Filed under: VIDEO WEEKEND | Tags: 22, art, artist, artists, arts, bogdan, brian, brooklyn, gocheva, ivan, kate, kwiatkowski, lyn, magazine, new, ny, nyc, o'reailly, painting, performance, processor, sheil, studies, surreal, the, the scan, vasulka, woody, york
Iva Gocheva, Bogdan Kwiatkowski, Kate Lyn Sheil (READ MORE)
The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly.
Filed under: ART, The 22, VOLUME ONE | Tags: 22, american, and, art, artist, artists, black, book, books, brian, brooklyn, carved, carving, dettmer, gallery, land, magazine, new, ny, nyc, painting, peoples, performance, projects, rat, the, writing, york
Filed under: INTERVIEWS, MUSIC | Tags: 22, album, american, amy, and, art, artist, band, break, brian, brooklyn, cancer, collins, david, death, ENDS, EP, gallery, hunsicker, kilgore, luke, magazine, matt, music, netherlands, new, ny, nyc, of, princes, quin, quinn, slade, story, the, tumor, up, way, writing, york

Filed under: ART | Tags: 19th, 22, 26th, 526 west, altered, archaeological, art, Art News, book, book sculptures, books, brian, brooklyn, carving, CBS, champagne, Chicago Tribune, context, cultural, dettmer, explorations, fine, Harper's, history, interview, kinz, magazine, May, Modern Painters, National Public Radio, new, ny, nyc, old, possibilites, reception, recontestulaize, recontextulize, saturdays, sculptor, sculptural, sculpture, st, surgical, the, The Guardian, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, thursday, tillou, Time Out, Wired, york
Filed under: ART | Tags: 22, 3D, altered, art, artist, artists, ash, ashe, blog, bones, book, books, brian, building, carving, dettmer, eggs, elements, featured, magazine, natural, nature, paper arts, post, rachael, rachel, sculpture, shells, the
Filed under: THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND | Tags: 22, 26th, artists, as, brian, brooklyn, burns, Chelsea, city, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural, collage, Daniel Subkoff, degraw, Educational Center, festival, fits, flora, for, fuentes, future, gardens, graham, Ideas, industrail, james, landscape, magazine, new, ny, nyc, of, pasts, photography, porcelain, pulls, romero, schroder, sculpture, shredder, st, sugar, Susan, the, toil, Video, West, Will Chancellor, world, york
AS THE WORLD BURNS & PAST FITS, FUTURE PULLS @ JAMES FUENTES.
Closing May 8th.
Brian DeGraw
As The World Burns
Final Week at James Fuentes LLC, Gallery hours; Wed. – Sun., 11-6pm.
Special New York Gallery Week extended day, Sunday, May 8th, 12-8pm.
View exhibition images: here
New York Gallery Week link: here
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James Fuentes LLC proudly presents, as part of The New Museum’s Festival of Ideas For The New City;
Daniel Subkoff & Will Chancellor
Past Fits and Future Pulls
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center at 107 Suffolk St between Rivington and Delancey.
If you have trouble locating this project please text; (917) 509-2250
Saturday from 10am to midnight
Sunday from 2:30pm until 7pm
Festival of Ideas: link
Subkoff & Chancellor are offering their artwork for free to everyone who joins them, and ultimately back to the earth itself. Having traded their cash for living native seeds, soil and local clay, they’ve constructed a 13 foot tall sculpture with this material that they invite the public to help disassemble. Visitors are welcome to grab a handful of the sculpture and recast it in a provided mold, walking away with a small sculpture of their own. If left in an appropriate place such as an abandoned lot, garden or any soft ground it should dissolve and yield a significant number of native wildflowers within a month. If taken home and treated as an art object, it will likely dry out, crack and expire worthless. The main small sculptural casting will be of a rendition of Tlaloc, the elemental Aztec god of water, rain and fertility whose name translates as “he who is made of earth”.
