Contents for October 16, 2023
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WEEKLY SPOTLIGHTS:
Anya Liftig, FF Alumn, live online at the LOFT, Oct. 17, 7-8 pm et
Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, creates The Laughing Cow® Collector’s Edition Boxes
1. Shaun Leonardo, Dread Scott, Roger Shimomura, FF Alumns, at Christin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, thru Nov. 18
2. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, at Kobe University, Japan and more
3. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Manhattan, October 31
4. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at S. M. A. K., Ghent, Belgium, thru Mar. 3, 2024
5. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Sèvres – Manufacture et Musée nationaux, France, thru Nov. 5 and more
6. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Naoto Nakagawa, Linda Sibio, Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, now online at brutjournal.com
7. WHAM!, FF Alumns, now online at Papercutters.org
8. Bill Beirne, FF Alumn, at Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY, Oct. 21-22
9. Ken Weaver, FF Alumn, at 14BC Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 21
10. Nicole Eisenman, FF Alumn, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, opening Oct. 11
11. Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, at Temple Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 17
12. Sally Greenhouse, FF Alumn, at Forbes Library, Northampton, MA, Oct. 21
13. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at vimeo.com
14. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA, Oct. 30
15. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, now online at NYMag.com
16. Sha Sha Higby, FF Alumn, at Commonweal, Bolinas, CA, Oct. 28, and more
17. Liz Magic Laser, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
18. Nancy Holt, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
19. Mark Russell, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
20. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, now online at Patreon.com and more
21. Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumn, at Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, Poland, and more
22. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at Deutsche Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany, thru Dec. 15
23. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, now online at HudsonValleyOne.com
24. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, at CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, October 11–29
25. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, now online at Curbed.com
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Weekly Spotlight: Anya Liftig, FF Alumn, live online at the LOFT, Oct. 17, 7-8 pm et
Anya Liftig
(Dis)Association: the Presence of a Holler Rat
October 17, 7-8pm ET
October 17, 7-8pm ET live online at the Franklin Furnace digital LOFT, performance artist and author Anya Liftig and Founder of PPL (Panoply Performance Laboratory), Esther Marveta Neff, will discuss the role of different states of consciousness in Liftig’s recent performance art memoir, Holler Rat. The conversation will explore the psychology of the traditional memoir form as performance art and the role of association and dissociation in written language. Is language just a shell or is it the fundament of consciousness itself? How do different modes of performance–public, gallery, video, written–shift states of consciousness?
Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, MoMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in the New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Theater Magazine, and many others. Her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals globally. Her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award, and fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo
Other funding credits: (Dis)Association: the Presence of a Holler Rat is an online event at the Franklin Furnace LOFT, with the support of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive.
To register for this free online event please visit this link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIudOCppjkvH9OfkWW2S902PS0a75RUewQ-#/registration
Thank you.
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Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, creates The Laughing Cow® Collector’s Edition Boxes
Martha Wilson’s Collector’s Edition Boxes will be premiered on the occasion of the Paris Internationale art fair, October 18 – 22, 2023 in Paris.
Since 2014, Lab’Bel —the artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group— has endeavored a series of special projects in collaboration with outstanding contemporary artists, resulting in the creation of The Laughing Cow® Collector’s Edition Boxes. These yearly editions represent as many opportunities to renew and update the connections that the brand has established with artists since its inception in 1921.
The Collector’s Edition Boxes are designed as artworks in their own right by their creators. Each fall, anyone can purchase such artworks at the normal price listed for a 24-portion box, before deciding whether its contents should be eaten or kept intact as collectibles.
Making contemporary art available to a larger audience has been the main mission of Lab’Bel since its creation in 2010, through original ideas and out-of-the-box approaches. After Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Bayrle, Jonathan Monk, Wim Delvoye, Karin Sander, Daniel Buren, Mel Bochner, Rosemarie Trockel and Franz Erhard Walther, Lab’Bel is entrusting Martha Wilson with designing the tenth Collector’s Edition Box.
Martha Wilson’s Collector’s Edition Box is curated by Sylvie Boulanger.
Thank you.
