Contents for November 7, 2022
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND recipients 2022-23 live online at the FF LOFT, Monday Nov. 14
1. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at NYU Michelson Theater, Manhattan, Nov. 11
2. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Nov. 18
3. Shirin Neshat, FF Alumn, at Industry City, Brooklyn, Nov. 7
4. Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumn, at Colby College, Waterville, ME, opening Nov. 10
5. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
6. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, Nov. 18
7. Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumn, at WhiteBox Art Center, Manhattan, Nov. 8
8. Ayana Evans, Lorraine O’Grady, Tsedaye Makonnen, FF Alumns, now online
9. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, Autumn news
10. Dick Higgins, Eleanor Antin, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson Mac Low, Toby MacLennan, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, new publication now available
11. Alvin Eng, Meredith Monk, FF Alumns, now online at Nyfa.org
12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Nuffield Ireland Conference, Dublin, November 18
13. John Ahearn, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
14. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhanttan, Nov. 17
15. John Cage, Mimi Gross, Clarinda Mac Low, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Nov. 13
16. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at Margaret Thatcher Projects, Manhattan, opening Nov. 10
17. Chrysanne Stathacos, FF Alumn, at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY, thru Dec. 10
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND recipients 2022-23 live online at the FF LOFT, Monday Nov. 14
Congratulations to artists Helixx C. Armageddon, Nina Terra and Anna Costa e Silva, Zach Dorn, GOODW.Y.N, Kiyo Gutiérrez, Nile Harris, Robert HIckerson, Natasha Iqbal Jozi Dani, Cheyenne LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ, Tsedaye Makonnen, Asia Stewart, Jaime Sunwoo, and Yuliya Tsukerman, recipients of the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art award 2022-23. Please join the artists live online in Past, Present, Future VIII, a virtual event on the Franklin Furnace LOFT from 6:30-8:30 pm et on Monday November 14th, 2022.
Each artist will describe their newly funded projects and explain the influences, thought-processes, and practices culminating in their eventual performances. Emcees Martha Wilson and Jennifer Miller will host this unique annual opportunity to listen to and engage with emerging performance artists of the highest calibre. RSVP here to receive your link and see you soon! Each artist will describe their newly funded projects and explain the influences, thought-processes, and practices culminating in their eventual performances. Emcees Martha Wilson and Jennifer Miller will host this unique annual opportunity to listen to and engage with emerging performance artists of the highest calibre.
RSVP here to receive your link: https://franklinfurnace.org/past-present-future-viii/
Accessibility:
This is an online event. Auto-captions will be provided via zoom. For additional access requests please email arantxa@franklinfurnace.org at least one week before the event.
This project is made possible with funds from Jerome Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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1. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at NYU Michelson Theater, Manhattan, Nov. 11
The Experimental Lecture Series At NYU Presents
Under Our Skin – An Exquisite Copse
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters with DJ Econ
Organized by Lynne Sachs
Friday, November 11th from 7 – 10 PM
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“As a queer interracial couple living with AIDS, our background as filmmakers and dancers transitioned into a media driven interdisciplinary practice largely due to the conditions of living in a viral culture. Our interest in collaboration is a direct result of our desire to create a radically different environment for making art and cinema. The COVID pandemic has also accelerated our drive for an interactive relationship with our audience, both live and virtual. Receiver becomes producer. Lecture becomes lab becomes party! We use our gender fluidity with its transgressive inclination against racial and nationalistic containment as a catalyst for change – at the very least exposure to difference both pleasurable and uncomfortable.” – Peter Cramer and Jack Waters
DJ Econ has collaborated with Peter and Jack on multiple occasions through the decades at the legendary MIXNYC – The New York Lesbian And Gay Experimental Film Festival, Le Petit Versailles garden, at DJ Econ’s home venues the landmark queer bar nights Hot Fruit at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan and the outrageous queer renegade Psychic Party series with DJ Sokolowski.
