Events Around Town
Public Art Fund Hosts Talks at The New School This Spring
From the Public Art Fund:
This spring's Public Art Fund Talks series features three artists whose works reinvent and extend the language of figurative sculpture for a new era. Neither literal portraits nor traditional monuments, their works push the expressive potential of sculptural forms and materials, marking a renewed interest in the figure in contemporary art. Public Art Fund Talks are organized by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
March 17, 2010permalink
Swing Space Resident Ex.Pgirl Performs Paris Syndrome at New York City College of Technology
From their announcement:
A humorous and magical landscape of cross-cultural interactions, misunderstandings, and revelations is at the heart of “Ex.Pgirl’s Paris Syndrome,” a dance theatre piece that will be performed as a work-in-progress at New York City College of Technology.
The show is a dance theater piece about a Japanese phenomenon that occurs when tourists visit Paris and experience a psychological meltdown because Paris, the “City of Love,” does not match their idealized expectations of beauty. The only permanent cure is to go back to Japan — and never return to Paris.
Through language games, spoken scenes, dance and video interviews, a multicultural ensemble of female performers will explore the themes of madness, ideals and cultural misunderstanding.
March 15, 2010permalink
The Ever Changing Legal Canvas: Art Law & Culture
From the Art Law & Culture Society’s announcement:
This event will provide an opportunity for the Worlds of Art and Law to collide. The panels will feature some of the most prominent Art Law Practitioners, New York State Judges, Many Attorneys, Scholarly Academics as well as Various Designers, Artisans and Craftsman.
Issues ranging from Contracts, Copyright, Free Speech, Labor and Employment as well as Human Rights will be discussed, all amongst the backdrop of Art, Fashion, and Culture.
March 10, 2010permalink
Swing Space’s ((audience)) presents Dub Shop at Kleio Projects
((audience)), dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers, and currently in residence with LMCC presents Dub Shop at Kleio Projects.
Saturday, March 6 – Saturday, March 13, 2010
12-7pm
Dub Shop at Kleio Projects is a pop-up exhibition organized by ((audience)) co-curators Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati. A dubplate is a one-off acetate disc recording which contains an unreleased recording, an exclusive version of an existing recording, or a test recording for a master track. Since they are doubled or “dubbed” versions of an original track, they have a limited life span and can only be played about fifty times. Dub Shop is similarly time-sensitive—lasting for only one week—and will feature exclusive, one-off and unique artworks by sound artists and musicians including dub plates; limited edition records, CDs and DVDs; silk screened posters; hand-made electronic instruments; and other constructions.
Kleio Projects 153 ½ Stanton Street (between Suffolk and Clinton Streets), NYC
March 3, 2010permalink
Swing Space Group CHERYL to Participate in BRUCENNIAL2010: Miseducation
CHERYL is excited to announce that we are participating in the BRUCENNIAL2010: Miseducation , presented by the Bruce High Quality Foundation. In the very own words of the BRUCEs, this show "brings together 420 artists from 911 countries working in 666 discrete disciplines to reclaim education as part of an artist's ongoing practice beyond the principals of any one institution or experience."
CHERYL will have select videos on view in the BRUCENNIAL, running from Feb. 26 through April 12, at 350 W Broadway.
The show opens Thursday, February 25 and there are going to be lots of bands playing in the performance space on the second floor of the exhibition at 350 W Broadway. In addition, there will be simultaneous film & video screenings happening at RECESS (41 Grand Street, right around the corner) from 6 to 9pm. We will have some videos playing on the big screen at RECESS for the night.
On Saturday, February 27 CHERYL is participating in BRUCEFORMA and invites you to join us. There is a line up of performance artists scheduled to take the stage on the second floor space above the exhibition from 6pm to midnight. CHERYL is set to screen some videos/rip out our hearts/dump a bucket of fake blood on your head/light our hair extensions on fire/incite a dance floor riot/etc. from 11:30pm to midnight. The event is FREE and we think this could be the perfect way to kick off your Saturday night before you go blackout dancing in the Meatpacking District, wobbling down cobblestone streets in your stilettos covered head-to-toe in fake blood. That's what you do when you go out in Manhattan, right? Seriously, come see some art for free and then have a SEIZURE with us onstage upstairs this Saturday. It's going to be FUN.
