Contents for December 13, 2021
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1. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, new publication
2. Peggy Ahwesh, Perry Bard, Kathy Brew, Ricardo Dominguez, Bradley Eros, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, FF Alumns, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Dec. 19
3. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, new publications now available
4. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Jan. 9-April 30, 2022
5. Galinsky, Bob Holman, FF ALumns, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Dec. 16
6. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, receives Susken Rosenthal Foundation Golden Loudspeaker Award 2022
7. Paula Barr, FF Alumn, receives 16th Annual Black & White Spider Award
8. Maya Ciarrocchi, FF Alumn, December news
9. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, opening Dec. 10
10. Suzy Lake, FF Alumn, at mfc-michèle didier, Paris, France, thru Jan. 15
11. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, Ann Snitow Prize 2021 Award Ceremony, live online, Dec. 15
12. Tina Ball, FF Member, now online at TheatreTampaBay.org
13. David Hammons, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
14. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online in Provincetown Arts Magazine
15. Jessica Blinkhorn, FF Alumn, now online at VoyageAtl.com
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1. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, new publication
Excited to share that my play, Three Trees, has been published as a print-on-demand book by Caridad Svich’s No Passport Press. The book includes an amazing Foreword from Hana Sharif and a beautiful cover design by Zonia Tsang.
Thank you, Caridad, for creating this outstanding platform for playwrights and for your invaluable support of them. The book is available for $8 from Lulu and Amazon.
A brief description of the play follows, along with links to order the book.
Three Trees explores the haunting relationship between Parisian sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his primary muse/model of the 1950s, Japanese philosopher, Isaku Yanaihara. It is the first of my Portrait Plays series of historical dramas about artists.
To order the book, please visit either of the following websites:
Thank you.
Alvin Eng
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2. Peggy Ahwesh, Perry Bard, Kathy Brew, Ricardo Dominguez, Bradley Eros, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, FF Alumns, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Dec. 19
Journal launch of The Current Thing
Sunday, December 19, 7 pm – 10 pm at Microscope Gallery
Please join us for the US launch of the art journal The Current Thing.
The journal was conceived during the darkest hours of the first lockdown and is part of a series of resurrections of The Thing, New York’s (and the world’s) oldest online platform for art and criticism.
Issue One contains thoughts and insights from the first eight weeks of lockdown in the form of work.
The recently published Issue Two, features thoughts on resistance to exaggerated online culture by means of future past perfect time-travel, in the wake of the first waves of the pandemic.
Join us for the long-delayed and long-awaited face to face launch, with readings by Lynne Sachs, Cathy Crane, plus films and film fragments by:
Peggy Ahwesh
Jaakko Pallasvuo
eteam
Les Leveque
Duke & Battersby
Torsten Burns and Monika Czyzyk
Steve Reinke
Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Mark Dean
Copies of both issues will be available at one-time-only discount prices!
The Current Thing
Issue One
features works by
Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere / Alexandro Segade / Almagul Menlibayaeva / Amanda McDonald Crowley /Andy Graydon / Anna Thew / Ashton Applewhite / Bradley Eros / Caspar Stracke / Cathy Lee Crane / Coco Sollfrank / Daniella Dooling / Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby / Darrin Martin / Deborah Stratman / Diana Vidrascu / eteam / Emily Mode / Graeme Arnfield / Nordholt & Steingrobe / Jaakko Pallasvuo / Jackie Goss / Les LeVeque / lundi matin / Jason Livingston / Jeanne Liotta / Jeffrey Skoller / Jim Supanick / Juliane Henrich / Joy Chan / Kathy Brew / Keith Sanborn / Kim Modig / Leo Goldsmith / Lynne Sachs / Mark Street / Masha Godovannaya / Mike Hoolboom / Monika Czyżyk / Nina Katchadourian / Olav Westphalen / Peggy Ahwesh / Perry Bard / Rebekah Rutkoff / RPI / Ricardo Dominguez / Sean Cubitt / belit sağ & Robert Luxemburg / Sebastián Romo / Steve Reinke / The Society of the Friends of the Virus / Thomas Zummer / Torsten Zenas Burns / Wolfgang Staehle / yann beauvais / and Zoe Beloff/
Issue Two
features works by
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri (NY) / Michael Baers (Berlin) / Craig Baldwin (SF) / Greg de Cuir Jr. (Belgrade) / Cathy Crane (NY)/ Mark Dean (London) / Christoph Draeger (Berlin) / Ursula Endlicher (NY) / Abigail Child (NY)/ Bradley Eros (NY)/ Rob La Frenais (London)/ Dee Dee Halleck (NY) / Sam Hopkins (Nairobi) / Juliet Jacques (London)/ Jeanne Liotta (NY) / Jason Livingston (Buffalo) / belt sağ + Sebastian Lütgert (A’dam/Berlin) / Gabriela Monroy (Mexico City) / Esma Moukhtar (A’dam)/ Wolfgang Müller (Berlin) / Ellen Pau (Hong Kong) / Rachel Rosalen (Sao Paulo) / Keith Sanborn (NY) / Kelly Sears ((Denver)/ Asli Serbest + Mona Mahall (Berlin) / Raquel Shapira (NY) / Caspar Stracke (Mexico City) / Jim Supanick (Denver) / Sindhu Thirumalaisamy (NY) / Leslie Thornton (NY) / Thomas Zummer (NY) /
To buy or view the art journal, please visit the following website:
Thank you.
