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Virtual Corps

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Two screenings:

5:00 – 6:00pm & 6:30 – 7:30pm

(RSVP necessary)

curated by Aily Nash

Virtual Corps grew out of an exquisite corpse approach, focusing on the relationships that develop between the works as one transitions into the next. The chosen works are varied explorations of the virtual which, when examined sequentially, reveal converging meanings. We begin by considering self-exploration at its most primal; recognizing one’s body and its consequence in space. Movement in place is considered both in the traditional sense of virtual reality, as well as in the stasis of the mise-en-scène that foregrounds a webcam. These acts and performances in confined private spaces have broader implications that resonate in an exterior space, perhaps not physically, but virtually. In some cases, these movements take on symbolic effect as gestures that speak to one’s cultural, political, and geographic context, and we begin to see how these contexts profoundly influence how we move. The reiteration of popular culture through private quotidian performances calls into question what inspires us to perform, communicate and share with the virtual community, in a way that is specific to its anonymous atmosphere. The works explore the hinterland between the act of defining one’s individualism within the globally expansive culture industry, and recognizing that we are also products of it. The subjects seek self-discovery while mediating what it means to be both the same and different from the world outside of us, endeavoring to connect and communicate however remote and faceless their audience may be.

This program was curated in participation with the College Art Association’s ARTspace Media Lounge project.

The Third Body, Peggy Ahwesh, video, 2007, 9 min

Running Man, Mirak Jamal, video, 2010, 13 min

Around the World, Alex Kalman, video, 2010, 9 min

My Way 1, Amie Siegel, video, 2009, 9 min

Lenny, Cyril Amon Schaublin, video/super 16, 2009, 17 min

total running time: 57 minutes

Peggy Ahwesh, Alex Kalman, and Amie Siegel will be present at the screening for Q & A

Location:

360 Court Street, Brooklyn , NY 11231 (subway F/G Carroll street, President Street exit)

Church entrance green door.

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(both 5pm  & 6:30pm  screenings are closed)

Tuesday January 18 2011, 6.30pm

Discussion/Presentation
by Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne

click to view photos of event:

Performance artist and pop musician Khaela Maricich (who performs as TheBlow) and installation/conceptual artist Melissa Dyne will discuss their current collaboration: a music based performance piece, which they arepresenting in a diversity of contexts, from rock clubs to museums, in an exploration of the possibilities and assumptions inherent in each setting.They will demonstrate, among other things, their experience brushing against the invisible boundary lines of convention, the strangeness of the creation of a pop icon, and the intricacies of the collaborative process.

Further venues of this lecture will include the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg and The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon among others.

In light of Residency Unlimited’s interest in exploring new residency formats and working collaboratively, this event is the first of a series of evenings dedicated to the investigation of collaborative practices.

Location:
360 Court Street, Brooklyn , NY 11231 (subway F/G Caroll street)

During the Fall Semester 2010, Residency Unlimited was a case study for the Development for the Visual Arts course at the NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration Program.  Students spent the fall semester to devise a fundraising strategy for 2011 and beyond.

Below is Melissa Rachleff Burtt, clinical associate professor in discussion with RU founders Nathalie Anglès and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, for the final class of the course.

This holiday season support our arts organization

with Black Friday (Thalia & Adri)
& Joro Boro

$1.00 Artist Print Raffles

Residency Unlimited Holiday Fundraiser
LUXOR LOUNGE
40-26 28th St. Long Island City, NY 11101
1 1/2 blocks from Qns Plaza – Subways, 7, N, Q, E, R, M

$5 – 10-pm-12pm
$10 after

LADIES OPEN BAR TILL 11pm!!

Flyer is below! Courtesy of Black Friday (Thalia & Adri)

Ana Prvacki:
PERFORMING DAILY PRACTICE by Ana Prvacki
6 December 2010 through 7 December 2010, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
www.gardnermuseum.org

Anne Percoco:
- Convergence
Project Vortex Benefit
Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver St, Brooklyn
October 16 to December 12
Opening Reception: October 16, 7:00-9:00 PM
projectvortex.org/

- Insatiable
Women’s Studies Research Center
515 South Street
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
January 25 to March 15
Reception: Thursday, February 3, 5:00-7:30 PM

Edward Schexnayder:
- Edward has a forthcoming project that is a formalist response to immigration in print to be published in the next issue of Vector magazine (coming soon)

Eve K. Tremblay:
- Péripéties
curated by Sylvain Campeau
Exposition itinérante, présentée à la Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal
from November 12 to December 12 2010
www.occurrence.ca

- Le tarôt de Montréal
curated by Marie-Claude Bouthillier
18 nov 2010 au 10 jan 2011
M.d.c. Côte-des-Neiges
www.voir.ca/publishing/article.aspx?zone=1&section=20&article=70499
www.marieclaudebouthillier.org/2010_tarotDeMontreal/2010_tarotDeMontreal.html

Rebecca Ann Tess:
- A Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight
(Story Telling) in Zurich
from 1 October to 21 November 2010
www.endlesstales.ch/home.html

- New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages
at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the MMK Zollamt
Opening: December 10
www.fkv.de/frontend_en/ausstellungen_vorschau_detail.php?id=691

Special Features artists Peter Hristoff and Marie Losier:
- C’est La Vie! That’s Life!
Pera Museum, Istanbul
26 – 28 November 2010
Program Curators
en.peramuzesi.org.tr/pera_film/detail.aspx?SectionID=QbUOMr6zPJaIBIh7lBmuzQ%3D%3D&ContentID=IRPsNXke9F0LSfIHWetbYg%3D%3D

Judith Souriau profiled Anne Percoco’s Repaired Things in Arts Plastiques, the arts blog of the French daily newspaper Libération. Enjoy!

artsplastiques.blogs.liberation.fr/participatif/2010/11/repaired-things.html or Download the PDF file

mardi 16 novembre 2010

Repaired things: l’art de la récup’

par Judith SOURIAU

L’artiste américaine Anne Percoco, actuellement en résidence à New York, répertorie des objets de grande consommation détériorés puis réparés: une célébration du système D à l’ère de l’«over-consumption».

