Contents for December 07, 2020 (Scroll down for more information):
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1. Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
2. Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
3. Emma Amos, Siah Armajani, John Baldessari, Jonathan Berger, Coco Fusco, Howardena Pindell, Barbara Pollack, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, in The New York Times’ Most Important Moments In Art in 2020, now online
4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at artnet.com
5. Jean Shin, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, live online at Dieu Donné, Dec. 16
6. elin O’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, opening Jan. 8, 2021, and more
7. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at Olympia, Manhattan, thru Dec. 26 and more
8. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Window Museum, Matosinhos, Portugal, thru Dec. 30
9. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, online at Artnet.fr
10. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at ARTspace, Manhattan, thru Feb. 21 2021
11. COBRA, FF Alumns, at Meredith Rosen Gallery, Manhattan, thru Jan. 30 2021
12. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, FF Alumn, live at Bronxnet.tv Dec. 12
13. Dafna Naphtali, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Dafna Naphtali, FF Alumns, at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, thru Feb 21. 2021, and more
14. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, live online Dec. 12, and more
15. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, with International Network of Performance Art, live online Dec 12-13
16. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in Provincetown Magazine, now online
17. Federico Hewson, FF Alumn, now online at powerflowers.store
18. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF ALumn, at Warren St. Station, London, UK, Dec. 20
19. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
20. Bob Holman, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
21. Ed Ruscha, FF Alumn, now online in The Wall Street Journal
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Weekly Spotlight: Mariano Weinstein, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/318541116
Written, composed and performed by Mariano Weinstein, “Real Estate” was presented as a work-in-progress at The Kitchen, Manhattan in April, 2000. This 28-minute film of the artist’s solo presentation features high-speed multilingual acrobatics performed to a computer-generated instrumental and vocal soundtrack. Moving, speaking and singing with bright lights, bold sounds and sharp gestures, Weinstein alternates between the sensible and the nonsensical to underscore ambiguities and absurdities inherent to life. (Text by Sam Wagner, FF Intern, Autumn, 2020).
Please watch here:
Thank you
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1. Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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2. Emma Amos, Siah Armajani, John Baldessari, Jonathan Berger, Coco Fusco, Howardena Pindell, Barbara Pollack, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, in The New York Times’ Most Important Moments In Art in 2020, now online
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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3. Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at artnet.com
Please visit this link:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cuba-protesters-unprecedented-talks-artistic-freedom-1927699?fbclid=IwAR0X0BqSd8IftFrGVvWmb4w1P9TGcUZv1Q2MjGejBCCxHHXk2Egtx72-k-0
Thank you.
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5. Jean Shin, Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumns, live online at Dieu Donné, Dec. 16
Inside the Workspace:
Jean Shin and Saya Woolfalk in Conversation
Wednesday, December 16th
2 PM—3 PM EST
A talk led by Writer & Curator, Re’al Christian
Dear Dieu Donné Community,
We are happy to announce our next public webinar, Inside the Workspace: Jean Shin and Saya Woolfalk in Conversation.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Dieu Donné Workspace Program, we are pleased to present the next installment of “Inside the Workspace,” a virtual conversation series featuring artists who have participated in the residency over the years. On December 16th, join Jean Shin (2004 Workspace Resident) and Saya Woolfalk (2012 Workspace Resident) in a conversation moderated by Re’al Christian (Writer & Curator) about the Workspace Residency Program at Dieu Donné.
Since its inception, the Workspace Program has attracted a collection of artists who resist easy categorization—thematically, stylistically, and representationally different, our residents’ individual practices reveal the broad range of possibilities inherent in hand papermaking. Throughout this conversation series, we will look back on the history of the residency and its artists, while reflecting on the theme of collaboration in a socially distant world.
This online event will take place on Wednesday, December 16th from 2 PM—3 PM EST. This conversation will last approximately 40 minutes, followed by questions. To attend, register via this Eventbrite Portal, as space is limited:
This program is pay-as-you-wish, with a suggested minimum donation of $5.00. After registering, attendees will automatically receive a registration confirmation from Eventbrite and a direct email from Zoom with the webinar link and password to join the program.
Special thanks to the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund and the Windgate Foundation for funding this series.
We hope you can join us!
