Brief Epigrams

Armed Guard Garden

2011-12-22T22:06:00.000-06:00

Pleased to be a part of the next Vanessa Anspaugh contemporary dance project, Armed Guard Garden, which will premiere February 15th at New York Live Arts.

Please visit this project's kickstarter page and donate what you can to get it off the ground of amazing and into the realm of incredibly fucking amazing.

Kristof Wickman at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

2011-09-21T10:33:00.002-05:00

I've had the pleasure of seeing Kristof's work at the Hunter open studios and his incredible thesis show, now his exhibition RAW/COOKED is up at the Brooklyn Museum of Art until Nov 27th!

09/16/2011 – 11/27/2011Mezzanine Gallery, 2nd Floor

"Raw/Cooked launches on September 16 with an exhibition of the work of Bushwick-based artist Kristof Wickman. Recommended by Paul Ramírez Jonas, Wickman is an object maker and skilled builder. He makes casts of everyday objects, often intertwining them with casts of the human body in unusual, sometimes humorous, ways. Wickman will be creating several new works especially for Raw/Cooked, inspired by objects from the Museum’s collection.Wickman was born in 1981 in Madison, Wisconsin. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and an M.F.A. from Hunter College in May 2010."

collages of the last month

2011-08-06T08:40:00.004-05:00

Some work featured in the Mag Hags II show currently open in Northampton MA:

Also in the show, wonderful work by Jono Tosch, Jena Sujat, Emily Hunt, Ben Estes, Mark Leidner, Ryan Feeney, Chris Ward and more.

(Larger scaled grid not in show)

Mag Hags II opens on August 5th at A.P.E., the big window gallery on Main Street. Arts Night Out reception on Friday, August 12, 6:00 PM.

tag team

miniatures: all 5"X 6" in grid

these approximately 9 1/2" X 6 1/2" in grid

Richard Prince, Prince Richard

2011-07-17T13:11:00.001-05:00

collage with; Richard Prince, Untitled (Self Portrait) 1949

Soft-Spot (un)seen and (un)heard

2011-06-26T16:58:00.002-05:00

Artists Ryan Feeney and Kimberly Hennessy run the online gallery Soft Spot, I'm included in their current show (un)seen and (un)heard. They gathered work from visual artists, and then had writers respond to it.

jason demarte, cream filled, 2007

nathalie chikhi, Nuggets, 2010

I am honored to be among such writers as Mark Leidner, Jordan Stempleman, Ben Estes, Ben Kopel, Matthew Suss, Amy Turn Sharp, Melissa Broder, Mike Topp, Sommer Browning, Rachel B. Glaser, Sara Majka, and Emily Hunt:
Responding to the work of artists, Yochai Matos, Laurie Kang, Brendan George Ko, Nathalie Chikhi, Francois Trezin, Jason Demarte, Jesse Hlebo, Fenk Zhang, Joel Whitaker, Christina Leung, William Green, and Juliao Sarmento.

Ryan Feeney, Ryan MacDonald: Fountain Studios

2011-06-01T17:53:00.003-05:00

Making our dreams come true, doin it our way!

Invitational Video for show

Fountain Studios

604 Grand Avenue

Brooklyn Misc.

June 4 - June 25, 2011

Opening: Saturday, June 4, 7 - 10 PM

Los Carpinteros

2011-05-23T19:45:00.000-05:00

los carpinteros_16m, 2010, tela, metal

los carpinteros_montanarusa La Montaña Rusa, 2008 mixed media 98 x 315 x 170 inches (248.9 x 800.1 x 431.8 cm)

los carpinteros_-Movimientode Liberacion Nacional 2 Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, 2010 Metal, plástico. 93 x 120 x 120 cm

Anders Krisar

2011-05-23T19:33:00.001-05:00

The Birth of us (boy) 2007

REVENGE: and Chocolate Bunny 2'36" Lernert & Sander

2011-05-23T17:58:00.001-05:00

Revenge from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.

Chocolate Bunny from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.

Ryan MacDonald

2011-05-22T16:10:00.001-05:00

finally built a website, featuring, unlike this blog, only work made by myself: link below

http://ryanamacdonald.com/Ryan_A._Macdonald/Home.html

SPRUNG FORMAL: online

2011-05-18T07:23:00.002-05:00

"Sprung Formal is sold out, but you can now view the issue online. Best, The Editors"

Open publication - Free publishing - More kcai

Ryan Feeney, Ryan MacDonald: Fountain Studios

2011-05-04T21:01:00.003-05:00

Feeney and I will be having a show
at Brooklyn's wonderful Fountain Studios

June 4th to the 25th
Opening Reception June 4th from 7 to 10

“Obscene Sunset #3” by Ryan Feeney

“High Dive” by Ryan MacDonald

We're gonna make it after all

fountainstudios@gmail.com
604 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn NY, 11238
(between St. Marks and Bergen)

"Fountain is an artist studio and project space in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The space houses 11 studios and a gallery which also functions as a performance, project and community space and is the home of Fountain Fair our recurring craft market.

Since opening in 2008, Fountain has provided an affordable and dynamic environment for Brooklyn locals to purse their craft as well as offer an open-ended source of contemporary works through the gallery/project space."

