Franklin Furnace’s Goings On
June 16, 2005
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1. We regret to announce the passing of Sharon Gilbert, FF Alumn
2. Olivia Beens, Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumns, at FusionArts Museum, NY, Opening TONITE, 7-10 pm
3. Ann Carlson, Jennifer Miller, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumns, at Movement Research Gala, June 20
4. Leon Golub, Komar & Melamid, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill, Nancy Spero, at Esso Gallery and Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, reception June 22, 6-8 pm
5. Stefanie Trojan, FF Alumn, at Rathausgalerie, Munich, opening June 17, 7 pm
6. Ken Butler, Julia Heyward, Koosil Ja, FF Alumns, at Location One festival
7. R. Sikoryak, D. Skinner, FF Alumns, at Flux Factory, Queens, June 18
8. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, at Cinders Gallery, Williamsburg, opening June 17
9. Hans Haacke, FF Alumn, at The New School, June 20
10. Barbara Hammer, FF Alumn, at Maya Stendhal Galler, opening June 23
11. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, at Jeu de Paume, Paris, thru August 28
12. Heidi House Arneson, FF Alumn, at Bryant Lake Bowl, MN, July 2, 9, 16, 23
13. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at Spoken Words Café, Brooklyn, June 17, 8 pm
14. Yuliya Lanina, FF Member, at Figureworks, Brooklyn, opening June 24
15. Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Denes, Leon Golub, Les Levine, Sol Lewitt, Dominic McGill, Matt Mullican, Richard Nonas, Nancy Spero, Javier Tellez, Lawrence Weiner, Raul Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Venice Biennale, thru Nov. 6
16. Robert C. Morgan, FF Alumn, at Mike Weiss Gallery, NY, opening June 18, 6-8
17. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at SF MoMA, June 29-July 29
18. Beth Lapides, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Juvie Hall and P.S. 122, NY, June 21-27
19. Willoughby Sharp, FF Alumn, now at Chelsea Space, London
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1. We regret to announce the passing of Sharon Gilbert, FF Alumn
Franklin Furnace is sad to announce the passing of Sharon Gilbert, a dedicated collage artist and book maker. Ars longa vita brevis.
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2. Olivia Beens, Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumns, at FusionArts Museum, NY, Opening TONITE, 7-10 pm
FusionArts Museum presents What a Relief, a group show exploring the art of relief in fusion art. Thursday, June 16 through Thursday, September 1, 2005 in the main gallery. Sewbirds, a solo fusion art installation by artist Maggie Ens will be on exhibit Wednesday, June 1 through Sunday, July 31, 2005 in gallery B.
Opening reception for both exhibits on Thursday, June 16, 2005, 7 – 10 PM
What a Relief is a new group exhibit at FusionArts Museum in which multidisciplinary (aka fusion) artists explore the role of relief in fusion art. Fusion art is an art form that fuses the artistic disciplines as opposed to merely mixing artistic media. Fusion is art that combines painting, sculpture, sculptural found objects, electric light, movement, text and video projection. The art on exhibit in What a Relief isn’t content to be restrained by and contained within the four sides of a canvas. It protrudes out of itself and breaks free in the mind’s eye of the viewer. It is proof that the contemporary art world isn’t all flat.
What a Relief will be on exhibit at FusionArts Museum in gallery A from Thursday, June 16 through Thursday, September 1, 2005. Featured artists are Beth Bailis, Olivia Beens, Carl Caivano, Thom Corn, Ismael Cosme, Jocelyn Fiset, Nicola Frangione, Liu Guangyun, Rene Hinds, Dara Holtzman, Hoop (in collaboration with Sandra Swieder), Julius Klein, Ivan Kustura, Raphael Rosario-Laguna, Joe Maynard, Phil Rostek, Harro Schmidt, Shalom, Spy, Roy Urban, Helga Von Eichen, Tomasz Wendland, Krzysztof Zarebski and Antony Zito.
Sewbirds, a solo fusion art installation by artist Maggie Ens will be on exhibit Wednesday, June 1 through Sunday, July 31, 2005 in gallery B.
FusionArts Museum is the only contemporary art space in New York City dedicated to showing fusion art exclusively.