John Shorb
Executive Director
About the Artists
Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. Her work has been widely exhibited in over 150 major museums and cultural institutions, including solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, among many other prestigious institutions. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, Shin attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is tenured Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute and recipient of Pratt’s 2017 Alumni Achievement Award. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. For more information, please visit Jean’s website:http://www.jeanshin.com/?mc_cid=980940310b&mc_eid=3567577409
Saya Woolfalk (b. 1979, Japan) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. She has exhibited at museums, galleries, and alternative spaces throughout Asia, Europe and the United States including the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA., and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among many others. Woolfalk is the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and commissions. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York and teaches in the MFA program at Yale School of Art as well as in the BFA and MFA programs at Parsons: The New School for Design. For more information, please visit Saya’s website: http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/?mc_cid=980940310b&mc_eid=3567577409
Re’al Christian is a writer and curator based in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in Art in America, Art Papers, Art in Print, The Brooklyn Rail, and BOMB Magazine. She has contributed artist texts to recent and forthcoming catalogues with the CUE Art Foundation, Performa, and Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College. She is a Curatorial Fellow at the Hunter College Art Galleries, and an MA candidate in art history at Hunter College. For more information please visit Re’al’s website.
The artistic and educational programs at Dieu Donné have been made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and Foundation support including: John Ben Snow Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Hyde & Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The O’Grady Foundation, The Partnership Fund for New York City, The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, and the Windgate Charitable Foundation along with in-kind support from Material for the Arts and major individual support.
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6. elin O’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, opening Jan. 8, 2021, and more
elin o’Hara slavick’s work is included in 2 upcoming exhibitions: Family Tree Whakapapa, with her 3 artist sisters, December 15, 2020 – February 14, 2021, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in Masterton, New Zealand and Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, a group exhibition at Candela Gallery in Richmond, VA, January 8-February 20, 2021
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7. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at Olympia, Manhattan, thru Dec. 26 and more
Bezerk Productions is pleased to announce some exciting New York-based happenings for Executive Director Linda Sibio.
Two of Linda’s paintings, Intestinal Tongues and Poetic Pond of Despair, are currently on view at Olympia in New York City as part of In the Weeds, curated by Georgia Diva McGovern. In thee Weeds is composed of work by 10 women-identifying artists. This group exhibition probes the complicated nature of green to highlight the multifaceted meaning of this color in the technological era and Anthropocene.
In the Weeds is the inaugural exhibition at Olympia’s new gallery space in New York’s Lower East Side at 41 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002. The show will be open through December 26, 2020 on Thursdays through Sundays from 11am-6pm, by appointment only. You can book an appointment through Olympia’s website. For inquiries, email arossi@olympairt.org.
Along with two paintings by Linda Sibio, In the Weeds also includes two sculptural garments by Joshua Tree based artist Elena Yu. Elena is an artist, clothing designer, educator and arts organizer. Linda and Elena have been friends and collaborators since 2017, when they met through Elena’s work with Andrea Zittel and High Desert Test Sites. In 2019, Elena assisted Linda in preparing for her exhibition Economics of Suffering at Andrew Edlin Gallery, making costumes, assisting with installation, and appearing in the opening night performance Emotional States of Zero. In 2020, Elena joined the board of Bezerk Productions and the Cracked Eggs team as Workshop Assistant. To see more of Elena’s artwork, visit her website.
Linda and Elena are excited to represent Joshua Tree in New York City!
Additionally, we’d love for you to check out a newly released online interview with Linda by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Founding Director of Bronx-based organization The Interior Beauty Salon. Nicolás first encountered Linda’s work in 2019 when he attended her performance at Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York City. In the interview they discuss Linda’s groundbreaking use of the “schizophrenic thinking” model in both her art and teaching practices, as well as her unique journey with mental health, art, and community.
“My tool kit is a bright pink bag with compartments for all emotions including anger, sadness, happiness and fear. In this bag there are no “negative” emotions, just different kinds. It is important to balance these emotions in my body, mind, physical body, perceptions and spirituality. I reach for my personal archetypes so that all of me is involved in this journey of deconstructing the mind and reinventing a language I can fully understand.”
