Goings On | 10/21/2024

Contents for October 21st, 2024

CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):

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1. Yoshiko Chuma, Nile Harris, Yvonne Rainer, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Oct. 27-Dec. 8

2. Francesc Torres, FF Alumn, receives Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas 2024, Barcelona, Spain

3. Jess Dobkin, FF Alumn, new publication

4. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Manhattan, thru Dec. 21

5. Marshall Reese, FF Alumn, at Cooper Union, Manhattan, Oct. 22

6. Simone Forti, FF Alumn, at Highways, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 10

7. Hanne Tierney, FF Alumn, nows online

8. Dan Perjovschi, FF Alumn, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Manhattan, opening Nov. 1

9. R. Sikoryak, FF ALumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Oct. 30

10. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at eroplay.com and more

11. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Anita Rogers Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 30 and more

12. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at James Harmon Community Center, Hastings on Hudson, NY, Nov. 2-3

13. Sarah Safford, FF ALumn, at the Old Stone House, Brooklyn, Nov. 1

14. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at Centre for Human Rights, Erlangen- -Nürnberg, Germany, now online

15. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at youtube

16. Susan Martin, FF Alumn, at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Oct. 25

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1. Yoshiko Chuma, Nile Harris, Yvonne Rainer, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Oct. 27-Dec. 8

Announcing the Fall 2024 Season Lineup

Cathy Weis Projects announces the Fall 2024 season of Sundays on Broadway. 

Over the last decade, we have presented more than 170 artists over 120 events and welcomed nearly 5000 guests through our doors.

Sundays on Broadway co-curators Malcolm-x Betts and Cathy Weis are pleased to present another exciting lineup featuring new and in-process works.

October 27: film and discussion led by Yvonne Rainer

November 10: Daniel Lepkoff & Sakura Shimada + Julie Mayo + Wonderful Cringe

November 17: Deborah Hay + Tess Dworman + Arien Wilkerson

December 1: Emily Coates & Iréne Hultman + Wendy Perron + Kris Lee + video by CW

December 8: Lisa Kraus + Yoshiko Chuma + Nile Harris

WeisAcres

537 Broadway, #3

All events begin at 6:00 pm – doors open at 5:45 pm.

All donations go to the performers.

$5-20 suggested.

Keep in mind, this is a small space! Please arrive on time out of courtesy to the artists.

For more information, please visit https://cathyweis.org

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2. Francesc Torres, FF Alumn, receives Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas 2024, Barcelona, Spain

Please visit this link:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2024-10-17/francesc-torres-premio-velazquez-de-artes-plasticas-2024.html?outputType=amp

Thank you.

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3. Jess Dobkin, FF Alumn, new publication

The Art Gallery of York University announces the release of:

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives

Edited by Laura Levin, co-published with Intellect Books

26 x35 cm, 192 pages, softcover, October 18, 2024

ISBN 978-0-921972-85-3, $50

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives celebrates the first-ever retrospective exhibition of performance art icon Jess Dobkin. This book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as performer, curator, and community activist and asks: How do archives perform? With a riot of full-colour photographs, Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective provides unparalleled access to Dobkin’s artistic process and production from the last thirty years.

Laying out Dobkin’s archive for all gallery visitors to browse through, this maximal extravaganza first took over the AGYU in 2021 in an exhibition curated by Emelie Chhangur. Following in the footsteps of the exhibition, the Wetrospective book, edited by performance scholar and dramaturg Laura Levin, collects the threads of the show and presents Dobkin’s work as it should be: extravagantly, with a cast of theorists and critics including Ann Cvetkovich, Amy Fung, Jehan Roberson, and Roberta Mock. A gaggle of past performance artist collaborators make guest appearances, as well as copious photographs, chronologies, maps, and other archival documents.

This book not only documents the career of Dobkin to now, but it also documents how to document performance practice. With gusto. Designing such a thing could only be accomplished by someone intimately familiar with Dobkin’s practice, the inimitable Lisa Kiss.

AGYU co-published this comprehensive catalogue with Intellect Books, UK, distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Copies of the book available now through our website, from Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press, and Art Metropole.

