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Press http://listserve.exitculture.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/press/ Exit Art Press List en-us Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:12:00 GMT Dada Mail 3.0.0 CORRECTION: Alternative Histories, a history of NYC alternative art spaces since the 1960s, to open Fri. Sep. 24, 7-9pm http://listserve.exitculture.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/press/20100823163347/ <style type="text/css"> .style1 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } .style2 { font-size: 9px } .style3 {font-size: 14px} .red { color: #FF020C; } --> </style> <table width="600" border="0"> <tr> <td width="300"><a href="http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/press/press_coverage.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/pressexit_logo.jpg" alt="Exit Art Press Logo" width="275" height="70" border="0" longdesc="Exit Art Press Logo" /></a></td> <td width="290" align="right"><span class="style1"><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /> August 23, 2010 <br /> FOR MORE INFORMATION: </strong>Lauren Rosati<br /> 212-966-7745 / <a href="mailto:lauren@exitart.org" target="_blank">lauren@exitart.org</a></span></td> </tr> </table> <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"><div align="center" class="style1"> <p><br /> <span class="style3"><strong>Announcing<br/>ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES</strong><br /> </span><em>a history of New York City alternative art spaces since the 1960s</em><br/> </p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/GalleryShow_EA_web.jpg" alt="Exit Art, Gallery Show" width="500" height="599" align="middle" longdesc="Exit Art, Gallery Show" /><br/> <span class="style2">Founders Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman at Exit Art, 578 Broadway, Manhattan, 1986</span><strong><br/> <br/> ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES<br /> September 24 - November 24, 2010<br /> </strong>Opening Friday, September 24, 7-9pm</p> <p align="left">NEW YORK – <em>Alternative Histories</em> is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces – like P.S.1, Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street/White Columns, Creative Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more – as well as document a new generation of alternative projects such as Live With Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra’s, English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus, and others. </p> <p align="left">Over 130 spaces are represented in the show, which elaborates on the significant contributions these organizations made to the cultural fabric of New York City. They gave visibility and inclusion to otherwise excluded artists and ideas. The idealism of the founders, the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in sustaining these histories, against all odds, illustrates the dynamic purposes that propel the artistic scene in New York. “Imagination is an alternative to reality, creating options that never end,” says curator Papo Colo.</p> <p align="left">The exhibition incorporates a broad definition of the term “alternative space,” and includes significant publications and artist collectives to cover a broad arc of this history – bridging neighborhoods, decades and themes. In the development and organization of this exhibition, the curatorial team viewed dozens of archives and personal collections – selecting critical materials from the histories of the spaces and projects – and interviewed founders and early staff members, when possible, to construct a narrative about the alternative space movement in New York and its continuing impact on the city’s cultural and artistic landscape.</p> <p align="left"><strong>FEATURED SPACES / PROJECTS<br/></strong>106 Green<br /> 112 Greene Street / 112 Workshop <br /> 179 Canal<br /> 255 Canal<br /> 98 Greene Street <br /> A Gathering of the Tribes<br /> A.I.R. Gallery<br /> ABC No Rio<br /> Abrons Arts Center<br /> Ad Hoc Art <br /> American Indian Community House<br /> Anthology Film Archives<br /> Apartment Show<br /> Apex Art<br /> Apple<br /> Art in General<br /> Artists Space<br /> Asian American Arts Centre<br /> Art Workers’ Coalition<br/>Avalanche<br /> Bidoun<br /> Black & White Gallery and Project Space<br /> BOMB<br /> BRIC Rotunda Gallery<br /> Bronx Blue Bedroom Project<br /> Bronx River Art Center<br /> Bullet Space<br /> Cabinet <br /> Camel Art