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GLOBAL / NATIONAL - The Order of Chaos opens Saturday, March 13, 7-10pm

2010-02-22T14:39:42Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 22, 2010
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Lauren Rosati
212-966-7745 x 15 / lauren@exitart.org

Jade Townsend, Born Between Piss and Shit, 2007, Courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art

GLOBAL / NATIONAL
The Order of Chaos

March 13 � May 1, 2010
Opening Saturday, March 13, 7-10pm

Artists: John Ahearn, Tina Barney, Jimmie Durham, Nicky Enright, Rico Gatson, Kate Gilmore, Guerra de la Paz, Charles Juhasz-Alvarado, Saeri Kiritani, Tseng Kwong Chi, Robin Lasser, Rebecca Loyche, Miguel Luciano, Jonathan Matas, Mary Mattingly, Eve Mosher, Chris Sollars, Jade Townsend, Jason Villegas, Bernard Williams, Martin Wong, O Zhang

NEW YORK � GLOBAL / NATIONAL - The Order of Chaos is an exhibition that �addresses the anxieties of economics, environmental tragedies, and societies of control that define the chaos of globalization. It explores these social issues in an aesthetic way to demystify the notion of art only as an ornamental production. This vision includes images from abstraction to figuration, from direct messages to esoteric thoughts,� explains Co-Founder/Artistic Director Papo Colo. The exhibition investigates how local artists from a variety of backgrounds are placed in relation to the rest of the world. Seen through a global lens, this exhibition explores the multiple cultures that populate our general culture and how the local and national are inextricably linked to the global.

This exhibition examines the tensions of uncontrollable forces that are dislocating our society to redefine a new civilization. The artworks reflect how the national contains global concerns, searching inside our culture to project our global position. This exhibition tells the story of those concerns and new ways in which we can order the chaos.

Click HERE to see the poster for GLOBAL / NATIONAL - The Order of Chaos.

Click HERE to read an essay on the exhibition by Exit Art Co-Founder/Artistic Director Papo Colo.

Conceived by Papo Colo. Curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo.

from left: Guerra de la Paz, Ring Around the Rosy, Courtesy of the artists and Richard Harris; O Zhang, Salute to the Patriot, 2008, Courtesy of the artist and CRG Gallery

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and artist Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

Saeri Kiritani, Golden Basketball, Courtesy of the artist

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
General exhibition support provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bloomberg LP; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation, a project of the Tides Center; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; Exit Art�s Board of Directors and our members.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street.
Hours: Tues. � Thurs., 10am � 6pm; Fri., 10am � 8pm; and Sat., noon � 8pm. Closed Sun. and Mon. There is a suggested donation of $5.

OPEN LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY UNTIL 8PM

For more information please call 212-966-7745 or visit www.exitart.org.

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Exit Art launches 2009 Print Portfolio at the E/AB Fair / THREE Performance in Crisis events this week!

2009-11-05T16:34:25Z

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Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25-year-old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo. It has grown from a pioneering alternative art space into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changi ng.

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Exit Art / Trickster Theater launch channel on YouTube for web theater!

2009-10-15T17:18:03Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2009
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jeanette Ingberman
212-966-7745 x 11 / jeanette@exitart.org

A NEW CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE FOR THEATER

Papo Colo/Trickster Theater create the Trickster Theater channel on YouTube to present theater produced exclusively for the web

Written and Directed by Papo Colo

Log on to
http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater

NEW YORK � Trickster Theater, a New York-based theater company, announces the launch of Digitheater, a project dedicated to presenting and producing theatrical works exclusively for the web. Digitheater is theater not for a live audience, but for an international Internet community, using YouTube as a medium to create original theater. Trickster Theater on YouTube has already produced approximately ninety short dramatic segments, or cantos, each running approximately one to five minutes. New cantos can be accessed through the Trickster Theater channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater

In this online format, the camera focuses tightly on the actors� face � their essential expressive tool � to give the actor immediacy as they interpret, often bilingually, the director�s narratives. Rather than using the web as a site solely for documentation, these online theater performances investigate the nature of the computer frame as a theatrical proscenium. This new approach rewrites formal conventions and, because of the accessibility of the Internet, creates a new cross-cultural platform for actors.

