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Through September 27
Jem Cohen’s Creative Capital feature film Chain has a two-week
exclusive run at the IFC Center in New York, its first theatrical opening in
the U.S. Cohen hosted Q&A on the first few nights, with special guests,
including musician Guy Picciotto of Fugazi.
http://www.ifccenter.com
Through September 28
Naomi Uman presents a solo exhibition titled Humor Rosa of hand painted photographs,
daily performance in the museum, and sewing for the public, at the Museo Universitario
del Chopo in Mexico City.
http://www.chopo.unam.mx/
Through September 30
Diane Nerwen’s video The Thief of Bagdad is screening at Wild Spaces
Social Justice and Environmental Film Festival in more than twenty cities across
Australia.
http://www.wildspaces.foe.org.au/
Through October 1
Carrie Moyer’s work is featured in a survey of contemporary abstract painting,
Around About Abstraction, at the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro, NC. The exhibition
is curated by Ron Platt. Moyer participated in an exhibition this summer at Galeria
Marlborough in Madrid, Young American.
http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu
http://www.galeriamarlborough.com
Through October 1
John Jota Leaños, Dread Scott, and Critical Art Ensemble are showing work
in A Knock at the Door..., an exhibition about freedom of speech and artistic
freedom during a time of heightened censorship and surveillance. The exhibition
is held at Cooper Union and South Seaport Museum in New York
City and is sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. A panel discussion
will be held September 30th, at Cooper Union at 7pm.
http://www.lmcc.net/knock/
Through October 1
Joanna Priestley is a guest of the KROK Animation Festival and is premiering
her new abstract computer animated film, Dew Line. The festival takes place on
a Ukrainian cruise ship that travels between Kiev and Odessa, on the Dnieper
River.
http://www.primopix.com
Through October 7
Jeffrey Gibson has reinstalled his blacklight sculptures as part of the group
exhibition, Evolving Pattern, at the Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University.
The show is curated by Midori Yoshimoto.
http://www.njcu.edu
Through October 8
Jeffrey Scher is presenting new work in a solo show, Drawn and Quartered, at
Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York City. The new work includes paintings, drawings
and animated films. Scher’s animated film Lost and Found (2004) was purchased
by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection and was shown September
4 and 12.
http://www.mayastendhalgallery.com
http://www.moma.org
Through October 16
Paul Shambroom is showing his Creative Capital project, Meetings, in a solo
exhibition at Rocket Gallery in London. Meetings is a series of photographs of
local U.S. government meetings.
http://www.rocketgallery.com
http://www.paulshambroomart.com
Through October 23
Mark Newport is included in Hanging By A Thread at The Moore Space in Miami,
Florida. The show features work by more than 20 established, mid-career, and
emerging artists working in the hand-made tradition.
http://www.themoorespace.org
Through October 29
Josely Carvalho is featured in Works on Paper, a print exhibition at J. Johnson
Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
http://www.jjohnsongallery.com
Through October 29
Liz Cohen is participating in H2O, a group show at Quang Gallery in Paris, France,
showing a video of the performance Bikini Carwash. Bikini Carwash documents Cohen’s
San Francisco performance as a bikini carwash model to announce and fundraise
for her Creative Capital project Bodywork. The video was also shown in the group
show SCAR at Parkeergarage De Appelaar in Haarlem, The Netherlands in September.
http://www.galerie-quang.com
http://www.scarexpo.tk/
Through November 6
James Luna is exhibiting at the Venice Biennale 05. He is representing the National
Museum of the American Indian, which opened its doors this year in Washington,
D.C.
http://www.jamesluna.com
http://www.nmai.si.edu
Through November 6
Liz Cohen, Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell (visual artists), and Caveh
Zahedi, Ellen Bruno, Sam Green and Bill Daniel (film/video artists) are participating
in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Triennial Festival of Regional Visual
Art, Performance, and Film/Video in San Francisco.
http://www.ybca.org
Through November 20
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo are featured in a solo show at the Henry Art Gallery,
Seattle, Washington. The show, Minus Space, includes their slide show, photographs,
and drawings along with a site specific installation. Han and Mihalyo have also
been commissioned by the Henry Art Gallery to design an installation for the
Museum's permanent collection titled 150 Works of Art.
