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LIVE NYC performance art events THIS WEEK (+ MORE)

1/28/2016

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Lisa Levy in performance at Christopher Stout Gallery this weekend, January 30-31st.

We'll keep the small talk to a minimum this week so you can absorb, memorize and commit to viewing these incredible performances in NYC this weekend. Hope to see you around! - Quinn

Thursday, January 28th

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LIVE PERFORMANCES
Trauma salon : disorder & detachment
Panoply Performance Lab
104 Meserole St, Brooklyn, New York 11206
Suggested donation $5-20
8pm
Curated by Valerie Kuehne/The Super Coda: nostalgia is life-threatening. mercury retrograde is a real thing. how much more can you tolerate? how many systems have you recycled in your life?everything is necessary. more will be revealed. everyone's in love. everybody's terrified. we are a collective book; writing & editing each other, always. in such a way, we endlessly sustain.
Artists > Jon Konkol // Jeanann Dara // Karl Cooney // Thomas Bell // Valerie Kuehne & the Wasps Nests
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LIVE PERFORMANCE and Exhibition Opening
Katya Grokhovsky, Touch It
SOHO20 Gallery
56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, New York 11206
7:30pm
The evolving installation Pleasure Principle, by Katya Grokhovsky, currently on view in +/- Project Space will culminate in an interactive public performance, in which the audience is given permission to touch, hold and caress the objects from the installation, transcending boundaries between the art and the observer. Through the act of permission, Grokhovsky will share the maker's privilege of accessing the work physically, as well as the experience of pleasure in making it, juxtaposing the visual pleasure of viewing versus physical experience of performative actions. Live Performance Response: Christen Clifford

Saturday, January 30th

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LIVE PERFORMANCE
Lisa Levy, The Artist Is Humbly Present, a 2-day durational performance
Christopher Stout Gallery, New York
299 Meserole Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11206
1-6pm (January 30-31st)
Referencing Marina Abramović's seminal 2010 performance at Moma, "The Artist is Present" as a symbol of contemporary art world pretense, Levy will recreate her own version of Marina Abramović's 2010 performance at Moma, "The Artist is Present" as her own "The Artist Is Humbly Present."

In her version, Levy will present herself completely naked, silent and sitting on a toilet. Across from her will be another toilet, which visitors may sit on across from her as in the original Abramović performance. That toilet will be presented lid closed with visitors responding to Lisa's performance however they wish, with the exception of touching her.
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LIVE PERFORMANCE
Incessant by Mirland Terlonge
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St, Brooklyn, New York 11232
2pm
Incessant… is an art performance that begins with being asked for a dance. Over 15 participants will take their turns on a hill in Green-Wood Cemetery. All will bear the weight of my body for a dance in a place full of rich history, life, and death.

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LIVE PERFORMANCES
TALKaCTIVE: Performance & Sound
Queens Museum
New York City Building ,Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York 11368

2pm
The first monthly TALKaCTIVE program dedicated to the discussion and exploration of various themes in Live Art, starts the new year with an event focusing on “Performance & Sound.” After spending several weeks presenting works and initiatives in South America, Hector Canonge resumes the presentation of the monthly performance art conversation series” at the Queens Museum.
Artists > Alex Romania // Brian McCorkle // Valerie Kuehne // Gregory Paul // Cory Bracken
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LIVE PERFORMANCES
OŚĮRĮŚ <•> TRÅNSÎT ::: a VV/LD TØR∇S ritual
Torus__porta
113 Stockholm Street, Storefront 1A, Brooklyn, New York 11221
9pm
Join VV/LD TØR∇S Et Al for a Mid_Conscious Extrapolation of Non_Verbal Transmissions of Sacred Mysteries_Of_Osiris and Divine the Secret Influence of Homo_Capensis on the World_Of_Today
Artists> WILD TORUS // YOLTEOTLI • Kino and Ixtel • // Alex Romania // Mike Sidnam


