Economic Crisis Observatory
I need your help. I need your observations.
The Economic Crisis Observatory is a participation project that is as part of Capital Offense. Economic activity is a sport that we all do every day. I want people to send me economic data (text or jpg). For instance what did you buy today? Or how many people waiting in line at…? Did you work today? What did you do? Or ?
Send data to h.c@earthlink.net (jpg or text)
When: now through March 10
Capital Offense
Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles.
Opens Jan 28 until March 15.
Critical Art Ensemble, Gregory Sholette, Holly Crawford, Andrea Fraser, Noam Chomsky,
Martha Rosler, Team Colors Collective, Occuprint, Derrick Jensen, Steve Lambert, Nicholas
Lampert, Bask, Alex Schaefer, Cake and Eat It, Flora Kao, Jody Zellen, Meleko Mokgosi, Mira
Rychner, Bob Golub, Marc James Léger, Matt Greco, Daniela Comani, Aaron Burr Society,
Dara Greenwald, Derek Curry, Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Pete Yahnke Railand, Lori
Nelson, Dehlia Hannah and TWCDC
The AC Institute Presents:
Stephen Eakin: TRYING TO SAVE IT ALL
Megan Mjaatvedt: DENSELY WOODED AND PRECIPITOUS MOUNTAIN
Marco Pinter: Reflections and Object Permanence
January 12 – February 4, 2012
Opening Event: Thursday, January 12, 6-8pm
Special Performances:
Gravitational Forces and other new work by Marco Pinter
Thursday, February 2, 7pm
Contact: info@artcurrents.org
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
547 W. 27th St. #610 and the AC (Exit) Project Space
New York, NY 10001
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The Critical Wake of Makemake @ Fountain Enterprises
1261 Dundas St West, Toronto
an exhibition by Kathleen Reichelt and performance by art noise band 253469
Opening Party Thursday, December 15, 9pm
The Critical Wake of Makemake is an imagined manifestation and the yet un-realized vessel moving towards antirealism. It is a fictional understanding communicated through a state of constant becoming. It is created in order to claim its rightful place in the present. The creative inheritance being colour and transparency, rituals and the rites of masks, concealment and revealing. Visualized openings and objects appear to convey relationships of struggle, power, ease and awkwardness through overlapping and propinquity. Power can be seen as European realism still trumping other cultural, individual and philosophical alternatives. Abstraction can be seen as the rejection to this that it was 70 years ago.
The Critical Wake of Makemake is also a live performance by the art noise band 253469 starting at 9pm on Thursday December 15th. Two 30 minute punk jazz performances including such standards as “I fly my plane backwards”, “Round the decibel” and “A ton of nothing” (senseless language, analogue and digital synthesizers and one loud electric stick guitar.)
Exhibition runs 12.15.11 - 01.25.12
For more information contact Maggy Perry at 647.764.0307
or Kathleen Reichelt at 416.670.4692
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The AC Institute Presents
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show
Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.
In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.
You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.
The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.
547 W. 27th St. #610 New York, NY 10001
Northern Exposure at BBG
Toronto, October 17: Ever wonder what it would be like to attend a wedding above the Arctic Circle? Have you ever had the opportunity to taste northern delicacies prepared by a renowned northern chef? And what about musical instruments unique to the north? Ever attend a concert where all of the instruments were creations of those native to the north? And what of the formal garb worn to celebrate special occasions in that distant land?
By the way, we are not speaking of the Canadian north. Bezpala Brown Gallery has the honour of hosting an exhibition unlike any that has been held in Canada previously. With the organizing prowess of the Trade Commissioner of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia of the Russian Federation in Canada and the financial assistance of Silver Bear Resources Inc., we have been able to attract visual artists, costume designers and musicians widely known and celebrated by the Sakha people. And to add a Canadian flare, we have works of 17 northern Canadian artists and sculptors to help us examine the similarities and differences between the Canadian north and our northern Russian counterparts.
While the exhibition runs from October 15th to 30th, the event to attend will be held on October 22nd from 12 to 3 pm. We will feature improvisations by Claudia & Herman Khatylaevs, performing on more than 15 traditional Yakutian musical instruments; re-creation of a Sakha wedding to showcase celebratory Yakutian costumes designed by Avgustina Filippova; traditional Sakha delicacies created by celebrity chef Innokentiy Tarbakhov (chef to the last three Presidents of the Republic); and the visual artworks of Mikhail Starostin (etchings and oils), Andrey Chikachev (prints)and Evgenia Arbugaeva (photography) among other Sakha artists. We contrast these artworks with the work of 17 Inuit artists including Annie Pootoogook (etching and aquatint), Shuvinai Ashoona (etching and aquatint), Kavavaow Mannomee (lithograph)and Nuna Parr (sculpture). Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase originals and giclées from several artists. The Khatylaevs, Mr. Starostin. Ms. Filippova and Ms. Arbugaeva will be in attendance to discuss their creations.
