Franklin Furnace’s Goings On
April 5, 2005
CONTENTS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1. Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, FF Alumn, at Jamaica Center for Arts, opening April 8
2. Josh Baer, Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Lehman Maupin, NY, opening April 15, 6-8 pm
3. MIX festival, April 7-12, and party at Le Petit Versailles, NY, April 10, 3-7 pm
4. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, opening April 15, 6-8 pm
5. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Shetler Studios, NY, April 10-12
6. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, May 2005 schedule of events
7. David Cale, FF Alumn, at The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, April 9-May 8
8. Nora York, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, April 16, and on AirAmerica radio April 9, 9 pm
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1. Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, FF Alumn, at Jamaica Center for Arts, opening April 8
LivePictures: The Digital World Animates Contemporary Art
Opening reception: April 8, 2005, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Exhibition: April 9 through June 4, 2005
Gallery Hours
Mondays thru Saturdays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Closed on Sundays and Holidays
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, New York 11432
E, J or Z train to Jamaica Center
For more information contact our Visitors Center at 718-658-7400 ext. 123.
Jamaica, Queens (March 24, 2005) JCAL features artists using digital technology in new media art. Works are categorized as animated, interactive and/or media or web-related. LivePictures: The Digital World Animates Contemporary Art is an examination of the impacts of multimedia/digital technology on creative artistic practice, curatorial presentation, and public reception. The exhibition explores the artwork that uses today’s advanced technology in a sophisticated manner for interaction, animation, and automation. For example, an interactive animation that invites encounters to move and engage with the work; an ecological installation that incorporates surveillance technology, making viewers aware of their movement and surroundings; or sculptural work that employs automatic mechanisms such as robotics. Keywords like game, surveillance, simulation, and automation guide the selection of works for the exhibition. All ages are invited to “log on”.
Participating artists include Shih-Chieh Huang, Eunjung Hwang, Ayran Kwang, Patricia McLaughlin, Marcin Ramocki, Daniel Rozin, Bill Viola, and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga.
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2. Josh Baer, Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Lehman Maupin, NY, opening April 15, 6-8 pm
L’Art de Vivre, curated by Suzanne Demisch and Josh Baer, FF Alumn, opens April 15th from 6-8 pm and continues thru May 14, 2005 in the South gallery. It includes work by Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, FF Alumns,
540 W. 26th Street
New York City
info@lehmanmaupin.com
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3. MIX festival, April 7-12, and party at Le Petit Versailles, NY, April 10, 3-7 pm
YOU are invited to join us at Le Petit Versailles garden for a MIX Special Performance Series Kick Off Event. meet and greet with MIX performers, filmmakers, friends & crew. Sunday April 10th, 3 – 7 pm
Le Petit Versailles – 346 East Houston Street or 247 East 2nd Street (between B & C). Please come help kick off our special evening of performances in the garden of unearthly delights! Bloody Fairy Marys! Videos and more! Performances are at Anthology Film Archives – Courthouse Theater and begin at 8:30pm.
Mix Festival APRIL 7-12, 2005.
This year’s Mix Festival – New York’s only queer and trans multimedia festival. The queer and trans artists that we feature are amazing, the work is important, and you’re guaranteed a good time! It’s going to be tons of fun! Please go to the website: http://www.mixnyc.org — and check out the FULL SCHEDULE of all the films and videos….
The Mix Festival is coming!
As most of you know I am the art director for this year’s Mix Festival – New York’s only queer and trans multimedia festival. The queer and trans artists that we feature are amazing, the work is important, and you’re guaranteed a good time!
I have put my blood, sweat, and time into making this one of the best Mix Festivals ever, and I am hoping you all come and bring friends and support us.
It’s going to be tons of fun!
Please go to the website: http://www.mixnyc.org — and check out what we have to offer
HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS:
Opening day festivities APRIL 7th Thursday:
CAKE – (COLLECTING ACTION AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVERY DAY)
video/performance installation
Ann Carlson & Mary Ellen Strom
Opening Reception: 6 – 8 pm
Friday & Saturday (April 8th & 9th) 12 – 8pm
131 Beekman St (corner of Beekman & Front St, near Fulton St. Subway)
in the South Street Seaport Free!
MIX is proud to kick-off with -Cake- a new site-specific video and performance installation being developed by video maker Mary Ellen Strom and choreographer Ann Carlson, installed in a 5,000 square foot empty retail store on the corner of Beekman and Front streets at New York City’s South Street Seaport. Using video projection, site, and performance, Cake explores the source-to-use trajectory of the apparel industry; presenting the labor, the environmental impact, and the economic/ethical complexities that face contemporary consumers.