“From the beginning, I imagined this talk to be one in which someone who had immersed him or herself in the world of alternative, experimental film would reveal something about the process of making their work by visiting pieces that were either unfinished, unresolved, bewitching or even untouchable. The intention was to lay bare the challenges rather than the successes, the gnawing, ecstatic reality of the work of making art.” – Lynne Sachs
Event Registration / Tickets:
https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2022/12th-experimental-lecture
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2. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Nov. 18
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
313 Gwangmyeong-ro, Gwacheon-si
13829 Gyeonggi-do
South Korea
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea is holding My Paik Nam June, an international symposium commemorating Paik Nam June’s 90th birthday at its auditorium in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea on Friday, November 18, 2022.
The symposium is part of the Paik Nam June Festival being held by the MMCA in commemoration of Paik Nam June’s 90th birthday. Last September 15, The More, The Better, the largest-scale media artwork created by the deceased artist, was reactivated, and Merry Mix: The More, The Better, an archives exhibition about the process of the preservation/restoration of said work was also started. On November 10, a large-scale exhibition, Paik Nam June Effect, will be held on Paik Nam June’s influence on the Korean art scene. Those attending the symposium on November 18 will also see his leading works and the relevant exhibitions.
The symposium will be composed of three sessions: Memories of Paik Nam June, Media Art and Conservation, and Influences of Paik Nam June. At each session, nine well—known researchers at home and abroad specializing in the deceased artist will present studies about the subject.
In session 1, Memories of Paik Nam June, Barbara London, who served as curator at the MoMA, will introduce her memories of communication with him as exhibition director. She will appear live in New York. Saisha Grayson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum will shed light on the meaning of collaboration between him and other artists in linkage with the relevant archives. Prof. Lim Shan of Dongduk Women’s University will analyze the significance of diverse texts left by the artist from a new perspective in an attempt to explore the aesthetic significance of the texts showcasing experimental nature and creativity.
In session 2, Media Art and Coservation, Hanna B. Hölling (Research Professor, Bern University of the Arts and Honorary Associate Professor, University College London) will discuss how to conserve the artist’s works from diverse perspectives including art history, materials used, and relevant technology. Honorary Professor Yi Won Kon of Dankook University, who is also a media artist, will discuss what to aim for concerning Paik Nam June’s video installation work based on CRT technology from an analog technology-related context. Conservator Kwon Incheol of the MMCA will share information on the process of restoration of The More, The Better, which has recently resumed activation with others. As an expert in conservation, he will present new discussion about monitor-based preservation issues commonly occurring in the deceased artist’s work.
In session 3, Influences of Paik Nam June, Prof. Rhee Jieun of Myongji University will discuss the legacy left by the deceased artist from the overall social context beyond fine art as a creator. Prof. Kim, Hee-Young of Kookmin University will discuss the tendency shown by artists of today inheriting the art of Paik Nam June. Prof. Gregory Zinman of the Georgia Institute of Technology will make suggestions concerning the directions and paths of contemporary fine arts associated with Paik Nam June’s art.
At the close of the sessions, attendees will meet together for overall discussion about the significance of the symposium including shedding light on the past, present, and future of research on Paik Nam June and exploration of the significance of artistic legacy left by him.
Those interested may apply for attendance at the symposium by making reservations through the MMCA’s homepage (300 attendees will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis.)
Session 1—Memories of Paik Nam June
Barbara London (curator/writer) / Saisha Grayson (Curator of time-based media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum) / Lim Shan(Associate Professor, Dongduk Women’s University)
Session 2—Media Art and Conservation
Hanna B. Hölling (Research Professor, Bern University of the Arts and Honorary Associate Professor, University College London) / Yi Won Kon (President of the Korea Society of Basic Design and Art (KSBDA)) / Kwon Incheol (Conservator, MMCA, Korea)
Session 3—Influences of Paik Nam June
Rhee Jieun (Professor, Myongji University) / Kim, Hee-young (Professor, Kookmin University) / Gregory Zinman (Associate Professor, Georgia Tech)
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3. Shirin Neshat, FF Alumn, at Industry City, Brooklyn, Nov. 7
Join Us
Shirin Neshat: A Loss for Words
On the occasion of A Loss for Words, renowned artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat’s first NFT collection in collaboration with Artwrld, the Brooklyn Rail and Artwrld invite you to join us at Industry City for a conversation featuring Neshat, Artwrld Co-Founder and Artistic Director Nato Thompson, and Rail Publisher and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading by Haleh Liza Gafori.