Digitheater uses a diverse cast of actors from around the world, each one bringing a unique cultural perspective and collectively representing the many voices of the modern city. The multi-lingual texts of the Trickster Theater incorporate Urdu, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Swedish, Greek and Japanese, among other languages. The actors explore the words as sounds and reference an internal Trickster notation system, which cues gesture and intonation. The inflection of the actor�s speech, the musicality of foreign accents, and the immersion into the sounds of other languages explore the rich possibilities of what can be heard when many different cultural bodies are brought together.

Since its inception, one of the most important aspects of the Trickster Theater is its role as a multilingual and multinational theater, creating a theater as global as its audience. The Trickster Theater has a history of bilingual productions, tackling the issue of translation in dramatic arts and reflecting the multi-lingual community of the Americas. Trickster Theater�s website contains a repository of select past performance works. Since 2002, Trickster Theater has been innovating online productions such as M Play, a bilingual web series telling the story of three women reflecting on life in the modern metropolis.

Digitheater videos utilize intimate compositions and a striking minimal aesthetic in order to evoke a wide variety of moods in the viewer. All texts will ultimately become part of live performance works, recombined each night in a different order, creating different meanings and contexts for ever-changing plays.

Digitheater currently encompasses three different projects � Venus Erotica, The Adventures of ZigZag and Change of Skin � and is expected to continue growing. The Venus Erotica series juxtaposes the erotic relationship between words and gestures. The Adventures of ZigZag introduces the viewer to the characters and actors of Zigzag and exists as an independent companion piece to the theatrical production. Videos establish the universe of ZigZag, creating a distinct mythology around the show prior to its live production. Change of Skin and I Want To Be A Painting will be the first of Trickster Theater�s live performances beginning in Winter 2010 and will explore the differences of race, gender, and language. These videos feature a diverse range of actors and languages spanning different cultures and continents.

Digitheater is an ongoing project. New series will be added over time, creating a diverse theater experience viewable from home on the internet. This virtual theater exists solely online, as theater produced for the individual, creating a web presence.

As Papo Colo says, �Every room is the center of the world.�

Trickster Theater founded and directed by Papo Colo.

CURRENT DIGITHEATER PERFORMERS
Carmel Amit, Rena Anakwe, Zoe Anastassiou, Mia Anderson, Amanda Broomel, Oni Brown, Jenn Dees, Pascal Escriout, Aizzah Fatima, Ellie Foumbi, Manuel Fihman, Rebecca Hirota, Barbara Klaaysen, Arooj Majid, Ashley Martinsen, Ampora McLean, Miriam Mintz, Soleil Nikki, Saoko Okano, Belen Oyola-Rebez,
Martina Potratz, Jorge Rubio, Eugene "Mikey" Santiago, David Speer, Laryn Stout, Malin Tybahl

HISTORY
Trickster Theater was founded in 1998 by Papo Colo. An artist who has always worked in multiple mediums, Colo has been involved in theater since 1991 when he founded the First World Theater which presented Zygmunt and Stolen Kisses at The Cultural Space in 1992. In 1995 Colo produced Imaginary Beings, combining a theatrical and visual art exhibition about invented characters from Jorge Luis Borges� text of the same name. In 1996 he produced Resonances, a play of simultaneous texts and overlapping narratives that took place on two stages concurrently and could be viewed from different perspectives. Since moving to its current location in Hell�s Kitchen, the Trickster Theater has produced a diverse range of shows such as Praying Project, Water Project, Wild Nights, Tropical Area, Cannon Dialogues, Confessions of the Face, Somehow, and Still Life available as DVDs on the Exit Art and Trickster Theater websites.

Since 1984, Colo has been the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Exit Art, a multi-disciplinary cultural space located in Hell�s Kitchen. At Exit Art he integrated performance and theater with the visual arts in projects such as Terra Bomba (1997) and Let the Artist Live (1995). The theater, performance and visual arts awards he has received are: Franklin Furnace Fund Award for Performance Art (1987); Guggenheim Award in Painting (1991), Bessie Award (1995) for his innovative conception of the Exit Art project Let the Artist Live; an Individual Artist Grant in Theater from the New York State Council on the Arts (2001); awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in the Visual Arts (1981, 1983); and a New York Foundation for the Arts award in Painting (1991), among others.

