Brief Epigrams

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

Wakefield

2009-10-30T07:33:00.000-05:00

Untitled from Ryan MacDonald on Vimeo.

old but perhaps underplayed video

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

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.

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

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

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

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.