Space<br /> Camel Collective<br /> Capricious <br /> Cave<br /> Cinders Gallery<br /> Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum<br /> Cleopatra’s<br /> Colab <br /> Collapsable Hole<br /> Collective for Living Cinema<br /> Creative Time<br /> Cuchifritos<br /> Daily Operation<br /> Dumbo Arts Center <br /> El Museo del Barrio<br /> Electronic Arts Intermix<br /> Elwa Productions<br /> English Kills Art Gallery<br /> Esopus<br /> Eventos<br /> Exit Art<br /> Eyebeam<br /> EyeLevel BQE<br /> Factory Fresh<br/> Fake Estate<br /> Famous Accountants<br /> Fashion Moda<br /> Film-makers’ Cooperative<br/>FiveMyles<br /> Flux Factory<br /> FOOD<br /> Forever & Today<br /> Four Walls<br /> Franklin Furnace<br /> GAle GAtes <br /> Gigantic Artspace <br /> Glowlab<br /> Gran Fury<br /> Group Material<br /> Harvestworks<br /> HKJB<br /> INTAR Latin American Gallery<br /> Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning<br /> Judson Memorial Church<br /> Just Above Midtown <br /> Kenkeleba House<br /> Kentler International Drawing Space<br /> La MaMa <br /> Light Industry<br /> Live With Animals<br /> Local Project<br /> Location One<br /> Longwood Arts Project<br /> Lower East Side Print Shop<br /> Millennium Film Workshop<br /> Minor Injury<br /> Momenta Art<br /> MUSEUM: A Project of Living Artists<br /> New Museum of Contemporary Art<br /> Norte Maar<br /> Not An Alternative<br /> NURTUREart<br/>Nuyorican Poets Café<br /> Orchard<br /> Political Art Documentation / Distribution<br /> Paper<br /> P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center<br /> P.S.122<br /> Parlour<br /> Parlour Projects<br /> PARTICIPANT INC<br /> Pocket Utopia<br /> Printed Matter<br /> Rhizome<br /> SculptureCenter <br /> Secret Project Robot<br/>Sideshow Gallery<br /> Silver Shed<br /> Smack Mellon<br /> Socrates Sculpture Park<br /> Storefront for Art and Architecture<br /> Superfront<br /> Taller Boricua<br /> The Dirty Dirty<br /> The Drawing Center<br /> The Kitchen<br /> The Studio Museum in Harlem<br /> Thread Waxing Space<br /> Triple Candie<br /> Triple Canopy<br /> White Box<br /> White Columns<br /> World War III<br /> X-Initiative</p> <p align="left"><strong>FEATURED INTERVIEWS<br/></strong><strong>Bill Aguado</strong>, Longwood Arts Project<br /> <strong>John Ahearn</strong>, artist<br /> <strong>Jacki Apple</strong>, Apple<br /> <strong>Alyson Baker and Ivana Mestrovic</strong>, Socrates Sculpture Park<br /> <strong>Mike Ballou</strong>, Four Walls<br /> <strong>Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett</strong>, Triple Candie<br /> <strong>Jackie Battenfield</strong>, BRIC Rotunda Gallery<br /> <strong>John Bauch</strong>, MUSEUM: A Project of   Living Artists<br /> <strong>Bill Beckley</strong>, artist <br /> <strong>Steve Cannon</strong>, Gathering of the Tribes<br /> <strong>Rhys Chatham</strong>, The Kitchen<br /> <strong>Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman, </strong>Exit Art<br/><strong>Anita Contini</strong>, Creative Time<br /> <strong>Michael Counts</strong>, GAle GAtes <br /> <strong>Peter Cramer and Jack Waters</strong>, ABC No Rio<br /> <strong>Marcos Dimas</strong>, Taller Boricua<br/> <strong>Stefan Eins</strong>, Fashion Moda<br /> <strong>Elizabeth Ferrer</strong>, BRIC Rotunda Gallery<br /> <strong>Lia Gangitano</strong>, PARTICIPANT INC<br /> <strong>Kathleen Gilrain</strong>, Smack Mellon<br /> <strong>Tina Girouard</strong>, FOOD<br /> <strong>Caroline Goodden</strong>, FOOD<br /> <strong>Joseph Grima</strong>, Storefront for Art and Architecture<br /> <strong>Antoine Guerrero and Christopher Lew</strong>, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center<br /> <strong>Alanna Heiss</strong>, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center<br /> <strong>Matthew Higgs, </strong>White Columns<br /> <strong>Eric Heist</strong>, Momenta Art<br /> <strong>Arthur Hughes</strong>, MUSEUM: A Project of Living Artists<br /> <strong>Ken and Flo Jacobs</strong>, Millennium Film Workshop<br/> <strong>Bob Lee</strong>, Asian American Arts Centre<br /> <strong>Joe Lewis</strong>, Fashion Moda<br /> <strong>Inverna Lockpez</strong>, INTAR Latin American Gallery<br /> <strong>Alan Moore</strong>, Colab <br /> <strong>George Negroponte</strong>, The Drawing Center<br /> <strong>Tim Nye</strong>, Thread Waxing Space<br /> <strong>Dennis Oppenheim</strong>, artist <br /> <strong>Kyong Park</strong>, Storefront for Art and Architecture<br /> <strong>Carol Parkinson</strong>, Harvestworks<br /> <strong>Clayton Patterson</strong>, Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum<br /> <strong>Ann Philbin</strong>, The Drawing Center<br /> <strong>Anne Pundyk and Karen Yama</strong>, artists<br /> <strong>Yvonne Rainer</strong>, artist<br /> <strong>Steven Rand</strong>, Apex Art<br /> <strong>Andrea Reynosa</strong>, Smack Mellon<br /> <strong>Geno Rodriguez</strong>, Alternative Museum<br /> <strong>Irving Sandler</strong>, Artists Space<br /> <strong>MM Serra,</strong> Film-makers’ Cooperative<br /> <strong>Peter Scott</strong>, Carriage Trade<br /> <strong>Allan Schwartzman</strong>, New Museum of Contemporary Art<br /> <strong>Duff Schweninger and Pamela Seymour Smith Sharp</strong>, Franklin Street Arts Center<br /> <strong>Adam Simon</strong>, Four Walls<br /> <strong>Greg Tate</strong>, author and musician<br /> <strong>Jack Walsh</strong>, Collective for Living Cinema<br /> <strong>Teresa Liszka and Martin Weinstein</strong>, Art in General<br /> <strong>Martha Wilson</strong>, Franklin Furnace<br /> <strong>Lori Zippay</strong>, Electronic Arts Intermix</p> <p>Conceived by Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman. </p> <p>Curatorial Team includes Herb Tam, Lauren Rosati, Papo Colo, Jeanette Ingberman and dozens of interns who worked for over two years to research and collect material.</p> <p align="left"><strong>PUBLIC EVENTS<br /> <span class="red">What is Alternative?: Alternative Histories Symposia</span></strong><br/> What Is Alternative? is a symposia held in connection with the exhibition Alternative Histories that is intended to explain, expand, and expound on the history and future of alternative art spaces in New York City.<br/> <br /> <strong>Friday, October 15, 2010 / 7-9pm</strong><br /> <strong>What is Alternative? / What is the Future of the Alternative?</strong></p> <p align="left"><em>Moderator</em>: Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art and former Curator in Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (1990 – 2002)</p> <p align="left">This opening conversation amongst founders / directors of early and emerging alternative art spaces looks at the various definitions of an “alternative” space. Is alternative an accurate and appropriate word to describe its activities? What alternatives do these spaces provide, and for whom are they intended? Participants TBA. </p> <p align="left"><strong>Friday, October 29, 2010 / 7-9pm</strong><br /> <strong>Activism and the Rise of Alternative Art Spaces</strong></p> <p align="left"><em>Moderator: </em>Mary Anne Staniszewski, Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY</p> <p align="left">Investigating the early history of New York alternative spaces, this panel looks at the genesis, culture and legacy of this movement in the context of activism and political agency. Participants TBA.</p> <p align="left">Related Panel Discussion:<br /> <strong>Friday, October 22, 2010 / 6-8pm</strong><br /> <strong>Alternative Curatorial Strategies Today<br/></strong>Organized and hosted by ArtTable at Exit Art</p> <p align="left"><em>Moderator</em>: Erin Donnelly, LMCC</p> <p align="left"><em>Participants</em>: Ingrid Chu and Savannah Gorton, Forever & Today; Allison Weisberg, Recess Activities; Michael Connor, Marian Spore; Regine Basha, Basha Projects/Grackleworld </p> <p align="left"><strong>ABOUT EXIT ART</strong><br /> 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 28 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.</p> <p align="left"><strong>EXHIBITION SUPPORT</strong><br /> This exhibition was generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.</p> <p align="left">General exhibition support provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bloomberg LP; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; Exit Art’s Board of Directors and our members. </p> <p align="left"><img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/dca_logo.gif" width="117" height="54" alt="Department of Cultural Affairs" longdesc="Department of Cultural Affairs" /> <img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/NEA_LogoBlack.jpg" width="87" height="107" alt="National Endowment for the Arts" longdesc="National Endowment for the Arts" /> <img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/nysca_black.gif" width="87" height="108" alt="NYSCA" longdesc="NYSCA" /> </p> <p align="left"><strong>GENERAL INFORMATION</strong><br /> 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. 