Contents for October 25, 2021
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1. Raquel Rabinovich, FF Alumn, live online at The Brooklyn Rail, Oct. 29
2. Danielle Deadwyler, FF Alumn, at Cue Art Foundation, Manhattan, opening Nov. 4 and more
3. Carlos Martiel, Marina Abramović, FF Alumns, now online in Another Mag
4. China Blue, Yong Soon Min, Carol Sun, Lynne Yamamoto, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, in new publication
5. Alice Klugherz, FF Alumn, at Marcy Avenue Plaza, Brooklyn, Oct. 30
6. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, in new publication
7. Terry Berkowitz, FF Alumn, receives Best Micro Short Award, Niagara Falls International Short Film Festival
8. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, online at DLF-Kultur and more
9. Cassils, FF Alumn, named Art Matters Foundation 2021 Artist2Artist Fellow
10. Supermrin, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, FF Alumns, live and online at Governor’s Island, NYC, October 29
11. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at Hispanic Society of America, Manhattan, November 20 and Dec. 4
12. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online in The Boston Globe
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Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante, FF Alumns, now online at https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/140/rec/2
This weekly spotlight trains on “Stuff,” the 1999 performance at Dixon Place by Nao Bustamante and Coco Fusco, comments on how globalization and cultural tourism leave Latin women little choice other than to satisfy consumer desires for “a bit of the other.” Bustamante and Fusco weave their way through multi-lingual sex guides, fast food menus, bawdy border humor, and more. In Stuff, food serves as a metaphor for sex, with eating representing consumption at its crudest. This 66-minute performance investigates the trafficking of that which is most dear to us all, our identities, our myths, our bodies.
Please the performance at this link:
https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17325coll1/id/140/rec/2
Thank you.
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1. Raquel Rabinovich, FF Alumn, live online at The Brooklyn Rail, Oct. 29
Join Brooklyn Rail Contributor Ann McCoy in a zoom conversation with Raquel Rabinovich on Friday, October 29 at 1pm EST on Brooklynrail.com
Raquel Rabinovich in conversation with Ann McCoy is part of the Brooklyn Rail’s “The New Social Environment Zoom” series.
View and register for the event at the following website:
https://brooklynrail.org/events/2021/10/29/portals-raquel-rabinovich/
Thank you.
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2. Danielle Deadwyler, FF Alumn, at Cue Art Foundation, opening Nov. 4 and more
Danielle Deadwyler: Object-Subject: Flaw is the Only Recourse
Curator-Mentor: Tiona Nekkia McClodden
November 4 – December 15, 2021
Opening Reception
Thursday, November 4, 6-8pm
Artist Talk with Danielle Deadwyler and Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Friday, November 19, 6-7pm ET
CUE Art Foundation is pleased to present Object-Subject: Flaw is the Only Recourse, a solo exhibition by Danielle Deadwyler, curated and mentored by Tiona Nekkia McClodden. The exhibition consists of three bodies of work: a short film, titled CHOR(E)S; the lenticularities, a series of 232 self portraits; and 3 lenticularities posters overlaid with text from the 1881 Atlanta Washerwoman Manifesto. Together, these bodies of work explore what bell hooks calls “that act of speech, of ‘talking back,’ that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of our movement from object to subject — the liberated voice.”
Deadwyler summons the spirits and the labor of the Black women who orchestrated the Atlanta Washerwomen Strike in 1881 in 3 self portraits, or lenticularities, that are transformed into posters and overlaid with quotations pulled from their manifesto, such as “We will have full control.” Both a demand and a warning, Deadwyler calls out, or is recalled to, the eponymous strike of Black laundresses that took place less than two decades after the Civil War ended as they demanded better working conditions, pay, and autonomy over their labor along with visibility, respect, and recognition for the work that laundresses, and all Black women workers, contributed to Atlanta’s economy.
