FF Alumn, now online at momus.ca
12. Ann Messner, FF Alumn, at Metrograph, Manhattan, Oct. 13
13. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
14. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at SMAK, Ghent, Belgium, thru February 2025
15. Buzz Spector, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 8
16. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 24-Dec. 12
17. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 8
18. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at The Orpheum Theater, Saugerties, NY, October 23
19. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, at McNally Jackson Seaport, Manhattan, Oct. 6 and more
20. Kathy Westwater, FF Alumn, at New York Live Arts, Manhattan, Nov. 2, Dec. 7, and more
21. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, thru Oct. 27
22. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, opening Oct. 9 and more
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1. Justin Allen, Sur Rodney (Sur), FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 11
My first book, Language Arts, is now out! Please join me to celebrate:
Language Arts Book Launch
Friday October 11, 7 pm
Performance Space New York
150 First Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10009
Readers: Me, Rindon Johnson, Sur Rodney (Sur)
Emcee: Ashley Brockington
CART provided
to get your copy please visit this link: https://www.wendyssubway.com/publishing/titles/language-artsjustinallen.studio
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2. Naeem Mohaimen, Carlos Motta, FF Alumns, at The New School, Manhattan, Oct. 25-26
Forgoing the expected stylization—be it the imperative: Correct history!, a call to revise and rewrite it, or the interrogative, Correct history?, questioning whether there might be a singular narrative—the asterisk in the title Correct History* suggests a more conditional and hypothetical approach.
Over three days, the VLC Forum 2024: Correct History* explores the ways in which history and historiography invariably function as acts of correction and revision while examining some of the ideological mechanisms that drive them. Discursive strands come together to consider how historical narratives and ideological formations are created, edited, altered, and contested, including historical revisionism, whitewashing, and rehabilitation by state and other hegemonic political actors.
The VLC Forum brings together scholars, artists, and curators whose reparative and recuperative artistic strategies point toward ways of redressing historical injustice, restitution, memorialization, conflict, and relatedness. The VLC Forum 2024 is presented as part of the center’s 2022–2024 Focus Theme Correction* and is accompanied by a publication featuring a commissioned photo essay by Hande Sever.
DAY ONE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
CONVERSATION
Re-visioning Native Histories
6:30–8:30 pm EDT
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York City
In an expansive conversation introduced and moderated by VLC Borderlands Curatorial Fellow Larissa Nez, Cree artist Kent Monkman and Nathan Young, a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, revisit some of the foundational narratives of the so-called United States of America, centering Indigenous figures, events, and narratives that have been erased or denied as part of the settler-colonial project. The program includes a festive reception.
DAY TWO: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
KEYNOTE
Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash
6:30–8 pm EDT
The New School, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center/Parsons
Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, Ground Floor
New York City
The phrase correct history has many meanings. An early, sardonic use can be found in Naeem Mohaiemen’s 2014 exhibition and book Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Prisoners of Correct History). In his keynote lecture, Mohaiemen revisits this project, inviting us to think about the corrosive, state-enforced obedient, and hagiographic histories that have insisted on a single narrative at every bend of Bangladesh’s journey since the partition of British India.
DINNER & PERFORMANCE
VLC Forum 2024: Community Dinner
8–10 pm EDT
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York City
Each year, the VLC Forum is anchored by the Community Dinner. The Community Dinner gathers program participants, the VLC and New School communities, and the public for a free dinner and celebration for all. This year’s dinner features music and a special performance by Selfless Abandon, a collaboration between visual artist and performer Miriam Parker and soundmaker and composer Luke Stewart.
DAY THREE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
CONVERSATION
Queer(ing) History
11 am–12:30 pm EDT
The New School, Starr Foundation Hall
63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level
New York City
Andrea Geyer, Adam HajYahia, and Carlos Motta discuss their work as artists, researchers, and curators to explore approaches to recuperating and rehistoricizing the obscured and erased pasts of women, queer people, and sex workers. More than simply rewriting inclusive histories and expanding the canon, queer historiography questions the very construction of history as a singular, linear, universal experience undergirding notions of empire, nationhood, and heteropatriarchy.
CONVERSATION
Relative Histories
1:15–2:30 pm EDT
The New School, Starr Foundation Hall
63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level
New York City
Thinking through and beyond historical relatedness, relations, and relativism of past and ongoing colonial negation, imperial violence, and genocide, Palestinian architectural scholar and urbanist Mahdi Sabbagh and writer and genocide scholar Zoé Samudzi take on the coloniality of the museum, the ethnographic archive, and architecture. They discuss the role of objects and rituals in reckoning with history, narrating counter histories, and the potential for solidarity and liberation across past and ongoing struggles.