—Linda Sibio in conversation with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
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8. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Window Museum, Matosinhos, Portugal, thru Dec. 30
I hope you’re well during this precarious time.
I am pleased to let you know that Window Museum in Matosinhos, Portugal is presenting my video, UNSEEN UNHEARD, December 4 – 30th, as its premiere installation in the program “Looking at the Wind,” curated by Beatriz Albuquerque. This program features works influenced by and created during our global confinement. Window Museum is an alternative, archive space exhibiting art through its street-level window, designed to ensure our safety during the pandemic. https://www.windowmuseum.com/
Premiering Online December 28th, 8pm GMT
https://youtu.be/vTCNVOE5P5k
I am also pleased to announce that my folio UNSEEN was recently published by Louffa Press in an edition that presents selected images from UNSEEN UNHEARD at four frames per printed page. Please go to: www.louffapress.net/news for an excerpt of the recent web launch; for more information:
http://www.louffapress.net/artist-books
And I am very happy to have an excerpt of UNSEEN UNHEARD on Post World Radio Quarantine Day 256 #4 IGTV live and on YouTube, compiled by Small Bounty: https://youtu.be/UdQ18Ggmj0A
Take care
with love,
Nina
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9. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, online at Artnet.fr
Joseph Nechvatal’s recent exhibition Orlando et la Tempête is online at Artnet here:
www.artnet.fr/galeries/galerie-richard/teorlando-et-la-tempete/
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10. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at ARTspace, Manhattan, thru Feb. 21 2021
99 Madison Avenue, 8 floor
New York, NY 10016
T: (212) 271-0664
E: info@projectartspace.com
New York City: Project: ARTspace and ODETTA present “A Kind of Language,” a solo exhibition of chromogenic and archival pigment prints by Debra Pearlman. Pearlman’s photographs of children capture unguarded moments of children at play. Often evoking iconic works of art, the images suggest cultural roots of emotional expression. In such moments of experiencing children’s emotional lives, Pearlman reveals unseen expressions of internal worlds. She depicts individuals not in portraits but as evocations of our shared experiences. As critic Irving Sandler noted, “It is a world I have not seen,” adding that Pearlman’s approach adds “figuration and abstraction to these works. It is urban history.”
December 7 – February 19, 2021. The gallery is open by appointment ONLY, Monday – Friday, 11am–5pm. Please complete this form to make your reservation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffgmF5gMVzjmX8H4ejI0CBa97lfG6tAD7oVCFXQ33C-oGs_w/viewform
Debra Pearlman
A Kind of Language
PRESS CONTACT:
Project: ARTspace
Alex Allenchey, Curator
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11. COBRA, FF Alumns, at Meredith Rosen Gallery, Manhattan, thru Jan. 30 2021
Meredith Rosen Gallery
Escapism
December 5, 2020 – January 30, 2021
Opens Saturday December 5th 12-6pm
Meredith Rosen Gallery is pleased to present Escapism, a group exhibition of nineteen artists. The show opens on Friday, December 5 and remains on view through January 30.
“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it.” – Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Donald Baechler
Frank Benson
Sebastian Black
Tina Braegger
Susan Chen
COBRA
Ryan Driscoll
Jamie Isenstein
Olivia Erlanger
Giulia Essyad
Trevon Latin
Ilya Lipkin
Ben Wolf Noam
Alexis Rockman
Aura Rosenberg
Emma Stern
Theo Triantafyllidis
Kon Trubkovich
John Drue S. Worrell
For more information please email info@meredithrosengallery.com
Meredith Rosen Gallery
11 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10075
212 655 9791
info@meredithrosengallery.com
meredithrosengallery.com
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12. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, FF Alumn, live at Bronxnet.tv Dec. 12
“Performing the Bronx: Two and Us”
Experience Performances Highlighting the Life & History of Bronx Communities
Created & Presented by the Elusive Artist & Cross Pollinator Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
In Partnership with Iconic Bronx Artists…
Rhina Valentin & Ana ‘Rokafella’ García
Featuring Photography, Videography, Poetry, Conversations & More
Thursday 12/10 @ 8pm
On CH 67 Optimum / 2133 Fios + bronxnet.tv: https://www.bronxnet.org/
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13. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Dafna Naphtali, FF Alumns, at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, thru Feb 21. 2021, and more
“Performing the Bronx: Two and Us”
Experience Performances Highlighting the Life & History of Bronx Communities
Created & Presented by the Elusive Artist & Cross Pollinator Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
In Partnership with Iconic Bronx Artists…
Rhina Valentin & Ana ‘Rokafella’ García
Featuring Photography, Videography, Poetry, Conversations & More
Thursday 12/10 @ 8pm
On CH 67 Optimum / 2133 Fios + bronxnet.tv: https://www.bronxnet.org
The (NotSo) Short Fest
December 7, 2020 – February 21, 2021
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 06510
www.elycenter.org : https://elycenter.org/not-so-short-fest
Conceived, compiled, and curated by Jean Marie Casbarian
Produced by Jean Marie Casbarian and Taylore C. Wilson
PR and Gallery Contact: Jeanne Criscola, jcriscola@elycenter.org
The (NotSo) Short Fest is a 5-hour collection of video shorts created by Transart Institute’s MFA students, faculty, and advisors from around the globe. Conceived, compiled, and curated by Jean Marie Casbarian (faculty + advisor), the festival celebrates the creative minds of these international artists over the span of 16 years since the inception of this unique, international low-residency MFA and PHD program.