These exhibitions were made possible in part through the generosity of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYSCA) and were sponsored by Converging Arts Media Organization, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 arts organization that brings innovative art and arts related events to the Lower East Side of New York City. 57 Stanton Street New York, NY 10002 p: (212) 995-5290 ƒ: (212) 388-0276 •
www.fusionartsmuseum.org
www.artnet.com/gallery/15375/FusionArts_Museum.html
Deborah Fries, Director
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3. Ann Carlson, Jennifer Miller, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumns, at Movement Research Gala, June 20
Dear art and performance lovers, supporters and makers,
On MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2005
Honorary co-chairs Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
& the Movement Research Board of Directors
invite you to the Movement Research
2005 GALA: Becoming
honoring Laurie Uprichard, Executive Director of Danspace Project & tireless advocate for contemporary dance artists and organizations
For those of you who don’t know, Movement Research is one of the premier artist-centered dance service organization in downtown NYC. Founded in 1978, the organization’s activities support the emerging aesthetics of the art form today, providing creative residencies for emerging and established choreographers; performance opportunities that foreground investigation and process; and free and low-cost activities in the areas of education – a biannual Performance Journal, classes, workshops, public forums, and artist-in-schools programs.
MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2005
6-8pm Dinner
Celebrity Chefs Tere O’Connor and Guy Yarden prepare dinner at Superfine in Dumbo
Performances by Ann Carlson and Philip Hamilton
Lawrence Goldhuber as Dinner Maestro
$150-$250 and up
9pm Performance and Party
doors open at 8:30pm
at STREB@S.L.A.M. (Streb Lab for Action Mechanics) in Williamsburg
Performances by Eleanor Bauer, Juliette Mapp, Yvonne Meier/GOGOLOREZ, Stephen Petronio, and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group MC Jennifer Miller of Circus Amok plus dancing to a DJ’s mix
$25-$50
To purchase tickets to the dinner or to the party, please let me know and I can reserve them for you. You can also go to www.movementresearch.org and do it yourself.
If you would like to make a contribution to Movement Research in honor of this event, you can also do it through me or the Movement Research website.
No amount is too small, or too big.
Here’s more info:
Movement Research
Office address: Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W. 19th St. (7th & 8th Ave)
Mailing address: P.O. Box 49, Old Chelsea Station, New York NY 10113
phone: 212.598.0551, hotline: 212.539.2611, fax: 212.633.1974
email: info@movementresearch.org
www.movementresearch.org
I hope to see you at the Gala!
XOXO
Eleanor Dubinsky
Honorary Gala Committee
in formation
Elizabeth Berger
Elise Bernhardt
Trisha Brown
Karen Brosius
Ellie Covan
Molly Davies
Anne Dennin
Emmanuelle de Montgazon
Cathy Edwards
Vallejo Gantner
Jennifer Goodale
David Gordon
Deborah Hay
Bill T. Jones
Cynthia Mayeda
Joseph V. Melillo
Meredith Monk
Polly Motley
Marianne Pohle
Mark Russell
Valda Setterfield
Linda Shelton
Jim Staley
Martin Wechsler
Micki Wesson
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4. Leon Golub, Komar & Melamid, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill, Nancy Spero, at Esso Gallery and Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, reception June 22, 6-8 pm
The exhibition will be on view to July 30 at Esso Gallery and Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, 531 West 26th street, 2nd floor. The artist’s reception will be on June 22, 2005, 6-8 PM.
ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible
“They made a desert, and they called it peace.”
– Tacitus, 37 AD
“What the world would best remember of 1945 was the deadly mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future…In such a world who dared to be optimistic?”
The Bomb and the Man, Time, 21 Dec. 1945
Esso Gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts are pleased to present a collaborative group show entitled ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible, based on a project by curator Ombretta Agro’ Andruff.
On July 25, 1945 the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. On August 6th, 1945 the rest of the world was awakened to the specter of the nuclear apocalypse: a new and unimaginable force had been unleashed and the threat that all life could come to a sudden and horrific end became a reality.
August 6th, 2005 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings and in conjunction with a series of commemorative events in New York City, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible pays homage to the power of art and its continuing relevance to engage the public in a dialogue about war and peace.
ATOMICA brings together a group of international artists of different backgrounds and generations in an interactive dialog on the subject of nuclear threat which is as much of a presence today as it was sixty years ago. This exhibition features artists for whom the nuclear narrative has provided inspiration for their entire artistic production in addition to other emerging and established artists who under the current political climate have found a voice and mechanism to express their discontent. From didactic to sublime, this exhibition is an awareness platform from where the audience can, in response to a past catastrophic event, understand and react to a present and future danger.
