Events Around Town
2012 LMCC Grantee Awarded by the MAP Fund
DD Dorvilier and her company human future dance corps has received a grant from the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is among the 41 grantee selected by the MAP Fund from more than 800 submissions this year.
She is also a current grantee of LMCC's two Manhattan community regrant programs, The Fund for Creative Communities and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, for her project Danza Permanente, a new dance work that features a Beethoven String Quartet through an analytical and choreographic transposition of music into dance.
For more information about the 2012 MAP Fund grantees, click here.
April 4, 2012permalink
Current SPARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Quaid, perform COCK at The Duke on 42nd Street
Current SPARC Artist-in-Residence Amanda Quaid presents a performance Cock at the The Duke on 42nd Street from May 1 - July 22.
About Cock
When John and his boyfriend take a break, the last thing he expects is to suddenly meet the woman of his dreams. Now he has a big choice to make.
The cast of the American premiere of The Royal Court Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning new production, COCK will star Jason Butler Harner as M, Amanda Quaid as W, Cory Michael Smith as John and Cotter Smith as F. Written by Mike Bartlett and directed by James MacDonald, COCK will open Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42nd STREET project, 229 West 42nd Street, on Thursday, May 17 and previews will begin Thursday, May 1.
COCK
The Duke on 42nd Street
229 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036
For more information, please visit http://www.cockfightplay.com/.
April 2, 2012permalink
Past Swing Space artist, Kymia Nawabi, Speaks at New College of Florida’s Art Department
Not For Long, Kymia Nawabi
Past Swing Space artist, Kymia Nawabi will speak speak on April 18, at 6:30 pm in the Mildred Sainer Pavilion at New College of Florida. Nawabi’s talk will include the development of her studio work and recent achievements including competing in and winning Bravo’s reality TV series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Nawabi, a first-generation Iranian-American artist, earned her MFA from the University of Florida in 2006 and BFA from East Carolina University in 2003. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious residencies and awards.
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary. For information, call 941-487-4888.
Location
Mildred Sainer Pavilion at New College of Florida
5313 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota, FL, 34243
April 2, 2012permalink
Past Workspace Artist Jonathan Allen Exhibits at Buffalo Arts Studio
No Man’s Land, 2011, paint, collage, pencil on linen, 56” x 41”.
Past Workspace resident Jonathan Allen presents Through the Vanishing Point at Buffalo Arts Studio from April 7 - May 26, 2012 with an opening reception Saturday, April 7 from 7-10pm.
Through the Vanishing Point
Buffalo Arts Studio
2495 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214
For more information, please visit http://jonathanallen.org/.
April 2, 2012permalink
Michael Alan’s Living Installation’s “We Are All Living Installations” at Dumbo Arts Center April 21
Michael Alan’s Living Installation is proud to present Brooklyn Arts Council Community Art Fund Regrant-awarded project We Are All Living Installations, two shows in one night curated by Emily Colucci, hosted by the DUMBO Arts Center.
Revealing and forging the connections between Michael, the performers, the collaborating musicians on the soundtrack and the audience, We Are All Living Installations shows that all people, no matter our differences, experience the same pain, emotions, consequences and joys. From a same-sex couple stuck together to a baby dancing to Michael’s own mom, the performers will move, dance and act as if in a live music video and Alan, who will be painting, tin-foiling, wrapping, sculpting, spraying, smashing and transforming them into living sculptures, prove that we all are made up of bodies and minds that must endure whether it is a 6-hour performance or the twists and turns of life.
A New York staple for seven years, Michael Alan’s Living Installation has recently evolved into a larger musical project entitled Sound Drawing, gathering together musicians from across the globe to collaborate with Alan on a live soundtrack for the Living Installations. The soundtrack from Sound Drawing ranges from collaborations with Alan and artist Kenny Scharf, Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys, Vas Deferens Organization, Japanther, Jeff and Jane Hudson, Geneva Jacuzzi, Noah Becker, Renaldo from Renaldo and the Loaf and many, many more. A new way of merging art and music and bringing it into a gallery and performance space, the Living Installation asks the audience to slow down, listen to the soundtrack, watch the performers act out the music while Alan turns himself, the performers and the space into an installation.
