Contents for October 24, 2022

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1. Jessica Fertonani Cooke & Supermrin, FF FUND 2021-22 recipients, at City Hall Park, Manhattan, November 19

2. Shirin Neshat, FF Alumn, at the Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, October 22

3. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Leslie Tonkonow, Manhattan, reception Oct. 29

4. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Hitoshi San Worship Place, The Bronx, Oct. 30

5. Charles Yuen, FF Alumn, at Pierogi, Brooklyn, opening Nov. 4

6. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at James Harmon Community Center, Hastings on Hudson, NY, Nov. 5-6

7. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, live online with Lancaster Arts, Oct 25

8. Kiki Smith, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

9. Terry Berkowitz, FF Alumn, now online at TheSurvivalProjectUSA.com

10. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Galerie Salvador Cassis, France, opening Nov. 4

11. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, now online at PublicArtArchive.org

12. Tom Brady, FF Alumn, opens new venue Satoriarts.org

13. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, Autumn news

14. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumn, at Theater Row Theater, Manhattan, Nov. 16 and more

15. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, Autumn news

16. Mira Schor, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at P. P. O. W. Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 28

17. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, at Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, Oct. 28-Nov. 30

18. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, NYC, thru Oct. 30

19. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, new publication, and more

20. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, new publication, and more

21. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at Tahadhari Center for Climate and Migration, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 3

22. Galinsky, FF Alumn, now online at medium.com

23. Crash, Jay Edlin, FF Alumns, at Howl! Happening, Manhattan, opening Nov. 19

24. Eileen Myles, FF Alumn, at Howl! Happening, Manhattan, Dec. 2-3

25. Jane Dickson, Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, FF Alumns, at UCCA Museum Beijing, China, thru Jan. 29, 2023

26. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, wins Best Documentary, San Diego Short Awards

27. Rory Golden, FF Alumn, at Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Manhattan, October. 27-29

28. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, receives 20222 Idea Award for Theatre

29. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, live online with Lancaster Arts, UK, Oct. 25

30. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, at Fridman Gallery, Manhattan, Nov. 2-Dec. 18, and more

31. Baillie Vensel, FF Intern, at Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, Nov. 5

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1. Jessica Fertonani Cooke & Supermrin, FF FUND 2021-22 recipients, at City Hall Park, Manhattan, November 19

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/braiding-field-nyc-tickets-439995647827 

Performance Description:

Five Womenx diverse in age, race and sexual orientation sit together on the city hall’s front lawn. Together they tightly braid the lawn’s grass blades, not allowing one blade to escape. They begin from a center point, expanding into a carpet-like piece, while humming sounds dear to them, under their breath.

This new ground we create, is made from the global ancestral knowledge of weaving. A domestic technology developed primarily to create basketry and carpets. Braiding FIELD-NYC is composed of two common weaving actions: braiding and humming, as the means through which we build on the legacies of women’s work on land.

As a psychomagic act to heal ancestral wounds, the performance responds to the history of the east coast as a gateway to the violent colonial missions across the Americas, the ongoing struggles of Women’s Rights and the eradication of empathy and humanity through bureaucratic processes of the State.  

About FIELD

FIELD is a plant-based perspective to a future rewilded by grass – as urban meadow, collective weaving, bioplastic, and eco-centric technology. The project was born as a response to modernist planning schemas and the homogenizing and ecologically unsustainable effects of contemporary civic lawns. FIELD develops interventions, installations, drawings, sculptures, and performances that critique and subvert inherent power structures within contemporary sites. Conceived by Supermrin in 2019 in partnership with Jessica Fertonani Cooke, it has grown to include collaborators (artists, architects, designers and performers) from across the world. FIELD’s site-specific projects include locations in Oakland, CA, New York; Massachusetts; Cardiff, Wales; Nice, France and Boiçucanga, Brazil.