Pale in Comparison: views from the recent MFA thesis exhibition

2011-05-02T09:48:00.002-05:00

view photos here

SPRUNG FORMAL

2011-04-27T21:30:00.001-05:00

the new issue of Sprung Formal is out and it is packed with some fantastic work:

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS:

Mary Jo Bang, Robert J. Baumann, Adam Beris, Daniel Borzutzky, Austin Buckingham, Shannon Burns, Nick Chan, Jack Christian, Bryan Coffelt, Cyrus Console, Linh Dinh, Marie Dougherty, Dustin Downey, Shawna Enyart, Ryan Feeney, Miles Fermin, Abbe Findley, Kathleen Furlong, Madeline Gallucci, Angela Genusa, Tyson Gough, Joshua T. Howell, Kristen Iskandrian, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Justin Kemp, Emily Kendal Frey, Mitchell Hugh Kirkwood, Mark Leidner, Christina Lenert, Richard Lucyshyn, Ryan MacDonald, Alice Miller, Sawako Nakayasu, Annie Raab, Osciel Ramos, Sophie Roessler, James Sanders, Jaclyn Senne, Sandra Simonds, Lauren Stookey, Mathias Svalina, Michelle Taransky, Dana Ward, Dara Wier, Teal Wilson, Dziadek Wydra Odjazdowy, Mike Young, and Joshua Zink

Now available for pre-order through PayPal. $10. order it now here!

Pale in Comparison

2011-04-07T10:23:00.000-05:00

invitational videos 4,5 and 6
(certain objects featured in the videos will appear in the in the MFA exhibition:
Pale in Comparison)

April 11th-15
reception the 11th 4-6

"Juliette Mapp Mashes Up Day Care and Gertrude Stein"

2011-04-04T10:12:00.002-05:00

If you're in NY next week, be sure to get a ticket now to see my lovely girlfriend Aretha Aoki perform in Juliette Mapp's dance piece, The Making of Americans

Brian Seibert of the Village Voice writes:

"Stein’s prose benefits from being read aloud (and excerpted), and as text for dance, its repetitiousness is an asset: You can give it only half your attention. Instead of taking that repetition as a model for minimalism, Mapp sees an analogy with unison. Just as Stein’s relentless reiterations make subtle variations stand out, when dancers all go through the same motions, individuality rises to the surface. Those motions run from shaking on all fours to the most careful adjustments in how shoulders are set. What Mapp admires in Stein—soft subjects told hard—she plays with kinetically.

Watching a rehearsal in post-industrial Bushwick, I remarked to Mapp that the setting seemed more apt than Dance Theater Workshop. She reminded me that DTW is currently a site of uncertainty and some sadness, as the organization merges with Bill T. Jones to become New York Live Arts. Mapp’s will be the last dance presented by “DTW” in its theater. A work of family memories speaks to the moment, as does Stein at the end of her death-haunted book (I skipped ahead): “Any one coming to be an old enough one comes to be a dead one.”

‘The Making of Ameicans,’ April 13–16, Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, dancetheaterworkshop.org"

Check out this stunning review in the New York Times!

and equally remarkable in CULTUREBOT

MFA Thesis Show Invitational videos

2011-03-30T21:42:00.003-05:00

MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 11 - 15 2011

Reception: Monday, April 11th, 4 - 6 pm

Herter Gallery

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA

gallery hours: M-F 11-4, Su 1-4

Soft Spot

2011-03-28T20:44:00.001-05:00

Announcing the launch of Soft Spot, a new online alternative arts space and gallery project that I, Ryan Feeney, have started with Kim Hennessy.

The site is intended to be a social and communal project so we would love and appreciate any submissions, proposals, comments or ideas. Contact us at kim@soft-spot.net and ryan@soft-spot.net "

Oh My God

2011-03-23T13:39:00.001-05:00

2 videos from my poet friend Jordan Stempleman

MFA Thesis Show

2011-03-16T13:41:00.002-05:00

almost ready

April 11th at the Herter Gallery UMASS Amherst

New Video Story up at I AM A NATURAL WONDER...............(link below)

2011-03-16T10:16:00.000-05:00

I AM A NATURAL WONDER

Ken Taylor: Cento made of Charlie Sheen quotes

2011-03-06T08:51:00.003-06:00

We work for the pope

We Work for the Pope by Ken Taylor published at http://mipoesias.com/

J. Phoenix, C. Sheen. I'm just sayin

Mark Bradford: ICA

2011-03-04T09:08:00.000-06:00

a review of Bradford’s current exhibition at Boston’s ICA
Nov 19, 2010, - March 13, 2011

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness… who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid the blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion & the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality.”
Allen Ginsberg, Howl

I open this review of Mark Bradford’s current exhibition with an overused quote from Ginsberg’s Howl. Though I felt it appropriate, as I thought of the poem several times while walking through the show. Bradford creates scenes that are at once a bird’s eye view of urban American landscapes and a focus on the consequences and questions had, for those who live in such places. In a sense, Bradford, like Ginsberg (though to a far less degree), lifts the curtain on contemporary urban American life.