The 77 video shorts by 72 artists make up the festival which runs from December 7 to February 21, broken into hourly chapters, with each segment screening every twelve days both at the Ely Center in real time (while abiding by CDC and Connecticut guidelines) as well as being screened sequentially on elycenter.org.
The Chapters will build upon each other cumulatively building into the full five hours by mid-February. During the final seventeen days, all five hours will screen as a complete collective marathon. During the finale, participants are encouraged to propose and hold a variety of individual artist talks, panel discussions and/or studio visits.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is open to the public with limited hours and if you’re in the New Haven area, please contact us and we’ll make arrangements for you to physically attend.
TRANSARTISTS
Leah Decter (Canada)
Kayoko Nakajima (Japan/NY)
Jair Tapia (Mexico)
Aurora Del Rio (Italy/Germany)
Sabri Idrus (Malaysia)
Freya Björg Olafson (Canada)
Bill Ratner (LA, USA)
Louis Laberge-Côté (Canada)
Sarah Bennett (UK)
Nicolas Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (Bronx, NY, USA)
Malvina Sammarone (Brazil)
Mary Sherman (Boston, USA)
Zoran Poposki (Macedonia/Hong Kong)
Quintín Rivera Toro (Puerto Rico)
Cheryl Hirshman (MA, USA)
Jay Sullivan (NJ, USA)
Simon Donovan (TX, USA)
Linda Duvall (Canada)
JoMichelle Piper (Australia)
Hans Tammen (NYC, USA)
Zeerak Ahmed (Pakistan/USA)
Angelika Rinnhofer (NM, USA/Germany)
Anne Sophie Lorange (Norway)
Sean Rees (USA/Canada)
Christopher Danowski (USA/UK)
Ruth Novaczek (UK)
Rodolfo Cossovich (Argentina/Shanghai)
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (USA/UK)
Michael Bowdidge (UK)
Christian Gerstheimer (MI, USA)
Mariana Rocha (Brazil)
Valerie Walkerdine (UK)
Gabriela Gusmão (Brazil)
David Chalmers Alesworth (Pakistan/UK)
Geoff Cox (UK)
Konjit Seyoum (Ethiopia)
Daniel Marchwinski (MI, USA)
Jeanne Criscola (CT, USA)
Khaled Hafez (Egypt)
Ana MacArthur (NM, USA)
Angeliki Avgitidou (Greece)
Susie Quillinan (Peru/Australia)
Gabrielle Senza (MA, USA)
Anna Binta Diallo (Canada)
Raphael Raphael (Hawaii/Greece)
Dafna Naphtali (NYC, USA)
George Angelovski (Singapore/Australia)
Margaret Hart (MA, USA)
Danial Hyatt (Pakistan)
Stephanie Reid (TX, USA)
Rori Knudtson (USA/Denmark)
Deborah Carruthers (Canada)
Jose Drummond (Portugal/Shanghai)
Derek Owens (NYC, USA)
Ira Hoffecker-Sattler (Canada)
Stephan Takkides (Germany/Cyprus)
Stewart Parker (NYC, USA/Scotland)
Sean Stoops (PA, USA)
Lilliam Nieves (Puerto Rico)
Josephine Turalba (Phillipines)
Damon Ayers (OR, USA/Hong Kong)
Sheila Lynch (IL, USA)
Mikkel Niemann (Denmark)
Lindey Anderson (CO, USA)
Christine Shannon (WA, USA)
Alejandro Fargosonini (CA, USA)
Judy Mazzucco (USA)
Jaye Moscariello (CA, USA)
Nicki Staeger (PA, USA)
Daniel Arnaldo-Roman (Puerto Rico) and
Jean Marie Casbarian (NYC, USA)
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Chapter 1 : December 7 – 18
Chapter 2 : December 19 – 30
Chapter 3 : December 31 – January 11
