Franklin Furnace’s Goings On
February 6, 2004
CONTENTS:
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1. Megan Krigbaum, FF Intern Alumn, at The Culture Project, starting Feb. 6
2. Jacki Apple, Jeff McMahon, FF Alumns, at CAA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Feb. 21
3. Collective Unconscious presents Puke, February 13, midnight
4. Bill Beirne, FF Alumn, in the French Alps, Feb. 9-15
5. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, stands eggs on end, South Street Seaport, March 20.
6. Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, at CAA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Feb. 19, 5:30 pm
7. Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumn, at CBGB Art Gallery, opening Feb. 5, 8 pm
8. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at the Queens Museum of Art, Feb. 15, 2 and 4 pm
9. Peggy Diggs, FF Alumn, new public art project at Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
10. Raul Zamudio, FF Alumn, at White Box, Feb. 13, 6:30-8 pm
11. Susana Cook, FF Alumn, at Educational Alliance Art School., Feb. 13
12. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, new documentary film at PS 122, Feb. 29, 5 pm
13. Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, at Ohio Theatre, Feb. 6-22.
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1. Megan Krigbaum, FF Intern Alumn, at The Culture Project, starting Feb 6
Meryl Streep and The Culture Project present
Sarah Jones
Bridge And Tunnel
Written and Performed by Sarah Jones
Megan Krigbaum, FF Intern Alumn, props
Directed by Tony Taccone
“A Master of the Genre” The New York Times.
Previews begin February 6
SARAH JONES BRIDGE AND TUNNEL is the story of the American Dream as seen through the personas of fourteen characters, each with a distinct voice. A charismatic male Pakistani accountant, a Chinese mother adjusting to her daughter’s alternative lifestyle, and a young Latina with a quick wit and an even faster tongue are but a few of Jones’s gallery of characters. This chorus of voices emanates from the reaches of New York’s boroughs with origins far beyond the city’s limits. “Sarah Jones first burned her astonishing characters into my consciousness three years ago… She created a series of portraits that were as visually arresting as the work of Cindy Sherman, but they spoke and moved and invented on the spot. Her writer’s gift is equal to her talents as an actress. Her compassionate, tough and hilarious take on what makes us different as human beings and the commonality we can’t deny is unique in my experience.” – Meryl Streep
Preview Performances – All Seats $25
Post opening – Special Ticket Price $35
Preview Performances (2/6 through 2/18) — Tickets $25
Post-Opening (2/20 through 2/29) — Tickets $35 reserved seating (regular price $45)
General Admission seating – Tickets $25
Conditions: *Cast subject to change without notice. Regular phone service charges apply. All seats subject to availability. A $1.00 theatre restoration fee will be added to the price of each ticket. All sales are final. No refunds, exchanges, or retroactive discounts. Limit 8 tickets per order. Offer may be revoked at any time.
For more information, visit www.45bleecker.com or call the box office at 212-253-9983
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2. Jacki Apple, Jeff McMahon, FF Alumns, at CAA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Feb 21
Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, will be chairing a panel on “Collaborative Teaching of Collaboration: teaching interdisciplinary digital media and performance” for the College Art Association Annual Meeting, Saturday February 21. Included in the panel is FF alum Jacki Apple, along with Patricia Clark, Gwyan Rhabyt, Petra Kuppers, and Frank Barber.
http://www.collegeart.org —Jeff McMahon will be performing the role of Gaev in Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, directed by Marshall Mason at Arizona State University, February 19-28. http://theatre.asu.edu/home.html Jeff McMahon Director, MFA Performance Program Theatre Department Arizona State University POB 872002, Tempe, AZ 85287-2002 (480) 965-9444 jeffmcm@earthlink.net www.jeffmcmahonprojects.ne
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3. Collective Unconscious presents Puke, February 13, midnight
Imnotlost.net presents:
PUKE
$7 BYOB
On FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13th at MIDNIGHT
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
145 Ludlow St. NYC
F train to Delancey or 2nd Ave
In deference to Valentine’s Day, imnotlost presents ‘PUKE’, on Friday February 13th at MIDNIGHT. A romping affair filled with your beer, our spectacle, and puppets’ puke will be hosted by Raise Plow, your Slutty Puppet Mistress, and filled with very many “CLEARLY RECOGNIZABLE PUKE MOMENTS”. Featuring: Tiny Ninja puppets, trembling breasts, barfing helicoptors, a tribute to modern dance, toy piano, a dissertation on the relationship between the act of puking and kinetic energy at the republican national convention with puppets, and some VERY SPECIAL GUESTS of unparalleled glory including : Lady Lyndsey: with poppet people, Tiny Ninja Master: Dov Weinstein, A. Richard Whipper: ‘A Man in Heels’, World Famous Karoake Star: ALEXIS, and OTHER AMAZING GUEST STARS! ! Imnotlost
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4. Bill Beirne, FF Alumn, in the French Alps, Feb 9-15
Bill Beirne, FF Alumn, on “Reconnaissance Mission” to Art 3, Rhone – Alps, Fr. Feb 9 through 15 in anticipation of full deployment of his T’ai Chi Army this spring.
