Kunstverein NY is pleased to present YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AN HOUR AGO, a monthly series guest-curated by performance artists, filmmakers, and writers, presented at White Slab Palace.
To start-off the series on February 28, performance artist Arturo Vidich assumes the role of curator for an evening with Bettina Atala, Alejandro Crawford, and Yve Laris Cohen. This inaugural evening intends to reconstitute conventional narrative movements found in conversation, film, performance, poetry, and television.
For YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AN HOUR AGO, Bettina Atala will screen a version of Season 1 Episode 2 (2007, 59 min.), a projection presentation which exists as part film, part theater, and part reality television. Considering the boundaries between reality and fiction, the presentation examines its own production process step by step, as it is being created in front of the audience. Atala speaks, tells anecdotes, reveals unnoticed details, and if needed, fast-forwards through the boring moments.
Alejandro Crawford will unfold [top secret] (2010), a work that uses mass-media sound and video bites as musical notes, so that one might play them like one plays the piano.
Yve Laris Cohen will present J?b (2010). J?b is a pretty vehicle. Is adapting. Is pretty and a means to. Is telling.
About the artists...
Bettina Atala was born in a small town in France. She became part of the French performance group Grand Magasin in 2000. As a trio, Grand Magasin realized a series of plays that include Do you see what I see? 0 task(s) out of 1 have been executed successfully, 5th international forum of corporate cinema and The resurfacing problem. Previous versions of Season 1 episode 2 were shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; invited by the Cahiers du Cinéma, at the Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse; the Mac/Val in Vitry-sur-Seine; the Arsenic in Lausanne; and the Festival du Film de Femmes, Créteil. The English version has been performed at the Stukteater, Belgium; and the FIAF, New York.
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford was born in Murcia, Spain. He is the author of Morpheu (BlazeVOX 2009), editor of zenSLUM, and co-editor of Le Dodo. He has shown at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York; and in Athens, Georgia. Crawford is a former Fulbright scholar to Portugal, and a current graduate student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU Tisch.
Yve Laris Cohen makes things that happen in time, and that usually involve bodies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Performance Studies and Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a current MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Cohen has previously shown at The Tank; Movement Research at the Judson Church; Dixon Place; and DraftWork at St. Mark’s Church, all in New York.
About the curator…
Arturo Vidich is an inter-media artist from New York City. His performance work has been shown at The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Judson Theatre, The Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Chashama, AUNTS, and BRIC. He has also shown in Belgium, The Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, and New Zealand. Vidich co-directs Culture Push, and within it, a collaborative residency called Genesis Project for artists who work with or through the body and other media. Vidich has collaborated and performed with Deborah Hay, Yvonne Meier, Daria Faïn, Allison Farrow, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Hari Krishnan, Eiko & Koma, Lower Lights Collective, Clarinda Mac Low, Christopher Williams and Nami Yamamoto, and with Aki Sasamoto since 2001, as well as assisted Douglas Repetto and Jeffrey Schiff. His writing has been published in Movement Research Performance Journal. Vidich is currently a graduate student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Tisch School.
*Subsequent YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE AN HOUR AGO evenings will be held from 6-8pm on the last Sunday of each month.
Upcoming: The Marianne Vitale Experience, March 28 - a series of film and performance curated by Marianne Vitale; Better Days, April, 2010 - an artist's store curated by Aurora Pellizzi; and an interview between Wafaa Bilal and Ashley Rawlings, also scheduled for April, 2010.
Afternoon Tea with Aki Sasamoto and Michael Smith
Saturday, January 9th, 2010, 3pm – 6pm
&
The Morning After
On view from January 9th-February 6th
Silver Shed, 119 West 25th Street, PH, New York, NY 10001
Kunstverein NY is pleased to present its new membership cards by Michael Smith, with a signing by the artist, and a conversation between Aki Sasamoto and Ashley Rawlings.
In support of Kunstverein NY’s activities, Michael Smith signed a limited edition of membership cards sold for $10 each.
Aki Sasamoto, part of the Performa 09 series The Prompt, and a participant in the upcoming 2010 Whitney Biennial, gave a talk about her work and recollections of her recent performance, in conversation with writer Ashley Rawlings.
The Morning After
Kunstverein NY presents material from The Prompt at Silver Shed, from January 9th to February 6th.
Organized for Performa 09, The Prompt hosted a series of performances, films, rules, sculptures, soundtracks, and reflexive actions over five nights. Giving thought to how performance can be documented, remnants and footage from the five evenings will be presented during The Morning After. Menus, behavioral cues, objects of conversation, backdrops, costumes, and documentation will be on view. Remnants of works and partial objects are featured from the following artists: Rita Ackermann, Mark Dion, Rashid Johnson, Joseph Grigely, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Haley Mellin, Ian Monk of OULIPO, PLaAD, Lucy Raven, Aki Sasamoto, Dana Sherwood, Dexter Sinister, Mindy Vale & Danny McDonald, Adam Pendleton, Falke Pisano, R.H. Quaytman, Marianne Vitale & Pete Drungle, and Robert Wilson. Warning: there are very few artworks in this exhibition!
The Prompt
Performa 09
White Slab Palace, back room
77 Delancey Street, NY, NY 10002
Five evenings, Nov 11-15, 8-11 pm
Charlemagne Palestine, performance at Cíte De La Musique, Paris, 2008
The Prompt is a conceptual social club under the influence Futurist variety theater. Cues and propositions are offered each night in the form of conversation pieces, rules, performances and soundtracks, transforming this destination into a pressure cooker for ideas and intimacies.
Participating artists: Rita Ackermann, Fia Backström, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Joan Juliet Buck & Cassie Terman, Joshua Kit Clayton, Patrick Cleandenim, Dexter Sinister, Mark Dion, Sylvie Fleury, Joseph Grigely, Jamie Hook, Rashid Johnson, Gabriel Lester, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Momus & Aki Sasamoto, Patrick Meagher, Haley Mellin, Ian Monk (OULIPO), Charlemagne Palestine, Adam Pendleton, Falke Pisano, R.H. Quaytman, Jimmy Raskin, Lucy Raven, Gavin Russom, Dana Sherwood, Dina Sieden, Guy Richards Smit, Mindy Vale & Danny McDonald, Ben Vautier, Marianne Vitale, Reggie Watts, Robert Wilson, and more.
(Artist bios)
Curated by Sarina Basta and Michael Portnoy. Co-produced by Chris Martino and Mary Rinebold.
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