Chapter 4 : January 12 – 23
Chapter 5 : January 24 – 3
Collective 5 hours : February 5 – 21
CHAPTER 1 | 0:14
Jair Tapia | Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, Mexico
Espacios en Vigilia, 2019
Aurora Del Rio / SpiegelimSpiegel Kollektiv | Italy/Germany
Offerta / Opera Vana, 2019
The concept originates from two iconological images described by Cesare Ripa in his book Nova Iconologia: “Offerta” (offer) and “Opera Vana” (useless endeavor). The traditional string-game is envisioned as a generator of symbolic figures, pointing at the ambivalence of human relationship to nature. On the one hand the Offer, the symbolic approach, suggest the return to the idea of nature as a powerful and dangerous entity, to be respected and towards which an offer is required. On the other end the useless endeavor is what mankind accomplishes through an endless process of exploiting nature until the extremes consequences. Offerta/Opera Vana is ultimately a ritual which aims at contemplating the impossibility of the ambivalence we inhabit.
Sabri Idrus | Subang Jaya, Malaysia
Unknotting, 2016
Freya Olafson | Winnipeg, Canada
Disembodied Beings, 2019
Disembodied Beings considers how virtual reality technology destabilizes meaning(s) of the corporeal body. The work engages with content from the Internet: open source motion capture libraries, ready-made 3D models of humans, and at home tests of motion capture software and models. These visuals conflate with found Youtube monologues that recount out of body and astral projection experiences. Disembodied People is part of Olafson a new series called MÆ-Motion Aftereffect which is a series of works concerned with the impact of emerging consumer technologies associated with AR-Augmented Reality, VR-Virtual Reality, MR-Mixed Reality, XR-Extended Reality and 360° video.
Bill Ratner | Los Angeles, USA
Quarantine Ride, 2020
Louis Laberge-Côté | Toronto, Canada
Porous Body, 2017
Sarah Bennett | UK
Safe-keeping (custodia), 2014
Emerging from a residency at the Museo Laboratorio della Mente, Rome, this four-channel video (Breathing; Stifling; Scratching; Over and Over) investigates the affective potential of abandoned fagotti (parcels) containing the possessions belonging to former patients of a closed psychiatric hospital. Oscillating between non-representational and representational modes of ‘knowing’, and produced through embodied enactments, the work aims to provide a credible critique of the now discredited Italian psychiatric system. I am showing the four videos sequentially for the Ely Center screening, but they are usually looped and screened on monitors simultaneously in a large darkened space.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Anna Recasens, and Laia Solé | United States/Spain
On Art and Friendship, 2020
(ETI Archive version – Idensitat)
Malvina Sammarone | Sao Paolo, Brazil
The Hole, 2020
Mary Sherman | Boston, USA
Delay, 2014
Delay (a multi-sensory collaboration with acoustic artist Florian Grond) poses and answers the question, “What if you could hear a painting?”