Wetrospective book launch events will take the form of readings, artist’s talks, interviews, queer cabarets, and dance parties. Toronto book launch: November 9, 2024, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. New York book launch: December 9, 2024, at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU with the Franklin Furnace. Dates for Montreal, Vancouver, Chicago, and London to be announced soon.

Jess Dobkin has been a working artist, curator, community activist, teacher, and mentor for more than 30 years. Her practice extends across theatres and galleries, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals and museums, universities and public archives. She has operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. Her projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the ASTREA Foundation, The Theatre Centre, and other institutional and community partners. She has taught as a Sessional Lecturer at OCAD University and the University of Toronto and was a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. She received a 2018–2019 Chalmers Arts Fellowship to support her research in international performance art archives and was Artist-in-Residence at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics at New York University. Recent projects include her artist commission For What It’s Worth for the Wellcome Collection, London, UK, and her solo exhibition Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) curated by Emelie Chhangur. Her film and video works are distributed by Vtape and traces of her performance work are held in performance art archives internationally.

Laura Levin is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance at York University, York Research Chair in Art, Technology, and Global Activism, and director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. Levin is the author of Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In, winner of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s Ann Saddlemyer Book Award. She is the former editor-in-chief of Canadian Theatre Review; editor of numerous journal issues on performance practice and theory; and editor of three books: Theatre and Performance in Toronto; Conversations Across Borders; and Performance Studies in Canada (with Marlis Schweitzer). Laura has worked as a director, dramaturg, curator, and performer on several artistic research projects at the intersection of political performance, site-specificity, archives, and digital media. Laura is the director of the Hemispheric Encounters Network, a SSHRC Partnership Grant that brings together artists, activists, and scholars from across the Americas to study hemispheric performance as a research-creation methodology and tool for social change.

Emelie Chhangur is an influential voice for experimental curatorial practice in Canada. An artist, writer, and curator for over two decades, she is celebrated for her process-based, participatory curatorial practice, the commissioning of complex works across all media, and the creation of long-term collaborative projects performatively staged within and outside gallery contexts. Chhangur is currently director/curator of Agnes Etherington Art Centre, where she fights for a community-engaged architectural design process to reimagine new museum architectures that ensure cultural spaces of Canada’s future no longer look like those of Canada’s colonial past.

Lisa Kiss opened her design studio after working at Eye Weekly for six years. During her tenure at the newspaper, she redesigned the logo and worked her way up through the production department to become art director. While at Eye, she ran a freelance business working with artists and cultural organizations. In 2000, she left to start Lisa Kiss Design. Today her work focuses on collaborating with artists, museums, and galleries and ranges from identity projects to book design to exhibition graphics.

For more information, please contact Michael Maranda, assistant curator, publications, at mmarand@yorku.ca

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4. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Manhattan, thru Dec. 21

Helène Aylon: Process on Paper

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects

October 15 – December 21, 2024

By Appointment

Please contact info@tonkonow.com

The exhibition highlights the artist’s experimental use of non-traditional materials from the 1970s to 2014. Included are thirteen works on paper from the series Paintings That Change in Time (1973–76); Pouring Formations (1977); and Melting Bricks (1992–2014). A video documentation of a performance event from the Breakings series (1977–79) is also on view.

Beginning in the 1960s, Helène Aylon (1931–2020) produced a diverse body of works arising from her lifelong engagement in spiritual and societal concerns. Born and raised within the Modern Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY, she married a rabbi at the age of eighteen. In her mid-twenties, she studied art at Brooklyn College with Ad Reinhardt who became her friend and mentor. Widowed at age thirty, she entered the secular art world with an evolving feminist consciousness that fueled her work as an artist and activist until her death from Covid 19 in April of 2020.

Works from the series Paintings That Change in Time and Pouring Formations were made after the artist relocated from New York to the San Francisco Bay Area. Challenging the orthodoxy of permanence in art, they were intended to physically change over time, painted with linseed oil on paper that was sandwiched between Masonite and Plexiglass. As the oil gradually seeped into the paper, causing it to become ever more translucent, the Masonite backing showed through, creating distinctive patterns of light and dark. They were, according to the artist, “about process rather than completion, which I think of as feminist … I painted from behind the surface of the paper, allowing the oils to seep through naturally, in their own time, outside of my doing. I’d wait for the image to manifest on the front through chance—absorption—and I would accept the outcome.”