C’est un lieu commun de dire que, dans nos sociétés occidentales hautement consuméristes, nous ne réparons plus rien mais remplaçons plutôt ce qui est abîmé, cassé, ou juste désuet. Là où nos grand-mères portaient leurs sacs à main chez le cordonnier et investissaient dans un lave-linge pour la vie, Zara et Darty nous en fournissent de nouveaux pour le prix d’une réparation, et on se demande si nos enfants porteront leur voiture au garage ou directement à la casse.

Alors que nous nous essoufflons tout doucement de cette surconsommation, la très jeune artiste américaine Anne Percoco a recensé, aux Etats-Unis et ailleurs, des initiatives et des objets réparés. L’idée lui est venue lors d’une résidence de trois mois en Inde où, en bon rejeton de l’Amérique de «over-consumption», elle fut marquée par l’habileté des habitants à donner une seconde vie aux objets les plus banals. A son retour, elle crée le blog «Repaired Things», qui inventorie les objets les plus simples mais aussi les plus créatifs de l’économie du système D (celle qu’on trouve en bas de chez soi si tant est que l’on cherche). Les objets sont classés par catégorie, et les mots-clé correspondent aux types de détérioration (cassé, émietté, détérioré…) et de réparation (cousu, scotché, noué…).

Les entrées «Toaster» et «Wall» sont d’une grande poésie. Quant au «Tree cushion» de Bangalore, dans la série Architecture, il vous laisse simplement coi.

Voir aussi le «Remarkable Repairs contest» du site néerlandais Platform 21. 

We want to welcome Rebecca Ann Tess, recently arrived from Frankfurt. She is the current RU/FF partnership based artist in residence.

Rebecca is currently working on post production of a new film project entitled “A crime must be Committed”. (Still image below)

‘A crime must be Committed’, 2010

Rebecca Ann’s residency is made possible by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany),

Du 17 octobre au 14 novembre

Mishima in Red Hook, 2009 (avec Anne-Laure Dubé)

Du 17 octobre au 14 novembre 2010, le Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides présente « H²EAU », une exposition sur l’eau et sa présence dans nos vies, dans le cadre du programme Repérage Collection Loto-Québec. Dix-huit artistes de la région des Laurentides y participent. Une trentaine de leurs œuvres en lien avec cette thématique rassembleuse sont regroupées en quatre sous-thèmes : « L’imaginaire : lien poétique », « Échos sensibles », « Intervention humaine » et « Salée, poivrée? ».

En parcourant l’exposition, le visiteur découvrira des œuvres – photographies, vidéos, peintures, installations et gravures – faisant résonance à la relation poétique, émotive, utilitaire ou abusive, qu’entretient l’humain avec l’eau. L’homme face à la vastitude de la mer, l’eau comme support de la chaîne alimentaire et l’eau comme préoccupation environnementale sont parmi les sujets évoqués. La singularité du concept et du visuel de chacune des œuvres crée une ambiance où se côtoient le lyrisme, le jeu, l’ironie et le formalisme, rehaussant la richesse et la qualité du travail de l’artiste.

« De par la portée universelle et le caractère actuel de sa thématique, l’exposition « H²EAU » devrait tout autant interpeller les jeunes que les adultes, l’eau étant un élément essentiel à la vie et indispensable à la survie de l’humanité », souligne le directeur général du Musée, monsieur André Marion.

Madame Hélène Brunet Neumann, jeune artiste en arts visuels et historienne de l’art de la région, agit à titre de commissaire de l’exposition. « Les artistes qui y participent ont relevé le défi artistique et technique de créer des œuvres reflétant à la fois les attributs physiques de l’eau, sa fluidité, son mouvement, sa puissance et sa densité, ainsi que son pouvoir de susciter de l’émotion. La mise en espace du parcours en quatre sous-thèmes reliés à l’eau crée une harmonie entre la diversité des médiums utilisés et des langages artistiques proposés. Le visiteur est donc convié à un véritable plongeon dans les eaux foisonnantes de la création », commente-t-elle.

Vernissage : le dimanche 17 octobre à 14h

Invitation spéciale pour les membres du Musée :
visite de l’exposition avec la commissaire
Hélène BRUNET NEUMANN, le dimanche 17 octobre à 13h.

Le Musée est ouvert du mardi au dimanche, de 12 h à 17 h. Pour des renseignements, communiquez au 450 432-7171 ou visitez notre site,www.museelaurentides.ca.

In October 2010, Residency Unlimited was invited to attend the General Members Meeting of Res Artis The Americas: Independent Artistic Practices in the Era of Globalization, October 6th through 10th, 2010, in Montréal and Québec City (Canada).

The 2010 Conference will examine the state of residencies in the Americas by taking stock of the experiences, local initiatives, and self-management models impacting methods of production and distribution, as well as the creative contexts for contemporary work. Our intention is to allow Conference participants to meet the most representative interlocutors from the Americas’ vast cultural scene and to understand the stakes and factors both distinguishing and uniting them.

RU Founder/Director, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria was a panelist during the conference in a discussion on Sustainable Partnerships:

Session C: Sustainable partnership

Francine Royer, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (QC)
Ayeh Naraghi (UNESCO)
David Panton, Acme Studios (UK)
Juan Jose Dìaz Infantes artist, curator and cultural activist (MX)
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Residency Unlimited, New-York (US)
Monique Badaro (BR)
Pierre Beaudoin, moderator

Partners for life or partners in an adventure? In this session we seek to give voice to government bodies and organizations who, when putting in place residency programmes and international exchanges, develop short, medium and long-term strategies to deal with policy. How is hosting someone in residency favored or penalized by governmental policy/policies and the framework of international agreements? How may we establish a hosting policy that is independent and equitable, or is that even possible? How can the strategies and mechanisms put in place by organizations create sustainable ties outside of national policies?

Transcripts and video coming soon!