Participating artists include: Shiva Ahmadi, Jesse Bransford, Chris Burden, Davide Cantoni, Sarah Ciraci’, Julian Dashper, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Carlos Garaicoa, Joy Garnett, Leon Golub, Ingo Gunther, Mark Handelmann, Keith Haring, Alfredo Jaar, Marguerite Kahrl, Peter Kennard, Komar + Melamid, Seitaro Kuroda + Hironobu Yamabe, Molly Larkey, Cristobal Lehyt, Ellen K. Levy, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill, Curtis Mitchell, Nobuho Nagasawa, Taras Polataiko, Robert Polidori, Michael Rakowitz, Lisi Raskin, Wilhelm Sasnal, Francesco Simeti, Nancy Spero, Hiroshi Sunairi and John Timberlake.
In conjunction with the ATOMICA exhibition a continuous program of film and video screenings will feature rarely seen documentaries and films by: Stefano Cagol, Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruck, Andreas Samland, Motohashi Seiichi, Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor, Mark Waller, Kathleen Sullivan, Robert Richter, Stan Warnow,and Muratbek Jumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva.
For more information please contact Esso Gallery www.essogallery.com, T: 212-560 9728 or
Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, T: 212-967 0669, www.lombard-freid.com
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5. Stefanie Trojan, FF Alumn, at Rathausgalerie, Munich, opening June 17, 7 pm
ghostAkademie june 17 to july 2nd Rathausgalerie munich
opening june 17th 7pm
a project of Uli Aigner, with Lisa Erb, Tobias Yves Zintel und Matze Görig, Peggy Meinfelder, Franka Kaßner, Franziksa Schwarz, Anna Witt, Anna Mc Carthy, Stefanie Trojan, Florian Simon Winter, Daniela Leiter and Markus Merkle with nosugar added filmproduction/Vienna: Michal Kosakowski.
the ghostAkademie is built up arround 13 students/graduates of the academy of fine arts in munich. The content of teaching is condensed of the work of the artists. The chairs are: Horror Vacui, film, product, politik, matter, every day life, attempt, superficiality, body, practical (relative) theory, faith. The “lectures” will start with the exhibition in terms of videolectures. In addition there are 12screenings of the ghostProfessures and one guest ghostProfessor. a “university calender” is published with the opening. The poster and the invitation is a time table.
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6. Ken Butler, Julia Heyward, Koosil Ja, FF Alumns, at Location One festival
Roulette 2005
Festival of Mixology
at Location One
20 Greene Street tel. 212.334.3347
between Canal and Grand Street
2 blocks west of Broadway
8:30 p.m. · $12 at the door
Students, Seniors, Location One, Harvestworks and DTW Members $8
Roulette members free
www.roulette.org
Reservations 212.219.8242
All subways to Canal Street
Thursday June 16 Nicolas Collins
returns to his old hometown for the premiere presentation of rev. 3.0 of his “Trombone-Propelled Electronics” (the original having been run over by a taxi at Schipol Airport, while its replacement chose to retire Garboishly.) Live signal processing with a telltale whiff of the old Victrola. Special guest musician Kato Hideki.
Friday June 17 mpld
prepared and processed slide projectors. The photoacoustic continuum of mpld’s projection slowly flows into the performance space carrying fragments from unidentified places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory’s subjective persistence, as light and darkness keep carving out each one from the other. Presented in association with Phonomena.
Saturday June 18 Marina Rosenfeld
Combining her interests in graphic notation, unconventional instrumental techniques, live musical performance and video, Marina Rosenfeld’s new project will generate a composition from an animated video projection-as-score. Rosenfeld’s previous work has included large-scale, multi-player performance works she calls orchestras–‘the emotional orchestra’, ‘the sheer frost orchestra’– and video projections fabricated from original silent Super-8 footage.
Sunday June 19 David Behrman
will perform two quiet multi-channel pieces, “Acoustica,” for small wind and stringed instruments, and “View Finder,” a music/video sound installation here presented in a solo performance version. Both pieces have elements going back to the 20th century and both make use of recent digital arts techniques.
Wednesday June 22 Angie Eng & David Weinstein
Memobile, a video performance inspired by nomadic movement. Artists housed in a Mondrianesque shelter play audio samples and 3 channel video in real-time using MAX/MSP/Jitter. David Weinstein (musician) and Angie Eng (director/ video) weave sound and moving image into poetic journeys, emotional spaces, and surreal memories.