Aylon introduced performance to process in the monumentally-scaled works on paper entitled Breakings (1977–79). During events at galleries and alternative spaces, she poured several quarts of linseed oil onto large sheets of paper affixed to Plexiglass panels and left them in place on the floor for several weeks while the oil developed a skin. The “breaking” occurred later when the artist, with several collaborators she referred to as “midwives” (Betty Parsons, Nancy Spero, and Hannah Wilke among them), lifted the panels, allowing the oil to escape from its “sac.” The resulting works were Aylon’s most explicitly feminist statements of the time with the process referring to childbirth and the resulting images suggesting the female body.

From the 1980s until her death, Aylon engaged in a social practice, consisting of installations, actions, and objects. Through her commitment to feminism, ecological issues, and anti-nuclear activism, she produced performances and installations in the US, Israel, Russia, and Japan while continuing to create process-driven works on paper. The Melting Bricks series (1992–2015) consists of mixed media frottages, made by rubbing non-traditional materials such as coffee into paper that was laid upon a brick or wood surface and enhanced with graphite.

Our presentation coincides with Helène Aylon: Undercurrent, a focused selection of works in a wide variety of mediums from the 1970s to the present, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s adjunct space, Art@Bainbridge, through February 2, 2025. In her exhibition essay, the curator Rachel Federman writes:

“Helène Aylon envisioned her art as a form of exploration without end. Instead of fixed and immutable forms, she created situations in which change was possible, even inevitable.”

Works by the artist were also most recently seen in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, curated by Cecilia Alemani, 548 West 22nd Street, New York (2023–24); RE/SISTERS, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, and the Barbican Art Gallery, London (2023–24); Helène Aylon: Reflections, Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York (2022); Territories of Waste, Museum Tinguely, Basel (2022); A Decade of Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022); Helène Aylon, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills (2020); Shifting Terrain, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); By Any Means, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (2019); and Helène Aylon: Elusive Silver, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects (2019).

Aylon has been the recipient of numerous honors including, among many others, three awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art. Her works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;  the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Oakland Museum of California; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The Jewish Museum, New York; the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and those of many other distinguished institutions and private individuals.

 Leslie Tonkonow Art Works + Projects

401 Broadway, Suite 411

New York, NY 10013

www.tonkonow.com

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5. Marshall Reese, FF Alumn, at Cooper Union, Manhattan, Oct. 22

The Cooper Union Premieres the 11th Edition of the Film, Political Advertisement 1952-2024

Screening followed by conversation with Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning podcast On The Media, and Filmmakers Muntadas and Reese 

WHAT: Artists Muntadas and Reese will premiere the 11th edition of their four-decade long collaboration, Political Advertisement 1952-2024, followed by a conversation with Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning podcast On The Media.

For 40 years, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have been compiling a video history of presidential campaign spots that follows the evolution of broadcast political advertising from its beginnings in 1952 to the present. When the artists started this project in 1984, finding broadcast political ads required exhaustive research in archives and often involved personal contact with the candidate’s campaigns, a bit more complicated than today’s internet click and download. 

The feature length film is a personal vision of how politics and politicians are shaped and presented through the moving image. This engaging critique without voiceover commentary highlights how campaign ads manipulate public perception and affect voter behavior. The experience is an historical stream of consciousness showcasing the political and technological histories of presidential candidates and the broadcast moving image. 

The video illustrates how advertising strategies have changed from television’s early days into sophisticated media campaigns based on fear, prejudice and emotional triggers. Political Advertisement stands as an important work in the field of media art merging cultural critique with historical documentation that prompts viewers to consider the role of media in politics and its effects on democracy.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 6:30pm

WHERE: Great Hall of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 7 E. 7th Street, NYC, NY 10003

WHO: Antoni Muntadas’ work addresses social, political, and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, as well as channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor central information or promulgate ideas. He works on projects in different media such as photography, video, publications, Internet and multi-media installations. Since 1995, Muntadas has grouped together a set of works and projects titled On Translation emphasizing issues of interpretation, transcription, and cultural translation. Their content, dimensions, and materials are variable, and focus on the author’s personal experience and artistic activity in numerous countries over forty years. His most recent project, Asian Protocols, explores similarities, differences and conflicts between Korea, Japan, and China. 

