ART IS NOT APART
All the way back at the birth of the word “art,” it was a verb that meant “to put things together.” It was not a product, but a process. If we can reclaim that view of art — as a way of looking at and doing things, a series of experiences and experiments — we gain a fresh grasp on the proven, practical ways to construct the quality of our lives. Eric Booth, The Everyday Work of Art
Thursday, January 19: Please join us for art, performance, and discussion as we launch The Compendium project! The initial organizers will share their artistic practices, speak with you about what our communities need this year, and begin to construct a “living compendium” of participating artists across disciplines. Come to get involved, come to throw your work into the curatorial and organizational mix, come get to know us if you don’t already, and come to enjoy yourself!
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Avenue
6pm: Gallery hours (work curated by Cat Gilbert, The 22 Magazine) and mingle. Wall Artists: Cat Gilbert, Alexander Barton, Aaron Howard
7pm-11pm: Performances from Valerie Kuehne, Ian Colletti, collab between Remote Control Tomato and Anya Liftig, thingNY, PPL, and others to be expected! Facebook event HERE
Free admission, donations-for-beer from the Brooklyn Brewery. All proceeds go towards artist fees for the many local and international artists we will be working with this year, as well as towards a special issue of The 22 Magazine and a final Book (The Compendium) documenting the year of projects.
The Compendium is comprised of artists who are deeply engaged with their communities. Organizing both as artists and as directors of alternative arts spaces, curators, members of ensembles and collectives, arts writers, and as agents of cultural influence, we form a “living compendium” to channel multiple agendas, intentions, and ideas into concrete support for artists and grassroots arts organizations.
Over the course of 2012, The Compendium initiative will experiment with hybrid modes of curation, exchange, and presentation, producing exhibitions, performances, publications, and more.
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Then…PPL will be at this symposium, showing a bit of our new opera NATURE FETISH (which is being developed in residence through The Performance Project @ University Settlement) during the ‘Artist Shares’ on Friday night, and Esther is doing one of the workshops on Saturday afternoon. (text below sent out by the Performance Project:)
ART IS NOT APART: Experiments, Reflections and Manifestos
A three-day symposium for artists, educators, curators and community workers who seek to reclaim the arts as an integral part of community life.
January 26th – January 28th
Collaboratively designed and hosted by two of New York’s oldest yet most innovative community-based organizations – University Settlement and Henry Street Settlement.
Join an array of creative community makers including…
Elastic City, DNA Works, Ping Chong & Company, Panoply Performance Lab, Vibe Theater, Sasha Soreff Dance, Kinematik Dance Theater, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Arts to Grow, Leave Out Violence-U.S. (LOVE-US), Trusty SideKick, SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Patty Dukes and Reph Star, The Anthropologists, Hip Hop Re:Education Project and more!
Admission is FREE!
Please click here to complete the registration form by January 23rd You can register for all or parts of the symposium but spots are limited - so act fast and stay tuned for weekly updates!
All Symposium events take place at University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street. (corner of Rivington Street) Click here for directions
Thursday, January 26th 7pm – 9:30pm
Creating Possibilities: Exploring Working Models, Approaches and Techniques
Panel Discussion: In a climate where essential services for children, seniors and other vulnerable populations are struggling to survive, how are artists making art relevant and integral to community life?
Breakout Session: Small groups facilitated by the panelists will brainstorm art and community connections and then collaboratively create a visual artifact to hang in The Gallery of Possibilities which will be on display throughout the symposium. Participants are welcome to bring artifacts from their own work.
The Shoelace Project: Created by Sasha Soreff Dance Theater. This interactive performance and workshop explores how shoelaces represent a powerful and nearly universal symbol: they tie us up, trip us up and hold us up. Personally inscribe an ultra wide shoelace with your hopes and fears and make discoveries about what gets us tangled and untangled, bound and unbound.
Friday, January 27th 7pm – 9:30pm
Resistance (theirs…or mine?): Transforming Resistance Into Creative Fuel
Breakout Session: As we have all experienced, resistance is an inevitable component of making art. Small groups guided by expert facilitators will identify and harness the forces of resistance. Each group will devise an original performance as a means of sharing perspectives, strategies, and techniques for working with resistance.
Artist Shares: Enjoy short performances by artists who are finding interesting ways to connect their process and work with communities traditionally beyond the reach of the art world.
