Contents for November 14, 2022
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Brian O’Doherty, FF Visionary, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Alva Rogers, FF Alumn, live online at the FF LOFT, Wednesday November 16, 6 pm est.
1. Cloud Seeding, GOODW.Y.N., Tomislav Gotovac, Sally Greenhouse, Tari Ito, Stacy Makishi, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at Satellite Art Show, Miami Beach, FL, Nov. 29-Dec. 4
2. Arantxa Araujo, Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumns, now online at Clavoardiendo-magazine.com
3. Arantxa Araujo, Carlos Martiel, Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, now online at LatinxProject.nyu.edu
4. Modesto Flako Jimenez, FF Alumn, named NYC 2022-23 Public Artist in Residence
5. Coreen Simpson, FF Alumn, now online at PBS.org
6. Shirin Neshat, FF Alumn, now online at youtube.com
7. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, at The Barbican, London, UK, Dec. 4
8. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, Nov. 13, and more
9. Cassils, FF Alumn, now online in The Los Angeles Times, and more
10. Rick Parker, FF Alumn, new publication now available for pre-order
11. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumn, at Theater Row Theater, Manhattan, Nov. 16, and more
12. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, at New Museum, Manhattan, Nov. 16
13. Superman & Jessica Fertonani Cooke, FF Alumns, at lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA, Nov. 17 and more
14. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, thru Dec. 13, and more
15. Ariane Lopez-Huici, Lucio Pozzi, Pamela Sneed, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm, Manhattan, opening Dec. 20
16. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA, thru Jan 28, 2023
17. Judith Sloan, Alvin Eng, Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at People’s Voice Cafe, Manhattan, Nov. 19
18. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Nov. 15
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Brian O’Doherty, FF Visionary, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/arts/brian-odoherty-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thank you.
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Weekly Spotlight: Alva Rogers, FF Alumn, live online at the FF LOFT, Wednesday November 16, 6 pm est.
Please come to the online event The Serious Business of Doll Play: Alva Rogers, Dr. Paulette Richards & the Legacy of Lenon Holder Hoyte, a conversation illustrated with historic and contemporary objects, photographs, portraits, and performance stills highlighting the legacy of Lenon Holder Hoyte, aka Aunt Len, as seen through the eyes of artist/playwright Alva Rogers and doll and object performance scholar Dr. Paulette Richards. Join their discussion of the seminal business of doll play and explore challenging aspects of Alva’s theatre piece, the doll plays.
November 16, 2022
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET
Please visit this link to get your free tickets to the online event: https://franklinfurnace.org/doll-play/
Thank you.
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1. Cloud Seeding, GOODW.Y.N., Tomislav Gotovac, Sally Greenhouse, Tari Ito, Stacy Makishi, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at Satellite Art Show, Miami Beach, FL, Nov. 29-Dec. 4
Presenting a selection of video performance works from FF Awardees
Video Screenings
Featuring a selection of works from Franklin Furnace awardees including Cloud Seeding, GOODW.Y.N., Tomislav Gotovac, Sally Greenhouse, Tari Ito, Stacy Makishi, and Pamela Sneed
Fair Dates:
November 29 – December 4, 2022
VIP & Press Preview: Tuesday, November 29 //
Wednesday, November 30 – Sunday, December 4, 2022
Indian Beach Park | 4601 Collins Avenue | Miami Beach, FL 33140
Press Contact: quinn@satellite-show.com
SATELLITE ART SHOW, “Miami’s Best Fair” (Miami New Times), returns for its triumphant 7th edition featuring over 40 immersive installations and nearly 200 artists at their new beachside location
Miami Beach, FL. – SATELLITE is pleased to announce their exhibitor list featuring over 40 projects and nearly 200 artists participating in its 7th and most experiential edition to date. Taking place from November 29 to December 4, 2022 on Indian Beach Park, 4601 Collins Avenue. The artist-run and independently owned fair will feature immersive installations, AR/VR activations and unforgettable live performances.