Marshall Reese is a Brooklyn-based artist working in various media including video, information networks, custom hardware and software, editions, and temporary public art events. Since the mid-eighties he has collaborated with Nora Ligorano as LigoranoReese. Their work investigates the impact of technology on society and the rhetoric of politics and visual culture in the media. Articles about their work have been published in the New York Times, Art Forum, and more. They have received awards and grants including three NYFA fellowships as well as a NEA fellowship, two Jerome Foundation Fellowships, a Puffin grant and a number of artists residencies. They are represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and show edition work with Jim Kempner Fine Art. 

Brooke Gladstone is host of On the Media, and the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award among many others. She also is the author of The Influencing Machine (W.W. Norton), a media manifesto in graphic form, listed among the top books of 2011 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal, and among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction” by The Atlantic.

MORE: Registration is required at https://bit.ly/4cY6Tez. However, an EventBrite ticket does not guarantee entry as this is a first-come-first-served free event.. 

Press looking to RSVP should contact Kim Newman at kim.newman@cooper.edu

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6. Simone Forti, FF Alumn, at Highways, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 10

Please visit this link:

https://www.highwaysperformance.org/events/a-day-of-simone-forti

Thank you.

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7. Hanne Tierney, FF Alumn, nows online

Please visit this link:

https://fivemyles.org/why

Thank you.

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8. Dan Perjovschi, FF Alumn, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Manhattan, opening Nov. 1

Please visit this link:

https://www.janelombardgallery.com/dan-perjovschi-now-then

Thank you.

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9. R. Sikoryak, FF ALumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Oct. 30

Constitution Illustrated

A live reading of the entire United States Constitution, narrated by a full cast, accompanied by projected cartoon images inspired by a century of American pop culture icons!

Adapted from R. Sikoryak’s graphic novel Constitution Illustrated

Featuring

Cecily Lyn Benjamin

Marissa Carpio

Spencer Gonzalez

M. Sweeney Lawless

and R. Sikoryak

Wednesday, October 30 at Dixon Place

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024

Doors: 7:30pm

Estimated Runtime  60-70 minutes

TICKETS

Standard Admission: $17 in advance, $20 at the door

Students and Seniors (please bring ID): $14 in advance, $20 at the door

Tickets and more info:

https://dixonplace.org/performances/constitution-illustrated/carouselslideshow.com

Among Sikoryak’s spot-on unions of government articles and amendments with famous comic-book characters: the Eighteenth Amendment that instituted prohibition is articulated with The Simpsons; the Fourteenth Amendment that solidifies citizenship to everyone born and naturalized in the US is personified by Ms. Marvel; and the Nineteenth Amendment offering women the right to vote depicts Wonder Woman breaking free from her chains. American artists from George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts) to Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations. Sikoryak distills the very essence of the government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary.

Praise for the book:

“The most slyly patriotic book of the year.” —The New York Times

“This pastiche of comics and politics is a cleverly educational and irresistible way to engage with this foundational text.” —Publishers Weekly

“From Preamble to Amendment XXVII, this is a comic lover/political junkie’s dream…” —School Library Journal

“Sikoryak’s satirical pairings breathe new and sometimes uncomfortable life into the United States’ most living document.” —Pop Matters

“Constitution Illustrated is as much a history lesson about great American comics as it is about the country’s most cherished foundational document.”

—Popzara

“The Constitution is a fixture of our lives, whether we think about it daily or not, and so too are some if not all of these artists. They are the We of We the People.”

—Multiversity Comics

“R. Sikoryak, able to perfectly mimic any other cartoonist, is the Will Elder of our time… I’m totally in awe of the many different styles and characters that are included…”

—Boing Boing

For more info on the book:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/constitution-illustrated

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10. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at eroplay.com and more

Please visit these links:

https://fanzinemiroirnoir.blogspot.com/search/label/Frank%20Moore

https://www.eroplay.com/Cave/shaman.html#articles

Thank you.

