Contents for October 11, 2021
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1. Guadalupe Maravilla, FF Alumn, receives The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2021
2. Art x Sake Collaborative Live Performance on Zoom, Art x Sake Collaborative Live Performance on Zoom
3. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, now online at Artnews
4. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Gladys Park, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 16
5. Marisa Jahn, Pablo Helguera, FF Alumns, at La Biennale di Venezia, Italy, thru Nov. 21
6. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, now online at William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA, and more
7. Doreen Garner, Rosemary Mayer, Regina Vater, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Queens, thru April 18, 2022, and more
8. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Palazzo Guarienti, Verona, Italy, opening Oct. 14
9. Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Barbara Kruger, FF Alumns, now online in T Magazine
10. Allied Productions, FF Alumn, at Le Petit Versailles, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 17
11. Claudia DeMonte, Ed McGowin, FF Alumns, at Frost Symphony Orchestra, Miami, FL, Dec. 4
12. Martha Burgess, Katya Grokhovsky, Pablo Helguera, JC Lenochan, Morgan O’Hara, Steed Taylor, FF Alumns, at EFA Center, Manhattan, Oct. 21-23
13. Robert Longo, FF Alumn, now online in Artnews
14. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stevens, FF Alumns, at City Lights, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 17
15. Peggy Ahwesh, Jaime Davidovich, Constance DeJong, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Barbara Ess, Michelle Handelman, Victoria Keddie, John Kelly, Ann Magnuson, FF Alumns, online at Performa-arts Oct. 12-27
16. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, receives Union Docs Undo Fellowship
17. Amanda Millet-Sorsa, Pamela Enz, Marie Christine Katz, FF Alumns, at Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 16
18. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 19-20
19. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, live in Manhattan, NY, Oct. 23
20. RT Livingston, FF Alumn, now online at University of California Santa Barbara
21. Michelle Handelman, John Kelly, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles & Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumns, live on line in Performa, Oct. 12
22. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, online at Participant Inc., Oct. 17
23. Irina Danilova, LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at First Contemporary Art Biennial of Murgia, Bari, Italy, thru Jan. 10, 2022
24. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at Queens Theatre, Flushing Meadows Park, Oct. 23
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Foco Semanal: Historias: Una conversación, 19 de Oct.; Historias: A Panel Discussion, Oct. 19
Franklin Furnace Archive presentar HISTORIAS: Una conversación
Martes 19 de octubre de 2021
7 PM EST live online at the Franklin Furnace digital LOFT
Haga click aquí para registrarse: https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias-a-panel-discussion/
Como parte de la exhibición virtual Historias, Franklin Furnace, en colaboración con la biblioteca de Pratt Institute, presenta una conversación entre Ruth Benítez, Flavia Krause, Carlos Motta, Liliana Porter, Rosaura Ramos y Inés Yujnovsky. Exhortamos a la audiencia a participar de esta discusión.
Ruth Benítez, recién egresada de Brooklyn College y curadora de Historias, hará un recorrido guiado de Historias, exhibición que recopila trabajos multimedia de temas políticos creados entre la década de los 70 hasta el presente. El recorrido estará seguido por una conversación basada en las piezas, artistas y temas que aborda Historias tales como las diferentes formas del arte político, la prohibición de arte dirigido a niños, el efecto que tiene el desplazamiento forzado en el panorama artístico y la importancia de los recopilar y compartir archivos acerca de todos los aspectos de la producción artística, incluyendo el material efímero. El evento será en español con traducción simultánea al inglés.
Acerca de Historias:
En 2021, Franklin Furnace abrió su primera exhibición completamente virtual y su primera serie de eventos en español para reunir y resaltar arte multimedia creado por becarios argentinos de Franklin Furnace entre 1970 y el presente. La mayor parte de las piezas mostradas en Historias documentan una respuesta a la dictadura militar en Argentina que empezó en 1976, el regreso a la democracia, y la confrontación de los crímenes oscuros cometidos en esta época que causaron gran sufrimiento en la población argentina y que se ven reflejados en futuras generaciones. Las piezas seleccionadas para esta exhibición exploran una variedad de sentimientos, como la solidaridad con países que sufren violaciones contra los derechos humanos, la alienación de la patria y el deseo de escapar de lo convencional. Historias fue creada con un formato bilingüe con la idea de hacerla más accesible.
Una selección de arte de Historias está en exposición en la biblioteca de Pratt Institute localizada en Brooklyn, NY. Debido a restricciones por el COVID-19, la exhibición está abierta a empleados, docentes y estudiantes de Pratt Institute. La exhibición virtual está abierta al público desde marzo de este año.
Ruth Benítez se graduó con una licenciatura de Brooklyn College, City University of New York, en 2020. Historias es la primera labor curatorial de Benitez.
Flavia Krause es Especialista en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil por la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). Tiene en curso su tesis de Maestría en Diseño y Comunicación de la Universidad De Buenos Aires (UBA). Es docente de literatura en Institutos de Formación docente del nivel Inicial y Primario de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires y docente universitaria. Investigadora en Formación en temáticas de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil en UBA.
Carlos Motta es un artista colombiano basado en Nueva York. Motta lleva una práctica interdisciplinaria que incluye imagen en movimiento, fotografía y escultura. Su trabajo reta a conceptos dominantes de género y sexualidad utilizando una variedad de material de archivo, referencias históricas y el cuerpo. Actualmente es profesor de práctica interdisciplinaria en Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Liliana Porter es una artista contemporánea que trabaja en una variedad de medios incluyendo libro-arte, fotografía, serigrafía, pintura, dibujo, instalaciones, video, teatro y arte público. Porter nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina y estudió en la Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México, y en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, antes de mudarse a Nueva York, donde vive y trabaja.
Rosaura Ramos, conocida como Rossy, obtuvo un máster en preservación histórica de la Universidad de Florida, EEUU. Se describe como una trabajadora responsable y determinada interesada en el trabajo comunitario y los proyectos dirigidos hacia jóvenes. Ramos ha trabajado como diseñadora y administradora de arte.
Inés Yujnovsky es Doctora en Historia por el Colegio de México. Ha publicado el libro Viajeros a la sombra de Darwin. Fotografías de la Patagonia a fines del siglo XIX (Buenos Aires, Arte X Arte, 2021). Obtuvo la beca Richard Greenleaf de investigación en la Universidad de Tulane, Nueva Orleans. Integra el Laboratorio de Investigación en Ciencias Humanas (LICH) y es Coordinadora de la Licenciatura en Historia de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM).
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. es una organización artística sin fines de lucro fundada en 1976 por Martha Wilson. En marzo del 2021, Franklin Furnace inauguró su primera exhibición en español: Historias. Historias es una recopilación de arte multimedia de finales de los años 70 hasta el presente y todas las piezas han sido creadas por artistas becados por Franklin Furnace. A lo largo de su existencia, Franklin Furnace ha demostrado su compromiso a apoyar e incentivar la incorporación de nuevos medios y métodos en el arte. El Loft es nuestra iniciativa más reciente en nuestra misión de contribuir a un mundo seguro para el arte de vanguardia.
HISTORIAS es posible gracias al financiamiento del Departamento de Asuntos Culturales de la Ciudad de Nueva York en asociación con el Ayuntamiento.
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Weekly Spotlight: Historias: A Panel Discussion, Oct. 19
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. presents HISTORIAS, a free online panel discussion, Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 7 PM EST live online at the Franklin Furnace digital LOFT.
Please register at the following website:
https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias-a-panel-discussion/
Thank you.
As part of the online exhibition Historias, Franklin Furnace, in collaboration with Pratt Institute Library and Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires, presents a panel discussion featuring Ruth Benítez, Flavia Krause, Carlos Motta, Liliana Porter, Rosaura Ramos y Inés Yujnovsky. Audience participation is encouraged.
For more information, please visit the following website:
http://franklinfurnaceloft.org/historias/
Thank you.