APRIL 7th – THURSDAY NIGHT –
Opening Night PARTY!
Shorts Program Screening 9:30 – 11
Open Bar 11 – 12
Drink Specials all night and giveaways!
GoGo Dancers and Performances @ Midnight
Location: Gallery Bar (7 East 27th St.)
15$
We will be showing our shorts program titled “Really Fucking Good” (and they all are). After the shorts program the party will kick into high gear with an open bar and multiple film & video projections, from the Factory era to the present, and performances by local favorites all set to the sounds of Short Bus crew stalwarts Stephen Winter & DJ Hi Kevin. GoGo Dancers! Make-Out Room! Ya! Come celebrate our beautiful selves and the era that triggered the Culture Wars. Be sure to push your way into the screen tests happening in the VIP lounge courtesy of Kodak and grab a tasteful DVD, compliments of the evenings Sponsor – Treasure Island Media.
LTTR/MIX
APRIL 8th – FRIDAY NIGHT – 9pm
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave at 2nd Street)This program brings together herstorical films and videos as well as recent pieces by contemporary artists. The program will end with live performances, including the premiere of a new collaboration by Wynne Greenwood (of Tracy and the Plastics) and K8 Hardy, titled New Report. In this prformance, Greenwood and Hardy create their own feminist news channel, exploring utopic and banal journalistic endeavors.
ODD ONES OUT -APRIL 8th, FRIDAY @ 7pm AND
APRIL 12th, TUESDAY @ 9pm
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave at 2nd Street)
ODD ONES OUT follows the lives of three transgender teens living in New York City over the course of 4 years. Through vibrant, verite footage and home video diaries, this film exposes their day-to-day battle with family intolerance, homelessness, sex work, violence and harassment. In a raw, self-preserving effort to define themselves, by testing and pushing the gender barometer, Naomi, David and Tot are redefining society’s perception of trans people against all odds
MIX IN REAL TIME – NIGHT OF QUEER/TRANS PERFORMANCE ART
Sunday April 10th at @ 9pm
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave at 2nd Street)
Curator Morty Diamond dazzles you with a cornucopia of queer and trans performance and multi-media mayhem titled Mix In Real Time. The show starts off with a puppet show between the legs of the fabulous performance artist Cuntessa. It’s puppetry mixed with a little pussy power! Chelsea Starr, San Francisco’s own storyteller with a rhinestone heart with a performance called Tickle Tickle Tickle that will make you scream with laughter and make you gag at the same time. Breathtakingly sexy performance artist Ben McCoy lap dances the audience in half with wit, stilettos, and a razor sharp tongue. Boston artist Peter Pizzi spins heartbreaking and hilarious narratives in photographic montage about blind love and hustler boyfriends. The evening continues with piercing performance art by Ray Aims and Crystal Goldmine, and Queer South Asian sex worker / performer, Ronica performs her piece Survival, a stand up comedy piece about sex work. Performer Heather Acs weaves self discovery, past lives and family history into a brilliant collage of words. The night ends with the ring master himself, the Prince in Pink, Morty Diamond with a piece about living through 2005 wearing only the color pink.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
Thanks!
Morty
Please visit http://myyearinpink.blogs.com the website all about my living art performance “My Year In Pink”
From the Inside Out, FTM and Beyond anthology edited by Morty Diamond on sale now at Amazon.com click link below
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0916397963/qid=1091479358/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-2071218-5628023?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
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4. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, opening April 15, 6-8 pm
Doug Beube is participating in a group exhibition celebrating,
30 Years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition
History at the Center for Books Arts 1974-2004
Organized by J.J. Rossman, guest curator
Opening reception is Friday, April 15th, 6-8pm,
Exhibition is on view until July 1st, 2005
The Center for Book Arts
28 W. 27th St (betw 6th Ave and B’way), 3rd Fl
NY, NY 10001
212-481-0295
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5. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Shetler Studios, NY, April 10-12
Friends, I know this is last minute, and some of you have already seen this, but . . . what can I say, it’s the year of the revival . . . and this piece with different gender casting should be very, very different. Happy Spring!
Alvin
You are cordially invited to
“The Night Jackie Chan Saved My Life”
an excerpt from the musical,
“The Chinatown Bachelor Society”
Book and lyrics by Alvin Eng
Music by Tony Angeles
with:
Jimmy Chu & Nancy Wu
Directed by Kathleen O’Neill
As part of
Slices of Life
… a Cabaret with everything on it!