SATELLITE returns with provocative exhibitions inside shipping containers, large-scale outdoor sculptures, and live performances selected by Fair Director & Curator, Quinn Dukes. Guided by a mission of supporting emerging artists, this year’s fair focuses on unconventional exhibitions pursuing social change and inclusive representation. Participants include multimedia creators, disabled activists, musicians and cosmic explorers. As a nod to their roots, the fair proudly spotlights artist-run organizations and independent artists.
SATELLITE premieres several new collaborations this year including a partnership with the digital online marketplace, Artfare. [SATELLITE:Antenna] takes its first launch, spotlighting Miami-based educational partnerships with New World School of the Arts (NWSA) and Design & Architecture Senior High School (DASH). [SATELLITE:Antenna] features new collaborative sculptures, performance and video works from select high school students. The partnership is the first of its kind during Miami Art Week, truly investing in local youth.
And, not to be overlooked, are signature after-hour programs including legendary Brooklyn-based performance space, HOUSE of YES in collaboration with Paradise Palase and an evening of performance with internationally acclaimed artist, Kalup Linzy.
Admission
VIP – First View (week pass) | $100 // General (day pass) | $20
Purchase Tickets
https://www.satellite-show.com/visittix
About
Welcome To The Future Of The Art World
SATELLITE ART SHOW presents interactive projects by young dealers, artist-run spaces and non-profits. By fostering a range of programming, SATELLITE is able to offer patrons and collectors a unique experience where art is at the forefront of creative expression, activism, and curiosity. Our exhibitors are encouraged to provide our visitors both an opportunity to collect new works of art as well as to present exhibitions that are engaging, experiential and interactive. SATELLITE is expanding perceptions on art and community and providing an inclusive environment for guests to feel comfortable in exploration and discovery. SATELLITE is an artist-run organization consisting of team members Brian Andrew Whiteley and Quinn Dukes. #satelliteartshow | satellite-show.com
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2. Arantxa Araujo, Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumns, now online at Clavoardiendo-magazine.com
Arantxa Araujo, Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumns, Article on INDECENCIA, written by Andrés Senra.
Link below.
Thank you.
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3. Arantxa Araujo, Carlos Martiel, Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, now online at LatinxProject.nyu.edu
Arantxa Araujo, Carlos Martiel, Nao Bustamante, Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe, Pedro Lemebel y Francisco Casas Silva (Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis), and Nicolas Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles in a review of INDECENCIA for The Latinx Project. Written by Laura Rivera-Ayala, in a review of INDECENCIA for The Latinx Project. Written by Laura Rivera-Ayala
English: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/indecencia-review
Español: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/indecencia-resena
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4. Modesto Flako Jimenez, FF Alumn, named NYC 2022-23 Public Artist in Residence
City Announces 2022-23 Public Artists In Residence To Focus On Pressing Civic Issues Including Urban Infrastructure, Homelessness, Hate Crimes, And Gun Violence
Four artists – Gioncarlo Valentine, Alex Strada, Modesto Flako Jimenez, and Carlos Irijalba – will embed within the Mayor’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, Department of Homeless Services, NYC Health + Hospitals, and Department of Design and Construction over the course of the next year
Head shots and photos of artwork from the 2022-23 NYC PAIRs are available for download here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s4kua7tmwfsw30z/AABVqN-QYjF0fnDrZY9YAG6Ra?dl=0
New York, NY – Today, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs announced four artist placements for the City’s 2022-23 Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program. The artists, selected through an open call conducted earlier this year, will be embedded within the Department of Homeless Services, Mayor’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, NYC Health + Hospitals, and Department of Design and Construction. Over the next 12 months, the artists will bring their creative practices to bear on a range of public challenges, including the ongoing scourge of gun violence; the need to develop equitable, resilient infrastructure; the need to address hate crimes; and our understanding the experience of homelessness. Each artist receives $40K stipend, dedicated workspace within their respective agencies, and ongoing technical assistance and support as they develop and implement their public facing art projects.