Recent Brooklyn College graduate and first-time curator Ruth Benitez will lead a virtual tour of Historias, which showcases multimedia works, often politically charged, spanning from the 1970s through 2020. The tour will be followed by a moderated discussion centered on the art, artists and topics broached in the exhibition such as the different shapes of political art, the banning of children’s literature, the effect of displacement on an artist’s work, and the importance of archives and the sharing of meta-data on all aspects of artistic production, including ephemera. This event will be in Spanish with live English translations.
About Historias:
In 2021, Franklin Furnace launched its first fully virtual exhibition, and first Spanish-first program series, Historias, to bring together multi-media art dating from the late 1970s through 2020 by Argentine Franklin Furnace artist alumnus. The bulk of the exhibited works document a response to the military dictatorship in Argentina that started in 1976, the return to democracy, and the confrontation of the dark crimes committed during this time period that left the Argentine population aching for generations to come. The curated selection of pieces in this exhibition explores many different sentiments such as solidarity with countries experiencing violations against human rights, disconnects from motherlands, and the desire to escape the mainstream. Hístorias was created with a bilingual format in the spirit of making it more accessible to audiences that normally wouldn’t have been reached.
A selection of art from HISTORIAS is now on view at the Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY. (Due to Covid-19, the exhibition is currently for Pratt students, faculty and staff only)
Ruth Benítez received her Bachelor’s from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College in 2020. Historias is the first exhibition Ms. Benitez has curated.
Flavia Krause is a specialist in children’s and young adult literature at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Argentina. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Communications Design at the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she is also a literature professor and a researcher delving into the evolution of themes in children’s and young adult literature.
Carlos Motta is a Colombian-born, New York-based artist. Motta has an interdisciplinary practice making work in film, photography and sculpture. Motta’s practice challenges dominant ideas about sexuality and gender using a myriad of archival material, art historical references, and the body. He serves as an associate professor of interdisciplinary practice at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Liliana Porter is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including artists’ books, photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art. Born in Buenos Aires, she attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, and then moved to New York City where she lives and works.
Rosaura Ramos, known as Rossy, holds an MA in historic preservation, architecture, and is actively involved in social justice work with from the University of Florida. I am described as hard working, responsible and determined. I have participated in community activities mostly with an interest in being involved with youth and the community. I also have experience in design work and in management.
Inés Yujnovsky holds a PhD in History from the Colegio de México, México City. She published the book Viajeros a la sombra de Darwin: Fotografías de la Patagonia a fines del siglo XIX in 2021 (Buenos Aires, Arte X Arte). Yujnovsky is a recipient of the Richard Greenleaf research grant from Tulane University, New Orleans. She is part of the Social Sciences Laboratory at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) where she is also the coordinator for the undergraduate history program.
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c)3 artists’ organization founded in 1976 by Martha Wilson. As media and methods continue to change over time, Franklin Furnace remains committed to staying ahead of the curve and its digital Loft is our newest effort to continue our mission to make the world safe for avant-garde art.
Funding for HISTORIAS is provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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1. Guadalupe Maravilla, FF Alumn, receives The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2021
Guadalupe Maravilla is the 2021 recipient of The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award!
Solo exhibition:
January 14 – April 30, 2022, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Opening ceremony:
Thursday, January 13, 2022, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Press preview:
Wednesday, January 13, 10am-12, 2022, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is proud to announce Guadalupe Maravilla as the recipient of The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 2021.
Guadalupe Maravilla (b. 1976, El Salvador) is a visual artist working and residing in Brooklyn, New York. In 1984, aged eight, Maravilla immigrated to the United States as an undocumented, unaccompanied child, fleeing civil war in El Salvador. When as an adult, he was diagnosed with cancer, Maravilla was treated with radiation and chemotherapy alongside his own healing practices and became cancer free. Both events have had an impact on Maravilla’s artistic practice and are present in his artworks.
The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award presents 100,000 USD in prize money to a distinguished artist whose work will inspire and motivate future generations to active participation and social responsibility.
Presented bi-annually, the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award is intended to mark a significant milestone in an artist’s career and represents a financial commitment that places the art award among the most significant internationally. In addition to the prize, there is an acquisition budget for the inclusion of the artist’s work in the Henie Onstad Collection, and the recipient will feature in a dedicated exhibition.
For the first time in Europe, a selection of work by the artist will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway as part of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Programme. The exhibition will open January 13, 2022 and run through April 30, 2022.
Guadalupe Maravilla was selected as the recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award by an international jury comprising María Inés Rodríguez, Michelle Kuo, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Paulina Rider Wilhelmsen, Caroline Ugelstad, and Tone Hansen.
Regarding his selection, the jury stated:
“Guadalupe Maravilla’s interdisciplinary practice constantly refers to his experiences of exile and illness, migration and healing, identity and displacement.
Yet Maravilla’s work is also far more than his life. Building on personal narratives but venturing far afield into pre-Columbian mythologies, collective memory, geopolitical history, and material culture, the artist constructs artworks that act. His sculptures and elaborate constructions are also performative tools; he collaborates with others to create interactive wall drawings; he has choreographed a motorcycle gang chorus and crossed the Rio Grande using one of his artworks as a flotation device.
When New York became the epicenter of the corona virus pandemic, Maravilla organised mutual aid work across the city supporting undocumented and immigrant communities with food and money, a continuation of his ongoing commitment to immigrant communities.”
Learn more at the following website:
https://www.hok.no/
Thank you.
¡Guadalupe Maravilla es el ganador del Premio de Arte Lise Wilhelmsen 2021 !
5 de octubre del 2021, 8AM (NUEVA YORK)
Exposición individual:
14 enero – 30 abril, 2022, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Noruega
Inauguración:
Jueves, 13 de enero de 2022, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Noruega
Preapertura para la prensa:
Miércoles, 12 de enero de 2022, de 10.00 a 12.00 horas, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Noruega
El Henie Onstad Kunstsenter anunció hoy que Guadalupe Maravilla es el ganador del Premio de Arte Lise Wilhelmsen 2021.
Guadalupe Maravilla (nacido en El Salvador en 1976) es un artista visual que trabaja y reside en Brooklyn, Nueva York. En el año 1984, cuando contaba con solo 8 años, Maravilla emigró a los Estados Unidos de América como menor no acompañado indocumentado, huyendo de la guerra civil en El Salvador. Siendo ya adulto le diagnosticaron cáncer, y fue tratado con radiación y quimioterapia, además de con sus propias prácticas de sanación, y finalmente se curó. Ambos acontecimientos han ejercido un gran impacto en la práctica artística de Maravilla, y están presentes en sus obras.
El Premio de Arte Lise Wilhelmsen otorga un premio en metálico de 100 000 USD a un artista distinguido cuyo trabajo inspirará y motivará a las generaciones futuras a la participación activa y la responsabilidad social.
El Premio de Arte Lise Wilhelmsen, que se otorga cada dos años, tiene como objetivo marcar un hito significativo en la carrera de un artista, y representa un compromiso financiero que coloca este premio de arte entre los más importantes a nivel internacional. Además del premio, también hay una asignación económica destinada a adquisiciones para incluir el trabajo del artista en la colección Henie Onstad, que se exhibirá en una exposición individual.
Por primera vez en Europa, una selección del trabajo del artista se presentará en una exposición individual en el Henie Onstad Kunstsenter de Noruega, como parte del Programa del Premio de Arte Lise Wilhelmsen. La exposición se inaugurará el 13 de enero de 2022, y se prolongará hasta el 30 de abril de 2022.
Guadalupe Maravilla fue elegido ganador del Premio de Arte Lise Wilhelmsen por un jurado internacional compuesto por María Inés Rodríguez, Michelle Kuo, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Rider Wilhelmsen, Caroline Ugelstad, y Tone Hansen.
Con respecto a su elección, el jurado declaró:
“La práctica interdisciplinaria de Guadalupe Maravilla hace constante referencia a sus vivencias de exilio y enfermedad, migración y curación, identidad y desplazamiento.