Kryptonite

Scorched Earth

Bradford’s paintings imply all the flourishes of abstract expressionism in its various guises, with the punctuating technique of collage and decollage, varying hints at aerial views of urban landscapes and topographical maps, and the apparent labor-intensive construction, each distinguished by a politically loaded title. Upon a first encounter, they are, plainly put, lovely to look at. When moving past the works seductiveness, and further into investigation, it is the materials that take the foreground in grasping a better understanding.

Bradford transforms two-dimensional items collected from the streets, attempting to lend another view of subway posters and ragged billboards. Advertising stripped away from itself and appropriated in the form of abstract painting is nothing new. And though Bradford’s paintings offer little in the ways of innovation, they do impart a sense of dedication to the origins of the artist, and the materials of the place he came from.

Los Moscos

One thing I might discern is the seemingly random use of the found materials. Most of his paintings use bits of torn paper appropriated from the streets (earlier works using papers once used to curl hair, as Bradford was a stylist), some are left more intact than others, as in Thriller (2009), for example, which very plainly shows Nirvana’s Nevermind poster as part of its composition. I suppose when considering this band poster, among the others, within the context of the painting, named, I assume, for Michael Jackson’s pop hit of the 80’s (Bradford includes many music references in his work), the appropriation makes a thin sort-of sense. What becomes most interesting about this painting (and what I might say about the lot of them), is the massively textured, labored over surface. Using hardware tools like power sanders, Bradford digs crevices into the surfaces of his work. These textured spaces, as in Thriller, wind and swirl their ways around and through the haphazard array of materials pasted to the surface like the curving paths worms leave in the dirt after a heavy rain or exploding across the façade of an old dead tree.
Many works are far scrappier, in that the choices made with the material frequently have to do with what bits of color might show through. As in Potable Water, (2005) where we have the pleasure of texture through the pasting and stripping away of materials, though apparently on a purely formal level. Slices of blue cut across the large paper owing to a fairly obvious symbol of water, then sprinkled at the top with squares of neon orange, pink and green. The colors do hint at recent trends in advertising. One easily thinks of those simple, cheaply made neon posters pasted up on permanent plywood walls at the bases of scaffolding, or lining abandoned lots in the mostly poor neighborhoods of any major American city. The gesture hints at the street art of Margaret Kilgallen, Swoon, Steven Powers, and even Basquiat to name only a few. As these artists, like Bradford, took the manipulation of similar materials (found wall scraps in run-down neighborhoods) from the site-specific space of the street, into the site-specific space of the gallery. Bradford’s gestures toward art history don’t stop there, but touch on notes of Rauschenberg’s combines (most notably in Bradford’s piece Crow, which is a taxidermy crow with wings spread, beak to the wall), Peter Halley’s contained hyper-realized urban geometries, Agnes Martin’s pale grids, Julie Mehretu’s densely layered paintings, and even Piet Mondrian’s early inkling’s toward abstraction.

Potable Water

Piet Mondrian: Tableau No. 2/Composition No. VII, 1913

Peter Halley

Agnes Martin

Julie Mehretu: Stadia II,

Piet Mondrian: Composition V

Robert Rauschenberg: Canyon

Another piece which employs all the previously stated elements but which stood out as a better handled painting was Strawberry (2002), named for the slang term for a female crack addicted prostitute. This piece is again riddled with what look like rectangular coffee cup stains raining down over scraps of hot pink and orange. The odd arrangement of rectangles look like a child’s sincere attempt at drawing a grid, the effect though is one of urban topography balanced with a foundation’s figure drawing exercise using cubes to find proportion, and the simple pleasure of a deliciously slick surface. The combination of these elements: a grid of collaged scraps, hints at urban topography, bits of flashy colored paper, are apparent in nearly every piece, which leaves the question, is Bradford working with a limited vocabulary?

Strawberry

Bradford aims at pointing to issues of race, sexuality, identity and class, issues that need consistent attention, and, as far as the art world is concerned, receive it. Aside from the more obvious (and frankly uninspired) pieces such as Untitled (Shoe, 2003), and Kobe I got Your Back, (2008), a basketball covered in black billboard paper, both hinting at questions of masculinity in the black community, Bradford speaks a more discernable language with his video Niagra (though the room at the ICA is far too lit for video, making it washed out and faded). In it, a black man in mustard yellow shorts and a white tank top, strides away from the viewer in slow motion. The man, Melvin, walks past Bradford’s studio every day. The stride, is more of a swaying saunter, a confident exaggerated lilt, which is even further exaggerated by the slow motion and the gritty urban surroundings (cracked weedy cement, a discarded Wendy’s cup rolling in the wind). The video is based off of a 1953 Marilyn Monroe film in which she murders her husband and walks confidently away. Bradford’s appropriation of this film is utterly transformed in Niagra, pulling almost entirely away from its original. Bradford’s video breaths life into the idea of “what is black masculinity,” in a way Shoe simply fails to, with a simple but powerful gesture.