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5. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, stands eggs on end, South Street Seaport, March 20
Eggs On End: Standing On Ceremony
29th Annual World Famous Vernal Equinox Celebration
With Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Part of “A Year on the Pier” celebrating the seasons at the South Street Seaport. This is an Especially Celestially Auspicious Occasion, as the New Pink Moon falls on the Equinox. (free) March 20, Saturday (Friday night/ Saturday morning) 1:30 am event,1:49 am Equinox moment. Being held at the South Street Seaport; PIER 16, Manhattan
Mama Donna’s: (718) 857-2247
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6. Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, at CAA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Feb 19, 5:30 pm
Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, presents a new performance at the upcoming College Art Association Annual Conference in Seattle. Dahn Hiuni presents a new performance at the upcoming CAA Conference in Seattle, as part of a panel entitled “Diversity in the Classroom.” Thursday, February 19th at 5:30, Seattle Convention Center.
In this new mixed-media performance titled “A Perfect Model,” the otherwise anonymous historical figure who served as model for Leonardo’s famous Study of Human Proportions According to Vitruvius, suddenly comes alive. Set against projected images and period music, the model delivers a riveting, behind-the-scenes monologue, describing his work with the great master, their lively debates, and their illicit affair which led to the artist’s three-month incarceration. The jarring incongruities which emerge between this icon of canonical Western culture and his very human counterpart, poignantly attest to the discrepancies inherent in art historical doctrines and their lingering subtext. In a paper following the performance, Hiuni makes a case for broadening conventional treatments of art historical images by rigorously contextualizing them.
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7. Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumn, at CBGB Art Gallery, opening Feb 5, 8 pm
Dear Friends. As promised, Another Hilbertz Doll (“Cinched Lady”) will be presented in Another Show. Please come if you can. You know I love to see Your Smiling Face.
“The Terrible Toy Fair Ii”
Thurs. Feb. 5 – Sat. Feb. 28, 2004
Opening Thurs. Feb. 5, 8 Pm Onwards.
CBGB Art Gallery
313 Bowery
Nyc
I look forward to seeing you play with terrible toys…Halona
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8. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at the Queens Museum of Art, Feb 15, 2 and 4 pm
Sunday Feb. 15th, 2004: 2 PM and 4 PM
Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, directs multi-ethnic actors in a reading of stories from Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America. Sunday, Feb. 15th at the Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Park for the Crossing the BLVD exhibition of photographs by Warren Lehrer and sound stations produced by Judith Sloan with compositions by Sloan/Lehrer and Scott Johnson. On view on the second floor Unisphere Gallery through March 28th, 2004. Joan Jonas exhibition; Five Works on view on the first floor. http://www.crossingtheblvd.org or http://queensmuseum.org
718-592-9700
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9. Peggy Diggs, FF Alumn, new public art project at Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
Peggy Diggs, FF Alumn, has a four-component public project in a new exhibition “Borne of Necessity” at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. The exhibition, an exploration of poverty and being without, opened January 14, 2004. Curated by Ron Platt, the show also includes work by Julie Ault and Martin Beck (Outdoor Systems), Anthony Hernandez, Tom Hunter, Marjetica Potrc, Michael Rakowitz, Camilo José Vergara, Ken Lum, Samuel Mockbee/Rural Studios, and the artists’ collective Temporary Services (with Dave Whitman).
