Screening Sunday May 19, 2013

STREAMING MARATHON EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM www.momaps1.org


In addition to the cinema program, a marathon screening will be presented in collaboration with Are.na, a web application 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
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "Someone Else's Project" by Shirin Mozaffari

MEANS FROM AN END TRT. 78:09 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 1:00 PM www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

PROGRAM 11: MEANS FROM AN END TRT. 78:09 min.

"All Restrictions End" Reza Haeri 30:00 min.
"State-theatre #2 Tehran" Constanze Fischbeck & Daniel Kötter 24:00 min.
"Someone Else's Project" Shirin Mozaffari 04:39 min
"Excursions in the Dark" Kaya Behkalam 19:30 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-means-from-an-end.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.htm


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013

JAMAICA BAY LIVES MoMA PS1 VW DOME 2 Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Documentary producer Dan Hendrick discusses his film in progress, Jamaica Bay Lives, which was started in August 2011. Filmed before, during and after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, it shows the history of the bay and the role that it plays in the lives of the dozens of neighborhoods surrounding it.


Rest Of Queens Beach 94th Street and Shore Frong Parkway, Rockaway NY, 11693718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Part 3) MoMA Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 1:00 PM www.moma.org


Followed by a discussion with Sukhdev Sandhu, author, film critic, Associate Professor of English, and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Part 3)
2003. China. Directed by Wang Bing. The most monumental achievement in the Chinese new documentary movement to date, Wang Bing’s three-part, nine-hour portrait of an industrial wasteland made the top 100 in the 2012 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll. Once the heart of state-run heavy industry, Tiexi district, in the northeastern city of Shenyang, is now a scene of decay, as economic reforms, bankruptcies, relocation, and demolition have left many factories empty and entire communities jobless. Filmed over two years, the film is a testament to Chinese documentarians’ commitment to a deceptively simple film technique, one that patiently peels away everyday surfaces to reveal rich layers of history and culture. Courtesy of Documentary Educational Resources. In Mandarin; English subtitles. 186 min.

Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2


Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

FAMILY MATINEE: 3-D PREVIEW SCREENING & DISCUSSION Epic in 3-D Museum of the Moving Image Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 1:00 PM www.movingimage.us



Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

FAMILY MATINEE: 3-D PREVIEW SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Epic in 3-D
Sunday, May 19, 1:00 p.m.
ADD TO MY CALENDAR
With director Chris Wedge in person
Presented in Dolby Digital 3-D
Dir. Chris Wedge. 2013, 100 mins. Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox

Animation. Based on the book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce. With the voices of Colin Farrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Judah Friedlander, Jason Sudeikis, Aziz Ansari. A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world, in this delightful action-adventure comedy from the studio that created Ice Age, Robots, and Rio. The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Epic director and co-founder of Blue Sky Studios, Chris Wedge,

Tickets are free with Museum admission. Museum members may make reservations in advance by emailing reservations@movingimage.us or calling 718 777 6800.


Long Island City 36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria NY, 11106718-777-6888
Reading Sunday May 19, 2013
Sasha and Emma book cover; Karen Avrich. Photo by Kyle Froman

Reading and Book Signing: Karen Avrich Brooklyn Museum Reading Sunday May 19, 2013, 2:00 PM www.brooklynmuseum.org


Join Karen Avrich as she reads from her new biography, Sasha and Emma, about the intertwined lives of anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. After meeting in a Lower East Side coffee shop in 1889, Goldman and Berkman forged a fifty-year relationship as friends, lovers, and comrades. This dual biography looks not only at their lives, but at the importance of the anarchist movement they shaped. Book signing to follow. Free with Museum admission.

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor


Rest Of Brooklyn 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY, 11238718-638-5000
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
COURTESY JOHN GIANVITO

JOHN GIANVITO: VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 2:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010) by John Gianvito, video, 264 min, Philippines/United States

“A devastating and insightful condemnation of the dangerous U.S. military practices that have recklessly exposed an entire community in the Philippines to a host of fatal toxins. Centered around an abandoned U.S. military base, Gianvito’s gripping exploration of the military’s lack of regulation and responsibility uses the horrific environmental contamination as a starting point for a meditation on the crippling effects of colonialism and unchecked militarism. A skillful melding of cinema-vérité, interviews, historical texts and landscape photography, Vapor Trail is a unique and urgent political intervention.” – Harvard Film Archive


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013

Artists in Conversation: David Brooks and Mark Dion Storm King Art Center Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 2:00 PM www.stormking.org


Join artists David Brooks and Mark Dion for an engaging conversation about their work, followed by a walking tour to Brooks’s site-specific project, A Proverbial Machine in the Garden.