Bios:

Jessica Fertonani Cooke is a Brazilian multidisciplinary performance artist. Her work deals with mixed-blooded identities of the Americas (North/South) decolonial and feminist latinx theory. Her activist background with indigenous communities, primarily Tohono O’odham and Guarani, informs her research on ritualistic space, trauma and erased histories on politically loaded territories. The latest projects navigating the US-Mexico border, began a recent practice utilizing psychomagic techniques as a healing tool between intersectional communities. She has participated in selected exhibitions, such as the San Francisco International Art Festival (SFIAF), Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt, the 55 project in Miami and Nars Foundation in Brooklyn, Backslash performance festival in Zürich, The Lab in San Francisco collaborating with Chicano Artists Cristobal Martinez and Guillermo Galindo, and the Month of Performance Art festival in Berlin, Germany. Fertonani Cooke is currently working on a collaborative feature film called La Malinche, In times of pandemia, with Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Supermrin is an Indian artist working at the intersections of architecture, sculpture, and landscape. Through a research-led, speculative, and site-specific practice, she creates installations that reconsider the values that spaces offer, and the ways through which they mediate human relationships. Interested in conceptions of reality, pleasure, and nature within Eastern practices, Supermrin founded Streetlight in 2017 as a critical research and design laboratory for decolonizing public space. Her work with FIELD is informed by the historical vernacular of grass within rural India, tribal (Gond) art, and Indian miniature painting.

Supermrin is an Assistant Professor of Art at the School of Art, University of Cincinnati. She holds an MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, California and an undergraduate degree in Exhibition Design from the National Institute of Design, India. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Venice Biennale for Architecture 2021, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, 2021, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Old San Francisco Mint Building, San Francisco, The First Presbyterian Church of New York, ChaShaMa, and the India Habitat Center in New Delhi.

Handles – @supermrin, @streetlight.space, @jessicafertonanicooke @critlab,

Website – www.streetlight.space, www.jessicafertonanicooke.com 

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2. Shirin Neshat, FF Alumn, at the Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, October 22

Please visit this link

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/24/protest-for-mahsa-aminiwho-was-killed-by-irans-morality-policeis-staged-at-new-yorks-guggenheim-museum

Thank you.

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3. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Leslie Tonkonow, Manhattan, reception Oct. 29

Saya Woolfalk creates works of art that combine elements of her African American, Japanese, and European heritage, with allusions to anthropology, feminist theory, science fiction, and Eastern religions. During the past decade, in numerous multimedia exhibitions, installations, performances, and screenings, she has created the story of the Empathics, an elaborate fiction that she has woven around a community of female plant-human hybrids who possess extraordinary abilities to understand the feelings, desires, and motivations of others.

In her third solo show at the gallery, Woolfalk introduces The Woods Women, a secret society that predates her Empathic Universe. The exhibition includes the artist’s newest works on paper, inspired by her study of the renowned Hudson River School and herbarium collections at The Newark Museum of Art where she was the Artist-in-Residence in 2019.

In each of the four related collages entitled The Woods Woman, a silhouetted head is adorned and subtitled with a medicinal plant (Goldenrod, Meadowsweet, Sassafras, and Cannabis), as well as “jewels” that the artist has meticulously cut from silver and gold papers.

In the two largest works in the exhibition, Birthing a New Sky: Manuscripts 5 and 6, Woolfalk addresses the “speculative fiction” of the American landscape tradition exemplified by the idealized landscapes of nineteenth-century artists such as Frederick Church and Thomas Cole. Also drawing inspiration from the Afro-Native American painter Richard Mayhew, and his concept of the “mindscape,” she posits an alternative American creation myth in her reimagining of the earth and sky. While appearing to be simple abstractions, these works are quite complex, composed of hundreds of intricately pieced and layered elements created from handmade Japanese papers that she has painted and stained with watercolor and gouache, Japanese silver foil, and acrylic medium.

Celestial and historical references also occur in Woolfalk’s newest sculptures, hand-blown, glass objects created during the artist’s recent residency at the renowned Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle. Created in a variety of gourd-like shapes, they refer to The Big Dipper star formation, which in rural nineteenth-century America was also known as The Drinking Gourd, a reference to the hollowed out gourd used by enslaved Africans (and other rural Americans) as a water dipper, which became an important signpost for fleeing slaves as they journeyed north along the Underground Railroad.

Other works on view include sculpture created from found objects, prints, collages, and a painting on paper.

Two solo presentations of works by Saya Woolfalk are currently on view at the Newark Museum of Art: Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the Empathic Universe (through December 31, 2022); and Saya Woolfalk: Tumbling into Landscape, (through the Summer of 2023). Her major, multimedia installation entitled Lessons From the Institute of Empathy, commissioned and acquired by the Seattle Art Museum, has remained on extended view there since 2018.

Additional solo museum shows have taken place at the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Mass; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Chrysler Museum of Art; Norfolk, Virginia; and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, among many others. She has participated in group shows at leading museums, galleries, and alternatives spaces throughout the U.S. and in Asia. Works by the artist are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Seattle Art Museum, Washington; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; and many others.