“Our artists are one of our city’s greatest assets, and we’re so excited to bring their creative energy into public service through DCLA’s visionary PAIR program” said Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. “Art is the heart and soul of New York, and has the power to infuse compassion, empathy, and innovation into our work like nothing else can.”
“The myth of the artist as a ‘lone genius’ holed up in their studio has been thoroughly busted – we know that artists are deeply rooted in our city’s communities, and that their creative practice can act as public service” said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo. “Our extraordinary Public Artists in Residence program builds on this understanding, embedding artists within local government to help imagine new solutions to age-old problems. We’re thrilled to announce this latest group, and can’t wait to work alongside this class of PAIRs and our partner city agencies to bring to life their bold ideas for helping New Yorkers.”
2022-23 NYC Public Artists in Residence
Gioncarlo Valentine, PAIR with the NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC)
Gioncarlo Valentine is an award-winning American photographer and writer from Baltimore City. Backed by his seven years of social work experience, his work seeks to examine issues faced by marginalized populations, most often focusing his lens on the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities. Through writing and photography, Gioncarlo aims to broaden conversations around masculinity culture, gender, and longing. Gioncarlo will serve as Public Artist in Residence at OPHC to memorialize the unheard stories of New York City to reorient discussions on hate violence and serve as a bridge between communities.
“I am terribly excited to begin my work with OPHC and to come up with creative, enriching, and accessible ways to make New York City safer for the LGBTQIA+ community, with a particular focus on Black and Brown transgender men, women, and Gender Non-Conforming/Non-Binary folks. I know that transformation takes time but I’m excited to be in thought, in community, and in conversation around these issues,” said Gioncarlo Valentine, PAIR with the NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes.
“Art has the power to inspire social movements, lift voices of the most vulnerable, and expand the world around us. OPHC is honored to have Gioncarlo Valentine join us as our inaugural Public Artist In Residence. We look forward to collaborating with Gioncarlo, and learning from his creativity, passion, and art,” said Hassan Naveed, OPHC Acting Executive Director.
Alex Strada, PAIR with the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS)
Alex Strada is a multimedia artist and educator whose practice explores questions of collectivity, critical legal studies, and political transformation. Her projects are often produced collaboratively and center engagement with activists and scholars across fields. She has exhibited work at the Queens Museum, NYC; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; UnionDocs, NYC; Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC; Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; Listasafn Árnesinga Museum, Iceland; Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania; and the screens of Times Square with Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment. Alex will serve as Public Artist in Residence at DHS to help reframe how New Yorkers think about and understand the experience of homelessness and address the question, “Who are our clients? People, like you and me.”
“How do New York laws aid in preventing or perpetuating the experience of homelessness? I am specifically interested in exploring New York’s right to shelter law in relation to barriers surrounding access to affordable housing, people seeking asylum, and mass incarceration. I plan to draw from social practice and participatory storytelling to help create coalitions, increase advocacy, and create a space for people to collectively rethink how legal structures and alternate systems of care could be instituted to provide more support and aid to those who need it most,” said Alex Strada, 2022-23 PAIR with the NYC Department of Homeless Services.
“The PAIR program offers us a unique opportunity to work with a talented and experienced artist to reframe the public’s understanding of homelessness in New York City” said Department of Social Services Commissioner Gary P. Jenkins. “DSS-DHS is thrilled to partner with our Artist-in-Residence, Alex Strada, as she creatively explores the complex experience of homelessness and creates a public facing art project that demonstrates that our clients are our neighbors, friends, and family members. Anyone can experience homelessness, and it is essential that we approach the issue of homelessness with compassion and understanding.”