A precursor to this event was already positively reviewed in the Globe and Mail (http://www.bezpalabrown.com/files/Northern_Russian_Artists_Make_Tracks_article.pdf) and there is now much more to see and hear.
BBG also wishes to acknowledge and thank our other sponsors to this exhibition: CERBA (Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association) and Yakutian media sponsor Zhurfix.
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DAYS OF SAKHA-YAKUTIA CULTURE IN TORONTO
A Unique Reception: October 22nd, 12-3pm
As part of continuing celebration of Days of Sakha-Yakutia Culture, Bezpala Brown Gallery presents:
• Improvisations by Claudia & Herman Khatylaevs, performing on more than 15 traditional Yakutian musical instruments
• A fashion show of celebratory Yakutian costumes designed by Avgustina Filippova
• Traditional Sakha delicacies created by celebrity chef Innokentiy Tarbakhov
• Ms. Filippova and Mr. Tarbakhov will be present at the reception to guide us along in our exploration of Sakha culture
In addition to the music, garb and food that will be presented, we continue our exploration of northern art by presenting a unique opportunity to contrast Northern Canadian visual art and sculpture with that of the works of Sakha artists. Among others, the Sakha masterpieces of Mikhail Starostin (etchings and oils), Chikachev (prints) and Evgenia Arbugaeva (photography) will continue to be on display. BBG contrasts these artworks with the work of 17 Inuit artists including Annie Pootoogook (etching and aquatint), Shuvinai Ashoona (etching and aquatint), Kavavaow Mannomee (lithograph) and Nuna Parr (sculpture). Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase originals and giclées from several artists. Mr. Starostin and Ms. Arbugaeva will be in attendance at the Reception to discuss their creations.
Join us at the AC Institute Thursday October 27, 6-8PM
For Chess with Duchamp, Readymade Art
Participate in a live game of human chess. Moves will be determined by battling computers. Come in Costume, Be the Art!
RSVP to chess@earthlink.net
AC Institute
547 W. 27th St. #610
New York, NY 10001
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Press Release for You First
You First at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, October 1 through October 29. Opening night reception 5:00 p.m. Performances begin at 7:00 p.m. For more information visit www.occca.org and www.uforafest.com. OCCCA is open Thursdays and Sundays from noon to 5:00 p.m and until 9:00 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays. Located at 117 N. Sycamore, Santa Ana, California, in the Santa Ana Artists’ Village. Contact: Rob Mintz or Dalibor Polivka , Email:uforafest@yahoo.com Ph: 714.667.1517
Artists Rob Mintz and Dalibor Polivka present You First, an exhibit arriving with more than fifty attractions! Dive into the think tank if you dare! Featuring young partisans of the real from the nation’s top schools —- plus a cadre of international art luminaries* —- You First presents authentic & genuine Relational Aesthetics: art in the here and now! See it, feel it, think it through! The great dream belongs to everyone! Glimpse the new paradigm. It’s no longer business as usual. (Exhibit may contain language not suitable for children under eighteen years of age.) See poets, slaves, soap-sellers, lovers, inmates, outcasts, scientists, city planners, a guy reading a newspaper, a woman in a tree! See artists, documentarians and photojournalists at the height of their game. Art is more than just another facet of life: it’s the name of a hope, reaffirming the social bond. During the opening, choreographer Sheron Wray and her dance troupe will improvise interactively with the audience. On the same night, You First will present Zoe Gruni’s performance piece, Urban Jackalope, first seen at the Biennale di Venezia, plus the dance stylings of Derek Fleming of Soul Train fame. Milan Kovac, the Consulate General of the Slovak Republic, will present documentation of Slovakia’s humanitarian aid in troubled regions of the world. You First has received the kind endorsement of the French critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud who coined the term, “relational aesthetics.”Another true art luminary, Alfredo Cramerotti, a UK-based artist, author and curator, represents himself with a collaborative blog and videos about the radical European art fair Manifesta. Best-selling social visionaries Michiel Schwarz & Joost Elffers’ will reveal new symbols for a sustainable future. NYC’s favorite rock and roll fashionista, Jordan Betten, will demonstrate how to dress for the party. Marc Pally, a high-power hyphenate, is both the artistic director of Glow (an all night event held in Santa Monica) and an LA-based artist showing sensitive, stylized drawings of a human face, wry, melancholy and somehow heroic. Max Presneill, mercurial director of the Torrance Art Museum, exhibits brooding, painterly explorations of cognition and experience. Arie Galles, a professor at Soka University, artist and gallery director, bears witness to the Holocaust in a series of large-scale drawings of maps and aerial photographs from military archives. Art collectives are a fascinating phenomenon —- and there is none more elusive than Finishing School, masters of street-smart provocation. The artists in You First are graduates of the most prestigious art programs in the nation, among them Art Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Cal Arts, California College of the Arts, Cornell, Cranbrook, Harvard, Mills College, MIT, New York Academy of Art, Otis, Rhode Island School of Design, Rutgers, San Francisco Academy of Art, and Yale. The participants in You First come from the United States, Italy, France, England, Sweden, and Slovakia, nomadic citizens of the planet Art. A complete exposition about You First, the ideas and personalities that shaped it —- and the Ufora project in general —- will be unpacked in a forthcoming book by the curators.
* The art luminaries include: Base Design, Jordan Betten, Nicolas Bourriaud, Finishing School, Derek Fleming, Arie Galles, Zoe Gruni, Milos Koptak, Marc Pally, Max Presneill, Michiel Schwarz & Joost Elffers, Karen Smith & Ida Hledikova, Stealthart, Wolfgang Steahle, Ta Tu, and Sheron Wray.
September 8 – October 8, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, September 8, 2011 6-8pm
AC Institute
547 W. 27th St. #610 and the AC (Exit) Project Space
New York, NY 10001
Graham Dunning: Loss Sheds a Light on What Remains
“Loss sheds a light on what remains, and in that light all that we have and all that we have had glows more brightly still.”
- Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds.
Sound is temporal and temporary; a reproduced sound recording is a physical, analogue approximation of a thing that once was. Hauntology can be defined as something which is simultaneously backwards- and forwards-looking. As Dunning’s first solo show outside the UK, this exhibition collates some early, non-site-specific works establishing these as some of the main themes in his practice.
Untitled with Records and Hammer (2009)
Viewers are invited to smash a vinyl record with a hammer, on a workbench. The diminishing pile of unbroken records and the growing amount of detritus form part of the installation. The records used were each carefully considered and bought by the artist in an attempt to become a professional DJ. As such it is a personally cathartic piece and an autodestructive rebirth, acting as a meditation on ambition and failure.
Untitled (2008)
Found bottles are hung at heights determined by the numbers on their bases, in an order prescribed by chance-determination; a corresponding composition consists of the pitched-down sound of each bottle being tapped, assigned to a note according to the same numbers. The work is the culmination of a pseudo-archaeological investigation through an imagined narrative, questioning the “objectivity” of an object.
Stutter (2009)
Visitors are invited to read into a microphone from a children’s book while wearing headphones: The sound from the microphone is delayed and fed back to the readers, causing them to stutter and slur their speech. The nostalgic use of a children’s story book clashes with the frustration of impeded reading.
Chris Stockbridge: Relative Space, Son/Husband
Relative Space looks at a family relationship shown in an expanded moment of time. It is made up of a series of still images extended with film editing software and looped. The still camera becomes a witness to time passing rather than the index of an event.
The time which emanates in the work relates to the ‘crystal image’ described by Deleuze where the image somehow fuses the past of its subject with the present of its viewing. Yve Lomax has it as time escaping chronology which is uniquely rich with unlimited potential.
‘When the present is thrown into question an interval opens up in time …it is when the present of a moment splits and gapes open; when the present itself becomes an interval.’ (‘Sounding the event’ P94)
Time is stretched and distorted in the repetition and resequencing of single frames. Elements of recognisable gestures trigger memory and take on disquieting echoes of the claustrophobia and frustration of family life. The viewer is held by the shifting gazes of the subjects replacing the viewpoint of the artist. It is a performance witnessed by her, played out under her gaze as wife and mother.
A space between stillness and movement, between the photographic and cinematic, is created outside of time’s normally perceived linearity, where expectations of the narrative of family relationship are subverted. It is a time where thought slows and the mind might wander allowing the unconscious to surface and the possibility of new understanding of the familiar and familial to emerge.