MLAB the Open Institute fostered a discussion with Artists associated with Residency Unlimited and co-founder Sebastian Sanz De Santamaria during their 2-week stay at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery 29 Orchard St. , NYC

You can listen here: web.me.com/mlab3/MLAB_-_the_open_institute_podcast_series/MLAB_PODCAST_SERIES/Entries/2010/9/28_Residency_Unlimited.html

RU Artists:

• Ed Schexnayder
• Anne Percoco
• Eve K. Tremblay

The Dumbo Arts Festival announces the inclusion of Edward Schexnayder’s “The Unknown Knowns.”

The Unknown Knowns reminds visitors of the absent presence of the homeless through a collection of shrines scattered throughout Dumbo. This piece is a critically engaged project of both the traditional form of public art and of socially engaged artistic practices.

dumboartsfestival.com/2010/08/19/edward-schexnayder-daf-juried-outdoor/

The Dumbo Arts Festival is happy to announce the inclusion of Anne Percoco’s installation piece “Canopy.”

“Canopy” is a functional sleeping bag and pillow sewn out of cloth leaves cut from botanical-print fabrics. From a distance, the sleeping bag will appear to be a messy, beautiful pile of leaves.

During the festival, visitors will be invited to nap in the sleeping bag in the

Brooklyn Bridge Park or the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. In this way,

participants will activate the sculpture. They will have the opportunity to rest, camouflaged, in the midst of the festival’s activity.

dumboartsfestival.com/2010/08/27/anne-percocojuried-artist/

Clôture du 20e anniversaire!

Vernissage: le samedi 11 septembre à 15H
Les expositions se poursuivent jusqu’au 16 octobre.

Mary Mattingly présente en solo The Anatomy of Melancholy

Dans l’archipel du Waterpod

Exposition regroupant: Alison Ward, BGL, Carissa Carman + Logan Smith, Charles Stankievech, Mira & Derek Hunter, Diane Borsato, Frédérique Saia, Geneviève Rousseau, Gregory Chatonsky, Ian Daniel, Jean-Pierre Bourgault, Kate Greenslade, Marc Dulude, Rodney Latourelle, Sylvie Cotton

Anatomy of Melancholy

solo, photographie

Mary Mattingly

Commissaire et artiste: Ève K. Tremblay

www.occurrence.ca/

ROOM I: Astrid Bussink and Sarah Tosques Constructions of Happiness: the American Years……

ROOM II: Kate Shaw Irrational Geographic

Friday 27 – 6:30 – 9:00
EFA Project Space
323 West 39 Street 2nd Floor NYC 10018

RSVP by August 26 toSally@efanyc.org

The artists of EFA Project Space’s Studio Residency for NYC Arts Workers would like to share their experience with you.

Please join us for a reception and private viewing to celebrate the inauguration of this one-of-a-kind program.

Participants:

Tova Carlin
Sean Carroll
Paul Clay
Chantel Foretich
Felicity Hogan
Amber Hawk Swanson
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria
Beatrice Wolert

Reception generously sponsored by: NADA

www.efanyc.org/residency-blog/

more info on the project, please click here

Photo by Emily Miller

“ Knights were felled, queens were crowned and pawns were trampled in a Greenpoint park on Saturday as artists dueled to the death in a cruel battle of human chess.

The two local artists/chess lovers, Douglas Paulson and Santo Tolone, yanked their 32 fully costumed human chess pieces across the makeshift board in a vicious attempt to be the champion of Greenpoint’s first annual “human-chess-to-the-death” competition. ”

www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/32/wb_humanchess_2010_08_06_bk.html

more info on the project, please click here

Residency Unlimited is pleased to announce its collaboration with Elastic City.

Elastic City is a project that intends to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. Artists are commissioned by Elastic City to create their own walks. These walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city. Through this partnership, Residency Unlimited artists are offered the unique possibility of creating new walks during the course of their residency.

www.elastic-city.com

Greenpoint’s 1st Annual Human Chess-to-the-Death Match
Saturday, July 31, 3 pm
@ The School of the Future, Dougherty Park

A battle between Residency Unlimited’s Santo Tolone, a renowned Italian conceptual artist and two-time Milano Chess Invitational Champion, versus Flux Factory’s locally lauded Douglas Paulson, at Greenpoint’s 1st Annual Human Chess-to-the-Death Match. Please join these competitors on the sidelines, or better yet: on the battlefield. It will take nerves of steel to be one of the 32 pieces. This is not an exercise in standing still. There will be dance moves, cussing, war-cries, face painting, and many secret tricks up your sleeves. (Those sleeves, drinks, and tricks will be provided.)

To participant in this cruel game of wits, please contact info@fluxfactory.org with the subject “RUFF Chess.”

God speed you, Chess Champions of NYC-based arts residencies!

Eve K. Tremblay Flickr Photos

EXHIBITION OPENING

Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup
Curated by Simon Critchley June 10 – July 11, 2010Opening reception: June 10, 6-8pm

LIVE screening of matches at apexart
June 11 – July 11 (see schedule)

The FIFA World Cup is the most important and widely watched sporting event in the world and will run this year from June 11 – July 11, 2010, in South Africa. The germinal idea for this exhibition is very simple: to create the perfect football environment, a sort of mini-soccer paradise at apexart for watching games. Around the games themselves, there will be talks, events, and a series of works, objects, and activities that will expand the spectacle into a more conceptual and sensual rumination on the meaning and significance of football/soccer.The World Cup is a spectacle in the strictly Situationist sense. It is a shiny display of nations in symbolic, atavistic national combat adorned with multiple layers of commodification, sponsorship and the seemingly infinite commercialization. It is an image of our age at its worst and most gaudy. But it is also something more, something bound up with difficult and recalcitrant questions of conflict, memory, history, place, social class, masculinity, violence, national identity, tribe, and group. The hope of the exhibition Men With Balls is to construct a unique situation where these questions can be ruminated on collectively.