PERFORMANCE LECTURE
Tactics of Transmission
2:45–4 pm EDT
The New School, Starr Foundation Hall
63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level
New York City
Since 2022, artists Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo have researched Puerto Rican collections and holdings at the Smithsonian Institute. Their performance lecture Tactics of Transmission, which closes out the VLC Forum along with a reception, reflects on their experiences as unruly colonial subjects navigating the imperial archive, as well as on the historical gossip, findings, and revelations from their research process.
This program is co-presented with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center as part of Historias, a multiyear initiative exploring Latinx New York’s transformative impact on the city.
REGISTER: https://veralistcenterforumcorrecthist.splashthat.com/
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Hunts Point, The Bronx, Oct. 12
Let the River In
Andrés Senra & Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel
Meet us outside the number 6 train in Hunts Point, Bronx / Participants should be ready to dress up and wear makeup (provided)
Those seeking to join must RSPV: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-vYWvm–zUMlCrUBgPMqUa7jrJcNWgoTkliDdzMdDY8/viewform?edit_requested=true&ts=66f58955
This gathering engages camouflaging and mimicry as a survival strategy commonly used by non-human animals and plants to blend in with their surroundings. By emulating the predominant colors, shapes and patterns within their ecologies, these wise beings observe without being observed, ensuring their survival while also– sometimes–attracting other beings. Inspired by this phenomenon, participants in Let the River In are invited to inhabit a limited square footage around us along the banks of the Bronx River. The idea is to become deeply familiar with all elements we are in contact with, and from there to transform ourselves by way of fabric and makeup into the place one is embedded in. This embodiment can become an exercise in oneness with all. It is also a movement into the sensuality of the living world and a celebration of bodies, including that of the Bronx River.
Nicolás thanks Lin Wang Gordon for teaching him the square footage practice.
This gathering will be filmed and photographed
Let the River In is an action which is part of Bodies of Water / Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River, a program conceived and produced by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, with individual actions co-created with Arantxa Araujo, Andrés Senra, Luis A., and Priscilla Marrero & Ferran Martin.
The series of actions is dedicated to the late Nancy Wallace. “She…[Nancy]…helped transform a watery graveyard for automobiles, tires and appliances into an urban greenbelt for New York City and Westchester County” The New York Times
About Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River points to the connections between bodies, as in human and non-human ones–such as Rivers–, as well as to concepts of interbeing, interconnectedness, and interdependence with all beings. Similarly, it brings to light ecological and social justice issues regarding colonial histories, environmental racism, and extractive capitalism while issuing a call for individual and collective stewardship and care for all bodies of Water. During four gatherings in different points along the Bronx River, improvisations centered on flow, water, compassion and deep listening are meant to unfold for invited participants, or perhaps unsuspecting audiences and wanderers attracted by a sight inspiring wonder and contemplation.
Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River / Background: The Bronx River has been a constant presence for Nicolás since he moved from the Dominican Republic to New York City in 1991. His first job was in the Fordham Road section with the Bronx River Restoration Project and it entailed engaging the aquatic subject through art classes. In 2011 he was baptized by Bill Aguado and Susan Newmark in Drew Gardens. The sacramental was water from the Bronx River and the intention was that of a rite of passage into Bronxhood. Three decades after his first connection with the Bronx, and in a rapidly gentrifying borough, Nicolás is proposing to approach the Bronx River from the perspective of elderhood and aging.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Support for Artists Grant (Bronx, NY) to support his creative work. Sponsored by The Action Lab, this award is funding Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded over $80 million since Spring 2023 to over 1,500 artists and organizations across the state.
