Screening Friday May 24, 2013

STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Friday May 24, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org


In addition to the cinema program, a marathon screening will be presented in collaboration with Are.na, an internet software enabling users to collect and share media through topical channels. Continuously streaming material can be accessed online at any time focused on EXPO 1: New York’s themes and submitted by EXPO participants, organizers, and audiences.


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013

“Admission”: An Elastic City: NYC 1993 Walk New Museum Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013, 1:00 PM www.newmuseum.org


Capacity is limited to fourteen people. Running time: 60 mins

Dance artist Michelle Boulé and theater director Niegel Smith invite you to unravel the codes of museum engagement as we feel our way through the New Museum’s “NYC 1993” exhibition. Participants will respond by warming up their senses, stretching their tastes, and singing the chords in surrounding work as we move through the gallery space. We’ll pair up, go it alone, and even gang up a bit. You won’t get caught—smartphones haven’t been invented yet.

Presented in partnership with Elastic City and the New Museum’s Education Department.

GET TICKETS
General Public $15
Members $12
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.


The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013

ADAM COHEN EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Friday May 24, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Adam Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments. He will be discussing the future of stem cells and the brain.


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Performance Friday May 24, 2013
Cover Image: Photo of Karen Finley by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

“Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation New Museum Performance Friday May 24, 2013, from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM www.ww.newmuseum.org


Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence.

“Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives from participating patrons. Participation takes the form of a commission and requires a ten-minute private and anonymous sitting on-site during announced performance times (bring your own cell phone!). Through this process, the erotic exchange with the artist—bound by rules of commerce—transforms into a lasting and collectible work of art. For more information on how to participate, please see below.

KAREN FINLEY’S LIMITED EDITION “SEXT ME IF YOU CAN” PAINTINGS ON COMMISSION AT THE NEW MUSEUM STORE
Thursday May 23–Sunday May 26

New Museum Store patrons are invited to commission a participatory work of art by Karen Finley for their personal collection. Here’s how it works: Patrons who wish to participate process their commissioning fee online or in person at the New Museum Store and are subsequently provided with a time to be present for a ten-minute on-site sitting during announced performance times. Sittings are completely private, discrete, and anonymous. During your sitting, you will receive access to a private phone number for the purpose of sending Finley a “sext.” This sext will, in turn, serve as the inspiration for a painting, or series of paintings, created by the artist in a temporary studio set up in the New Museum Lobby. The paintings will be displayed for the duration of the installation, from May 23–26. At the end of the installation, participating patrons (now collectors) will take home one of the paintings inspired by their sext.

Participants must be at least eighteen years old. No exceptions.

PRICING
Large Oval Canvas – $500 (Edition of 8)
Small Oval Canvas – $300 (Edition of 12)
Works on Paper – $200 (Edition of 25)

Finley is a New York–based artist whose performances have long provoked controversy and debate. Her performances have been presented at the Lincoln Center (NY), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), American Repertory Theater (Harvard), the ICA (London), the Steppenwolf (Chicago), and the Bobino (Paris). Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and an honorary PhD. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, two Bessies, Ms. magazine Woman Of The Year Award, NARAL Person of the Year Award, and NYSCA and NEA Fellowships. She has appeared in many independent films, including Jonathan Demme’s 1993 Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. She has authored and/or edited eight books including Shock Treatment (City Lights, 1990), Enough is Enough (Poseidon, Simon and Schuster, 1993), Living It Up (Doubleday, 1996), Pooh Unplugged (Smart Art Books, 1999), A Different Kind Of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley (Thunders Mouth Press, 2000), and Reality Shows (2011). Current projects include “Unicorn in Red” (an ongoing series of performances in which Finley receives automatic messages from those departed and turns those messages into artworks), Broken Negative (a re-examination of her infamously defunded work We Keep Our Victims Ready), and Open Heart (a public memorial for children killed during the Holocaust created in collaboration with survivors, children, and locals). Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the department of Art and Public Policy.

Presented in conjunction with “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and IDEAS CITY.

General Public Free
Members Free
½ Gallery Admission with same day event ticket purchase.