A Flavorful Evening of New Music, Stories and Short Plays Delivered to you by Playwrights/Actors Contemporary Theater
Theater 54 at Shetler Studios
244 West 54th Street
12th floor
(Bet. B’way & 8th Ave.)
Sunday, Monday & Tuesday
April 10th, 11th & 12th*
@ 8pm
*Tuesday’s performance is dedicated to The Boys from Sudan in America. So remember to bring a blank check or extra cash to make a worthy, tax-deductible donation!
Reservations (212) 981- 8952
$12 suggested donation
www.alvineng.com
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6. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, May 2005 schedule of events
A SIZZLING SHAKTI CIRCLE WITH DONNA HENES, URBAN SHAMAN
A ceremony of alignment on Friday the 13th, an especially significant day for Goddess Power. A rousing evening of stimulating empowerment for women only. Please be really red! Advance reservations required. $20. Friday, May 13, at 7:30PM. Mama Donna’s Tea Garden and Healing Haven, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Contact: Mama Donna’s (718) 857-1343
HEALING CIRCLE
Healing ourselves, each other, and our mutual Mother Earth. If you can’t make it in person, feel free to send the names of those you would like us to include in the ceremony and of course, wherever you are, please join your energy with ours as we send out our best blessings for physical, mental, spiritual and environmental well-being for us all. FREE May 18, Wednesday 7:30pm. Mama Donna’s Tea Garden & Healing Haven, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Contact (718) 857-1343.
MAMA DONNA’S SPIRIT SHOP OPEN DAY
We have a unique selection of ceremonial tools and supplies. Charms, talismans, amulets, ritual tools, rare botanicals, books, CD’s, and Mama Donna’s Own Blend of Blessing Oils. May 21, Saturday from12-6pm. Mama Donna’s Tea Garden & Healing Haven, Park Slope, Brooklyn. For directions, contact (718) 857-1343.
FULL FLOWER MOON DRUMMING CIRCLE WITH DONNA HENES, URBAN SHAMAN
Beautiful bouquets bursting with brilliant potential. Flower Power! Floral attire, please. Advance reservations required. $20. Monday, May 23, at 7:30PM. Mama Donna’s Tea Garden and Healing Haven, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Contact: Mama Donna’s (718) 857-1343
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7. David Cale, FF Alumn, at The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, April 9-May 8
DAVID CALE’S COUNTRY WESTERN MUSICAL HAS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE GOODMAN THEATRE, CHICAGO
The Goodman Theatre
Presents the World Premiere of
FLOYD AND CLEA UNDER THE WESTERN SKY
Book and Lyrics by David Cale
Music by Jonathan Kreisberg and David Cale
Sets by Jeff Cowie
Lighting by Rui Rita
Costumes by David Woolard
Sound Design by Andre Pluis and Ray Nardelli
Directed by Michael Wilson
from April 9 to May 8, 2005
Floyd, a middle aged, washed up singer/songwriter, retreats to Montana’s badlands in a beat-up Studebaker. Just as he’s coming to terms with the downward spiral that’s become his life, he meets Clea, an aspiring country singer. From there, all the twists and turns of life and love begin anew for Floyd.
David Cale, whose history with the Goodman includes the captivating, one person shows ‘Lillian’, ‘The Redthroats’ and ‘Smooch Music’, stars as Floyd. Making her professional debut, Faryl Millet co-stars as Clea for this world premiere.
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8. Nora York, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, April 16, and on AirAmerica radio April 9, 9 pm
Saturday April 16th Come CELEBRATE with Nora York & her amazing band at Joe’s Pub! The national release of the new CD WHAT I WANT
On her NEW ArtistShare site!
For all Things Nora York
www.norayork.com
Go there now!!1
The celebration is at
JOES pub……The Public Theater
performance starts at 7pm….
April 16th
7pm
20$
475 Lafayette St.
doors open at 6 !
Box Office 212.539.8778
Telecharge 212.239.6200
www.telecharge.com
www.joespub.com
Seating limited — Reservations suggested!
SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
The Amazing Band!
Claire Daly — Baritone Sax
Charlie Giordano — Accordion
Dave Hofstra — Bass
Jamie Lawrence — piano
Sherryl Marshall –voice
Allison Miller — Drums
Steve Tarshis — guitar
AND
SATURDAY APRIL 9th
9PM —
With Laura Flanders
AIR AMERICA
1190 AM in New York
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