David Brooks has created a site specific installation, A Proverbial Machine in the Garden, for the 2013 season at Storm King. His artistic practice is inseparable from his deep interest in the cultural issues and practices of environmental preservation. Brooks has spent a great amount of time in both South Florida and the Amazon rainforest—two sites of environmental richness that have become perilously threatened by accelerated human impact. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at Miami Art Museum; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Dallas Contemporary; Bold Tendencies, London; James Cohan Gallery Shanghai; Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK; and, in New York, at SculptureCenter, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and Marlborough Chelsea. He was featured in the 2010 Greater New York at MoMA PS1 and in the 2012 Changwon Sculpture Biennale in South Korea. In 2011, he showed his critically acclaimed Desert Rooftops in the Last Lot in Times Square, sponsored by Art Production Fund. Forthcoming shows include solo exhibitions at American Contemporary, New York and the Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg. Brooks received his BFA from the Cooper Union in New York, and his MFA from Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.

Mark Dion examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between objective (rational) scientific methods and subjective (irrational) influences. The artist’s spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkabinetts of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Mark Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society. He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate Gallery, London (1999). Neukom Vivarium (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Dion lives and works in Pennsylvania.


The Tri-State Area Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville NY, 10953845-534-3115 info@stormkingartcenter.org
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Assunta Sera, Globular Clusters, 2012, Oil stick and vine charcoal on prepared paper, 42 x 102 inches, Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Shannon Leslie.

Assunta Sera: Strong Attraction Hunterdon Art Museum Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 30, 2013 www.hunterdonartmuseum.org


Assunta Sera's ascent to painting stars and supernovae started not in open fields or an observatory, but in one of the world's busiest transportation hubs: New York City's Grand Central Station.

Sera, whose solo exhibition "Strong Attraction" opens at the Hunterdon Art Museum May 19, recalls first stepping into the main concourse of Grand Central Station when she was nine years old. Her family had just emigrated from Italy en route to Michigan. Years later, the budding artist returned to the terminal on her way to earning a Masters' in Fine Art from New York University, and was entranced. She later worked on a series of paintings about Grand Central, which must have pleased the eyes of someone in the Mass Transit authority because Sera was selected to create a painting of the recently renovated station to be used as a poster.

"The painting is representational," Sera said. "It has an inclusion of the celestial star ceiling and a young girl staring at its magnificence in the foreground." The original painting hangs in the MTA director's office.

About a dozen years ago, Sera's art literally left the station, and she began seeking new frontiers. She devoured books on art and science, including The Tao of Physics, in a search for universal meaning and imagination.

"It was exciting and mysterious," Sera said. Along her journey, she saw Passport to the Universe at the Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, and the voyage from Earth to the edge of the observable universe piqued her interest. "I knew I had found what I had been looking for," Sera said.

The results of her artistic journey can be viewed, for instance, in "Globular Clusters," which will be part of the "Strong Attraction" exhibition. The piece is a large paper drawing, inspired by matter that gathers into a cluster. Supernovae explode, pushing matter everywhere, and once it settles, attraction begins. "Matter agglomerates in space," Sera said, discussing the work. "Movement through space and time in a cosmic void set the framework for attracting, creating and destroying."

Through swirling forms, Sera asks viewers to see the universe as an abstract, ever-moving pattern that continues beyond visible borders.

Sera creates her work using oil sticks, preferring to draw with them and to mix different sized portions of oil stick and galkyd lite (a fast-drying, low-viscosity fluid). She'll mix multiple colors until arriving at a desired hue. "I always work with paper or canvas hanging on a studio wall, unless I'm working at home on a small drawing," Sera said. "Paint is applied with a brush or directly with the oil stick. I love the luminosity and translucency of color mixed with wax."

The opening reception for "Strong Attraction," which is free to all, will be Sunday, May 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibition closes June 30.

"Making marks on paper or canvas through an intuitive approach guides me to follow my interests and discover the known and the unknown," Sera said. "Drawing and painting is my joy."


The Tri-State Area 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton NJ, 08809 Tuesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
908-735-8415
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013

In Motion: Videos by Noah Klersfeld Hunterdon Art Museum Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.hunterdonartmuseum.org


Visitors to downtown Clinton and the Hunterdon Art Museum are familiar with the nearby truss bridge which has spanned the south branch of the Raritan River for the past 143 years.