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1. Shaun Leonardo, Dread Scott, Roger Shimomura, FF Alumns, at Christin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, thru Nov. 18
Seminal: Masculinity in Contemporary Art
Featuring Melanie Baker, Jennifer Dalton, Julian V.L. Gaines, Shaun Leonardo, Joan Linder, Ralph Pugay, Dread Scott, Roger Shimomura, and Kenneth Tam
Opens this Friday
October 13, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
219 Bowery, Floor 1
New York, NY 10002
Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to present Seminal: Masculinity in Contemporary Art, a group exhibition in the gallery’s first floor space. It opens Friday, October 13th, with a public reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Participating artists are Melanie Baker, Jennifer Dalton, Julian V.L. Gaines, Shaun Leonardo, Joan Linder, Ralph Pugay, Roger Shimomura, Dread Scott, and Kenneth Tam. Dalton, Gaines, Leonardo, and Linder will be present at the reception.
Through varying media, the artists in Seminal complicate the male archetype by examining how it is expressed in the arenas of politics, sports, race, class, popular culture, family, and sexuality. Each work prompts the question: what are the beliefs and behaviors that have contributed to this image? Seminal interrogates what we think we know about masculinity and why, creating space for further dialogues about identity.
Thank you.
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2. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, at Kobe University, Japan and more
Dan Kwong is in Japan delivering lectures to students at Kobe University (Kobe) and Doshisha University (Kyoto) as well as the Asian American Literature Association, discussing his recent stageplay “Masao and The Bronze Nightingale”, based on the short story of the same title by Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara. “Border-Crossing Through Music in Multicultural Los Angeles” and “Trans-Cultural Identity, Conflict & Solidarity in the stageplay “Masao and The Bronze Nightingale” are the lecture titles.
Thank you.
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3. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Manhattan, Oct. 31
La Noche Eterna/The Eternal Night
70 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles
Film screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker Coco Fusco and EWnrique Del Risco, NYU
Please rsvp at this link:
Thank you.
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4. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at S. M. A. K., Ghent, Belgium, thru Mar. 3, 2024
Very happy to be back to S.M.A.K in Ghent 10 years after they organized a survey exhibition of my film and video works. This time I have a solo presentation of my film installation “Caligari und der Schlafwandler [Caligari and the Sleepwalker]” 2008, which is in their collection, shown now on the occasion of the Film fest Gent.
Javier Téllez, Caligari and the Sleepwalker S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
October 7th, 2023- March 3rd, 2024
Thank you.
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5. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Sèvres – Manufacture et Musée nationaux, France, thru Nov. 5 and more
Kimsooja: Wrapping the Void
October 9 – November 5, 2023
Sèvres – Manufacture et Musée nationaux, Sèvres, France
Sèvres – Manufacture et Musée nationaux presents the exhibition Kimsooja: Wrapping the Void which highlights the new body of work by Kimsooja, created in collaboration with the Sèvres Manufacture’s craftsmen during her artist residency in 2018-2019. For the artist, the bottari is a symbol of exile and the journey it implies. Sometimes containing the memories of a lifetime, here they are emptied to represent the bodies of their wearers. The fine cracks on the works’ rounded forms evoke the stretch marks of a pregnant woman’s belly – a universal “container” – like a celebration of the beauty of these marks. In her work Sewing into Soil: Invisible Needle, Invisible Thread, she pierces stoneware slabs with a needle, creating a constellation of holes that embodies the energy of nature. The firing process occurs as a moment of unpredictability, where fire modifies the artist’s work to make each piece unique. In this way, she moves away from the ready-mades that have marked her work to create tangible, original ceramic works.
Please visit this link:
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To Breathe
Permanent installation, 2023
Mairie de Saint-Ouen station(Paris Métro), Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Kimsooja’s site-specific installation with diffraction grating film, To Breathe is integrated into the Mairie de Saint-Ouen station’s exchange hall(Paris Métro – line 13&14). To Breathe is an immersive installation, using the principle of light diffraction to create a sensory and poetic atmosphere designed to resonate with travelers of all ages. On the glass walls that surround the void of the exchange room overlooking the metro tracks, the rays of light break down into multiple spectrums of color, acting as a three-dimensional painting that redefines the space. Each moment within this installation promises a distinct encounter. The work was unveiled to the public in spring 2021.
For relevant article, please visit this link:
https://www.ratp.fr/en/node/16528
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To Breathe
Until October 29, 2023
Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, Paris, France
By covering the historic dome with a film that diffracts the sun rays into an infinite number of colours, Kimsooja creates new and ephemeral luminous landscapes on the exterior surfaces and in the interior spaces of the dome, as the day progresses and the weather conditions change. The artist explores the sensory and meditative qualities of the department stores’, inviting spectators to look at these luminous environments, conducive to contemplation.