Football is working-class ballet. It’s an experience of enchantment. For an hour and a half, a different order of time unfolds and one submits oneself to it. A football game is a temporal rupture with the routine of the everyday: ecstatic, evanescent, and, most importantly, shared. At its best, football is about shifts in the intensity of experience. And stories will multiply from that experience, stories of heroes and villains, of triumph, and a gnawing sense of the injustice of defeat. The aim of the exhibition is to produce with this show some experience of being together with others in a group, watching a game, waiting for something marvelous, unexpected, and possibly magical to happen. And it will happen.

Organized with curatorial assistance from Erica F. Campbell, Jessica Iannuzzi, and Natasha Llorens.
Image: dailymail.uk

apexart‘s exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Edith C. Blum Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The William Talbott Hillman Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

apexart
291 Church Street, NYC, 10013
t. 212 431 5270
www.apexart.org

Our Australian artist in residence, Kate Shaw, will partake in a group show on Staten Island, representing Flux Factory.

Read more »

Original Photo By Rik Panganiban and Adapted By Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.

Friends of the High Line presents the “Wandering Band,” a free performance of vocalists and musicians armed with portable wind, string, and brass instruments on Friday, June 11, 2010 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM and again on Saturday and Sunday, June 12 and 13, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM on the High Line.

Conceived by artist Ana Prvacki, the Wandering Band artists will perform their daily practice of scales, tonal, and finger exercises while strolling along the meandering paths of the High Line.

Wandering Band is a joint project by More Art and Residency Unlimited.

Wandering Band is part of the High Line’s spring and summer calendar of free public programs, which includes events centered around art, design, history, nature, and kids.

This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required. For the most updated information, please visit www.thehighline.org.

WHEN: Friday, June 11, 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 12, 12:00 – 3:00 PM
Sunday, June 13, 12:00 – 3:00 PM

WHERE: Along the High Line Entrances at Gansevoort and Washington Streets and along 10th Avenues at West 14th, 16th, 18th, and 20th Streets

Our local artist in residence, Anne Percoco, will participate in the following event this Saturday:

The Heather Hart Experience

BARTER TOWN (Trading Post V: Juneteenth)

Saturday, June 19, 2010

4:00pm – 7:00 pm

A, C, E exit Canal St. to Duarte Square at the crosroads of 6^th Ave and Canal St.

To encourage art to take an active roll in leading the shift of cultural value, and to create a critical space that is neither one place, or another yet both places, The Heather Hart Experience presents the fifth installment of Hart’s Trading Post projects, Barter Town (Trading Post V: Juneteenth). At the Trading Posts participants are invited to bring their ideas, services, songs, stories, unwanted goods, canned goods, handmade art, appliances, anything they think may hold value and haggle for something that they want.

Barter Town will have the appearance of a carnival or block party, but run on bartering only- no money allowed.  Barter town “vendors” include: Diane Vreeland Massage Therapy, Devorado vintage clothing, Emily North Tattoos, Jeff Sims, Lisa Sikorski, Anne Percoco, Joseph Redwood-Martinez, Jazz-Minh Moore, Carrie Hawks, Irvin Morazan, Mike Lash, Kambui Olujimi, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Tilton Wildro, Eric Clausen, Melissa Calderon, Greg Clodfelter, Elizabeth Sporleder and participating teens from the Harlem Children’s Zone and others.

Within the Barter Town boundaries visitors will find:

“The Doctor Is In” by Jeff Sims, provides insight to those seeking guidance. Participants will receive instruction to improve their understanding of an issue regarding personal and or professional trials. Sims is an ordained minister. “Bittersweet Chocolate Shop” by Lisa Sikorski, where the artist exchanges handmade chocolates for heartache from participants.  “Found Plands, Sought Poetry” by Joseph Redwood-Martinez where he will offer found plants that have been acquired through non-commercial means and poetry derived from the press releases. “I See You Seeing Me Seeing You” by Jazz-Minh Moore who will perform quick portrait exchanges. Moore will draw a portrait of a visitor while that person is also creating a portrait of her. “Horseman of the Apocalypse: Famine of the Chocolate Tamales.” By Irvin Morazan who will seek a verbal exchange for tamales based on the Mayan prophesy of 2012; if the world would end on 2012 he wants to hear visitors’ personal fantasies, confessions, dreams, fears, or sexual desires about their last year. Tilton Wildro will offer drawings and prints for non-perishable food, unburdening himself of old artwork, donating collected food to a shelter. “Said Drawings” by Eric Clausen who will trade drawings for your stories. Visitors’ stories will inspire a drawing for another storyteller. Drawings will also be available for other goods/services. Greg Clodfelter will offer souvenir photos. Carrie Hawks will trade her Dreadlock Dolls.  Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz will perform as one of her characters, scripting souvenirs of visitors’ names in her invented language. Emily North will offer temporary tattoos. There will also be a costume making workshop, Juju bag booth, Devorado vintage clothing booth, Diane Vreeland Massage Therapy trading chair massage, and much more.

Barter Town is free and open to the public. It will be held outside for three hours June 19^th, 2010 from 4pm – 7pm at Juan Pablo Duarte Square on Canal at Grand St.

BRING SOMETHING TO TRADE!

Heather Hart is a 2009 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program and Harlem Children’s Zone.

For more information please email heather@heather-hart.com

www.heather-hart.com

www.nyfa.org

Our Canadian artist in residence, Eve K.Tremblay, partakes in a group show DESTRUCTION & RENEWAL at Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences, in NYC.

THE FORMATION, EVOLUTION, ANATOMY & BEHAVIOURS ON THE WATER POD

FROM JUNE 12, 2010
by appointment only
eve@evektremblay.com

www.evektremblay.com

LOW DÉCO

Meris Angioletti
Riccardo Beretta
Patrizio Di Massimo
Matteo Rubbi
Santo Tolone

curated by Alessandro Rabottini

Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan
Via Mozart, 14

From 18 May to 13 June, 2010

www.fondoambiente.it/eventi/gemine-muse-2010.asp

Being staged as part of Gemine Muse 2010, the Low Déco exhibition brings together five emerging artists, who are either active in Milan or who were trained in this city. They have been invited to produce works that have been specifically designed for the context of Villa Necchi Campiglio, encapsulating what the building represents in terms of the history of architecture and design and its value as a historical document in the widest possible sense.