Thursday June 23 David Linton
will present2 new works: solo audio visual work and a collaborative realtime improvisational AV duet with video artist Chiaki Watanabe.”Stroboscopy: GODBOX 101″ is a solo AV performance investigating the perceptual effects triggered by the manipulation of the barest sonic and visual elements – across the stereo audio visual field in realtime: A pair of sine tone generators coupled with a pair of stroboscopic lamps will be employed to demonstrate and perhaps unlock some of the secrets encoded in the residual bicameral structure of human physiology as it pertains to audio visual perception and resulting states of consciousness.
Friday June 24 Julia Heyward
will be showingthe interactive version of “Miracles in Reverse” which is part 1 of a triptych entitled “Nothing Random Access Memory.” All three parts of the triptych deal with trauma and memory….personal/local as well collective/global. With guest performer
and collaborator Ken Butler.
Saturday June 25 koosil-ja
A dance and mixedmedia work, Dance Without Body, which is a study of the chapter, “Body Without Organs” from the book “MillePlateaux” by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Thework incorporates video created as a tool to producedance while abstracting the performer from significancesand subjectifications. Geoff Matters will perform thelive video and sound score using a customized softwareenvironment. This process and presentation was funded by ExperimentalTelevision Center’s Presentation Funds program, Meet The Composer, and TheJerome Foundation. Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and mediaThe Foundation.
Sunday June 26 Aki Onda,
a composer and photographer, makes autobiographical works which imprints his personal memories. “Something which wasn’t Said” is an audio-visual piece, which he calls Cinemage (image for cinema, or homage for cinema). It’s composed of slide projection of still photo images and improvised music. What we experience in his work is immersing ourselves in a kinematic state which transcends both reality and imagination mutually. Sensual and hypnotic, words are not necessary. On this occasion, Alan Licht and Loren Conners play guitar along with Aki Onda’s visual images.
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7. R. Sikoryak, D. Skinner, FF Alumns, at Flux Factory, Queens, June 18
CAROUSEL returns!
Cartoon slide shows and other projected pictures, hosted by R. SIkoryak
This special show at The Flux Factory features…
Brian Dewan
Jason Little
Doug Skinner
Jim Torok
and R. S.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
At the opening for the exhibit, Comix Ex Machina, curated by Jason
Little. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, will be unveiling a preposterous device, the “Skinner Graduated Pictodisc,” as part of the show “Comix Ex Machina,” , a collection of machines by cartoonists, promises to be a lively one. Doug’s device uses phenakistascopes, turntables, and tank periscopes.
The party is at 7 pm,
Carousel is at 9 pm.
It’s FREE!
at The Flux Factory
38-38 43rd St,
Long Island City,
Queens, 11101
Take the G,N,R,or 7 train.
For detailed directions, visit
http://www.fluxfactory.org/how.htm
http://www.fluxfactory.org/
For more information about the exhibit, see
http://www.beecomix.com/comixex/machinamini/machinamini.html
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8. George Ferrandi, FF Alumn, at Cinders Gallery, Williamsburg, opening June 17
Cinders Gallery Presents:
The Porch Show
A group exhibition featuring Jo Dery, Aron Wahl, Kim Schifino, Chris Duncan, Diane Barcelowsky, Kyle Field, Erika Somogyi, Harrison Haynes, Megan Whitmarsh, George Ferrandi, David McQueen, Kelie Bowman, Alan Calpe, Julia Elsas, Hanna Fushihara, Steven Harrington and Sto.
Opening Reception: Friday June 17th 2005 7pm-11pm
Runs till July 24th 2005
Over the long course of this past NY winter, we continually caught ourselves daydreaming about the lost summer filled with hanging out on porches, having barbeques, riding bikes, singing songs and connecting with each other outdoors. With the real summer just around the corner, we are bursting at the seams with excitement and would like to offer the world:The Porch Show, a group installation consisting of 17 artists whose work vary from drawing, sculpture, video, painting and performance. The American front porch sets the stage for this exhibition which aims to resurrect and embrace the ideals of community and use a seemingly forgotten piece of American architecture as its meeting place. The porch’s history, as an outdoor living room where the public and private could merge and where neighbors could tell stories, sing songs, and connect with one another, has been in steady decline since World War 2. The advent of air-conditioning, automobiles, and television provided people with more reasons to stay inside and in effect replaced the importance of community and being outdoors with a more secluded, individualistic lifestyle. Cinders Gallery invites you to The Porch show to experience our art community coming together this summer. In addition to the opening reception, there will be events throughout the duration of the show including acoustic music performances, barbeques, bike rides, and more! Check the website for updates.
See you on the porch!
Also on Friday to coincide with the porch show across the street The City Reliquary will be hosting a BBQ cookoff between Paul Lukas and the City Reliquary Strategic Consultant and Resident Chef, David “Scout” McQueen. Come out to see the new collection of meat-related cookbooks by Paul and reap the benefits of two incredible chefs.
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer st. (btwn Hope and Grand)
Williamsburg Brooklyn
718-388-2311
L / G train to Lorimer or if L train is not running JMZ to Marcy Ave.
Hours: Wed-Fri 2pm-9pm
Weekends Noon-9pm
www.cindersgallery.com
info@cindersgallery.com
love, your cinders team
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9. Hans Haacke, FF Alumn, at The New School, June 20
Panel Discussion
A GERMAN RECKONING: THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II
with
Atina Grossmann
Hans Haacke
Noah Isenberg
Anson Rabinbach
James Young
Monday, June 20, 7:00 p.m.
The New School
The Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor
New York City
Free admission. No reservations.
Panelists:
– German-born New York artist Hans Haacke, who will present his current Reichstag installation project “Der Bevölkerung”
– Critic and scholar James Young, U Mass-Amherst, who will discuss the newly inaugurated Berlin Holocaust Memorial by Peter Eisenman
– historian Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union, who will examine the relationship between the current debate over the memory of the war and the mid-1990s debate over Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners
– and historian Anson Rabinbach, Princeton, who will evaluate the recent discourse of normalization.
Moderated by Noah Isenberg, Chair of The New School Department of Humanities.
INFORMATION: For more information or special needs requests, please call (212) 229-5353. Event information is also available online at www.nsu.newschool.edu/specialprograms.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Humanities and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, and Bookforum.
Established in 1992 by a grant from the late Vera List, a life trustee of New School University, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics explores the role of the arts in developing a civic culture of pluralism in the United States. In public lectures and symposia, through research activities and publications, and in programs associated with the University’s art collection, a wide array of visual and performance artists, scholars, curators, and political leaders come together to investigate the intersection of art and politics. During the year 2004-05, the Center’s programming includes an interdisciplinary exploration of the theme of “homeland.” For a current listing of programs, please visit www.nsu.newschool.edu/vlc.
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10. Barbara Hammer, FF Alumn, at Maya Stendhal Galler, opening June 23
Barbara Hammer, FF, in “Vital Signs” summer group show at Maya Stendhal Gallery
Opening night 6-8 Thursday, June 23, 6-8 pm
Maya Stendhal Gallery
545 W 20th Street , Second Floor
Maya Stendhal Gallery is proud to present Vital Signs: Summer 2005 Group Show, a multimedia exhibition to take place from 2 June – 30 July 2005. In a climate of political malapropism, in which cinematic tropes are deployed as though they were news, Vital Signs aims to investigate the language of visual culture by deconstructing dominant codes and unveiling unexpected grammars. The artists included in the exhibition are Michael Snow, Jeff Scher, Peter Rose, Takahiko Iimura, Barbara Hammer, Matthias Groebel, Seymour Chwast, and Nisi Jacobs.If the language of Hollywood cinema has become ossified—too archetypal, employing codified juxtapositions for simplistic psychological effect—then it remains for artists to interrogate, subvert, or explode the way we receive and parse the images we live in. Language is a continual process of renovation: the progress of obsolescence and innovation can be both agonizing and imperceptible. The effects of cinema on cognition have been documented: it now becomes important to trace the marks of cinematic consciousness on fixed-image artmaking. How might this illuminate the way we understand political and media atrophies?
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11. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, at Jeu de Paume, Paris, thru August 28
Le Plateau – Frac Ile-de-France and Jeu de Paume – Site Sully are pleased to present the first Parisian exhibition of work by Joan Jonas. From 8 June to 28 August 2005.
A producer of films and videos, a performer who also makes sculptures and drawings, Joan Jonas is one of the most important women artists in the United States. Her work features in many of the world’s most prestigious museums, including MoMA (NYC) and the Stedelijk Museum ( Amsterdam).
Given in galleries, theatres and lofts, inside and outdoors, her performances were quick to make use of film and then video technology in order to give an illusion of spatial depth and to play on the notions of live and recorded action, and thus to challenge viewers’ perceptions.
Joan Jonas is a pioneer who combines sound, movement and images in order to produce protean, experimental objects.
At the Jeu de Paume – Site Sully, a selection of emblematic works, from her first videos of the late 1960s to her latest installations, retraces Joan Jonas’s very singular career.
These works also give an idea of the themes running through the artist’s production over those thirty-five years, such as: the place of the body and the relation to urban or rural landscapes (Wind, 1968; Song Delay, 1973), disguise and the question of identity (Organic Honey, 1972-94), the close ties between myth and reality (Organic Honey), and the influence of theatre, whether the Japanese Kabuki and Bunraku (Song Delay and Organic Honey) or the French.
At Le Plateau, Joan Jonas is presenting a historic work, the installation Mirage, as well as a series of her small theatres.
In the same time, she is questioning her own career by engaging in a dialogue with some of the young artists she has met in schools around the world: Narda Fabiola Alvarado ( Bolivia), Sung Hwan Kim (Corea), David Maljkovic ( Croatia), Seth Price ( United States) and Sebastian Diaz Morales ( Argentina) in the experimental space.
Described recently by Roberta Smith in The New York Times as “the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century,” Joan Jonas sees this exhibition as a way of confronting the question of artistic inheritance and transmission.
Parallel to these two major exhibitions, the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris (“Le Studio” space) is showing recent works by Jonas from 28 May to 30 July.
Le Plateau – Frac Ile-de-France
corner of the Rue des Alouettes and Rue Carducci
75019 Paris
Open Wednesday-Friday from 14:00 to 19:00
Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00
http://www.fracidf-leplateau.com
(To receive the monthly newsletter, register on the website)
Le Jeu de Paume – Site Sully
62 Rue Saint-Antoine
75004 Paris
Open Tuesday-Friday from 12:00 to 19:00
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00
http://www.jeudepaume.org
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12. Heidi House Arneson, FF Alumn, at Bryant Lake Bowl, MN, July 2, 9, 16, 23
Greetings my friends, please check out my latest show-
It’s the Best of the Best of Heidi House- revamped and improved- with Neil Pederson and Jess Snively live on guitars!
All my profits from the show will fund a theater program for prison inmates which I am facilitating at the Ramsey County Correctional Facility in St Paul year. Come support this valuable program!
And bring all your friends to the show!
Heidi Arneson’s
TEN BEDROOM HEART
A comic valentine to the secret world of girlhood
and the complex beauty of female sexuality.
One woman, twenty characters: kleenex kisses,
kindergarten weddings, sleep-over parties,
middle-aged love-shoppers
and hot blues on guitar from Neil Pederson and Jess Snively!
“MAGIC!” – Cleveland Free Times
“REAL AND SEXY AS HELL” -Pulse
4 Saturdays, July 2, 9, 16 and 23
7:30 pm
Bryant-Lake Bowl
810 West Lake Street, Minneapolis
Tickets $12
612.825.8949
I look forward to seeing you at Ten Bedroom Heart!
Best wishes,
Heidi Arneson
Heidi Arneson is a theater artist renowned for one-woman plays about American archetypes. She has performed as featured artist for Franklin Furnace and Dixon Place in NYC, Playhouse Merced in CA, N.A.M.E. in Chicago, Cleveland Performance Art Festival, and nearly every venue in Minneapolis, including the Walker, the Weisman, the Jungle,Red Eyeand the Southern. She is a recipient of the Bush Artist Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Emerging Artist Award, and Core Alumni of the Playwrights’ Center, and 2005 nominee for the prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts. This June she begins teaching a theater workshop for inmates at Ramsey County Correctional Facility.
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13. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at Spoken Words Café, Brooklyn, June 17, 8 pm
Friends,
Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious Objects
with:
Alisa – dance
Bill Buchen – percussion
“hybridized world rhythms “
Friday June 17th 8pm $5
Spoken Words Cafe
226 4th Ave. Brooklyn
(Union and President)
R to Union
(it’s 15 ft away from the stop)
FMI:
ChiefDayo (at the cafe) 718-596-3923
chiefdayo@netzero.net
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14. Yuliya Lanina, FF Member, at Figureworks, Brooklyn, opening June 24
JUNE 24 – JULY 31, 2005 Reception, June 24th, 6-9PM at FIGUREWORKS 168 North 6th Street (1 block south from Bedford Avenue “L” train, between Bedford Ave./ Driggs Ave.) Williamsburg , Brooklyn, NY 11211 718-486-7021
www.figureworks.com
Friday, Saturday, Sunday?? 1-6 PM or by appointment
Yuliya Lanina’s work represents female transformation. She achieves this direction on many levels. First is through concept: transforming an objectified or oppressed victim into a powerful, creative seer. Secondly by her choice of media: taking female mannequins once used to sport the latest fashions and giving them unique personalities through painted expressions. These torsos are painted to form faces in various states of emotion, including amazement, anger, contentment and peace. Thirdly, by transforming the viewer?s expectations: working colorfully and whimsically to entice then relaying a message that allows one to see femininity in a direct, engaging way.