Please visit this link:
https://haussmann.galerieslafayette.com/en/kimsooja-to-breathe/
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Deductive Object: (Un)fold
Until November 6, 2023
Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
The workshop Kimsooja conceived for the PTS originates in her previous body of work, notably the Bottari. It is a “life sculpture”. This surface is used to wrap, or internalize the memory of self and others through the act of making a single knot. It is a work that is at once a painting, a sculpture, and action. In this context, (Un)Fold: Deductive Object invites participants to engage in the process of making a painting that transforms through the physical and emotional dimensions impressed onto the tactile surface of rice paper in the palms of their hands.
Please visit this link:
https://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/en/programme/atelier/objet-deductif-de-plier
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To Breathe
Permanent Public Art Commission
Metz Cathedral, Metz, France
To celebrate its 800th anniversary, the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Metz unveiled new stained-glass windows, created by Kimsooja. The artist is not only the first non-European and the first 21st century artist, but also the very first woman to be commissioned such a project. Her stained-glass windows are installed in the bays of the triforium in the south arm of the transept. Kimsooja offers an abstract work designed to be a gentle experience, centered on colour and the changing light throughout the day and the seasons. The stained-glass panes were created in collaboration with the French master glass maker, Pierre-Alain Parot, using a combination of blown glass and dichroic glass.
This public art commission of a permanent piece was initiated by the Ministry of Culture. The project, overseen by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Grand Est region, in close liaison and with constant collaboration with the clergy responsible for the cathedral, was designed as a highlight of the celebrations of the eighth centenary of this Gothic structure.
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, now online
Greetings, artists, activists, thinkers, and fellow engaged citizens of our weary world:
Many thanks to everyone for sharing your “What’s on my mind?” comments and related photos with brutjournal for the magazine’s special section, which has been published in its October issue.
The special section consists of an introduction by Edward M. Gómez and the article containing everyone’s comments, which appears in four parts.
The introduction and all four parts of the article are free-access pieces, meaning that they may be viewed in their entirety free of charge. Access to these published articles is not limited to the online magazine’s subscribers.
Find Edward’s introduction here:
https://brutjournal.com/article/this-month-we-asked-and-you-answered-heres-whats-on-my-mind/
Find part one here:
https://brutjournal.com/article/whats-on-my-mind-part-one/
Contributors featured in part one:
Stephanie Brody-Ledeman • Harley Spiller & Izadora_Izuogo • Daisy Craddock • Diane Rosen • Amer Kobaslija • Bonewoman • Mister Wim • Ella Veres
Find part two here:
https://brutjournal.com/article/whats-on-my-mind-part-2/
Contributors featured in part two:
Frances Smokowski • Molly McIntyre • Donna Sharrett • Mimi Young • Lon Levin • Cour d’Blax-Neeck • Elisabeth Condon • Alma Realm • Teressa Marie Valla
Find part three here:
https://brutjournal.com/article/whats-on-my-mind-part-three/
Contributors featured in part three:
George Widener • John Crawford • Ruyò Journal • Edward Swift • Stuart Shepherd • Carolive • Angela Rogers • Cathy Ward • Eva Petric
Find part four here:
https://brutjournal.com/article/whats-on-my-mind-part-three/
Contributors featured in part four:
Laura Facey • Ella Veres • Naoto Nakagawa • Lisa Remeny • Steven Forster • Sarah Fensom • Laura McManus • Linda Sibio • Steven Rudin • David O’Flynn • Gigi Spratley & Jack Waltrip
Thank you again for taking part in this special project.
brutjournal’s editorial team sends you all best wishes!
Edward M. Gómez
Editor in Chief
Thank you.
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7. WHAM!, FF Alumns, now online at Papercutters.org
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Bill Beirne, FF Alumn, at Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY, Oct. 21-22
Bill Beirne
They Could Be Dancing
Oct. 21, 11am-5 pm
Oct. 22 12-3 pm
Catskill Art Space
48 Main St.
Livingston Manor NY 12758
Thank you.
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9. Ken Weaver, FF Alumn, at 14BC Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 21
Ken Weaver,
You, Who Still Breathe
14BC Gallery
626 E. 14th St. NYC
thru Oct. 21, Thurs-Sat.
