Goings On: posted week of December 23, 2019
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1. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, at Kobe University, Japan, Nov. 7 and more
2. Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumn, at Vorderzimmer, Brooklyn, Nov. 24
3. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, in Brooklyn Rail now online
4. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at LSN Gallery, Miami, FL, opening Nov. 2
5. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumns, at artinoddplaces.org now online
6. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Parsons, Manhattan, Oct. 30
7. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Marymount College, Manhattan, opening Nov. 6
8. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, at Bibliothèque Bussy-Rabutin, Autun, France, opening November 15
9. Linda Stein, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
10. Leandro Katz, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, October 29
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1. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, at Kobe University, Japan, Nov. 7 and more
Performance Artist/Director/Writer Dan Kwong will be lecturing on various topics in three cities in Japan this November:
Nov. 7, Kobe – Kobe University: Prof. Hideyuki Yamamoto – “Breaking Asian Stereotypes Through Asian American Solo Performance”
Nov. 9, Kobe – Kobe University: Quarterly Meeting of the Asian American Literature Association – “Cultural vs. Institutionalized Silence: The Noisy Americans – Examining traci kato-kiriyama & Kennedy Kabesares’ new stageplay, “TALES OF CLAMOR with Director Dan Kwong”
Nov. 11, Kyoto – Doshisha University: Prof. Susan Pavloska – Japanese American women’s liberation as explored in Dan Kwong’s solo performance, “WHAT? NO PING-PONG BALLS?”
Nov. 13, Kyoto – Doshisha University: Prof. Masumi Izumi – TBD
Nov. 15, Nagoya – Aichi Prefectural University, Prof. Mizumi Murayama – Japanese American women’s liberation as explored in Dan Kwong’s solo performance, “WHAT? NO PING-PONG BALLS?”
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2. Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumn, at Vorderzimmer, Brooklyn, Nov. 24
Vorderzimmer opens on Sunday, November 24, 2019, 4-7pm, with “Gail Robin Mitchell: verticalized transport”
Vorderzimmer (“Foahduh-Tsimmuh”) means Front Room in German. At Vorderzimmer, artists and makers show their works in the warm setting of a private brownstone’s ground-level, street-facing room in Bed-Stuy/Brooklyn. Vorderzimmer contains the scuffs and character of a modest 127-year-old house with its classic old moldings and wainscotings.
Salon-style shows can ONLY be viewed during the three hours of the opening, which is also the closing. Vorderzimmer strives to introduce viewers to the many beautiful and/or interesting things that people everywhere create – be they learned artists with day jobs, or self-taught makers of some sort. Our world is alive with such people, and Vorderzimmer shows it: in the lived-in, loved room of a lived-in, loved house. However limited in time, space and turnout, Vorderzimmer gets creators, thinkers and appreciators together “over artwork” physically, not virtually. Intimacy is key.
Vorderzimmer visitors enter under the stoop – the entrance historically reserved for servants and staff who kept the house going, but were supposed to remain unseen by house owners. These workers were the unsung, everyday makers and doers of countless households. Today, Vorderzimmer showcases single artists. We will also occasionally launch small group shows, featuring works by those greatest of creators, children.
Shows take place in the odd months of the year (January, March, May, July, September, November), on a Sunday from 4 to 7pm. Occasionally a musician will play music in the Hinterzimmer (“Hintuh-Tsimmuh”: Back Room) during the opening.
Vorderzimmer does not take a percentage of sales initiated at its shows. We ask that artists donate 20% of such sales to Earthjustice, a not-forprofit law organization that defends the environment.
Enter Under the Stoop, Push It Forward, Live With It.