The Villa was commissioned by the Necchi Campiglio siblings and was designed by Piero Portaluppi (1888-1967), who completed work on it in 1935. Portaluppi used the Villa to experiment with a synthesis of Déco and Rationalism the like of which had never been seen before. During the Second World War, use of the Villa as a private residence was put on hold and it was used instead as a military garrison. Once it had been returned to the owners, they decided to entrust architect Tommaso Buzzi (1900-1981) with the task of making the space more attuned to the prevailing taste of the Milanese upper middle class.

It is from these events – i.e. from the dialectic that engages with modernity, tradition, history and power – that the exhibition takes its cue: indeed, all of the works were created out of a profound relationship with the history of the Villa, and they embody different approaches to themes such as the nature of historical knowledge, the relationship between the past and the present, the relationship between the original and the copy, and the guises that modernity has assumed during Italy’s artistic and political history. In these works, the past returns in various forms: as a fossil, as a misinterpreted object, as a ghost haunting the present and as a possibility and hope for the future.

The exhibition catalogue, published by Kaleidoscope Press with text by Lucia Borromeo, Michele D’Aurizio and Alessandro Rabottini, documents the research that each artist carried out in preparation for this exhibition and that constitutes the basis for each work on show.

Gemine Muse 2010 involves 22 Italian towns and cities, 120 artists, 30 curators, 19 exhibition venues and 3 trails in 3 historical centres, and forms part of the ITALIA CREATIVA project, run by the Department for Youth / President of the Council of Ministers, in partnership with ANCI (the National Association of Italian Municipalities) and GAI (the Association for the Circuit of Young Italian Artists).

MERIS ANGIOLETTI

Conversation Pieces, 2010

2-ch audio installation with audioguide headphones

Meris Angioletti’s work consists of a sound-based installation to be experienced through headphones (on entering the Villa, visitors should request the audioguides). The title Conversation Pieces recalls a genre of painting that was in vogue in the 18^th century, especially in Britain, in which family groups were portrayed in different poses and contexts. The title also refers to the penultimate film of Luchino Visconti, made in 1974 and called Conversation Pieces in English, which configures the luxurious home of the elderly protagonist as the backdrop for his withdrawal from the present. Angioletti invites visitors to take an auditory walk in the garden, immersing them in a tale told by multiple voices, which makes the Villa and its grounds the mental sets for an imaginary film. This mosaic of literary, film and historical sources transforms the visitor into a virtual camera, whose only form of recording is its inscription in the personal experience of the individual.

RICCARDO BERETTA

Portoro, 2010

Manual wooden inlay on marine plywood

Riccardo Beretta’s wooden inlaid sculpture looks at first like a marble surface leaning against a tree – a minimal shape that puts natural and manmade elements into a dialogue with each other, recalling the dialectic of naturalistic decoration, geometry and precious materials that distinguishes Portaluppi’s work. Out of the many references that this work evokes – from the simulation of Italian Baroque to Richard Artschwager, from Art Nouveau to John McCracken – there emerges the theme of the relationship between artistic forms, ideology and politics. The woods that compose the inlay are sourced from different countries, from Canada all the way to Brazil, whereas the marble that, together, they resemble, is characteristically Italian, as if to question the idea of purity and integrity, both of the materials and of the national identity. This work proposes a form of hybridisation that cites the defence of unity and homogeneity as the origin of the totalitarianisms of the past and of contemporary xenophobic policies.

PATRIZIO DI MASSIMO

Fuga dal disordine, 2010

Guided tour of the Villa, actor: Alberto Onifretti, courtesy of the artist and t293, Naples

Patrizio Di Massimo uses the device of the guided tour – the only device available to the visitor to access the Villa – and, through the presence of an actor, leads visitors on a trip whose stages are constituted by some of the works of the Novecento italiano movement donated by Claudia Gian Ferrari to the Italian National Trust (FAI). In his work, the aesthetic ideals of the “Return to Order” are overlaid on the biographical details of figures such as Margherita Sarfatti and Italo Balbo, who were linked to Fascism and to its initial perception as a political avant-garde, which soon turned into a totalitarian regime. In Di Massimo’s work, the classicism of the forms of the “Return to Order” and the link with the tradition of Italian art and the ideal of a pure art become the mirror of a degeneration of the concepts of tradition and unity of national culture.

MATTEO RUBBI

L’Italia in cerchio, 2010

Prototype of a board game inspired by the 22^nd Giro d’Italia, 18 boards, various materials

Matteo Rubbi’s work arises out of a collaboration with seventeen artist and writer friends. Each of these friends was asked to come up with a parlour game inspired by one of the legs of the 22^nd Giro d’Italia, which was held in June 1934 and was won by Learco Guerra, on the eve of the Italo-Abyssinian War. Each element is the hypothesis of a game, a prototype whose rules are yet to be defined. Visitors are invited to play these games and to find out, through sharing and participation, what the rules of each of them are. For the Necchi Campiglio family, games provided an important opportunity for socialising, as evinced by the gaming tables designed by Portaluppi for the library: Rubbi references this habit of the owners and reflects on the concept of the “rule” as a space for negotiation and invention, rather than as a tool through which to achieve victory.

