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SPRING 2006 HIGHLIGHTS of Grantee Events | Follow links for
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NATALIA ALMADA, BILL MORRISON, and VICKY FUNARI & SERGIO
DE LA TORRE are showing films at the Tribeca Film Festival
in New York City April 25th-May 7th.
Ticket and screening information:
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PABLO HELGUERA launches his Creative Capital project,
The School of Panamerican
Unrest with a panel, performance, and reception at the Americas
Society in New York on May 5th at 6pm. The unveiling of his traveling
schoolhouse, with a speech by the artist and special guests, takes
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LISA KRON'S Creative Capital play, Well,
made its Broadway debut March 30
at the Longacre Theater in New York City. Written by and starring
Kron and directed by Leigh Silverman, Well is Kron’s
personal chronicle of illness and healing within family and community.
Ticket information: http://www.wellonbroadway.com
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CAVEH ZAHEDI'S Creative Capital film I Am
A Sex Addict opened at the IFC Theater in New York City, to
be followed by a national release.
Ticket information: http://www.iamasexaddictthemovie.com |
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JAKE MAHAFFY, COLE SWENSEN, BASIL TWIST, and MARIA-ELENA GONZÁLEZ
have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
for 2006. Mahaffy will use the award to take a six-month sabbatical
to work on his Creative Capital film, Free in Deed, which
was also accepted to the Sundance Filmmakers and Screenwriters Labs.
Swensen will be pursuing her poetry project, Gravesend. |
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More Highlights . . .
ALPERT FELLOWSHIPS
Daniel Alexander Jones, Sarah Michelson, and Bill Morrison were
awarded Alpert Fellowships from Cal Arts and the Herb Alpert Foundation.
The $50,000 fellowships are awarded to “early mid-career”
artists in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and visual
arts. Each fellowship includes a week-long residency at Cal Arts. http://www.alpertawards.org
THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL, April 27 – May 7
Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre’s Creative
Capital film MAQUILÁPOLIS will have its U.S. premiere
in the documentary competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary,
about (and by) workers in Tijuana’s assembly factories, had its
World Premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in February,
and will also show this spring at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, the
Guadalajara International Film Festival, and the Hot Docs Toronto International
Documentary Film Festival. http://www.maquilapolis.com
Natalia Almada’s film All Water Has Perfect
Memory (2001) will be screened in the Festival shorts program. This
short experimental documentary is about a family’s loss of a child
and the struggle between remembrance and forgetting.
Also at the Tribeca Film Festival, Bill Morrison’s
new film The Highwater Trilogy will have its world premiere.
Divided into three sections, The Highwater Trilogy examines our
relationship to the threat of natural disasters by combining archival
footage of icebergs, hurricanes, and floods with a soundtrack by David
Lang and Michael Gordon. http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org
2006 WHITNEY BIENNIAL, Through May 28
Critical Art Ensemble, Joe Gibbons, and Lewis Klahr were
selected for inclusion in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night at
the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Gibbons’s A
Time to Die, Doppelganger Part 1, and The Producer (featuring
Tony Conrad), and Klahr’s The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy
are being screened as part of the Biennial program. http://www.whitney.org
http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/film_schedule.php
Through April 23
Brian Knep will be installing a major new piece in Memorial Hall
on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The commission
is part of the artist’s residency at Harvard. Inspired by the architecture
and history of Memorial Hall, the artist’s work explores the territory
of healing—as a physical, psychological and spiritual space—and
addresses reconciliation across the divides that separate us. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eofa/programs/artists/pubart.htm
Through April 23
Basil Twist collaborates with performance artist Taylor Mac and
Julie Atlas Muz on Mac’s Red Tide Blooming, an aquatic
musical inspired by Coney Island’s revitalization, at PS122 in New
York.
http://www.ps122.org
Through April 24
Dan Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio have a sculptural
installation Minus Space at the Headlands Center for the Arts
in Sausalito, California. The work is the result of the artists’
two-month residency, where they also developed a series of drawings titled
Space for Nothing, and a DVD slideshow of photographs.
http://www.headlands.org
http://www.leadpencilstudio.com
Through April 25
Erika Blumenfeld will be featured in a group show, Art and Infinity,
at the Santa Fe Community College, New Mexico. She will be presenting
her second video installation titled Moving Light: Spring 2005.