The success of this particular labor strike is both highlighted by and in tension with the film CHOR(E)S, in which the artist choreographs her own body throughout an otherwise empty house in a performative critique of the weight of domestic labor. Her face is shrouded in hair, giving the illusion that she is facing away from the camera even as her body faces toward us. The figure’s isolated and repetitive actions are performed throughout uninhabited rooms and set to a poetic chopped ‘n screwed audio mix. This domestic figure, who does not allow herself to be seen, calls into question the visibility of domestic labor in general as a task which still falls disproportionately to Black women, women of color, and femmes to execute over 100 years after the Atlanta Washerwomen Strike. Installed alongside the film is a suite of 232 self-portraits, titled lenticularities, made over the course of 3 years from 2017-2020. These portraits, made with iPhone images and photocopies that were then drawn on and otherwise altered, obscured, and embellished, explore serial self-making and the performance of the selves that reside within the artist. The chorus of selves play with the idea of flaw and difference through repetition and accumulation, and the shifts that inevitably result as glitches become reified.
Throughout her work, Deadwyler explores the idea of possession and inhabitation of the self by the multitude of selves we contain within us and by the spirits of others outside of us, whether we be willing recipients or coerced into such possession. As McClodden writes in the accompanying exhibition catalogue, “This work is personal, it is private, it is hard, and what it confronts often goes unspoken. It is her life, and the privacy that must be demanded to ensure that must be firm. The lenticularities and CHOR(E)S portend reclamation, as the image of the self is the one that is delivered by her hand. This re-figuring is the ultimate image by virtue of intersubjective interpretation.”
An image of a dark-skinned person’s head and torso. The top of the image is painted over with a thick blue stripe. The figure’s eyes are painted over in black with yellow horizontal dashes through them. The word COOL is written in black capital letters over the figure’s mouth and crossed over with yellow paint.
Danielle Deadwyler [she/her/they] is an American-born multidisciplinary performance artist, filmmaker, and actor. Deadwyler’s award winning experimental film work has been presented at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival, and Oxford Film Fest. She has exhibited with MAMBU BADU collective, Mint Gallery, Whitespace Gallery, The Luminary, Atlanta Contemporary Museum, and Spelman College’s Museum of Fine Art Black Box Series, among others. Numerous grants have supported Deadwyler’s works, including IDEA CAPITAL, ELEVATE Atlanta, Living Walls, Synchronicity Theatre, WonderRoot Walthall Fellowship, and Artadia. She is a former Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-in-Residence, MINT Gallery Leap Year Fellowship Recipient, a 2020 Franklin Furnace Recipient, and a 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Most recently, her work has explored the themes of re-memory and narrative biomythography. Her works have been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia); the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and MoMA PS1 (New York); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin); MOCA (Los Angeles); and MCA (Chicago). Most recently, she is the recipient of the 2021-2023 Princeton Arts Fellowship, a Bucksbaum Award for her work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, among others. In 2017-18, she curated A Recollection. + Predicated. as a part of the multi-artist retrospective Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental, exhibited in Philadelphia and New York. Her writing has been featured on the Triple Canopy platform, in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, Art21 Magazine, and many other publications. Tiona lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA and is the Founder + Director of Philadelphia-based Conceptual Fade, a micro-gallery and library space centering Black thought + artistic production.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a 32-page color catalogue, with texts by Danielle Deadwyler, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Bryn Evans. The catalogue will be available online and free of charge to gallery visitors. For more information please contact Programs & Communications Coordinator Gillian Carver at gillian@cueartfoundation.org.
Download the press release at the following website: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51f13e79e4b0799d35dfa1a8/t/616885f4a095945496eb68d3/1634239989214/Danielle_Deadwyler_Press_Release.pdf?mc_cid=10d9585dd3&mc_eid=cff4306a70
View the catalogue at the following website:
https://issuu.com/cueart/docs/danielle_deadwyler_catalogue?mc_cid=10d9585dd3&mc_eid=cff4306a70
Please read catalogue essay, “Emerge as it must,” by Bryn Evans:
https://cueartfoundation.org/young-art-critics-essays/emerge-as-it-must-bryn-evans?mc_cid=10d9585dd3&mc_eid=cff4306a70
Thank you.
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3. Carlos Martiel, Marina Abramović, FF Alumns, now online in Another Mag
Please visit the following website:
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4. China Blue, Yong Soon Min, Carol Sun, Lynne Yamamoto, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, in new publication
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001
Howie Chen
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001is a comprehensive anthology of writings, art projects, publications, correspondence, organizational documents, and other archival ephemera from the trailblazing Asian artist collective. Edited by curator Howie Chen, this publication includes full essays and contextual material detailing the critical genealogies embodied by the group as well as its wide-ranging activities.