Admission is free.
Important:
Due to Covid restrictions, Microscope is limited to 30 visitors at a time.
Proof of full vaccination for Covid-19 and masks are required.
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 347.925.1433
info@microscopegallery.com
www.microscopegallery.com
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, Noon to 6 pm
Appointments recommended
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3. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, new publications now available
I am pleased to tell you that two of my books in English have been published through Amazon. Please visit the links below.
Thank you.
Ichi Ikeda
To order the book, “Earth Art Manual: Premium Edition”, please visit the following website:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Earth-Art-Manual-Premium/dp/4906858430
Thank you.
To order the book, “Earth Art Action: 110 Encyclopedias”, please visit the following website:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/EARTH-ART-ACTION-110-Encyclopedias/dp/4906858635
Thank you.
About “Earth Art Manual:
Ichi Ikeda is one of the world’s leading artists of Earth Art, and has been invited to give a speech as a representative of Asia and Oceania at the United Nations Global Environment Seminar. The Earth Art Manual, a 344-page book full of photographs, drawings and illustrations, has been published as a hot topic of discussion, with the aim of addressing the global environmental crisis beyond the realm of art. Young people are now protesting against global warming in many parts of the world. Beyond nationality, religion, and gender, they are the unique “writers of the earth. In this “Earth Art Manual,” Ichi Ikeda call out enthusiastically: “Let’s go from being readers of ‘Earth’ to being writers!”. And “Earth Art Manual” appeals In the midst of rampant self-love and nationalism; “The only ‘publicness’ that everyone can face equally is the Earth.” This book is surely a must-read book that is ahead of its time and unparalleled in the world, and a guide to the “Writers of the Earth.
About “Earth Art Action:
This book introduces all of Ikeda’s activities around the world, and is also a message to the world that he creates while sharing the essence of his work with readers. From his early works such as “Water Piano,” “Water Mirror,” and “Action Textiles,” to his historic opening performance at the Sao Paulo Biennial, “Earth Up Mark,” which adorned the art calendar commemorating the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, his message action for the global environment at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. It is reported that 600 volunteers of all ages, professions, and nationalities participated in the installation of environmental art in Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park at the request of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and that approximately one million people visited the one-month exhibition.In addition, his series of the “Earth Art Projects in New York, Florida, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, Merano (Italy), Finland, Yogyakarta, Hong Kong, Singapore, Delhi, Bangkok, Taiwan, and activities of the “Urban River Revitalization Projects” in Japan including Kagoshima, Niigata, Aso, Kawaguchi, Yakushima etc., are an unparalleled series of dynamic activities.
What can we do for the future? What can we do for the future?”, “110 Encyclopedia of Earth Art Action” is a must-read book for practicing, proposing, co-creating, and living together with you. Why don’t you read it with the motto of “one thing a day” and “one action a day”?