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11. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Anita Rogers Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 30 and more

Aviva Rahmani now online in the Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-10-15/pst-art-life-on-earth-ecofeminism-brick?fbclid=IwY2xjawF_ixtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYqZEgCG_4gpKURIvstap4SZX2VLu7ZFY1niuZrXyEj8_yoMtYhNQqRa2A_aem_AdSPz_rzWUxPbg0v7Obb0w

and

Aviva Rahmani “Blued Trees in NYC; The Sea Will have the Last Word.” Hybrid performance/ installation event 7: PM October 30 with Luka Marinkovich, Alison Cheeseman and Rishauna Zumberg. Live brunch 10: AM October 31 Anita Rogers Gallery, 494 Greenwich St., New York New York https://conta.cc/3Y7IBbK

Thank you.

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12. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at James Harmon Community Center, Hastings on Hudson, NY, Nov. 2-3

Along with other members of River Arts, Isabella Bannerman will be showing her cartoons, prints and paintings and will include art activities for kids at the 

James Harmon Community Center 

44 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY

10706 . Saturday November 2, 11 AM -5 PM and Sunday November 3 11 AM – 3 PM 

https://riverarts.org/riverarts-to-present-31st-studio-tour-and-preview-exhibitions

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13. Sarah Safford, FF ALumn, at the Old Stone House, Brooklyn, Nov. 1

EcoDisaster in the Hundred Acre Wood, with book and lyrics by Sarah Safford and music by Sean Ivy. This will be a semi-staged reading of a new musical melodrama adapted from the classic Winnie the Pooh stories and set in the context of our climate change reality.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecodisaster-in-the-hundred-acre-wood-tickets-1048284074887?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

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14. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at Centre for Human Rights, Erlangen- -Nürnberg, Germany, now online

 I think you may be interested in one of the projects that I’m working on here in Germany while a Fellow with the Centre for Human Rights in Erlangen-Nürnberg.

It’s a 13-week performance initiative called “Displacement Codes: Contemplative Performance and the Climate Crisis.”

The description about the project and weekly blog entries about each performance event / gesture are being written by a lawyer by the name of Karina Kesserwan. You can access the blog directly here:

https://displacement.codes

Thank you.

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15. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at youtube

Paul Escriva found this segment from PBS about the exhibit in San Diego that Frank’s paintings are part of. Here is the link:

https://youtu.be/a2WRtbARRcg?si=szT1IcWMyKVTOAQn

There is a cute shot of someone posing with Frank’s paintings around 6:30.

Thank you.

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16. Susan Martin, FF Alumn, at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Oct. 25

Friday, October 25,2024 | 4 PM | Free

SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS and

THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Present Readings, Video, Discussion, and Performances celebrating

“We Started a Nightclub”:

The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge

as Told by Those Who Lived It

by Brian Butterick, Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas.

“This is a rare and inspiring oral history… It characterizes the development of club performance aesthetics that are now fully commodified… but are used as stand ins for the original social rebellion that created them. It shows how sex and drugs literally freed artists, from a wide range of class and geographic backgrounds, to break rules and create new expressions, communities and mores.”

—Sarah Schulman (writer, AIDS historian,and Ralla Klepak Professor of English at Northwestern University)

Windy City audiences are invited to take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge — a place that shaped an underground revolution. Discover the wild, rebellious energy that defined the East Village in the ’80s with first-hand accounts by those that lived it or wished they did!

Special appearances by Sarah Schulman, Roberto Sifuentes, Kristi Rose (with Fats Kaplin), and John Tucker. Readings, rare video footage by beloved early Pyramid alum Tom Rubnitz, and a discussion of the impact of the club’s signature “anti-drag” theatricals, as well as the toll of AIDS on creativity and the culture in the East Village are highlights of this collaborative evening. A chance to relive the legendary nights of art, performance, and punk energy. Books will be available for sale at the discounted price of $50.

School of the Art Institute, 280 S. Columbus, Chicago

Space is limited. FREE but REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE.

“We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It is published by Damiani Books in association with Some Serious Business. Books are available here and in Europe through Damiani Books.

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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, FF Intern, Summer/Fall 2024

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