With five of Michael Alan’s drawings and paintings placed around the space, becoming performers themselves with their drawn movement, a sculpture that will be built during the show, a photo slideshow of past Living Installation photos by Worm Carnevale and a video of the Living Installation by Michael Alan, We Are All Living Installations is a celebration of creativity in all of its forms. Despite our differences, all people forget so much in life. We Are All Living Installations is about coming together and creating an experience that you will not forget.
Michael Alan’s Living Installation We Are All Living Installations is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Location:
DUMBO Arts Center
111 Front Street, Suite 212
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Date & Time:
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Two Shows: 7pm and 10:15pm
Tickets: $15 online; $20 at the door
For tickets and more information, please visit http://www.michaelalanart.com/art/upcoming-projects/
March 30, 2012permalink
Current Grantee Artist Dustin Grella’s Notes to Self Exhibition Opens March 29
Current Grantee artist Dustin Grella's Notes to Self Exhibition opens at AC Institute Satellite Space March 29 at 6pm.
Notes to Self:
Being obsessive and compulsive in our society often carries negative connotations. In Dustin Grella's work, the artist prefers to celebrate these traits, referring to it as OCC, Obsessive Compulsive Culture. Grella approaches his work as if it were a puzzle, taking an action or an idea and aggressively repeating it, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, until a resolution is found.
In his Notes to Self project, Grella has written and then mailed himself a letter every day for over ten years. The exercise has generated 3650 letters (and counting), which remain meticulously ordered and still sealed to this day. The slight variations in the project, a change of font, the physical location of the cancellation stamp, and of course what is written inside, are nuances that help decipher time's complexities.
A C-7 quadriplegic, Grella has found that his attempts to send and receive these letters have been greatly hindered due to the fact that so many of Manhattan's post offices are inaccessible. He has decided that for the tax deadline on April 17th at the James A. Farley Post Office (421 Eight Avenue @ 32nd Street) he will be climbing the stairs of the post office with his wheelchair chained to his waist and his taxes in his mouth in an attempt to bring attention to the fact that a large percentage of New York City's post offices are still inaccessible.
This exhibition takes place fittingly in the building that was the previous home of the Berlin Jones Envelope Company.
The performance was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by the Jerome Foundation; the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Location:
AC Institute's Satellite Space
547 W. 27th Suite #210 (2nd floor)
New York, NY 10001
Date & Time:
March 29 – April 21, 2012
Opening Event: Thursday, March 29, 6-8pm
Special Performance:
April 17 at 6:15pm at James A. Farley Post Office (421 Eight Avenue @ 32nd Street)
A reception will follow at the gallery at 7:30pm
All exhibitions are FREE and open to the public.
For more information, contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Bio:
Dustin Grella was raised in the rural community of Medina, Ohio, and now resides in New York City. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, being honored with the Paula H. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Computer Art. His animations' accolades include winning the Walt Disney Award at the prestigious Ottawa International Animation Festival and in May 2012 will be premiering a series of micro-shorts at the Cannes Film Festival. He is currently in production of the Animation Hotline, a series of daily animations that use crowd-sourced voicemail messages for content. If you've got a story give him a call at 212-683-2490, and check out his website at www.dustingrella.com.
March 23, 2012permalink
Upcoming Project Playdate Pajama Parties
Project Playdate pajama parties let parents enjoy a night out while their children have a blast in a safe and interactive space. Playdates provide dinner, story time, arts & crafts, games, live music and more! All proceeds are donated to help young mothers in NYC. So, moms and dads, go have fun. Your kids will be busy saving the world...
Sign up here.
Next Playgarden Playdate:
Where: 95 Franklin St. (Tribeca)
When: Saturday, April 7th
Time: 5:30-8:30 pm.