Through April 26
Rude Mechanicals (aka Rude Mechs of Austin, Texas) are premiering
their new work Decameron Day 7: REVENGE, a multi-disciplinary
investigation of revenge tales and the deeper culture of revenge.
http://www.rudemechs.com
Through April 29
Kerry Skarbakka’s work is included in the exhibition Blessed
Are The Merciful, currently on view at Feigen Contemporary in New
York City, curated by Jerome Jacobs.
http://www.feigencontemporary.com
http://www.skarbakka.com
Through May 6
Mary Lucier’s Creative Capital project, The Plains
of Sweet Regret, a five-channel video and sound installation, is
on view at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie. Lucier is
also represented by two vintage video works in The Early Show: Video
from 1969 – 1979, curated by Constance de Jong at The Bertha
and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College in New York.
http://www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum
Through May 6
Marina Zurkow’s Nicking the Never, a seven-channel
animated video installation, will be shown at the UCI Beall Center in
Irvine, California. Based on the structure of the Tibetan Buddhist Wheel
of Life, pop-vivid images and sound partition an emotional landscape into
seven realms: need, jealousy, complacence, aggression, desire, ego, and
stasis.
http://beallcenter.uci.edu
Through May 7
Edgar Arceneaux has new works from his residency at Artpace San
Antonio at the organization’s exhibition New Works: 06.1.
http://www.artpace.org
Through May 13
Mark Newport has work included in Pop at the Northern
Illinois University Art Museum.
http://www.vpa.niu.edu/museum/html/altgeldgllry.html
Through May 13
Edgar Arceneaux’s The Alchemy of Comedy, Stupid
is presented in a solo exhibition at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s
Gallery 400. The show features a multi-channel video, featuring comedian
David Alan Grier, accompanied by drawings and sculpture that examines
the nuances in the relationship between performer and audience.
http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu
Through May 14
Gulgun Kayim is presenting The Hidden Room, part of
Days and Nights, a trilogy of multidisciplinary site-specific
performances and events created by Skewed Visions for the old
Grain Belt Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Hidden Room utilizes
puppetry, multimedia and movement to evoke the world and art of writer,
artist and holocaust victim Bruno Schulz.
http://www.skewedvisions.org
Through May 20
John F. Simon, Jr. has a solo show of works on paper at Sandra
Gering Gallery.
http://www.geringgallery.com
Through May 20
Jessica Irish will have a solo exhibition of her recent work at Fringe
Exhibitions in Los Angeles. Entitled Between / Everyday, this site specific
installation of recent video projections explores new ways to imagine
the ideology and experience of the built environment.
http://www.fringeexhibitions.com
Through May 28
Peggy Diggs will be showing two recent projects at Project Row
Houses in Houston, Texas. These projects, MAKEDO and FINDING
HOME, were both done with groups in Greensboro, North Carolina and
Chicago, Illinois. MAKEDO addresses poverty, and FINDING
HOME was workshopped with previously homeless women in Chicago.
http://www.projectrowhouses.org
Through May 31
Gaye Chan and DownWind Productions is featured in the group exhibition
MetroHawaii at ThirtyNineHotel Gallery in Honolulu.
http://www.downwindproductions.com
Through June 17
Kerry Skarbakka is participating in the exhibition Tina B.:
Prague Art Festival in the Czech Republic.
http://www.tina-b.com
http://www.skarbakka.com
Through June 18
Spencer Nakasako and Ralph Lemon have been invited
to create new on-site projects at the Target Gallery at the Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
http://www.walkerart.org
Through July 9
Karyn Olivier has new sculpture in a group show at the Mattress
Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Factory Installed: Natascha Ampunant,
Kristine Marx, Karyn Olivier, Jason Peters, features work created
during the artists’ residency at the museum.
http://www.mattress.org
Through July 30
Brian Knep will be featured in a solo show at the New Britain
Museum of American Art in Connecticut. Knep’s show is the first
of the NEW/NOW series to be exhibited in the museum’s brand
new space.
http://www.nbmaa.org
Through July 30
Laura Carton’s work will be included in Soft Sites
at the ICA Philadelphia. Curated by Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow
Sara Reisman, selected artworks take into account the intangible qualities
of location – history, desire, identity, culture and sense of time
– that, in combination, raise questions about what constitutes site-specificity.
http://www.icaphila.org
Through August 12
Stephen Vitiello has work featured in the group exhibition Boys
and Flowers at Western Bridge Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.westernbridge.org
http://www.stephenvitiello.com
Through September 30
Allison Wiese’s site-specific sound installation Vamp
is on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Garden
Gallery in La Jolla, California. http://www.mcasd.org/
Through December 31
Diane Nerwen’s video The Thief of Baghdad will
air on Free Speech TV, based in Colorado, throughout 2006.