But now they'll be able to see the Lowthorp Truss Bridge inside the Museum and from the unique perspective of video artist Noah Klersfeld. Klersfeld has a talent for shooting images of familiar sites and, by compressing time and space, altering the familiar into something quite different. His work will be displayed in a solo exhibition titled "In Motion: Videos by Noah Klersfeld" at the Hunterdon Art Museum beginning Sunday, May 19.

To film the bridge, Klersfeld angled his camera down and shot the corrugated steel at deck level in a way that enabled cars to flow between the camera and the deck.
"You're seeing cars between me and the bridge," Klersfeld said. "My technique is to utilize every single shape as its own video layer so I draw out and separate every single shape."

Klersfeld painstakingly cut apart and played with the timing of the footage he shot at the bridge. "I'm shooting one static image - the bridge - and subdividing all the pieces and shattering it temporally," Klersfeld said. "I don't fabricate anything. If the image doesn't move, it looks the same, and if it does move it reorganizes itself. On the bridge you end up seeing random swatches of colors which are the doors of the cars passing by."

Klersfeld's interest in video art began as an offshoot of his career as an architect. The artist attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where students are encouraged to combine architecture with media classes. After graduating, Klersfeld found what he describes as a "standard corporate architecture job that I didn't like very much." He left that position and later became an associate partner at Manhattan-based Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers, but continued taking side art projects to stretch his imagination.

"I picked up video as a way to continue to think about architecture," he said. "I started shooting some videos that dealt with space a bit, and thinking about multiple cameras and synchronization. I started writing multiple screen pieces that would synchronize with one another, and that started to feel like I was getting back into planning again, which is architectural. An architectural building also tells its own story: It has a narrative, but it's also material and spatial and temporal."

The flurry of inspiration to squeeze time into space in a video image began for Klersfeld one snowy afternoon. He was staring out his studio window at a brick wall - what he terms the "classic New York City view" - during a torrential snowstorm, watching how the snowflakes' motion affected the view of the pattern of the bricks on the building.

"It was the first time I really saw motion and geometry on top of one another," Klersfeld said. He filmed the image and subdivided it brick by brick and then shifted the timing. The end result is a brick wall that doesn't appear different, but the snow is moving in different directions on every brick.

The process altered how Klersfeld measured and saw motion. While shooting this video, he began seeing the bricks as a quarter of a second or how much time it would take for a person or image to pass by those bricks. "It's as though I'm trying to turn space into time."

Viewers can also see how patterns will affect a video in another piece in the exhibition titled "LSC." For this video, Klersfeld filmed pedestrians and cars from the opposite side of a chain-link fence near the World Trade Center memorial site. By compressing time and space, the viewer sees a colorful rhythm of images through the fence links.

The Museum exhibition, "In Motion: Videos by Noah Klersfeld," will also feature two videos from his "Passive-Aggressive Series." Klersfeld shot random footage of activity on a busy Manhattan street or a subway car and afterwards added voice-over directions to the people in the videos. His entertaining commands make it appear as though he's directing a double-decker tour bus, pedestrians waving at his camera and whatever else passes by either of the three cameras he has focused on the intersection.

With this exhibition, three video projectors will be placed on low pedestals to encourage Museum visitors to pass in front of the screen and become a part of the action.

Special Video Class

Noah Klersfeld, along with producer Jim Pruznick, will be teaching an "Intro to Film and Video" class at our children's Summer Camp from July 8-12. Children, ages 12 to 15, can learn the basic elements of film and video. To enroll, call the Museum at 908-735-8415.


The Tri-State Area 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton NJ, 08809 Tuesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
908-735-8415
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013

SAMUEL DELANY & KELLY LINK EXPO 1: NEW YORK MoMA PS1 Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 3:00 PM www.momaps1.org


Samuel Delany is the author of science-fiction novels including Dhalgren and Babel-17. Kelly Link coedits Small Beer Press and has written three collections of fantastic short stories, most recently Pretty Monsters. They will discuss how we use and abuse the future.


Long Island City 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City NY, 11101718-784-2084 mail_ps1@moma.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013
Nene Humphrey, Mapping: The Drift of the World (detail), 2011-13, mixed media, 18" x 18" x 4"

Nene Humphrey Artist Talk Lesley Heller Workspace Lecture / Artist Talk Sunday May 19, 2013, 3:00 PM www.lesleyheller.com


The East Village / Lower East Side 54 Orchard Street, New York NY, 10002212-410-6120 lesley@lesleyheller.com
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "The Shape of Our Best Intentions" by Megan and Murray McMillan

CAMERA OBSCURA TRT. 59:49 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 3:00 PM www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

PROGRAM 12: CAMERA OBSCURA TRT. 59:49 min.