http://www.henryart.org/ex/minus_space.htm
http://www.leadpencilstudio.com
Through November 20
James Fotopoulos’s commission for the Mechelen Contour Biennial of Video
Art in Mechelen, Belgium, will be on exhibition. The Mirror Mask is an installation
comprised of a nine-channel video, 10 graphite drawings, and three digital prints,
and is complemented by a catalog and print editions.
http://www.mechelen2005.be/en/programma_contour.html
http://www.jamesfotopoulos.com
Through November 27
Edgar Arceneaux is presenting new sculpture and installation works in a solo
exhibition at San Francisco’s SFMOMA. The museum’s education department
will host a talk with Arceneaux and exhibition curator Jill Dawsey on October
27th, and a catalogue with essay will be available at no cost.
http://www.sfmoma.org
Through November 30
John Jota Leaños will display the first act of his digital ópera
at the Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, in a show on humor and satire
called, What's Not to Love.
http://www.galeriadelaraza.org
Through December 5
Paul Shambroom’s solo exhibition, Face to Face with the Bomb, opened at
the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. Shambroom is also having another solo
show at Rocket Gallery in London, featuring his Creative Capital project, Meetings,
September 8 – October 16. He will participate in a group show at Mass MoCA
this fall as well.
http://www.paulshambroomart.com
Through December 10
Conrad Bakker presents Untitled Project: Dumpster, a handmade sculpture
of a
dumpster, in the plaza of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery
400 for the exhibition At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago. An artist
talk is scheduled on October 20 at 4pm, and a free catalogue/booklet with essays
by
Marc
Fischer
will
be printed
in connection with the project.
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/
http://www.untitledprojects.com
Through January 5, 2006
Xenobia Bailey’s Sistah Paradise Tent is installed on the 5th
floor of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, where she is crocheting a carpet
for
the tent in the museum during part of the installation.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press
September 27 – October 30
Eduardo Kac presents Move 36, an installation featuring a plant modified
to incorporate Descartes’s statement I think therefore I am into
the four bases of genetics. The solo exhibition will be at the Galerie Biche
de Bere in
Paris and is accompanied by the publication of a book also titled Move 36.
Kac
will also be participating in various group exhibitions in Shanghai, Pittsburgh,
Paris, and Chicago.
http://www.ekac.org
September 30 – December 10
Annie Han & Daniel Mihalyo's scupture, Inversion I, will be exhibited in
a group show at Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon.
http://www.sou.edu/sma/EXHIBITION/Index.html
http://www.leadpencilstudio.com
September 30 – January 15
Zoe Leonard will be in a group show at the Whitney Museum, The New City: Sub/urbia
in Recent Photography.
http://www.whitney.org
September and October
Caveh Zahedi’s film, I Am A Sex Addict, will be playing at the Vancouver
International Film Festival, the Rio De Janeiro Film Festival, the Warsaw International
Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the Chicago International
Film Festival. See the festival schedules for screening dates and times.
http://www.viff.org
http://www.festivaldoriobr.com.br
http://www.wff.pl
http://www.hiff.org
http://www.chicagofilmfestival.org
October
Suzanne Lacy with the Beneath Land and Water Team will be represented in Groundworks:
Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Regina Gouger
Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, curated by Grant
Kester and sponsored by the Studio for Creative Inquiry at the University.
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/
http://www.suzannelacy.com
October 4 – 11
Jake Mahaffy's feature-length film WAR will be touring on the Southern Circuit
Film Tour this October, screening at various locations across Virginia, South
Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi.
http://www.state.sc.us/arts/circuit/schedule.htm
October 4 – December 20
Carrie Moyer and Chris Doyle will be featured in an exhibition of emerging Brooklyn
artists in BAMart, a part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music in New York. BAMart is curated by Dan Cameron.
http://www.bam.org
October 5
Chel White celebrates with a DVD Release Party Extravaganza for the long awaited
completion of Fever Dreams and Heavenly Nightmares - The Short Films of Chel
White. The event will be held at Holocene in Portland, Oregon, and is open to
the public.
http://www.holocene.org/calendar.htm
http://www.skysociety.com
October 5 – November 25
Jeffrey Gibson will have a solo exhibition of recent paintings at The American
Indian Community House Gallery titled Indigenous Anomaly. The exhibition is guest-curated
by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Assistant Curator at the National Museum of the American
Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
http://www.aich.org/currentexhibits.php
October 6 – November 1
Bill Morrison will have new work in a solo show, Recent Work, at Maya Stendhal
Gallery in New York.