Thank you.
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10. Nicole Eisenman, FF Alumn, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, opening Oct. 11
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened
Whitechapel Gallery
October 11—January 14, 2024
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
The first major UK retrospective of the artist Nicole Eisenman opens at Whitechapel Gallery in London on October 11.
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career. The exhibition showcases the extraordinary range and formal inventiveness that characterizes their practice and includes large-scale, monumental paintings alongside sculptures, monoprints, animation, and drawings. Illuminating the irreverent and humorous approach that Eisenman uses to explore pressing socio-political issues, the exhibition explores gender, identity, and sexual politics; civic and governmental turmoil; and protest and activism. Fusing lowbrow humor with political engagement, they combine satire and anxiety to explore the individual and collective pathos of the human condition.
A major sculpture in Eisenman’s career, the iconic Perpetual Motion Machine bronze figure is part of an installation collectively titled Procession. An uncanny monument to the precarious experience of life in the 21st-century, the deftly rendered figure of Perpetual Motion Machine—consisting of a larger-than-life figure perpetually moving a paint stick from which bronze tuna cans hang from a gently swaying pole—alludes to the perpetual labor of an artist. The distinctly humanist focus of Procession has roots in Eisenman’s allegorical painting practice.
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened is organized by Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany, and Whitechapel Gallery, and is curated by Mark Godfrey and Monika Bayer-Wermuth, with the support of Lydia Yee and Cameron Foote at Whitechapel Gallery.
Thank you.
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11. Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, at Temple Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 17
Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, World-Wide-Walks / climate, wars, temples at Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR),
Temple Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA October 17, 12:00 pm.
Please visit this link:
https://tfma.temple.edu/events/cpca-faculty-forum-peter-dagostino-professor-fma
Peter d’Agostino: World-Wide-Walks / climate, wars, temples
Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR), Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:00 pm
Temple Performing Arts Center, Chapel — 1837 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Please visit this link:
https://tfma.temple.edu/events/cpca-faculty-forum-peter-dagostino-professor-fma
This presentation reviews video documentation-performance projects spanning five decades represented in the book, World-Wide-Walks / Peter d’Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (2019). Focusing on a changing climate since 2010, the recent exhibitions of A-bombs / Climate walks (2020), and World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / CAPES (2022) performed in South Africa, extends these concerns with an overall emphasis on glocal, global-local issues. Among these place-oriented and site-specific works, World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / Temples includes locations in Egypt, India, Italy and Peru. This project, initiated in the Baptist Temple before restoration, premiered at TPAC in 2011 will be featured during this event.
Peter d’Agostino, Professor of Film & Media Arts, is a pioneering video, photography, and new media artist. Major exhibitions include: The Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial, New York; São Paulo Bienal, Brazil; Kwangju Biennial, South Korea; Reading Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York; California Video, Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Under the Big Black Sun, MOCA, LA; and, State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, ICI traveling exhibition. Solo exhibitions include: the Philadelphia Museum of Art; University of Paris I Pantheon- Sorbonne; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Red House Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. Selected Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; National Gallery of Canada; LaCaixa Forum, Barcelona. D’Agostino has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pew Trusts, Japan Foundation, Onassis Foundation, American Film Institute, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Leonardo / Art & Climate Change award, as well as Fulbright grants to Australia, Brazil and Italy. He was an artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen, NY; the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada; visiting artist fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT; American Academy in Rome; National Center for Super Computing Applications; University of Illinois; Art / Sci Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
This event is free, open to the public and part of AIR.
Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) is a holistic research center and forum for creative and scholarly research across the arts that includes cutting-edge colloquia, exploratory seminars, lecture demonstrations, launches of research publications and creative works, reading groups, faculty talks, and stand-alone conferences initiated by the faculty of the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts.
Thank you.
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12. Sally Greenhouse, FF Alumn, at Forbes Library, Northampton, MA, Oct. 21
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 2 PM
Where: Forbes Library, 20 West Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Forbes Library presents a Preview/Q&A of “Secret Lives of the Disabled” a unique documentary/podcast about becoming physically disabled in America featuring performance artist Sally Greenhouse as Interviewer/Monologuist (creator/writer/featured performer in the original long running NCTV series “The Greenhouse Effect”) at a hybrid community event on Saturday, October 21 at 2 PM. This program can also be attended on Zoom.