Next Kidville Playdate:
Where: 67 E 11th St. (Union Square)
When: Friday, May 4th
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
(Sign up before April 1st and receive a %15 discount using code, "Powerhouse")
March 13, 2012permalink
Guggenheim Presents stillspotting nyc: queens Exhibit Starting April 14
Exhibition:
stillspotting nyc: queens
Transhistoria by Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL)
Venue:
Several locations in Jackson Heights starting at the 74th Street—Roosevelt Avenue Transit Hub, Queens, NY
2-hr tours from 40-40 75th St, Queens
Dates:
Sat and Sun, April 14-15, 21-22, and 28-29; May 5-6, 2012
11am-7pm
How does one find calm and inner peace in a bustling environment such as Jackson Heights? Take a storytelling tour to experience four readings of newly-commissioned works by Queens-affiliated narrators, including renowned poets, priests, and authors in spaces selected by the architects at Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL).
Transhistoria is the third edition of Stillspotting nyc, a two-year multidisciplinary project that takes the Guggenheim’s Architecture and Urban Studies programming out into the streets of the city’s five boroughs. Site-specific commissions in all five of New York City’s boroughs identify moments of urban quiet and respond to everyday issues of noise, anxiety, and stillness. Transhistoria will be held at several sites around Jackson Heights for four weekends: April 14–15, 21–22, 28–29, and May 5–6, 2012. In two-hour self-guided tours, starting from the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Ave transit hub, visitors will encounter four of these personal transhistories.
Stillspotting nyc is organized by David van der Leer, Assistant Curator, Architecture and Urban Studies, with Sarah Malaika, Stillspotting Project Associate, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Support for stillspotting nyc is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation NYC Opportunities Fund and a MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections grant. This project is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Leadership Committee for stillspotting nyc, co-chaired by Franklin Campbell and Pamela Samuels, is gratefully acknowledged.
More info at stillspotting.guggenheim.org.
March 13, 2012permalink
Current Workspace Artist, Daniel Bejar will join online exhibition “March 2012” at SITE Santa Fe
Daniel Bejar, Daniel Bejar/Destroyer (The Googlegänger), 2009-ongoing, Search engine intervention, digital prints, Courtesy of the artist.
Current Workspace Artist, Daniel Bejar's project Daniel Bejar/Destroyer (The Googlegänger) will be featured on SITE Santa Fe's online exhibition "March 2012" on Saturday, March 3rd. In homage to Seth Siegelaub's exhibition "March 1969", each day in March a new artwork will occupy SITE's homepage.
Date: March 3, 2012
Other Artists includes:
Axle Contemporary, Daniel Bejar, Matthew John Callanan, Beth Coleman + Howard Goldkrand, Ron Cooper, Matthew Cusick, Faith Denham, Brent Green, Hillerbrand + Magsamen, Jennie C. Jones, Tellervo Kalleinen + Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, susan pui san lok, Conor McGarrigle, Linda Montano, neuroTransmitter, Huong Ngo (in collaboration with George Monteleone and Or Zubalsky), Paul Notzold, Geof Oppenheimer, Ben Patterson, Dawit L. Petros, Adrian Piper, Liliana Porter, Postcommodity, Mark Tribe, Claudia X. Valdes, and Donald Woodman.
For more Information, please visit SITE SantaFe.
February 29, 2012permalink
Former Swing Space Artist Faye Driscoll presents a performance “You’re Me” at The Kitchen
Former Swing Space Artist, Faye Driscoll, presents a performance You’re Me at The Kitchen from April 12 to April 21, 2012. Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me considers how we are constantly made-up and un-done by each other. In this evening length duet Driscoll probes and obfuscates the inescapable nature of relationships as the contemporary, archetypal, fantastical and personal crash into each other, bending and warping in one shrug, quarrel, or reframing of a scene. Like a game whose rules are constantly changing, full of play but imbued with adrenaline stemming from potentially dire consequences, Driscoll and performer Jesse Zaritt seduce, role-play, gaze, and crave in rapid succession.
Sliding from the everyday to the uncanny and bizarre, Driscoll’s choreography poses questions about the similarly slippery nature of self and other. How do our fantasies of ourselves and of each other create new possibilities for being, and yet give birth to friction, failure, and loss? How does our very desire to be more than we are transform us? How do two bodies on a stage make meaning out of empty space, all while embedded in the inescapable entanglement of the performance of you and me, and while asking, "Am I getting it right?"
Date: April 12–April 21, 2012, 8pm
Location
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
(Between 10th and 11th Avenues on the south side of the street)
(212) 255-5793
Ticket: $15
For more information, please find The Kitchen Website .