Wine Reception: Build up your creative community network.
Saturday, January 28th 3pm – 9:00pm
(Community Dinner @ 6pm)
Manifesting Art and Community: Sharing and Acquiring New Skills, Ideas and Inspirations
Workshops: A selection of 90-minute workshops led by dynamic facilitators (topics to be announced next week). Each participant will have the opportunity to select two hands-on workshops.
Community Dinner: Sit, eat and enjoy connecting with creative community makers.
Smart Art Manifests & Artist Shares: Join us for an inspiring series of TED-style SAM (Smart Art Manifestos) talks and performances by innovative and highly creative community makers.
This Symposium is co-curated by Nellie Perera, Director of Arts in Education at Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center, Alison Fleminger, Program Curator and Educator of The Performance Project @ University Settlement and Michael Roderick, Founder of Small Pond Enterprises LLC.
The title ART IS NOT APART is inspired by artist and educator Eric Booth.
Some Months Have All the Fun
The blog has been temporarily abandoned in favor of seeing, organizing, and of course creating, performance of various sorts. Here’s a few things that it’s being abandoned for:
Monday evening, January 16: if you loved Daniel Kitson, Matthew Stephen Smith shares his solo work-in-progress, A Gathering of Very Articulate Individuals in which he expertly and alarmingly embodies the friends of a man falling from the roof of a newly-built condominium. Vaudeville Park, 7pm (beer, suggested donation $5-$15)
Later in the Evening on January 16: catch Small Beast curated by The Super Coda’s Valerie Kuehne at The Delancey. A full list of performers and their links online HERE! Don’t miss LES FILLES FÖLLEN while they’re in the city! follow the link for more of their performances this month, + in the same show, the one and only Big Plastic Finger, (which includes PPL composer Brian McCorkle).
Multiple Dates: Brian is performing as part of this COIL show by Davis Freeman, Too Shy To Stare (nytimes article), more information and tickets here.
Monday, January 23:
PERFORMANCY FORUM XIX: Box, Box, Box. Artists and composer-performers present works that work inside the box, outside the box, define the box, and utilize an actual box. Don’t miss incredible performances by Gelsey Bell, Quinn Dukes, Aliza Simons, and Nyugen Smith! 8pm, Vaudeville Park, 26 Bushwick Avenue, $5-$15 sliding scale donation encouraged.
Look forward to discussions about all the festivals and APAP (this is a noun
that also refers to the salty sludge to be cleaned out of the corners of linoleum-floored hallways afterwards).
-Esther
Opportunities for performance artists
All complex arguments about the “nature” of performance art (visual arts performance, theatre, music performance, etc) aside for the moment, here are some contexts into which you might be interested in locating your practice as a performance artist (cough).
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Flux Projects 
Deadline for Submission: February 29, 2012
Notification: April 30, 2012
The one-night only event takes place in Castleberry (Atlanta) Georgia, on Saturday, October 6, from 8:00 p.m. until midnight.
“Proposed projects can focus on any form of visual art or performance, broadly conceived, including sound installations. Projects should be appropriate to a one-night event. “
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Very exciting, GES has released a formal call for work!
Grace Exhibition Space
Brooklyn, call for work, deadline Jan. 20, 2012
Grace Exhibition Space [GES] presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, between February-May and September-November. Since opening in 2006, GES offers an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the best of the current generation of international performance artists. Through discussions, workshops and live art, GES establishes an environment that supports exchange and collaboration among artists and audiences from diverse cultures and artistic backgrounds.
Submissions any time after will still be reviewedGUIDELINES:
Works of performance art that explores themes of the body and politics,
whether personal or social and beyond.
- CV
- Short Bio (One Paragraph, no more than 150 words)
- Short description of proposed work
- Description of past works
- Any relevant links
Images: – Up to 10 digital images no larger than 1280 pixels in any
direction and at 72 dpi. – Digital images should be named with applicant’s
full name and image # – In your email include title, medium, date, and a
brief description of the work(s) * Videos: – In your email, include the link
to your video on YouTube or Vimeo. – Also include the title, and a one
paragraph description of each video submitted.We expect you to be available to make a presentation about your work and to
teach and/or participate in a performance art-related workshop. Our schedule
is: Monday – Artist Presentations, Thursday – Artist Workshops, Friday -
Live Art Event. We can provide one week of housing, studio space and one-meal/day for
accepted artists. We are not able to provide travel funding, but will provide transportation
when you are arriving and leaving.Please send all submissions to:
info@Grace-Exhibition-Space.com
Grace Exhibition Space
Directors, Jill McDermid-Hokanson and Erik Hokanson
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April-June season deadline for Performance Works-in-Progress and other programming at Dixon Place is January 1.