(Untitled) Shoe

Niagara

Niagara, Marilyn Monroe

The more engaging works by Bradford in the ICA exhibition offer open-ended questions, works such as Niagra, or the more complex of the two dimensional works like Black Venus, which is a billboard size painting that balances multiple languages, from abstraction, to map, to billboard, to the social reality of its inspiration. Overall I had the feeling that the repetition in both idea and medium might be a bit safe to justify the attention Bradford is receiving for his work. I think with time Bradford can develop these ideas and skills into a more challenging investigation of the issues (both political and aesthetic) he is concerned with. That said, I do think the show is worth seeing. Bradford’s language is accessible and at times compelling, offering an occasionally unique glance into the urban American landscape.

Black Venus

Route 9

2011-02-16T23:49:00.000-06:00

Route 9 Issue 2:

Featured writers: Dorothea Lasky, Mira Bartok, Hilary Plum, Jason Larson, Michael Teig, Sara Jaffe, Mike Young, Rachel B. Glaser, Sarah Boyer, CAroline Cabrera, Bryan Beck, Emily Hunt, Brian Mihok, Matthew Charlton, C.S. Ward, Gale Thompson, Ari Feld, Leora Fridman, Chris Hosea, Abha Eli on Jedediah Berry, and a Fridman interview of Emily Toder, plus a few videos and stories from me.

Also included are works by Natalie Abadzis, Maya Bajak, Nicholas Bohac, Kevin Clarke, Brian Ferry, DAvid Gilbert, Lauren Kohne, Ted Lincoln, Ellen Rumel, Steve Snell and Michele Lauriat

Michele Lauriat: York Beach

NOÖ Journal: Rad Poetry Series

2011-01-26T08:09:00.001-06:00

One of two video stories now up at the wonderful NOÖ Journal for the Rad poetry series.
Also some fantastic work by Ofelia Hunt, Leigh Stein, Rachel B Glaser and Phil Estes in NOÖ Weekly.
Donate to NOÖ now and keep free lit living.

Stuffed 2

2010-12-19T23:25:00.004-06:00

The latest batch of Stuffed Objects made by my amazing 2010 Fall Foundations students.
This round fabricated after observing the work of Claes Oldenburg, reading from Sartre's Nausea, Schjeldahl's essay on Beauty, excerpts of Baudrillard's The System of Objects, notes on Sarah Sze, and the poetry of Jordan Stempleman and Mike Young, paying close attention to the use of the carefully chosen objects and their relations to the words/objects they are situated near.

hopefully they weren't too overwhelmed...
each object is hand sewn and at least 2 feet wide/long (though most chose to go much bigger).

click on this for Spring 2010 student work.

"Baudrillard argued that meaning (value) is created through difference - through what something is not (so "dog" means "dog" because it is not-"cat", not-"goat", not-"tree", etc.). In fact, he viewed meaning as near enough self-referential: objects, images of objects, words and signs are situated in a web of meaning; one object's meaning is only understandable through its relation to the meaning of other objects; in other words, one thing's prestige relates to another's mundanity."

great job peeps

new work glimpses

2010-11-30T23:17:00.001-06:00

for what's to come. A look in the studio

Chelsea in June

2010-11-15T06:28:00.003-06:00

Adriana Varejao

Tony Oursler

Chantal Joffe

Chuck Close

Yayoi Kusama

Huang Young Ping: Tower Snake

Alex Katz

Beate Gutschow

Trisha Brown at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co

Jonathan Monk, The Inflated Deflated

3 stories viewed via: Flying Object

2010-11-14T00:16:00.001-06:00

Wakefield

Stuck

When I'm Feeling Up To It

Flying Object

Moving Poems

2010-10-25T23:32:00.001-05:00

Happy to have a piece from The Continental Review (which has a brand new look), featured along with some greats in the fantastic anthology Moving Poems

Flying Object Reading

2010-10-25T16:42:00.001-05:00

Come see me read/show videos along with some fine poets at Flying Object

readings by Julia Story, Sampson Starkweather, Ryan MacDonald, Paige Taggart

Flying Object

2010-10-07T11:14:00.000-05:00

A great new space, Flying Object, has just opened it's doors for Western Mass art and lit enthusiasts with plenty of fantastic readings and shows to attend.

Flying Object is a bookstore, letterpress, & gallery. It opened on October 1, 2010. Supported in part by small, independent publishers, artists, writers, and graphic designers, its mission is to support them back.

UPCOMING at Flying Object

SUPERMACHINE: Christie Ann Reynolds, Ben Fama, Douglas Piccinnini
7:00 pm, October 9, 2010

Book Release: Rachel Glaser & Mike Young & Alex Phillips
8:00 pm, October 14, 2010

Talk/Reading: Billy Kahora on Publishing in Kenya
12:30 pm, October 15, 2010

Reading: Aaron Kunin
7:00 pm, October 19, 2010

Eric Yahnker

2010-09-29T13:57:00.000-05:00

enjoying Eric Yahnker today, here is an interview

Ryan Feeney: New Content

2010-09-13T16:01:00.001-05:00

Check out Ryan Feeney's new work and other gems at New Content

Mike Young: We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

2010-08-30T12:19:00.000-05:00

hey everybody, Mike Young's new book of poems
We Are All
Good If They Try
Hard Enough
is available now at Publishing Genius

Rachel B. Glaser: Pee On Water

2010-08-16T14:21:00.000-05:00

hey everybody, Rachel B. Glaser's new book of stories Pee On Water is available now at Publishing Genius

Zehra Khan

2010-08-16T11:54:00.002-05:00

me likes Zehra Khan
as brought to my attention by Erica Mahinay

Rats Smoking Drinking Vomiting - Odalisque.