Please visit this link:
https://forbeslibrary.org/events/
This project, awarded by The New England Foundation for the Arts under the aegis of their New Work New England program with an experimental grant in “Diversity, Inclusivity, Accessibility” has, as its focus, individuals facing permanent disability due to catastrophic accidents, auto collisions, chronic illnesses, debilitating pain, often plunging them into poverty, housing insecurity, insufficient access to groceries, inadequate social welfare, extreme isolation, while stigmatizing them as “expendable” members of American society, discriminated against, despite the hard-won ADA Act.
Especially of interest for library patrons is the podcast portion, since not only did Greenhouse win the New England Women in Video award for “Best Host” on “The Greenhouse Effect” with her unique interviews and monologues, for which she won the “Artist Fellowship” in Dramatic Writing from the Mass Cultural Council; her podcast of nationally renowned fiction & nonfiction writers as guests, with books available through the library system online as well as in print include: Andre Dubus III, author of newly released novel Such Kindness; Jason Kander, current political commentator on podcast “Majority 54”, previous Democratic candidate backed by Barack Obama for the 2020 presidential primary, author of Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics & PTSD; Sarah Schulman, AIDS historian, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York City; Porochista Khakpour, author of bestselling memoir, Sick, on incurable Lyme disease; and Robert Waldinger MD, author of NY Times bestseller The Good Life & Zen Priest.
Composer/Musician Dan Langa, current faculty at Mount Holyoke College, who composed its theme music, joins Greenhouse in this engaging behind- the- scenes glimpse into how this politically relevant, artistically performative project is evolving, along with previews of her characteristic satirical perspectives on the trials and tribulations of becoming physically disabled, herself, mid-career, when her neck was broken while faculty & Capstone mentor at Commonwealth College, honors division of UMass, Amherst.
Greenhouse, an alumna of Sarah Lawrence College and Harvard Divinity School, was awarded the first endowed residential fellowship in Performance Art/Video at Yaddo. She also received artist fellowships at The Millay Colony and The Djerassi Foundation. Her performance artwork has been archived at Franklin Furnace in NYC for her exposure of an NRA mandate to arm women, “Shooting in the Dark”. Awarded seven grants by the Northampton Arts Council LLC, she also garnered two grants from the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund in Performance Poetry; the Jerome Foundation Fund for Performance Art; was Artist-in-Residence in Directing at the Williamstown Theater Festival; honored by the New York State Council for the Arts for “Outstanding Original Solo Performance”; and was part of the 21 artists of every genre commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council federally funded “Arts on the Line”, to create performance art events at MBTA Red Line construction sites “to ease passenger inconvenience”. Her work has been featured in:The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Theater Week, Village Voice, San Francisco Weekly, Boston Phoenix, High Performance Journal, Woodstock Times, Portland Press-Herald, Nantucket Beacon, St.Louis Post-Dispatch,The Boston Herald and numerous other magazines, media, radio, and television. Prior to her accomplished career in Theater/Video/Writing/Sound Art, Greenhouse trained and performed as principal dancer in both ballet and modern dance companies in St Louis , New York, and Cambridge.
“Razor sharp observations.” – Bay Windows (Boston)
“Mordantly funny…Swiftian humor” -The New York Times
“Thinking person’s performance artist…hilarious and harrowing.” -The Boston Globe
Thank you.
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13. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at vimeo.com
Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, on Lower Cape TV
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The 36th Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla welcomes 250 swimmers and raises over $225,000 for AIDS, women’s health and the community
As the humidity rose and the rain held off, 250 swimmers hit the warm waters of Provincetown Harbor and Wellfleet’s Great Pond at the 36th Provincetown Swim for Life & Peddler Flotilla, presented by the Provincetown Community Compact, on Saturday, September 9, 2023.
The early 8:30 am starting time in Provincetown Harbor, in conjunction with the high tide, didn’t affect the turnout and the approximately $225,000 raised from swimmers and kayakers from across the country. This quintessential Provincetown tradition raises funds for twelve non-profit beneficiaries and was supported by twenty-two business sponsors.
A parallel fresh water Swim event was held at Wellfleet’s Great Pond with thirty-eight swimmers, while a dozen swimmers were “Swimming in Place” in locations in Florida, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts.
Jay Critchley
Founder & Director
Provincetown Community Compact
Thank you.