The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002212-219-1222
Screening Friday May 24, 2013

MICHAEL GLAWOGGER: WORKINGMAN'S DEATH EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Friday May 24, 2013, 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Workingman’s Death (2005) by Michael Glawogger, 122 min, video

“Workingman’s Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghosts among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with lions at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with brothers as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious future. Meanwhile, the future is now in Germany, where a major smelting plant of bygone days has been converted into a bright and shiny leisure park.” – Michael Glawogger



Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Opening Friday May 24, 2013

'Soon' by Jogging The Still House Group Opening Friday May 24, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 24, 2013 http://enterstillhouse.com


Jogging presents 'Soon' an exhibition at the Still House, opening Friday May 24, 2013 from 6 - 9:00 pm.

After party music provided by Slava.

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‘Soon’

For most, the trip to the Still House is a lengthy one, poetically punctuated at the end of Brooklyn’s Van Brunt Street by a view of the Statue of Liberty standing in the Hudson River. Upon congratulating yourself for completing an hour-long MTA commute, one wonders how exponentially more relieved America’s immigrants were upon seeing that 19th century landmark after boating across an infinite expanse of water for weeks on end. Could our great-great-great-grandparents have imagined the industrialized country they’d build and the habits of consumption and production they’d pioneer would become so powerful, so globally ubiquitous that future residents would be returned to that same infinite aquatic expanse? We are potentially the first generation of people to begin making down payments on a hellacious environmental check that has long been deferred. Historically we owe the situation we are in to a false sense of permanence about our economies, lifestyles, and even our species itself. There is a pervasive sense of temporality in our present moment, though. We comment “you only live once” on videos of viral celebrities that disappear as quickly as they emerge, using cell phones that are obsolete within the year we purchase them. Through one lens, our digital lives are training us to care less about permanence, to focus our attention on the fleeting beauty of connectivity. But it’s hard to live in the moment, and the devices that could teach us how to do just that more often than not separate us from the reality we seek through them. There is a togetherness in the approaching catastrophe, one that threatens to level all political and religious difference as surely as it threatens to nullify the entirety of land space and the national distinctions that geography provides. It is perhaps more difficult to acknowledge the uniformity of the fate we march towards than the imminent catastrophe itself; to change is to admit defeat. Still today, when it rains, the waves crash freely into rocks feet away from Fairway Marketplace, tickling organic paninis on the unprotected patio eating area with a reminder the destruction they recently wrought. We imagine a time (perhaps now?) when Jogging will no longer need to labor over combining food items in irreverent ways to make sculptures, a time when the Atlantic Ocean will carry goods from Fairway up to the fourth floor, into the Still House, and create our work for us. Until then, we anticipate that impermanence in the art we create. Today’s lifeguards will be tomorrow’s installation photographers.


Introduction to Jogging

Jogging is a context-driven art project consisting of 15 team members based in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Oslo. Founded by Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen in 2009, Jogging started in response to the attention economy, lamenting the way laborious, long term artworks were drowned in the deluge of information flowing through the social media networks. A photograph of an artwork that required months of labor is given the same gravity as a photograph of a high school friend’s lunch decision, leading the artists to strategize more effective ways of creating and dispersing art in light of their mediated environment.

Troemel and Christiansen used discarded objects and installation materials left over from the exhibitions they hosted at their Chicago apartment gallery, the now closed Scott Projects (2008 - 2009). Materials would be found, sculpted as new artworks, photographed as installation images in the gallery, posted to Tumblr, and then physically discarded, leaving only the digital image behind to be shared and reused online. Jogging’s title refers to the speed the two artists produced artworks with, running through themes in content and media with an indifference to immediate cohesion, preferring to allow patterns in meaning to become evident to themselves and their audience over time.

Seeing the way their sculptures-turned-Tumblr posts essentially functioned as images, the artists reached a turning point in late 2009 when they would occasionally cut out the middleman (physical objects) and proceed to digitally composite the Google Image Searched products, textures, and scenes together, titling the resultant works as sculptures, paintings, installations, and all else. These digitally altered images were then posted on Tumblr alongside “straight” installation images, as well as digitally edited installation images of objects the artists physically constructed. Rather than contextualizing the discrepancies between textual descriptions and visualized realities as an extension of the Pictures Generation’s long-running attack on the notion of photography as an indexical medium, Jogging instead sought to position these discrepancies as an extension of artists’ autonomy to render work more freely in a mediated environment where the ubiquity and malleability of digital images offered an alternative to the material and monetary limitations of strictly physical works.