This event is free but capacity is limited. Registration is required.
Monday, November 7, 2022
6:30 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
900 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
6:30-8:00 p.m.
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4. Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumn, at Colby College, Waterville, ME, opening Nov. 10
Please visit this link:
https://museum-exhibitions.colby.edu/exhibition/naeem-mohaiemen-grace/
Thank you.
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5. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
A Deluge of Art at the Carnegie International
Thank you.
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6. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, Nov. 18
New York Latin American Art Triennial Public Program Performance
Incidentes inarmónicos del mundo racional
Inharmonious Incidents of the Rational World
Novemenber 18, 2022 6:00pm
Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse, (at 149th Street)
The Bronx,
NY 10451
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7. Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumn, at WhiteBox Art Center, Manhattan, Nov. 8
“No Entry” at WhiteBox Art Center:
Election Night Performances, November 8, 2022, 7 PM – Midnight
9 Avenue B, New York, NY
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona regarding restrictions imposed by House Bill 2492, which requires voters to show proof of citizenship before they can vote in presidential elections or by mail in Federal elections. House Bill 2492 violates the National Voters Rights Act.
In his performance, Uncivil Actions, Chin Chih Yang will magnify and mock bad laws that stop citizens from voting by posing as an election official who asks passersby preposterous questions.
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8. Ayana Evans, Lorraine O’Grady, Tsedaye Makonnen, FF Alumns, now online
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, Autumn news
I’m in Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico at a residency, 360 Xochi Quetzal, from October 18 – November, 18, 2022
I’m excited to share these recent updates from the last few months with all of you, as well as the future work that comes out of my residency in Mexico. Make sure to follow me on instagram and facebook to see these updates and more!
As always, thank you for your support. Sincerely,
Ann
Rochester Community Workshops
This past June, I spent two weeks leading community workshops at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY, teaching and photographing groups of women in rehab and Afghan women refugees. I enjoyed getting to know these women and hearing their powerful stories, and you can see some of the photos from the workshops below:
Long-listed Artist for Women United Art Prize 2022
I have been selected as a long-listed artist for the prestigious Women United Art Prize 2022 in the “Photography and Printmaking” Category. Organized by the Women United Art Movement, the Art Prize aims to highlight and celebrate female artists around the globe.
Two Portraits in “All The World in NYC” Exhibit
Two of my portraits of immigrant women have been selected for the “All The World in New York City” Photography Exhibit at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s DNA Learning Center NYC in downtown Brooklyn. The photos in this exhibit intend to reflect the diverse heritage of New Yorkers from around the world.
Thank you for reading the Ann Rosen Photography Newsletter!
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10. Dick Higgins, Eleanor Antin, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson Mac Low, Toby MacLennan, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, new publication now available
A Something Else Reader
Dick Higgins
Primary Information is excited to announce the release of A Something Else Reader, a previously-unpublished anthology edited by Dick Higgins in 1972 to celebrate Something Else Press, the publishing house he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artistic and literary forms.
The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days, John Cage’s Notations, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Breakthrough Fictioneers, Jackson Mac Low’s Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Gertrude Stein’s Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter’s I’ve Left, Wolf Vostell’s Dé-coll/age Happenings, Al Hansen’s A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art, and other projects for the page by Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Philip Corner, Daniel Spoerri, André Thomkins, and Richard Meltzer, among others. An annotated checklist assembled by Hugh Fox and Higgins’s unpublished introduction are also included.
Perhaps no other publisher in the 60s influenced artists’ books more than Something Else Press. Higgins had a firm vision that radical art could be housed in book form and distributed throughout the world and he worked endlessly to cultivate new works that challenged conventional notions of both contemporary art and books. He sought to distribute these titles far and wide, even hiring door-to-door salesmen to pitch titles like Jackson Mac Low’s Stanzas for Iris Lezak and Emmett Williams’s An Anthology of Concrete Poetry. While other presses created extraordinary publications, none were able to achieve the breadth of titles and artists like Higgins, who successfully ran Something Else Press until 1974 in a manner that resembled a more traditional paperback publisher.