About Ichi Ikeda:
Ichi Ikeda graduated from Kyoto University. He has developed his artworks strongly connected with global environmental issues, especially concerning water, over the past 30 years. His interventions include international conferences and seminars, community activism, public performance, and interactive installations. He is one of the most unique artists who uses water as his medium and explores new visual expressions. Especially in the 21st Bienal Internacional de Artes de Sao Paulo in 1991, he, as a special invited artist, became the first Japanese to be in charge of the main stage (For your information, the person who was in charge of the main stage of the previous year was Joseph Beuys). In 1995, he was selected as “the world’s 12 artists,” for the 50th anniversary art calendar of the United Nations. in May 2008, he was selected as a representative of the East / Southeast Asia and Oceania area at the environment seminar held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and made a proposal from Earth Art. In 2012, at the request of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, he created an environmental art project using the entire Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park. 600 volunteers of all ages, occupations and nationalities participated in the installation of the Shinobazu Pond, and it is reported that about one million people visited the pond during the month-long exhibition.
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4. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Jan. 9-April 30, 2022
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And
Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro
UNC Greensboro, SC
January 8 – April 30, 2022
Alexander Gray Associates announces Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, a retrospective of the artist’s work in performance, conceptual, and feminist art, will be on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro from January 8 — April 30, 2022. This exhibition, which premiered at the Brooklyn Museum from March 5 – July 18, 2021, is organized by Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and writer Aruna D’Souza with Jenée-Daria Strand, Curatorial Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
The institution’s press release follows:
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, on loan from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Lorraine O’Grady (born in Boston, 1934), one of the most significant figures in contemporary performance, conceptual, and feminist art. O’Grady is widely known for her radical persona Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, and has a complex practice that also encompasses video, photomontage, concrete poetry, cultural criticism, and public art. The artist has consistently been ahead of her time, anticipating contemporary art world conversations about racism, sexism, institutional inequities, and cultural oversights by decades, and her prescience has inspired younger generations of artists.
Raised in Boston by middle-class Jamaican immigrant parents and educated at Wellesley College, O’Grady spent years working as an intelligence analyst for the US government, as a translator, and as a rock music critic before beginning her career as a visual artist in the late 1970s at the age of 45. Throughout her work, O’Grady has called attention to the deeply segregated nature of the art world while also continually imagining her own history, body, and relationships, within a cultural landscape that often makes it difficult for Black women to speak for themselves.
These parallel threads—of outward critique and inward reflection—are some of the many binaries that O’Grady’s work addresses. By putting seemingly contradictory ideas together, O’Grady questions the power attached to such oppositions as Black and White, museum and individual, self and other, West and non-West, and past and present. The exhibition’s subtitle Both/And emphasizes the artist’s ambitious goal of dismantling either/or thinking in favor of broader possibilities.
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5. Galinsky, Bob Holman, FF ALumns, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Dec. 16
Galinsky and Bob Holman and Tennessee Reed perform “Poetry in New York”, Thursday, December 16th, 8 pm at Book Club Bar
New York’s newest and hottest poetry reading continues on Thursday, December 16th at 8 pm at Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street in the East Village of Manhattan.
Join Galinsky, Bob, and Tennessee as they kick pieces from their works and invite the audience to close the show together with an improvised work, directed by Bob Holman.
Free Admission, Free Speech, Vax Card Required, All Ages
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6. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, receives Susken Rosenthal Foundation Golden Loudspeaker Award 2022
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am most happy to announce that on my 69th birthday I have received the Golden Loudspeaker Award for 2022
from the Susken Rosenthal Foundation
This of course makes me very happy
And I hope this makes you happy too
Benoît
To order the new book, please visit the following website.
https://benoitmaubrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Speaker-Sculptures-Book_low_resolution.pdf
Thank you.
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7. Paula Barr, FF Alumn, receives 16th Annual Black & White Spider Award
I am a Winner at the 16th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with:
Americana | Dobsons Boarding House, Mobile, Alabama
Please visit the following websites.
https://photoshow.thespiderawards.com/winners.php?x=p&cid=505
https://photoshow.thespiderawards.com/index.php
Thank you.
Paula Barr
www.PaulaBarr.com
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8. Maya Ciarrocchi, FF Alumn, December news
Hello:
The season/semester/year is winding down, and I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a long winter’s nap!
Here’s what’s been going on in the studio.
Thanks for reading, and happy winter solstice holidays, however you celebrate them!
love,
Maya
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities, October 2021, WoWhaus, Governors Island, NYC
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities
After receiving the City Artists Corp Grant this summer, the amazing humans of Works on Water invited me to create an installation in the WoWhaus on Governors Island as part of their residency program. I installed seven suspended cyanotype prints on silk illustrating past and present trajectories of New York City waterways whose shorelines are inaccessible to city residents. Also included were renderings of fantastical cities belonging to an imagined future. Each print told an individual story, and their merging manifested a reimagined city forever altered by climate change.