Saya Woolfalk has also been the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and commissions. She is currently at work on three major public monuments in three U.S. cities, dedicated to the memories of Coretta Scott King (Atlanta); Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (Miami); and Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Los Angeles), supported by the Hulu streaming service.

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects is located on the fourth floor at 401 Broadway, on the northwest corner of Broadway and Walker Streets in Tribeca. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00 to 6:00 pm and by appointment.

tonkonow.com 

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4. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Hitoshi San Worship Place, The Bronx, Oct. 30

Hector Canonge continues with the presentation of IMPROMPTUS in October.

As part of PAUSA – PERFORMANCE ART USA – monthly programs, Hector Canonge continues with the presentation of the project “IMPROMPTUS” in public parks in the five boroughs in New York City.  The program features a cohort of different artists and collectives every Sunday throughout the month of October.  Next presentation:

Sunday, October 30th, 1:30 PM

River Park, the Bronx, starting at Hitoshi San Worship Place (near the Bronx River Art Center at 1087 E Tremont Ave, The Bronx, NY 10460)

Mercedes Aqui (Mexico), Sarah Sudhoff (United States), Nicole Colbert (United States), Valerie Green/Dance Entropy (United States), Jorge Ismael Rodriguez (Mexico)

IMPROMPTUS has as a guiding principle the notion of improvisation where unrehearsed, not studied, and never-before presented performances in public spaces -assigned to each selected artist- will trigger instantaneous somatic relations. IMPROMPTUS is an exploration of the unknown, the discovery of new territories, and the adaptation of one’s work to new geographies. In addition, the one month performance art program is an investigation of artistic perseverance and commitment to Live Action Art while allowing possible unconventional experiences that would prompt artists and audiences to reflect on corporeal expression.

PAUSA – PERFORMANCE ART USA – is a platform for the presentation of live performance art nationwide and a catalyst for dialogue, exchange, and reflection about performance working with local, national and international guest artists. PAUSA was initiated by Hector Canonge, and had its debut in April 2022 with a mini festival program featuring live performances by NYC artists, and video performances created by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. For its second event, PAUSA featured the international artist Ciro Beltrán (Chile – Germany) with a pop-up exhibition and a performance at Bronx River Arts Center. In September PAUSA will host the screening of a live streaming performance in NYC.

As an artist-run and independent platform, PAUSA cannot cover costs of production, transportation, lodging, food or accommodations for this program.

More information: performance.art.usa@gmail.com

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5. Charles Yuen, FF Alumn, at Pierogi, Brooklyn, opening Nov. 4

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6. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at James Harmon Community Center, Hastings on Hudson, NY, Nov. 5-6

I will be in a group show with some of my paintings and cartoons at the James Harmon Community Center 44 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706 on Saturday November 5 and Sunday November 6 from 11 AM – 6 PM, as part of the River Arts Studio Tour:

https://2022studiotour.riverarts.org/

The link should also provide a map.

– Isabella Bannerman

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7. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, live online with Lancaster Arts, Oct 25

Dear Friends/Fam/Colleagues

Hope this finds you well. I’m giving a talk next Tuesday 25th October at 1pm GMT online via Lancaster Arts. It’s free to attend/have on a tab in the background as you eat your lunch.

Booking link via this link:

https://www.lancasterarts.org/whats-on/event/tuesday-talk-elly-clarke/

Would be great to see you there!

Elly Clarke

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8. Kiki Smith, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/arts/design/grand-central-madison-kiki-smith-yayoi-kusama.html?smid=url-share

Thank you.

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9. Terry Berkowitz, FF Alumn, now online at TheSurvivalProjectUSA.com

The Scarlet Letter (Pin) Project www.thesurvivalprojectusa.comShow your solidarity with the reproductive rights of individuals in the US and around the world by wearing a small pin, a scarlet letter A. For a donation of $20 or more, you will receive a pin, made of enamel on metal, to wear as a symbol of shared determination to maintain rights to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom.

For the first phase of this project, the entire amount of your donation will be sent to clinics providing abortions in states neighboring those where abortions have been criminalized. The aim of The Scarlet Letter (Pin) Project through The Survival Project (a collaboration between Janet Biggs and Terry Berkowitz) is to maintain safe abortions as an option for all.