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10. Raul Zamudio, FF Alumn, at White Box, Feb 13, 6:30-8 pm
Panel on 2/13 from 6:30-8:00 pm on the work of Dennis Oppenheim and the exhibtion, Dennis Oppenheim: Armatures for Projection, the Early Factory Projects, curated by Raul Zamudio, @ White Box on view form 1/16-2/14.
Panelists: Eleanor Heartney, contributing editor, Art in America; Dennis Oppenheim; Dr. Steven Poser, practicing psychoanalyst and faculty member, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; and Raul Zamudio, Curatorial Director, White Box; correspondent, Flash Art; foreign correspondent, Art Nexus.
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11. Susana Cook, FF Alumn, at Educational Alliance Art School., Feb 13
Susana Cook, FF Alumn, will be reading Excerpts from a show that is not written yet
Friday February 13, 7pm
At The Educational Alliance Art School
197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002 (Bus:M-9,M-15,M-22,m-14 Subway:F
train to East Broadway or J,M,Z to Delancey) 212-780-2300 ext.378
FREE
Reception and discussion with the artist are included.
This presentation is co-sponsored by The Artists and Audiences exchange, a public service program of The New York Foundation for The Arts.
Susana Cook is a recipient of the 2003 fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts in Poetry. She is the author of numerous plays, including Spic for Export, Dykenstein, Hamletango, Gross National Product, Conga Guerrilla Forest, Hot Tamale and Tango Lesbiango. She will be reading excerpts from her upcoming show “100 Years of Attitude”.
website: http://susanacook.com
Voice mail: 212-631-3609
email: susana.cook@mindspring.com
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12. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, new documentary film at PS 122, Feb 29, 5 pm
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
You are invited to see the premier of my new documentary film, “Homecoming – Celebrating 20 Years of Dance at P.S. 122”, which will be screened at Performance Space 122 at 5 pm on Sunday February 29, 2004. P.S. 122 is located at 150 First Avenue (9th Street) in New York City. For more info call 212-477-5288. Please forward this email to anyone who might be interested
“Homecoming” chronicles the origins and evolution of Performance Space 122 in New York City and the downtown dance scene it helped to spawn. Shot in 1980 on the occasion of P.S. 122’s 20th season the film takes a close look at 10 leading, post-modern choreographers who had created some of their seminal works at P.S. 122 – Ron Brown, Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Dancenoise, Mark Dendy, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Monson, Charles Moulton, Sally Silvers and Doug Varone and places their work within the context of a larger community of artists who were instrumental in expanding the boundaries of contemporary dance and performance. “Homecoming” follows these choreographers as they returned to P.S. 122 for a special taping of selected dances from their repertories and captures their reflections on both their work and their relationship to the institution that nurtured them. Combining new and archival performance clips, interviews with the artists, commentary by Deborah Jowitt of the Village Voice, Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times, Joseph Melillo the Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Artistic Director Mark Russell and P.S 122 co-founders Charles Moulton, Charles Dennis & Tim Miller, the film illuminates a portrait of a fertile dance scene and a ground breaking institution that contributed mightily to its development. Performance photography by Dona Ann McAdams and original music by John Zorn are also integral elements of the film. The running time of “Homecoming” is 56 minutes.
Following the screening there will be a discussion, moderated by Ishmael Houston-Jones. I will participate joined by various artists and commentators featured in the film. Together with the audience we will engage in a dialogue about P.S. 122 and dance/performance then, now and in the future.
I hope to see you at the premier.
p.s. if you can’t make the screening “Homecoming” is available on vhs and dvd at www.charlesdennis.net
best wishes,
Charles Dennis
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13. Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, at Ohio Theatre, Feb 6-22
Soho Think Tank presents
Mother’s Little Helper
written and performed by
Lenora Champagne
“Smart and charismatic – genuinely funny.” – Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
“Treacherously insightful – sardonic and poignant – slightly wacky. AmericanTheatreWeb.com
In the age of Bush and Ashcroft, a woman draws on her Louisiana roots (and a 1950’s guide to the facts of life) to help raise her daughter in a world fraught with post-9/11, pre-adolescent danger.
directed by Robert Lyons
producing director: Erich Jungwirth
Feb. 6-22 Thurs-Sat 8 p.m., Sun 5 p.m.
Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster Street
Tickets: $15 ($10 for students/seniors)
Smartix.com or 212.868.4444
info at sohothinktank.org or 212.966.4844
(for student groups, please call 212.966.4844)
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