Zoran Poposki | Skopje, Macedonia/Hong Kong
Crisis, 2020
Quintín Rivera Toro | Providence, USA/Puerto Rico
Demolición, 2018
Cheryl Hirshman | Massachusetts, USA
What Was Then, What Is Now, What Will Be, 2010
Jay Sullivan | Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
A Place to Rest My Head, 2020
Simon Donovan | Tucson, USA
Oedipus Realized / Under Pressure, 2008
Linda Duvall | Saskatoon, SK
Field Notes for the Spring Ponds, 2020
JoMichelle Piper | Sydney, Australia
Shadow Dancers, 2020
Hans Tammen | New York, USA
Proprioception (Body Awareness), 2017
An assemblage of historic imagery, 70’s experimental video practices, and modern-day chaotic audio procedures. John Heartfield was a pioneer using collage and photomontage as a means to fight militarism and fascism in Europe. The work juxtaposes two camera streams pointing to Heartfield’s imagery and to crosshairs from an analog videoscope, using video processing equipment built in the 1970’s—a technology that was made to facilitate alternative, experimental and open practices. The processing in turn is controlled by audio from a modern-day synthesizer using chaotic procedures. Special thanks to Signal Culture for access to their equipment.
Zeerak Ahmed | Pakistan/USA
ALOUD, 2020
In this work I map out sonic spaces that reside within the body. Channeling notes from the base, chest, throat, nose and head, I draw out my selves.
CHAPTER 5 | 4:07:08
Leah Decter | Winnepeg, Canada
Listen, 2020
Mikkel Niemann | Denmark
G60, 2020
Jeanne Criscola | Connecticut, USA
tech-no-logica, 2008
The nomenclature of control in computing
Daniel Arnaldo Roman Rodriguez | Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Failure to Compromise our Embarrassment (The Impossibility of Moral Behavior), 2013
Daniel Hyatt | Pakistan
Raw Boaty Chronicles, 2020
Lindey Anderson | Denver, Colorado
Stealing Footsteps, Berlin, 2016
Judy Mazzucco | Clarksburg, USA
Yesterday Used to be Tomorrow, 2014
Alejandro Michelangelo Fargosonini | Santa Cruz, California, USA
The Final Critique, 2015
Feature length coming 2021
Christine Shannon | Seattle, USA
Jerusalem, 2007
Laia Solé and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful | Spain/USA
e-, 2016
Excerpt of video installation part of e-. Video: Jorge Ochoa / Editing: Laia Solé
Jaye Alison Moscariello | Redwood Valley, California, USA
Jaye Losing Her Mind (Bill Taylor on Piano), 2020
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14. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, live online Dec. 12, and more
Virtual Vaudeville for the Holidays
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce… Pandemic!, our beloved annual holiday show reimagined as a virtual variety extravaganza. You’ve never seen Taylor Mac like this before. Christmas as Calamity! Celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction with Taylor, Machine Dazzle, Matt Ray and The Band, Tigger!, Steffanie Christi’an, Thornetta Davis, Baby Jesus, Sexual Consent Santa, Mrs. Claus, The Wise Persons, Taylor Mac’s international community and your chosen family!
Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! will be available to view LIVE via our partner presenters in three time zones on Saturday, Dec 12 and on- demand from December 13, 2020 – January 2, 2021 on a pay-what-you-can basis.
Live: https://www.taylormacholidaysauce.com/watch-it-live?mc_cid=b916cf214d&mc_eid=4d3f76e925
Holiday Sauce Album—
Buy it TODAY on Bandcamp Friday
Home-bound for the holidays? Miss feeling like a misfit during the holiday season? Make Holiday Sauce your soundtrack for a home-bound holiday! You can purchase the full Holiday Sauce record digitally or as a hard-copy CD via Bandcamp. TODAY ONLY Bandcamp is giving 100% of proceeds directly to the artists as their way of supporting the music community during this challenging year. Today’s your day to give the gift of Taylor Mac.https://taylormacnyc.bandcamp.com/?mc_cid=b916cf214d&mc_eid=4d3f76e925
Favorite Fruit will donate a percentage of our proceeds from the record to the LGBT Asylum Task Force, a community organization which supports LGBTQI+ individuals who are seeking asylum status in the US because of homophobic persecution in their home countries.
https://www.taylormacholidaysauce.com/album?mc_cid=b916cf214d&mc_eid=4d3f76e925
Ur the Boss, Applesauce!
As a gift for our friends, we are happy to share free digital access to Taylor Mac’s mashup of “All Tomorrow’s Parties/Little Drummer Boy” from the Holiday Sauce record. Enjoy!
