CONTENTS:
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1. Lynn Book, FF Alumn, at Roulette, November 23, 8:30 pm
2. Anita Ponton, FF Alumn, performs internationally in November
3. FF Alumns celebrate the life of Holly Solomon, Anthology Film Archives, Nov 16-18
4. Cecilia Vicuña, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumns, at The Drawing Room, NYC
5. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, at Henry Street Settlement, opening December 5, 2002
6. Elise Kermani, FF Alumn, at Deep Listening Space, Kingston NY, Dec. 7-21.
7. Natalie Bookchin, FF Alumn, new work now on line.
8. Nora York, FF Alumn, at BAMcafe, November 15-16, 9 PM
9. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, Nov. 16, 8 PM
10. Paul Zaloom, FF Alum presents a Mockumentary, Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 15
11. Launch party for Stretcher.Org, online visual culture mag., Nov. 15, San Francisco.
12. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Snug Harbor, Nov. 16, 2002, 8 pm.
13. jihui – Digital Salon presents A Dialogue, Fri., Nov. 22, 7 pm
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1. Lynn Book, FF Alumn, at Roulette, November 23, 8:30 pm
Lynn Book Performs notes on desire
@ Roulette November 23, 2002
228 W. Broadway below Canal
8:30 pm $10
212-219-8242 www.roulette.org
Lynn Book plays the mixed-up with startling ease, presenting hybrid compositions and structured improvisations for fervent living. Through voice, body, objects and electronics Book creates work that flickers between music and performance. In this concert, Book returns to the site of desire where mystery and meaning collide. She will be joined by percussionist and electronics explorer Christine Bard.
For Info Contact: Lynn Book / Voicelab
212-529-8991
lynnbook@voicelabnyc.com
www.voicelabnyc.com
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2. Anita Ponton, FF Alumn, performs internationally in November
Anita Ponton, FF Alumn, will be presenting live performances at the following venues during November 2002:
November 8th
‘COMPANY (1)’ @ 7a*11d International Performance Festival, Toronto, Canada
November 14th
‘SEEN. UNSAID.’ @ ‘Mirror Mirror’, 291 Gallery, London, UK
November 19th
‘BAGGAGE’ @ Mad Pride’s ‘Down With the Mental Health Bill’ benefit, Bull & Gate, London, UK
November 22nd
‘SEEN. UNSAID.’ @ Exploding Cinema, Hackney, London, UK
For more details about times and venues, please contact anitaponton@email.com
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3. FF Alumns celebrate the life of Holly Solomon, Anthology Film Archives, Nov 16-18
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, NYC
November 16, 17 & 18, 2002
3 Programs of Film + Video Art in Honor of Holly Solomon
A Benefit for the Anthology Film Archives in the Courthouse Theatre
FROM HOLLY WITH LOVE is a gift from Holly to all of us. To the artists whose work will be shown, she was a friend and supporter, and to the audience these programs offer a representative selection of works that she helped to nurture. Each program begins with a 4 minute portrait of Holly by FF Alumn Andy Warhol. Shot in 1964, Screen Test, Reel 21 begins with Holly, dramatically lit in a black velvet space. An actress and early collector of Pop art at the time, it is a sultry performance. 98.5 a 16mm film was shot in 1972 that she co-directed and co-edited. It combines 5 individual films by artists she exhibited, and is titled after the alternative space 98 Green Street Loft. In it Susan Hall, Charles Simmonds, FF Alumn Gordon Matta-Clark, Ed Baynard and George Schneeman each invent a scenario, Holly appears in some of them. The Robert Kushner and Izhar Patkin films are of performances that took place in the gallery. FF Alumn Steven Watson’s digital video interview offers a rare and intimate portrait. The FF Alumn William Wegman film has been provided in its original 35mm format and is a spoof on the Hardy Boys adventure books, it stars Fay Ray and a cast of inspired Weimaraners. FF Alumn Nam Jun Paik exhibited with the Holly Solomon Gallery for decades and we have elected to show some early short works called as a whole, Video-Film Concert, that were co-authored by Yalkut. The 98 Greene Street Loft was an early alternative space, where diverse artistic activities began to develop; performances, poetry readings, art exhibitions and installations. Gordon Matta-Clark helped physically to build it, and was one of the founders of 112 Greene Street. Both alternative spaces helped to enable the development of new vocabularies that transformed the international art terrain. Holly closed 98 Greene Street Loft in 1973 and opened a commercial gallery at 392 West Broadway in 1975. Her gallery helped to launch the careers of FF Alumn Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn Robert Mapplethorpe, Sigmar Polke, Robert Kushner, Mary Heilmann, Gordon Matta-Clark, William Wegman and many other influential artists. These film and video artworks pay tribute to Holly and several of the important artists she developed and worked with over the last 30 years.