http://www.mayastendhalgallery.com
October 7 - 22
Barbara Hammer will present three lectures at the Bratislava Academy of Art and
Design in Slovakia this October as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, based on her
research and work: 1) Auto/bio/graphy and Art; 2) Invisible Histories; 3) Scratching
through the Archives.
http://www.barbarahammerfilms.com
http://www.afad.sk
October 7 – November 12
Karyn Olivier will participate in a group show titled You are Here at Ballroom
Marfa in Marfa, Texas.
http://www.ballroommarfa.org
October 8 – November 11
Edgar Arceneaux and Miranda July are featured in the survey exhibition of young
American art, Uncertain States of America - American Art in the 3rd Millennium
at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition is
curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, director of the museum, together with curators Daniel
Birnbaum and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
http://www.af-moma.no
October 13 – November 12
Mark Newport will present My Heroes, a solo exhibition at Lyons Wier Gallery,
New York.
http://www.lyonswiergallery.com
October 14 – 16
Diane Nerwen’s new video, The Sexorcist: Revirginize, will screen in the
DU.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY. The film will also be shown
at Other Cinema in San Francisco in the program Avant to Live: New Experimental
Works on December 17.
http://www.dumboartscenter.org/festival
http://www.othercinema.com
October 14 – 24
Bill Daniel’s film Who is Bozo Texino? will be screened at Viennale: The
Vienna International Film Festival, in Vienna, Austria.
http://www.viennale.at
October 14 – December 15
John Jota Leaños will debut an animation called Los Ghastly Guerrerosfor a show called Spiritual
Fronteras at the Mesa Center for Contemporary Art
in Arizona.
http://www.mesaartscenter.com/main.aspx
October 14 – December 31
John F. Simon, Jr. will be featured in a solo museum show in his hometown of
Alexandria, Louisiana at the Alexandria Museum of Art.
http://www.themuseum.org
October 17
Rachel Mayeri and Faith Wilding are participating in the BioArt and Public Sphere
Conference, hosted by the University of Southern California Humanities Research
Institute at UC Irvine. Mayeri will be presenting Stories from the Genenome as
part of the conference, which was also screened in September in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands at Kloone2004, and in Mälmo, Sweden, at the Pineapple Videobar.
http://www.publicsphere.parasitelab.net/
http://www.soft-science.org/mayeri.html
http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/wilding
http://www.cyberfeminism.net
October 20 – November 26
Mark Napier will feature new interactive artwork in a solo show titled Empireat Bitforms Gallery in New York City.
http://www.bitforms.com
http://www.potatoland.org
October 22
Jeffrey Gibson will speak about his current exhibition of paintings at the AICH
Gallery and previous bodies of work. The artist talk will take place at The National
Museum of the American Indian at 2pm.
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny&third=hours
October 28
Ricardo Dominguez’s polyspacial performance as the nanoJanitor in SPECFLIC
(a speculative distributed cinema), a collaboration with artist Adriene Jenik
launches at CAL IT 2 and at ISEA 2006. Dominguez’s Tijuana Calling, a commissioned
internet art project with Coco Fusco for InSite_05, curated by Mark Tribe, recently
launched.
http://www.specflic.net
http://www.turistafronterizo.net
October 28 – 30, November 3 – 6
Dan Hurlin’s Hiroshima Maiden will be performed at the Clarice Smith Performing
Art Center in College Park, MD in October and at REDCAT in Los Angeles in November.
http://www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu
http://www.redcat.org
October 28 – December 11
Karyn Olivier will exhibit new works in a solo show at Dunn and Brown Gallery
in Dallas, Texas, titled Time to Go Home.
http://www.dunnandbrown.com
October 29 – January, 2006
Dread Scott will be showing new work in Relics & Remnants: Contemporary Reinterpretation
of African American Images at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, in
Jamaica, Queens.
http://www.jcal.org
October 30
Richard Move will perform as Martha Graham in a one-night only Gala, celebrating
Career Transition For Dancers’ 20th Anniversary, hosted by Liza Minnelli
at 7:00 pm at New York’s City Center. The Gala evening also includes Polly
Bergen, Sandy Duncan, Bill Irwin, Ben Vereen, and artists from American Ballet
Theatre, Cirque du Soleil and the Rock Steady Crew.