Vorderzimmer
280 Van Buren Street
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Contact: Halona Hilbertz – vorderzimmer@gmail.com – www.vorderzimmer.blogspot.com
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3. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, in Brooklyn Rail now online
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4. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at LSN Gallery, Miami, FL, opening Nov. 2
Claire Jeanine Satin will be exhibiting her work in The Artful Book invitational at the LSN Gallery, Miami Florida opening November 2, 2019 until January30, 2020
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5. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumns, at artinoddplaces.org now online
With Gratitude
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo interviews four individuals whose heartfelt paths inspire his walk through life, and whom he sees as luminaries in their own fields: Linda Mary Montano (Saint of Art in Everyday Life), Chip Conley (Saint of Hospitality), Julie Davey (Saint of Writing for Wellness) and Jane Clarke (Saint of Early Childhood Education). While canonization entails a complex process overseen by a bureaucratic structure, in the case of With Gratitude, the interviewer respectfully borrows the prefix to point to the visionary qualities of those interviewed. The Q&As generated were launched online, one at a time, during the length of Invisible: Art in Odd Places 2019.
In With Gratitude Estévez Raful Espejo engages Montano, Davey, Conley, and Clarke on conversations on elderhood, spirit, creativity, freedom, responsibility, and mentorship, while publicly thanking them for their contributions to the health and happiness of society at large.
LINKS TO INTERVIEWS:
October 17- interview with Linda Mary Montano
http://www.artinoddplaces.org/with-gratitude-to-the-saint-of-everyday-life/
October 18 – interview with Julie Davey
http://www.artinoddplaces.org/with-gratitude-to-the-saint-of-writing-for-wellness/
October 19 -Interview with Jane Clarke
http://www.artinoddplaces.org/with-gratitude-to-the-saint-of-early-childhood-education/
October 20 – interview with Chip Conley
http://www.artinoddplaces.org/with-gratitude-to-the-saint-of-hospitality/
BIOS:
Linda Mary Montano is a pioneer figure in contemporary performance art and her work since the mid-1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide-ranging – she has been feature at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco, and ICA in London. https://wayback.archive-it.org/7078/20181022145139/https://www.lindamontano.com/
Rebel hospitality entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author, Chip Conley disrupted his favorite industry… twice. At age 26 he founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality (JdV), transforming an inner-city motel into the second largest boutique hotel brand in America. He sold JdV after running it as CEO for 24 years, and soon the young founders of Airbnb asked him to help transform their promising start-up into the world’s leading hospitality brand. Chip served as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for four years and today acts as the company’s Strategic Advisor for Hospitality and Leadership. His five books have made him a leading authority at the intersection of psychology and business. Chip was awarded “Most Innovative CEO” by the San Francisco Business Times, is the recipient of hospitality’s highest honor, the Pioneer Award, and holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University. https://www.chipconley.com/
Julie Ann Davey is a retired college writing professor, having taught 18 years at Fullerton College, a 22,000-student community college in Fullerton, California. She was the journalism professor overseeing the college’s weekly student newspaper which won the Columbia University Gold Crown for college newspapers. Prior to becoming a teacher, first at Glendale High School, John Wayne’s alma mater, where she taught journalism for 15 years, she wrote for newspapers full-time, did freelance article writing for magazines, and wrote op-ed humor pieces for the Orange County Register and the Pasadena Star-News. The author of four published books, two mystery novels and two non-fiction books, she loves the written word. Her passion is teaching cancer patients and others with serious illnesses how to express both the good and bad times in their lives. Her book, Writing for Wellness: A Prescription for Healing, is used in hospitals, medical centers, churches and senior centers where volunteers use it as a text to encourage attendees to write about what they are experiencing. Check out the website: writingforwellness.com and view the documentary film. http://writingforwellness.com/writing/about/julie-davey
Jane Clarke is the director of the Lower School, City and Country School, New York City. Beginning as a classroom teacher in London, Los Angeles, and New York fueled her passion for arts education. Transitioning into an administrative role, she worked as a teacher-director at Little Missionary’s Day Nursery and as the co-director of the early childhood program of Studio in a School. In this role, she worked collaboratively with visual artists, classroom teachers, and school administrators in Head Start day care centers and public school settings. This work continued to ignite her belief in the creative process and its role in deeper learning for children. https://www.cityandcountry.org/
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo, Center for Book Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Publications include Pleased to Meet You, One Person at a Time, Life as Material for Art and Vice Versa (editor), and For Art’s Sake. He has curated exhibitions and programs for El Museo del Barrio; the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary; Art in Odd Places; Cuchifritos; the Center for Book Arts; Elizabeth Foundation Project Space; and Longwood Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts, New York; and for the Filmoteca de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain. He was born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic. In 2011, he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. https://www.elmuseo.org
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6. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Parsons, Manhattan, Oct. 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 7:00pm
Theresa Lang Student Center
55 West 13th Street 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10011
Javier Téllez is a New York-based artist originally from Venezuela. His film installations reflect a sustained interest in bringing peripheral communities and invisible situations to the fore of contemporary art, addressing institutional dynamics, disabilities and mental illness as marginalizing conditions. Téllez has exhibited his work at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennial, Documenta, MoMA PS1, the ICA/Boston, Kunsthaus Zurich, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, among many others. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and in 2016 the Global Mental Health Award for Innovation in the Arts from Columbia University, New York.