Download here: https://www.taylormacholidaysauce.com/giveaway?mc_cid=b916cf214d&mc_eid=4d3f76e925
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15. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, with International Network of Performance Art, live online Dec 12-13
Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, presents the first program, STRIDING BODIES: Procession in Performance Art, for INPA -International Network of Performance Art.
Dec 12 and 13, 2020
Registration form: https://forms.gle/gN6LxhXuy8jqku9Y8
STRIDING BODIES: Procession in Performance Art is a survey program that focuses on performance art as a processional (march or parade) experience. The international program counts with the participation of artists selected from an open call who will present and discuss their experience in the execution of the works. The program explores procession as a socio-political-economic and aesthetic approach to public performance and artistic collaborations produced by artists from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. STRIDING BODIES is also Canonge’s research on the various aspects and modalities of the discipline of Performance Art. The program is the product of earlier incursions of Canonge in his CARAVAN series that started in 2017. This time as curator, Canonge has gathered a sample of works that will be presented to audiences for the first time in video documentation format. Participating artists will introduce their works and talk about their experiences with attending audiences.
Selected artists:
Nicolas Aca (Philippines), Jana Astanov (Poland-United States), Vital Schraenen and Jo Zanders (Belgium), Motoko Ohinata (Japan), Andres Valenzuela (Chile), Ariadna Pastorini (Argentina), Clyde Lepage (Belgium), Sean Smuda (United States), Riccardo Matlakas (Italy-United Kingdom), Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany), Ras Sankara Agboka (Togo), Gilivanka Kedzior (France), Dimple B. Shaw (India), Yusuf Durudola (Nigeria), Zhon Zhon Sandyr (Finland), and Alfonso Zuluaga (Colombia). Plus featuring the projects Luto (Bolivia) and Caminatas de Luz (Argentina)
The program is the first one in a series of exploration about Body, Territoriality and Embodied Experiences created by Hector Canonge for INPA, International Network of
Performance Art to be presented through 2020-2021.
INPA: https://www.facebook.com/groups/internationalnetworkofperformanceart
STRIDING BODIES: Procession in Performance Art will be presented online on Dec 12 and 13, 2020
Registration form: https://forms.gle/gN6LxhXuy8jqku9Y8
#InternationalNetworkPerformanceArt #ProcessionalPerformanceArt
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16. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in Provincetown Magazine, now online
Democracy of the Land: The Moo Moo World
I wrote this for the 2020 Provincetown Magazine issue in response to the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor in 1620, on the ancient lands of the Wampanoag Nation – People of the First Light. Thank you.
http://www.jaycritchley.com/ptown-arts—moo-moo-world.html
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17. Federico Hewson, FF Alumn, now online at powerflowers.store
I’m just getting the word out – sending varied emails out (before Xmas shopping 🙂 about my e-commerce store, which I just ‘opened’. I commissioned illustrators to do drawings on varied floral activism movements or people – from Sophie Scholl, drag queen Hibiscus and a flower which was a symbol for the Underground Railroad. Partial monies go to aligned charities. Feel free to share . . (maybe you need some wall art in the office? 😉
Federico Hewson
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18. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF ALumn, at Warren St. Station, London, UK, Dec. 20
Hats On
theannualgroupphotograph/23
Meet outside Warren St Station
London NW1 3AA
Sun Dec 20 – 2pm
To celebrate the almost-darkest-day, we will cross the road in style. Please bring/wear an unexpected hat or cap – wedding hat, fedora, bowler, baseball cap, fascinator, party hat, straw hat, etc – and, of course, a mask! If you are not able to join the event please send me a photo or a short video of yourself in your hat and your winter coat crossing the road and I will include you in the video.
www.vimeo.com/annmarielequesne
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
www.amlequesne.com
Ann-Marie LeQuesne
Studio 4, Space Studios
184 Stoke Newington Church Street
London, N16 0JL
United Kingdom
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19. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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20. Bob Holman, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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21. Ed Ruscha, FF Alumn, now online in The Wall Street Journal
Please visit this link:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/artist-ed-ruscha-spent-more-than-50-years-photographing-the-same-los-angeles-street-11607107876?st=eyad5rbkiasgo2a&reflink=article_email_share
thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Harley Spiller