Visit http://dixonplace.org/html/submissions.php for the submission guidelines and to see all of their performance programs.
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Finally, PPL has a little call out of its own. We will be curating at Vaudeville Park as part of their resident curator program and elsewhere throughout 2012.
Thus, we are currently accepting proposals in three areas (below.)
In all three areas, appropriate work includes visual arts performance pieces, interdisciplinary performance art and theatre, experimental text for performance, participatory and social arts practices projects, sound art and performative and/or participatory experimental music and new opera. We rarely consider work outside of these areas.
1.) 5-30 minute pieces/sets/actions/works to be performed as part of multiple-artist one-night events, during our monthly PERFORMANCY FORUM, or as part of conceptually-formed inter-disciplinary 1-night exhibitions. PF artists receive a cut of the door, full technical support, and are asked to engage with the “forum” aspects of this series, which vary in form in relationship with the exhibition’s conceptual framework. Send description of pre-conceived piece, an inchoate idea for a piece, or simply introduce yourself and your work to us (as many PFs invite artists to create a new work for a specific forum) by sending description of specific work or artist statement, artist bio or CV and relevant work samples to panoplylab@gmail.com, ATTN: Esther Neff.
2.) Evening-length pieces or full-evening shows with multiple artists. If you’re doing experimental theatre, please send an artist or mission statement. Send description of work or show, list of artists and links to their websites or work samples, technical needs, proposed financial arrangement (will you charge at the door? etc) and any relevant work samples to panoplylab@gmail.com, ATTN: Esther Neff.
3.) Social Arts Practices and alternative forms of engaged performance: artist projects, seminars, panel discussions, workshops, and other process-based work. Send description of what you intend to do and why + what you need to do it to panoplylab@gmail.com, ATTN: Esther Neff.
Looking forward to hearing from you! E-mail me with any questions!
Documentation of Focus Workshops for NATURE FETISH
PPL‘s opera NATURE FETISH has begun with a series of Focus Workshops in Speyer Hall at University Settlement. One more HUGE THANK YOU to the Performance Project and to all who have participated in Stage 1 of this project!
Around 50 individuals have participated in these workshops, during which we have attempted to collectively “theorize” nature. This has meant not only identifying and experimenting with existing theories about nature and attempting to translate them into performance, but also using performance to theorize our perspectives on nature, our relationships and experiences with natural systems, our beliefs about nature and ideas about what it “is,” and our desires for understanding of “the nature of nature.” An opera comprised of fetishizing (power or importance-imbuing) theories will be developed and rehearsed (Stage 2) over the next five months for a premier in the Spring of 2012 (Stage 3).
NATURE FETISH: Evolution of Nature
This image depicts a Kibbo Krift ceremony. We learned of the existence of this via admiration of Olivia Plender. POW! PPL influenced.
THIS WEDENSDAY, we invite you to join us one more time at at the Performance Project @ University Settlement for the FINAL FOCUS WORKSHOP (5 of 5) for NATURE FETISH.
We will explore conceptions of “EVOLUTION” as well as any other narratives about nature, natural cycles, natural systems, or “inevtiable natural processes.” Do we know now where we came from? Is the big bang, the chain of life, the “truth”? Did the universe really happen by chance? Improvisation, debate, singing, and red wine! We will create and perform some scores and situations, to discuss what would be interesting to see, hear, feel, and otherwise experience as part of this opera, and to use this “creative excuse” to get philosophical, personal, and performative. (Notice how hard we work to begin words with the letter ‘p,’ doesn’t that make you want to come pppppplay?)
Hope to see you there!
October 19: Laws and Logic of Nature
October 26: The Wild
November 2: Animalia
November 10: Nature and Consciousness
December 7: The Evolution of Nature!
7pm-9pm
at the Performance Project @ University Settlement,
184 Eldridge Street
(F/M/J/Z to Delancy, 4/6 to Spring, or B/D to Grand)
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Absolutely no experience is necessary! Performers, musicians, directors, artists of all kinds are welcome, but so are dentists, magicians, social workers, house painters, and everyone else.