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14. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA, Oct. 30
elin o’Hara slavick’s solo show Dark Archive opens at Cerritos College Art
Gallery, Norwalk, California, October 30, 6-9pm, along with the debut show of
Swans (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), a group of 7 women artists,
including slavick, addressing the nuclear condition.
The shows will be up until December 8.
Thank you.
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15. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, now online at NYMag.com
LuLu LoLo upcoming performance for Art in Odd Places in NY Magazine Approval Matrix “HighBrow” the Oct 9-22, 2023 of NY Magazine
Please visit this link:
https://nymag.com/article/the-approval-matrix-week-of-october-9-2023.html
Thank you.
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16. Sha Sha Higby, FF Alumn, at Commonweal, Bolinas, CA, Oct. 28, and more
Sha Sha Higby
Magical Full Moon Labyrinth performance October 28. @newschoolcommonweal
“Have you been to the Commonweal labyrinth? Join us for a magical full moon labyrinth performance October 28. @newschoolcommonweal is hosting one of West Marin County’s artistic marvels for a mystical performance in the Commonweal forest. Sha Sha Higby–a performance artist who incorporates dance, puppetry, and sculpture in nature–will emerge into the forest labyrinth on the afternoon of the full moon.
If you’ve never seen Sha Sha, her performance is beyond imagination. It’s like seeing a Miyazaki animation come to life!
You can register and see a video of her last performance in the Commonweal forest on our website
Please visit this link:
This is a fundraiser for The New School at Commonweal, so please donate generously–so that they can support Sha Sha’s work and support their upcoming programming with inspiring thought and action leaders in the areas of nature, culture, and inner life
Suggested Donations:
Monks & others—$20
Those with a mite extra—$40
It Is A Fundraiser!
bring a tiny bell and a mat
Because it is Fall,I have been experimenting with dying leaf patterns onto silk to fill the white wings I have. It has been enormously fun plus I have been enameling, working with urushi
unrolling ecoprints
ecoprinting walnut leaves
Coming up in November
Sha Sha will also give another show at Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley
November 19, 7pm
142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley
also West Marin Open studios
Thank you.
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17. Liz Magic Laser, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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18. Nancy Holt, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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19. Mark Russell, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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20. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, now online at Patreon.com and more
Happy October!
In 2013, my old friend Kiarna Boyd wrote an occult murder mystery,
“Blessed and Cursed Alike.” For the tenth anniversary reissue, she asked
me to narrate it. I called in Brian Dewan to record it, and the result
is now up on Kiarna’s Patreon site
Please visit this link:
https://www,patreon.com/Kiarna_Boyd
This “crazypants noir” (as Kiarna calls it), is filled with sex,
violence, and motorcycles. She’s now releasing a chapter a day, so sit
back and get scared!
I contributed several pieces to the third issue of “Typo,” including a
parody of Oscar Wilde, a design for a Hawaiian Ouija board, an
appreciation of the generic design of single-serve salt packets, and a
translation of a letter by the early prose poet Aloysius Bertrand.
“Typo” is edited by the remarkable Norman Conquest of Black Scat Books,
and is available on Amazon.
Doug Skinner
Thank you.
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21. Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumn, at Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, Poland, and more
Galerie Lelong
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Voices of Memory
Permanent installation at the Hall of Remembrance at the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, Poland
Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to announce Voices of Memory, a new permanent installation by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Hall of Remembrance at the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, Poland, a symbolic site dedicated to the victims of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and a place for reflection upon the consequences of violence, radicalisms and armed conflicts.
The audio-visual installation aims to express opposition to all armed conflicts. It is inspired by and based on the accounts of wartime experiences related to the Warsaw Uprising. Reminiscences of over a dozen people—civilians as well as insurgents and members of their families of younger generations—reveal a complex, multidimensional tale of the year 1944. In conversation with Wodiczko, they talk about finding themselves in boundary situations and about the impact it exerted on their life. The witness testimonies are accompanied by the images of flames, propelled by the sound of human voice. Voices of Memory is a work which keeps the memory of the Warsaw Uprising alive.
The work points to the futility of fleeing one’s own memory, the voice of which keeps recalling the images of traumatic experiences. People who survived the war cannot forget about it; the experiences of wartime accompany them for the rest of their lives. Wodiczko’s installation also raises the question of how to remember and how to employ this memory when faced with today’s and future threats.