PROGRAM I ~ Saturday November 16th 7pm 2002
Screen Test, Reel 21 by Andy Warhol, 1964, 4 min. 16mm b/w sil.
98.5 by Holly Solomon and Bert Spielvogel, 1972, 58 min, 16mm-DVD clr./sd
Splitting by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1974, 11 min b/w/clr sil
Mask of Monuments: Rocks and Water by Robert Kushner, 1973, 10 min. video-DVD b/w/sil.
The Meta Bride by Izhar Patkin, 1983, 3 min. video-DVD, clr/sd
PROGRAM II ~ Sunday November 17th 7:30 pm 2002
Screen Test, Reel 21 by Andy Warhol, 1964, 4 min. 16mm b/w sil.
98.5 by Holly Solomon and Bert Spielvogel, 1972, 58 min, 16mm-DVD clr./sd
Interview with Holy Solomon April 21, 2000 by Steven Watson, 50 min video clr/sd
PROGRAM III ~ Monday November 18th 7:30 pm 2002
Screen Test, Reel 21 by Andy Warhol, 1964, 4 min. 16mm b/w sil.
98.5 by Holly Solomon and Bert Spielvogel, 1972, 58 min, 16mm-DVD clr./sd
The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold by William Wegman, 1994, 28 min 35mm clr/sd
Video-Film Concert by Nam Jun Paik and Jud Yalkut, 1966-72 35 min. b/w,clr/sd
Curated by Thomas Solomon and L. Brandon Krall, M.A.L.S.
For Further Information contact L. Brandon Krall at 212.673.6099 or Travis Miles at 212.505.5181
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4. Cecilia Vicuña, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumns, at The Drawing Room, NYC
Cecilia Vicuña and César Paternosto present Dis Solving: Threads of Water and Light at The Drawing Room, 40 Wooster Street, through December 20, 2002. On November 20th at 6:30 PM, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumn will be in a panel discussion entitled Utopiia/Dystopia in Abstraction. There will be a performance by Cecilia Vicuña and a book party on December 5th at 6:30 PM, celebrating the publication of her poems/drawings, Instan. Free admission.
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5. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, at Henry Street Settlement, opening December 5, 2002
Tradition and Innovation, Clay Sculptors from Henry Street opens on December 5th from 5:30-7:30 PM and includes work by Nicole Agbay Cherubini, Olivia Beens, Noel Copeland, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Rebecca Goyette, Yoko Inoue, Henry Leung, Kathleen Moroney and Jackie Schatz.
Abrons Art Center
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
212-598-0400
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6. Elise Kermani, FF Alumn, at Deep Listening Space, Kingston NY, Dec. 7-21.
New Multimedia Installations: Sound Artist Elise Kermani, FF Alumn ,
collaborates with visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick, December 7-21, 2002, The Gallery @ Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY. Opening reception 5-7pm, December 7. Call 845.338.5984 for directions. http://ishtar.cdemusic.org.
with: “Meta_morphosis” DVD video projection, mirrors, BodyChime infrared motion sensor with sound, wire tower.”Syn*Tax” fiberglass sculpture, BodyChime motion sensor, G3 laptop, wire tower. “Bi Payan-infinity” mirrors, marbles, cables, surveillance cameras and monitor, wire tower. “Digital Dragons” wireless speakers, transmitter and sound.
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7. Natalie Bookchin, FF Alumn, new work now on line.
New works by Alexei Shulgin and Natalie Bookchin, FF Alumn, can be found at
http://www.computerfinearts.com/
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8. Nora York, FF Alumn, at BAMcafe, November 15-16, 9 PM
Nora York to sing
POWER / PLAY —
A Musical Recollection: Power — Gained and Lost, Fought and Found.
Commissioned to compliment Bam Rose Cinema¹s “FROM HANOI TO HOLLYWOOD: Vietnam on Film”.
FRIDAY NOV. 15th & SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th 2 NIGHTS!
BAMcafe (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
9PM.
30 Lafayette Ave. corner of Ashland Place
($10 food/drink minimum)
York¹s collaborators are
Steve Tarshis– guitar
Arthur Kell — bass
Peter Grant — drums
Ethan Ryman — digital samples and beats
Sherryl Marshall — voice
Singer Nora York — “ingenious, radical, extravagant talent.” (The New Yorker) — will train her keen compositional and interpretive sites on songs from the Viet Nam era. York will present an evocative multi layered feast of musical recollection, on power — gained and lost, fought and found. This concert work will focus our emerging attention toward a growing dialectic between then and now.
NOW IS THE STORY!
“Friends. I want to invite you to come and hear this new work — I feel particularly inspired to sing this new peice as a responce to what has transpired in America — Time for me to OPEN MY MOUTH!–
DIRECTIONS TO BAMcafe
BAMcafe is located in the BAM Opera house.