Drunk Drunk Bed Rat

Haha

Last Cigarette

Man-Eagle (Chicken) - Rats

Rat Crosses Over

Rat Leaps Out of Flowers

RAt Sleeps in Flowers

Reject Rat

Beauty Mark

Nirmal Sandhu

2010-07-30T05:09:00.000-05:00

I just really like this jam, listen to it every morning

Heather Christle at the Continental Review

2010-07-22T07:45:00.003-05:00

NEW!! Heather Christle poem/video at The Continental Review

read Heather's poems in her book The Difficult Farm and the brand new chapbook from minutes BOOKS
THE SEASIDE!

Helmut Smits

2010-07-20T12:26:00.000-05:00

Check out Nederlander Helmut Smits

filling a hole

urban pigeon

two I beams saying HI

football stadium 1

football stadium 2

rainbow 1

rainbow 2

plastic plant acting like a real one by losing its leaves

Megan and Murray McMillan at the Kunsthallen in Denmark

2010-07-14T17:25:00.002-05:00

If in Denmark, check out the McMillan's incredible lily piece among many other notables:

"The artists presented in this exhibition create wildly ramified, strange growths, brilliantly-coloured mixtures of artificial and natural flowers, ranging from boundary-breaking, beautiful pieces inspired by nature to immaculate results of contemporary, organically-based, scientific experiments. The artists mix our thousand-year-old knowledge of the life-giving and lethal potential of plants, departing from our urge to achieve perfection. Instead they let go of control and uniformity, allowing things to unfold freely in untamed and unpredictable anarchy."

through Sept 19

Franco has dessert with Abromovic

2010-06-12T21:07:00.003-05:00

My 2010 Foundations Student's Stuffed Object Project

2010-05-19T10:24:00.017-05:00

you guys rock

Justin Kemp: art genius?

2010-05-16T18:55:00.007-05:00

Justin Kemp: Hey What's Up

surfing with the sand between my toes

forever stall

proposing to Larry

proclaiming my love

CAMILLE LAURELLI: art hero?

2010-05-16T18:07:00.000-05:00

match diagonal

In The Woods

2010-05-03T19:26:00.000-05:00

In The Woods
choreographed by Aretha Aoki
performed by Vanessa Anspaugh and Aretha Aoki
music by Ryan MacDonald

Program B-
Thursday-Saturday, May 6-8, 2010 at 7:30pm
New works by:
• Aretha Aoki
• Ani Javian
• Loni Landon
• Sydnie Mosley
• Makiko Tamura
• May Yamanaka

The newsteps series features emerging choreographers who are creating new and in-progress work. This semi-annual program, est. 1994, has presented over 160 artists and is dedicated to providing support and performance opportunities for experimental, innovative, and risk-taking artists. A reception follows the opening night performances on Thursdays, and a post-performance discussion with the artists on Fridays.

Location:
Chen Dance Center
70 Mulberry St. 2nd Floor. New York, NY 10013

Tickets:
$12 general admission
$10 students/seniors

It’s not too early to make reservations, as this signature series always sells out.
To reserve tickets or for more information call:
212-349-0126 or 212-349-0438

Start Time:	Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7:30pm
End Time:	Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location:	Chen Dance Centre
Street:	70 Mulberry St, 2nd floor
City/Town:	New York, NY

Marina Abramović Made Me Cry

2010-04-28T09:23:00.000-05:00

Portraits taken during the MoMA’s exhibit of performance artist “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present”.

What Happens After I Die

2010-03-25T19:21:00.000-05:00

http://whathappensafteridie.com/

unknown author

Erwin Wurm

2010-03-21T15:02:00.001-05:00

Taking a moment to admire the wonderful work of Erwin Wurm (Wurm at Xavier Hufkens). (Video, Desperate Philosophers)
I am a long-time and on-going fan

Cellato

2010-03-05T08:21:00.000-06:00

Sound piece over footage: Cellist Seeli Toivio perform Live in Concert: Elgar Cello Concerto 3rd movement. Nov 28, 2008. Conductor: Nazanin Aghakhani. LaTempesta and visiting artists. Temple Church (Rock Church), Helsinki.

Glen

2010-03-04T18:32:00.002-06:00

Glen Gould sound piece

Matthew Barney, wide stripe crewneck

2010-03-04T15:02:00.001-06:00

Barney now

Take My Breath Away

2010-03-02T13:54:00.001-06:00

Top Gun Volley Ball Scene Video Sound Piece

Action Reaction

2010-02-24T12:11:00.003-06:00

to be played all at once

Dance Theater Workshop

2010-02-11T21:21:00.003-06:00

Created in 1965, Fresh Tracks is Dance Theater Workshop's longest running series of new dance and performance. Featuring works by emerging artists selected through open auditions, Fresh Tracks artists are presented each year, and following their performance week, receive a 50-hour creative residency along with introductory level professional development workshops in marketing and fundraising strategies. Artists also participate in dialogue sessions with Artistic Advisor Levi Gonzalez, facilitating open discussion about their creative process.