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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. 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. 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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 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater</a></p> <p align="left">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.</p> <p align="left"><strong>Digitheater</strong> 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. </p> <p align="left">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. <a href="http://www.trickstertheater.org" target="_blank">Trickster Theater’s website</a> contains a repository of select past performance works. Since 2002, Trickster Theater has been innovating online productions such as <em>M Play</em>, a bilingual web series telling the story of three women reflecting on life in the modern metropolis. </p> <p align="left"><strong>Digitheater</strong> 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.</p> <p align="left"><strong>Digitheater</strong> currently encompasses three different projects – <em>Venus Erotica, The Adventures of ZigZag</em> and <em>Change of Skin</em> – and is expected to continue growing. The<em> Venus Erotica </em>series juxtaposes the erotic relationship between words and gestures. <em>The Adventures of ZigZag</em> introduces the viewer to the characters and actors of <em>Zigzag</em> and exists as an independent companion piece to the theatrical production. Videos establish the universe of <em>ZigZag</em>, creating a distinct mythology around the show prior to its live production. <em>Change of Skin</em> and <em>I Want To Be A Painting</em> 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. </p> <p align="left"><strong>Digitheater</strong> 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. <br/><br/> As Papo Colo says, “Every room is the center of the world.”</p> <p align="left">Trickster Theater founded and directed by Papo Colo.<br /><br/> <br/> <strong>CURRENT DIGITHEATER PERFORMERS</strong><br /> 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, <br/> Martina Potratz, Jorge Rubio, Eugene "Mikey" Santiago, David Speer, Laryn Stout, Malin Tybahl</p> <p align="left"><strong>HISTORY</strong><br /> 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 <em>Zygmunt</em> and <em>Stolen Kisses</em> at The Cultural Space in 1992. In 1995 Colo produced <em>Imaginary Beings</em>, combining a theatrical and visual art exhibition about invented characters from Jorge Luis Borges’ text of the same name. In 1996 he produced <em>Resonances</em>, 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 <em>Praying Project, Water Project, Wild Nights, Tropical Area, Cannon Dialogues, Confessions of the Face, Somehow,</em> and <em>Still Life</em> available as DVDs on the <a href="http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exit_m edia/trickster_theater.html" target="_blank">Exit Art</a> and <a href="http://www.trickstertheater.org" target="_blank">Trickster Theater</a> websites.<br /> <br /> 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 <em>Terra Bomba</em> (1997) and <em>Let the Artist Live</em> (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 <em>Let the Artist Live</em>; 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.</p> <p align="center"># # #</p> </div></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>  <form action="http://listserve.exitculture.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <fieldset> <legend> Subscribe/Unsubscribe on Press </legend> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="press" /> <p> <label for="email" style="width: 7em;float: left;text-align: right;margin-right: 0.5em;display: block" > Email Address: </label> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" /> <span class="error">* Required</span> </p> <hr style="border-top: 1px solid black;" /> <p> <label for="f_s" style="width: 7em;float: left;text-align: right;margin-right: 0.5em;display: block"> Subscribe </label> <input type="radio" name="f" id="f_s" value="subscribe" checked="checked" /> </p> <p> <label for="f_u" style="width: 7em;float: left;text-align: right;margin-right: 0.5em;display: block">Unsubscribe</label> <input type="radio" name="f" id="f_u" value="unsubscribe" /> </p> <hr style="border-top: 1px solid black;" /> <p style="text-align:right;display:block"> <input type="submit" value="Submit Your Information" class="processing" /> </p> <p style="font-size:10px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dadamailproject.