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Anya Liftig performs this FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 7pm, as part of Performance in Crisis

2009-10-08T14:06:22Z

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N�gritude Dialogues tomorrow, July 21 -- SAUL WILLIAMS / Burnt Sugar / Last Minute Trio this Thur. July 23! / Last week for N�gritude and Film Festivals

2009-07-20T17:51:33Z

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THE END OF OIL opens next Saturday, June 13, 6-8pm at Exit Art!

2009-06-04T13:21:52Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 4, 2009
Press Contact: Lauren Rosati
212-966-7745, ex. 15 / lauren@exitart.org

Exit Art announces The End of Oil, the second SEA exhibition of 2009

Louisa Conrad, Video stills from �Niglintgak Gas Conditioning Facility, Beaufort Sea and Bird Decoys: Syncrude Processing Plant Tailing Ponds, Fort McMurray, Alberta

THE END OF OIL
June 13 � July 31, 2009
Opening: Saturday, June 13, 6-8pm
Exit Underground

NEW YORK � A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), The End of Oil is an exhibition of photography, prints, videos, installations and new media that addresses human dependence on oil and other fossil fuels; the ramifications that this dependency has on the future of the environment and of global geopolitics; and the recent push towards viable alternative energy resources.

In July 2008, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC) announced that the price per barrel of oil had climbed above $130. About five months later, in December 2008, the New York Times reported that oil had fallen below $40 a barrel, less than a third of the July 2008 price. In the first six months of 2009, oil prices seem to have steadied around $55 a barrel. These fluctuating oil prices are evidence of the instability of global oil markets and reminders of our urgent need to develop alternative fuels and forms of energy.

The works in this exhibition draw attention to and investigate the violent conflicts (such as in Nigeria, Burma and Sudan) and negative environmental effects that result from mining and drilling; the politicization of the oil industry; carbon-footprinting; and renewable energy options, such as vegetable and electric-powered cars, geothermal energy, and solar power. The End of Oil does not prophesize a dystopian future, but looks critically at the way in which we use and generate energy, encouraging a dialogue on this issue for the benefit of future generations.

SEA and The End of Oil conceived by Papo Colo.
The End of Oil curated by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati.

FEATURING PROJECTS BY:

Khalil Chishtee; Louisa Conrad; Robert Derr; Dominic Gagnon; Ed Kashi; Matt Kenyon; Michael Mandiberg; Andrei Molodkin; Jo Syz

PUBLIC EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
7:30 � 9pm: SEA Poetry Series, No. 2
Following the inaugural reading of this series, which brought Maine-based poet Jonathan Skinner to Exit Art, poet Marcella Durand will read a selection of her poems and discuss her work in relation to The End of Oil.
Q & A and reception to follow. Conceived and organized by E.J. McAdams, poet and Associate Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy, New York City. Free. Cash bar.

Marcella Durand�s recent books are Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem, 2008), AREA (Belladonna, 2008), and The Anatomy of Oil (Belladonna, 2005). Other books include Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, Chain, The Poker, Verse, NYFA Current, and other journals. She has given talks on the intersections of poetry and ecology at Kelly Writers House, Small Press Traffic, Dactyl Foundation, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and other venues. Excerpts from her ongoing collaboration with Tina Darragh, based on environmental science, Deep Ecology and Francis Ponge, have appeared in Anomaly, How(2), and Ecopoetics. Currently, she is translating Mich�le M�tail�s Les horizons du sol / Earth�s Horizons, a history of the geological formation of Marseille written within a Oulipian for mal constraint; a section of her translation appeared last year in The Nation.

THE END OF OIL SCREENING SERIES
The End of Oil Screening Series consists of films that explore topics such as peak oil; the impact of coal mining and oil drilling; dwindling oil resources; and the effect of this environmental crisis on the economy. For more information, please visit on www.exitart.org.

All films will be screened in our Exit Underground Digital Theater on Saturdays at 4pm.
$5 Suggested Donation.

The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project
(June 20 and 27)

A Crude Awakening
(July 11 and 18)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
(July 25)

SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics)
SEA is a unique endeavor that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. SEA will assemble artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address environmental issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series that will communicate international activities concerning environmental and social activism. SEA will occupy a permanent space in Exit Underground, a 3000 square-foot, multi-media performance, film and exhibition venue underneath Exit Art�s main gallery space. The SEA archive will be a permanent archive of information, images and videos that will be a continuous source for upcoming exhibitions and projects. Central to SEA�s mission is to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of socially- and environmentally-engaged work, and to provide a forum for collaboration between artist s, scientists, activists, scholars and the public. SEA functions as an initiative where individuals can join together in dialogue about issues that affect our daily lives.