February 11-13 at 7:30pm | February 12 at 10pm

BUY TICKETS HERE: $15

Crediting:

1. Naughty Bits | Choreography by Jen McGinn
2. We are Weather | Choreographed by Vanessa Anspaugh & Dancers
3. Good Girl | Choreographed by Liz Santoro
4. Heart Ain't In It: Four Chamber Studies | Arrangement by Enrico D. Wey
5. up and down | Choreographed by Makiko Tamura
6. The Miner | Choreographed by Eleanor Smith

Photographer: Yi-Chun Wu

Fountain Studios: One Time Works

2010-01-14T09:49:00.004-06:00

OPENING
Fountain 604 Grand Ave (between St. marks and Bergen) Brooklyn
Jan. 16th 7 to 10
Dan Blake
Yoni Niv
Matthew Abbott
Tom Burtonwood
Stephanie Costello
Michael Zachary

Øyvind Aspen

2010-01-12T22:28:00.002-06:00

Black Car

Super 16mm transferred to HD video, 16:9, colour, 3 ch. Sound, 8m 25s
(2009)

Thomas Demand:

2010-01-12T22:25:00.002-06:00

Tunnel

The film presumably shows a fast-paced tracking shot through the tunnel in which Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash. At first the viewer seems to remember seeing these images in the media. But in reality the set is a true to life, cardboard mock-up of architectural details. Under closer inspection, one also realizes that instead of reproducing reality Thomas Demand creates a perfectly-constructed model world. The cleverly-lit cardboard scenery takes up an incident of recent history and, in doing so, mirrors the illusionary features of what appear to be familiar images. The film literally reflects upon the model of our relationship to images from the mass media. In the process, the construction, representation and repetition of reality create a complex weaving of connections. That the accident used as the theme was the result of a hectic, car chase caused by paparazzi lends the work yet another aspect of the reflection of the media.

Animal Collective, Another White Singer

2009-12-17T11:10:00.003-06:00

Animal Collective, Taste

2009-12-17T09:35:00.005-06:00

Terrible Things

2009-11-28T20:13:00.004-06:00

Dec 3rd-Dec 20th at PS122 with special performances by Aretha Aoki Dec 12th and 13th

Aretha Aoki has been understudying Emily Johnson's role and will be performing on Sat, Dec 12 (both the 8 pm and 10 pm performances) and Sun, Dec 13 (6 pm).
"It's a really smart and engaging play with plenty of dance and ...marshmellows! and wrestlers. Enticing, yes?"

"Next time D'Amour and Pearl bring their enchanting work to town be sure to take it in." - John del Signore, The Gothamist

"The collaborative team of playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl make beguiling, innovative theatre pieces." - American Theater Magazine

Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Emily Johnson, Morgan Thorson, and Karen Sherman, two Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestlers, and 1000 marshmallows. Featuring the choreography of Emily Johnson.

With funding from The Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation and made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Olaf Breuning

2009-11-23T17:42:00.004-06:00

Go see Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures because it's really good

We Are Weather

2009-11-22T23:08:00.002-06:00

We Are Weather: Vanessa Anspaugh
Performed by Aretha Aoki, Lily Gold, and Mary Reed

"This past weekend Danspace Project presented FOOD FOR THOUGHT, three evenings each curated by a different guest artist: Ursula Eagly (Thursday), Maura Donohue (Friday), and Enrico D. Wey (Saturday). This is a great program in which we collect food donations for a local non-profit, in this case St. Mark's Church's food pantry. One of our members, John Vinton, emailed me on Sunday to share his experience:

"I came on Friday [FOOD FOR THOUGHT, November 13] and was so gratified by the experience that I came again on Saturday. I'm sorry now that I didn't come Thursday! Having professionals put together these programs was wonderful. Their points of view gave me insight into what matters to them aesthetically, and what they see as important trends. It was always interesting and in a few cases very moving. Thanks again for a great weekend!"

Become a member right now and get TWO-FOR-ONE tickets to see Luis Lara Malvacias at Danspace this weekend Thursday-Saturday, November 19-21, 8:00 PM. Join by Friday at 5:00 PM for TWO-FOR-ONE tickets!