Andrés Senra is a transdisciplinary artist, PhD in Philosophy and Art Theory, and holds a BA in Biology with a Master’s degree. He is also a curator based in Queens, New York. His latest works revolve around the concept of human communities as ephemeral ecological assemblages, where political, economic, and social tensions in the contemporary world are embodied. In recent projects, Senra has addressed issues such as economic and LGBTIQ+ migration, the consequences of climate change on our lives, the archive as an artwork, and the political and affective history of the queer community in 1990s Madrid. His latest work delves into identity as a fluid process, constantly under construction, presenting queer, non-binary, and gender-fluid utopian communities through sci-fi visual narratives. These identities are portrayed as fluctuating political and ecological assemblages, combining human and non-human elements, as well as human-technology entanglements. Senra’s work defends sexual dissidence and embraces the figure of the monster, hybridization, and post-gender politics through speculative sci-fi, offering new ways to rethink the contemporary world.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he helps unfold within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07/21, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Sculpture Center, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance BAAD!, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, City as Living Lab, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He recently served as a Senior Lecturer and Social Practice Artist in Residence in the Art and Art History Department at The University of Texas, Austin; and was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow in Washington DC. He is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing. Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Nicolás was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.
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4. Donna Henes, Daile Kaplan, Disband, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Modesto Flako Jimenez, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Nov. 2
Please visit this link:
https://artistsspace.org/programs/latasha-n-nevada-diggs-modesto-flako-jimenez
Thank you.
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6. Arantxa Araujo, Sara Kostic, Georgia Lale, FF Alumns, at Trisk, Brooklyn, Oct. 24-26
Please visit this link:
https://www.triskelionarts.org/press-release-araujo-kostic
Thank you.
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7. Cheri Gaulke, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, FF Alumns, at Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 2-4
A film screening of Gloria’s Call by Cheri Gaulke
Saturday, November 2 · 4 – 6pm PDT
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027
From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism!
Surrealist Study Group presents Cheri Gaulke’s short film about the friendships between feminist scholar Gloria Orenstein and the women of Surrealism, followed by an in-depth conversation with director and producers!
In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. The short film Gloria’s Call uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure from the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland. The film Gloria’s Call was born in October of 2016 during a presentation by renowned scholar Dr. Gloria Feman Orenstein at the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (SCWCA) Surrealist Tea in celebration of their 40th Anniversary. The film was produced in 2019 by artists Cheri Gaulke (director), Cheryl Bookout, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry and Christine Papalexis. Gloria’s Call has screened in 40+ film festivals internationally and won many awards including Best Documentary at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion between Surrealist Study Group (SSG) host and curator dama with filmmaker Cheri Gaulke and producers in attendance Cheryl Bookout, Anne Gauldin, Christine Papalexis.
Cheri Gaulke is a pioneer in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles and an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened in national and international film festivals. Gaulke’s work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), in a Smithsonian-touring exhibition, and in settings all over the world including buses, churches, and prehistoric temples. Gaulke has received artist fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, City of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, and California Humanities.
Ticket link:
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8. Asia Stewart, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Nov. 21
Please visit this link:
https://www.the8thfloor.org/newevents/stewart
Thank you.
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9. Tehching Hsieh, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit these links:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tehching-hsieh-donation-dia-retrospective-2547556
Thank you.
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10. Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose, FF Alumns, now online at Artforum.com and more
Please visit this link:
https://www.artforum.com/columns/ron-athey-poetry-bob-flanagan-559587
and this link to photographer Michel Delsol’s Instagram post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAqQgQiRYlQ/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
Thank you.
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11. Shelly Mars, FF Alumn, now online at momus.ca
Please visit this link:
https://momus.ca/invasion-from-mars-on-the-charged-personae-of-shelly-mars/
Thank you
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12. Ann Messner, FF Alumn, at Metrograph, Manhattan, Oct. 13
Dear Friend,
I am forwarding the invite to the showing of my early films (mid-late 1970’s) at Metrograph on Sunday October 13 @ 2:45. The more detailed info is forwarded below from Miranda Samuels. I have only shown this work in NYC once in 1998 (many more times in Europe over the decades where the audience is familiar with this early work) HOWEVER there are 4 films that will happily be screening on the 13th for the first time. On a personal level screening the films here now is for me an act of bringing them home. Please come if you are able – it will be good to see you.
xx
ann
Below from Miranda and Davila-Villa & Stothart
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to subway stories & other shorts, a one-off screening at Metrograph of early work by artist and filmmaker Ann Messner on Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 2:45pm.
Metrograph is located at 7 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002. A post-screening conversation with the artist will be moderated by Melanie Kress, Senior Curator at the Public Art Fund.
If you have any questions or would like further information on the works that will be screened, please let us know. We hope you can join us.