30 Lafayette Ave. corner of Ashland Place
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q Local, and Q Express to Atlantic Avenue
W, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street;
C to Lafayette Avenue
Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush Avenue
Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM.
BAM is located at 30 Lafayette Ave. corner of Ashland Place.
www.norayork.com
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9. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, Nov. 16, 8 PM
R. Sikoryak will present selections from his “Masterpiece Comics” slide show, at the Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn. It features live narration by Anne Shapiro, James Urbaniak, and R.S. The show is on Saturday, November 16 at 8 PM. It’s part of the series, “Panopticon,” an evening of media performance. Also on the bill: Naval Cassidy and Ethan Crenson
Front Room Gallery
147 Roebling Street
Williamsburg, Bklyn
718.782.2556
www.frontroom.org
By subway
L train to Bedford Ave. (1st stop in Brooklyn)
Walk east to Roebling (2 blocks)
Right on Roebling, continue to and cross Metropolitan Ave.
Gallery on left, second entrance from corner of Metropolitan Ave.
By car (Manhattan)
Williamsburg Bridge, take first exit.
Stay all the way to the right as you exit and turn right on Broadway
Right on Bedford (second light)
Continue to Metropolitan, turn right
Proceed to Roebling
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10. Paul Zaloom, FF Alum presents a Mockumentary, Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 15
Hi friends!
The mockumentary I have been working on, IN SMOG AND THUNDER; The Great War of the Californias, is now available on DVD, as well as having a public screening here in LA! The piece mocuments a fictional war between LA and San Francisco and is based on (and features) the amazing and very funny paintings of Sandow Birk.
The Santa Monica premiere will be at Track 16 Gallery (Bergamot Station) on Friday,
November 15th at 8:00 p.m as part of the gallery’s Track 16 Nights series.
Reservations are highly recommended. You can call (310) 264-4678 Monday-Saturday between 11am and 6pm to make reservations. Track 16’s website: http://www.track16.com. The screening is one of Los Angeles Magazine’s Top Ten picks for November.
More info on the film: www.insmogandthunder.com
Hope to see you there! Paul Zaloom
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11. Launch party for Stretcher.Org, online visual culture mag., Nov. 15, San Francisco.
Stretcher 3.0 Launch:
Get Your Visual Culture Fresh Here: Www.Stretcher.Org
Debuts Innovative Use Of Blog Technology
What:
1. Stretcher publishes artists’ projects, essays on visual culture, and exhibition reviews, providing a California-centered alternative to mainstream art magazines.
2. Stretcher 3.0 debuts a cutting-edge use of weblog (blog) technology for instant publishing, developed for the site by David Lawrence.
When/Where (Partyspace):
The launch party is Friday, November 15, 6-9 pm at Gallery 16,
1616-16th Street, San Francisco, California.
When/Where (Cyberspace):
Stretcher 3.0 debuts November 15, 2002 at 12:01 am on the Web at http://www.stretcher.org
Who:
Stretcher.org is the collective effort of artists and writers Amy Berk, Ella Delaney, David Lawrence, Cheryl Meeker, and Meredith Tromble, aided by heavy lifting from a muscular cast of contributors including Crane/Winet, Jon Ippolito, Sabina Ott, Larry Rinder, Marcia Tanner, Tucker Nichols, and many others.
And There Will Be Souvenirs:
The first in a series of limited edition artist multiples will be available for purchase at the party. Editions will also be available through the Stretcher site.
San Francisco, California– Stretcher.org, the online magazine of visual culture for the Bay Area and beyond, announces the posting of Stretcher 3.0 to the World Wide Web, November 15, 2002, with cutting-edge web log (blog) technology developed especially for the site by David Lawrence. This new technology will facilitate continuous updating of the site’s content, allowing timely reviews, news, and commentary.
Headlining Stretcher 3.0 content is the world debut of an interactive web adaptation of Scott Stark’s Angel Beach. Stark is a Bay Area experimental filmmaker whose work was recently included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Stark is also interviewed by fellow filmmaker Dale Hoyt. Artists and educators Mark Johnson and Sabina Ott face off in a conversation about the state of painting, what artists need to know, and surviving as artists. Reviews include Meredith Tromble on Bay Area Now, the triennial survey at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco; Donna Schumacher on a new, post-boom crop of alternative galleries; Mark Bartlett on alternative news sites; a “Lunch Salon” with Amy Berk, a yogi and his students, about peace; a project by Charles Gute produced by Cheryl Meeker; artists Ann Chamberlain, Lynn Hershman, Rigo and more weigh in on how their lives might change in war time; news and commentary from around the world, and reviews of exhibitions from San Francisco, New York, and Australia. All articles now include a “feedback” feature for reader responses.