April 21 – May 7
Radiohole are workshopping their Creative Capital performance
FLUKE (Solemn Mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep) or Dick
Dick Dick, at PS122 in New York. Through the use of innovative sound
technology, Fluke explores the porous connections between technology
and spirituality. As in all Radiohole works, the elaborate, chaotic production
is operated entirely by the performers onstage.
http://www.ps122.org
http://www.radiohole.com
April 22 – 30
Cynthia Oliver’s Closer Than Skin, a collection
of solos, duets, and trios contemplating inner worlds and the nature of
intimacy will be presented at Aaron Davis Hall. A feature of Harlem New
York’s spring performance series, Oliver shares an evening with
Arthur Aviles as the featured choreographers of the E-Moves series.
http://www.aarondavishall.org
April 23
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert present their
documentary A Lion in the House at the Nashville Film Festival.
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/lioninthehouse
April 23 – 29
Sharon Lockhart’s films will be screening at the Walker
Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Included will be her recently completed
Creative Capital film and related photographic and installation works,
Pine Flat, as well as Teatro Amazonas, Goshogaoka,
and NÔ.
http://www.walkerart.org
April 24
Todd Downing’s film The Underminer, starring performance
artist and writer Mike Albo, is screening at the Miami Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival.
http://www.mglff.com
April 26
Jem Cohen’s Creative Capital film Chain will be
screened at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The feature-length
film is a reworking of the themes of his installation Chain X Three,
shown at the Walker in 2003, about the homogenizing affects brought on
by globalism. Cohen will participate in Contemporary Art in Conversation,
an interview with Vic Chesnutt on April 27.
http://www.walkerart.org
April 26 – 28
William Pope.L will present his talk The Influence Lecture
(ver. 5) at three California venues: April 26 at UCLA’s Hammer
Museum at 7:00 p.m.; April 27 at California College of Art's San Francisco
campus Timken Lecture Hall at 7:00 p.m.; and April 28 at UC-Berkeley’s
Townsend Center at 12:00 noon.
April 26 – 30
Bill Daniel’s film Who Is Bozo Texino will be
screened at the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival (PDX
Film Fest) at the Guild Theater in Portland, Oregon. Daniel continues
to tour the country screening the hobo graffiti film with a live musical
act.
http://www.peripheralproduce.com
April 27 – May 6
Richard Move presents The Show (Achilles Heels) at The
Kitchen, in New York. Originally commissioned by Baryshnikov’s White
Oak Dance Project, The Show features Deborah Harry (Blondie)
as Athena in a contemporary vision of the ancient Greek legend of Achilles.
http://www.move-itproductions.com
April 27
Maria-Elena González will be giving a lecture at the University
of Iowa School of Art and Art History in Iowa City, Iowa.
April 29
Diane Nerwen’s videos FUH2 and The Sexorcist:
Revirginize will screen at the Athens International Film and Video
Festival in Athens, Ohio. http://www.athensfest.org
April 29
Joan Jeanrenaud with cellists Kelly, Blendulf & Skeen will
be playing cello quartets by Jeanrenaud, Vivaldi, Part and others at the
Mission Blue Center in Brisbane, California.
http://www.jjcello.org
April 30
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert present their documentary A
Lion in the House at the Hot Docs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/lioninthehouse
April 30 – May 2
Bill Morrison’s new short How To Pray will be
shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival in a program entitled
Fugitive Prayers at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theater in San Francisco, and at
Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, California.
http://www.sffs.org
May 1
Diane Nerwen's video The Sexorcist: Revirginize will
screen in the Brooklyn Arts Council 40th International Film and Video
Festival at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org
May 2, 4
Lisa Bielawa's string orchestra piece The Trojan Women
will be performed by the String Orchestra of New York City at Merkin Concert
Hall. On May 4, Bielawa’s Kafka Songs for violin and voice
(one performer) will be performed by Carla Kihlstedt at the Look &
Listen Festival, at Robert Miller Gallery in New York City.
http://www.lookandlisten.org/content/pages/program.html
May 4 – June 17
Brent Green will have paintings and drawings featured in the
5th Anniversary group show at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York.
http://www.edlingallery.com
May 5
Barbara Hammer will be honored by Arcilesbica and the Bologna
Cinematheque with four programs devoted to her film work including the
recently released Lover Other, The Story of Claude Cahun
and Marcel Moore, which had its Los Angeles premiere at the James
Skirball Center at REDCAT on April 3. Hammer was also honored with a retrospective
of seven films and videos at the Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
in Italy.
http://www.turinglfilmfestival.com
http://www.redcat.org
http://www.barbarahammerfilms.com
May 5
Maria-Elena González will be giving a lecture at the City
College of New York Art Department at Compton-Goethals Hall.