Oddly, Higgins hadn’t intended to publish A Something Else Reader himself. Instead, in 1972, he assembled the table of contents and an introduction into a proposal that he then pitched to Random House. They eventually rejected the title and encouraged Higgins to publish it, but before he could do that, Something Else Press went out of business, and the dreams of the anthology evaporated. From there, the proposal went into Higgins’s archive, where it was found by scholar and curator Alice Centamore, who compiled the works and assembled A Something Else Reader.
Eleanor Antin, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Augusto de Campos, Clark Coolidge, Philip Corner, William Brisbane Dick, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hugh Fox, Buckminster Fuller, Eugen Gomringer, Brion Gysin, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Jan J. Herman, Dick Higgins, Åke Hodell, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Kitasono Katue, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Ruth Krauss, Jackson Mac Low, Robert K. Macadam, Toby MacLennan, Hansjörg Mayer, Charles McIlvaine, Richard Meltzer, Manfred Mohr, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Charles Platt, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Aram Saroyan, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Ellen Solt, Daniel Spoerri, Gertrude Stein, André Thomkins, Wolf Vostell, and Emmett Williams are all included in A Something Else Reader.
A Something Else Reader is 368 pages, measures 6 x 9.25 inches, and is published in an edition of 4,500. It retails for $29.95. For a limited time, we are also offering a great deal on the other Something Else press titles we’ve published.
https://primaryinformation.org/product/a-something-else-reader/
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11. Alvin Eng, Meredith Monk, FF Alumns, now online at Nyfa.org
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Nuffield Ireland Conference, Dublin, November 18
Nuffield Ireland Conference.
Nuffield Ireland develops leaders who will shape the future of Irish agriculture and local, national and global communities. It identifies future leaders in the Irish agriculture sector and supports them through scholarship, international travel and global connections.
Jay Critchley
Founder & Director
Provincetown Community Compact
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13. John Ahearn, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Artists Revisit Their Bronx Walls of Fame
Thank you.
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14. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhanttan, Nov. 17
Poetry In New York with: Jennifer Blowdryer, Thaddeus Rutkowski & Galinsky
Join us on November 17th for three great poets! It’s “Poetry in New York” hosted by Galinsky!
Thursday
November 17
8:00 PM – 9:30 pm Free Admission
1st Poet is live at 8:15pm
Book Club
197 East 3rd Street
New York,
NY 10009
Let’s get together
We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Poetry In New York with: Jennifer Blowdryer, Thaddeus Rutkowski & Galinsky, November 17, 2022 at 8:00 PM.
Register soon because space is limited:
We hope you’re able to join us!
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15. John Cage, Mimi Gross, Clarinda Mac Low, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Nov. 13
Cathy Weis Projects is excited to announce the lineup of the Fall 2022 season of Sundays on Broadway.
November 13: At 10:30 a.m, a daylong screening of 10 films from 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering followed by a discussion at 6:15 p.m. Schedule of Film Screenings and Panel Discussion
Audience members are welcome to come and go. There will be a short break between each film, during which time new audience members can enter.
10:30–11:40am – Öyvind Fahlström, Kisses Sweeter than Wine (Run time: 70 minutes)
11:45am–12:25pm – Alex Hay, Grass Field (Run time: 40 minutes)
12:30–1:00pm – Steve Paxton, Physical Things (Run time: 30 minutes)
1:05–1:40pm – Robert Whitman, Two Holes of Water 3 (Run time: 35 minutes)
1:45–2:25pm – David Tudor, Bandoneon! (a combine) (Run time: 40 minutes)
2:30–3:10pm – John Cage, Variations VII (Run time: 40 minutes)
3:15–3:55pm – Deborah Hay, Solo (Run time: 40 minutes)
4:00–4:40pm – Yvonne Rainer, Carriage Discreteness (Run time: 40 minutes)
4:45–5:15pm – Robert Rauschenberg, Open Score (Run time: 30 minutes)
5:20–5:55pm – Lucinda Childs, Vehicle (Run time: 35 minutes)
6:15pm – Screening of 9 Evenings compilation film and panel discussion
Panelists include Silvia Pinto Coelho, Douglas Dunn, Sofia Engelman, Mimi Gross, Clarinda Mac Low and moderator Julie Martin.