After a brief hiatus in 2011, Jogging energetically returned in 2012 with an expanded team of like-minded artists. These core members include the project’s founders as well as Andreas Banderas, Andreas Ervik, Aaron Graham, Artie Vierkant, Andrew Christopher Green, Evan Drolet Cook, Haley Mellin, Jesse Stecklow, Joshua Citarella, Justin Kemp, Masood Kamandy, Rachael Milton, and Spencer Longo. With the added help, Jogging’s increased post rate attracted the attention of a widespread audience beyond the art world, propelling the project to the top 1% of Tumblrs in terms of followers. Soon after, Jogging started accepting moderated submissions from anyone interested in participating. Hundreds of people have since submitted work to the project, working from and evolving the visual trends set forward by members.

The context-specific approach Jogging started with through the use of Tumblr as means of making art in the attention economy has now expanded into a variety of other contexts –including stock photography, books, outsourced material production– and continues through this exhibition at the Still House.


Redhook 481 Van Brunt Street #9D, Brooklyn NY, 11231 contact@enterstillhouse.com
Opening Friday May 24, 2013

Gravity Rides Everything Lyman Richardson, Anthony Miler, Maria Capolongo, John Blank and Christian Berman Brooklyn Fire Proof East Curated by Lyman Richardson Opening Friday May 24, 2013, 7:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - May 26, 2013 www.brooklynfireproof.com


A group exhibition curated by Lyman Richardson

featuring

Lyman Richardson
Anthony Miler
Maria Capolongo
John Blank
Christian Berman

May 22-26
Opening reception is FRIDAY May 24, 7-10
weekday hours 9am -12 am , weekends 12pm -12am

At Brooklyn Fire Proof East 119 Ingraham st, Brooklyn NY 11237.


Bushwick / Ridgewood 119 Ingraham Street, Brooklyn NY, 11237 718-456-7570 hello@brooklynfireproof.com
Reading Friday May 24, 2013

Brooklyn Poets Reading Series Studio10 Reading Friday May 24, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM www.brooklynpoets.org


Join us at Studio10 for the next Brooklyn Poets reading featuring poets Lynn Melnick, Taije Silverman’s and Vijay Seshadri. Admission is free. Wine, beer, and light refreshments will be served.

Lynn Melnick is the author of If I Should Say I Have Hope (YesYes Books, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in The Awl, BOMB, Guernica, Paris Review, A Public Space, and most recently in Washington Square and Chicago Quarterly Review.Her fiction has appeared in Opium and Forklift, Ohio and she has written essays and book reviews for Boston Review, Coldfront, LA Review of Books, Poetry Daily, VIDAweb and other venues. She was born in Indianapolis, raised in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Taije Silverman’s first book, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni,The Harvard Review, Five Points and many other journals. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy and the 2005-07 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she teaches poetry and translation at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia.

Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India, in 1954, and came to America as a small child. He is the author of four collections of poems, Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, 3 Sections (all from Graywolf) and The Disappearances (Harper-Collins India), and many essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been recognized with a number of honors, among them fellowships from the NEA and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. He is currently the Myers Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

For more information, visit www.brooklynpoets.org/readings or contact Jason Koo at koo@brooklynpoets.org.


Bushwick / Ridgewood 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206koo@brooklynpoets.org
Performance Friday May 24, 2013

David Grubbs + 75 Dollar Bill ISSUE Project Room Performance Friday May 24, 2013, 8:00 PM www.issueprojectroom.org


ISSUE presents a performance of electric guitar and voice by David Grubbs to celebrate the release of The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City), his first collection of songs since 2008’s An Optimist Notes the Dusk. He will be drawing from material from the new album as well as from a recently completed, forthcoming release from the trio Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia. 75 Dollar Bill, a duo of Rick Brown on percussion and horns and Che Chen on electric guitar, opens the evening.


Brooklyn Heights 22 Boerum Place, Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11201718-330-0313 eve@issueprojectroom.org
Performance Friday May 24, 2013

William Leavitt: Habitat The Kitchen Performance Friday May 24, 2013, 8:00 PM Additional Performances: Saturday May 25, 2013 from 8:00 PM
www.thekitchen.org


Habitat takes place between two groups of neighbors in the adjoining backyards of a small mid-western town. While these people sometimes speak of what divides them, the real tragedy here arises in the ordinary business of life that distracts them from any possible concordance. As always, Leavitt registers the psychological impact of things that happen beyond one’s power of control.

This program is made possible with support from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and with public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Tickets $15


Chelsea 512 West 19th Street, New York NY, 10011212-255-5793