Enjoy your pin and display it as a symbol of shared determination to maintain rights to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom.Originally conceptualized in 1995 by artist Terry Berkowitz, this project breaks through the silence, guilt, and shame forced on many of us by an uncaring society. It allows people to openly deal with the events that touched them deeply and to understand that they are not alone.To donate and receive your pin and to find out more information please go to:

www.thesurvivalprojectusa.com  

Unfortunately, we can only mail to North America at this time.

If you have already donated, The Scarlet Letter (Pin) Project thanks you!

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10. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Galerie Salvador Cassis, France, opening Nov. 4

Hello friends, colleagues, gallerists, collectors and curators,

I am excited to announce my first solo show in France. A selection of my NightLife shadow Hambleton shadow photographs will be on view at Galerie Salvador Cassis located on the Riviera near Marseille.

Nightlife, a solo exhibition by Franc Palaia, opening Nov. 4, 5-8 pm and continuing thru Dec. 31, 2022

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11. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, now online at PublicArtArchive.org

LuLu LoLo’s “Where are the Women?” is the featured NYC project (with icon) on Public Art Archive’s (PAA) 10th  anniversary interactive map “Have You Seen My Public Art?” highlighting a diverse array of 144 public artists and their permanently sited and temporarily installed works from across the country.  Hover over NYC for LuLu LoLo Icon note Artwork Details contains photos of some of the nominations. 

https://www.publicartarchive.org/anniversary-map/

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12. Tom Brady, FF Alumn, opens new venue Satoriarts.org

Please visit this link:

https://www.satoriarts.org/

Thank you.

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13. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, Autumn news

October 8, 2022

https://arkadia.be/fr/visites/les-places-bruxelloises-la-place-de-brouck-re-et-loeuvre-de- peter-downsbrough 

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14. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumn, at Theater Row Theater, Manhattan, Nov. 16 and more

Save The Dates:

October 30 – Naples FL and

November 16 – New York City!

Choose your city, mark your calendar, and join Frank Blocker & Peculiar Works Project as we launch this exciting new solo project by Murray Scott Changar & Frank Blocker

Florida friends can send Frank off with a bon voyage benefit for Hurricane Ian Helpers on October 30, 7:00pm at Beth Tikvah Synagogue, 1459 Pine Ridge Rd in Naples, FL.

New York friends can toast Frank at the Off-Broadway premiere on November 16, 2022 at 7pm in the United Solo Festival at the Theater Row Theater, 410 E. 42nd Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBizW6qkWs

Please join us at one or both as Peculiar Works Project supports Frank Blocker’s dream project.

If you aren’t able to join us, you can still join us. Please make a donation now so that Frank can travel, stay, and perform in this prestigious festival next month. Help us help Frank!

Our Peculiar Works projects are being made possible with public funds from is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program), and private funds from The Ken Glickfeld and Kris Hall Foundation, the Mental Insight Foundation, and our many, wonderful, individual donors.

Of course, a donation of any amount to Peculiar Works Project, Inc. through Network for Good is secure, tax-deductible, and greatly appreciated! You can also mail a check to us at 595 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10012-3222. https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=13-4089362&vlrStratCode=g7%2bmAykFVa3OZexvYarqDH%2fue5roKYMObLFbBDq12wVDTDWYKpO%2bKTVrdxG21yPy 

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15. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, Autumn news

Mira Schor, Review of “Orbs and Eclipses” by Judicael Lavrador in Libération, October 7

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16. Mira Schor, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at P. P. O. W. Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 28

Rarely seen landscape-based works from the early 1980s by Mira Schor will be included in “I’m

Not Your Mother,” a group exhibition at P.P.O.W., along with artists Grace Carney, Jasper

Francis Cropsey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jacci Den Jartog, Brook Hsu, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Daniel Correa Mejía, Nohemí Pérez, Carolee Schneemann, TARWUK, Robin F. Williams,” 

P. P. O. W. Gallery 390 Broadway, NYC. 

https://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/im-not-your-mother

October 28-December 3, 2022, Opening October 28, 6-8pm est

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17. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, at Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, Oct. 28-Nov. 30

Please visit this link:

https://open-source-gallery.org/george-ferrandi/

Thank you.

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18. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, NYC, thru Oct. 30

NYU Gallatin WetLab is pleased to announce feel rubble, an exhibition of Betty Beaumont, Beverly Buchanan, and Gabriela Salazar curated by Patrick Bova.

Betty Beaumont’s work includes three short videos: The Journey, Ocean Landmark Virtual World, and Imagining Imaging, as well as the installation of The Object.