May 5, 6
John Jasperse Company will be staging performances of Prone at
International Dance Festival in Dublin, Ireland.
http://www.dancefestivalireland.ie
May 5 – 7
Tamango’s Urban Tap in collaboration with Ireland's Seosamh
O Neachtain present Steppin’ Out – bringing together tap and
Irish step at the International Dance Festival Ireland.
http://www.dancefestivalireland.ie
May 5 – 9
Pablo Helguera will launch his Creative Capital project The
School of Panamerican Unrest with a panel, performance, and reception
at the Americas Society in New York on May 5th at 6 p.m. The unveiling
of his traveling schoolhouse, with a speech by the artist and special
guests, will take place at Ellis Island the following day, May 6, at 1
p.m. The project will be traveling across North, Central, and South America.
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/specials/2005/epd/english.htm
May 6 – May 31
Mark Newport will premiere his Creative Capital project Ready
for Action at here Gallery in Bristol, UK.
May 6 – June 3
Carrie Moyer, with Sheila Pepe, is curating No Lemons,
No Melon at David Krut Projects in New York City.
http://www.davidkrut.com
May 7
Mason Bates will have several scenes from California Fictions,
his one-act opera with a score and libretto, performed at the New York
City Opera VOX Showcase in the Skirball Center at New York University.
http://www.nyco.org
May 7 – 27
Gaye Chan will be featured in a group exhibition at the Ho'omaluhia
Gardens in Kaneohe, Hawai'i. Chan will be presenting Eating in Public,
her work with The Diggers collaborative.
http://www.nomoola.com/digger
May 7 – September 24
Matthew Geller’s outdoor installation, Babble,
Pummel & Pride will be included in Inside/Out: Sculpture
at Evergreen, a biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition at Evergreen
House at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
http://www.jhu.edu/~evrgreen/
May 8
Bill Morrison’s Creative Capital film Decasia
will be presented with a live orchestral performance of Michael Gordon’s
symphony by Tonkünstlerorchester, conducted by Kristjan Järvi
at the Festspielhaus in St. Pölten, Austria.
http://www.tonkuenstler.at/einzelkonzert.asp?konzert_id=2398&lang=en
May 9 – 21
Brody Condon will have his self-playing computer game modification,
Karma Physics< Elvis at this year’s Art Rock at Rockefeller
Center. Art Rock is an outdoor art festival produced by Clementine Gallery,
New York, and featuring installations by 20 contemporary artists.
http://www.clementine-gallery.com/artrock.html
May 10
Diane Nerwen's video The Sexorcist: Revirginize will
screen at Anthology Film Archives in New York.
http://www.anthlogyfilmarchives.org
May 11
Bill Morrison created a program of short films to accompany performances
by the Michael Gordon Band. Morrison’s work will be presented at
Royal Festival Hall in London as part of a six-city UK tour in May 2006.
http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/113909.html
May 11, 12
Daniel Bernard Roumain performs at The Kitchen in New York with
his ensemble DBR & THE MISSION in two evening performances titled
24 Bits (remixed). Roumain presents compositions for string quartet
and laptop as well as electric and acoustic pieces for solo violin, including
Hip-Hop Studies and Études, Event Pieces, and
Voodoo Violin Concerto No.1.
May 11 – June 18
Heidi Kumao is included in a group exhibition at the National
Academy of Design in New York City.
http://www.nationalacademy.org/
May 12 – June 24
Erika Blumenfeld will be featured in a group show at Kunstnernes
Hus in Oslo, Norway. Blumenfeld will be presenting her video installation
Moving Light: Spring 2005.
http://www.kunstnerneshus.no/news.html
May 12, 13
John Jasperse Company continues their tour performing Prone at
Tanzquartier Wien in Vienna, Austria.
http://www.tqw.at
May 13, 14
Amelia Rudolph’s Project Bandaloop and the Wang Center
for the Performing Arts present Loft! An Evening of Selected Works
at the Shubert Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.
http://projectbandaloop.org
May 14 – October 24
Karyn Olivier will participate in Wanås 2006,
a group show at the Wanås Foundation in Knislinge, Sweden. Olivier
is one of eight American artists invited to create site-specific installations
in the renovated exhibition space, the Stable, and in the sculpture yard
and park. http://www.wanas.se
May 16, 17
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert's documentary,
A Lion in the House, is being screened at the Wexner Center for the
Arts in Columbus, Ohio.