CONCEPTPLUS
Exit Art currently works with a curatorial model called ConceptPlus, which begins with a theme or concept that is then publicized through a call for proposals.

For each ConceptPlus idea, the curators first chose a group of artists that form the base of the exhibition. Then Exit Art issues an international call for artists to propose new or newly-contextualized work in response to a given theme or cultural condition. The exhibition is then curated by Exit Art�s curatorial staff, who view all the proposals for new work and work samples submitted by artists and select projects to be presented and/or commissioned for the exhibition. Every artist who submits a proposal has equal access to the curators, regardless of their previous experience, making ConceptPlus a highly democratic curatorial model. Recent ConceptPlus exhibitions at Exit Art have addressed ideas ranging from the reconstruction of global cities (Exit Biennial: Reconstruction, 2003) to the image of America's highest office (The Presidency, 2004), to contemporary Latino icons (L-Factor, 2005) to neuroscience innovations (BrainWave: Common Senses, 2008). A fundamental precept of the ConceptPlus model is to remove barriers to cultural participation by creating exhibition opportunities limited only by the artistic idea itself. As we have implemented this model over the past five years, Exit Art has seen a dramatic rise in both the number and geographic diversity of artists submitting proposals in response to our open calls. ConceptPlus also enables us to directly support the production of new work, as an increasing proportion of artists propose new projects that are commissioned exclusively for Exit Art exhibitions.

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
This exhibition is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg LP, Carnegie Corporation, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, O'Grady Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Public Funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation, Exit Art�s Board of Directors and our members.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Hours: Tues. � Thurs., 10am � 6pm; Fri., 10am � 8pm; and Sat., noon � 8pm. Closed Sun. and Mon. There is a suggested donation of $5. For more information please call 212-966-7745 or visit www.exitart.org.

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N�gritude opens TONIGHT at Exit Art, 7pm / Brazilian Film Festival begins Friday!

2009-05-20T14:34:35Z

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Announcing N�gritude, opening Wednesday, May 20, 7-10pm

2009-04-24T17:06:24Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 24, 2009
PRESS CONTACT: Lauren Rosati
212-966-7745 x 15 / lauren@exitart.org

Papo Colo, N�gritude Flag

N�gritude
May 20 � July 25, 2009
Opening: Wednesday May 20, 7-10pm

NEW YORK � N�gritude, an experimental multi-disciplinary exhibition at Exit Art, explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name � coined by the Martinican poet, playwright, and politician Aim� C�saire in the 1930s � which flourished among Black intellectuals in post-World War I Paris and later spread to Africa, the United States and the Caribbean.

This exhibition seeks to define N�gritude as an �archipelago�, with many �islands�, or perspectives. N�gritude is an idea that developed in distinct ways in different countries due, in part, to language, culture, and the political climate. Exit Art � to reflect this diversity and to offer varying perspectives � invited four other individuals to organize this project in collaboration.

N�gritude includes different �islands� created and produced by five individuals who are curators, cultural critics, scholars, filmmakers and artists, representing African-American, African, Caribbean and South American cultures. Over the course of several months, these individuals met to share their ideas and develop their �islands.� Each person was asked to curate their �island� of N�gritude by presenting an exhibition of visual art; film screenings; music; performances; and/or public activities that detail their own experience, interest, or study of N�gritude.

N�gritude was a celebration of shared black heritage and an affirmation and valorization of pan-African identity and was a direct response to the effects of the African slave trade, French colonization of West Africa, and the New World plantation system. The beginnings of the Afro-Caribbean movement can be traced to literary movements in Puerto Rico and Cuba through the writing of Puerto Rican poet Luis Pales Matos, whose poem �Black Town� was published in 1927, and the Cuban Nicolas Guillen, although Cesaire's version of N�gritude would eventually eclipse them. Under the influence of C�saire, the Guianan L�on Damas, and L�opold S�dar Senghor, the future president of Senegal, N�gritude became a global movement, ultimately becoming radicalized and re-envisioned as a strict rejection of the domination of �the West�.