Modesto Flako Jimenez and Oye Group, PAIR with NYC Health + Hospitals (NYC H+H)
Modesto Flako Jimenez and Oye Group present an eclectic mix of theater, dance, poetry, music, video installations and film, through festivals and productions. The Group curate work that sparks a dialogue over political and social issues critical to the community’s growth. They work with emerging artists and communities to create, play, and grow in an environment that challenges and supports them. The group also provide quality arts education programming that gives the Brooklyn Community the tools to generate forward-thinking art. Modesto will serve as Public Artist in Residence at NYC H+H to bring its communication concerning community- and gun- violence to a larger audience, explore and develop alternative strategies, including around its NYC H+H Violence Interruption and Prevention programs, advocacy, safety and wellness that address the gun violence crisis, create meaningful public dialogue and community engagement and mobilization.
“Dozens of young people are victims of gun violence in our city each year,” said Modesto Flako Jimenez, PAIR with NYC Health + Hospitals. “Countless others have access to guns, and tens of thousands are exposed via social media and news headlines of gun violence across our city, country, and world. Tragically, too many lack social support and mental health services to avoid gun violence. Theater, reading, writing, and poetry – possibly incorporating stories of violence among their communities – can be used to provide youth with self-awareness, self-expression, confidence, and other skills to avoid gun violence and educate their peers on how they may do the same.”
“We are excited to have Modesto Flako Jimenez and Oye Group join us at NYC Health + Hospitals as Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) and partner with our violence interrupter and prevention programs,” said Mitchell Katz, MD, President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals. “Gun violence represents a public health crisis of epidemic proportions that our hospital emergency departments see every day, and I’m hopeful that our PAIR can expand and address the much needed dialogue about the toll that gun violence is taking on communities in New York City.”
Carlos Irijalba, PAIR with NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC)
Carlos Irijalba is a multidisciplinary artist who works by the principle of pertinence, trying to remain context-responsive and enhance the connotations of the community. Much of a reactive artist, in projects like Pannotia (2016-ongoing) he works with geology and time sensitive materials that give people perspective over the dominant narratives in history. In projects like Hiatus (2022) or Muscle Memory (2019), using installation and sculpture made with existing materials or industrial process, he tries to reflect on the collective construction of territory while remaining sensitive to local geopolitics. Carlos will serve as Public Artist in Residence at DDC to help the public understand the challenges and complexities of providing infrastructure in a city with the over-arching goals of creating a sustainable, resilient, and equitable City.
“The theme of Carlos Irijalba’s work reflects the scale and complexity of DDC as we rebuild large portions of the City’s coastline to make it more resilient and to provide more recreational opportunities in underserved areas that can benefit from them,” said NYC Department of Design and Construction Commissioner Thomas Foley. “His studies of materials and how they can be incorporated into human-scale spaces is relevant to our infrastructure works throughout the City. I look forward to working with Mr. Irijalba and I thank our previous Artist-in-Resident Melanie Crean for her time with DDC.”
“The visible materials and hidden networks in civic construction shape our physical navigation and emotional senses,” said Carlos Irijalba, PAIR with NYC Department of Design and Construction. “Hardware like asphalt, stone, open space, metal-wrapped curbs fulfill an intended purpose while informal software like parking cone culture and fire hydrant sprinklers, create other realities. How do we bring awareness to this symbiotic and paradoxical relationship between planning intentions and actual uses? What can we learn from the gaps between the hardware and software that form the city´s infrastructural operating system?”
Each PAIR artist receives $40,000, and the residency lasts a minimum of one year. The residency begins with a research phase, during which the artist spends time at the agency meeting staff and learning about its operations and initiatives while also introducing the artist’s practice and process to agency staff. The research phase concludes with a proposal from the artist outlining one or more public-facing participatory projects that will be implemented during the remainder of the residency. In addition to the fee, PAIR artists receive in-kind resources such as desk space with the partner agency, and access to DCLA’s Materials for the Arts creative reuse program.
