Contents for December 16th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, in new publication
2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, Julie Lemberger, FF Alumns, at Studio 34 Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, opening Dec. 20
3. Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
4. Carl Andre, Jane Dixon, Nicole Eisenman, Allen Frame, Coco Fusco, Joseph Nechvatal, Miriam Schapiro, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum
5. Beatriz da Costa, Joan Jonas, Yong Soon Min, Richard Serra, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, FF Alumn, at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Jan. 21-Feb. 28, 2025
7. Malcolm-x Betts, Nile Harris, FF Alumns, at Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY, Jan. 11-13, 2025
8. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, Feb. 8-Apr. 6, 2025 and more
9. Geoffrey Hendricks, FF Alumn, at Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Manhattan, extended thru Dec. 21
10. R Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, now online at BirdcageBottomBooks.com
11. Kenneth King, FF Member, new article in TDR: The Drama Review
12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Dec. 19
13. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Alumn, at april april gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, thru Dec. 21
14. C Carr, FF Alumn, now online at kirkusreviews.com
15. Nancy Buchanan, Martha Rosler, FF Alumns, at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, thru Jan. 11, 2025
16. Babs Reingold, FF ALumn, at Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL
17. Jane Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Older Adults Center, Manhattan, Dec. 20
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Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://hyperallergic.com/974851/lorraine-ogrady-who-dismantled-art-world-binaries-dies-at-90/
Thank you.
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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, in new publication
Nicolás Dumit Estévez has an essay in Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures. Nicolás’s piece is titled The Drums are Calling my Name. This publication is now available in paperback!
Making Caribbean Dance
Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures
Edited by Susanna Sloat
Explore the vibrant and varied dance traditions of the Caribbean islands
To order: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813081052
“An indispensable resource that belongs on the bookshelf . . . of any serious student of Caribbean music, dance, and general culture. . . . All of the contributions are useful and informative in their distinct ways.”—Dance Chronicle
“In keeping with the themes of continuity and creativity, essayists reference racial and national groups’ ancestral roots and influences even as they enthusiastically promote and celebrate evolving choreographies, highly individualized performances, newly discovered traditions, and costumes and participants. Highly recommended.”—Choice
“As a compendium of well-described and specific examples of dances that, on the whole, are rarely seen or experienced outside their specific cultural settings, Making Caribbean Dance is an excellent reference source.”—Dance Research Journal
“Susanna Sloat has done it again. Following on the heels of the success of Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk, Sloat’s new interdisciplinary collection extends the reach of dance scholarship to command the attention of all genres of forward-thinking students of the Caribbean.”—Joan Frosch, University of Florida
“Vivid portraits of important, rarely described corners of the Caribbean, revealed through voices both poetic and analytic.”—Catherine Evleshin, Portland State University
Caribbean dance is a broad category that can include everything from nightclubs to sacred ritual. Making Caribbean Dance connects the dance of the islands with their rich multicultural histories and complex identities. Delving deep into the many forms of ritual, social, carnival, staged, experimental, and performance dance, the book explores some of the most mysterious and beloved, as well as rare and little-known, dance traditions of the region.
From the evolution of Indian dance in Trinidad to the barely known rituals of los misterios in the Dominican Republic, this volume looks closely at the vibrant and varied movement vocabulary of the islands. With distinctive and highly illuminating chapters on such topics as experimental dance makers in Puerto Rico, the government’s use of dance in shaping national identity in Barbados, the role of calypso and soca in linking Anglophone islands, and the invented dances of dance-hall kings and queens of Jamaica, this volume is an evocative and enlightening exploration of some of the world’s most dynamic dance cultures.
Use code AU1224 at checkout.
Or order by phone, 800.226.3822.
Discount valid until December 31, 2024.