All best,

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Executive Director"

Aunts is Dance

2009-11-05T20:22:00.001-06:00

Definitely something to see:

Aunts

Applause

2009-10-29T19:06:00.001-05:00

applause from Ryan MacDonald on Vimeo.

large scale video installation with flashing red applause sign

Dutch

2009-10-14T01:28:00.000-05:00

video story, with one favorite line used from Watt, because why not

In the mud, in her arms

2009-10-08T17:12:00.000-05:00

video story

THE REAL

2009-10-06T17:41:00.003-05:00

THE REAL at Fountain Studios
October 10th to November 7th
Opening Reception October 10th 6 to 10

George Creamer
Anthony Elms
Susan Gargiulo
Troy Hagenbart
Brian Kapernekas
Ryan MacDonald
Joey Tipton
Lawrence Webber

"1c. suppose we gradually and equally shorten all the four legs of a table. Its reality as a table lessens because the probability of our using it as a table lessens, but its reality as a bench may gradually increase because the probability of our using it as a bench increases."
Cardinal Polatuo
-Stefan Themerson

SCREENING October 10th 8pm
"OTHER PEOPLE" by Other People
Britt Brewer
John Peery
Candace Thompson
other peeps

Fountain Studios
604 Grand Avenue Brooklyn NY 11238

Come on Charlie, Come on

2009-09-27T16:03:00.009-05:00

When You Think Of It

2009-09-16T09:22:00.002-05:00

Going Public Contemporary Lit Series
at Amherst Cinema

Thursday September 17, 7:00pm
Special General Admission: $5

This is a movie. Not Lone Star. Not The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Not Pillow Talk. Not All That Heaven Allows. Not The Awful Truth. Not Blazing Saddles. Not The Crying Game. Not Every Man for Himself. Not Ship of Fools. Not the Lady Vanishes. Not Dark Victory. This is a notnostrums movie. In this movie people are reading poems in many places.

Experience the world premier of the debut film by notnostrums, an innovative online poetry journal. Featuring renowned and emerging poets reading new work in a wide range of unexpected places. WHEN YOU THINK OF IT re-imagines the way poetry reaches us and presents a dazzling array of contemporary poetry.

Presented in collaboration with the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the Juniper Initiative, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center and the UMass Fine Arts Center.

If You Think Of It (Trailer) from notnostrums on Vimeo.

Fountain Studios: Under the Same Shadow

2009-08-31T13:22:00.003-05:00

UPCOMING Sept 5th to Oct 3rd/////////Owen Rundquist and Alex DeMaria//////Under the Same Shadow

Fountain Studios is pleased to present Under the Same Shadow, a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of artists Alexander DeMaria and Owen Rundquist. DeMaria and Rundquist explore the place of ritualism and the occult in a pop context. For the exhibition the two artists have created a multi-media sculptural installation. By referring to ancient ritualistic structures and incorporating elements from a variety of pre-Christian belief systems, the past and present inform one another in this piece through the lens of subculture. The work also includes a sound element composed by the artists, making direct reference to the world of extreme heavy metal. By removing this piece of cultural phenomena from its conventional setting and placing it in an atavistic environment, the artists effectively travel full-circle, returning popular culture to a place of extinct ritualism and bringing a pop sensibility to ancient practice.

Alex DeMaria

Owen Rundquist

Fountain Studios
troy@fountainstudiosny.com
604 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11238

Whitney's Biennial

2009-08-25T14:59:00.002-05:00

For Immediate Release

Media Contact:
Whitney
whitneysbiennial@gmail.com

“WHITNEY’S BIENNIAL” OPENS AUGUST 28 FOR ONE WEEKEND ONLY

Brooklyn, NY – Thirty-Seven Artists are participating in the 2009 Whitney’s Biennial, opening at 70 Greenpoint Avenue (c.r.e.a.m. projects) on Friday August 28, 2009 from 7-11 PM, running through Sunday August 30, 2009. Gallery hours are 12-6 PM.

The 2009 Whitney’s Biennial is an interdisciplinary group exhibition, taking place in an unoccupied commercial space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibition re-envisions the ubiquitous Biennial formula by personalizing the institution, paring it down to a single person. Whitney is the proverbial Every Artist, the flesh-and-bone actor laboring under the shadows of giants. This is her Biennial.

The exhibition explores the dubious notion of the comeback and opens days before the release of Whitney Houston’s new album. In a moment when the entire world is waiting to see if and when the economy will recover, the artist is in need of a new strategy.

The participating artists are widely diverse — from those who have exhibited in major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, to the graffiti artist, to the underground filmmaker, to the recent MFA graduate. All have been asked to meet on common ground, outside of the white cube, to create new works for this show.

The 2009 Whitney’s Biennial is organized by MaryKate Maher, Martha Mysko, Elise Rasmussen and Davida Nemeroff.

Artists

These are the artists selected for the 2009 Whitney’s Biennial:

Anna Rosen 
Austin Shull 
Carrie Schneider 
Chelsea Knight 
Christine Sun Kim & Jacob Shamberg 
Davida Nemeroff 
Douglas Boatwright 
Elise Rasmussen 
Fia Backström 
Jesse Harris 
Joey Whiteley 
Joshua von Brown 
Julia Kennedy 
Kara Walker 
Kelli Thompson 
Kotama Bouabane 
Leidy Churchman 
Martha Mysko 
MaryKate Maher & Oliver Jones 
Mauricio Salgado
Michael Berryhill 
Michael Farmer 
Mira Dancy 
Paul Heyer 
Per Billgren 
Peter Harkawik 
Roe Ethridge 
Roshani Thakore 
Samara Golden 
Shawn Kuruneru 
Tony Romano 
Tuomas Korpijaakko 
Valerie Piraino 
Victoria Cheong 
William Kidman

Opening August 28th, 7-11PM
Free Limo Rides, courtesy of Whitney
After Party: Coco66 (68 Greenpoint Avenue), 11PM – 4AM

Special performance by Castlemusic on Saturday August 29, 2009 at 8:00 PM

The Still Collective

2009-08-25T14:51:00.008-05:00

In The Woods: Aretha Aoki

We Are Weather: Vanessa Anspaugh

Saw this incredible show August 19 at the Blue Barn at Bramble Hill Farm in North Amherst.
More dance to come soon from these two remarkable talents.