PAIR was inspired by artist Mierle Ukeles’ pioneering artist residency with the NYC Department of Sanitation, which started in the late 1970s. Since its 2015 launch, PAIR has now placed 24 artists in residence with 15 City agencies. A full list is available on the Cultural Affairs website.
Recent PAIR highlights include artist sTo Len’s work with the NYC Department of Sanitation to create the Office of In Visibility; I Still Believe in Our City campaign by artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, working with the NYC Commission on Human Rights; The People’s Bus and The People’s Festival, initiated by artist Yazmany Arboleda working with the NYC Civic Engagement Commission; and You Do It with Your Heart Black business solidarity initiative by artist Andre Wagner, working with the Commission on Human Rights. In 2021, DCLA announced that artworks by two recent PAIRs had been acquired by major cultural institutions around the world.
About NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is dedicated to supporting and strengthening New York City’s vibrant cultural life. DCLA works to promote and advocate for quality arts programming and to articulate the contribution made by the cultural community to the City’s vitality. The Department represents and serves non-profit cultural organizations involved in the visual, literary, and performing arts; public-oriented science and humanities institutions including zoos, botanical gardens, and historic and preservation societies; and creative artists at all skill levels who live and work within the City’s five boroughs. DCLA also provides donated materials for arts programs offered by the public schools and cultural and social service groups, and commissions permanent works of public art at City-funded construction projects throughout the five boroughs. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/culture.
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5. Coreen Simpson, FF Alumn, now online at PBS.org
Dear Black Cameo Collectors:
SEE ’THE BLACK CAMEO(r) displayed all over the stage @ Lincoln Center, NY
worn by opera bass, Davone Tines.
The link is below and it’s near the end of the video.
PRESS: ‘watch full episode’ & forward towards the end.
Jewelry by Coreen Simpson
Coat by Jenny Lai
(a wonderful collaboration of two designers)
Best,
Coreen Simpson
Founder
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/ny-phil-reopening-of-david-geffen-hall-about/14020/
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6. Shirin Neshat, FF Alumn, now online at youtube.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, at The Barbican, London, UK, Dec. 4
DoubleXposure
The Barbican
Shakespeare Tower
South Podium
London EC2Y 8DR
Sunday, Dec 4th – 2 pm
Ann-Marie LeQuesne invites you to the 25th Annual Group Photograph
Please come to the area in front of Shakespeare Tower where we will divide you into two groups. Using the ventilation shafts as backgrounds, we will film a series of actions in two simultaneous performances – communicating with mobile phones and flash cards as if we were miles apart. (We will be just out of sight of each other, possibly overlapping in sound.)
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8. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, Nov. 13, and more
I had the honor of translating art historian Corinne Taunay’s chapbook “Marcel Duchamp: Paris Air in New York,” a lively and witty study of Duchamp’s formative stay in NYC, in 1915-1917. It’s published by Black Scat Books, and is available on Amazon.
I’ll return to NYC myself, for the first time since the pandemic hit, to introduce George Kuchar’s “Secrets of the Shadow World” at Anthology Film Archives. This epic video from 1999 focuses on the UFO researcher John Keel, now gone, a friend of mine for many years. The screening is at 5:00 on Sunday, Nov. 13. Anthology Film Archives is at 32 Second Avenue.
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9. Cassils, FF Alumn, now online in The Los Angeles Times, and more
Human Measure is Cassils’ first piece of contemporary dance, made in collaboration with US choreographer Jasmine Albuquerque and a team of five trans and non-binary performers.
Reviews of Cassils’ dance work are available at LA Times, The Star, CBC ARTS, The Dance Current, and CBC Listen now.
LA Times
The Star
CBC ARTS
The Dance Current
https://thedancecurrent.com/listing/human-measure/
CBC Listen
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10. Rick Parker, FF Alumn, new publication now available for pre-order
Franklin Furnace logo designer and Village Voice ad designer has a new graphic novel available for pre-order.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drafted-rick-parker/1141910903
Thank you.