Standard shipping fees apply. Offer valid for individuals only and cannot be applied to bookstore or library orders
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2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, Julie Lemberger, FF Alumns, at Studio 34 Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, opening Dec. 20
Studio Exhibit
Art of Christmas Past and Present
Opening Holiday Reception
Friday December 20th
6pm
Studio 34 Gallery
34-01 38th Ave
4th Floor
LIC Queens
featuring old and new works by
Yasmeen Abdallah
Marcy Chevali
James Cullinane
Mike Estabrook
Ianthe Jackson
Vandana Jain
Julie Lemberger
Rob Van Erve
Micki Watanabe Spiller
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3. Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Carl Andre, Jane Dixon, Nicole Eisenman, Allen Frame, Coco Fusco, Joseph Nechvatal, Miriam Schapiro, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum
The Contemporary Art collection of the Brooklyn Museum has seen particularly notable additions that broaden the histories, narratives, and perspectives therein. The Museum has gained its first paintings by a number of artists, including Derrick Adams, Peter Halley, Nicolas Party, and Winfred Rembert. Significant early sculptures by artists such as Joel Shapiro and Carl Andre and recent work by Antony Gormley and Kennedy Yanko have also joined the collection, as well as tour de forces by Mark di Suvero, Rashid Johnson, and Nicole Eisenman. Major time-based works by Carrie Mae Weems, Doug Aitken, Isaac Julien, and Coco Fusco have entered the collection as well.
View the Brooklyn Museum’s complete, December 2023–October 2024:
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5. Beatriz da Costa, Joan Jonas, Yong Soon Min, Richard Serra, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, FF Alumn, at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Jan. 21-Feb. 28, 2025
“Llevame Pa’l Monte (Take Me to the Mountains)”
Solo exhibition of recent works on paper by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
Tuesday, Jan 21-Feb 28, 2025
John and June Alcott Gallery, University North Carolina Chapel Hill
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7. Malcolm-x Betts, Nile Harris, FF Alumns, at Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY, Jan. 11-13, 2025
The Chocolate Factory Theater Presents
Malcolm-x Betts and Nile Harris
Temporary Boyfriend
Co-presented with Ping Chong and Company and Under The Radar Festival
January 11-13, 2025
Saturday through Monday at 7pm
@ The NEW Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, NYC 11101
7/N trains to Queensborough Plaza / F to 21st Queensbridge
December 11, 2024 – The Chocolate Factory Theater launches its Spring 2025 season with the premiere of Temporary Boyfriend, a new dance performance by Malcolm-x Betts and Nile Harris. Tickets may be purchased in advance at https://chocolatefactorytheater.org
In Temporary Boyfriend, Malcolm-x Betts and Nile Harris stage the nuanced poetics of their long-term collaboration. Longtime performers in one another’s work – including Niggas at Sundown (New York Live Arts) and this house is not a home (Abrons Arts Center), Betts and Harris render the friction and intrigue at the pith of their connection in this improvisatory duet.
Traversing every corner of The Chocolate Factory’s barren architecture, the pair address various touch points of relationality between Black gay men. From the kinship of ancestors lost to the AIDS epidemic, to contemporary manifestations of ephemeral gay brotherhood, Temporary Boyfriend is an intimate portrait of the aesthetics of proximity and estrangement; paying homage to an era of a New York dance and performance scene gone by, along with a generation of Gay men, artists, and mentors lost to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Within a dissonant environment of baby oil bottles, roving lights, rumbling synths, and chopped and screwed 90s R&B tunes, the duo moves from jerky isolations to virtuosic swings and releases, fleetingly citing popular Black social dances and aesthetics. Throughout, as Betts and Harris inhabit their familiar and intimate rapport, the work asks: Is this love for real or is it just a well constructed act? And if this is truth, why do we keep hurting each other?
Created and performed by Malcolm-x Betts and Nile Harris. Sound Design: GENG PTP. Scenic & Technical Direction: Dyer Rhoads.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Performed in works by Snoogybox (Andy Kobilka), Nile Harris, Moriah Evans and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.
Nile Harris is a performer and director of live works of art. He is an Artistic Leader at Ping Chong and Company and is currently working on commissions with Performance Space New York and The Chocolate Factory Theater. His recent work includes ‘this house is not a home’ (Abrons Arts Center, 2023) with Crackhead Barney & Malcolm-X Betts and ‘minor b’ (The Shed, 2024) with Jim Fletcher.
ABOUT PING CHONG AND COMPANY
PCC is a welcoming home and site of experimentation for multigenerational artists. The company creates original interdisciplinary, community-specific work; and cultivates artistry through training and education programs.
Originally, founded in New York City in 1975 by legendary theatrical innovator, Ping Chong, the company is now being transformed through a three-year transition period led by an Artistic Leadership Team comprised of Nile Harris, Jane Jung, Mei Ann Teo, Talvin Wilks, and Sara Zatz. Tasked with creating a forward moving model for PCC building on its 50 year legacy, this collective is centering consensus based, non-hierarchical leadership structures, while creating exciting dynamic works of art that meet the moment and speak to our times.