Surf and Turf

2009-08-04T14:17:00.001-05:00

Last May's video collage triptych from a larger whole

sweetest breeze with tyrone

2009-07-28T12:21:00.001-05:00

New work from Justin Kemp at Mousesafari

Doubled Over

2009-07-27T18:17:00.005-05:00

New book of poetry soon from Jordan Stempleman

True to the double-mindedness of its title, Doubled Over gives us the compensations of humor and the gut-punch of "the ache that's addressed to sense." Socially and intimately embedded, committedly familial, these poems are primers for how to find grace in fallibility, cultivating simultaneously a goofball charm and an elegant poise that honors the obligation and freedom to give an accounting of lived life through and in art. Jordan Stempleman's lyrical bursts counter Keats' not being able to see the flowers at his feet with profusions that may be haywire but are nevertheless celebratory in their unlikeliness and our noticing: "flowers where there shouldn't be" indeed, and I, for one, am grateful for them.

--Dean Young

Jordan Stempleman's poetry is not only the poetry of the everyday, but the poetry of the every moment, feeding "tiny things more tiny things." Each element is sky-lit and dazzling, but the anchor is abstraction -- "the pearl from the dumpster." This is the lyric as a mission disguised as a simple task.

--Anne Boyer

The Continental Review

2009-07-20T21:14:00.006-05:00

Video/Stories Now at the Continental Review

It is my Understanding

The Storm

notnostrums issue 3

2009-07-17T15:56:00.009-05:00

#3 looks fantastic and features some of the best:
here is a quick statement from Mr. Mike Young at HTML Giant:

Jono Tosch
Michael Earl Craig
Matthew Zapruder
Emily Toder
Jack Christian
Dara Wier
Ryan MacDonald
Natalie Lyalin
Tomaž Šalamun
Jane Gregory
Jordan Stempleman
Ben Estes
Lauren Shapiro
Ata Moharreri
Amanda Nadelberg
Zachary Schomburg
Lori Shine

Sarah Michelson: Dover Beach

2009-06-21T17:04:00.003-05:00

Truly one of the most fantastic performances I have seen.

"When Sarah Michelson is on, her work brooks no resistance. There is an inevitability to it, and a relentlessness, from which you do not, cannot, look away."
Times article

Sarah Michelson

Parker Lutz

Fast Forward Volume II

2009-06-05T13:00:00.006-05:00

buy it here : read it there

FF 2 includes:

Nancy Stohlman– Linh Dinh– Luke Geddes– Kona Morris– Shane Joaquín Jiménez– Gloria Frym– Michael Spring– Charles Rutter– Kim Chinquee– Chiaka Obasi– Greg Gerke– Alexandra Lukens– Frank P. Galiani– Faye Kicknosway–William Haywood Henderson- Jayne Anne Phillips– Shari Hack Jones– Chris Ridenour– KJ Hannah Greenberg– Nate Jordon– Dan Moreau– Jasper Peslin– Jack Collom– Olatundji Akpo-Sani– Christophe Casamassima– Ryan Alexander MacDonald– Lee Upton– Bryan Jansing– Benjamin Dancer– Félix Calvino– Sara Richardson– Susan Lewis– Merissa Gerson– Leah Rogin-Roper– Katharyn Grant– Barbara Henning– Kaen Joyler– Bobbie Louise Hawkins– K. Scott Forman– Matt Wise– Laynie Browne– John Holley– Faye Kicknosway– Scott Alexander Jones– Jasper Peslin– Lee Upton– K. Scott Forman– Jayne Anne Phillips– Taegan Harker– Mel Kozakiewicz– Kelly Money– Michael D’Alessandro– Leah Rogin-Roper– Liam McAuliffe– Gina Caciolo– Chris Ridenour– Robert Scotellaro

Martin Arnold: Passage à l'acte (1993)

2009-05-31T20:29:00.001-05:00

Sam

2009-05-14T21:40:00.003-05:00

After loving the work for such a long time I have come across the man himself, or at least a film of the man. He is not much how I had imagined i.e. long and gaunt with a grit of irish brogue and a french lilt. Instead he appears smallish and delicately accented. It's marred my idealization of the artist a little bit. the work still stands of course.

A Little Dear

2009-05-06T19:35:00.003-05:00

From a new video installation I am working on. This is one of 259 videos that will all play on multiple screens in a space with adjusted sound.

Martin Arnold "Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy"

2009-04-29T17:55:00.004-05:00

I fell in love with Arnold's videos in a 'sound for film' class at SAIC oh so long ago.
So I've recently re-discovered his films and greatly admire their compulsive repetition.