Aun así, la obra de Maravilla es mucho más que su vida. Basándose en narrativas personales, pero aventurándose de forma abundante en mitologías precolombinas, memoria colectiva, historia geopolítica y cultura material, el artista construye obras de arte que actúan. Sus esculturas y construcciones elaboradas también son herramientas performativas. Colabora con otros para crear dibujos interactivos en la pared. Ha coreografiado el coro de una pandilla de motociclistas, y ha cruzado el Río Grande usando una de sus obras de arte como dispositivo de flotación.
Cuando Nueva York se convirtió en el epicentro de la pandemia de coronavirus, Maravilla organizó trabajos de ayuda mutua en toda la ciudad, abasteciendo a los grupos de indocumentados e inmigrantes con comida y dinero, una continuación de su compromiso continuo con la comunidad de inmigrantes”.
Lee mas aquí:
https://www.hok.no/
Gracias.
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2. Aricoco, FF Alumn, live online Oct. 17
Art x Sake Collaborative Live Performance on Zoom
Let’s celebrate the season of harvest and sake with collaborative LIVE performance art + mini SAKE lecture on ZOOM by Sarika Sake X aricoco X CTN – Sunday, October 17th, 11am (PST) – 2pm(EST) – 8pm(CET)
NYC-based interdisciplinary artist aricoco, Warsaw-based trailblazing woman entrepreneur Sarika (former UN official, founder of Sarika Sake, and master of Face Yoga), and San Francisco-based Kyoko and Miwa from the U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network (CTN) are joining forces to present an hour-long virtual presentation to audiences across the globe!
You will get to catch a glimpse of the origin of Sake and Doburoku by participating in the quizzes, listening to Sarika’s mini lecture, and watching the live collaborative performance by aricoco and Sarika! Have your favorite Sake ready to immerse yourself into their world and interact with them during the Q&A session. There is a lottery with your registration number at the end of the event, and you could win a special gift from aricoco/Sarika/CTN!
Registration now open at the following website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-x-sake-online-live-event-tickets-175903681647
Thank you.
Although it mentions “Suggested Donation”, please don’t worry about it, and insert the promo code below to get free tickets!
Promotion Code: ARTSYFRIEND
After you click on “tickets”, on the next page you will see a blue text “Enter Promo Code” at the top. And you enter the code and click “apply”, then the free option “Arts Friend” will be revealed.
Thank you so much for your attention. If you don’t have anything to do that Sunday, please please join us in this virtual experimentation!!!!!!!
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3. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, now online at Artnews
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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4. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Gladys Park, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 16
12th Festival for All Skid Row Artists
In Gladys Park, 808 E. 6th Street (corner of Gladys Avenue)
October 16 from 12 noon to 5pm.
The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 12th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday, October 16 from 12 noon to 5pm. Can you believe it? The 12th Festival is happening IN REAL LIFE (IRL)!
We’re calling it “The Half-Way Back Festival” —because we’re doing it all on Saturday (as opposed to the weekend long Festivals— pre-pandemic).
The festival features non-stop performing with plenty of music, and wall to wall visual art. Taking place in Gladys Park, the festival is one of the most anticipated grassroots cultural events in Skid Row where over 100 Skid Row Artists perform or display their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many festival veterans are preparing new acts and works of art, while some brave newbies will get on-stage for the very first time to make their contribution to the vibrant mix that is Skid Row artistic culture. LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent.
Free Covid testing and vaccinations will be offered as well as “Skid Row Artist, Menacing Cool” face masks.
LAPD partners with Studio 526 (the art project of The People Concern) and United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) to produce the festival.
Festival attendees are invited to participate in a range of artist facilitated workshops and creativity stations.
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5. Marisa Jahn, Pablo Helguera, FF Alumns, at La Biennale di Venezia, Italy, thru Nov. 21
Proud to contribute in a small way to “Structures of Mutual Support,” the incredible Philippine Pavilion at the La Biennale di Venezia curated by architects (and awesome humans) Sudarshan Khadka and Alexander Eriksson Furunes which explores the intersection between architecture and mutualism. Through a series of workshops based on “bayanihan”, the Filipino tradition of mutual support, the community and architects planned, designed, and built a community library and conflict-resolution space. Much like bayanihan was used traditionally to move a house from one village to the other, the building has traveled to Venice and set up for the duration of the exhibition akin to the journey of overseas Filipino migrants who set up new lives abroad.
The exhibition includes written contributions by myself (co-writing with Rafi Segal) along with Pablo Helguera, Nicole Curato, Leika Aruga, Greg Bankoff, Nabeel Hamdi, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Sho Konishi, Portia Ladrido, Håkon Lorentzen, Hans Skotte, and Jeremy Till. You can obtain copies of these publications in person for free in Venice!
@philartsvenice #structuresofmutualsupport #biennalearchitettura2021
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6. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, now online at William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA, and more
“Among Us: Four Decades of Art & AIDS in Philadelphia”
Online Exhibition
William Way lgbt community center, Philadelphia, PA
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.waygay.org/among-us
Thank you.
Among Us: Four Decades of Art & AIDS in Philadelphia presents works related to HIV and AIDS by 35 artists with connections to Philadelphia, past and present.
The first public report of what would come to be known as AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was published in the media in May 1981 and the first case in Philadelphia was identified later that fall. In the months and years that followed the world changed forever for those who were most susceptible to the disease, especially people of color, trans women, gay and bisexual men, sex workers, and people who inject drugs. Over 700,000 Americans have died of AIDS since 1981 and today there are over 18,000 people in Philadelphia living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
The role of art in raising awareness, combating stigma, protesting inaction or hateful rhetoric, and memorializing those lost to the disease cannot be understated. For four decades, the LGBTQ+ and the HIV/AIDS communities have found expression and solace in art. This exhibition brings together a wide range of those expressions manifested in art by those among us who died of complications relating to AIDS; by those among us living with HIV; by those among us who have lost friends, lovers, parents, elders, and role models.
In a nod to a groundbreaking exhibition called Images & Words: Artists Respond to AIDS, held in New York and Philadelphia in 1990, we present alongside each artwork a quote to provide a bit of background, context or explanation. In most cases these come from the artists themselves, but we also include the words of others who can help add meaning to the works, which are themselves beautiful, haunting, excruciating, and extraordinarily powerful.
Janus Ourma & John Anderies, curators
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“Pleasure Cruise”
Rivalry Projects”
Buffalo, NY
October 1-December 18, 2021
For more information, please visit the following website:
https://www.rivalryprojects.com/exhibitions_current
Thank you.
Rivalry Projects is thrilled to announce our final exhibit for 2021, Pleasure Cruise. Originating from concepts underpinning vessels, cruising, and queer liminal spaces found at sea, Pleasure Cruise is a group exhibition of artists working within photography, ceramics, drawing, and sculpture, whose art utilizes queerness, camp, the handmade, and humor.
Pleasure Cruise features artwork by Gabriel Martinez, Joe Sinness, Janie Stamm, and Dustin Yager. It is on view at Rivalry from October 1-December 18, 2021.
From hand-built ceramics dribbled with slip and layered in emoji, to S&M bedecked seashells, to meticulously penciled still-lifes, and photographs that mediate space between memory and the body, Pleasure Cruise gives form to an ecology of queer contemporary artists and highlights the intersectionality of visibility, identity, and geography while expanding the understanding of what constitutes Queer contemporary art.
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7. Doreen Garner, Rosemary Mayer, Regina Vater, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Queens, thru April 18, 2022, and more
Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area, returns for its fifth edition. Delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this iteration offers an intimate portrayal of New York City, forging connections between often under-examined histories of art-making in the city.
Featuring the work of 47 artists and collectives, Greater New York opens up geographic and historical boundaries by expanding familiar narratives around artists and art movements in New York. Bridging strategies of the documentary and the archive on the one hand, and surrealism and fabulation on the other, the exhibition considers the ways that artists record experiences of belonging and estrangement. Drawing connections across the interdisciplinary practices of international and intergenerational artists, Greater New York examines the many ways that affinities are formed in relation to place and through time.