http://www.wexarts.org
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/lioninthehouse
May 17
Mason Bates’s Omnivorous Furniture, for sinfonietta and
electronica, has its New York premiere by The American Composers Orchestra
at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall.
http://www.carnegiehall.org
May 17 – 27 and 24 – 27
Joan Jeanrenaud joins Paul Dresher and friends
performing original music for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at Theater
Artaud in San Francisco, California.
http://www.jjcello.org
May 18 – 21
John Leaños’s animation Los ABCs ¡Qué
Vivan los Muertos! will show at the Jacksonville Film Festival in
Jacksonville, Florida.
http://www.jacksonvillefilmfestival.com
http://www.leanos.net
May 18 – 28
Todd Downing’s film The Underminer, starring performance
artist and writer Mike Albo, will be screened at the Toronto Lesbian and
Gay Film and Video Festival.
http://www.insideout.on.ca/Post2005/index.htm
May 19 – July 16
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy present their first European solo museum
exhibition, with a collection of works from 2000 – 2006 at the Edith
Russ Haus Museum in Oldenburg, Germany.
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de
May 20
Lisa Bielawa will appear as vocalist in her piece Hurry
with the Seattle Symphony Chamber Players as part of the Made in America
Festival at the Seattle Symphony Recital Hall.
http://www.seattlesymphony.org/
May 20
Cory Arcangel will be giving a lecture/demonstration/performance
of recent work and experiments at the Skirball Auditorium, at New York
University as part of the MOVE3 Conference in New York.
http://aigany.org/events/details/?event=06MO
May 20 –23
Mason Bates’s Rusty Air in Carolina, for orchestra
and electronics, is premiering in a performance by the Winston-Salem Symphony
under Robert Moody in North Carolina.
http://www.wssymphony.org
May 20 – June 17
Jeannette Louie will be presenting a new installation at Homie
in Berlin.
http://www.homie.travelhome.org
May 20 – July 18
Stephen Vitiello is included in the group exhibition What
Sound Does a Color Make? at Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth,
New Zealand.
http://www.govettbrewster.com
http://www.stephenvitiello.com
May 24
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro has been awarded the 2006 Nikkei Asia
Prize for Culture, for her contributions to Cambodian performing arts.
She will accept her prize, along with an honorarium of 3 million Japanese
yen (about US $26,000), at a ceremony to be held on 24 May 2006 in Tokyo
and will be introduced at a reception the following evening to be attended
by notable figures, including Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
May 24
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s documentary
A Lion in the House is being screened at the Aronoff Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/lioninthehouse
May 27 – September 5
Peggy Diggs will be designing a collaborative, interactive public
project called HERE AND THEN for Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.
As part of their summer show entitled Ahistoric Occasion, Diggs
is filling a storefront space in the city with photographs of sites around
North Adams and inviting local citizens to write about what they have
done or seen at these sites.
http://www.massmoca.org
June 1 – 4
Nami Yamamoto will premiere choreographed work for 43 young talented
dancers from Saint Joseph Ballet. The work will be performed at the Irvine
Barclay Theater in California on June 1, 2006.
http://www.saintjosephballet.org
June 1 – 14
Todd Downing’s film The Underminer, starring performance
artist and writer Mike Albo, is screening in Auckland, Wellington, and
Christchurch, New Zealand as part of the Out Takes Film Festival.
http://www.outtakes.org.nz/
June 1 – 30
Deborah Faye Lawrence’s Creative Capital project, Dee
Dee Does Utopia, will be displayed in its entirety in a solo exhibition
at Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, Washington. Dee Dee Does Utopia
is a series of varnished works on paper. Lawrence is researching failed
utopias throughout United States, and, as with previous projects, inhabiting
the work through a fictitious alter ego named Dee Dee Lorenzo. http://www.catherinepersongallery.com/
In Other News
Christian Hawkey was honored with the 2006 Kate Tufts
Discovery Award, presented annually for a first book by a poet of genuine
promise.
Kenjji received an award for a caricature of Condolezza
Rice, as part of a juried show at the Grosse Pointe Artist’s Association
in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The winning entry is a 9x12 inch full
color caricature of a grinning, navy-suited Rice standing in a shallow
pool of water. The GPAA show was juried by gallery directors, with a special
guest judge, long-time political cartoonist/satirist Draper Hill.
http://www.kenjji.com
Kristina Wong received a National Performance Network
Creation Fund grant to premiere her Creative Capital project, Wong
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, at Berkeley’s La Pena Cultural
Center and Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative. Wong has also been
awarded, for the second time, with the Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence
Award. As part of her residency she will be teaching writing/performance
workshops for women of color.