Betty Beaumont has received prestigious grants and awards including the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of California at Berkeley, and grants from Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Gottlieb Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. In addition to numerous exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Asia, and the US, she has shown internationally at museums including The Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt), National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto and Tokyo), Museum Het Domein (Sittard, Netherlands), Bibliotéca Nacional José Marti (Havana, Cuba), Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA P.S.1, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY), and Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY). Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, Hunter College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University.

Directions:

Take the Governors Island Ferry from either the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan to Soissons Landing or from Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park to Yankee Pier. Follow the walking directions as indicated on the map.

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19. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, new publication, and more

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20. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, new publication, and more

Dear readers,

We invite you to the London launch of Erica Van Horn’s

WE STILL HAVE THE TELEPHONE

Thursday October 27, 608 pm, Tenderhooks, 6 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE

With drinks, and readings from the author from 6:45 pm – coming over especially, all the way from County Tipperary – and a toast to this ethnographic* gem and first book to be published in the quick brown fox collection. 

* more ethno, less graphic

RSVP to Jessie, at publicist@lesfugitives.com, then anticipate and enjoy on the day. 

Paperback with lilac end-pages and reverse French flaps | £10.99 | 180 pages ISBN 978-1-7397783-0-9

Can’t make it on Thursday evening? You’ll have another chance to hear Erica reading at Conway Hall for the Small Publishers Fair on Saturday 29th of October. Details below. We’ll be there both Friday and Saturday: a rare chance to see all our books together, with a range of deals, discounts & small treats*

*For those of you who have made it to the end of this message 

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for announcements and updates.

We hope to see some of you on the 27th, 28th or 29th! 

Cécile & Jessie

https://www.lesfugitives.com

Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts will present Coracle books at the Small Publishers Fair on 28 and 29 October, Friday and Saturday.  The fair takes place from 11-7 pm at the Conway Hall,

Red Lion Square,

LONDON WC1R 4RL

Sixty nine Uk and international publishers will be taking part.

Entrance is free.

Smallpublishersfair.co.uk 

On Saturday afternoon at 3.30, Erica Van Horn will be reading from her book We still have the Telephone (Les Fugitives) and Harry Gilonis will be reading from Seasonal Words (CORACLE)

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21. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at Tahadhari Center for Climate and Migration, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 3

Devora Neumark will be presenting a talk, titled “Addressing climate change-induced displacement through community performance and social scores” as part of the Tahadhari Center for Climate and Migration in Euro-Med’s participation in CNN’s upcoming Call to Earth Day – Global Day of Action on November 3, 2022. The talk will include examples of their recent climate and environmental justice performance artwork in the Arctic.

The time of the event is 1 PM CET and the link to the event will be posted on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Tahadhari.Center

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22. Galinsky, FF Alumn, now online at medium.com

Please visit this link:

http://medium.com/@tallydanielswriter/activist-performer-revolutionary-artist-robert-galinsky-takes-his-message-to-the-stage-2ac50b439f6d 

Thank you.

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23. Crash, Jay Edlin, FF Alumns, at Howl! Happening, Manhattan, opening Nov. 19

Exhibition in Two Parts: 

New York, NY: How did a subculture born on the streets of New York City evolve into a ubiquitous global phenomenon? From its origins in the late 1960s through today, the story of street art and graffiti in New York City is still being told. Creating a rich, visual contextualization of that history, Howl! Happening is pleased to present CITY OF KINGS – an exhibition tracing the historical chronology of graffiti’s emergence as an art form and elevating the under-recognized artists and other players who pushed the medium forward. The exhibition is held in two parts, the first at Howl! Happening and the second at Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA).

Curated by first-generation graffiti artist Al Díaz (who worked under the name Bomb One before partnering with Jean-Michel Basquiat to create the SAMO©… tag) with additional curation from graffiti archivist and artist  Eric ‘DEAL CIA’ Felisbret and art educator Mariah Fox, the exhibition features stories, photos, ephemera, videos, documentaries, and the accounts of historical experiences, many of which are previously unseen.

Grounded in personal narratives from the inventors, participants, and innovators who shaped graffiti culture over the last five-and-a-half decades, this exhibition highlights untold stories and lesser-known artists who contributed to graffiti’s emergence and spread across New York City’s five boroughs. At the heart of the exhibition is a timeline that offers a visual representation of how and where graffiti evolved, to indicate the flow of ideas and inspiration among artists and groups. The timeline also contextualizes the graffiti movement by referencing key historical events, such as the Son of Sam murders, street-gang activity, the financial decline of New York City, and efforts to “clean up” the city.