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities, Main Window Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Main Window Dumbo
An iteration of Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities is on view now in the Main Window Dumbo. It’s been fantastic to reimagine the work for one of my favorite spaces in Dumbo!
The work is on view in the window 24/7 through January 20, 2022.
Main Window
1 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Paper Works! CB Gallery
I’m thrilled to be included in a group show at CB Gallery, Kanoah, NY. If you’re a New York City dweller looking for a weekend getaway, Katonah is a great place to visit on the Metro-North Harlem line.
Paper Works!
On view through January 15, 2022.
Opening Reception, December 10, 2022, 5-8pm
CB Gallery
23 Valley Road
Katonah, NY 10536
Site: Yizkor on the PB Daily
I’m pleased to announce that excerpts from the 1st Edition of Site: Yizkor are now on the Jewish Books Council’s PD Daily. Much gratitude to all who made this book possible.
To view the books on sale, please visit the following websites:
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/excerpt-site-yizkor
and on my website
https://www.mayaciarrocchi.com/yizkor-books
Thank you.
VSW Project Space Residency
Last but not least, I have been awarded a Project Space Residency at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. After a challenging fall, I’m thrilled to be offered the time and space to develop new work this winter.
The Project Space is a studio workspace residency at VSW for artists working primarily but not exclusively in photography, book art, film, and media art.
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9. Alexander Hahn, FF Alumn, at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, opening Dec. 10
Home Game 2021
December 10, 21 – January 30, 22
Kunst Museum St. Gallen
Opening December 10, 2021, 18.30
The public art competition «Heimspiel» («Home Game») takes place every three years and provides a comprehensive insight into contemporary art from the cantons of St.Gallen Thurgau Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Glarus as well as Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg.
The Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen presents works by Felix Baudenbacher, David Berweger, Beni Bischof, Karin Karinna Bühler, Urs Burger, Pelagia Dalduris, Anna Diehl, Beatrice Dörig, Tine Edel, Rolf Graf, Alexander Hahn, Flavio Hodel, Christian Hörler, Genevieve Leong, Manon, Markus Müller
For more info, please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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10. Suzy Lake, FF Alumn, at mfc-michèle didier, Paris, France, thru Jan. 15
“The provocation that began the identity series rests in the struggle between true identity, decorum, and role-playing at a time of social and political change. Devices such as role-playing and make-up were regularly used as masks to metaphorically conceal and reveal. Sequencing and storyboards were formats used to replace performance or video. Mimicry was essential in works such as On Stage.”
Suzy Lake, “Artist Statement,” http://www.suzylake.ca/artist-statement#1.
As part of Martha Wilson’s exhibition, The Political and Performance Art Collection, Carte Blanche and Journals, we are pleased to present Suzy Lake’s work.
In the early 1970s, Suzy Lake explored how our identity is shaped by both ourselves and society through a series of photographs in which she is her own model. Her work would have a considerable impact on the North American scene. The American artist Cindy Sherman considers it as a major inspiration for her work.
Come and discover Suzy Lake’s work at the gallery until Saturday, January 15, 2022.
We remain at your disposal for any information, do not hesitate to contact us by email:
info@micheledidier.com.
mfc-michèle didier
66, rue Nôtre-Dame de Nazareth, F-75003 Paris
P: +33 (0)1 71 27 34 41 — M: +33 (0)6 09 94 13 46
info@micheledidier.com — www.micheledidier.com
Subway: République, Strasbourg Saint-Denis, Arts et Métiers, Temple
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11. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, Ann Snitow Prize 2021 Award Ceremony, live online, Dec. 15
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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12. Tina Ball, FF Member, now online at TheatreTampaBay.org
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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13. David Hammons, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit the following website:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/arts/design/metro-pictures-closing.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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14. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online in Provincetown Arts Magazine
The 2021 issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine featured a creative review of my project, Democracy of the Land: Viral Warming –
Viral Walking by Jennifer Liese
Please visit the following website:
http://www.jaycritchley.com/ptown-arts-2021-2022.html
Thank you.
Happy New Year!!
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15. Jessica Blinkhorn, FF Alumn, now online at VoyageAtl.com
Please visit the following website:
Thank you.
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Goings On is compiled weekly by Danelly Reyes and Joanna Seifter, Franklin Furnace Interns, Fall 2021