SHOUT OUT TO NON-NYC PERFORMANCE ART EVENTS this weekend >>>

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Friday, January 29th
Performance Exhibition Opening
RE/DE/RE-Construction featuring Kledia Spiro
Nine Dot Gallery
763 Main St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610
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Kledia Spiro (1987, Tirana, Albania) creates videos, performances, installations, and paintings. She uses Olympic Weightlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment and celebration. Weightlifting becomes a vehicle for discussing women’s role in society, immigration and times of war.
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Friday, January 29th - Sunday, January 31st
DURATION & DIALOGUE PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL/SYMPOSIUM
Katzman Contemporary
86 Miller Street, Toronto, Ontario M6N 2Z9

Katzman Contemporary is excited to announce its inaugural performance art festival, curated by Natasha Bailey, Dario Del Degan, and Johannes Zits. Duration & Dialogue welcomes 26 national and international artists to investigate the concept of “duration” through multifaceted artistic responses.


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LIVE PERFORMANCES TO CHECK OUT THIS WEEK

1/10/2016

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It's always a pleasure to receive overlapping performance event invitations - A true indication that yes, Performance is Alive! This is one of those performance rich weekends so we compiled our top picks.

This Friday, Glasshouse presents an evening of performances highlighting the unique quality of their art/life/live gallery space. Contemporary Performance pulls from their giant network of 68,000 artists for an immersive, 3-day festival (don't worry, there won't be 68,000 performances but the RENEGADE PERFORMANCE GROUP with André M. Zachery on Friday, January 15th is a must see!) Lastly, Ofri Cnaani poses an interactive performance inspired by Equity Gallery's history of collaboration and advocacy.

So, brave the cold, put on your heat tech and go experience performance! See you there - Quinn Dukes

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FRIDAY, JAN 15TH // 8PM // Plays of Domesticity

GLASSHOUSE // 246 Union Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11211
An evening dedicated to the domestic stage and it's performability.
Theater-based 10 minute plays will be performed throughout the house.
'Tom' by Jenni Messner / 'Pancakes' by Mia Schachter / 'Cockroach' by Sara Debevec / 'Story of the Eye' by Zach Trebino / 'Milk Boiled Over' by Ivy Castellanos / 'Time Sensitive' by Tusia Dabrowska and 'Happy Returns' by Natalie Bates
More details at 
www.glasshouseproject.org

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Friday, Jan 15th-sunday, Jan 17th // Special effects Festival

Wild Project // 195 E 3rd St, New York, New York 10009
Contemporary Performance announces the festival Special Effects from January 15-17, 2016. The festival consists of artists from the Contemporary Performance Network presenting work at The Wild Project in the NYC’s East Village. Curated by network editors Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson.
More details and full schedule available at contemporaryperformance.com/sfx/

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Saturday, Jan 16th// 12pm // OFRI CNAANI, "HELP DESK: EQUITY EXCHANGE MARATHON"

Equity Gallery // 245 Broome Street, New York, New York 10002
Equity Gallery is pleased to announce “Help Desk: Equity Exchange Marathon,” a participatory performance to be held on Saturday, January 16, 2016 from 12pm to 4pm. The performance is part of File Under: ?, a solo exhibition by Ofri Cnaani on view through January 30, 2016.
More details available at nyartistsequity.org/help-desk-performance

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 // Artist-Run at Ocean Terrace Hotel by Alexandra Hammond \\

1/7/2016

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Away from the Miami convention center and the massive white art fair tents was the Artist-Run Satellite Art Show at the now derelict Ocean Terrace Hotel, an art deco building awaiting demolition or redevelopment. The unairconditioned corridors and rooms-turned-galleries of the old hotel were nevertheless a breath of fresh air on the heels of a day at the sparkling big money fairs. 

Each room of the Ocean Terrace Hotel had been transformed (to a varying degree) by the gallery, nonprofit, or artist-run space that occupied it. The decidedly non-white-cube conditions of the building demanded an installation approach. Most rooms dealt not only with the walls of the rooms themselves, but also made use of bathrooms, floors, ceilings, windows and doors. In this sense (and augmented by the heat and humidity of a Miami evening) Artist-Run was an exhibition that consciously engaged the body of the viewer. Likewise, explicitly performative events that took place in the hotel were intimately intertwined with the space itself. A few examples are summarized below.