ABOUT UNDER THE RADAR
UNDER THE RADAR is New York City’s premier annual festival of experimental theater, featuring cutting-edge performances from around the world and across the U.S. The 20th edition of UTR will run from January 4-19, 2025 presenting over a dozen productions at various partner organizations across the city.
UNDER THE RADAR connects with the city, the nation, and the world through the voices of innovative multidisciplinary artists. The festival champions transparency, equity, and collaboration in creating new live works. It embodies global citizenship, fosters innovation, and provides a stage for new voices.
ABOUT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER
The Chocolate Factory Theater is an artist-centered organization, built by and for artists. Co-founders Sheila Lewandowski and Brian Rogers began making work together in 1995 and quickly saw the need for a creative home to support their work and the work of fellow experimental performance-based artists. The Chocolate Factory therefore has grown and developed within and through a creative process that centers the development of new work, as guided by makers.
The Chocolate Factory Theater exists to encourage and support performing artists in their process of inquiry. We engage with a community of artists who challenge themselves and, in doing so, challenge us. We believe that by supporting the labor of artists and the public presentation of their work, we contribute to elevating New York City as a thriving and more equitable wellspring of ideas.
The Chocolate Factory embraces artistic practice as an integral part of the artist’s whole life, an essential component of the life of our community and a key element of a larger national and international artistic dialogue. As such, we host artists as our equal partners with shared autonomy, trust and appreciation.
Since its founding in 2004, The Chocolate Factory Theater has supported the development and presentation of new work by a community of local, national and international artists working in dance, theater, performance, and related practices.
The Chocolate Factory Theater continues its pioneering commitment to addressing labor conditions within the independent performing arts community by paying all lead artists, performers, designers and technicians a fair hourly wage, on the books, for all rehearsal and production hours within our spaces.
An extensive archive of The Chocolate Factory’s past performances is freely available at vimeo.com/chocolatefactory.
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8. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, Feb. 8-Apr. 6, 2025 and more
FRANC PALAIA, FF Alumn, will be included in the 18th annual Hudson Valley artist survey exhibition at the Dorsky Museum of Art at Suny New Paltz, NY. The group exhibition entitled,
“Movement:Hudson Valley Artists 2025”. Show dates are Feb 8 – April 6, 2025. The curator is James Ransome, a nationally recognized painter and children’s book illustrator.
Palaia is also included in group shows at the Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY and the Garner Art Center in Haverstraw, NY where he will present a 20 year survey exhibition in May -June 2025.
Thanks and Buone Feste!
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9. Geoffrey Hendricks, FF Alumn, at Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Manhattan, extended thru Dec. 21
Geoffrey Hendricks
land / sky / dreams
Extended through Saturday, December 21
For more information and images please email klaus@klausgallery.com
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10. R Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, now online at BirdcageBottomBooks.com
New mini comics from Kriota and me,
available online from https://www.birdcagebottombooks.com/
Whaling Sketches by R. Sikoryak
56 sketchbook drawings of whaling, based on historical drawings and photos, many of which are related to Moby-Dick. Featuring ships, whales, and sailors in both realistic and fanciful scenes. Includes a bibliography of visual sources.
B&W on blue cover with B&W interior. Saddle-stitched.
5.5″ x 7.5″, 60 pages.
“Cadaver Chronicles” – Episode 3 by Kriota Willberg
Kriota’s anatomical and clinical practices saturate her professional and personal lives. This third episode describes Kriota’s training and appreciation of her patients’ anatomy. It also demonstrates how her anatomization of random people extended into an Iggy Pop concert, and how she finds he and her cats potentially have similar pathologies.
Size: 6.5” x 9.5” 16 pg. plus covers
Saddle stitched, full color.
Many of our earlier comics are still in print, including:
This mini combines the poetry of Robert Frost with the style of 1990’s noir comics.
“Leski And Nibs Decorate The Catsmas Tree” by Kriota Willberg
Leski and Nibs save Catsmas by holiday crafting…kitty style!
Our other minis can be found here:
https://www.birdcagebottombooks.com/collections/vendors?q=R.%20Sikoryak&sort_by=created-descending
Plus you can find my brother Joe’s When We Were Trekkies series and other works:
https://www.birdcagebottombooks.com/collections/vendors?q=Joe%20Sikoryak&sort_by=created-descending
Happy holidays!