SANTO TOLONE

Fontana Angelica
2010
Brass tube, electric timer 340 x 240 x 90 cm
Photo: Jacopo Menzani

Fontana Angelica
2010
Brass tube, electric timer 130 x 419 x 85 cm
Photo: Jacopo Menzani

Fontana Angelica
2010
Brass tube, electric timer 130 x 419 x 85 cm
Photo: Jacopo Menzani

Meridiana
2010
Marble, 16,5 x 85 x 9,5 cm
Photo: Jacopo Menzani

Santo Tolone evokes the memory of Portaluppi in works created through research carried out at the Piero Portaluppi Foundation Archive. The shadow that a step of the entrance to the Villa casts on the step below has been taken by the artist and reproduced in marble – a material of which Portaluppi was very fond – and then moved to a given point in the garden. The artist takes his inspiration from the recurrent use that the architect made of sundials on the facades of his buildings; as seen, for example, on the southern wall of Villa Necchi. In another work by Tolone, Portaluppi reappears as the designer of fountains: the artist has created sculptures out of brass pipes, taking as his template the internal hydraulic structure of fountains that Portaluppi had designed, but never realised, in a gesture that recalls the ghosts of the architecture of English artist Rachel Whiteread and the evocation of the habitational void by Alberto Garutti. These functional skeletons are homages to a never-fulfilled desire that, with the addition of sporadic water jets, now comes to life.

Our Italian artist in residence, Santo Tolone, participated in the Viafarini DOCVA at the Tate Modern for No Soul For Sale

China Purple by Flavio Favelli
From May 14 to May 16 Viafarini DOCVA represents itself through an installation-room by Flavio Favelli, China Purple, a cupboard full of memorabilia, “jewels”… souvenirs of Viafarini!s history. China Purple represents a showcase for the publication Souvenir d!Italie.

A nonprofit art story as well as an occasion to put on display a series of contributions by some of the artists who exhibited at Viafarini throughout the 20 years long history of the organisation: Francesco Arena, Ricardo Baruzzi, Pierluigi Calignano, Paolo Canevari, Gianni Caravaggio, David Casini, Gea Casolaro, Maurizio Cattelan, Manuele Cerutti, Martin Creed, Gabriele Di Matteo, Jimmie Durham, Emilio Fantin, Linda Fregni Nagler, Giulio Frigo, goldiechiari, Andreas Golinski, Paolo Gonzato, Alice Guareschi, Claudia Losi, Lorenza Lucchi Basili, Giovanni Kronenberg, Kim Jones, Armin Linke, Margherita Manzelli, Eva Marisaldi, Maria Morganti, Margherita Morgantin, Liliana Moro, Giovanni Oberti, Yoshua Okon, Giovanni Ozzola, Alessandro Pessoli, Luigi Presicce, Tobias Rehberger, Francesca Rivetti, Stefano Romano, Maia Sambonet,

Dragana Sapanjos, Sissi, Santo Tolone, Luca Trevisani, Nico Vascellari, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti.

In addition a series of artist portfolio are available for consultation: Meris Angioletti, Davide Balliano, Francesco Barocco, Rossana Buremi, Valerio Carrubba, David Casini,
Loredana Di Lillo, Chiara Fumai, Andreas Golinski, Alice Guareschi, Giorgio Guidi, Alessandro Roma, Matteo Rosa, Andrea Sala, Maia Sambonet, Marinella Senatore, Santo Tolone, Eugenia Vanni, Nico Vascellari.

More info: www.festivalartecontemporanea.it/viafarini-docva-alla-tate-modern-per-no-soul-for-sale

proudly presents:
SPECIAL FEATURES
Film Screening

Friday May 7th, 2010
Reception 7pm, show at 8pm

Millennium Workshop
66 East 4th St. NY NY 10003

On May 7th at Millennium Workshop, Residency Unlimited is proud to present the film screening of 12 newly created short film and video works that were realised for   “Special Features” at Kumukumu Gallery(L.E.S) in January 2010.  Special Features was co-curated with Marie Losier.

The screening is part of Millennium’s “Spring 2010 Personal Cinema Series” program.

Artists: Adam & Eve , F. P. Boué, Francisca Caporali, Bradley Eros, Juliana Francis-Kelly, Brian Frye & Penny Lane, Camille de Galbert, Peter Hristoff, Andrew Lampert, Marie Losier, Jackie Raynal, Joel Schlemowitz.

With a live soundtrack by Séance (the ensemble), with roe enney, Antiquity, Lary 7, & Eros accompanying Bradley Eros’ work “Séance”.

In January 2010, Residency Unlimtied curated a month long  residency initiative for 12 local filmmakers who were invited for a day long residency each at the Kumukumu gallery. ‘Special Features’ used a simple yet precise set of constraints designed to maximize the time, space and resources available in order to produce new works of short film.

Residency Unlimited converted the gallery space into a low cost film studio, containing all the necessary ingredients for filming a movie: cameras, lighting, costumes, props, backgrounds, staging, etc. Artists, filmmakers, musicians, and performers were invited to use the space and equipment to each make a film over the course of one workday. The artists were challenged to see the possibilities within these limits in order to make a compelling work – an exercise in resourcefulness.

for more information on the project and participating artists:
www.residencyunlimited.org/projects/2010/01/special-features/

*original photo:www.flickr.com/photos/rikomatic/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

PROJECT: Conceived by the artist Ana Prvacki, Wandering Band is an informal gathering of wind musicians, brass musicians, and opera singers who will complete their daily practice of scales, tonal, and finger exercises while strolling along the High Line. All participants will be instructed to walk at an andante pace and to engage in their solitary daily practice. Instruments must be portable and easy to carry. Wind and brass are ideal; lighter string instruments such as violins are also welcome. Wandering Band is part of a residency organized jointly by More Art and Residency Unlimited.

SUPPORTERS: The performance Wandering Band is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as well as National Arts Council/Singapore.

CONTACT: Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria at Residency Unlimited: info@residencyunlimited.org or call at (917) 478 2694 for details.

*NOTE: We will attribute an honorarium of $100 to professional musicians who can participate during the 3 sessions. (see belw)

check out the Wandering Band in action at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2009:

CONVERTING AN ART GALLERY INTO A LOW BUDGET FILM STUDIO
Artists: Adam & Eve , F. P. Boué, Francisca Caporali, Bradley Eros

, Juliana Francis-Kelly, Brian Frye

 & Penny Lane, Camille de Galbert, Peter Hristoff, Andrew Lampert

, Marie Losier, Jackie Raynal

, Joel Schlemowitz. A project co-curated by Residency Unlimited and Marie Losier.