http://www.careertransition.org
November 2 – January 8, 2006
Sujata G. Bhatt’s full-length play, Queen of the Remote Control, will have
a ten-week run at the Sacramento Theatre Company in Sacramento, CA. This will
be the play's third separate production in 2005.
http://www.sactheatre.org
November 5 – December 17
Edgar Arceneaux will have new work in a solo exhibition, Borrowed Sun, at the
Kitchen, curated by Debra Singer. The exhibition incorporates slide projection,
large-scale drawings, sculpture, and 16mm film.
http://www.thekitchen.org
November 4 – December 31
Deborah F. Lawrence’s artwork will be featured in a solo show at Provisions
Library Resource Center for Activism and the Arts in Washington, D.C. Twenty-five
works will be on display, including artwork from Lawrence’s Creative Capital
project, Dee
Dee Does Utopia.
http://www.provisionslibrary.org
November 5 – December 11
Sabrina Raaf will have a solo show at OBORO Center for the Arts in Montreal,
Canada. The exhibition is curated by Valerie Lamontagne.
http://www.raaf.org
http://www.oboro.net
November 6
Meredith Monk’s 40th anniversary season continues with Making Music:
Meredith
Monk at Carnegie Hall, featuring performances by Alarm Will Sound, Bang on a
Can All-Stars, Björk with Zeena Parkins, Bruce Brubaker, Meredith Monk & Vocal
Ensemble, Ursula Oppens, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Terry Riley, DJ Spooky and
John Zorn. Concerts and workshops continue throughout the Fall.
http://www.carnegiehall.org
http://www.meredithmonk.org
November 7
Cynthia Oliver’s dance film AfroSocialiteLifeDiva will have its New York
premiere at Dance Theater Workshop's 40th Anniversary party, 40 Forward. AfroSocialtieLifeDiva
will appear on plasma screens in DTW's lobby.
http://www.cynthiaoliver.com
http://www.dtw.org
November 9 – March 12, 2006
Karyn Olivier and Nick Cave will be showing new work in the group show, Frequency,
at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. The show will feature artwork by thirty
emerging black artists living and working in the United States. Organized by
Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim, the exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color
catalogue.
http://www.studiomuseum.org
November 10 – 18
Pablo Helguera and Rafael Sánchez will present new performance works as
part of this fall’s PERFORMA 05. Helguera’s piece, entitled The
Foreign
Legion will take place downtown at 15 Nassau at 7pm and is copresented by the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Gigantic Art Space. Sánchez will
perform a new solo work, The Three Voices, in three parts at Participant Inc.
Organized by RoseLee Goldberg and taking place throughout the month of November,
PERFORMA05 is the first biennial of new visual performance art taking place at
over 20 venues in New York City.
http://www.performa-art.org
http://www.giganticartspace.org
http://www.lmcc.net
November 16 – 19
Bill Morrison will be contributing visuals as part of Shelter, a multimedia performance
presented as part of The Next Wave Festival at The Brooklyn Academy of Music
at the Harvey Theater. Morrison will take part in BAMdialogue, along with Bob
McGrath and Laurie Olinder on November 17th to discuss the project.
http://bam.org/events/06SHEL/06SHEL.aspx
November 17 – 20
Kerry Skarbakka will have new works exhibited at Paris Photo, at the Carrousel
du Louvre in Paris.
http://www.parisphoto.fr
http://www.skarbakka.net
November 18 – April 23, 2006
Marie Sester will be featured in Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht (Light from
Artificial
Light) at the ZKM | Museum for Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition
will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue and the museum is also acquiring
Sester’s piece, ACCESS for the permanent collection.
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/
November 24 – January 2006
Liz Cohen will be featured in a solo show at Färgfabriken in Stockholm,
Sweden, presenting a site-specific installation and automotive assembly of her
Creative Capital Bodywork project.
http://www.fargfabriken.se
December
Diane Nerwen’s videos The Thief of Baghdad and The Great
Yiddish Love will
screen at Gallery 291, London.
http://www.291gallery.com
December 1 – 4
Annie Han & Daniel Mihalyo will be featured in Aqua Art Miami during
Art Basel Miami Beach through LAWRIMORE PROJECT, a new commercial gallery in
Seattle.
http://www.aquaartmiami.com/galleries.html
http://www.leadpencilstudio.com
In Other News. . .