Gary DiBenedetto: Sweat Equity
September 8 – October 8, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, September 8, 2011 6-8pm
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Special Performances of Sweat Equity:
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Doors open at 1pm, Performance begins at 3pm
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Doors open at 7pm, Performance begins at 7:30pm
Admission: $20
During his early years as a struggling musician, Gary DiBenedetto also worked as a carpenter. During this time, he began collecting antiques. Both of these pursuits cultivated an affinity for craftsmanship and history that have impacted his artistic endeavors. The past ten years have culminated with two solo electroacoustic composition CDs and numerous multimedia interactive installations.
The original purpose of the antiques incorporated within DiBenedetto’s installations was to increase the efficiency and ease of everyday life. Foot pedals on sewing machines sped the process of garment-making. Hand-operated clothing agitators eliminated the need for washboards. The artist’s neo-constructivist sculptures reconfigure these tools and bring them into an artistic forum.
Each of DiBenedetto’s sculptures has a moving component, powered manually or by electric motors. An audio processing feature brings the sound generated by these machines to life. As a result, the spectators are able to explore the operations of the many tools that comprise these sculptures.
Sweat Equity (Performance)
DiBenedetto has developed a performance to accompany his interactive installation. Sweat Equity expresses outrage over the negative impact of capitalist exploitation as a means of production. With an increasing globalized economy accompanied by ravenous consumption of natural resources, will we lose an opportunity to recognize the futility of capitalist pursuit and the need to change our direction and gain respect for the preservation of human dignity?
Sweat Equity is a non verbal staged performance where dancers operate kinetic sculptures. Each sculpture is a machine that generates sound. Each dancer’s relationship to their sculpture becomes increasingly complex. Tension is exemplified during a sequence of three acts. Each act presents changes in the actor’s physical appearance and operating procedures. An electroacoustic composition unfolds, increasing tension and directing the dancer’s actions.
All proceeds from DiBenedetto’s interactive Coin Delivery System and donation box will be donated to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in Chelsea.
HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN
296 Ninth Avenue
New York, New York 10001
(212) 924-0167
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IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID LEVINE
Thursday, June 16, 2011, 7 pm
Gallery TPW
In the context of Gallery TPW’s ongoing interest in the relationship between liveness and images, join us in conversation with New York/Berlin based artist David Levine. Coinciding with the Luminato presentation of his new work Habit, Levine will discuss his larger practice, staging institutional collisions and the possibilities for short-circuiting the ways people see and hence create meaning.
Levine‘s work encompasses performance, theater, photography, installation, and video. Dividing his time between NYC and Berlin, where he is Director of the Studio Program at the European College of Liberal Arts, Levine has directed at the Atlantic Theater Company, the Vineyard Theater/NYC, and Primary Stages/NYC and has presented performance projects and other work at such international art spaces and surveys as MoMA, Documenta XII, Mass MoCA, Town House Gallery/Cairo, HAU2/Berlin, PS122/NYC, and the Watermill Center. David’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Theater, Art in America, Bomb, Cabinet, Theater Heute, Art Review, Die Zeit, TDR, The Village Voice, Time Out, and the Believer, and he has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Kulturstiftung Des Bundes, and Etants Donnés/French Fund for Performance.
Related Program:
Habit
June 10-11 and 13-19
11:00 am -7:00 pm
OCAD University
An installation, durational event and realist play, Habit reorients the way we watch. Inside a fully functioning ranch house designed by Marsha Ginsberg, actors inhabit a set for eight hours each day, performing a roughly ninety-minute play on a continuous loop. Communicating only through the scripted dialogue of their characters, the actors must also improvise staging to suit their needs - if they’re hungry, they cook; if they’re dirty, they wash. Audiences, meanwhile, may circulate freely around the outside of the set watching the live action through the windows of the house. In an adjacent space, a twelve-camera live feed from the house randomly edits video to create a unique TV drama. Habit fuses television production, durational performance, behavioral psychology, and realist-theater into a project that asks basic questions about the relationship between spectatorship, performance, authenticity and reality. Commissioned by Luminato and MASS MoCA. For more information visit Luminato.com/habit.
Media Contact:
Kim Simon
Curator
Gallery TPW
56 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, ON. M6J 2Y7
p: 416.645.1066
f: 416.645.1681
w: www.gallerytpw.ca
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