"Inertia" Carlos Irijalba 04:20 min.
"The Shape of Our Best Intentions" Megan and Murray McMillan 06:09 min.
"Beirut" Mark Lewis 08:11 min.
"Smoker at Spitalfields" Mark Lewis 08:58 min.
"Zimmerreise" Giulio Squillacciotti 02:30 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-camera-obscura.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Shanee Epstein at 440 Gallery

Off the Wall recent photographs and collages by Shanee Epstein Shanee Epstein 440 Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM On View May 16, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.440gallery.com



Shanee Epstein's solo show, Off the Wall, is a stark departure from her four earlier shows at 440 Gallery. This installation consists of large architectural photographs hung above small, collaged cigar boxes. One's initial impression might be that the work was made by two different artists. In a way, this is true. Almost every working artist struggles or experiments with conflicting impulses. Most leave that conflict in the studio and choose to show work that "hangs together". Epstein instead embraced this conflict. The abstract formal aesthetic of her photographs appear to be the antithesis of the colorful collaged boxes, but together they create a balanced whole. Off the Wall will be open to the public May 16 - June 23, 2013, with an opening reception on Sunday, May 19, 4:00-7:00 PM.

This new work came from a visit Epstein made to the Tel Aviv Art Museum's new building designed by the architect Preston Scott Cohen. Epstein was inspired by "the amazing experience of being in a space that at any moment I could stop and be within beautiful angles or views of gorgeous abstractions of line, shapes and tone. The light is poetic and dramatic. I found the beauty breathtaking in a formal aesthetic sense, but also moving in an emotional artistic sense."

Epstein's photographs capture the elegance of the architecture, but it is in the boxes that she incorporates and personalizes the experience. Epstein is a collage artist with an ongoing interest in the painted boxes of Richard Diebenkorn. With an affinity for the physicality of the materials, Epstein juxtaposed paper, fabric, photos and found material to create a unique three-dimensional space in each box. Incorporating images from Tel Aviv Museum with other collage elements, she creates depth, a sense of looking through exposed and concealed areas. In this spatial give and take, there is also the tension between the simple and the complex, the narrative and the abstract, and the geometry of architecture with the sensuality of color and texture.


Park Slope 440 6th Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11215 Thursday - Friday from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
718-499-3844 440gallery@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013

Language Objects: Letters in Space, 1970 - 2013 Robert Grenier SOUTHFIRST Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.southfirst.org


SOUTHFIRST is proud to present "Language Objects: Letters in Space, 1970 - 2013," a retrospective exhibition tracking (via notebooks, holographic & published texts, archival materials and works on paper) the evolution from early typewriter-generated forms to more recent four-color drawing poems in the work of American poet Robert Grenier between 1970 - 2013. The show will be on view from May 18 – June 30, 2013.

On Sunday, May 19, 4 - 6 PM, Robert Grenier will introduce the 'idea' for the show, and speak to/read from & provisionally 'interpret' certain of the materials set forth in the room.

Over the past 40 years, poet/artist Robert Grenier (b. 1941) has constantly pushed poetry into new frontiers of practice and utterance. His handwritten poems, produced in the last two decades, cross the upper limit of inscription to be both writing and drawing. His works include Series (This Press, 1978), SENTENCES (Whale Cloth Press, 1978), Oakland (Tuumba Press, 1980), A Day at the Beach (Roof Books, 1984), Phantom Anthems (O Books, 1986), and OWL/ON/BOU/GH (Post-Apollo Press, 1997), as well as more recent online color drawing poem sequences like POND 1 and PENN SCANS. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Grenier has received two NEA fellowships for poetry writing and a 2013 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An archive of his work is housed in the Stanford Libraries' Department of Special Collections. He lives in northern Vermont.

SOUTHFIRST, founded in 2000, is located at 60 N6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn between Wythe and Kent Avenues. Gallery hours are Fri., Sat. and Sun. from 1 - 6 PM and by appointment. Subway: L train to Bedford Avenue. For more information, please contact Maika Pollack at 718 599 4884 or info (@) southfirst.org.


Williamsburg 60 N6th Street, Brooklyn NY, 11211 Friday - Sunday from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
718-599-4884 info@southfirst.org
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "The Anunciation" by Eija-Liisa Ahtila

BELIEVERS TRT. 118:46 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 4:30 PM www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

SCREENING PROGRAM: BELIEVERS TRT. 118:46 min.