The exhibition foregrounds the resilience of artists and artist communities in the city, while marking ways these artists have both profoundly shaped New York, and borne witness to its many transformations. As New York emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition offers an opportunity to mourn, celebrate, and reconnect with artist communities. This iteration of Greater New York honors not only the persistence of artists, many of whom have worked unrecognized over decades, but their ability to help us make sense of the many ruptures—social, political, and ecological—that have shaped New York City in this critical and transformative moment.
Artists: Yuji Agematsu (b. 1956); Nadia Ayari (b. 1981); BlackMass Publishing (est. 2018); Diane Burns (b. 1957, d. 2006); Kristi Cavataro (b. 1992); Curtis Cuffie (b. 1955, d. 2002); Hadi Fallahpisheh (b. 1987); Rotimi Fani-Kayode (b. 1955, d. 1989); Raque Ford (b. 1986); Luis Frangella (b. 1944, d. 1990); Dolores Furtado (b. 1977); Julio Galán (b. 1958, d. 2006); Doreen Garner (b. 1986); Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989); Robin Graubard (b. 1951); Milford Graves (b. 1941, d. 2021); Bettina Grossman (b. 1927); Avijit Halder (b. 1988); Bill Hayden (b. 1984); Steffani Jemison (b. 1981); G. Peter Jemison (b. 1945); E’wao Kagoshima (b. 1945); Marie Karlberg (b. 1985); Matthew Langan-Peck (b. 1988); Las Nietas de Nonó (est. 2011); Athena LaTocha (b. 1969); Carolyn Lazard (b. 1987); Sean-Kierre Lyons (b. 1991); Hiram Maristany (b. 1945); Servane Mary (b. 1972); Rosemary Mayer (b. 1943, d. 2014); Alan Michelson (b. 1953); Ahmed Morsi (b. 1930); Nicolas Moufarrege (b. 1947, d. 1985); Marilyn Nance (b. 1953); Tammy Nguyen (b. 1984); Shelley Niro (b. 1954); Kayode Ojo (b. 1990); Paulina Peavy (b. 1901, d. 1999); Freya Powell (b. 1983); Raha Raissnia (b. 1968); Andy Robert (b.1984); Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990); Shanzhai Lyric (est. 2015); Regina Vater (b. 1943); Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (b. 1980); and Lachell Workman (b. 1989).
Greater New York 2021 is organized by a curatorial team led by Ruba Katrib, Curator, PS1 with writer and curator Serubiri Moses, in collaboration with Kate Fowle, Director, PS1 and Inés Katzenstein, Curator of Latin American Art and Director of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, The Museum of Modern Art.
For more information, please read the following article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/arts/design/greater-new-york-moma-ps1.html?referringSource=articleShare
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8. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Palazzo Guarienti, Verona, Italy, opening Oct. 14
Nel Frattempo #2
Meanwhile #2
Dopo la prima grande mostra del 2011 curata da Lucio Pozzi, ricomincia a Valeggio sul Mincio la serie di esposizioni annuali di arte contemporanea Nel Frattempo, sempre curate da un artista e collaterali alla fiera Artverona.
Questa volta il curatore è Arthur Duff.
Inaugurazione Giovedì 14 Ottobre 2021, ore 18:30 a Palazzo Guarienti, Via Antonio Murari 27, fino al 31 Ottobre, aperta 10-18 Venerdì 15 Ott. e ogni Sabato e Domenica.
After the first big show of 2011 curated by Lucio Pozzi, the series Meanwhile of yearly contemporary art exhibitions, always curated by an artist and collateral to the Artverona Fair, is starting again in Valeggio sul Mincio.
This time the curator is Arthur Duff.
Opening Thursday 14 October 2021 at 6:30 PM in Palazzo Guarienti, Via Antonio Murari 27, until October 31, open 10 AM – 6 PM Friday 15 Oct. and every Saturday and Sunday.
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9. Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Barbara Kruger, FF Alumns, now online in T Magazine
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10. Allied Productions, FF Alumn, at Le Petit Versailles, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 17
Le Petit Versailles & Allied Productions present
The Colony – Live Performance
October 17, 7pm. Free
Artists/performers Ivana Larrosa and Antonio Ortuño reflect on the role of hispanic women immigrants in New York City, giving visibility to individual empowered women who came to New York in search of professional growth and proposing unexpected ways to practice architecture. Inspired by the information that Larrosa collected from a survey of over a 100 hispanic women immigrants in New York City,
The Colony explores the parallel between house/space and the body, featuring projections and objects with floor plans, maps, photos and videos based on Ivana Larrosa’s experience as a homeless immigrant living in 12 places during 12 months in New York City. The event will also include a display of photography books by immigrant women published by Matarile Ediciones.
Date: Sunday, October 17, 7 pm.
Location: Le Petit Versailles
346 E Houston St
New York, NY 10009
The Colony is made possible by the generous support of Le Petit Versailles & Allied Productions, Inc., and City Artist Corps Grant. Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc, Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez.
For more information, please visit the following websites:
https://alliedproductions.org/le-petit-versailles/
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/337-21/recovery-all-us-mayor-de-blasio-city-artist-corps#:~:text=Recovery%20for%20All%20of%20Us:%20Mayor%20de%20Blasio%20Announces%20City%20Artist%20Corps,-May%206,%202021&text=NEW%20YORK—Mayor%20Bill%20de,of%20the%20city%20this%20summer.
Thank you.
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11. Claudia DeMonte, Ed McGowin, FF Alumns, at Frost Symphony Orchestra, Miami, FL, Dec. 4
Frost Symphony Orchestra, Miami, Arsht Center, Dec 4th, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition, a concert that mixes music and visual arts conducted by renowned maestro Gerard Schwarz, with newly commissioned artworks by Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin, which will be projected on a screen above the orchestra
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12. Martha Burgess, Katya Grokhovsky, Pablo Helguera, JC Lenochan, Morgan O’Hara, Steed Taylor, FF Alumns, at EFA Center, Manhattan, Oct. 21-23
EFA Open Studios
October 21, 22, & 23
Save the date for the annual EFA Open Studios event offering the public a rare portal into the artists’ creative habitat. View over 65 artist studios, 3 exhibitions, and tours of the print shop. Vaccine proof and masks required.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 21st, 6 – 10 pm (opening night)
Friday, October 22nd, 6 – 9pm
Saturday, October 23rd, 2 – 6pm
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
Participating Artists
Samira Abbassy | Fanny Allié | Keren Anavy | Noel W. Anderson | Shimon Attie | Allen T. Ball | Laura A. Barbata | Keren Benbenisty | Masha Biglow | Wafaa Bilal | Rhona Bitner | Martha Burgess | Mattia Casalegno | Patty Cateura | Cecile Chong | Elizabeth Colomba | Vicky Colombet | Michael Eade | Sally Egbert | Jonathan Ehrenberg | Odette England | Cui Fei | Jason File | Del Geist | Katya Grokhovsky | Mahmoud Hamadani | Pablo Helguera | Amy Hill | Janet Loren Hill | Adam Hurwitz | Akira Ikezoe | Edgar Jerins | Richard Jochum | Melissa Joseph | Kosuke Kawahara | Tamiko Kawata | Justin Kim | Yongjae Kim | Greg Kwiatek | Sarah Leahy | Hayoon Lee | Patricia Leighton | JC Lenochan | Dana Levy | Anina Major | Michael Mandiburg | Katinka Mann | Jeanette May | Cheryl Molnar | Amy Myers | Nazanin Noroozi | Morgan O’Hara | Whitney Oldenburg | Thomas Pihl | Simonette Quamina | Armita Raafat | Maria D. Rapicavoli | Javier Romero | Heather Bause Rubinstein | Alex Schweder | Susan Silas | Karina Skvirsky | Howard Smith | Suzanne Song | Xin Song | Steed Taylor | Dannielle Tegeder | A young Yu | Liselot van der Heijden | Carlos Vega | Marjorie Welish
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13. Robert Longo, FF Alumn, now online in Artnews
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14. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stevens, FF Alumns, at City Lights, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 17
My friend Dragonfly has a poem she wrote about being in an Ecosexual performance we did together in our new book. She rocks! She sent this nice photo when she got her copy. Super excited that @ebethstephens and I will be at the legendary SF bookstore @citylights books on Oct 17. 3 pm.