Jan 1st – Feb 4th, 2010 – Kumukumu gallery, 42 Rivington street (NYC)

Andrea Galvani is a wonderful artist we’ve worked with in the past. He is currently an artist in residence at the LMCC Workspace residency. He is slated to teach a workshop at ICP, of which the sign up deadline is the end of this week! If you’re interested in the field, it’s worth a sign up.

Last Week To Sign Up For
(shopping.icp.org/school/continuing/course.html?category_id=153&product_id=32692&tr=y&auid=6216267)
New Topographies:  Interventions in the Landscape
Taught by Andrea Galvani and Willy Somma this workshop proposes a rigorous analysis of contemporary photographic work that takes as its central focus the landscape, perception and the relationship between nature and technology.
Using a selection of contemporary artists who re-imagine landscape photography to frame discussions, the workshop will clarify and refine students’ approach to their work.  The goal is to invigorate students’ photographic investigations and explore new strategies for production.
The class will provide inspiration and pose new questions to photographers on the verge of exploring new ways of working and exhibiting work.

L’intelligenza del male #3, 2007
138 x 188 cm
c-print on aluminum Dibond

www.andreagalvani.com

ICP

LMCC Workspace residenc

Curated by Francesco Bonami

On occasion of the celebrations for leading Italian organization Confindustria’s 100thanniversary, Confindustria and the Unione Industriale di Torino present 21×21. 21 artistsfor the 21st century, a group exhibition of young Italian artists devised and organisedby the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which will run at their Turin centre forcontemporary art from 25 March to 31 August 2010. The aim of the exhibition is tosupport artistic production and the careers of young artists as well as to enhance thevalue of Italian creativity.The exhibition, curated by Francesco Bonami (Artistic Director of the FondazioneSandretto Re Rebaudengo) will feature a wide selection of new and site-specific worksby 21 young Italian artists. The exhibition will offer an in depth insight into the dynamicsof contemporary art in Italy today.The exhibition concept is based on the relationship between innovation and tradition,relevant to both the worlds of contemporary art and that of modern day industry, lookingat progress versus preservation in relation to the country’s existing heritage.Current artistic production is undoubtedly linked to the past and is nurtured on whatcame before it; experimentation or new linguistics in art take their source from andcontinually look to the past. The exhibition directly addresses the dialectics and notonly the aesthetics of innovation/ tradition through the featured works, as well as usingthe exhibition as an area of sociological investigation to explore the impact that thesedynamics have on today’s society.Emma Marcegaglia, Head of Confindustria says, “culture is the one great thing that hasalways been able to capture the very essence of change, a fundamental resource to helpus better understand society and bring people closer / make them more aware of thethings that are not always evident in the world today. We chose to support and promotethis project for Confindustria’s 100 years because we believe that culture is a strongtool, able to produce values and generate new ways of thinking as well as the need– more than ever today – to invest in the human capital of information and knowledgeand the symbolic capital offered to us through identity and recognition. Confindustriafirmly sustain and represent the same values that come from these areas.”

1.Rondò
2010
Engraving on brass, wooden panel 140 x 100 cm
Photo: Maurizio Elia

2.
Rondò
2010
Engraving on brass, wooden panel 140 x 100 cm
Photo: Maurizio Elia

3.
Rondò
2010
Engraving on brass, wooden panel 140 x 100 cm
Photo: Maurizio Elia

The Re-turn of The Performance

Weekend long workshop* for artists, students, professionals and curious scholars of any field.

Quote taken from an art-blog: “The term performance art got its start during the 1960’s in the United States. It was originally used to describe any live artistic event that included poets, musicians, filmmakers, etc. By the 1970’s the term was used broadly to describe that it was live and it was art.”

What is a performance? What is the difference between performance art and a theatrical, musical, dance or film performance? When and how does performance art interrelate with other media? How do we know when we are watching a performance piece? Are there any differences between an art piece (painting, sculpture, installation, video) and a performance piece? Is there a way to do a performance without knowing that you are doing it? Are there any accidental performances? Do we already, without knowing it, perform something? When and for what reason would we possibly need to perform? When do we need a costume and when can we just perform with our regular clothes? How long can a performance piece be? For how many people can we perform? Are we able to set limits to a performance? Does a performance piece need preparation? Does it have to be good?

The workshop will try to engage with and extend the above questions, and by doing so, search for possible shifts in performance’s construction via the position of the spectator rather than that of the spectacle. The re-turn of the performance to the spectator/listener ultimately alters the way of constructing/composing a performance piece. The aim is to focus on the different ways that this may happen and to follow the importance of gesture, rhythm and dispositif(s) that a specific sound, location, object, film or image bring to bear on the individual’s body or on the group. The presentation and the execution of a performance piece could occur then only if there are reasons or purposes to negotiate with another (individual, individuals or groups).

With a series of discussions, readings and exercises, we will figure out if performance can have an impact on someone else when, instead of being a spectacle, it becomes the spectator’s own state of understandings, commitments and views.

Georgia Sagri

*The workshop will take place every other weekend starting from February 27th-28th. The duration for each day is ten hours including twenty minutes lunch break.

Fee for each day: Students 30$, Professionals 50$

The number of participants will be limited. Please send your name, email and a brief of the reasons you would like to participate.