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11. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumn, at Theater Row Theater, Manhattan, Nov. 16, and more
Please join Peculiar Works Project as we present the New York City premiere of Frank Blocker seated in an armchair on a dark stage to address the audience in GOOD JEW. Starring Frank Blocker as Holocaust survivor Henryk Altman in the 2022 United Solo Festival.
One Night Only!
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 7pm EDT
The show runs 70 minutes and extremely limited tickets are available at United Solo Festival for $42.50 https://bfany.org/theatre-row/shows/united-solo-theatre-festival-2022/
Direct from hurricane-ravaged Florida, we’re bringing our good friend and long-time PWP actor, Frank Blocker, all the way to NYC’s Theater Row for Good Jew. You’ll love this poignant and provocative solo performance and we’ll make Frank’s dream project come true! And if you’re able, we’ll all go out after to celebrate his success.
Written by Murray Scott Changar and Frank Blocker, this verbatim solo play is based on multiple interviews with the Murray Scott’s father, Henryk Changar, both of whom have since passed away. It is directed by Jamibeth Margolis, granddaughter of Holocaust survivors.
He escaped the Treblinka death-camps – twice – joined the Resistance, navigated from the ghettos of Warsaw, through Germany and onto Norway… but Henryk Altman doesn’t see himself as a Good Jew. No one survives war by being good.
And now, you can be part of the Good Jew team! We’ve setup an Indiegogo campaign to raise $3000 to cover the production costs: transportation to NYC, rehearsal space, and artist stipends. We hope you’ll join the Good Jew team right now with any amount you can spare—no gift is too small!
Frank Blocker seated in an armchair on a dark stage to address the audience in GOOD JEW, link to youtube video here:
Frank Blocker has performed solo works throughout the US for more than 20 years, and he brings Henryk to penetrating life, revealing the chards of courage and perseverance that push him on. An award-winning playwright and Drama Desk Award-nominated performer, he is best known for character roles and multiple personalities in solo performances. He recently rode out Hurricane Ian at home in Naples, Florida with his rescued greyhound Razmus, where he is the Film and Theatre Director at Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs.
Theater Row Theater • 410 West 42nd Street • New York, NY 10036
212-714-2442 ext. 45
And
Save The Dates:
Monday thru Wednesday, December 5-7, 2022 at 7pm
FREEDOM’S LAST STAND: image of tiki torches in Charlottesville, VA rally of white supremists from 2017.
A sneak peek at our next immersive promenade production
Outlandish conspiracy theories, anti-government rhetoric, and Shakespeare collide in this revised and updated production first presented by PWP in 1996.
Arts on Site, 12 St Marks Place, NYC (map it)
Admission is free: donations gratefully accepted!
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.
Donate Now through Network for Good logoOf 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.
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12. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, at New Museum, Manhattan, Nov. 16
Book Launch: “Liza Lou”
Co-presented with Lehmann Maupin
Wednesday November 16 | 7 PM
New Museum Theater
235 Bowery, New York City
The New Museum and Lehmann Maupin invite you to a book launch and conversation on Liza Lou (Rizzoli Electa, 2022). Join artist Liza Lou and Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, for a discussion of the artist’s practice and work. Liza Lou is a comprehensive monograph that features works from the entirety of Lou’s career, dating back to Kitchen (1991–1996) which was first shown at the New Museum as part of the exhibition “A Labor of Love” (1996) curated by founding director Marcia Tucker. And Liza Lou’s “Socks and Underwear” installation opened at Franklin Furnace Archive on April 7, 1995.
Following the talk, a limited number of books signed by the artist will be available for purchase. Don’t miss this FREE event – register here:
The program will be presented onsite at the New Museum, and is free with RSVP. Vaccination and masks are strongly recommended, but not required. Please review the New Museum’s COVID guidelines in advance of your visit.