Info at the following website:
CityLights.com
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15. Peggy Ahwesh, Jaime Davidovich, Constance DeJong, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Barbara Ess, Michelle Handelman, Victoria Keddie, John Kelly, Ann Magnuson, FF Alumns, online at Performa-arts Oct. 12-27
Hello friends!
If you haven’t seen me it’s because I’ve been in a proverbial hole, or rather, building out a televisual studio installation in a vacant flagship store at 608 Fifth Ave, NYC. I’ve transformed the former “Topshop” into an immersive studio to be activated through a series of live broadcasts. In addition to the mainstays of the televisual studio (cameras, tripods, consoles, boom mics, etc) visual signifiers paint the room in a play of dimensional space. Monitors playback 3D video renderings of physical landscapes dissolving into pointillist particles. A series of hand gestures cover a backlit wall -signifying directed action and place (you are here). Another wall shows stills from camera in motion (or being whipped around) paired with a rock-tumbler filmed with one of Nam June Paik’s wobbulators.
Here, the multi-floor escalators are the running clock, and Futurist Intonarumori (c.1913) are the heart, performing each broadcast with a different ensemble and solo performances under the direction of Luciano Chessa. (As I write I am aware that many of you are indeed participating!). A 4-channel video installation by Gretchen Bender with soundtracks by Stuart Argabright and Michael Diekmann take residence within the space for the duration of the month-long series. Barbara Ess and Peggy Ahwesh’s Radio/Guitar become a live soundtrack to a moving choreography of cameras. Artists newly commissioned videos, premieres and live performances will occupy the physical and ephemeral space.
The live events are :
Oct 12th Telethon
Oct 15th, 20th, and 27th
7-10PM
To view the performances, please visit the following website:
www.performa-arts.org
Thank you.
The broadcasts will include:
Wildcat Ebony Brown, Michelle Handelman + John Kelly, Estate of Barbara Ess w Peggy Ahwesh, Constance DeJong, My Barbarian, Jeanette Andrews, Vuyo Sotashe, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Narcissister, Jaime Davidovich Foundation, Estate of Gretchen Bender, Courtney Harmel Collection (featuring Mr. Fashion, Tanya Ransom, Joey Arias and Ann Magnuson), Naaljos Ljom, Lea Porsager, Jen Liu, Sara Gebran, Sahra Motalebi,Jennifer Walshe + Object Collection. And The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners with Luciano Chessa, Director + Featuring: Lee Renaldo, Alan Licht, MV Carbon, Seth Cluett, Laura Ortman, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jim Thirlwell, Zach Leighton, Henry Fraser, Bobby Previte Trio, Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Nick Hallett, Stacy Penson, Phillip Bullock, Ka Baird, Don Fleming, Spencer Yeh, Ikue Mori, Steve Gunn,Georgia Hubley, Joan La Barbara
The PR below is focused on Performa’s Telethon event but I will have more announcements to share by way of the broadcast series to follow. Because of our dear pandemic, this is a closed studio set. However, contact me to come visit and be a part of a limited (vaccinated) live audience…
Be seeing you,
XVictoria Keddie
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16. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, receives Union Docs Undo Fellowship
UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art is honored to announce the selection of four pairs of artists and writers for the UNDO FELLOWSHIP, an initiative to expand radical filmmaking practices and research new languages of documentary cinema. The fellowship recipients include writer Ashon Crawley with artist Crystal Z. Campbell, author Sukhdev Sandhu with filmmaker Deborah Stratman, scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan with filmmaker Miryam Charles, and writer/editor Jas Morgan with artist Thirza Cuthand. Each of the fellows will receive $20,000 for their participation in the yearlong program, which includes a seminar at DocLisboa 2021 followed by a retreat at Casa Do Xisto in Portugal, and a final retreat and public symposium in the Fall of 2022 at EMPAC at Rensselaer in Troy, New York.
Writer Ashon Crawley and Artist Crystal Z Campbell will examine the various ways that ideas, stories, and narratives are collected and ask what happens when the things collected are ephemeral? They will imagine ways that knowledge about Black geographic translation—in its variance and shade, in its color and texture, in its weight and lightness, in its vibration and sound—moves, how it spreads. The sound of glances and glimpses, the sight of whispers and hushed words, is where their research resides. They ask if the sonic component in film is the augmentation of the relationship between remembering and forgetting, or is the sonic a way to get at the archive and what exceeds its capture? Campbell’s sonic-centered documentary work honors the untranslatable, strategies of opacity, and rumor. They will posit together if fragments and gaps in archives can act as historical conductors, offering new translations or urgent questions, around Black geography, land and body, and the public secrets embedded in landscapes.
Crystal Z Campbell
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.crystalzcampbell.com
Thank you.
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17. Amanda Millet-Sorsa, Pamela Enz, Marie Christine Katz, FF Alumns, at Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 16
A Game of Tarot
Created & Produced by Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Directed by Alexandra Zelman-Doring
Live performance at the Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore
Saturday October 16, 2021 **rain date Sunday October 17, 2021
Outdoors on the sidewalk in front of the bookstore at 34 Carmine Street in the West Village NY
@12pm & 1pm; duration 15 min
An absurd five person card playing performance using Amanda Millet-Sorsa’s tarot cards while reciting “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake and directed by Alexandra Zelman-Doring.
The dialogue between the card players occurs through the verses of William Blake’s poem where the dynamics and story between the players unravels while playing a game of cards, structured around the French game of tarot. The cards are an original deck completely re-imagined by Amanda Millet-Sorsa and currently on exhibition at the bookstore.
When you walk into a bookstore, what emotion does that bookstore evoke? James (Jim) Drougas is the owner of the Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore, an independent bookstore standing on Carmine Street in the West Village for the past 30 years, embodying the spirits of William Blake, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Bernie, and AOC with a strong revolutionary vibe worthy of the green forests of Vermont where everything happening in the store is simply a part of Jim’s life. It will make you want to throw everything in the air, your spirit driven with madness and passion, trying to make sense of the absurd as the bookstore kitty looks at you with those nonchalant eyes of a New Yorker on the subway. We met in 2020 through a Craigslist ad in the midst of the pandemic in New York City. I wanted to give away my extraordinary murphy bed/hidden desk/bookshelf furniture piece, which I had kept in my apartment to host visitors through Human Hotel-a network aimed at matching like-minded travelers and hosts. Jim had always wanted this kind of bed for his small West Village apartment and, in exchange, I received “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake. I called this bed a cocoon as it was enclosed by a curtain-poem written by poet Alexandra Zelman-Doring, who coincidentally, lived on Carmine Street as a child, and is now directing ‘A Game of Tarot”, the performance, in collaboration with myself and five card playing performers.
All in the universe is connected, many would say. ‘A Game of Tarot: the Unoppressive Game” is a selection of 10 cards from the 78 handmade tarot cards first exhibited as part of the Art-In-Buildings Time Equities Inc. W. 10th Street Window in 2015. Today you can also see a limited edition printed card deck, housed in a box and info booklet printed and folded on origami paper, as well as individual digital photo prints and postcards of six cards displayed in the bookstore next to a neon “Psychic Reader” sign, pleasantly enrobed in a royal purple environment. This exhibition and performance is a way to understand those synchronistic encounters that weave into our lives and how and if to attribute meaning to them or simply toss it in the air.
The images in tarot cards are used by astrologers, and have interested psychoanalysts like Carl Jung to inform the unconscious. It can also serve to pass time, bring five people together through the card game of tarot as is often played in France alongside pétanque as a way to connect, unite, and bring people together. A card game is a form of communication and connection and can also bring out the worst in us especially if the card table is abruptly thrown to the floor in the heat of an argument with cards flying all over the place.
Creator & Producer
Amanda Millet-Sorsa is a visual artist and has exhibited at Art-in-Buildings Time Equities Inc, Theatre for the New City, The Last Brucennial, the NARS Foundation, and Proyecto Ace. Her inter-disciplinary collaborative works have been performed at the Socrates Sculpture Park, the Flux Factory, Brooklyn Brush Studios, Governor’s Island, and Far Rockaway Beach. Amanda is also a contributing writer to The Brooklyn Rail. // IG: @amandamilletsorsa
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.amanda-atelier.com
Thank you.
Director
Alexandra Zelman-Doring’s plays have been presented at The Flea Theater, Access Theater, The Edinburgh Fringe, 59E59th, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New Ohio Theatre. She teaches at NYU’s graduate Film program and is artistic director of Throes Theater. // NYU TISCH
For more information, please visit the following website:
throestheater.com
Thank you.
Performer- Dealer & Card player
Pamela Enz, a Hybrid Collaborative Collagist, has received Edward Albee Fellowships, PEN grants, the Franklin Furnace Emerging Performance & Tennessee Williams One Act Play Awards. Her work was performed at The Brick, IRT Theater, Dixon Place’s Main Stage, TNC, EST, The 92 St.Y, WBAI radio. Theater for the New City produced her play”City Girls & Desperadoes” with Austin Pendleton and The Brick ran “Casablanca on the Hudson”. Recent performances at Poetic Theater Productions, NYTW, and AFO. // In development is feature film AIRTIME // deleted her parecent pere film AIR
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.badrepredux.com
Thank you.
Performer-Card player
Jerie Choi Ortiz is a poet, musician, and educator who has performed at various national venues including the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival, the NY Poetry Festival, the Brooklyn Folk Festival and the Lincoln Center Out of Doors. An Amy Award recipient and Brooklyn Poets fellow, she also teaches poetry in public schools and leads community workshops on radical music history and political education.
Performer-Card player
Marie Christine Katz is a Swiss-born interdisciplinary performance artist and actor. Collaboration
and audience participation is key to her work. // IG: @dancingalonewithmyshadow @mck_workinprogress @mcayer27
Performer-Card player
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.mariechristine.com
Thank you.
Kim Savarino is a performer and choreographer based in New York City. She has created site-specific dance and theater works in spaces ranging from traditional stages, concrete backlots, and (once) an old bathroom in a former mental hospital, and she’s a proud company member of Third Rail Projects and La MaMa’s Great Jones Rep. Kim is Chinese-Sicilian-American and grew up in Southern California and West Virginia. // IG: @kasavvy
Performer-Card player
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.kimsavarino.com
Thank you.
Walls Trimble is an actor and photographer from Jupiter, FL. She trained at Northwestern University and Actors Theatre of Louisville before moving to New York. // IG: @trimblenator @honeybellvintage.
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The Empty Circle
Cultural Affairs
Materials For The Arts
S7 Corps
Hoe Betingels
City Artist
This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.
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18. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 19-20
Christeene + Dynasty Handbag in NYC
Oct 19 + 20 // 2 nights only!
Very disappointoed to be sharing the stage with drag terrorist and dump truck connesewer CHRISTEENE! This is a make-up show that was supposed to happen in March 2020, and then we got canceled because of the disease! which was Christeene’s crab infestation. PLEASE COME OUT for this momentous occasion! Can’t wait too see you all in rat city!!! It’s been to long friends.
October 19th + 20th
Union Pool, Brooklyn
doors 7 / show 8
$30
GET TICKETS THEY ARE GOING FAST!
email me for discount code if you are in real need
guests must show vax card
flyer by nutball River Ramirez
For more information, please visit the following websites:
https://union-pool.com
https://www.instagram.com/christeene_official/
Thank you.
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19. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, live in Manhattan, NY, Oct. 23
Pat Oleszko’s Beware the Writhing Tide! Row v Wade
Pat Oleszko, the Ms Tricks of Dis Guise, is a-dressing the very real and present issue of climate change in the shoreline region of Lower Manhattan. In a very few years the area will be rec-claimed by the Hudson River and submerged 3 feet under water. Certainly not a cause for celebration, it is however a time for mitigation. Many have sounded the alert but few have succeeded with long term plans. Now is the time, with Pomp and Circus/stance for a more vivid demonstration of what’s to come. The adults are lost, yet the children see. Support Greta and her gang and slow the whorl-d to savor the future!
Beware The Writhing Tide! Row v Wade is a parade of notions and emotions demonstrating in fool sartorial splendor what we’ll receive if we continue on our path to self-destruction. Humor and exaggeration is jest another tool to disrupt complacency in all walks of life. This is a stalk of strife.
Helen HIghwater leads a parade of desperados including a few fur-ious Bi-Polar Bears followed by Helen DePloy riddled with plastics, a worried and weepy World, all marching to the tunes of the sassy Brass Queens, the all female, with some honorary buoys leading the way down the Battery Park Esplanade to the Liberty and Staten Island Ferries, places that will be awash in seawater in 30 years—unless we do something about it! The flamboyant March of Dissipation starts on Saturday October 23rd and will continue into the future at various moments until we Sea Some Real Progress. Support the art, support the artists involved, but most importantly, support the changes we must make to insure our existence on this glorious Planet Earth.
It’s Up To You To Find The Tools And Put Pressure On The Fossil Fools!
Saturday October 23 at 3 pm
Esplanade from Rockefeller Park to the Staten Island Ferry, Manhattan
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20. RT Livingston, FF Alumn, now online at University of California Santa Barbara
The Many Faces of RT Livingston
Conceptual artist RT Livingston, who vows to use “whatever creative vehicle she deems fit to get her point across,” added her extensive collection of artwork to the Library’s Special Research Collections in 2018. Three years later, her collection continues to inspire and influence, with a portion of it featured most recently in the 9/11 RENEWAL / REBIRTH project, an online Library exhibition featuring her eyewitness account of the year following the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
For more information, please visit the following website:
library.ucsb.edu/news/donor-spotlight-rt-livingston
Thank you.
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21. Michelle Handelman, John Kelly, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles & Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumns, live on line in Performa, Oct. 12
Second Annual Performa Telethon
New York City: Forever Radical
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
7pm–10pm EST
For more information, please visit the following website:
www.performa2021.org
Thank you.
The Second Annual Performa Telethon is a tribute to the radical artists of New York and the streets we all inhabit. New York City: Forever Radical embraces the televisual space pioneered by Nam June Paik, with three hours of live performances, biennial previews, and a time-travelling remix of media innovations by New York City artists. Our dynamic host for the evening is Wildcat Ebony Brown who will welcome downtown legends. My Barbarian, Lee Ranaldo and the Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners with Luciano Chessa, Narcissister, Michelle Handelman and John Kelly, as well as Vuyo Sotashe, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles and Jeanette Andrews, all joining us to help raise essential funds for future artist commissions. Join the fun—Watch incredible video material from the archives of television-art pioneer Jaime Davidovich of Cable Soho fame, and Courtney Harmel, who captured the 1980-1984 New York art and performance scene, rare footage of Mr. Fashion and Joey Arias, video works by Constance DeJong, and tributes to Barbara Ess and Gretchen Bender. Presented in collaboration with director, artist, and Broadcast Director Victoria Keddie.
Special guest Chloe Wise will want you to be ready to call in to 212-366-5700 or text PERFORMA to 44-321 to make your gift. When you pledge your donation, choose from a variety of special Telethon premiums such as editions by Ericka Beckman an dSara Cwynar, as well as rare ephemera from the Performa Vaults such as Barbara Kruger’ss kate deck, Don’t Be A Jerk,from her 2017 Performa Commission.