Ruben Ochoa, based in Los Angeles, was awarded a six-month residency by the
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, begining
in December 2005.
http://www.iscp-nyc.org
Jake Mahaffy has been named the first recipient of a newly established
grant from the Sundance Institute for his Creative Capital project Free
in Deed.
One person a year is selected for the new Sundance Auerbach Screenwriting
Fellowship. Mahaffy’s short film Motion Studies is screening at Lucid Underground
Media Arts Festival, Kansas City International Film Festival, the Portland
Institute of Contemporary Art in Oregon, 18th Dallas Video Festival, and the
Chicago Underground Film Festival.
http://institute.sundance.org
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com
Brent Green and Jake Mahaffy were both listed in The Top 25 New Faces in
Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine’s summer 2005 issue.
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com
http://www.nervousfilms.com
http://www.handcrankedfilm.com/jake/jake_pages/jake.html
Marina Zurkow was awarded a New York Foundation for ther Arts Artists' Fellowship,
2005 in Computer Arts. In addition, Zurkow (with Katie Salen and Nancy Nowacek)
won the competition for the CADRE Interactive City Residency, to produce
a public art project for ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival
of
Art on the Edge in San Jose, CA. The festival will take place in August 2006.
http://www.o-matic.com
John F. Simon, Jr.’s artist book and software will be co-published by
the Whitney Museum of American Art and Printed Matter, Inc. Entitled Mobility
Agents, the book/software will sell for $20. The Aldrich Museum will publish
a limited edition multiple by John F. Simon, Jr. as part of their Aldrich Editions
series. A dimensional laser cut and engraved image in plexiglass will be offered
in an edition of 20.
http://www.whitney.org
http://www.printedmatter.org
http://www.aldrichart.org
Cynthia Oliver’s dance film AfroSocialiteLifeDiva premiered on European
Television, Canal Arte. AfroSocialiteLifeDiva, an integration of movement,
story, and sound, originally premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC in
2003, it was translated into a 25 minute film in collaboration with German
Filmmaker Marcus Behrens.
http://www.cynthiaoliver.com
Jem Cohen (film), Harrell Fletcher (visual arts), and Donna
Uchizono (dance),
were all recipients of this year’s Alpert Awards in the Arts from the
California Institute of the Arts.
http://www.alpertawards.org
Maria Elena González is visiting artist for the Fall 2005 semester at
Cooper Union in New York City, teaching sculpture. González was a resident
faculty member at the Skowhegan School of Art during the Summer 2005.
http://www.cooper.edu/art/bio_gonzalez.html
Basil Twist’s productions, Dogugaeshi and Symphonie
Fantastique were
both nominated for the American Theatre Wing’s Hewes Design Award.
http://www.americantheatrewing.org/hewes.php
http://www.basiltwist.com
James Bidgood’s Blue Boy was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston,
Texas for their permanent collection. His film Pink Narcissus is being licensed
for broadcast on Here!, a new cable channel in the United States.
Beverly McIver was selected by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
as one of nine featured artists on their website, and will be entering photographs
and an online journal about the progress of her paintings and updates on
life
as an artist. Entries will be added every two weeks.
http://www.portraitcompetition.si.edu/artist/splash.html
subRosa has a new book published. Yes Species, by subRosa and James Pei-Mun
Tsang is published by Sabrosa Books.
http://www.cyberfeminism.net
Eduardo Kac had a book of collected writings titled Telepresence
and Bio Art – Networking
Humans, Rabbits and Robots published by University of Michigan Press,
and the Video Data Bank released a video about Kac’s work.
http://www.ekac.org
Rachel Mayeri’s Soft Science is now distributed by Video
Data Bank under New Releases and Anthologies. An essay by Mayeri on the program,
will
be posted
shortly on the Video Data Bank website.
http://www.vdb.org
Christine Tarkowski was awarded a commission to create a permanent sculpture
for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governor’s State University,
Illinois, and was the recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual
Artist
Award.
http://www.driehausfoundation.org
Carrie Moyer was awarded the Pennies from Heaven award, by nomination in
recognition of intellectual and artistic contribution. The award is administered
by New
York Community Trust.
Rennie Harris received the Choregrapher of the Decade award from the Kennedy
Center.