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11. Kenneth King, FF Member, new article in TDR: The Drama Review
My wide-ranging article “On Performativity: Idols and Icons” has been published in the Dec./Winter issue of TDR: The Drama Review (NYU/ Performance Studies, MIT & Cambridge U. Presses).
TV, computer, internet, and media have greatly expanded the possibilities and parameters of theatre and performance. Happenings, multimedia works, and performance art as well as virtuosic impersonators and shape-shifting innovators including Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo, Anna Deavere Smith, Tracey Ullman, Barry Humphries, and Charles Pierce created mercurial, multi-character spectacles. The cultural fission of this performative synergy also encompasses maverick poets, painters, journalists, political activists, critics, and even a nonagenarian fashion model.
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12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Dec. 19
Galinsky presents
POETRY IN NEW YORK
now in its 3rd year the acclaimed
BOOK CLUB BAR – in NYC
This is NOT an open mic, all artists are curated and book ahead of time.
Thursday December 19th! A terrific line up of NY poets! 1st artist hits the mic at 8pm!
10 Curated POETS perform 5 Minutes Each – this month includes: Thaddeus Rutkowski, Madge Mayer, Monique Nieves, Juliette Zakrzewska, Amy Milin, Oliver Baer, Izzy Corwin, Sophie Steinberg all hosted by Galinsky and co-host Anna Carlson and Ian McFarland Music with Dig Ferreira on live action painting!
The show is PAY WHAT YOU CAN / FREE and all donations, here on Eventbrite and live at the venue, are accepted – your generosity at any level is valued. The show starts at 8pm and the Book Club cafe is a fine place to relax before and after the show.
Full bar and light snacks are available throughout the night, come early, stay late! Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street, NYC. Register soon because space is limited.
We hope you’re able to join us!
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13. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Alumn, at april april gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, thru Dec. 21
Muffler
Kai Jenrette
Cyrilla Mozenter
Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq
april april
through Dec 21
I am pleased for my work to be shown in this beautifully curated and installed exhibition.
Muffler includes recent hand stitched felt wall pieces and freestanding works from my More saints seen series, exhibited at the Aldrich Museum in 2005.
The ’saints’ are at play on a plinth with Kai Jenrette’s freestanding basswood sculptures, as the wall works converse with Kai’s graphite drawings on waxed newsprint.
It is an honor to show with Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, one of Canada’s most renowned Inuit artists, represented here by a felt wall hanging with shamanistic imagery.
Installation images on gallery website.
409 S. Trenton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
info@aprilapril.gallery / https://aprilapril.gallery
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14. C Carr, FF Alumn, now online at kirkusreviews.com
C. Carr’s book on Candy Darling has been named one of the best biographies of the year.
Please visit this link:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cynthia-carr/candy-darling
Thank you.
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15. Nancy Buchanan, Martha Rosler, FF Alumns, at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, thru Jan. 11, 2025
I will be showing with Martha Rosler and Paul McCarthy at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown, opening this Saturday, Dec. 14, 6-9. The show will be up till January 11th—hope some friends might see it! https://www.cjamesgallery.com/
Thank you. Nancy Buchanan
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16. Babs Reingold, FF ALumn, at Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL
Dear Friends
I’m honored to have
Fallout: Beauty Lost and Found – Hair Doodle 02/05
acquired by the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art with funds provided by Jim Sweeny
Special thanks to Jim Sweeny for this purchase
and Executive Director Christine Renc-Carter for her support
Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida
600 E Klosterman Rd, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
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17. Jane Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Older Adults Center, Manhattan, Dec. 20
December 20th – 1:30pm
Older Adults Center,
310 Greenwich St, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10031
Open & Free to Public
The Traveling Tap Museum is a mobile exhibition and set for presentations about tap dancing. In any location, the tap mat can roll out for “feets on” live performances by Goldberg and some of her colleagues. The dancers tell anecdotal stories about the pictures, sing songs and perform classic and modern tap routines. Check out Jane and Sarah Safford in a previous performance of the Traveling Tap Museum.
Jane will be joined by Sarah Safford, Michela Marino Lerman and Gabriella DiPiazza. The event is free and open to the public! Come join us.
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