"2+0+1+2+1+2+2+1" Elisabeth Smolarz 02:21 min.
"Belief" Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead 13:15 min.
"The Anunciation" Eija-Liisa Ahtila 36:00 min.
"Afterlife" Bjørn Melhus 07:10 min.
"Casting Jesus" Christian Jankowski 60:00 min.

For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-believers.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013

"Decisiveness" Group Exhibition. Assigned Titles. Limited Time-Frame. Installation as Content Creation . helper Curated by ruSalon Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 15, 2013 www.helperprojects.com


ruSalon and helper are excited to present
"Decisiveness,"
a group exhibition hosted by helper.
May 19th 2013 - June 15th 2013
An Opening Reception will be held on Sunday May 19th from 5pm to 8pm.

The titles of the artworks in the show were provided by ruSalon to the artists by way of an invitation:

“Subjectivity is an Irreducible Element of Objectivity”
“The Maintenance of Unaware Preconceptions”
“That Which We Can Only Call Something Else”
“Include the Knower in the Known”
“Analogy Making as Perception”
“We Don't Control the Controls”
“No Amount of Just Looking”
“The Syllogism Worked Out”
“The Adjectivelessly Banal”
“The Truth of Accountants”
“Capitalized Prepositions”
“Reflexivity is Only a Foil”
“As Serious as Your Life”
“Uni Asymmetric III-IV”
“In the Fog 1, 11, 111.”
“Faithful Re-creation”
“Space is Only Noise”
“So it Comes to This”
“Leave of Presence”
“Oblique Strategy”
“A Real Possibility”
“Element of Style”
“Applied Poetics”
“Autodisabusal”
“Press Release”
“(a/b)/B”
“Outro”
“Fey”

The titles are meant to be suggestive to the artists -- and the collection of
phrases is meant to be suggestive to everybody. They are intended to conjure a meaningful mental-space; implying themes pertaining to the operation of language in describing art, intelligibility as a property of artworks, reflexivity, and, perhaps, the status of intention and meaning.

We do not know what work will be included, nor what kind of work it will be: nor are we certain how many invited artists will choose to participate. We do not now how full or empty the space will seem nor how colorful the show will be. We do not know how prevalent the human figure will be or processes of
photography, the variety of gestural lines or the nature of any allusions to unicorns.

Please contact us at info@rusalon.org or contact@helperprojects.com

ruSalon was formerly an exhibition space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Currently, ruSalon functions occasionally as art. rusalon.org

helper is an exhibition space located at 495 Rogers Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225. helperprojects.com


Crown Heights 495 Rogers Avenue, Ground Floor, Brooklyn NY, 11225 858-220-3628 contact@helperprojects.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013

Alex Kwartler & Elke Solomon Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.klausgallery.com


The East Village / Lower East Side 54 Ludlow Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-777-7756 klaus@klausgallery.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Jesse Weiss

Start as Close to the End as Possible Alyssa Piro, Chris Jehly, Corey Riddell, Dana Sherwood, Forsyth Harmon, Jennifer Nuss, Jesse Weiss, Kiki Smith, Mark Dion and Melis Bürsin Torrance Shipman Gallery Curated by Nathan Catlin Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.torranceshipmangallery.com


Start as Close to the End as Possible
A show of narrative works on paper
Curated by Nathan Catlin

With works by:
Alyssa Piro
Chris Jehly
Corey Riddell
Dada Sherwood
Forsyth Harmon
Jennifer Nuss
Jesse Weiss
Kiki Smith
Mark Dion
Melis Bürsin

Opening on Sunday May 19th from 6-9
Torrance Shipman Gallery
219 36th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232

The show will be up from:
May 18th - June 16th
Saturday and Sunday 12-6
and weekdays by appointment.


Sunset Park 219 36th Street, Brooklyn NY, 11232 Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
torranceshipmangallery@gmail.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
Image Credit: Jomar Statkun

Rock Shop Nadja Frank Denny Gallery Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.dennygallery.com


Denny Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the United States of Nadja Frank, titled Rock Shop and running from May 18 to June 16, 2013.