Come to one workshop or join the production team and perform the final work in April; multiple levels of participation and engagement are possible. We are currently “casting” this opera (always room for more PPL), if you would like to be a part of the next steps of the project as a performer, plastic artist, or other involved party, please email us: panoplylab@gmail.com.
Emergency INDEX, panels, and talks
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I have been reminding many of you to send performance documentation to Emergency INDEX, here’s another reminder: SUBMIT A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PERFORMANCE TO EMERGENCY INDEX!!! http://www.emergencyindex.com/performance.html (by January 3)
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hope to see you at two panels/talks in which PPL co-directors will soon be participating:
Publishing Performance in the 21st Century: Ugly Duckling Presse / Emergency INDEX
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, from 6:30pm -9:30pm at
This evening’s performance-infused forum will address performance criticism, documentation, and the relationship between writing and performance. A panel discussion with performance publishers, critics, and curators will be followed by performances by artists and playwrights based on critical writing about their own work; and open discussion between the panelists, artists, and audience members.
THE PANEL:
Antje Oegel (53rd State Press)
Esther Neff (Panoply Performance Laboratory)
Claudia La Rocco (Brooklyn Rail; New York Times)
Sylvan Oswald (Play A Journal of Plays)
Lana Wilson (Performa)
Moderated by Matvei Yankelevich (UDP)
THE PERFORMERS: Aki Sasamoto, Jim Findlay, Julia Jarcho
ABOUT Ugly Duckling Presse/ Emergency Ugly Duckling Presse, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit run by a volunteer editorial collective, is the home of the “Emergency” series: the former Emergency Gazette; Emergency Playscripts; and Emergency INDEX — a forthcoming annual publication, in which artists reflect on the work they created in the past year. More info at www.emergencyindex.com
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Performers Forum
at Exapno, 33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217
Sunday, December 4, from 3:00pm to 6:00pm
On Nov. 6, Performa 11 presented Perfect Lives Manhattan, a day-long, site-specific celebration of Robert Ashley’s seminal opera for television, arranged and performed by the burgeoning art collective, Varispeed. Please join Varispeed at the monthly Performers Forum where members Aliza Simons, Dave Ruder, Paul Pinto, Brian McCorkle and Gelsey Bell will be presenting a performative “live documentary” and public forum on the process, practice and production of Perfect Lives Manhattan. Site-specificity, arrangement, ownership and questions of what contemporary opera is will be discussed through live excerpts, new musical compositions, video and dialogue with attendees.
“Less an act of rescuing a work from oblivion than one of repurposing its materials to unleash latent potential…. That Varispeed’s members could express themselves so readily through Mr. Ashley’s work while remaining faithful to it was impressive.”
-Steve Smith, The New York Times
Varispeed is a newly formed collective of composer-performers from music and theatre groups Panoply Performance Laboratory, thingNY, and Why Lie? that creates site-specific, sometimes-participatory, oftentimes-durational, forevermore-experimental events.
Performers Forum is anything you want it to be. Curated by Corey Bracken. Suggested donation – Beers for $$$ – Awesome Vibes Gratis. Visit Performers Forum on the web for more details!
http://performersforum.com/upcoming-events/
(Performers Forum is not to be confused with PERFORMANCY FORUM, though the latter welcomes any association with the former…)
Turkeys on Theory: Thursday November 24
In the meantime…
Working on some diagrammatic (and frustratingly, increasingly dogmatic) attempts to organize thoughts after the conference of works and finding it impossible to add another voice to the cacophony of opines, theories, practices, and plans…in the meantime (while the act is gotten together, the documentation is edited and archived, the occupation is practiced, the work is attended, the sleep is attempted, and food is utterly forgotten) I offer you some reading material:
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2.) see if you can come Saturday, noon, for Streaming Labs at Spread Art where we’ll be performing with Anya Liftig,Valerie Kuehne , and Remote Control Tomato (Christina deRoos & Thomas Bell) watch online if you can’t make it to East Williamsburg or Paris here
You shall never be lonely again! Weekend TWO!
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN AND ATTENDED THIS CONFERENCE!!!! IT HAS NOW CONCLUDED BUT WE WILL DO IT AGAIN SOON!
In the meantime, join the PERFORMANCY FORUM Facebook group HERE.
Beatriz Albuquerque performance this past Friday night at Grace Exhibition Space (with Sharon Shih)
The non-autonomy will continue this weekend!!!
Thank you/chokrane/merci/gracias/xièxie/danke/asante/arigato/etc to all who participated during the first weekend of Conference of Works: Operations and Participations, whether by standing around drinking beer or by sharing performance work as part of the “occupation” of Grace Exhibition Space! Documentation is to come! Here’s some Dimanche Rouge (which was streamed into GES Saturday) in the meantime…
Below is an updated schedule for this weekend…hope to see EVERYONE THERE, participating in the roundtables (yes, yes, please come) and experiencing the performances/talks/workshops etc.
Conference of Works: Operations and Participations
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11: VAUDEVILLE PARK
7:00pm: Welcome! drinks, introductions.
7:30: Ann Hirsch on her notorious hipster “cewebrity”! Visit Youtube.com/user/scandalishious and scandalishious.com if you’re curious before her talk!
8:00: G Douglas Barrett Ground Music, which will invite audience members to “take to the ground”—as a spatial and metaphorical site for political, philosophical, and sonic reflection.
8:30: Anya Liftig we do not know what Anya will do EXACTLY, but whatever she does, whenever she does it, it is always astounding.
9:00: Alex Young has a notion, and nothing that he does really falls into ‘music composition, performance art, or internet’ work, though it does tend to address ‘artistic authorship while experimenting with modes of participation and intervention’.
10:00: Jules Rochielle is an artist and the founder of the Social Practices Arts Network (SPAN). Her visit to NYC from LA catalyzed–in part–this conference and the meeting of many like-minded people.
10:30: Gretta Louw:Controlling Connectivity Gretta has been living in a Berlin gallery space in complete isolation except for the internet since November 2nd. We will visit her online via skype and see how she’s handling it…
Five individual artists working in music composition, performance art, and interactive/internet forms describe, perform, and present projects that maintain artistic authorship and vision while experimenting with modes of participation, demonstration, and intervention. Come ready to partake in the bar, bring an instrument, bring a dry erase marker, bring a powerpoint presentation, bring an anecdote or joke, bring mittens, and a donation for Vaudeville Park. (address below)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12: GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
Opens at 3:30
ONGOING: SPAN site/listening station
listen to an archive of interviews with artists with social arts practices!
ONGOING: Urban Layers INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Interactively charting who, what, and where, on the wall of the space itself!
3:00pm and ONGOING: Mari Novotny-Jones in a 9-Hour Performance of INFECTION, COAGULATION, SEDIMENTATION, FILTRATION, DISINFECTION.
4:00pm: Open Discussion: documenting, proposing, and theorizing social practiced, engaged processes, and performance art. COME AND TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DO and HOW YOU TALK ABOUT IT and WHY YOU TALK ABOUT IT LIKE THAT.
5:00: Gelsey Bell performs First Aid Kit, a participatory and indeterminate composition using that little red or blue box with the cross on it, and what’s inside it.
6:00: Christina de Roos and Thomas Bell (Spread Art) Bushwick duo, individual artists, gallerists, curators, and more show their current work-in-progress and discuss their practice.
7:30: Aliza Simons leads a workshop/performance/happening with some little boxes, also known as radios, which allow sounds to be broadcast in at least a one-block radius.
8:00: Nate Hill presents Race Warriors: “Answer ten easy questions to uncover your racial prejudices, and play your own personalized race war video game,” a project of Racist Incorporated. play online game here.
8:30: Angela Washko will explain how her practice evolved from a very traditional studio painting practice to a massively interdisciplinary practice with a distinct focus in community organizing, and her participation in collectives and combines.
9:00: Anna Jane McIntyre all last weekend we had story cards for people to fill out (and boy are there a lot of them! Some quite crude), now Anna will perform them over skype from her studio in Montreal, Canada.
10:00pm: Hector Canonge Three words: perform/play/game. Hector is a master of participatory performance art, cultural organization, and more.
11:00: Dave Ruder’sWhy Lie? in this incarnation, 100 scores, from the graphic to the classically notated, each has its own internal logic and can stand up to a variety of different interpretations by trained musicians or by…you (whether or not you are, in fact, a trained musician)
Artist-curators, theorist-artists, and inter-disciplinary performers who wear “many hats” and come from many different performance backgrounds come together to share their work. Live participatory performances, talks, open bar, hands-on radio broadcasting from the space, and more!