Susan Graham & Cletus Johnson @ Schroeder Romero & Shredder
Closing May14th
531 West 26th Street
New York NY 10001
Susan Graham
New Gardens
April 14, 2011–May 14, 2011
Susan Graham’s exhibition, New Gardens, features sculpture, photography and video that use strategies of pattern and decoration to poetically depict the eternal struggle between nature and technology. Central to the exhibition are Toile Landscape, a large scale installation of Graham’s delicate sugar sculptures, and the intimate porcelain Toile Floating Landscape sculptures. Mimicking the recurring patterns of complex pastoral scenes found on Toile de Jouy, these works depict clusters of invented flora interspersed with industrial structures such as transmission towers, satellite dishes, or even cell phone towers disguised as trees. Charming, delicate and foreboding, each small pastoral scene compresses nature and technology in a bittersweet attempt at reconciliation. Graham’s photographs and videos on view in New Gardens depict skies choked with flocks of airplanes, modern-day birds staking their claim on the atmosphere. These works showcase Graham’s deft touch and ability to evoke rich, multivalent narratives from a few simple, quiet gestures. New Gardens is Graham’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Cletus Johnson
Collage 1968–2010
April 14, 2011–May 14, 2011
Cletus Johnson: Collage 1968–2010 presents a selection of Johnson’s beguiling collages, including collaborative pieces made with famed Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley. Johnson’s works are composed of deceptively simple materials inviting private, almost meditative contemplation on subjects of longing, erotic love and primal lust. Their quietude evokes a Cagean musicality, while a minimal juxtaposition of images wrings endless narrative associations. Envelopes containing black and white photographs of a woman’s breast are intimate love letters being sent and received, revealing a desire to both contain and set free the object of affection. Amusement park ride tickets are coupled with cropped images of naked male youths, granting the viewer permission to experience desire. Portrayals of Antinous—Roman Emperor Hadrian’s lover—as Cyclops become homorobotic emblems of a carnal hunger for an idealized beauty. Johnson’s collages show him as a master of the simple, poetic intervention.
Filed under: The 22, VOLUME ONE | Tags: 22, amazing, art, artist, artists, book, brian, brooklyn, carver, collector, depections, dettmer, encylopeidic, featured, futurisstic, magazine, May, new, ny, nyc, pre-history, sculpture, structure, surgeon, the, unreal, urban, utpia, vintage, york
Part of what we do here at The 22 is highlight each of our contributor’s with a special “featured artist” section on the blog and our main site. This includes special content, and show announcements. This month we are starting our featured artists series with Brian Dettmer. Carver, collector, “book surgeon”, call him what you will, Dettmer’s work is layering of magnificent patience combined with a playful mind. His sculptures are reminiscent of futuristic depictions of urban and organic structures built out of the pre-history of encyclopedic and vintage texts. For most of the month of May we will be celebrating Dettmer’s work with special blog content, as well as many posts featuring his amazing creations. To view this and all of Brian’s work look for the “BRIAN DETTMER” tag under the categories section. To see all our past featured artist’s look for “THE 22 FEATURED ARTIST.” To see all of Brian’s featured content from The 22 Magazine visit his page online: http://www.the22magazine.com/Pages/briandettmer.html

Filed under: ART, THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND | Tags: +, 22, 26th, 416, 426, books, brian, brooklyn, casette, collages, conceptual, cut, dettmer, dissections, ephermera, explorations, kinz, magazine, maps, new, ny, nyc, obsolete, old, paper, sculptural, sculpture, street, suite, tapes, the, tillou, Tillous, West, york
Recent Works: Works on Paper
May 19 – June 11
Preview Reception:
Thursday, May 19, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
426 West 26 Street, Suite 416, NYC
To view works in the exhibition click under “Artworks” on the left menu, and click thumbnails to enlarge.