*This event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis; we recommend arriving early.
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7. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Marymount College, Manhattan, opening Nov. 6
GO FIGURE: THE FEMALE GAZE
November 4-December 4, 2019
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 6, 6-8PM
The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount College, 221 East 71st street, N.Y.N.Y. 10021
Curated by Hallie Cohen
Artists:
Paola Citterio, Katie Commodore, Sophia Dawson, Rose Deler, Maggie Ellis, E.Jane, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Phyllis Herfield, Mary Mattingly, Alexandra Rubin, Robin Tewes
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8. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, at Bibliothèque Bussy-Rabutin, Autun, France, opening November 15
Don’t we all need a reason right now to come to Burgundy? OK, here’s a good one! My exhibition, L’Encyclopédie et nous? Oeuvres et vidéo de Ken Aptekar (The Encyclopedia and Us ? Digital Prints and Video by Ken Aptekar) opens on November 15, 2019 (until January 15, 2020) in Autun, France, at the Bibliothèque Bussy-Rabutin (more information below). Hope to see you!
Best, Ken
Bibliothèque Bussy-Rabutin, Autun, France
About the exhibition
Fake news, demagoguery, bullying and heartlessness dominate political life today. But back in the mid-18th century, Diderot and D’Alembert refused such irrational and dictatorial behavior and published their Encyclopédie (1751-1766). Twenty-eight volumes of commitment to facts, to anti-authoritarianism, rationalism and generosity poured from the presses. Mme de Pompadour, King Louis XV’s mistress, enabled the Encyclopédie to see the light of day. With her, a whiff of feminism seeps into this project, a pointed contrast to today’s sanctioned misogyny. Aptekar’s exhibition in Autun, France, makes a dramatic commentary on today’s shriveled political values and the revolutionary impetus of Diderot’s humane project.
BREAKING NEWS/FLASH INFO (2019), eleven archival inkjet prints 80cm x 80cm, draws on images from plates in the Encyclopédie to heighten awareness of rising threats to knowledge-based reasoning, scientific evidence, and to personal freedom in the face of authoritarian manipulations.
A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA (2003), six archival inkjet prints 57cm x 76.5cm, is inspired by Madame de Pompadour. Although Pompadour managed to convince Louis XV to support the publication of the Encyclopédie, the knowledge it offered the French did not include answers to questions that Aptekar thought might be central to her life. So he created a kind of appendix for her, adapting the artwork of the original publication to his own personal reveries.
The video THREE ACTS dramatizes Aptekar’s transformation into Louis XV, and then into Madame de Pompadour. Filming took place on location in the private apartments of Louis XV and Mme de Pompadour in the Chateau de Versailles and in Aptekar’s Paris studio. “Beyond derision and irony, Ken Aptekar uses this masquerade to address issues of love, ambition, power.”–Anne-Laure Flacelière, MAC VAL Museum.
Copyright (c) Ken Aptekar 2019, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
kenaptekar@gmail.com
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9. Linda Stein, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/opinion/letters/women-men-workplace.html
thank you.
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10. Leandro Katz, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, October 29
Please visit this link:
https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/992
thank you.
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