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:10px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Powered by Dada Mail 3.0.0 Mailing List Manager</a></p> </fieldset> </form>  Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:18:00 GMT http://listserve.exitculture.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/press/20091015171803/ Anya Liftig performs this FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 7pm, as part of Performance in Crisis http://listserve.exitculture.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/press/20091008140622/ <style type="text/css"> .style1 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } a:link { color: #FF0000; } a:visited { color: #666666; } --> </style> <p class="style1">If you are unable to view this image, please click <a href="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/oct9email.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/galindo/index.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/oct9emailTOP.jpg" alt="Anya Liftig performs Friday as part of Performance in Crisis!" width="600" height="1675" border="0" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR62Yi1484&feature=channel_page" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/oct9emailBOTTOM.jpg" alt="Trickster Theater performs this Autumn; check website for schedule" width="600" height="600" border="0" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <p class="style1"> </p> <table width="600" border="0"> <tr> <td bordercolor="0"><span class="style1">Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. 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About five months later, in December 2008, the <em>New York Times</em> 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. </p> <p class="style1">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. <em>The End of Oil</em> 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.</p> <p class="style1"><em>SEA</em> and <em>The End of Oil</em> conceived by Papo Colo.<br /> <em>The End of Oil </em>curated by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>FEATURING PROJECTS BY:</strong><br/> </p> <p class="style1">Khalil Chishtee; Louisa Conrad; Robert Derr; Dominic Gagnon; Ed Kashi; Matt Kenyon; Michael Mandiberg; Andrei Molodkin; Jo Syz</p> <p class="style1"><strong>PUBLIC EVENTS</strong></p> <p class="style1"><strong>WEDNESDAY, JULY 15</strong><br /> 7:30 – 9pm: <strong>SEA Poetry Series, No. 2</strong><br /> Following the inaugural reading of this series, which brought Maine-based poet Jonathan Skinner to Exit Art, poet <strong>Marcella Durand</strong> will read a selection of her poems and discuss her work in relation to <em>The End of Oil</em>. <br/>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.</p> <p class="style1">Marcella Durand’s recent books are <em>Traffic & Weather</em> (Futurepoem, 2008), <em>AREA</em> (Belladonna, 2008), and <em>The Anatomy of Oil </em>(Belladonna, 2005). Other books include <em>Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports</em>, and <em>Lapsus Linguae</em>. Her poems and essays have appeared in <em>Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, Chain, The Poker, Verse, NYFA Current</em>, 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 <em>Anomaly, How(2)</em>, and <em>Ecopoetics</em>. Currently, she is translating Michèle Métail’s <em>Les horizons du sol / Earth’s Horizons</em>, a history of the geological formation of Marseille written within a Oulipian for mal constraint; a section of her translation appeared last year in <em>The Nation. </em></p> <p class="style1"><strong><em>THE END OF OIL</em> SCREENING SERIES</strong><br /> <em>The End of Oil</em> 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.</p> <p class="style1">All films will be screened in our Exit Underground Digital Theater on Saturdays at 4pm. <br /> <strong>$5 Suggested Donation.</strong><br /> </p> <p class="style1"><em>The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project</em><br /> (June 20 and 27)</p> <p class="style1"><em>A Crude Awakening</em><br /> (July 11 and 18)</p> <p class="style1"><em>The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil</em><br /> (July 25)<br /> </p> <p class="style1"><strong>SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics)</strong><br /> <em>SEA</em> is a unique endeavor that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. <em>SEA</em> 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. <em>SEA</em> 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 <em>SEA</em> archive will be a permanent archive of information, images and videos that will be a continuous source for upcoming exhibitions and projects. Central to <em>SEA</em>’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. <em>SEA</em> functions as an initiative where individuals can join together in dialogue about issues that affect our daily lives.