Sam Green’s film lot 63, grave c was awarded
a 2006 Juror’s Choice First Prize at the Black Maria Film Festival
in Jersey City, New Jersey. http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org
Sam Easterson, Janie Geiser, and Hirozaku
Kosaka have been awarded City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowships.
C.O.L.A. is a competitive fellowship of $10,000 to create new work. This
new work is presented in a non-thematic group exhibition and performance
series at the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park each year.
http://www.anivegvideo.com
Naomi Uman has a collection of handmade films, Milking
& Scratching: Handmade Films, released by Peripheral Produce.
The DVD includes Leche, Mala Leche, Private Movie, Removed, and Hand Eye
Coordination.
http://www.peripheralproduce.com
Edin Velez was the recipient of a production development
grant from Latino Public Broadcast for his Creative Capital project, Delirio
Tropical.
Suzanne Lacy won a Henry Moore Fellowship to create a
project in Aberdeen, Scotland and to engage in dialogue with colleague
and students from Scotland at the Robert Gordon University, Gray’s
College of Art.
Eduardo Kac’s new book, Telepresence and Bio
Art, was published by University of Michigan Press and launched with
a reception at Printed Matter in New York City. The book is a compendium
of writings by Kac spanning 12 years exploring the implications of his
own artwork.
http://www.printedmatter.org
http://www.ekac.org
Jane D. Marsching is the reciepient of a 2006 LEF Foundation
Contemporary Work Fund Grant for her Creative Capital project, About
Here and Late: Data Mining the North Pole. Marsching also edited
a catalog entitled Blur of the Otherwordly: Contemporary Art, Technology
and the Paranormal, co-edited with Mark Alice Durant, which is published
by the Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, and distributed by
DAP, with essays by Marsching, Durant, Marina Warner, and a short story
by Lynne Tillman.
http://www.lef-foundation.org
http://www.bluroftheotherworldly.com
http://www.janemarsching.com
Elisabeth Subrin has wrapped production on The Caretakers,
a new film commissioned by The MacDowell Colony for their 2007 centennial.
Starring Cara Seymour (Adaptation, Gangs of New York, Dancer in the
Dark), the film will premiere at MoMA next year, and air on PBS.
Betty Beaumont will be the recipient of the 2006 CED
Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award. This is an annual award
given by the University of California at Berkeley, School of Architecture,
College of Environmental Design (CED). Beaumont is also the subject of
a two-page essay by Patricia C. Phillips in the College Artists Association’s
April issue of the Artjournal, and The Journal of Urban Technology
is publishing a suite of photography by Beaumont in its spring issue.
A chapter on the work of Beaumont is included in the publication Cycle-Logical
Art, Recycling Matters for Eco-Art, the first in the AVANT-GUARDIANS
Textlets Series on Art and Ecology, written by Linda Weintraub with Skip
Schuckmann, (Art Now Publication, Spring 2006).
http://www.collegeart.org/artjournal/
http://www.beaumont.org
Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn invite
online visitors to participate in the public beta testing for Phase Two
of their multiplayer online game The Endless Forest. It is downloadable
free from their website.
http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest
Lisa Bielawa has been named Composer-in-Residence of
the Boston Modern Orchestra Project for three years (2006 – 09),
under the auspices of Music Alive, a program jointly administered
by Meet The Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Steven Bognar was awarded the Governor’s Art Award
for Individual Artist of the Year, in his home state of Ohio.
Stephen Vitiello’s sound work is included in several
new compilations: Bode Sound Project, a two-disc set inspired
by electronic instrument pioneer Harold Bode, RLW: I.K.K.- Purpur,
and Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music 4 from Sub Rosa.
Vitiello is also included in Nicolas Collin’s book Handmade
Electronic: The Art of Hardware Hacking.
http://www.stephenvitiello.com
MTAA (Mike Sarff and Tim Whidden) launched their first
net art project since 2004 with To Be Listened To...; a commission
of Rhizome.org.
http://rhizome.org/commissions/2005/2bl2.rbw
http://mtaa.net/2bl2
Alan Gilbert has a new book published, Another Future:
Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press)
and a reception was held at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York. Another
Future is a collection of essays and writings on contemporary poetry
and visual art, with an emphasis on what comes after postmodernism.
http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6783-3.html
http://www.bowerypoetry.com
In Case You Missed It
Bill Morrison’s short The Mesmerist was
presented with live accompaniment by the Bill Frisell 858 Quartet in Vienna,
Austria, as part of a special presentation by the Viennale at the Gartenbaukino.