Your generous support means everything to the artists of the Performa 2021 Biennial and the next one. Thank you!
Performa’s three-week biennial program will be accompanied by Performa Radio: The City Speaks, a live radio series from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center; Performa Tv: Forever Radical, a program of artist projects and live, made-for-broadcast performances on the biennial website; Artist Interviews, twenty-minute, in-depth video conversations with each of the eight Performa 2021 Biennial artists; and live streaming of the entire Performa 2021 Biennial, which for the first time in its sixteen-year history will be open to the public free of cost and viewable.
To view, please visit the following website:
www.performa2021.org
Thank you.
Tune in for additional live broadcasts from the Performa TV Studio on October 15, 20 and 27 from 7pm-10pm.
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22. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, online at Participant Inc., Oct. 17
Michelle Handelman, “Doomscrolling”
Michelle Handelman X Shannon Funchess
Sunday, October 17, at 8pm EST – October 24, 2021 on participantafterdark.art Presented in collaboration with The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)
Concept, videos, and live performance by: Michelle Handelman
Live performance: Shannon Funchess
Livestream video directed and edited by: Glen Fogel and Michelle Handelman Live Audio & video engineers: Lazar Bozic (NYC) and Chris Balo (Portland) Post-production sound mix: Quentin Chiappetta (Medianoise)
Animation: Enrique Maitland
ASL interpretation: Candace Davider
Including excerpts from:
Hustlers & Empires (2018/20)
Irma Vep, the Last Breath (2013/15)
Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume (2009/13)
Cinematography by: Ed David
Performers: Quin Charity, Zackary Drucker, Shannon Funchess, K8 Hardy, Armen Ra, Viva Ruiz, Flawless Sabrina, Sequinette
Composers: Vincent Baker, Quentin Chiappetta, John Kelly, Jonathan Kreinik, Carol Lipnik, Stefan Tcherepnin
Costumes: Neon Music, Garo Sparo, Karen Young, Zaldy
Hair/Makeup: Michael Gwaltney, Armen Ra, Naomi Raddatz, Sequinette
Participant After Dark and PICA present the video premiere of “Doomscrolling”, a collaborative reading and performance by Michelle Handelman and musician/performer Shannon Funchess, co-founder of the band Light Asylum. Originally performed for livestream on Participant After Dark on May 21, 2021 and recorded at Michelle Handelman Studio (NYC) and PICA (Portland).
“Doomscrolling” is part of Handelman’s “The Pandemic Series” (2020-2021), which re-contextualizes characters from Handelman’s previous works into a hypnotic visual essay about the transfiguring of interiority during periods of isolation and fear. It takes as its starting point the current coronavirus pandemic and filters it through theorist Jill Casid’s writings on the necrocene, which Casid has described as living and dying on a dying planet; and Walter Benjamin’s writings on the difference between thresholds and boundaries. Handelman’s characters, who each have already struggled with existential questions of belonging and fear in her projects Dorian, A Cinematic Perfume (2009/11), Irma Vep, The Last Breath (2013/15), and Hustlers & Empires (2018) are juxtaposed with found images and texts sourced during the pandemic to take on a new form that both denies and struggles with containment.
Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars of the 1990s, Michelle Handelman has built a body of work that uses live performance and moving images to confront the things we collectively fear and deny–sexuality, death, chaos. Handelman is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2011) and Creative Capital awardee (2019). Her latest project Hustlers & Empires was commissioned by SFMOMA as part of their Performance in Practice series. She has exhibited at Broad Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Participant, Inc, Performa Biennial, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center among others. During the 1990s Handelman worked in San Francisco where she collaborated with Monte Cazazza, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene, and performed in several films by Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Handelman’s writings can be found in QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, n.Paradoxa, Intl Feminist Art Journal, and her work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, Filmmaker Magazine, and The New York Times. Her 1995 feature documentary BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism is being re released by Kino Lorber this summer, and her exhibition These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves is currently on view at The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through August 15, 2021.
Co-founder, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist of the dark, electronic band Light Asylum. Shannon Funchess developed her powerful contralto singing in a Southern Baptist church choir as a child, adding Joy Division and Bauhaus to her list of influences as a teen. She moved to Seattle in the late ’80s, performing in indie rock bands, before moving to New York in 2001. Funchess’ vocal prowess has been sought after for many collaborations with acts such as TV on the Radio, The Knife, and LCD Soundsystem. In 2015, she participated in a Knight Foundation residency in Detroit, spearheaded by the electronic duo ADULT. Funchess, now residing in Portland, Oregon, is currently enlivening a 20-year DJ career, performing new solo material under the moniker HEALING CRISIS and producing the sophomore follow-up album to Light Asylum’s 2012 self-titled debut LP released on Mexican Summer Records.”
Special thanks: Jill H. Casid, Frank Smigiel, John Morrow, Michael Rush, and Dominic Cloutier
Participant After Dark is a virtual performance, screening, and exhibition space launched by PARTICIPANT INC in 2020. PARTICIPANT invited artist Glen Fogel to design and develop AFTER DARK, working with artists to inhabit the site and modify it for their projects’ specific needs.
Participant Inc’s exhibitions are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Our programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Archiving and documentation projects are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Participant Inc is supported in part by an Artists Council Grant of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Online projects are made possible with funds from the NYSCA Electronic Media/Film in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Participant Inc receives generous support from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust; Artists’ Legacy Foundation; Michael Asher Foundation; Willem de Kooning Foundation; The Greenwich Collection Ltd.; Agnes Gund Foundation; Marta Heflin Foundation; The Ruth Ivor Foundation; The Meredith E. James Charitable Fund; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; Henry Luce Foundation; The MAP Fund; NADA Gallery Relief Grant; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Andrea Stern Charitable Fund; Still Point Fund; Teiger Foundation; The Jacques Louis Vidal Charitable Fund; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Friends of Participant Inc; numerous individuals; and Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Dept. of Education.
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23. Irina Danilova, LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at First Contemporary Art Biennial of Murgia, Bari, Italy, thru Jan. 10, 2022
Irina Danilova and LuLu LoLo exhibiting
First Contemporary Art Biennial Of Murgia, Province of Bari, Italy
25th September 2021-10th January 2022
Environment Memory Future
Dedicated to the Victims of All Massacres.
painting – sculpture – photography – architecture – video art – cinema-performance
Cassano delle Murge – Altamura – Gravina in Apulia – Matera
Artistic Director: Michele Di Leo
164 Artists from the following Nations:
Italy-Switzerland-Turkey-Germany-Japan-Russia-Estonia-Ukraine-France-Greece-China-Bulgaria-Spain-India-Iran-Lithuania-Canada-USA-Argentina-Australia
For more information, please visit the following website:
biennale d’arte contemporanea della murgia
Thank you.