December 4: Scott Heron + Daniel Lepkoff & Sakura Shimada + Cathy Weis 6:00 p.m – doors open at 5:45 p.m
December 11: Jodi Melnick + Anat Shamgar + Cathy Weis with Scott Heron 6:00 p.m – doors open at 5:45 p.m
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
No reservations.
$10 suggested contribution.
Vaccination card required at door.
Masks required during show.
Keep in mind, this is a small space! Please arrive on time out of courtesy to the artists.
For more information, please visit cathyweis.org.
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16. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at Margaret Thatcher Projects, Manhattan, opening Nov. 10
Omar Chacon, Cheonae Kim, Cyrilla Mozenter, and Esther Podemski
The World Develops Blank Spots
November 10 – December 22, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 10, 6-8 pm
Cheonae Kim
Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to present The World Develops Blank Spots, a group exhibition featuring Omar Chacon, Cheonae Kim, Cyrilla Mozenter, and Esther Podemski. Commencing with a reception on Thursday, November 10, from 6 to 8 pm, the exhibition continues through Saturday, December 22, 2022.
The World Develops Blank Spots includes four materially diverse artists using the language of abstraction to convey forms of interconnectivity. The artists draw inspiration from a range of sources: literature, archival materials, documentary film, and the architecture of community. Each artist respectively uses historical references to understand and apply order to the chaos of our current world.
Omar Chacon
Omar Chacon’s paintings are constructed in layers from small, colorful paint elements affixed to paper. Influenced by his Colombian heritage and experiences living in the U.S., Chacon examines the connections between individuals within large, diverse communities. He conveys this sense of vital interrelation in his paintings through compositional strategies, color placement, and chance associations.
Cheonae Kim
Cheonae Kim’s multimedia drawings are from a body of work made in response to E.J. Bellocq’s early 20th century photographs of women who worked in Storyville, the New Orleans former red-light district. Each of Kim’s ovals emulate the framing of Bellocq’s portrait photography, though turned on their side. Kim fills the darkness of the painted oval with light colored pencil drawings, creating floral, portal-like forms.
Cyrilla Mozenter
Cyrilla Mozenter transforms the written word through dimensional abstraction. A multi-disciplinary artist, she uses writing, the transplantation of cutout letters, as well as letter-derived, pictogram-like shapes in her works on paper and industrial felt. The titles and words in the work often come from Gertrude Stein’s writing, creating works that are playful and absurd.
Esther Podemski
Esther Podemski is an artist and documentarian. She produced and directed House of the World, a film about the aftermath of the Holocaust, shot in Poland and screened globally. Podemski’s mixed media works are rooted in the filmmaking process, using a print of the color correction screen of a Priest’s cassock as the base for her abstract works on paper.
Margaret Thatcher Projects is located at 539 West 23rd Street, ground floor (between 10th and 11th Avenues). Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm and by appointment. For further information contact the gallery at info@thatcherprojects.com, or 212.675.0222.
Margaret Thatcher Projects
539 West 23rd Street, Ground Floor
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17. Chrysanne Stathacos, FF Alumn, at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY, thru Dec. 10
Contact:
Emily Ebba Reynolds emily@thebica
720-544-1568
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art to present Chrysanne Stathacos: Cooking with Roses September 23 – December 10, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, September 23, 7 – 10 pm
30 Essex Rear D, Buffalo NY 14213
Buffalo, NY – The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Chrysanne Stathacos: Cooking with Roses, a survey of the acclaimed, Buffalo-born artist’s work with the eponymous flower. This exhibition is the first of three in BICA’s 2022-23 exhibition series: Recovering Futures.
Throughout Chrysanne Stathacos’s long career several materials, or in her words, “witchy items,” have been deployed again and again: ivy, hair, condoms, and roses. Cooking with Roses surveys Stathacos’ prints, paintings, installations, and objects that utilize the flower in a variety of unexpected ways: arranging its petals into sculptural mandalas, pressing it into the canvas (along with hair and condoms), and even printing images on individual petals; together, Stathacos’ rose work exemplifies her creativity and dedication to process- based innovations across many mediums.