The Mesmerist is included in the second edition of Wholphin,
the quarterly DVD magazine from McSweeney’s.
http://www.viennale.at/en/special_06/
http://www.wholphindvd.com/
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s documentary
A Lion in the House was screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival
and the Sarasota Film Festival in Florida. The film won a Special Jury
Prize at the Cleveland International Film Festival in March.
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/lioninthehouse
Sheryl Oring gave a presentation on her work at Syracuse
University in the Watson Auditorium on the university campus.
http://www.iwishtosay.org
Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn presented their multiplayer
online game The Endless Forest during the Victorian Circus II
festival of new media at the Flemish Culture House/De Brakke Grond in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www.brakkegrond.nl/victoriancircusii.htm
http://www.entropy8zuper.org
John Leaños’s animation Los ABCs ¡Qué
Vivan los Muertos! from his Creative Capital project Imperial
Silence was shown in April at the XicanIndie Film Festival in Colorado,
at the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York, at the Sin Fronteras
Film Festival in New Mexico, and at the Silver Lake Film Festival, Los
Angeles.
http://www.silverlakefilmfestival.org
http://www.sinfronterasfilmfestival.com
http://www.brooklynunderground.org/
http://filmfest.suteatro.org/
http://www.leanos.net
Cristina Ibarra presented her short films at the “Latino
Strategies: Media and the Public Good” symposium at the University
of Connecticut’s Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies.
http://web.uconn.edu/prls/
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert's documentary, A
Lion in the House, was screened at the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival in Durham, North Carolina, where it won a Grand Jury Award Special
Mention. Bognar also presented scenes from the film at the 2006 Closing
the Gap conference on health care disparities, Cincinnati, Ohio, and at
the Intercultural Cancer Council's Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the
Medically Underserved and Cancer in Washington, DC.
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/lioninthehouse
Joan Jeanrenaud performed on April 8 in concert at Mills
College in Oakland, California with Fred Frith and Willy Winant performing
Save As, Frith’s new work written for Jeanrenaud and Winant,
and Four6 by John Cage.
http://www.jjcello.org
Nancy Davidson gave a presentation on her work at Princeton
University, sponsored by the John Pozzi ’78 Lecture Series, Princeton
University Visual Arts Program.
Braden King presented recent and past work at the Avery
Film Center at Bard College, Annandale, New York.
http://www.truckstopmedia.com
Sheryl Oring gave a presentation about her project Writing
Home: Conversations with Our Ancestors at the International Center
in New York. Writing Home explores the connection between place,
language and memory, particularly in reference to the American immigrant
experience. It was presented as part of the New York Foundation for the
Arts Artist-Audience Exchange initiative during Immigrant History Week.
http://www.intlcenter.org
http://www.iwishtosay.com
Jennifer Fox participated in the panel Crossing Culture:
Women Interviewing Women hosted by New York Women in Film & Television
at the Foreign Press Center in New York City. Members of the panel shared
their experiences interviewing women from cultures vastly different than
their own. http://www.nywift.org
Jane D. Marsching gave a lecture about her Creative Capital
project About Here and Later: Data Mining the North Pole at the
conference COLOURS / LIGHTS OF THE NORTH: International Conference
in Literature, Film, Applied and Visual Arts Studies, at the University
of Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.imaginairedunord.uqam.ca/?section=stockholm
http://www.janemarsching.com
Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre of San Francisco
presented scenes from Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, a
dance opera written by Ione with music composed by Pauline Oliveros, choreography
by Haigood and set design by Wayne Campbell.
http://www.zaccho.org/current.html
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy had their third solo exhibition,
Directed Dreaming, at Postmasters Gallery in New York City. Presented
were four new sculptures that expand on the McCoys’ 2004 installation
Our Second Date, exploring the artists’ personal histories.
http://www.postmastersart.com
http://www.mccoyspace.com
Fred Curchack and Laura Jorgensen premiered
Curchak’s new play, An American Dream Play at Cinnabar
Theater, Petaluma, California. http://www.cinnabartheater.org
Mark Newport had work included in Quirks of Art
at the Quirk Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
http://www.quirkgallery.com
Beverly McIver had a solo show at KENT Gallery in New
York. Invisible Me features fourteen works from the Renee Paintings,
about her relationship as primary caregiver to her sister.
http://www.kentgallery.com
Eddo Stern presented recent work on March 21st at Eyebeam
in New York as part of the Focal Point Lecture Series. Stern
discussed influences on his work including machinima (cinema made with
video game engines), hardware hacking, game-based performance, independent
game design, World of Warcraft and collaboration.
http://www.eyebeam.org
http://www.c-level.cc
Peggy Ahwesh had a retrospective in March of films and
videos at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
Included were a variety of works from The Deadman (1990) through
Certain Women (2004).