Joanna Priestley’s Andaluz, an animated film about Spain, codirected
by Karen Aqua won the following awards: Black Maria Film & Video
Festival- Director's Choice Award; ASIFA-East Animation Awards- Excellence
in Experimental
Techniques Award;
Kalamazoo Animation Festival International- First Prize/Gold Award; USA
Film Festival, Dallas, Texas, 2004- Finalist; ASIFA-San Francisco Animation
Awards-
Second Prize.
Ricardo Dominguez recently became an assistant professor at the
University of California, San Diego in the Visual Arts Department and
at the new edge
technology institute CAL IT(2), where he will be researching and developing
a 10-year performance project on nanotechnology entitled b.a.n.g lab.
http://www.calit2.net
http://www.terroristic.org/bang/
Karyn Olivier will participate in the Artist in Residency program at the
Studio Museum in Harlem beginning in October through September 2006.
http://www.studiomuseum.org
Kerry Skarbakka’s photographs and an interview will be featured
in the October issue of MAX Magazine, in Italy. Tenatively scheduled
for a
Fall release,
Skarbakka's work will also be featured on the cover of a newly published
novel, Setting the Lawn of Fire: A Novel, by Mack Friedman.
In Case You Missed It
Mark Newport had the first exhibition of his Creative Capital project in a
solo show, Super Heroics, at the Arizona State University Art Museum in
Tempe, Arizona from June 24 – September 3. Included will also be a survey
of work from the past four years.
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
http://www.lyonswiergallery.com
http://www.gregkucera.com
Barbara Hammer’s 1991 film Vital Signs was exhibited at the group summer
show by the same name at Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York City. The show ran
from June 2 – July 31, 2005. In September, Hammer’s History
Lessons was screened at the Kansas City International Film Festival and Resisting
Paradise screened at both the Kansas City International Film Festival and
the Oklahoma
City Museum of Art.
http://www.mayastendhalgallery.com
http://www.barbarahammerfilms.com
Peggy Diggs’s READINESS (2004) was included in the exhibit After Effects
at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York. The exhibit was part of
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's international summit What Comes After:
Cities, Art and Recovery, September 8 – 13. Diggs was also included
in the first annual Berkshire Biennial at The Contemporary Arts Center in
North
Adams, MA in July.
http://www.lmcc.net
http://www.thecac.org
http://www.williams.edu/~pdiggs/
Nancy Davidson's sculpture was featured in a two-person show with Julie
Hayward at Gallerie Eboran, Salzburg, Austria in August.
Tony Cokes’s installation Pop Manifestos was featured
in the exhibition
Visible Sound and Image for the Ear at the Seoul Net & Film Festival,
Korea, from August 24 – September 14. Pop Manifestos presents a series
of seven videos examining the myths of pop music and culture. The installation
also
contained 1!, an audio archive (and the final installment in the series).
http://www.senef.net
Jacqueline Goss’s film How To Fix the World was screened as part of the “Theft
Is Property” program at Rooftop Films on August 19th on the lawn of
the Automotive High School in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.jacquelinegoss.com
Brian Freeman performed at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica on
August 26 – 28 in The Murder of Emmett Till- 50 years later, curated by Kevin
Spicer, a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Till’s death.
http://www.highwaysperformance.org
Lisa Kron’s group The Five Lesbian Brothers debuted their new play
Oedipus at Palm Springs at New York Theatre Workshop on July 20, which ran
through
August 28.
Amelia Rudolph’s vertical dance company Project Bandaloop performed
on tour from June 23 beginning at the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City,
UT
and traveling through Nevada, Montana, Indiana and Oregon through September
17.
http://www.projectbandaloop.org
Vijay Iyer performed with his quartet at Joe’s Pub in New York City as
part of the CMJ Music Marathon 2005 on September 14. The group included Iyer
on piano, Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, Stephen Crump on bass, and
Dan Weiss on drums and tabla. Iyer recently performed with poet Mike Ladd in
Paris for the Festival Jazz à la Villette, on their project Still
Life with Commentator.
http://marathon.cmj.com
http://www.joespub.com
http://www.vijay-iyer.com/projects5.shtml
http://www.jazzalavillette.com
Shelley Hirsch performed vocal accompaniment to classic Bernard Herrman film
instrumentals as part of the record release concert for the group Barbez, at
Tonic in New York City on September 10.
http://www.tonicnyc.com
Headlong Dance Theater created a piece, Dance Karaoke, for the FRINGE CHALLENGE
at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by a discussion about the process.