February 25, 2010permalink
Workspace writer-in-residence Frances Justine Post on BOMBLOG
The Duino Elegies helped me understand something I was writing about but didn’t fully understand myself, as often happens when I am writing. It is my understanding that Rilke thought of the Angel as an example of perfect consciousness, a being who has transcended all the contractions, the faults, and messiness of human life. The Angel is an example of man’s deepest fears and deepest hopes, and his ultimate goal. For Rilke, passing over to death is the only time man is truly pure. While I’m not sure I totally agree with Rilke’s idea of the Angel, in “The Spectators” I am exploring this idea of passing over, what it would feel like to leave the world. And if you knew ahead of time that you were about to leave, what would you do?
February 18, 2010permalink
LMCC Artists Receive Prestigious Tiffany Awards
Several past LMCC Residents have been included in the 2009 round of awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
Congratulations!
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced the 30 recipients for 2009 of its $20,000 awards to American contemporary artists in its biennial competition established 32 years ago (and now administered by Artists Space). The winners were selected from a list of more than 400 artists, gathered by nominations by art-world professionals. In addition to considerations of quality and promise of the work, candidates were also evaluated in terms of “timing,” e.g., “the amount of critical or commercial recognition” their careers have received.
February 9, 2010permalink
LMCC Artists Included in MoCADA’s Latest Exhibition
Swing Space Resident Group Housing is a Human Right (Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone) and Workspace Resident Zachary Fabri are featured in MoCADA's Upcoming Exhibition:
The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks.
February 4, 2010 - May 16, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4, 6-9 pm
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) 80 Hansen Place, Brooklyn
This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, will examine how urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate development are affecting Brooklyn's communities and how residents throughout the borough are responding. The exhibition will include the works of several Brooklyn-based artists, as well as those who have been forced to relocate as a result of gentrification. In addition to works of art featured at MoCADA, there will be a schedule of public programs taking place throughout Brooklyn.
Artists in the exhibition include (alphabetically): Josh Bricker(Installation), Valerie Caesar (Photography), Oasa DuVerney (Drawing), Zachary Fabri (Video), Rosamond S. King (Installation), Irondale Ensemble(Theater Performance), Nathan Kensinger (Photography), Jess Levey(Photography / Video Installation), Christina Massey (Painting), Musa (Sculpture), Tim Okamura (Painting), Kip Omolade (Painting), John Perry(Painting), Adele Pham (Video), Michael Premo / Rachel Falcone (Photography / Multimedia), Gabriel Reese (Painting), Marie Roberts (Painting), Ali Santana (Music Video), Monique Schubert (Mixed-media), Alexandria Smith (Painting), Sarah Nelson Wright (Installation).
In addition, there will be a vignette of work on display from two local high schools (The Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School and The Secondary School for Research) where students have been documenting the impact of gentrification on their neighborhoods over the past few years through photos and essays.
February 3, 2010permalink
CollaborationTown Presents The CTown Mysteries at The Watermill Center
Swing Space Resident Theater Group CollaborationTown will present The CTown Mysteries during a residency at The Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY.
The CTown Mysteries
Thursday, February 4, 6:30 p.m.
Reservations [required]: ctown.eventbrite.com
The celebrated ensemble theater company CollaborationTown returns to Watermill to create The CTown Mysteries a series of short, darkly funny plays that adapt, satirize, and/or derive inspiration from the Morality Plays, primarily of the Medieval and Tudor periods. The didactic nature of the source plays, coupled with their utter lack of humor, makes them ripe for parody. In The CTown Mysteries, the artists also find connections between the Morality Plays and the religion of Self Help in contemporary America. At this February 4 Open Rehearsal, the group will explore a comical view of what the performance traditions of morality plays would be like in our contemporary American society.
The Watermill Center 39 Watermill Towd Road, Water Mill, New York 11976
February 3, 2010permalink
Swing Space Choreographer Daria Fain Presenting at Dance New Amsterdam
Swing Space Choreographer Daria Fain will present a collaboration with Marya Wethers at Dance New Amsterdam in February.
Target ::furnace -- a collaboration between Marya Wethers and Swing Space Resident Daria Fain
The solo re-imagines archetypes of female superheros and women warriors through the ages. The structure and movement explorations are inspired by imaginative possibilities of elemental and psychological superpowers. The collaboration accesses deep internal energy work to project and question iconic images of superheroes while acknowledging the superhero within.
Where: Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, New York, NY
Dates and Times: February 18 - 20 @ 8pm and 21 @ 3pm
Also in the program: Giulia Mureddu, and Mariangela Lopez/Accidental Movement.