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13: VAUDEVILLE PARK
4:00pm: Open Discussion: Politics of Aesthetics meet Practice! You are invited, you are invited, you are invited!
5:00: Carrie Dashow will discuss her practice and how it’s been performing/operating as Yesiree, the notary, at Zucotti park and throughout Occupy Wall Street.
5:30: Valerie Kuehne, Dream Zoo, an improvisational music ensemble will perform! Valerie may also be queried about her curation, community-building, and more.
6:00: Alison Fleminger from the Performance Project @ University Settlement on her residency program for artists working in and with communities, on arts in education, on devising theatre and dance, and on after-school programs and her Play Tank ensemble.
6:30: Douglas Paulson discusses Parfyme, Action Club and his many other projects in relation to ideas of participation, performance, collaboration, the role of the “audience”, etc.
7:00:Urban Layers is an experimental collaborative platform for urban writing, mapping and media. Its goal is to foster creative combinations of old and new media techniques for describing and understanding cities including tours, essays, photography, maps and video. See this work in action during the conference, hear the artists discuss past, present, and future Urban Layering!
How do artists work in a public sphere? How do artists become political agents, and how can creative work, cultural organization, and social sculpture operate socio-politically? What does ‘responsibility of form’ mean to us now? What are the political concerns of “avant-garde” theories and forms? Diverse artistic practices, from notarization of public statements during Occupy Wall Street through co-creative urban mapping, through conceptualized musical improvisation are juxtaposed, discussed, experienced, and documented.
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http://www.panoplylab.org/conference.html
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(Graham stop on the L train – Walk two blocks East on Graham Avenue and turn right onto Bushwick Ave.)
Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway
2ND Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(Flushing Avenue Stop on J-Z Trains – Walk 3 blocks East on Broadway)
For more information, e-mail Esther Neff at panoplylab@gmail.com
Warm up by participating! Conference of Works Nov. 4, 5, 11, 12, 13
The schedule is online!
CONFERENCE OF WORKS:
OPERATIONS AND PARTICIPATIONS
NOVEMBER 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 2011
Open to the public ALL DAYS.
suggested donation sliding scale $5-$15
Organized/curated by the Panoply Performance Laboratory with:
Social Practices Arts Network (SPAN), Dimanche Rouge, Vaudeville Park, and Grace Exhibition Space
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH: GRACE SPACE OCCUPIED!
Ongoing: Urban Layers INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
7:00pm: Beatriz Albuquerque
7:30: Felix Morelo
8:00: Anna Jane McIntyre
8:30: Maria Hupfield
9:00: Stephen Bracco
9:30: Dara Malina
10:00pm: SK Orchestra
While Grace Exhibition Space curator-owners Jill McDermid and Erik Hokenson are occupying in downtown Manhattan, PPL curates from the streets, from craigslist, from arts social networks, and by word-of-mouth, making a concerted effort to shatter the autonomy of established, medium-specific performance communities. Artists will be provided with lights, sound, running water, a formalized public platform, and the context of “performance art” by one of the world’s best-known dedicated performance art spaces. After the show, artists and attendees go down to Zucotti Park to experiment with what kind of spectrum exists between “art” performance and “political” performance, between street theater, action, demonstration, intervention, performance art, and other forms, and to continue exploration of how performance artists participate in public culture.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5: GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
Opens at 3:30.
ONGOING: Social Practices Arts Network (SPAN) site: practice documentation
ONGOING: Fill out storycards for Anna Jane McIntyre
ONGOING: Urban Layers INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
4:00-7:00pm: Dimanche Rouge Special Edition, Skype Exhibition and Simultaneous Performance: Alexandre Pombo-Mendes, Carmen R. Cruz with Florent Maton and dancer Karl Paquemar, Daniel Gaudard, Manuela Centrone, ETC (Julien Arnaud + Anthony Carcone + Emmanuel Rébus), Savio Debernardis, Vlasta Delimar.