Nadja Frank works in the space between painting, sculpture and the architectural environment. The work in her new exhibition, Rock Shop, originated during the artist’s travels across the United States, and focuses on unpopulated areas of the High Desert. Traveling is an important part of her process, as her works maintain a dialogue with the outside world. The relationship between indoor and outdoor, free and enclosed, natural and studio space, is central to Frank’s practice. This produces a tension in the works between their natural and imaginative features, requiring viewers to ask a question about their true source. Her work explores how we experience landscape: visually by moving in time and space, in our interior imaginations, and through ubiquitous images.

Rock Shop displays a series of new paintings alongside of a large-scale sculptural intervention in the gallery space. Each painting is made of a specific sample of earth, found and collected by the artist during her recent travels. By making paintings, the artist is revisiting her earlier practice, paralleling the space’s regression to nature as it is subsumed by prehistoric materials and forms. The second part of the exhibition is a large scale installation, the Rock. Although the sculpture reaches toward a single peak, it is divided into four parts. The viewer is encouraged to walk into the interior world of the Rock and to experience the many images it presents. Set on casters, the pieces of the Rock move, encouraging a spirit of playfulness while engendering a sense of the shifts in geological time.

Nadja Frank was born in 1980 in Lohr am Main, Germany, and lives in New York City. Frank received her Diploma in Fine Arts with Honors from Hochschule fur bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany in 2008, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at 401contemporary Berlin/London (Berlin), Margini Arte Contemporanea (Massa, Italy), Galerie Conradi (Hamburg), and in group exhibitions at Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bonn), Kunstverein Hamburg, Kolbe Museum (Berlin), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), and Socrates Sculpture Park (New York).



The East Village / Lower East Side 261 Broome Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-226-6537 email@dennygallery.com
Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
David X. Levine, "John Williams Stoner", 2013. Colored pencil, collage gouache on paper, 19in x23in

Eat and Die Ross Simonini and David X. Levine Denny Gallery Curated by Molly Rand Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 18, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.dennygallery.com


By Ross Simonini

After Molly asked me to show some drawings in a two-person show with David, I took a trip over to his studio. He works in a clean, compact, windowless box of a room in TriBeCa, where he’s been for a little over a decade, and his artwork is, in some ways, a reflection of this environment. It’s tight, economical, without clutter, and it’s created mostly with a single medium: colored pencil, which he applies for up to ten hours a day, until he’s built up a vibrating texture of color. David showed me hundreds of drawings at his studio and the work is all like this - bold, and fastidious with a singularity of vision.

I’ve always dreamt of having this kind of monastic, consistent focus, but I am, it looks like, a different kind of artist. I work across mediums and tend to find inspiration in distraction, which might be a signifier of my younger, internet-sodden generation. (David and I are about 20 years apart in age.) I’ll spend my day sliding between writing, painting, drawing, and making music, and I like it when the artwork looks like the product of this kind of activity, like it’s an object that comes out of a multifarious life. This is part of the reason why I end up using food in my work, because it’s a pigment I already have around and inside of me.

All of these interests are, in some abstracted way, in the process of my drawings, but David arranges his cultural addiction on the surface of his work. He’ll use iconic images of Amy Winehouse and Brian Wilson in a collage, maybe as a sort of dedication, it’s not clear. This show includes a work with an obituary of the rock writer, Paul Williams, and David mixes it among clippings of Artforum and the New York Times, which he’s made unrecognizable by his careful selection of solid-color chunks. For him, all of these elements are connected, and the act of choosing them, and placing them, is a path toward transforming them into precious, radiant objects.

Choice is something I’m usually trying to avoid. I don’t particularly enjoy decision-making, so I find any kind of stimulus around me to make the decisions for me. Because of this, the drawings end up as documentations of searching, failing, accidents. I also try to draw non-visual, physical feelings, such as a nagging pain in my knee or the naturally erratic movements of a bus ride, or proprioception, which is the sensation of what it feels like to be inside your own body - a tricky kind of perception I learned about through Alexander Technique. Rather than try to ignore or overcome or work through these feelings I try to point the art right at the sensations and squeeze them for images.

It’s not always easy to find images, and as an artist, it’s important to meet other artists and look at your own work through their eyes. It lets that image-making part of your mind forget all its nervous habits. I experienced that with David, when I went to his studio and forgot about my own work for a second when I saw, in his drawings, a single, almost imperceptible imperfection, the way one of his lines appeared initially straight, but was revealed, over a nice long look, to have the wavering, breathing quality of being cut by hand.

David X. Levine was born in 1962 in Boston, MA, and lives in New York City. Levine is a self-taught artist. He has had 10 solos exhibitions in the past 10 years all over the U.S., from NYC to Las Vegas. He is currently preparing for a retrospective show at Boston University in 2014.