Headlong’s Amy Smith hosted the Rocky Awards, Philadelphia’s
dance community celebration, and David Brick co-directed a piece in the Live
Art
Festival, Madame Douce-amere, a collaboration with Emmanuelle Delpech, Claude
Ferrie, and Celine Rames.
http://www.livearts-fringe.org
http://www.headlong.org
Jennifer Monson premiered a new work Flight of Mind at Dance Theater Workshop
in New York City from September 19 – 24. This premiere was a distillation
of Monson’s touring project BIRD BRAIN, which traveled more than 7,000
miles following the migratory paths of gray whales, ospreys, ducks and geese.
A post-performance discussion was held on September 19, moderated by dancer
and choreographer Gabri Christa.
http://www.dtw.org
Basil Twist collaborated with playwright Lee Breuer and composer Ushio Torikai
to create RED BEADS, a large scale multidisciplinary opera performed from
September 20 – 24 using aerial choreography and wind puppetry, at the
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University.
http://www.basiltwist.com
http://skirballcenter.nyu.edu
Elizabeth Streb’s STREB Pop Action Lab and her company of Pop Action
Specialists hosted a workshop to teach tricks of the Pop Action trade at
the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) Time-Based Art (TBA) Institute:
Workshops in Dance, Theater, Music and Film.
http://www.pica.org
http://www.strebusa.org
Bill Brown presented a retrospective of his short films at the Pioneer Theater
in New York City on September 23.
Yasuko Yokoshi presented an excerpt from her new performance work, what we
when we, at Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
on September 18 and 19.
http://www.guggenheim.org/education/worksandprocess/schedule.html
Daniel Bernard Roumain hosted a workshop, ACOUStic vs/with ELECTROnic Instruments,
at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) Time-Based Art (TBA) Institute:
Workshops in Dance, Theater, Music and Film.
http://www.pica.org
http://www.dbrmusic.com
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy presented multi-media storytelling at The Kitchen
High Line Block Party/ West Chelsea Street Fair on September 17. The afternoon
was The Kitchen’s seventh annual neighborhood street fair, produced
this year in collaboration with Friends of the High Line.
http://www.thekitchen.org
RTMark, Jem Cohen, Steve Kurtz, Dread Scott, and Usama
Alshaibi were participants
in a day-long symposium on September 23 at NYU’s Wagner School of Public
Policy on the Patriot Act’s (and related policies’) impact on
philanthropy and the arts. The symposium was co-hosted by Creative Capital.
Shelley Hirsch and Jennifer Monson participated at the Dara Fain / Human Behavior
Explorers Benefit Party at Body Language in Brooklyn on September 17. Hirsch
performed vocals with electric guitarist Uchihashi Kazuhisa and Jennifer Monson
was featured in film projections by Pooh Kaye.
George Legrady’s Making Visible the Invisible, a commission
for the Seattle Public Library, opened September 12. The installation consists
of
six LCD screen
visualization of realtime data in the Mixing Chamber of the Seattle Public
Library, designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, Legrady also has published online
George Legrady: From Analogue to Digital: photography and interactive
media,
Catalog of the National Gallery of Canada exhibition, by the Daniel Langlois
Foundation for Art, Science & Technology.
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/glWeb/Projects/spl/spl.html
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/legrady/
SIMPARCH (Steven Badgett and Matt Lynch) contributed to this year’s
inSite_05, a network of contemporary art programs centered around the border
zone of San
Diego-Tijuana, with their installation Dirty Water Initiative.
http://www.simparch.org
http://www.insite05.org
Upcoming...
January 2006
John F. Simon, Jr. will be represented in All Digital, a survey of digital
art by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. The show will include
seven software artworks including the premiere of Fountain as a dual projection.
http://www.mocacleveland.org
January 2006
Dread Scott will be showing work in the show Potentially Harmful:
The Art of American Censorship at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwart/gallery/
January 2006
Kerry Skarbakka will be exhibiting in a group show at Mark Moore Gallery
in Los Angeles. Several works from The Struggle to Right Oneself series will
be
included in the show curated by David Hilliard. The exhibit will coincide
with the L.A. Photo Expo.
http://www.markmooregallery.com
http://www.skarbakka.net
January 13 – 15, 2006
Craig Baldwin’s Spectres of the Spectrum will be screened at the Arisia
Science Fiction Convention in Boston.
http://www.arisia.org
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