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>CONCEPTPLUS</strong><br /> 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. </p> <p class="style1">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 (<em>Exit Biennial: Reconstruction</em>, 2003) to the image of America's highest office (<em>The Presidency</em>, 2004), to contemporary Latino icons (<em>L-Factor</em>, 2005) to neuroscience innovations (<em >BrainWave: Common Senses</em>, 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.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>ABOUT EXIT ART</strong><br /> 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.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>EXHIBITION SUPPORT</strong><br /> 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.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>GENERAL INFORMATION</strong><br /> 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. 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Négritude 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.</p> <p class="style1"><em><strong>Négritude</strong></em> 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 Négritude by presenting an exhibition of visual art; film screenings; music; performances; and/or public activities that detail their own experience, interest, or study of Négritude.</p> <p class="style1">Négritude 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 Négritude would eventually eclipse them. Under the influence of Césaire, the Guianan Léon Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, the future president of Senegal, Négritude became a global movement, ultimately becoming radicalized and re-envisioned as a strict rejection of the domination of “the West”. </p> <p class="style1">Showcasing several generations of African-American, Caribbean, South American and African artists, performers and writers, <em><strong>Négritude</strong></em> features work that examines the history, impact, and transmutations of this cultural movement. It looks beyond the historical Négritude 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.</p> <p class="style1">Through a series of mini-exhibitions, film screenings, performances, readings, stories and discussions, Exit Art will examine the historical effects and contemporary impact of Négritude by exploring its archipelago, island by island.</p> <p class="style1">Conceived by Papo Colo. Produced by Papo Colo, Tânia Cypriano, Rose Réjouis, Franklin Sirmans, and Greg Tate.<br/> <strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="style1"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS</strong><br /> 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 Négritude icons such as Malcolm X, Pelé 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.</p> <p class="style1">Tânia 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 Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion – among other works.</p> <p class="style1">Rose Réjouis argues that Négritude, as Aimé Césaire 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, Césaire recycled negative stereotypes of black people while recovering new ground for self-affirmation. Réjouis 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.</p> <p class="style1">Greg Tate presents a three-room “Black Mystery Anti-Panopticon,” envisioning Négritude 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 <em>Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, Vols. 1 and 2</em>, will create a “conjuration room where willing spirits can come to get toasted, roasted, and lit the fuck up.”<br /> </p> <p class="style1"><strong>ABOUT THE CURATORS<br /> Papo Colo</strong> 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.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>Tânia Cypriano</strong> 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 São Paulo, as well as the Grazer Kunstverein in Austria. In 2009 she is launching docsBRAZIL, a distribution project for Brazilian documentaries in the US.