With gratitude,
Miranda
INVITATION
‘subway stories and other shorts’Sunday October 13
SUNDAY OCTOBER 13, 2:45pm
METROGRAPH CINEMA
DIRECTOR: ANN MESSNER
2024 / 60MIN / DCP
‘subway stories and other shorts’ brings together the digitized Super 8 documentation of Ann Messner’s renowned guerilla performances from the 1970s, shot in the New York City subway system and other public thoroughfares. In the cramped container of the subway carriage Messner tested the pliability of the social contract and found “a universe of concentrated collective imagination, with untapped potential.” The suite of durational films will be presented in the context of other work by the artist from the same period, much of which was shot in lower Manhattan, and has never been shown publicly before.
There will be a post-screening conversation with artist and filmmaker Ann Messner moderated by Melanie Kress, Senior Curator at the Public Art Fund
Screening organized in collaboration with Davila-Villa & Stothart https://dvs.art/
tickets here: https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999003999
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13. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at SMAK, Ghent, Belgium, thru February 2025
Museumplein 02 | Peter Downsbrough: OTHER / THE
Museumplein, a project by artlead & S.M.A.K., invites a different artist every five months to create a work for the 5 flagposts in front of the museum.
Following the recent passing of artist Peter Downsbrough, with whom S.M.A.K. had a close relationship, and of private collector Raymond Verbouwens, who donated Downbrough’s work ‘5.50 I 3.10, Two pipes’, OTHER/THE will wave on the museum square in the following months to commemorate both.
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15. Buzz Spector, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 8
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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16. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 24-Dec. 12
Conceptual Performance Art with Ed Woodham
Thursdays / October 24 to December 12 / An affordable – ONLY $150 for six sessions (no class on Oct 31) at the School of Visual Arts Continuing Education
This course is an exploration of performance art with a focus on conceptual practice. Together we investigate a wide range of performance techniques: from conventional theater to experimental work; from the site-specific to the virtual; and from traditional to new media, including installation, text, and video. At the end of the class, there will be a final performance art cabaret. All levels are welcome!
To register or for more information visit: https://sva.edu/academics/continuing-education/performance/courses/conceptual-performance-art-24-cf-vsc-2296-a or email: edwoodham@gmail.com
Participants received an official genuine signed certificate valid in 188 countries!
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17. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 8
THE TREASURE OF THE OEUFCHICK IN CLUFFFALO
will be available as part of “Abstract Art Yesterday and Today,”
opening 6-8pm, October 8, 2024-January 11, 2025 at
ANITA SHAPOLSKY GALLERY,
152 65th Street, New York, NY 10065 (212) 452-1094
To begin to know this work, sit in front of it and play with it’s twelve components. Placement, alignments and rearrangements suggest innumerable associations. Please visit for your “touching experience.”
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18. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at The Orpheum Theater, Saugerties, NY, October 23
I’m having a retrospective of 12 of my short films including the premiere of my latest film “Drone Girl” at The Orpheum Theater in Saugerties, NY.
Plus a live performance of “2 x 2 x 4” my duet with a stack of 2 x 4 lumber with live music by Spaghetti Eastern Music aka Sal Cataldi.
https://www.upstatefilms.org/charles-dennis-retrospective
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19. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, at McNally Jackson Seaport, Manhattan, Oct. 6 and more
Dear friends,
Twenty years ago, “I Wish To Say” https://www.sheryloring.org/i-wish-to-say took off on the streets of New York City during the 2004 Republican National Convention. It was where this project first took root, and where it became clear listening could be a revolutionary act. Since then, I’ve come back time and again to type during elections, bearing witness to the evolving hopes and concerns of New Yorkers. Two decades later, we find ourselves at another pivotal moment. That’s why it’s incredibly meaningful to return during this historic election.
I’m excited to invite you to four upcoming shows. Note that the park shows are weather permitting!
Oct. 6, 11:30 am – 3 pm, McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton Street (in partnership with National Coalition Against Censorship)
Oct. 7, 8-10 am, Seward Park Library Plaza, East Broadway and Jefferson Street (in partnership with Seward Park Conservancy / weather permitting)
Oct. 8, 8-10 am, Seward Park Library Plaza, East Broadway and Jefferson Street (in partnership with Seward Park Conservancy / weather permitting)
Oct. 8, 12 – 1:30 pm, Spring Street Park, Sixth Avenue and Spring Streets (in partnership with Hudson Square BID / weather permitting)
Join me to share your thoughts in a postcard for the next president. Your words matter now more than ever. Sharing one of the more than 4,300 cards I’ve typed over the years below.