Jennifer Avery, Beast Boutique
Jennifer Avery poses within the Beast Boutique at Artist-Run.

Beast Boutique, Yellow Peril Gallery (Providence, RI)
Artist Jennifer Avery’s Beast Boutique was a composed clutter of photographs, photocopies, and hybrid doll-stuffed-animals-garments. She called it “the chaos of the forest”. Walls, floor and all corners were inhabited. Upon entry into the boutique, the artist would ask if the viewer would allow her to choose a garment for her, assuring, upon a friendly sizing-up, that she would “choose the perfect one.” Through this interaction, the viewer noticed that the installation was, in fact, populated with these wearable artworks in brightly-colored, frankenstein-stitched silk, lace, wool and fur, often displaying vestiges of their former use as more conservative garments.

Some were full masks, others shawl-like necklaces adorned with oversized talismans made of stuffed-animal parts. Hand-made stuffed dolls (all alike) were lined up along walls and in corners looking like a cross between 19th century children’s toys and the mummy cats of the ancient Egyptians. Walls were plastered with images of these props and the artist (fully painted and adorned as a human-animal fairytail character, performing in a wooded setting), layering objects with images and creating a complex visual mythology. Beast Boutique was at once scary and exuberant. It had the enclosed, non dream logic of a fairytale and the sense of humor of a neon forest.

Stupid Bar, Open Space at Artist-Run Miami
Stupid Bar, Open Space at Artist-Run Miami
Stupid Bar // Open Space at Artist-Run Miami // images by Q. Dukes
Stupid Bar, Open Space (Baltimore, MD)
Stupid Bar was the creation of Baltimore artist-run gallery Open Space at Artist-Run in the Ocean Terrace Hotel. This was an actual bar complete with a few varieties of drinks, a stripper’s pole and constant Karaoke performances. It was impossible to tell whether these were performed by friends and associates of the gallery or visitors to Artist-Run, as everyone was invited to participate while enjoying canned beers and cocktails and reading the myriad handmade signage adorning the walls and shelves of the installation like so many neon signs and beer posters at a dive bar. 

Because of the hotel room setting, Stupid Bar also held a tinge of nostalgia for a teenager’s room where a secret party might place after parents have gone to bed. A large chalkboard hung on the wall immediately to the right upon entry stating: “Postmodernism is just a cool word for Postmodernism.” Another in red, green and black advertised the fact that all drinks were $11 while another commanded, “Notice this notice.”

In spite of the jokey atmosphere of Stupid Bar, it was a locus for the free spirited exuberance of TSA’s Satellite Art Show, a taste of what actually makes people love art. Stupid Bar’s funny signs, its dildo microphones and underwear-clad gender-bending karaoke divas generated something profound that viewers and artists could participate in and sink their teeth into. As Paddy Johnson put it in Art F City, “[Artist-Run] gives artists a voice, and somewhat counter-intuitively that’s most needed here in Miami, during the biggest art fair week in the country.” Stupid Bar was a gathering place and a way station for this energy.  - Alexandra Hammond, Miami Art Week Correspondent 

rtist-run shout outs!

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Vincent Tiley at Artist-Run // image courtesy of @c.stout.gallery.ny Instragram
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Gedney Barclay at Artist-Run // image courtesy of @artistrunmiami Instagram
Through the social media spirits we witnessed a few incredible works that we just have to note... Vincent Tiley presented Sleepy Head Sweetie at the Christopher Stout Gallery booth during which he seemed to pleasure himself in a digitally printed body-suit. Gedney Barclay surprised us as he slithered across the floors of the Ocean Terrace hotel in a hair covered sleeping bag suit. Both Tiley and Barclay performed in rich, visually textured garments allowing the joys of surface and live body to fuse.  
​- Quinn Dukes

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    Ian Deleón
    ​Quinn Dukes 
    Alexandra Hammond
    Luke Mannarino
    Polina Riabova
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