Stretcher has also partnered with Artsync, a new event calendar and gallery guide for Bay Area visual art to provide you with a thorough survey of Bay Area art events and spaces. Press Contact: Meredith Tromble, press@stretcher.org; 510-655-3084
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12. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Snug Harbor, Nov. 16, 2002, 8 pm.
Dear Sister/Fellow Celebrants,
This Saturday evening I will be showing slides and talking about the past 27 years of my annual Winter Solstice Celebration, “Reverence to Her: A Participatory Chant to Invoke the Female Forces of the Universe Present in All People.” The progrm will feature the famous escapes of the 1998 Solstice 33 who were arrested at our ceremony at South Beach on Staten Island. Other spirited artists will be sharing stories as well. Please come and enjoy this evening of
Tellabration
Spirit In Art/Art In Spirit
Saturday November 16, 2002
8pm
At Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Staten Island, Ny
Here are the facts: The gallery opens at 7:45pm; telling begins at 8. Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace. Look for signs to The Visitors’ Center. The Art Lab is up a flight of steps around the corner of The Center, to the right. There’s a big sign out front. From the ferry: Take the #40 bus (the bus #’s are listed on each ramp–I don’t know which ramp, off-hand) and ask the driver to let you off at Snug Harbor. Cross the street and walk up a short block to the Harbor entrance, on the right. Or drive along Richmond Terrace past Franklin and Lafayette Streets (on the left).
Hope to see you there.
xxMama Donna
Donna Henes, Urban Shaman presents:
New and Full Moon Drumming Circles and other Celestially Auspicious Occasions, Ongoing Spirit Support Group Sessions, Public Celebration Events, Life Cycle Ceremonies, Seminars, Ritual Consultations, Spiritual Counseling, Life Path Coaching, Mentoring, Reiki Healing and Balancing, Tarot Readings and a Spirit Shop.
Mama Donna, as she is affectionately known, has offered lectures, workshops, circles, and celebrations worldwide for 30 years. The publisher of the highly acclaimed quarterly, Always In Season: Living In Sync with the Cycles, she is also the author of Moon Watcher’s Companion, Celestially Auspicious Occasions┢: Seasons, Cycles and Celebrations, and Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes, as well as the CD, Reverence To Her: Mythology, The Matriarchy & Me.
For further information, a list of services and publications, a calendar of upcoming events and a complimentary issue of Always in Season: Living in Sync with the Cycles. contact:
Mama Donna’s Tea Garden And Healing Haven
PO Box 380403
Exotic Brooklyn, NY 11238-0403
Phone/Fax 718-857-2247
Email: CityShaman@aol.com
www.DonnaHenes.net
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13. jihui – Digital Salon presents A Dialogue, Fri., Nov. 22, 7 pm
jihui – Digital Salon presents A Dialogue with Timothy Druckrey and Mark Stafford,
Fri., Nov. 22, 7 pm
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.
The Question Concerning Media Technology
The history of media theory has been primarily rooted in attempts to legitimize the potential of surfaces and effects as signifiers of the ‘radical’ possibilities of representation. This privileging of form, or, in the ‘media arts,’ the implementation of form as effect, creates vexing problems that differentiate between communication and expression. This ‘difference’ emerges time-and-again in the development of ‘theories’ of interactivity and so-called ‘net.art.’ Because of the intricate reciprocity evident in an ‘art of exchanges,’ a theory of media cannot adequately frame issues without a rethinking of representation in terms of its transformed function, its shifting relationship with visibility, its probing of the ‘immaterial,’ its reformulation of reception (and cognition), its understanding of the ‘mechanization of the world picture,’ or its conceptualization of a philosophy rather than a theory of communication.This dialogue will pose the issue in discursive form and on examples of works that rupture or disrupt the flow of effects…
Timothy Druckrey is a curator, writer, and editor living in New York City. He lectures internationally about the social impact of electronic media, the transformation of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. He co-organized the international symposium Ideologies of Technology at the Dia Center of the Arts and co-edited the book Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (Bay Press). He curated the exhibition Iterations: The New Image at the International Center of Photography and edited the book by the same name published by MIT Press. He edited Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation and is Series Editor for Electronic Culture: History, Theory, Practice published by the MIT Press that includes Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, net_condition: art and global media, Dark Fiber (by Geert Lovink), and Future Cinema: the Cinematic Imaginary after Film (edited by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel) and The Un-archaeology of the Media (by Siegfreid Zielinski) both forthcoming.
Mark Stafford is a psychoanalyst and a member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. His recent research work has focused on the relationship between aesthetic practice and the subjective experience of the boundaries of the human body. He is particularly interested in the relation between media production and the ideological implications of science. Mark Stafford teaches at MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons School of Design. He also lectures at the School of Visual Arts.
jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc. jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared. jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New Design @ Parsons School of Design jihui is organized by agent.netart, a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT
