Events Around Town
Talk of the Town: Diego Medina, a 2006–07 Workspace resident
Ian Frazier writes for the New Yorker on Diego Medina's sculptural work for the Bronx River Art Center and the New York City Department of Transportation.
Medina was a Workspace resident during the 2006–07 session.
August 25, 2010permalink
Workspace alumna Kristine Moran interviewed by Lindsay Cuff
The 2009–10 Workspace residents talked about Kristine's panting process the abstract forms and transformations inside her work.
August 24, 2010permalink
Workspace alumnus Manuel Acevedo’s show at Bronx River Art Center reviewed by NY Times
Holland Carter reviewed Manuel Acevedo: Keys of Light at the Bronx River Art Center for the New York Times:
These floating conditions find an echo in Mr. Acevedo’s eminently portable art, in his determinedly unencumbered career and in the one camera obscura installation on view, “Keys of Light,” which gives the show its title. Materially, there’s not much to the installation: paper, a pinhole, light. Technically, almost anyone could have made it. Conceptually it’s very much Mr. Acevedo’s. By bringing images of hardscrabble life on a Bronx street into one of the borough’s most resilient art spaces, he turns all kinds of cultural priorities and social hierarchies of the art world inside out.
The show is on view through August 28, 2010.
August 19, 2010permalink
MELT, choreographed by Swing Space Alum Noémie Lafrance, extended through September 12, 2010
From the MELT press release:
After touring the world, MELT returns to New York for a two-week run. With this full evening-length version of MELT, Lafrance invites audiences to a stunning industrial site used by the city to store salt, located under the Manhattan Bridge in Lower Manhattan. During the highs of NYC’s heat waves, MELT embodies its full meaning when seven dancers perched on small seats affixed to a wall and wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin costumes are slowly melting away. Dancers gradually progress in euphoria and exhaustion as if approaching the sun, melting until their souls escape their ephe- meral bodies and disintegrate into light. This surreal performance enraptures the audience in a sensual, dramatic and delicate experience of the physical body in exile and surrender. Seen by the audience from below in close perspective, MELT is both meditative and captivating, combining intensity and vulnerability with original choreography; a spectacle of the beautiful and the grotesque and at once a performance and a three-dimensional live sculpture.
Performances will run from August 19- September 12. Please visit www.sensproduction.org for more information and tickets.
August 18, 2010permalink
Printed Matter is hosting a book launch for The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements
Printed Matter is hosting a launch for Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Timothy Hull's artist book The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements this Thursday August 5 from 5- 7pm. Printed Matter is located at 195 10th Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets.
From the press release:
The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements features over 25 photograph-based collages of xerox imagery on cut paper by Timothy Hull and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Culling from their personal image collection, the collages reflect not only the artists' personal aesthetics and sensibilities but new compositions and relationships. This project furthers their respective use of xerox collages and zine formats. The imagery centers around varied arrangements with repeated visual elements. Deconstructed portraiture along with images of Coastal Maine, Rainforests and Egyptian ruins all take cues from each other to suggest various relationships of cultural and humanistic qualities. The genesis for the project and subsequent book was inspired by the invitation to produce a piece together for TOKION's February 2010 "collaboration" issue. The collaborative experience between Timothy Hull and Paul Mpagi Sepuya proved fruitful and cohesive enough that the collation of the works into a book became imperative.
August 4, 2010permalink
Swing Space Alum Noémie Lafrance presents MELT A Site Specific Dance Installation
From the Press Release:
After touring the world, MELT returns to New York for a two-week run. With this full evening-length version of MELT, Lafrance invites audiences to a stunning industrial site used by the city to store salt, located under the Manhattan Bridge in Lower Manhattan. During the highs of NYC’s heat waves, MELT embodies its full meaning when seven dancers perched on small seats affixed to a wall and wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin costumes are slowly melting away. Dancers gradually progress in euphoria and exhaustion as if approaching the sun, melting until their souls escape their ephe- meral bodies and disintegrate into light. This surreal performance enraptures the audience in a sensual, dramatic and delicate experience of the physical body in exile and surrender. Seen by the audience from below in close perspective, MELT is both meditative and captivating, combining intensity and vulnerability with original choreography; a spectacle of the beautiful and the grotesque and at once a performance and a three-dimensional live sculpture.
For more information please visit the Sens Production website or call 718-302-5024.
August 4, 2010permalink
Interviews with past LMCC residents featured in P.S.1’s Greater New York Show on YouTube
Check out these great interviews with a few of LMCC's past residents about their work in the 2010 Greater New York exhibition at P.S.1.
Franklin Evans
August 2, 2010permalink
Battery Dance Company presents Downtown Dance Festival August 14–20
Battery Dance Company’s 29th Annual Downtown Dance Festival is a free seven-day festival programming Battery Dance and a dozen other local companies joined by international companies from India and Japan.
The festival takes place August 14-20 at two sites in Lower Manhattan: One New York Plaza and the lawn of Battery Park. This year’s DDF will feature Kathakali dancers and musicians from India, supported by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Another international highlight will be performances by one of Japan’s most respected classical modern dance companies, Yuko Takahashi Dance Company from Sendai.
Returning this year is the popular audience participation program; Everybody Dance Now! At the end of each festival day, audiences are invited to get up on stage with a company to learn and perform choreography.
Weekend performances will take place on August 14th and 15th from 1 – 4 pm in Battery Park, the Festival’s home for over a decade. During the weekdays that follow, August 16 – 20 from 12 – 2 pm, performances will be presented at One New York Plaza, a venue new to the Festival. All performances are free and open to the public.
Photo: Richard Termine
August 2, 2010permalink
Workspace Alumna LaTasha Diggs reading as part of Tuituia at Cornelia Street Cafe Thursday July 29
**Tuituia ** A Reading and Performance with 'Ataahua Papa Vaimoana Niumeitolu LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Miss bMe
Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:30 Pm Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street (btw 4th and Bleecker) $10 Cover
July 26, 2010permalink
Workspace Alum Andrea Galvani Wins Artists Wanted’s EXPOSURE Competition Grand Prize Award
Workspace alumnus Andrea Galvani was chosen from an international pool of photographers as the winner of this year's Artists Wanted EXPOSURE Competition Grand Prize! Congratulations to Andrea!
For more information please visit the Artists Wanted Website.