Liza Lou lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. For the past thirty years, Lou has made sculpture, paintings, drawings, and room-size environments that induce states of wonder, including the groundbreaking Kitchen (1991–1996), now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lou’s numerous solo museum exhibitions include presentations at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa (2018); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (2015); Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2013); and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2011). The artist’s group exhibitions include “Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019” (2019–2022), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “We the People: New Art from the Collection” (2018), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; “Pulling at Threads” (2018), Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa; “SUPERPOSITION & Engagement” (2018), 21st Biennial of Sydney, Australia; and “19th Century and Modern Art” (2010), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, among others. Lou is the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award.
Lisa Phillips has been the Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum since 1999. During her tenure she has dramatically expanded the Museum, its Board, staff, attendance, and budget, and continues to diversify its leadership and audience. Phillips spearheaded and realized the Museum’s first dedicated building (2007) designed by the leading architects SANAA, who subsequently won the Pritzker Prize. In so doing, she established the Museum as a top international cultural destination with a critically acclaimed exhibition program rivaling the best in the world. Phillips also co-founded NEW INC (2014), the first museum-led incubator for cultural creatives. She is currently leading a second building expansion by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas.
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13. Superman & Jessica Fertonani Cooke, FF Alumns, at lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA, Nov. 17 and more
For its 12th hosted residency, lower_cavity is pleased to present an exhibition-performance by FIELD, an ongoing collaboration between artists Supermrin and Jessica Fertonani-Cooke. Referencing Tim Ingold’s conception of landscape as a ‘dwelling perspective’ in their exhibition title, Supermrin and Jessica Fertonani-Cooke consider the manicured lawns of North America as a biological archive in which accumulations of labor, capital, and subjectivity lie enmeshed. In the geological era understood as the Anthropocene, they ask, in what ways have lawn grasses, the single largest irrigated crop in the United States, functioned as a proxy for a colonized conception of Nature?
The sculptural works in the exhibition, composed of FIELD’s unique grass-based bioplastic, embody this alienated relationship with the natural world, staging it within the context of the post-industrial city of Holyoke and the 19th century mill architecture housing lower_cavity’s project space. Over the course of the exhibition, a series of collaborative performances, “Braiding FIELD,” will develop between the sculptures and the space, serving as psychomagic rituals channeling the legacies of women’s labor. Employing simple, repetitive prompts, these performances are designed to re-focus the body on its interiority and encourage deeper listening to the land.
Together, Supermrin and Fertonani-Cooke articulate a reimagined understanding of landscape that reorients us towards nodes of origin and cycles of life and death. Operating at an intersection of sculpture, performance, bioethics, and the fraught arenas of urban space, FIELD offers approaches for navigating the politics of control perpetuated by the infrastructures of our cities within a globally interconnected and shrinking world.
FIELD: Dwelling Perspective will be presented on Thursday, November 17th, from 6 – 8 pm, and the installation will remain on view by appointment through Dec. 12th. For more information please contact lowercavity@lowercavity.space
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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. She is interested in conceptions of reality, pleasure, and nature within eastern practices. Supermrin founded Streetlight in 2017 as a collaborative critical research lab that develops decolonial interventions in public space. Her work with FIELD is informed by the historical vernacular of grass within rural India, tribal (Gond) art, and Indian miniature painting. Her background in architecture informs her analysis of public space. 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, New Delhi.
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 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.
FIELD was conceived by Supermrin in 2019 in partnership with Jessica Fertonani Cooke. FIELD’s unique grass-based bioplastic was developed in collaboration with material designer Jil Berenblum in 2020. The project has grown to include collaborators (artists, architects, designers, and performers) from across the world, including Xenia Adjoubei and Ane Gonzalez-Lara; with site-specific projects in Oakland, New York, Massachusetts, Cardiff, Nice, and Boiçucanga. Exhibitions include the Venice Biennale for Architecture (2021), Untitled Art Fair Miami (2021), Climate Provocations Pavillion Governors Island (2021), Midway Gallery San Francisco (2022), and Tactile Bosch Cardiff (2022) amongst other venues, with support from the Franklin Furnace Fund, British Council, Pratt Institute, and the NYFA City Artist Corps Grant.