Ross Simonini was born in 1982 and is an artist, writer, and musician living in Brooklyn. He is a founder of the music and art project, NewVillager, and has shown his work and performed at Jack Hanley Gallery, Fredericks & Freiser, Human Resources Los Angeles and New York, Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol museum and elsewhere. He is the interviews editor of The Believer magazine, the executive producer of KCRW’s The Organist, and the creator of Blood Pillow, an audio project at Clocktower Gallery. He regularly contributes to the New York Times, Frieze, Interview, Art in America, and a book of his interviews with artists will be released by Picturebox.


The East Village / Lower East Side 261 Broome Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
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Opening Sunday May 19, 2013
image: Hervé Guibert, Destruction des negatifs de jeunesse, 1986, gelatin silver print, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches

To The Friends Who Saved My Life: Moyra Davey, Hervé Guibert, Heinz Peter-Knes, Jason Simon, Danh Vo̅, Francesca Woodman and Rona Yefman Callicoon Fine Arts Opening Sunday May 19, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 19, 2013 - June 21, 2013 www.callicoonfinearts.com


“…I’m beginning a new book to have a companion, someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend whose company I can bear at the moment.”
—Herve Guibert

To The Friends Who Saved My Life,
…an exhibition prompted by the introduction of Francesca Woodman’s work to Heinz Peter-Knes and Danh Vō. They in turn suggested a parallel to Hervé Guibert, unknown to us at the time. About a year later, we learned that Nightboat Books, the companion enterprise to Callicoon Fine Arts, was newly engaged with Guibert translations, a publication plan that in turn prompted the gallery to introduce Guibert’s photographs to an American audience. Shared images and writings closed a circle that we hadn’t known of before, including our own works, those of Rona Yefman, an Israeli photographer living in New York, Heinz, Danh, and a single Francesca Woodman, as our starting point.

Guibert’s best known book, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, is a memoir of crisis and roller-coaster years of rushing between doctors and lovers. With extraordinary recall and dispassion, that is, with a photographic voice, even towards his own diagnosis and decline, Guibert maps the early years of the AIDS crisis. In those times when human friends became “friend[s] whose company I can bear at the moment,” perhaps it was photography that eased them through the door.

Among the many formal similarities between Woodman and Guibert, it should be noted that both spent time living and photographing in Rome, where Heinz and Danh were recently in residence, and that the images Woodman and Guibert made there are steeped in its light and shadows. Rona Yefman did not know of Guibert, but she was known to us through her extended photo essay on her brother, and through a pair of striking one-minute films. Moyra’s bottles, Jason’s Polaroids and Rona’s sibling study, all keep the images close to home. Danh and Guibert absorb the Villa Medici residence through its physical effects upon its residents, past and present: the erotics of place carry by association, the knowledge of who was there before. So too does Heinz’s discovery of his own face plastered on the red-lit bathroom wall of a bar, and in his portfolio of black and white prints. Seemingly following an order that appeared in the unedited rolls of 35mm film, flared end frames included, Heinz’s box of prints return us back to the place of the photographer sorting the moments of seeing.
—Jason and Moyra


The East Village / Lower East Side 124 Forsyth Street, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-219-0326 info@callicoonfinearts.com
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013

SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:00 PM www.bureau-inc.com


May 5 - May 25 2013
Opening reception for the artist:
Sunday May 5, 6 - 8 p.m. (no public performance - see schedule below)

Bureau is honored to announce the new production by seminal text and performance artist Constance DeJong, SpeakChamber. During the month of May, Bureau will be transformed into an intimate theater to host DeJong's hour-long spoken performance derived from a work of prose and accompanied by recorded sound and moving image.

DeJong has worked for over three decades on narrative form within the context of avant-garde music and contemporary art. The fiction in SpeakChamber focuses on the world of inanimate objects through styles and histories. We follow DeJong's story from dusty homes to salvation armies and from war-torn mountain ranges to luxury consignment shops. DeJong writes her narrative work specifically for the medium in which it will be presented, for the physical page or for the mouth as spoken in the present moment. In performance, her audience follows the captivating auteur, live, telling the story of objects through a continuous present moment.

DeJong is considered one of the progenitors of video and media art, what can be referred to as 'time based media'. She shapes her art of narrative with an intricate attention to content and literary form. Each detail is scrutinized so that every moment is an eternity and an expanse. The work is presented as a continuous present flowing from the mouth of the artist, in real time. The work thus stands both in contrast and in recognition of the contemporary attention-deficient media genre, which she has helped define. The work is one of continuous language paired with continuous video imagery that unfolds conjuring new images of some combined fiction derived from the seen image and heard text.