Diane Nerwen’s video FUH2 was screened
in Eco-Poetics at the Fingerlakes Environmental Film Festival
in Ithaca, New York.
Tamango’s Urban Tap, a global mix of dance, music
and video performed at the Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon in France.
Kristina Wong premiered new work at the Max 10 Performance
Laboratory in Venice, California. The events are uncurated and the space
gives local artists an opportunity to workshop new work.
http://www.electriclodge.org/theatre_events.html
Yasuko Yokoshi’s what we when we premiered
March 23 at Danspace Projects at St. Mark’s Church in New York City.
The performance is a Kabuki Su-udori dance with Ryutaro Mishima, Kaz Nakamura,
Hiromi Naruse and Natsuhide Nakashima, inspired by Raymond Carver’s
short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Joanna Priestley’s new abstract, animated film
Dew Line was recently featured in Prix Ars Electronica (Germany),
Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada), Mediawave International
Film Festival (Hungary), I Castelli Animati (Italy), Bimini International
Animated Film Festival (Latvia), Flying Broom International Women’s
Film Festival (Turkey) and the Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia).
Ronald K. Brown’s dance company Evidence celebrated
their 20th Anniversary in February with two special programs at the Joyce
Theater. Program A featured the New York premiere of Order My Steps,
and Program B included Upside Down, Come Ye, and High
Life.
Kristina Wong was a presenting performance artist in
Re:location 2006 Artist Exchange Performance hosted by the Asian
Arts Initiative in Philadelphia on March 17. More than a dozen artists
from throughout the country and Canada shared their new work in a multi-disciplinary
performance showcase focusing on the timely topics of gentrification and
displacement– and the role of the arts in fighting or furthering
these complex dynamics.
http://www.asianartsinitiative.org
Mason Bates’s Omnivorous Furniture, for
sinfonietta and electronica, was performed by the Oakland Symphony at
The Paramount Theater in California on March 24.
http://www.oebs.org
Todd Downing’s film The Underminer, starring
performance artist and writer Mike Albo, was screened at the Florida Film
Festival.
http://www.floridafilmfestival.com
Stephen Vitiello was a participating artist in the online
exhibition Neterotopia: Artists Online in Advertising Space.
http://www.neterotopia.net
http://www.stephenvitiello.com
Sekou Sundiata, along with a dozen musicians, singers,
and spoken-word artists presented his latest work 51st (dream)
at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 51st (dream)
is a contemplation of America’s national identity and its guiding
mythologies, and performances were followed by Q&A sessions with the
artists.
http://www.walkerart.org
Upcoming
June and July
William Pope.L takes his Creative Capital project, The Black Factory
on a national tour this summer.
http://www.theblackfactory.com
June 2 – July 10
Erika Blumenfeld will be featured in a solo show at RULE Gallery
in Denver, Colorado. Blumenfeld will be presenting several large photo-based
installations, a video installation, and a new series of light recordings
which document light refracting through faceted prisms.
http://www.rulegallery.com/index.html
June 7 – 17
Daniel Alexander Jones’s Phoenix Fabrik will premiere
at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis.
http://www.puc-mn.org
June 8 – August 28
Stephen Vitiello will have a new sound installation and wall
drawing collaboration with Julie Mehretu as part of the Sydney Biennale
in Australia.
http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/
http://www.stephenvitiello.com
June 21, 22
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s documentary A Lion
in the House, which follows five families across six years of fighting
childhood cancer and facing its aftermath, is having its national broadcast
debut on PBS in a primetime special.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lioninthehouse/
June 17
Tamango’s Urban Tap will be performing in New York City
at Dancing in the Streets.
http://www.dancinginthestreets.org
June 17 – 24
Jacqueline Goss, Vijay Iyer & Michael Ladd and Sharon
Lockhart will be presenting as guest artists in this year’s
Flaherty Film Seminar at Vassar College. Programmed by Ariella Ben-Dov
and Steve Seid, this year’s seminar is Creative Demolition.
http://www.flahertyseminar.org
http://www.jacquelinegoss.com
http://www.vijay-iyer.com
June 28 – 30
Headlong Dance Theater presents Shosha as part of DanceBOOM!
at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.
http://www.wilmatheater.org
http://www.headlong.org
Lynne Yamamoto will be beginning a residency at Civitella
Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy this June, and recently received a
grant from LEF New England Contemporary Work Fund.
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