Streamed live from Batofar, 7 port de la gare, 13e, Paris, FR. Exhibition link HERE skype
7:30: Discussion with Jules Rochielle, SPAN organizer, skype
8:00: Lindsey Drury, Love Letter to A Dance Artist you Don’t Know (nor Care to Know)
The private is political, the local is global. Via skype, PPL and Dimanche Rouge join forces to present a simultaneous performance, as well as video, dance, and multi-media work streamed live across the Atlantic from Paris, France to Brooklyn NY, and vice versa. Participants, audiences, and attendees are also invited to fill out hand-drawn storycards for Canadian artist Anna Jane McIntyre, to be performed live via skype one week later, to co-create with Urban Layers, to engage with global practice-documentation project SPAN (Social Practices Arts Network) and create dance work to be performed and filmed by the choreographer/performer.
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Anna Jane McIntyre's Fill It In Yourself story cards
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11: VAUDEVILLE PARK
7:00pm: Welcome! drinks, introductions
7:30: Ann Hirsch
8:00: G Douglas Barrett
8:30: Anya Liftig
10:30: Gretta Louw’s Controlling Connectivity skype
Five individual artists working in music composition, performance art, and interactive/internet forms describe, perform, and present projects that maintain artistic authorship and vision while experimenting with modes of participation, demonstration, and intervention. Come ready to partake in the bar, bring an instrument, bring a dry erase marker, bring a powerpoint presentation, bring an anecdote or joke, bring mittens.
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Angela Washko (depicted) on Being in Residence
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12: GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
Opens at 3:30
ONGOING: SPAN site/listening station
ONGOING: Urban Layers INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
3:00pm and ONGOING: Mari Novotny-Jones in 9-Hour Performance of INFECTION, COAGULATION, SEDIMENTATION, FILTRATION, DISINFECTION.
4:00pm: Open Discussion: documenting, proposing, and theorizing social practiced, engaged processes, and performance art.
Nate Hill's personalized video game. Launched 2011
5:00: Gelsey Bell
6:00: Christina de Roos and Thomas Bell (Spread Art)
7:30: Aliza Simons (radio transmission)
8:00: Nate Hill (play online game here)
8:30: Angela Washko
9:00: Anna Jane McIntyre
skype performance of Fill It In Yourself story cards
10:00pm: Hector Canonge
11:00: Dave Ruder’s Why Lie?
Artist-curators, theorist-artists, and inter-disciplinary performers who wear “many hats” and come from many different performance backgrounds come together to share their work. Live participatory performances, talks, open bar, hands-on radio broadcasting from the space, and more!
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13: VAUDEVILLE PARK
4:00pm: Open Discussion: Politics of Aesthetics meet Practice
5:00: Carrie Dashow
5:30: Valerie Kuehne, Dream Zoo
6:00: Alison Fleminger from the Performance Project @ University Settlement
6:30: Douglas Paulson
7:00: Urban Layers Presentation
Closing and Afterparty (9pm: Organizations and artists planning meeting)
How do artists work in a public sphere? How do artists become political agents, and how can create work, cultural organization, and social sculpture operate in socio-politically? What does ‘responsibility of form’ mean to us now? What are the political concerns of “avant-garde” theories and forms? Diverse artistic practices, from notarization of public statements during Occupy Wallstreet through co-creative urban mapping, through conceptualized musical improvisation are juxtaposed, discussed, experienced, and documented.
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These November weekends will bring together performances, workshops, and discussions that deal with the operations (social, political, aesthetic, economic, etc) of participatory, interactive, aleatoric, and other “open source” forms in the practices of artists, curators, and cultural organizers.
http://www.panoplylab.org/conference.html
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(Graham stop on the L train – Walk two blocks East on Graham Avenue and turn right onto Bushwick Ave.)
Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway
2ND Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(Flushing Avenue Stop on J-Z Trains – Walk 3 blocks East on Broadway)
For more information, e-mail Esther Neff at panoplylab@gmail.com
Into the wild!
Last week, we began working on NATURE FETISH.
THANK YOU to everyone who came and participated in this first event! We were awed by the intensity of the ideas and interactions that emerged.
THIS WEEK, we invite you to join us again this Wednesday, October 26, at 7pm at the Performance Project @ University Settlement to make and perform some graphic scores, tempt fate and tease chance, discuss some philosophical concepts, and experiment with the “The Wild”
No need to have attended before!
All are welcome to come to as many or as few installments as they choose!
This second workshop (2 of 5) will explore conceptions of “wildness,” and “the wild,” as well as any so-called “forces of nature,” or “man against nature” struggles. Are humans wild? or are we domesticated animals? Is nature chaotic, or are there empiric patterns? Improvisation, frenzy, loose association and interpretation, and red wine!