For further questions and rsvp email at sgeorgiaster@gmail.com

Detailed schedule, location, readings and exercises of the workshop after rsvp

Georgia Sagri was born in 1979 in Athens, Greece. She studied music (singing and cello) from the age of five and was a student in the Experimental Music High School of Athens until 1997. In 1999, after one of her public performances in Athens, she was accused of insulting national symbols and had to appear in court. In 2003 she received her post-graduate degree in Painting from the School of Fine Arts in Athens; her thesis presentation, however, was a performance piece. In 2006 she moved to New York with scholarships from the Fulbright, Leventis, Onassis and Propondis Foundations. In 2008 she received her MFA degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University. In February of 2009, Sagri presented Yze Alone, a performance piece for the National Theater in Greece. Other selected exhibitions include a solo exhibition at AD gallery, Athens (2009), On Stellar Rays Gallery, NY (2009) and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (2008); and group exhibitions at The Kitchen, NY (2009), Terri & Donna, Miami (2009), Harris Lieberman Gallery, NY (2009), AR Contemporary, Milan (2008), Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial (2007), Deste Foundation, Athens (2006, 2001); and performances with the dance group It’s our pleasure to serve you at Smith Stewart Gallery, NY (2008) and MUMOK Museum, Vienna (2008). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the sound magazine Forté. She lives and works in New York City.

SPECIAL
FEATURES

Converting an art gallery into a low budget film studio.

Closing Reception:
Thursday Feb. 4th, 6-9pm

Jan 4  – Feb 12th, 2010,
Kumukumu Gallery
42 Rivington St, NY NY 10002

Gallery is open to the public from Feb 5th – Feb 12th (12-6pm)Artists:
Adam & Eve, F. P. Boué, Francisca Caporali, Bradley Eros,
Juliana Francis-Kelly, Brian Frye & Penny Lane, Camille de Galbert,
Peter Hristoff, Andrew Lampert, Marie Losier, Jackie Raynal, Joel Schlemowitz.

for more information on the project and participating artists:
www.residencyunlimited.org/projects/special-features/

Saturday, Jan 9, 2010 – Juliana Francis Kelly

Monday, Jan 11, 2010 – Bradley Eros

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 – F. P. Boué

Saturday, Jan 16, 2010 – Andy Lampert (coming soon!)

Sunday, Jan 17, 2010 – Brian Frye & Penny Lane

Juliana Francis Kelly, Bradley Eros, F. P. Boué, Andrew Lampert

Hello Everyone!

Please take a couple of mins to support our “Special Features” project, in which we will convert the Kumukumu Gallery into a low-budget film studio/one-day residency.

The project will conclude with a film screening and the production of a limited edition DVD (300). Reserve a copy by supporting the project with Kickstarter, Pledge $40.00 and receive a copy of the limited edition DVD compilation (300). Pledges begin at $20.00 – Click the Kickstarter widget below to make a pledge:

How your support can make a difference?
The project’s imperative is to help local experimental filmmakers. We need your support to cover the basic costs of space rental, staff during the month of filming, and most importantly, costs of producing the DVD.

Residency Unlimited is participating in the panel discussion: “Introducing new disciplines”
for the International Conference on Artistic Residencies & Eastern European Res Artis Meeting
November 16–19th 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Read more »

The theme of the 2009 Res Artis Conference in Korea was The 21st Century Art Residency and New Institutional Collaborations. Organized by the Gyeonggi Creation Center in Ansan City, the conference brought speakers from around the world to discuss opportunities for alliances across organizations and examine how shared resources can produce fruitful possibilities. Melissa Chiu, director of the Asia Society Museum in New York, presented the concept of museum as laboratory for creation, where artists acted as curators, examining their own work through the context of the institution’s collection. In 2006, Chiu invited U.S.-born Korean artist Michael Joo to the Asia Society to create an installation in which a 3rd-century Gandharan Buddha was surrounded by a halo made up of 48 high-tech surveillance cameras.

The GCC (Gyeonggi Creation Center) is an example of a unique collaborative situation where the center is being developed in conjunction with the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art. The GCC’s studio program includes exhibition space, local collaboration, international exchange and art storage. During the first three-month period, a total of twenty four artists are invited to participate in the residency, sixteen Korean artists and eight foreign artists. Mario Caro, the president of Res Artis said: “For any new art residency program, such as the one at GCC, to be successful it would have to strike a balance at addressing different audiences – the artists, the funders and the community, but most importantly there will be success if you have a visionary leader, who can understand those relationships and be creative in addressing all of them.”

Part of the panel discussions were held at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art where conference participants had the opportunity to view the group exhibition titled New Political Art in Korea since 1990s: Bad Boys Here and Now, curated by the director of the museum, Kim Hong-Hee . Comprised of some 150 works by 36 artists, the show highlights issues that have risen in Korean politics since the 1990’s such as ecology, construction of megalopolises and new satellite cities, dispersion of population, immigration and labor, to name a few.

I Wonseok, We Are Also like Them, mixed media, 2008 , Gyeonggi, Museum of Modern  Art, New Political Art in Korea since the 1990’s: Bad Boys Here and Now,	Dae Young Byun Mickey Buddha, FRP, 183 x 130 x 172 cm, 2007 (head with blue ears) One-eyed Panda keep saying blood-jam is so sweet, FRP, resin, 140 x 110 x 18cm, 2008 (winnie the pooh)

On the eve of the last day of the conference, American performance artist Dan Kwong,  one of the residents at GCC, presented excerpts from his humorous piece It’s Great 2b American. Hailed by critics as a master storyteller, Kwong intertwines multimedia, dynamic physical movement, poetry and music. The conference finished with a big party in the entrance hall of the Gyeonggi Museum Of Modern Art, where everybody had enjoyed themselves while dancing to the tunes of the local DJ.

Performance artist Dan Kwong

Conference participants and hosts at the Gyeonggi Moma party

We are happy to announce that Residency Unlimited has been selected as a Recommended Project for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program, for attribution of an office space at 125 Maiden Lane for 6 months from January through July 2010.

more on Swing Space and LMCC here:

10/04 rauschgiftengelloops + Wizards Of Oi, Envoy Gallery, (Sound Performance)

10/08 Radio Flux, Flux Factory, (Sound Performance)

10/15 rauschgiftengelloops, PPOW Gallery, (Sound Performance) www.thehostessproject.com/

11/11 Queens Wie Es Singt Und Lacht, Flux Factory (Happening)

11/14 The Inaugural Show, Flux Factory (Group Show)

11/11 – 12/18 Brandstifter Made In New York 2009 (Solo Exhibition)