Nothing says impermanency like the relentless sequence of one word giving way to the next, each one dropping out of sight. -CDJ
Constance DeJong has exhibited and performed both locally and internationally over the past three decades at venues such as, the Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis MN; The Wexner Center, Columbus OH; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and in New York at The Kitchen, Threadwaxing Space, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Center for the Arts. She composed the libretto for the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha in 1983 which has been staged at opera houses worldwide including the Metropolitan Opera, NY; The Netherlands National Opera, Rotterdam, NL and The Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. She has had several books of fiction published including Modern Love (Standard Editions, 1977) and I.T.I.L.O.E (Top Stories, 1983)

This exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition publication, SpeakChamber.
Public Performance Dates *

Friday May 10, 4 p.m.
Saturday May 11, 4 p.m. (full)
Sunday May 12, 4 p.m.

Friday May 17, 7 p.m. (full)
Saturday May 18, 4 p.m.
Sunday May 19, 7 p.m.

Wednesday May 22, 7 p.m.
Thursday May 23, 7 p.m.
Saturday May 25, 4 p.m.

*all performances require RSVP to office@bureau-inc.com
space is LIMITED: you will be emailed a confirmation if there is space
children not admitted


The East Village / Lower East Side 127 Henry Street, New York NY, 10002office@bureau-inc.com
Screening Sunday May 19, 2013
Video still: "Familiars" by Torsten Zenas Burns

LE DERNIER CRI TRT. 55:09 min. Eyebeam Art+Technology Center Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Screening Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:00 PM www.videodumbo.org


This screening is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo. On view at Eyebeam, from May 16 - 25, 2013.

SCREENING PROGRAM: LE DERNIER CRI TRT. 55:09 min.

"Transoxiana Dreams" Almagul Menlibayeva 23:00 min.
"Familiars" Torsten Zenas Burns 09:00 min.
"Chrystelle" Bubi Canal 02:01 min.
"Magma" Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir 05:19 min.
"Alice.M" Philpp Lachenmann 09:30 min.


For full program description and artist bios please go to:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-le-dernier-cri.html
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Chelsea 540 W21 St., New York City NY, 10011646-623-6545 videodumbo@gmail.com
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013

Keigwin + Company Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 7:30 PM Additional Performances: Monday May 20, 2013 from 7:30 PM
www.guggenheim.org


$35, $30 members
Box Office: 212 423 3587

Company dancers, plus special ballet guests, will preview excerpts from choreographer Larry Keigwin’s new work Canvas prior to its August premiere at the Vail International Dance Festival (VIDF). The company will also perform Rock Steady (2010) and Contact Sport (2012) in their entirety, and Keigwin will discuss his work with VIDF Artistic Director Damian Woetzel.

Canvas is commissioned by the Vail International Dance Festival with additional support from Works & Process at the Guggenheim.


The Upper East Side 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128212-423-3500
Performance Sunday May 19, 2013

Ice Cream Time Nick Didkovsky, Thomas Dimuzio, and Prism Quartet ROULETTE Performance Sunday May 19, 2013, 8:00 PM www.harvestworks.org


One of America’s foremost chamber ensembles, the PRISM Quartet is spearheading the US premiere of Ice Cream Time. Ice Cream Time is an evening-length work composed by Nick Didkovsky that uses electric guitar, an onslaught of saxophones, and real-time computer processing to explore the boundaries between human- and software-generated music. Ice Cream Time explores, bends, and shatters musical boundaries.

Ice Cream Time features electronics virtuoso/maverick Thomas Dimuzio, who processes the sound of the ensemble in real-time using unorthodox techniques he developed on the Kurzweil KS2600 sampler. Also in the mix, custom software programmed by Didkovsky using his own computer music language JMSL, which radically transforms the sound of his live electric guitar. The virtuosity of the PRISM Quartet is given plenty of space with a complex, high energy, and deep listening compositions that extend the possibilities of the ensemble.

Commissioned by the world-renowned ARTE Saxophone Quartet, Ice Cream Time was composed by Nick Didkovsky, best known for his work with Doctor Nerve, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble, and Bang On A Can. It has been performed in Europe and Quebec, but never in the USA.

http://www.punosmusic.com/pages/icecreamtime/

Ice Cream Time is available on CD from New World Records (NWR 80667), http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=81499


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