In this series of works that dates from the 1980s to the present, Stathacos conjures an eco- holistic reading by investigating the spiritual properties and metaphors inherent in nature. For Stathacos, the rose and its remnants have immense metaphorical and metaphysical power: roses symbolize love and yearning. Her practice of pressing the roses onto linen
and paper materially riffs on Jean Cocteau’s phrase “blood of a poet” as well as the works of Yves Klein, Anna Atkins, and The Shroud of Turin.
Throughout the 1990s Stathacos was deeply impacted by the AIDS crisis, losing many of her close friends including Robert Flack as well as Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal from the Canadian conceptual art collective, General Idea. “These traces are also my reflection of loss and are connected to my experiences of losing friends to the ongoing AIDS pandemic. The crisis had a profound effect on my work, resulting in the use of direct impressions of roses, ivy, and condoms,” Stathacos said about the development of her unique techniques.
It is notable that Stathacos’ exhibition will open in the middle of a Mercury Retrograde and is a return for the artist, both symbolic and literal. In her early teens she took welding lessons from sculptor Larry W. Griffis, Jr. in the metal studio that shares a wall with BICA’s gallery, and in 1978 Stathacos had one of her first exhibitions, Summerspace, at the original Hallwalls location at 30 Essex Street, followed the next year by an exhibition she curated there of artists associated with A Space in Toronto.
Along with the exhibition, Stathacos will give an artist talk on September 24 at Noon in the gallery at BICA and will work with participants of BICA School in a critique, leading a reading group, and the presentation of a workshop. This exhibition will be accompanied by a newly commissioned essay on the artist’s work.
For images, including print quality, email Emily Reynolds, emily@thebica.org.
About the Artist
Chrysanne Stathacos is a multidisciplinary artist of Greek, American, and Canadian origin. Her work has encompassed printmaking, textile, painting, installation, and conceptual art. Stathacos is heavily involved with and influenced by feminism, Greek Mythology, eastern spirituality, and Tibetan Buddhism, all of which inform her current artistic practice. She is currently based in Athens and Toronto and represented by The Breeder (Athens). Stathacos has presented projects in museums, galleries, and venues internationally. She has recently participated in exhibitions at MAO Asian Art Museum (Turin), Henie Onstad Art Centre (Oslo), Cooper Cole (Toronto), SITUATIONS Gallery (New York), KW Institute of
Contemporary Art (Berlin), and the 13th Gwangju Biennial (South Korea). Stathacos was also featured as a contributor to AA Bronson’s House of Shame, published by Edition Patrick Frey (Zürich).
Amidst the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Stathacos’ work became deeply engaged with body politics, and her commentary on issues of sexuality and gender became more pronounced. Through her work, Stathacos was creating images and experiences that connect issues of body, environment, and future. Her works from that time represent this pivotal moment in the artist’s practice.
Stathacos is known for her support of women artists in her collaborative exhibitions, writing, and social practice. Two major collaborative works from the early 1990s still resonate today: The Abortion Project with Kathe Burkhart, and The Banquet with Hunter Reynolds, (1959-2022). The Abortion Project commemorated women’s reproductive rights and was presented at Artists Space, Simon Watson Gallery, Real Art Ways, Hallwalls, and New Langton Arts between 1991 and 1993. The Banquet was first performed at Thread Waxing Space in 1992, inspired by Surrealist Meret Oppenheim’s Spring Feast. On May 1, 2017, Participant Inc. celebrated The Banquet’s 25h Anniversary as part of Ephemera Office Enterprise. She is a founding Director of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Initiatives, (dgli.org) a non- profit organization that works to help Tibetan Buddhist women practitioners in the Himalayas.
About the Exhibition Series
From September 2022 through June 2023 the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art will present Recovering Futures, a series of three exhibitions by artists Chrysanne Stathacos, TJ Shin, and Sofía Córdova. The exhibitions will be accompanied by essays and a year-long, artist-led course in a new, free art school. The exhibition series consists of three solo presentations of work by artists exploring memory, transformation, and recovery in a damaged world.
Recovering Futures is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support for the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
About the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA) is an art and education project for Buffalo founded by Nando Alvarez-Perez and Emily Ebba Reynolds. Through innovative exhibitions, cross-disciplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, BICA aims to model the ways culture can sustain communities through focused, practical engagements with contemporary art. Learn more at thebica.org.
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