Inaugurations:
September 21 Event Presentation 18:30-Civic Museum via Sagges 13-BARI
September 25 at 16:30 pm – Ministry of Culture – National Museum of Matera – Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pascoli Square 1-MATERA
September 25 at 17:30 Archaeological Museum Via Santeramo 88-Altamura
September 25 at 19:30 Pomarici Santomasi Foundation (formerly Santa Sofia Convent) Via Museo 20-GRAVINA in Apulia
September 26 at 17:30 Pinacoteca Perotti, Via Miani Perotti 15-Cassano delle Murge
September 26th at 19:30 pm – Holy Art Capitular Museum, Benedict XIII Square, 25-GRAVINE in Apulia
Exhibition venues:
Cassano delle Murge – Altamura – Gravina in Apulia – Matera
Artistic Director: Michele Di Leo
Section 1: figurative arts
′′ Between tradition and innovation ′′Pinacoteca Lanfanchi Palace
edited by dr. Anna Maria Amato director of the national museum Matera
and Silvia Padula Art Historical
2th Section: painting – installations – performance′′ Between tradition and innovation ′′Former Saint Sofia Monastery and Castle Svevo Gravina of Apulia edited by dr. Mario Burdi President of the Pomarci Santomasi Foundation
3nd Section: Painting – Art Video
′′ Between tradition and innovation ′′Pinacoteca Armando Perotti and Civic Museum in Cassano delle Murge by Dr. Ferdan Yusufi Historic Art-Istanbul
4th Section: Experimental cinema – contemporary architecture – photography – sculpture-video art
Altamura Archaeological Museum edited by dr. Elena Saponaro director of the Museum 5nd Section: Painting
Artists:
LuLu LoLo, Irina Danilova, Rossella Laterza, Eleonora Del Brocco, Ferruccio Alo è, Tarcisio Pingitore, Filippo Mastropasqua, Gianfranco Sergio, Angelo Riviello, Flavia Nasrin Testa, Teo De Palma, Giuseppe Riccardo Cosenza, Romeo Battisti, Anna Iskra Donati, Giuseppe Barone, Valter Vari, Patricia Del Monaco, Elisabetta Maistrello, Barbara Berardicurti, Bianca Beghin, Claudia Bortolami, Silvana Di Lorenzo, Sandro Perelli, Sandra Menoia, Carolyn Starr Ellis, Gurmehar Singh, Diana Kirova, Vive Noor, Hufreesh Dumasia Chopra, Athina Kotsoni, Matina Sioki, Androniki Passalidou Pravita, Camille Ross, Stella Chaviaropoulou, Raffaella Losapio, Vincenzo Ceccato, Carmelo La Gaipa, Cristina Fornarelli, Vincenzo Pezzella, Rachele Viggiano, Pierino Rossoni, Fabrizio Sorrentino, Giuseppe Di Guida, Emanuele Giannetti, Ali Kaba ş, Emre Yusufi, Aysel Kul, B rara G öksu, Ertu ğrul Tuna, Esra Meral, Nezihe G ök çe, Serdal Kesgin, Seren Ceren Asyal ı, Y üksel Özen, Zekiye Tellio ğlu, Manuela Maroli, Costantino De Sario, Carlo Molinari, Bahar Heidarzade, Rita Rosati, Rocco J. Mazziotta, Ermanno Senator, Marco Iannaccone, Naoya Takahara, Elena Radovix, Alfonso Caccavale, Lucia Buono, Roberto Comini, Sabino Lerario, Viviana Quattrini, Antonio Nasuto, Athina Kotsoni, Massimo Nardi, Adeleh Saleh, Niloofar Delalat, Mahbob Safari, Houri Farzaneh Sabet , Valentina Gasparre, Corrado Pizzi, Valérie Bourdel, Nicola Rettino, Cor Fafiani, Ieva Liaugaudait ė, Daniel Barroso, Jacqueline Gllicot Madar, Hojat Salarmohamadi, Christel Sobke, Manuella Muerner Marioni, Guido Folco, Paolo Livrea, Leonardo Scarinzi, Valentina Scarinzi, Alfredo Celli , Mimmo Laterza, Peppe Esposito, Alba Amoruso, Salvatore Vargas, Giuliano Knife, Nello, Luisa Valenzano, Gennaro Telaro, Grazia Salierno, Rocco Sciaudone, Elena Dell ‘ Andrea, Francesco Cuppone, Anna Colmayer, Pierluigi Ratti, Carlo Pozzoni, Francesca Cuppone, Eva Rachele Grassi, Rocco Salvia, Manuela Bedeschi, Francesco Di Mauro, Carlo Molinari, Pino Lauria, Roberto Piccinni, Ivano Parolini, Maria Bonaduce, Giovanni Morgese, Claudio Vino, Mario Calcagnile, Rolando Perotti, Jara Marzulli, Andrea Rolli, Elio Bianco, Rffaele Gelao, Mario Rondi, Giovanni Papi, Elham Hamedi, Arvydas Kasauskas, Salvatore Ring, Giancarlo Costanzo, Walter Gadda, Monica Sarandrea, Nicola Strippoli – Tarshito, Lidia Pentasuglia, Antonio Sassu (Synesthetic Group), Francesca Romana Colonna, Elisabetta Maistrello, Pasquale Column, Anastasia Briart, Maddalena Marfelli, Piero Di Terlizzi, Lijun Zhang, Antonella Ventola, Misha Dare, Anna Rita Del Piano, Leo Morelli, Zahra Rahnama, Roberto Strafella, Beppe Labianca, Maria Bogacheva, Elena Ksanti, Elena Razumkova, MrVibem, Maria Pia Di Medio, Bita Forouzanfar, Rosalba Di Leo, Luigi Viapiano, Michele Di Leo.
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24. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at Queens Theatre, Flushing Meadows Park, Oct. 23
FF Alumn Writer/Performer/Multimedia Artist Judith Sloan RECOGNIZED WITH A CITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT FROM NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA) and THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS (DCLA)
Judith Sloan Will Present Songs, Poetry and Monologues of Migration, Refuge and Finding Home –
at the Queens Theatre
Saturday October 23 at 4 pm. The hour long program is free and takes place in the Claire Shulman Theatre at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, NY. Tickets are available at the door and in advance online TICKETS HERE https://qt-internet.choicecrm.net/templates/QT/?event_ids=88#/events
Judith Sloan, described as “…a welcome voice crying in the contemporary wilderness of political correctness with on-the-money satire seasoned with tolerance and joie de vivre,” is a writer, actor, audio artist and educator, whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. For over twenty years, Sloan has been producing and presenting interdisciplinary works in audio and theater, portraying voices often ignored by the mass media. Known for her documentary project Crossing the BLVD, her solo show Yo Miss! which was produced by La MaMa E.T.C. For the October 23 performance, Sloan will be joined by guest singers and a pianist who present songs from her play-in-progress “It Can Happen Here”, which follows the lives of five women in Queens, New York who are bonded together through their neighborhood hair salon. The play is in development and was supported in part by an Artist Commissioning Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts and was developed in part through interviews and storytelling workshops with residents in Southeastern Queens who were grappling with race, gentrification and the impacts of climate change, and Covid19. Sloan will also be presenting a short piece from her collaborative work 1001 Voices: An Anthem for A New America with music written by Grammy winning composer, trumpeter and band leader Frank London. Guests include featured singers: Meah Pace, Melissa McMillan, Alba Ponce de Leon, Michelle Beth Herman, with Dominic Frigo on keyboards. “For over twenty years, this petite, steely woman has been an explorer of experience and psyche, an excavator of souls whose stories she turns into art. Sloan is an extraordinary audacious artist.” Woman Around Town.
Sloan says, “This City Artist Corps funding has given me a great opportunity to write new songs and to hear them and share them with an audience in my home borough of Queens the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States. This work reflects that range of experience in the performers and the stories. I’m excited to have three singers who are also members of the Resistance Revival Chorus on board for this project.” In addition to her own material Sloan has invited actor/playwright Najla Said as a guest artist in this event. Najla Said will perform an excerpt from her solo show “Palestine”. Of Said’s solo show the NY Times said: “There’s something heroic about her broader stance: to a topic that generates fury and recrimination, she brings a lightness and a steadfast refusal to hate.”
Over the course of three award cycles, more than 3,000 artists have received $5,000 in grant awards to engage the public with artist activities across New York City’s five boroughs this summer and fall. Artists will use the grant to create new work or phase of a work, or restage preexisting creative activities across any discipline.
City Artist Corps Grants was launched in June 2021 by NYFA and DCLA with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre. The program is funded by the $25 million New York City Artist Corps recovery initiative announced by Mayor de Blasio and DCLA earlier this year. The grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. It is strongly recommended that a portion of the grant be used to support artist fees, both for the applying artist and any other artist that are engaged to support the project.
This event has received additional support from EarSay, and the New York State Council on the Arts NYSCA Restart NY: Rapid Live Performance Grant with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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