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>Franklin Sirmans</strong> 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. </p> <p class="style1"><strong>Greg Tate</strong>, 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.</p> <p class="style1"><strong>Rose Myriam Réjouis</strong> 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 Galantière Prize for Best Book. She recently translated Veillées pour les Mots, a selection of critical essays on Aimé Césaire, Patrick Chamoiseau and Maryse Condé.<br/><br/> </p> <p class="style1"><strong>PUBLIC EVENTS</strong><br /> JUNE 18, 2009<br /> <strong>Négritude Party<br /> More details TBA.</strong><br /> with Baye Kouyaté et Les Tougarakes, Dallam-Dougou, an Afro-beat DJ, African food vendors, and open bar </p> <p class="style1"><strong>Baye Kouyaté</strong>, a Malinese griot, praise singer and wandering musician, will perform on the tama (“talking drum”) backed by his band,<strong> Les Tougarakes</strong>. </p> <p class="style1"><strong>Dallam-Dougou</strong>, 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). </p> <p class="style1">DATE TBA<br /> <strong>Saul Williams</strong>, respected poet, performer, musician and actor, will read several works by Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, a founder of the Négritude movement, and perform a selection of his own poems. Williams, known for his leading role in the acclaimed film <em>Slam</em>, has published four books of poetry, released four albums, and performed at hundreds of concert venues, universities, poetry clubs and museums. His newest album, <em>The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!</em>, was released in 2007 to critical acclaim. For more information, visit http://saulwilliams.com.</p> <p class="style1">WEEKLY SCREENING SERIES<br /> Curated by Tânia Cypriano<br /> Every Friday at 6pm<br/><br /> <strong>May 22<br /> ATLANTICO NEGRO: Na Rota dos Orixás (Black Atlantic: On the Orixás Route)</strong><br /> (Renato Barbieri, 1998, 54:00 minutes)</p> <p class="style1"><strong>EGUNGUN</strong> (Carlos Brajsblat, 1985, 60:00 minutes) </p> <p class="style1"><strong>May 29<br /> ABOLIÇÃO (Abolition)</strong> (Sozimo Bulbul, 1988, 150:00 minutes)<br/><br /> <strong>June 5<br /> QUILOMBO, DO CAMPO GRANDE AOS MARTINS</strong> (Flavio Frederico, 2007, 49:00 minutes)</p> <p class="style1"><strong>A TERRA E O TEMPO - VOZES DO QUILOMBO (The Earth and the Time - Voices from the Quilombo)</strong> <br/>(Sergio Brito, 2006, 52:00 minutes) <br/><br /> <strong>June 12<br /> ORI</strong> (Raquel Gerber, 1989, 90:00 minutes)</p> <p class="style1"><strong>CIDADE DAS MULHERES (City of Women)</strong> (Lazaro Faria, 2002, 72:00 minutes) </p> <p class="style1"><strong>June 19<br/> ORIXAS DA BAHIA </strong>(Lazaro Faria, 2005, 40:00 minutes) </p> <p class="style1"><strong>ODÔ YÁ! LIFE WITH AIDS</strong> (Tânia Cypriano, 1997, 58:00 minutes)</p> <p class="style1"><strong>June 26<br/> BIMBA, THE ENLIGHTENED CAPOEIRA</strong> (Luiz Fernando Goulart, 2007, 78:00 minutes)<br/><br /> <strong>July 3<br /> WILSON SIMONAL – You Don’t Know How Tough It Was</strong> <br/>(Claudio Manoel, Micael Langer and Calvito Leal, 2007, 84:00 minutes)<br/><br /> <strong>July 10<br /> ENCONTRO COM MILTON SANTOS</strong> (An Encounter with Milton Santos) (Silvio Tendler, 2007, 89:00 minutes)<br/><br /> <strong>July 17<br /> L.A.P.A. </strong>(Emilio Domingos and Cavi Borges, 2007, 75:00 minutes)</p> <p class="style1"><strong>INSURREIÇÃO RÍTMICA </strong>(Benjamin Watkins, 2008, 65:00 minutes)</p> <p class="style1"><strong>July 25<br /> A NEGAÇAO DO BRASIL (Denying Brazil) </strong>(Joel Zito Araújo, 2000, 92:00)</p> <p class="style1">For more information on the films listed above, please visit www.exitart.org.<br/><br/><br /> <strong>ABOUT EXIT ART</strong><br /> 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.<br/><br/></p> <p class="style1"><strong>EXHIBITION SUPPORT</strong><br /> 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.</p> <p class="style1"><img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/NEA_Logo.jpg" alt="NEA" width="62" height="102" /> <img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/nysca_black.gif" width="81" height="100" /> <img src="http://www.exitart.org/emailers/humanities.gif" alt="NY Council for the Humanities" width="237" height="13" /></p> <p class="style1"><strong><br/>GENERAL INFORMATION</strong><br /> 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. 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