Lanina has coupled these mannequin pieces with a series of small vaginal collages. Playful, pink squares of femininity hold charm and amusement yet become complex with added objects.?
Yuliya Lanina was born in Moscow, Russia. Upon completing her degree in music she emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. Her passion for painting grew and she achieved her BFA in 1997 from Purchase College of Art and Design. Since graduation, she has worked from her studio in Williamsburg and is having her second exhibition with Figureworks.
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15. Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Denes, Leon Golub, Les Levine, Sol Lewitt, Dominic McGill, Matt Mullican, Richard Nonas, Nancy Spero, Javier Tellez, Lawrence Weiner, Raul Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Venice Biennale, thru Nov. 6
Co-curating, Poles Apart, Poles Together Poles Apart / Poles Together
An outdoor installation on the Grand Canal for the 51st Venice Biennale
A project of the International Artists’ Museum and White Box
thru November 6th, 2005
The Venice Biennale has always reflected the artist’s individuality in unison not only with the world of art but with the world at large. Poles Apart / Poles Together originates from an idea the Venetian poet, John Gian the Israeli curator Doron Polak and the Spanish-born, New York-based curator Juan Puntes have derived from the Biennale¹s central focus: that while creativity and the artist are individual, art itself is communal and unifying. With this in mind, Poles Apart / Poles Together brings a large group of individual artists’ works together in a communal effort by using a local theme that carries international resonance. One hundred and one international artists have created works mounted on mooring poles around the city’s canals, one of Venice’s memorable landscapes. They have created environments that generate a combination of outdoor intimacy and surprise. By connecting the conventional to the creative, the artists’ works effectively demonstrate how the traditional and commonplace can lend themselves to innovative art-making approaches.
In Venice, the city of canals, whose access to the world¹s waterways has always made it look beyond its horizons, this installation will highlight the city’s cosmopolitan character. There could not be a more appropriate addition to the Biennale than the temporary embellishment of the Gran Canale now lined with international public art works that reflect the diversity of levels in esthetic sensations from around the world. Poles Apart / Poles Together, like the lagoon itself, will reach out across peoples and space and, beyond parochialism, all visitors will leave Venice with a memorable visual experience. Juan Puntes and Doron Polak Curators
A project of
The International Artists’ Museum
www.lodzbiennale.pl/html/konstrukcja/html/museum_other
and
White Box
www.whiteboxny.org
Curators
Doron Polak (International Artists’ Museum)
Juan Puntes (White Box)
Co-curators
Carla Stellweg (White Box)
Ethan Cohen (Ethan Cohen Projects, New York)
Ieva Kalnina (Riga City Council Department of Culture, Latvia)
Raul Zamudio
Municipality of Venice Assessore / Deputy Mayor: Paolo Cacciari
Department of Youth and Peace Policies: Alberta Basaglia, Fabio Bozzato
Project designer and art director: Amir Cohen (Idya.com)
Project design partner: John Isaacs Design, New York)
Artistic consultants: Ayelet Danielle Aldouby
European artistic coordinator: Barbara Basile (Mietart, Berlin)
Industrial design: Reuven Givati (Sdom Design Group, Israel)
Concept consultant and honorary board: Michael Sterenberg
International Artists’ Museum Executive Director: Ryszard Wasko
International Artists’ Museum President: Emmett Williams
Artists
Ora Abrahami
Vito Acconci
Carlos Amorales
William Anastasi/Dove Bradshaw
Conrad Atkinson
Hanna Barak
Stefan Becker
Barbara Benish
Orit Ben-Shitrit
Elena Berriolo
Dara Birnbaum
Francie Bishop Good
Kristians Brekte
Aisha Burnes
Mimmo Catania
Loris Cecchini
Charlie Citron
Orly Cogan
Agnes Denes
Norma Drimmer
Jimmie Durham
Aziz Elhihi
El Perro
Erre
Jan Fabre
Emilio Fantin
Flavio Favelli
Dorit Feldman
Rainer Ganahl
Kendell Geers
John Gian
Leon Golub
Eugina Gortchakova
Gruppo ALE
Doron Hanoch
Huang Yong Ping
Peter Hutton
Jian Jun Zhang
Juanjun Xi