The Voices of Memory project has been realized in cooperation with the Profile Foundation and the Embassy of Germany. The exhibition is financed by the City of Warsaw and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Mayor of Warsaw is an honorary patron of the project.
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
Freedom: Above-Ground Dialogue
Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland
Friday, October 13, 6pm CEST
In commemoration of Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art’s 25th anniversary, the institution will showcase Freedom: Above-Ground Dialogue, a new work by Krzysztof Wodiczko.
The multimedia project dedicated to the residents of the city of Gdańsk will take the form of a dialogue on the various dimensions of freedom. For months, Wodiczko has been talking to the participants of the project with the support of Dr. Monika Popow, a social researcher working in the field of socio-economic development and culture. The results of their work, recorded as a video, will be projected onto giant helium-filled balloons hovering above the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, creating a poignant aerial performance. The project demonstrates the artist’s extraordinary gift for working with local themes, which, through his interventions, start having a universal impact that transcends national boundaries and gives voice to the socially excluded, marginalized, persecuted, and disadvantaged.
“The air, above-ground or ‘above-Earth’ space of the city seems just such an extraterritorial stage for a potential dialogue between alienated people. The projection on the hovering screen-balloons would function as a communicative mask through which the above-ground, nearly angelic, aerial dialogue would be easier to imagine and carry out.” – Krzysztof Wodiczko
In conjunction with the presentation, Wodiczko will be ceremonially awarded with an honoris causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Krzysztof Wodiczko is an internationally renowned artist known for large-scale projections on monuments and institutional facades that explore the relationships between communities, history, and public space. The artist has dealt extensively with trauma and healing in his projections, honoring people’s stories of pain, loss, and perseverance. Wodiczko is also known for interactive instruments and vehicles that empower marginalized individuals and communities and give light to societal injustices.
Wodiczko has executed over 90 site-specific projections on public buildings and monuments in more than 40 cities worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1988/2018); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (1989); Kraków’s City Hall Tower, Poland (1996); Goethe-Schiller Monument, Weimar, Germany (2016); and Admiral Farragut Monument in Madison Square Park, New York City (2020). Wodiczko’s instruments, vehicles, and documentation of his projections can be found in over 20 museum and public collections worldwide including the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Wodiczko lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a professor emeritus of Art, Design and the Public Domain; the Faculty of Media Art of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland; and the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Amongst many recognitions and awards, Wodiczko has won the Hiroshima Art Prize (1998), the György Kepes Fellowship Prize (2004), the Katarzyna Kobro Prize (2006) and the Gloria Artis Medal (2009) granted by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Wodiczko has authored ten books amongst notable contributions to academic and artistic publications; his writings have also been translated to Polish, French, Spanish, and Korean. A feature length documentary on Wodiczko’s practice, The Art of Un-War directed by Maria Niro, premiered in 2022.
Born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland, Wodiczko lives and works in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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22. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at Deutsche Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany, thru Dec. 15
Dear friends,
Below please find below information exhibition at Deutsche Künstlerbund, Berlin, in which I am participating, questioning the meaning of what it is to be German.
I’ll be exhibiting a very controversial artwork, in which I work with World War II gravestones… looking at methods of commemoration in relation to histories of war. A topic that is sadly very relevant at the moment, given the current state of affairs internationally.
The show will be on view until December 15th
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Best wishes,
Elana
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23. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, now online at HudsonValleyOne.com
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24. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, at Cica Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, October 11–29
Richard H. Alpert is a featured artist in Cica Museum’s highly-anticipated exhibition and festival Voice 2023 in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. He is presenting his short film Earshot (2017).
Earshot, initially performed in 1982, is an interpretation of the human attempt to control one of nature’s forces. In a glass container, moving steel spheres reach a symbolic critical mass, exploding in slow motion.
This is achieved by placing steel ball bearings into a large glass jar and swirling them around the surface walls of the glass container as fast as possible. This creates a piercing, grinding sound. Additional steel balls are added, and the resonance becomes louder and more complex. As the number of steel balls reaches a symbolic critical mass, tension builds as the sound increases until the glass finally shatters. This is followed by an avalanche of steel balls tumbling and bouncing in slow motion toward the camera lens, producing an otherworldly sound that gradually resolves into a distant silence.”
Please visit this link:
https://cicamuseum.com/voices-2023/
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25. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, now online at Curbed.com
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https://www.curbed.com/2023/10/whitney-museum-henry-taylor-opening-photos.html#
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