The collective known as Godzilla: Asian American Art Network was formed in 1990 to support the production of critical discourse around Asian American art and increase the visibility of Asian American artists, curators, and writers, who were negotiating a historically exclusionary society and art world. Founded by Ken Chu, Bing Lee, and Margo Machida, Godzilla produced exhibitions, publications, and community collaborations that sought to stimulate social change through art and advocacy. For more than a decade, the diasporic group, having grown from a local organization into a nationwide network, confronted institutional racism, Western imperialism, anti-Asian violence, the AIDS crisis, and representations of Asian sexuality and gender, among other urgent issues.
Godzilla created a social space for diasporic Asian artists and art professionals, including members Tomie Arai, Karin Higa, Byron Kim, Paul Pfeiffer, Eugenie Tsai, Alice Yang, Lynne Yamamoto, among others. Envisioning a lateral and porous network, Godzilla was independently run by successive steering committees that included Diyan Achjadi, Tomie Arai, Todd Ayoung, Monica Chau, Debi-Ray Chaudhuri, China Blue, Allan deSouza, Skowmon Hastanan, Arlan Huang, Michi Itami, Jenni Kim, Franky Kong, Jeanette Louie, Yong Soon Min, Helen Oji, Sanda Zan Oo, Athena Robles, Carol Sun, Eugenie Tsai, Lynne Yamamoto, Rubina Yeh, and Charles Yuen.
552 Pages
9 x 12 inches
Paperback
Edition of 2500
November 2021
ISBN: 9781736534625
Please order at the following website:
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5. Alice Klugherz, FF Alumn, at Marcy Avenue Plaza, Brooklyn, Oct. 30
Alice Klugherz, FF Alumn, at Marcy Avenue Plaza, Brooklyn NY, Saturday, Oct.30, 3:40PM
Alice Klugherz wonderland/wizehart a FF 2019 grantee will perform a 20-minute section of her Franklin Furnace FUND project, “Chaos, a work in progress about a life in process” (soon to be a video!) This will be shown as part of an Open Culture Works showcase for City Artist Grant artists to show their projects.
Chaos, ….” will be performed Saturday, October 30, at Marcy Avenue Plaza, Marcy Ave./Fulton St. and McDonnough St., Brooklyn.At 3:40PM Free and outside!
Chaos, a work in progress about a life in process, is a humorous deep dive into wonderland with an aging Alice. In a twist from the classic, she falls through the earth losing time, keys and passwords. Landing in a world where the Red Queen and Duchess wonder when she will finish the tale they are in and the Cheshire Cat thinks she should ask Siri
For more info: email Alice at wizehart@gmail.com and put “Chaos Show” in the subject line.
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6. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, in new publication
I am happy to have work featured on the Cover, and included in, Judith Brodsky’s new book/
Virtual launch for Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology – November 9, 2021 6 pm.
Register for virtual launch at the following website: https://www.pafa.org/events/intersections-art-feminism-digital-technology-110921
Thank you.
A virtual launch of the new book by Judith K. Brodsky, published by Bloomsbury, Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology takes place on Tuesday, November 9, at 6 pm ET. Five artists will join Brodsky to speak about their art. They represent different parts of the world and different art forms –Terri Te Tau will be speaking from New Zealand about her work critiquing government surveillance of the Maori population. PIoneer digital artist Lynn Hershman just had a retrospective at the New Museum, NYC. Stephanie Dinkins, the Kusama Professor of Art at Stony Brook University carries on conversations about race and gender with Bina48, the first humanoid robot with African American features; Tamiko Thiel was included in Christie’s groundbreaking NFT auction last spring; Mimi Onuoha, originally from Nigeria, makes art about the gaps in data collection.
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7. Terry Berkowitz, FF Alumn, receives Best Micro Short Award, Niagara Falls International Short Film Festival
My very short video, Notebook of the Plague, won the Best Micro Short Award at the Niagara Falls International Short Film Festival. Thanks NFISFF.