Showcasing several generations of African-American, Caribbean, South American and African artists, performers and writers, N�gritude features work that examines the history, impact, and transmutations of this cultural movement. It looks beyond the historical N�gritude movement to investigate also the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism in the 1920s and 30s and contemporary responses to the concept of �blackness, highlighting the post-Civil Rights generation of black artists who have new perspectives on racial identity and politics.

Through a series of mini-exhibitions, film screenings, performances, readings, stories and discussions, Exit Art will examine the historical effects and contemporary impact of N�gritude by exploring its archipelago, island by island.

Conceived by Papo Colo. Produced by Papo Colo, T�nia Cypriano, Rose R�jouis, Franklin Sirmans, and Greg Tate.

HIGHLIGHTS
Papo Colo�s �island� uses live cotton and sugar plants to reference two of the earliest slave-grown commodities in the Americas, and will involve the participation of students in the process of creating his installation. Stacks of paper, printed with the images of N�gritude icons such as Malcolm X, Pel� and President Barack Obama, will be included on the �island.� In partnership with New York area schools, students will be invited to choose their �favorite� icon and fold his or her image into a paper airplane or boat that will be placed in the installation with the artist�s intervention.

T�nia Cypriano explores Afro-Brazilian culture through a ten-week screening series that touches on topics from capoeira to samba, Quilombos to religion, racism in soap operas to the globalization theories of philosopher Milton Santos. Her exhibition features works by renowned photographer Mario Cravo Neto � a resident of Bahia, Brazil and a follower of Candombl�, an Afro-Brazilian religion � among other works.

Rose R�jouis argues that N�gritude, as Aim� C�saire envisioned it, was a form of �dark play� (to use a term by Richard Schechner). Relying on the safety net of literary French, the language in which he wrote his poetry, C�saire recycled negative stereotypes of black people while recovering new ground for self-affirmation. R�jouis explores this notion through her exhibition, which includes artists Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Haitian-American artist Vladimir Cybil Charlier-Juste, and performances by African-Hungarian music group Dallam-Dougou and poet Saul Williams.

Greg Tate presents a three-room �Black Mystery Anti-Panopticon,� envisioning N�gritude as a �place� for mystery and funk, music and soul. A DJ shrine, created by Tate and the artists Xaviera Simmons and Arthur Jafa, will provide a site for weekly performances; a raised stage outfitted with a drum kit, microphones, and amps will be used for occasional live music; and an exhibition of visionary black artists � including Thornton Dial, Jr., Thornton Dial, Sr., and Lonnie Holley � coupled with laminated pages from the books Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, Vols. 1 and 2, will create a �conjuration room where willing spirits can come to get toasted, roasted, and lit the fuck up.�

ABOUT THE CURATORS
Papo Colo is a poet who uses concepts to produce art and an artist that chooses any medium, depending on its purpose. As Exit Art�s Co-Founder and Cultural Producer, he has curated more than 100 visual art, performance, theater, film and video projects at Exit Art.

T�nia Cypriano has been working between the United States and her native Brazil for nearly twenty years. Her films have won international awards including Best Documentary at festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Brazil and Burkina Faso. Recently she served as Line Producer on Lady by the Sea, a one-hour documentary about the Statue of Liberty, written and directed by Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones. She has also worked as a film curator for MoMA, the Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Image and Sound in S�o Paulo, as well as the Grazer Kunstverein in Austria. In 2009 she is launching docsBRAZIL, a distribution project for Brazilian documentaries in the US.

Franklin Sirmans is the curator of contemporary art at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. A former U.S. Editor of Flash Art and Editor-in-Chief of Art AsiaPacific magazines, Sirmans has written for several journals and newspapers on art and culture, including The New York Times, Newsweek International, Art in America, ArtNews, Grand Street and Essence Magazine. He is also an internationally recognized independent curator, editor and lecturer with specialized knowledge of contemporary African-American art.

Greg Tate, a cultural critic, journalist and author, has written extensively on racial identity in America and contemporary African-American culture. A longtime contributor to the Village Voice, he is currently writing a biography of James Brown.

Rose Myriam R�jouis is a scholar in French and Francophone literature and an Assistant Professor of Literature at The New School. Her 1997 translation of a novel by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau won the American Translation Association Lewis Galanti�re Prize for Best Book. She recently translated Veill�es pour les Mots, a selection of critical essays on Aim� C�saire, Patrick Chamoiseau and Maryse Cond�.

