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ALIVE AT ART HOLE This Weekend at Bushwick Open Studios

9/26/2018

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Art in Odd Places launches new site + parties with the beauties

9/11/2018

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We are absolutely thrilled to see the countdown for Art in Odd Places nearing closer and closer. Soon BODY will come to life in so many tremendous forms. The festival curator, Katya Grokhovsky, recently announced an AIOP kick-off party at 14th Street's iconic Beauty Bar on Wednesday, September 26th. So mark your cal for a pre-festival bevie celebration. We've outlined a few must see moments for you below. Just add them to Google Cal, we've made it easy for you.

Also, the AIOP team has proudly released the schedule and project details for all 45 participants this year on their newly designed website body.artinoddplaces.org. In the words of Katya, "It's purple, it's pretty" and is an incredible celebration of female identifying and non binary artists. <3

So there you have it, get to event adding and we look forward to cheering with you September 26th @ Beauty Bar!
​-Quinn Dukes
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Performance is Revealing Series featuring Geraldo Mercado, Beatriz Albuquerque and Butch Merigoni

9/11/2018

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WHAT ARE YOUR PRE-PERFORMANCE RITUALS?

​GERALDO MERCADO

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Geraldo Mercado | photo by Polina Riabova
  I write all of my performances in a notebook, and I'm typically still editing and refining what I've written the day of. I replace the notebook once or twice a year even if its not full, and I've gone through at least a dozen notebooks at this point. I used to write super detailed descriptions of my pieces, but these days I can get away with just putting down some bullet points and a basic score. I also spend the first half of the day of buying last minute props, editing my soundtrack if I’m using one, and forgetting to eat. When I’m at the space I’ll usually begin to move around the area I’m planning to perform in before the show starts. I’ll take big steps and swing my arms and try to just pick up on what the general feeling and energy of the room is. I’m not sure when I picked up this habit, but it helps put me in the moment and keeps me grounded, otherwise my thoughts tend to race a mile a minute. If I’m one of the last people performing that night, I’ll sometimes take a few moments to move around the space and get reacquainted with the feeling of it in between performances. Sometimes people will notice me doing this and will get weirded out, but I don’t mind that because it's just a necessary part of the process at this point.
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BEATRIZ ALBUQUERQUE

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Beatriz Albuquerque | photo courtesy of the artist
  I don't eat, don't drink and meditate.
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BUTCH MERIGONI

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Butch Merigoni | photo courtesy of the artist
  For me, it’s not pre-show rituals that are important, but how I’m living my life on a daily basis. Am I honest and brave outside of art making? Am I doing things that connect me to something greater? If I am, my work will reflect that. If I’m not, my work will reflect that, too. So, my goal is to keep myself honest and brave outside of art making so that when I sit down to make work, the honest and brave thing will already be in motion.
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NYC’s East Village is "graced" with performance art by prominent Brooklyn performance space

9/7/2018

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Grace Exhibition Space visit and plan within the new location days after receiving the keys. Pictured from l-r: Hoke Hokanson, Miles Pflanz, Daniella Lagaccia, Preach R. Sun, Quinn Dukes, Jill McDermid. Photo by Coco Dolle

Tonight, one of Brooklyn’s prominent performance art spaces, Grace Exhibition Space initiates their fall programming within the walls of their new home on Avenue C (and 11th St.) This move marks a historic transition for the nonprofit gallery space that has fostered the growth and community of Brooklyn-based performance artists and organizations since 2006. Co-Directors, Jill McDermid and Erik “Hoke” Hokanson continue charging forward with the promotion of and “glorification of performance art.”

The news of a Brooklyn space moving to Manhattan is quite rare, especially for a nonprofit organization focused on performance art. But one Bushwick rent increase demand after another led to a clear need for an address change. McDermid hopes to forge relationships between the Brooklyn performance community and the East Village through regular performance programming paired with exhibitions and workshops.

Tonight, Grace at 182 Avenue C features performance work from 5 artists hailing internationally and locally: Martin O'Brien, Miao Jiaxin, Jaguar Mary, Esther Neff and Oya Damla.

Location: 182 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009

Performances begin at 6pm. We look forward to this event kick off and hope to see you there!

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    CONTRIBUTORS

    Ian Deleón
    ​Quinn Dukes 
    Alexandra Hammond
    Luke Mannarino
    Polina Riabova
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    Sarah G. Sharp
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