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8. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, online at DLF-Kultur and more
Paul Paulun’s German language radio interview with me aired out of Berlin October 19th on DLF-Kultur and can be heard by visiting the following website: https://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2021/10/19/portraet_des_noise_und_konzeptkuenstlers_joseph_nechvatal_drk_20211019_1434_34d33b97.mp3
Please download our entire phone conversation by visiting the following website: https://wetransfer.com/downloads/ec103f7ae3e678be9d167ac3790a3edf20211020091605/9e1f6d84451849f467d0be2158ad943520211020091815/b66192
Paul’s Full 48 Minute Phone Interview with me in English has been archived at the following website: https://archive.org/details/paul-paulun-september-19th-2021-interview-with-joseph-nechvatal
Thank you.
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9. Cassils, FF Alumn, named Art Matters Foundation 2021 Artist2Artist Fellow
Announcing our 2021 Artist2Artist Fellows
Art Matters Foundation is pleased to announce the pilot year of a new regranting program titled Artist2Artist, where our grant recipients — artists — act as grantmakers. Last year, Art Matters expanded its definition of artist by recognizing a broader category of culture workers, granting support to people organizing mutual aid, community engagement, and alternative support structures for artists. Building on this shift, Artist2Artist represents a new approach to giving by entrusting artists to activate Art Matters’ mission of assisting artists breaking ground aesthetically and socially. This evolving horizontal model of granting is created to affirm artists’ specialized knowledge of their communities.
The Board elected 13 alumni grantees to both receive an Artist2Artist Fellowship and to designate additional artists or culture workers in their extended networks as peer fellows; resulting in a total of 36 artists and culture workers being awarded as 2021 Artist2Artist Fellows. There were no applications, no panel and the Board held no veto power beyond familial conflicts of interest. These 13 alumni grantees were also selected based on their engagement with the following artist-generated themes:
Justice & Anti-Oppressive Practices (Disability; Gender/Sexuality; Race/Intersectionality)
Geographies (Labor/Migration; Transregionality/Transnationalism; Coalitions)
Cultures of Care (Medical, Spiritual, and Ecological Health)
Individual Interventions (Experimentation, Mutual Aid, Non-Productivity)
Reimagining Institutions (Alternative Support Structures)
These themes emerged in early 2021, after sourcing feedback from alumni grantees on artists’ most pressing issues and needs today. Our alumni identified that they needed more support for non-productivity, combating isolationism, coalition-building, and accessibility. As a result, the Staff and Board made a decision to move away from institutional nominators and toward a process of peer-led affirmation. Art Matters Director Abbey Williams said, “Artist2Artist is a way of aligning ourselves with those already doing the valuable work to dismantle the philanthropic systems that do not truly empower artists. We want to help tear down what isn’t working and center artists’ sovereignty to clear the way for them to build something new.”
We are grateful to the 2021 Artist2Artist Fellows for allowing us to be witnesses as they broaden and deepen their most supportive relationships. Some gave to long standing collaborative peers, others gave to artists they’ve long admired from afar. Artist2Artist Fellow, jackie sumell, shared with Staff that the process recognized: “The networks that we form aren’t always based on the merits experienced in the outward facing of our work, and some of the most beautiful and celebratory experiences are in the intimate ways that we love on and support each other.”
In October, the foundation awarded 36 Artist2Artist Fellowships for a total of 195K in grants to individuals and collective teams working in contemporary art, performance, and cultural organizing.
2021 also marks the third year of the Betty Parsons Foundation support for a portion of Art Matters grants. These named fellowships specifically support women/female-identifying artists to honor the influential legacy of artist and gallerist Betty Parsons.