PUBLIC EVENTS
JUNE 18, 2009
N�gritude Party
More details TBA.
with Baye Kouyat� et Les Tougarakes, Dallam-Dougou, an Afro-beat DJ, African food vendors, and open bar

Baye Kouyat�, a Malinese griot, praise singer and wandering musician, will perform on the tama (�talking drum�) backed by his band, Les Tougarakes.

Dallam-Dougou, a band that combines West African melodies with Hungarian gypsy rhythms will also perform. The band is composed of Raul Rothblatt (composition, cello, African fiddle, bass); Abou Sylla (balafon); Tzafrir Lichtenshtein (drums); Kalman "Ocsi" Magyar (fiddle); Avram Fefer (clarinet, saxophone); Sylvain Leroux (flutes); Abdoulaye Dioubate (guest vocals).

DATE TBA
Saul Williams, respected poet, performer, musician and actor, will read several works by Martinican poet Aim� C�saire, a founder of the N�gritude movement, and perform a selection of his own poems. Williams, known for his leading role in the acclaimed film Slam, has published four books of poetry, released four albums, and performed at hundreds of concert venues, universities, poetry clubs and museums. His newest album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, was released in 2007 to critical acclaim. For more information, visit http://saulwilliams.com.

WEEKLY SCREENING SERIES
Curated by T�nia Cypriano
Every Friday at 6pm

May 22
ATLANTICO NEGRO: Na Rota dos Orix�s (Black Atlantic: On the Orix�s Route)
(Renato Barbieri, 1998, 54:00 minutes)

EGUNGUN (Carlos Brajsblat, 1985, 60:00 minutes)

May 29
ABOLI��O (Abolition) (Sozimo Bulbul, 1988, 150:00 minutes)

June 5
QUILOMBO, DO CAMPO GRANDE AOS MARTINS (Flavio Frederico, 2007, 49:00 minutes)

A TERRA E O TEMPO - VOZES DO QUILOMBO (The Earth and the Time - Voices from the Quilombo)
(Sergio Brito, 2006, 52:00 minutes)

June 12
ORI (Raquel Gerber, 1989, 90:00 minutes)

CIDADE DAS MULHERES (City of Women) (Lazaro Faria, 2002, 72:00 minutes)

June 19
ORIXAS DA BAHIA (Lazaro Faria, 2005, 40:00 minutes)

OD� Y�! LIFE WITH AIDS (T�nia Cypriano, 1997, 58:00 minutes)

June 26
BIMBA, THE ENLIGHTENED CAPOEIRA (Luiz Fernando Goulart, 2007, 78:00 minutes)

July 3
WILSON SIMONAL � You Don�t Know How Tough It Was
(Claudio Manoel, Micael Langer and Calvito Leal, 2007, 84:00 minutes)

July 10
ENCONTRO COM MILTON SANTOS (An Encounter with Milton Santos) (Silvio Tendler, 2007, 89:00 minutes)

July 17
L.A.P.A. (Emilio Domingos and Cavi Borges, 2007, 75:00 minutes)

INSURREI��O R�TMICA (Benjamin Watkins, 2008, 65:00 minutes)

July 25
A NEGA�AO DO BRASIL (Denying Brazil) (Joel Zito Ara�jo, 2000, 92:00)

For more information on the films listed above, please visit www.exitart.org.

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
This exhibition is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Museum program at the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York Council for the Humanities. General exhibition support is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg LP, Carnegie Corporation, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs & City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation, Exit Art�s Board of Directors and our members.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Hours at Exit Art are Tuesday � Thursday, 10am � 6pm; Friday, 10am � 8pm; and Saturday, noon � 8pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5.

For more information please call 212-966-7745 or visit www.exitart.org.

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4 FREE Events this week for Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) and Vertical Gardens!

2009-04-15T18:10:13Z

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SPEAKEASY 2009: Exit Art's Benefit Auction
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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Announcing 3 travelling exhibitions produced by Exit Art!

2009-04-04T16:18:01Z

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SPEAKEASY 2009: Exit Art's Benefit Auction
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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Tomorrow and Friday: FREE public events for Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)!

2009-03-04T16:40:28Z

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