The chronological display creates a framework to help explain how graffiti has become so lodged and influential within our present popular culture. What makes this exhibit particularly unique is that the narrative is told through the lens, and voice of the actual players who created graffiti. An accessible, concise, clear account for the general public is long overdue in New York City, the “birthplace of graffiti culture.”

– Al Díaz, NYC. August 2022

In total, the exhibition features the contributions of dozens of graffiti artists, world-renowned photographers, collectors and archivists. The exhibition includes photographs, video, and audio recordings — some of which come from personal archives. Public programs and a series of panel discussions will hone in on themes and periods that evolved across time; touching on topics such as the movement’s roots, the evolution of graffiti styles and social and cultural practices.

CITY OF KINGS includes contributions from artists and historians including CoCo 144, Taki 183, Crash, LEE, Jay Edlin, Charlie Ahearn, FLINT, Carlo McCormick, and Martha Cooper.

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24. Eileen Myles, FF Alumn, at Howl! Happening, Manhattan, Dec. 2-3

Howl! Happening is pleased to host the launch for the publication of Pathetic Literature, edited by Eileen Myles, with performances and readings featuring Joe Westmoreland, Joan Larkin, Laura Hendrickson, Morgan Võ, Jack Halberstam, Tom Carey, Precious Okoyomon, Tom Cole, and Eileen Myles. 

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25. Jane Dickson, Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, FF Alumns, at UCCA Museum Beijing, China, thru Jan. 29, 2023

“Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York” remains on view through January 29, 2023.

Now on view at UCCA Museum Beijing, the new exhibition “Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York “celebrates the creative ferment of Downtown New York in the 1980s spanning mediums including graffiti, painting, drawing, photography, film, sculpture, and installation.  The exhibition features the work of sixty artists and groups, including important East Village trailblazers, many of whose art is being shown in China for the first time.  Several artists on view were included in early exhibitions at Hal Bromm Gallery, including Mike Bidlo, Arch Connelly, Jimmy DeSana, Luis Frangella, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong.  

The exhibition, curated by Carlo McCormick and UCCA Curator-at-Large Peter Eleey, reveals the heights of expression that arose from within the urban landscape of America’s largest city at its economic nadir. Artists from vastly different backgrounds, working across a remarkable range of media, emerged in New York during this era and have become some of the most important artists of the late twentieth century.

https://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/somewhere-downtown/

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26. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, wins Best Documentary, San Diego Short Awards

The film FOLLOWING THE THREAD was just named Best Documentary in the San Diego Short Awards. 

Congratulations to Kathy Brew!

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27. Rory Golden, FF Alumn, at Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Manhattan, Oct. 27-29

This week I’m assisting Sidra Bell with an exhibition that pulls together materials from her archive.

The exhibition is being presented in Gibney’s experimental Portal Gallery in conjunction with IN I REP: Instrospection, an evening of works from the company’s twenty year history. 

https://gibneydance.org/gibney-presents/

Thank you. Rory Golden

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28. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, receives 20222 Idea Award for Theatre

Please visit this link:

https://www.theaterpizzazz.com/recipients-of-2022-idea-awards-for-theatre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recipients-of-2022-idea-awards-for-theatre&fbclid=IwAR2AglemXEZex_honREMROh2DMDpNQthw0VpByy0NiwxR1Kgg8oMqodUL58

Thank you.  

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29. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, live online with Lancaster Arts, UK, Oct. 25

I’m doing a public talk tomorrow at Lancaster Arts (online, at 1pm UK time; 8am NYC) about #Sergina and dis/topias. Here’s the link: https://www.lancasterarts.org/whats-on/event/tuesday-talk-elly-clarke/ 

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30. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, at Fridman Gallery, Manhattan, Nov. 2-Dec. 18, and more

Victoria Keddie: Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (40.7128° N, 74.0060° W)

November 2 – December 18

169 Bowery | NYC | Media room

A multichannel audio-visual installation utilizing data feeds of space debris orbiting the Earth.

Thursday, November 17, 7pm: Live performance and vinyl record release.

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31. Baillie Vensel, FF Intern, at Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, Nov. 5

Hi everyone,

I am writing to invite you all to the Pratt MFA open studios on Saturday Nov 5 from 1-5pm. The event will be held at the Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing ave, on the 7th floor. If you plan on attending, please register on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-institute-fine-arts-photography-mfa-open-studios-tickets-440913804057. 

My studio is #44, I hope to see you there. 

Best,

Baillie

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