Hope to see you there!
Sheryl
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20. Kathy Westwater, FF Alumn, at New York Live Arts, Manhattan, Nov. 2, Dec. 7, and more
I am happy to announce the October 15 online release of two previously unreleased videos from PARK, the 16+year durational performance project responding to the Fresh Kills Landfill.
Wanderer, a 360-degree video of wandering across a reclaimed landfill mound, is the closest you can get to experiencing the landfill without actually being there; and
Untitled Solo, a performance-installation in which I move with personal, discarded textiles from over ten years, premiered in a gallery of Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in the summer of 2022.
Also, the latest ShakeWalk Workshop is fast approaching. It was also created in response to the landfill. Details and registration info below.
Shake/Walk Workshop
Taking two everyday forms of movement, we will allow these forms to disorganize within, and be disorganizing of, our bodies.
Saturdays
Oct 5
Nov 2
Dec 7
1:30pm-4pm
New York Live Arts
219 W 19th Street, NYC
$20-30/session, sliding scale
Work-exchange available
https://www.kathywestwater.org/teaching
For video links and/or workshop registration
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21. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, thru Oct. 27
Territorial Perspectives
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
May through October 27, 2024
Terrestrial Perspectives takes the extensive collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen as a
starting point to explore the phenomenon of human interventions on the surface of the earth.
The exhibition spans work from the beginnings of Land Art in the late 1960s to the present, and
investigates connections between ecology, colonialism, and resource extraction.
The exhibition includes works by Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Nancy Graves, Robert
Smithson, Betty Beaumont, and Jean-Michel Basquiat among others.
Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark creates a critical link to ecological activism while offering
perspectives beyond the male-dominated narratives within Land Art. Beaumont’s work in
Territorial Perspectives includes three videos: The Journey (1980), Ocean Landmark Virtual
World ((2000), and Imagining Imaging (2001).
Ocean Landmark is an underwater work on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, made of 500-tons of
processed coal-waste, a potential pollutant, that underwent stabilization and a planned
transformation into a flourishing ecosystem. Seventeen thousand coal fly-ash blocks were
fabricated, shipped to the ocean site, 40-miles from the New York Harbor and three-miles off
Fire Island National Seashore, and laid on the continental shelf. Ocean Landmark started to
change at the point of its installation. It has grown and developed into a productive new
ecosystem over forty-four years and continues to evolve as a living artwork, that when fished,
feeds people. Today, the work is listed as a “Fish Haven” on the NOAA (National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) coastal navigational charts. Ocean Landmark
is the fifth in a series of Beaumont’s large-scale site works.
Beaumont freely integrates cross-disciplinary ideas and the connections among them to
produce works that reveal transformational ideas about our contemporary world and urban
landscapes. The flow from the specific concrete, and technical, to the abstract, meditative and
lyrical characterizes her work.
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards including the Distinguished Alumni
Award (University of California, Berkeley), the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Gottlieb
Foundation and Creative Capital grants, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York
State Council on the Arts Fellowships. In addition to exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Japan,
South Korea, South America, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S., Beaumont has shown
internationally at museums including the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), National Museum of
Modern Art (Tokyo and Kyoto), Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt), Museum Het Nieuwe Domein
(Netherlands), Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Marti (Havana), and in New York at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Katonah Museum,
and MoMA PS1. Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at
Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and
Columbia University. She has produced work in a variety of media including photography,
sculpture, installations, public interventions, and new media.
Lisa Oord is the curator of Terrestrial Perspectives.
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
Jülicher straße 97-109
52070 Aachen
ludwigforum.de
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22. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, opening Oct. 9
My event with Powerhouse Arts, in partnership with Mana Contemporary’s Project 270, Head Count and Workers Circle are joining together for a Get Out The Vote event featuring my 10 x 50’ banner on view through the November election with posters published and available with Mana Contemporary’s Project 270, for which I have also produced a poster -all with downloadable QR code for distribution. Mana’s posters will be on view and available to participants and there will be opportunities to gain more information about voting and volunteering. Food, cash bar and DJ.follow. This is a free event.
Powerhouse Arts is located in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. A live rsvp site is available.
322 3rd Avenue
Brooklyn
IG debra.pearlman
https://manapublicarts.com/project-270
and please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/10/poetry/the-hanging-girls
Thank you
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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, FF Intern, Summer/Fall 2024
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