Brian Dettmer sifts through stacks of old books, boxes of dusty cassette tapes, and piles of obsolete maps to uncover the perfect source and subject for his conceptual explorations and sculptural dissections. Dettmer alters pre-existing materials by selectively removing and manipulating elements as a way to allow new interpretations and ideas to emerge. With the precision of a surgeon, Dettmer uses clamps, scalpels and tweezers to recontextualize his found objects and reveal hidden meanings.
Brian Dettmer has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe.
Brian Dettmer Interview on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jk9pHPPJbA&translated=1
For Brian Dettmer Talk: http://vimeo.com/6060054
For Time-Lapse Video: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29457/brian-dettmer
Filed under: EVENTS | Tags: 115th, all, Amith, Andrew Belcher, ashley, brian, candidate, Carter university, Chandrashaker, Chelsea D’Aprile, Cherish Duke, Chip, Columbia, david, directing, doctor, enthuse, faustus, G-Bowley, gertrude, kelly, Kevin Mannering, Kopp, Kristen, Lea McKenna-Garcia and Ryan R. Rinkel, Leeanne, lights, M., mcCorkle, MFA, mother, of, Rodgers, S, Schapiro, stein, Sunrise Marks, tata, the, theater, theatre, us, West, woman
Ashley Kelly Tata writing to invite you to the next theatrical extravaganza brought to you by Columbia University with the energy and collaboration of Enthuse Theater.
We are very excited (and a little bit nervous) to share with you the work we have been doing on Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, written by “The Mother of us All,” Gertrude Stein. We have been hard at work detangling the knotty words of Stein in a valiant attempt to bring to you this take on a story we all know: Faustus has sold his soul to Mephisto for eternal life and knowledge—and light. But what if there is no proof of purchase? What if a woman entered this world and seems to possess that knowledge without having sold her soul? Who has the right to knowledge? What is the responsibility of power? What does a guy (or girl) have to do to get to hell?
We hope you will join us for 90 minutes of a theatrical exploratory event created by an incredible group of artists. Please come for the show, stay for the conversation, the environment, and the company.
Until then, with awe, enthusiasm and great anticipation,
Ashley Kelly Tata
Artistic Director
Enthuse Theater
MFA Directing Candidate 2012
Columbia University
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
By Gertrude Stein
Directed by Ashley Kelly Tata
Dramaturgy by David Carter
Music by Brian McCorkle
Choreography by Leeanne M. G-Bowley
Lighting Designed by Amith Chandrashaker
Costumes Designed by Kristen Kopp
Performed by: Andrew Belcher, Chelsea D’Aprile, Cherish Duke, Kevin Mannering, Sunrise Marks, Lea McKenna-Garcia and Ryan R. Rinkel
Image by Chip Rodgers
At:
The Schapiro Theatre
605 West 115th St (in the basement)
Friday, April 22nd at 8PM
Saturday, April 23rd at 3PM and at 8PM
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It’s FREE!
RSVP at doctorfaustuslightsthelights@gmail.com
Filed under: FILM/VIDEO, THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND | Tags: abstract, andre, andrew, avant garde, band, bird, blatte, boome, bradford, brian, coco, colby, collage, dana, davis, derek, Dust, elbis, erica, expirimental, film, ganjatronics, gilmore, hayley, jennifer, jonathan, kate, katrina, kerry, kunsole, lamb, larson, leah, little, magrey, mary, mashup, mason, mickens, montage, nell, nordeen, of, party, peer, perkowski, phelps, rachel, retherfor, rever, sailors, sam, sohpia, steinmetz, sullivan, the, up, viewing, zegeer
ESP TV #1 Viewing Party
Wed. April 27, 8PM-2AM
Angels and Kings
500 East 11th St New York, NY
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Episode #1 Airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network at 9:30 PM on channel 57 (Time Warner) / 83 (RCN)
Episodes 1 and 2 feature performances by:
Ganjatronics
Elbis Rever
Kunsole
Rachel Mason and Little Band of Sailors
“The Dust Up” w/ host Sam Mickens
Dana Bell w/ Kerry Davis and Leah Retherford
w/ your hosts Bradford Nordeen as “Mary Boome” and Hayley Blatte as “Coco”
with videos by: Brian Zegeer, Erica Magrey, Sophia Peer, Derek Larson, Colby Bird, Jennifer Sullivan and Andrew Steinmetz, Jonathan Phelps, Kate Gilmore, Andre Perkowski, Katrina Lamb
Filed under: EVENTS | Tags: 10th, 9th, anarchist, april, book, brian, ester, fair, lab, mcCorkle, neff, panoply, performance
http://panoplylab.org/institute.html
We’ll be at the Anarchist Book Fair next weekend!
April 9, 11am-12:30pm
…FOCUS WORKSHOP for kids and their parents:
Institute_Institut FOCUS WORKSHOP #5: the self and its image
The Panoply Performance Laboratory
What is an individual? What is an “institution”? Using live-feed video that allows kids (and parents) to see themselves move onscreen in real time, we will explore the place where our selves are often asked to “feed” into structures such as school, work, and family. Kids/parents may play an interactive game that examines the mechanics of institutional engagement and invites subjective critical analysis of any current institutional relationships that the participants may have. Smaller kids may choose to play with their own image and their endlessly repeating, smaller and smaller images continuing off into the distance.
and for adults and teens, April 10, 4:15-5:45pm
FOCUS WORKSHOP on “Institutions.”
Part radical think tank, part focus group, part physical workshop, the Panoply Performance Laboratory invites participants to discuss their relationships with institutions, and focus on the role(s) that institutions play, both as groups of individuals and as emergent entities, through group exercises. Each participant will also have the opportunity to make an individual public statement on video for inclusion in PPL’s 2011 documentary opera, Institute_Institut (and will get a free ticket to PPL’s final performances.)
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Join PPL for a Focus Workshop in March and April, 2011!
Seeking opinions, experiences, and feedback from individuals, these workshops form a public co-creation aspect of the experimental opera project Institute_Institut.
NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED, ALL INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES, FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS INVITED!
(March workshops complete, THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED!)
APRIL:
Saturday, April 9th
6-7:30pm (kids and parents)
Sunday, April 10
4:15pm-5:45pm (adults and teens)
both as part of the Anarchist Book Fair
at Judson Church
55 Washington Square South
New York (A/C/E/F/M/B/D to W4 or R to 8th Ave)
JUST SHOW UP!
FREE
Between Dec. 2010 and June 2011, PPL is conducting a series of Focus Workshops, investigating cultural structures, interpersonal politics, daily conceptions of reality, and institutional ecologies through group discussion, performance work, and co-creation.
A Focus Workshop is part focus group and part thinktank. “Workshop” is used to note the performance-based perspective held by the workshop facilitators (the artists creating the project) and the performance research direction that some workshops take, depending on the interests of the participants.
Part I: Group Discussion. What are institutions? How do they function in your life? What are some of your experiences with them?
Part 2: Enactions, observations, and games.
All participants will receive a free ticket to the performances of Institute_Institut, in Fall 2011. The project is a staged documentary opera about authority, reality, institutionality, and sensibility. Issues and ideas discussed and researched through these Focus Workshops, as well as selected experiences, statements, and documentation from them (and many other forms of research) will largely form the libretto.
For more information, email panoplylab@gmail.com.
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CONVOCATORIA:
Participa con tus opiniones, experiencias y reacciones.
Se parte de nuestro Grupo de Enfoque.
Experiencia no necesaria. Personas de cualquier edad y nacionalidad pueden participar.
Domingo, 13 de Marzo, 2-5pm en Surreal Estate (15 Thames St., Brooklyn)
Domingo, 20 de Marzo, 2-5pm en Studio Maya (603 Bergen St., Brooklyn)
Domingo, 27 de Marzo, 2-5pm en PULSE Studios (1102 Dean St., Brooklyn)
(Reservaciones: panoplylab@gmail.com)
GRATIS
Desde el mes de diciembre 2010 a junio 2011, PPL ha estado realizando una serie de talleres informativos en Brooklyn, Manhattan y Queens. Los talleres investigan las estructuras culturales, las políticas mediativas, las construcciones diarias de la realidad, y las ecologías institucionales.
Se hace un llamado a personas de todas las edades y nacionalidades que quieran participar y contribuir con sus opiniones, experiencias e ideas en los talleres creativo-informativos. Los resultados serán incluidos como parte de colaboración en el proyecto Institute_Institut.
El Grupo de Enfoque funcionara también como fuente de inspiración y creación. En este sentido, “Taller” se refiere al aspecto performativo realizado por los artistas que facilitan la creación del proyecto y dirigen la investigación del mismo en base a los intereses de cada participante.
PRIMERA PARTE: Discusión en grupo.
- ¿Qué son las instituciones?
- ¿Cómo funcionan?
- ¿Cómo han sido tus experiencias con ellas?
SEGUNDA PARTE: Interpretaciones, observaciones y juegos.
Participantes recibirán una entrada gratis para la presentación de
Institute_Institut, en Otoño 2011. El proyecto se presentara como un documental montado al estilo de una ópera que tratará temas de autoridad, realidad, institucionalidad y sensibilidad. Las ideas y conceptos que fueron discutidos e investigados durante los talleres de enfoque de grupo, así como las experiencias, declaraciones y documentación de los participantes, serán incluidos como parte del libreto.
Filed under: EVENTS | Tags: art, brian, brooklyn, collaborations, estate, ester, forum, influence, intake, lab, mcCorkle, morgan, music, neff, new, panoply, performance, performancy, stop, surreal, theater, undergraound, XII, york
PERFORMANCY FORUM is a monthly exhibition and thinktank revolving around post-product performance work, including music, theater, dance, video, installation, action, and all that exists in between these mediums. Events are structured around the needs of the artists, creating spectator/artist relationships, participation frameworks, and platforms that allow the work to operate in an intentional manner. Past PERFORMANCY FORUMS have addressed female authorship, the roots of performance art, map-based music, and found materials…new curators, collaborations with collectives and other groups, and artists are always welcome. Full list of PERFORMANCY FORUM artists is on its way…
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SATURDAY NIGHT: MARCH 5, 7PM-1AM performances. Suggested donation $5
SUNDAY AFTERNOON: MARCH 6, 2PM-6PM. open house with installations by Alejandro Acierto and Ivy Castellanos
COLLABORATIONS AND INFLUENCES: Collaborative artists present solo work,asking how their collaborations influence them, and solo artists speak to influences arising outside of collaboration…
FEATURING:
Alejandro Acierto (installation with performance on Saturday night)
Gelsey Bell (performing from her solo song cycle “Bathroom Songs”)
Hector Canonge (performs ‘Ocular-Trance-Ocular’ with Maria Fernanda Hubeaut)
Ivy Castellanos (installation with performance on Saturday night)
Brian McCorkle (music/performance)
Esther Neff (video/theater)
Paul Pinto (experimental music)
Brian Rady (theater/performance)
Matthew Stephen Smith (theater, excerpt from an upcoming one-man show)
Meghann Snow (performance art)
Part of Arts in Bushwick’s SITE Fest.
GET INVOLVED
If you are interested in participating as a performer at the PERFORMANCY FORUM please e-mail an inquiry to Esther and Brian at panoplylab@gmail.com with a bio/CV, description of proposed work, and any links (video is best) that would help us understand what you do. All other inquiries, same e-mail address…Check out http://surrehearsalspace.wordpress.com/ for tech specs and pictures of the performance space at Surreal Estate.