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416 Dwight Street
Holyoke, MA 01040
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14. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, thru Dec. 13, and more
Dear Friends
I am pleased to have work in three venues during November – One solo and two group exhibitions
“Lost Trees”
Solo Exhibition
Hillsborough Community College Gallery 221
October 10 – December 1
“Creative Pinellas Arts Annual”
Creative Pinellas Gallery
November 11 – January 1, 2023
“Address: Earth”
Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art
September 1 – December 13
1701 Main St, Peekskill New York 10566
Thank you.
Babs Reingold
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15. Ariane Lopez-Huici, Lucio Pozzi, Pamela Sneed, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm, Manhattan, opening Dec. 20
Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 5
You’re invited to the FACES II exhibition opening 20 December.
FACES II
Opening 20 December, 6-8 pm et
FACES II includes works by Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Fredric Amat, Craig Coleman, Diego Cortez, Roger Cutforth, Keith Davis, Jimmy Davis, Jimmy DeSana, Jean Foos, Luis Frangella, Timothy Greenfield, Deborah Kass, Tom Keough, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Anja Marais,
Thomas Micchelli, Nataly Nesterova, Letty Nowak, Victor Pesce, Lucio Pozzi, Rick Prol, Ted Rosenthal, Abbey Rosko, Gary Schneider, Pamela Sneed, David Wojnarowicz, Rey Zorro.
Hal Bromm, 90 West Broadway, NYC 10007 halbromm.com
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16. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA, thru Jan 28, 2023
Cavalcade of Stars
Joni Mabe
Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA,
thru Jan 28, 2023
Thank You.
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17. Judith Sloan, Alvin Eng, Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at People’s Voice Cafe, Manhattan, Nov. 19
Saturday November 19 at 8 PM
People’s Voice Cafe
239 Thompson Street
New York, New York 10012
Tickets: $12 Students/Seniors/ Limited income
$20 regular
Judith Sloan & Friends
An evening of stories, songs, and monologues about migration, refuge, and finding home. Judith Sloan is an actress/audio artist/radio producer, human rights activist and educator whose work bridges the divide between expressive and documentary forms. Her award-winning performances and radio documentaries combine humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. Her multi-character performances explore love, loss and the search for belonging. She’ll be performing excerpts from her plays about working with immigrant youth, including Yo Miss! and Crossing the BLVD. She is joined by Dominic Frigo on piano, and singer/actors Em Wexler and Jen Anaya, who will be performing songs from her play in progress, It CAN Happen Here. Sloan will also be joined by two authors. Longtime collaborator and life partner, author/artist/performer Warren Lehrer will present excerpts from his books, including Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, and a new work in progress, Trace: A Surveilled Novel. Author/playwright Alvin Eng will read from his memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond. This performance is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Books will be available to buy, and there will be a Q&A. For more information about the artists, visit earsay.org.
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18. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Nov. 15
Judith Sloan
Featured speaker
Frontiers of Labor Organizing Panel
Tuesday, November 15th, 2-4 pm
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Free
Reservations
Successful labor organizing in the United States expanded during the pandemic, with wins that were underscored by monumental wins in worker-led unionization and collective bargaining efforts made by workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and even here at NYU.
Join the Urban Democracy Lab for a panel discussion with leading labor organizers, including Chris Smalls (President, Amazon Labor Union), Arundathi Velamur (Organizer, NYU’s Graduate Student Union, GSOC), Judith Sloan (Gallatin Adjunct Faculty/member ACT UAW 7902), and representatives from Starbucks Workers United; Gianpaolo Baiocchi (Director, Urban Democracy Lab) will moderate.
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