The 2021 Artist2Artist Fellows are listed alongside their self-identified location:
Solange Aguilar
Syuxtun, Chumash Territory – Santa Barbara, CA
Rheim Alkadhi
Works Internationally | 2010 Alumni Grantee
Indira Allegra
Chochenyo, Ohlone Territory – Oakland, CA
Qais Assali
Nashville, TN
Lyncia Begay
Dook’o’oo’słííd binaashniidí – Flagstaff, AZ
Klee Benally
Kinłani – Flagstaff, AZ | 2020 Alumni Grantee with Indigenous Action
Cassils
Tongva & Chumash Land – Los Angeles, CA | 2020 Alumni Grantee with #XMAP: In Plain Sight
Dail Chambers
Saint Louis, MO
Juan William Chávez
St. Louis, MO | 2011 Alumni Grantee
Mel Chin
Egypt, NC | 1990, 2007 Alumni Grantee
Sonya Clark
Amherst, MA | 2011 Alumni Grantee
Muse Dodd
New Orleans, LA
Lola Flash
New York, NY | 1990, 2011 Alumni Grantee
Randy Ford aka Aísha Noir
Seattle, WA
Lauren Halsey
Los Angeles, CA | 2018 Alumni Grantee | 2021 Betty Parsons Fellow
Clement Hanami
Monterey Park, CA | 1997 Alumni Grantee
Joselia Rebekah Hughes
Bronx, NY
Emily Jacir
Bethlehem, Palestine | 2007 Alumni Grantee
Daniel Alexander Jones
Los Angeles, CA | 2015 Alumni Grantee
traci kato-kiriyama
Tongva & Chumash Land – Los Angeles, CA
Carolyn Lazard
Lenape Territory – Philadelphia, PA & New York, NY | 2020 Alumni Grantee with an anonymous organization
John W. Love, Jr.
Catawba Land – Charlotte, NC
Renita Martin
Washington, DC
Michael Massenburg
Inglewood, CA
Felicita Felli Maynard
New Orleans, LA
Scott Oshima
Tongva & Chumash Land – Los Angeles, CA
Malcolm Peacock
New Orleans, LA
Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Lenni-Lenape Land – Bethlehem, PA
The Rocca Family (Ola El-Khalidi and Diala Khasawnih)
Amman, Jordan
Rijin Sahakian
Northern California
Sisters of Watts
Los Angeles, CA
jackie sumell
Bvlbancha – New Orleans, LA
Stefano/Margaret Namulyanga
Poughkeepsie, NY
Nastassja Swift
Richmond, VA
Molly Jae Vaughan
Coast Salish Territory – Seattle, WA | 2012 Alumni Grantee | 2021 Betty Parsons Fellow
Karina Esperanza Yanez
Los Angeles, CA
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10. Supermrin, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, FF Alumns, live and online at Governor’s Island, NYC, October 29
Join us online or in person on Friday 29th October on Governors Island, New York, where we present a new material and a new approach to making public spaces and buildings based on the FIELD Project, followed by a panel discussion on their possibilities in the built and green spaces of New York, voiced by leading institutions working on climate justice and social resiliency in the city.
We propose that grass should be more than the monoculture, flat, green backdrop to our lives in institutionalized spaces, and that it can play a pivotal role in bringing nature into the urban and reconnecting us city-dwellers to a diverse and wild creativity. Come and feel the innovative grass-based bioplastics we have created, and discover how we will use them as environmentally restorative fabrication and construction materials.
Field is a collaborative project by artists Supermrin, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, material scientist Jil Berenblum, architects Ane Gonzalez Lara, Xenia Adjoubei & Alejandro Haiek, supported by Emily Gordin, and Merav Gil Ad. Carried out with the support of the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator, Pratt Institute, the Franklin Furnace Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts, City Artist Corps Grants, ProArts Gallery, Guerilla Science and the University of Cincinnati.
Full information: https://www.archdaily.com/970525/field-a-formation-from-a-field
Event tickets / attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/field-a-formation-from-a-field-tickets-194012294997
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11. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at Hispanic Society of America, Manhattan, November 20 and Dec. 4
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo at the Hispanic Society of America
Saturday, November 20 and Saturday, December 4, at 3:00pm
Gilded Figures: Somatic Walk
Join Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Hispanic Society Artist Research Fellow, who will guide visitors through an embodied exploration of emotions geminated from the Renaissance and Baroque sculptures featured in the exhibition, as well as those arising during our current times. We will investigate individually and as a group how the awareness and articulation of emotions can lead to the process of healing and balance.
Space is limited. Reservations required. To make a reservation, please contact events@hispanicscoiety.org (please indicate the number of guests and the name of the event.)
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12. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online in The Boston Globe
Please visit the following website:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/15/arts/vermont-museum-mundane-turns-10/
Thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Joanna Seifter, Fall Intern, 2021