Mary Judge
Rajkamal Kahlon
Dani Karavan
Laszlo Kerekes
Jon Kessler
Sooja Kim
Adam Klimczak
Kaisu Koivistu
Igor Kopystianski
L. Laganovskis
Lee Ming Wei
Denica Lehocka
Matt Leines
Les Levine
Sol Lewitt
Marcos Lopez
Ivan Macha
Teemu Mäki
Enrique Marty
Tomasz Matuszak
Eraldo Mauro
Dominic McGill
Rajul Mehta
Matt Mullican
Ivan Navarro
Joshua Neustein
Ann Noel
Richard Nonas
Dennis Oppenheim
Angel Orensanz
Yigal Ozeri
Philip Pavia
Vickie Pierre
Giovanni Rizzoli
Riiko Sakkinen
Jack Sal
Avelino Sala
Krish Salmanis
Karin Sander
Eduardo Sarabia
Ray Smith
Michael Snow
Nancy Spero
Suzi Sureck
Javier Tellez
Richard Thomas
Momoyo Torimitsu
Bernar Venet
David Wakstein
Ryszard Wasko
Quattara Watts
Lawrence Weiner
Roger Welch
Bernard Williams
Emmett Williams
Wu Shan-Zhuan
Xu Bing
Zhang Huan
Zhu Ming
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16. Robert C. Morgan, FF Alumn, at Mike Weiss Gallery, NY, opening June 18, 6-8
Robert C. Morgan, FF Alumn, Curator “The Sign of Paradise” (Kuma and Made Wianta), Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 West 24th Street, June 18, opening 6 – 8 pm
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17. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at SF MoMA, June 29-July 29
Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery from June 29 – July 29
Kala Art Institute’s three decades of innovative work will be celebrated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery from June 29 – July 29 in an exhibition called THIRTY SOMETHING,
Sonya Rapoport will show a video documentary of her DIGITAL MUDRA interactive installation that took place at Kala Institute in 1987. In the computer assisted interactive art piece, DIGITAL MUDRA, the participant selects and orders sequential images of Mudra gestures to create poetry and dance forms. These images generate a printout that is interpreted into a personalized philosophic guideline espoused by Rabindinath Tagore. Topical events described by gestures of political personalities are juxtaposed with their Mudra counterpart are projected in a slide show.
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18. Beth Lapides, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Juvie Hall and P.S. 122, NY, June 21-27
Performance artist turned comic revolutionary Beth Lapides comes to NY June 21-27
THE OTHER NETWORK – Beth Lapides hosts great un-aired TV pilots starring Bob Odenkirk, Jack Black, Amy Poehler, etc. on Tues. June 21, 7:30 & 9:30 @ Juvie Hall, 24 Bond St. Seating is extremely limited. Tickets only $10 each @ UNCABARET.COM
THE UN-CAB LAB – Beth Lapides, creator of Un-Cabaret, and producer Greg Miller lead this breakthrough comedy workshop for writers, comics, performers to generate original material, focus one-person shows & monologs. Thurs. June 23 & Monday, June 27, 7-10pm @ PS 122, 150 First Ave. $200 for both sessions – register & more info at UNCABARET.COM
SAY THE WORD – Original, fresh, funny non-fiction from Beth Lapides, Ben Karlin (“The Daily Show”),
Todd Hanson (“The Onion”), Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky (“Sex and the City”), Sunday, June 26 @ Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St.
Tickets $15. 212-239-6200 or TELECHARGE.COM
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19. Willoughby Sharp, FF Alumn, now at Chelsea Space, London
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce the June 10th opening of an exhibition at Chelsea Space in London featuring Avalanche magazine.
The last and only other exhibition devoted to Avalanche was curated by Willoughby Sharp in 1973. It was titled AVALANCHE DIE ENTWICKLUNG EINER AVANTGARDE-ZEITSCHRIFT (Avalanche: The Development of an Avant-Garde Periodical) and originated at the Cologne Kunstverein, March 23 to April 23. It traveled to the Hanover Kunstverein, May 27 July 22; the Munster Kunstverein, Fall 1973; and the Frankfurt Kunstverein, Fall 1973.
SAVE THE DATE:
October 2005 marks the 35th Anniversary of the publication of the first
issue of Avalanche with Joseph Beuys on the cover. A celebration will take
place in New York. The date and time will be announced. We look forward to
seeing you there. With Best Wishes,
Willoughby Sharp & Pamela Smith
For questions or more information, please call:
718-383-5429
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