Daily Awesome 9/30-10/6
Naomi Huth
I hope everyone had a chance to go to Gizmodo Gallery last week as it was really deliciously awesome (great free nutella pancake machine). This week I would recommend Specials on the Highline and any of the many festivals happening.
Please continue to let me know whom to add onto this list. A lot of you are involved in the arts, so if you know of any events that I should be aware of, please tell me about them.
Enjoy. Naomi
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Wednesday September 30th
SHOP: Paper Magic Group Sample Sale @ 345 7th Ave, Manhattan
LECTURE/ART: Spencer Finch Discussion @ Highline's Chelsea Market Passage, Manhattan
LECTURE/ART: Gramazio & Kohler: Digital Maternity @ Storefront for Art & Architecture, Manhattan
MUSIC: Free Jazz @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn, Brooklyn
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
Thursday October 1st
FOOD: Specials @ The Highline, Manhattan
SHOP: Paper Magic Group Sample Sale @ 345 7th Ave, Manhattan
THEATER: POK presents: Grind My Gears @ Pyramid Club, Manhattan
PARTY: Warper Party @ The Delancey, Manhattan
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
THEATER: Desert Sin @ The House of Yes, Brooklyn
Friday October 2nd
FILM/FESTIVAL: 9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival @ The Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: How To Enjoy Traffic Cones @ Chashama Performance Window, Manhattan
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
THEATER: Desert Sin @ The House of Yes, Brooklyn
FESTIVAL/BOOK: Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens
Saturday October 3rd
FILM/FESTIVAL: 9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival @ The Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn
FESTIVAL/ART: The Drop: Urban Art Infill @ The Highline, Manhattan
PARTY: Monduna: A Robot Masquerade, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
THEATER: Desert Sin @ The House of Yes, Brooklyn
FESTIVAL/BOOK: Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens
Sunday October 4th
FILM/FESTIVAL: 9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival @ The Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
THEATER: Desert Sin @ The House of Yes, Brooklyn
FESTIVAL/BOOK: Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens
FESTIVAL/FOOD: 9th Annual NYC International Pickle Day @ Essex and Broome
LECTURE/ART: Alan Licht, Brian Chase, and Okkyung Lee @ Roulette
FESTIVAL/FOOD: Apple Festival @ Queens Farm
Monday October 5th
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
Tuesday October 6th
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
******* Ongoing ******
October 2nd & 3rd 11:00am-7:00pm, October 4th 11:00am-5:00pm
Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens
Free; Printed Matter is the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists.
The Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers presenting a diverse range of the best in contemporary art publications.
October
1st-3rd
Doors 8:00pm/Show 9:00pm
Desert
Sin @ The House of Yes, 342 Maujer St.
$15; The Desert Sin Dance
Company, known internationally for their edgy and sensational fusion
of dance and theater, presents the debut of their latest production,
“Twitchers", at The House of Yes Theater in Brooklyn. This
show is a beautiful immersion of dance, puppetry, aerial, live music,
spectacle, and pure emotion. Desert Sin is one of the most
experimental, cutting-edge theatrical dance companies in North
America. Founded in 1999, Desert Sin utilizes Middle Eastern dance,
ballet, modern, extensive theatrics and costuming in their critically
acclaimed productions. The company has gained major popularity from
their appearances at special events, corporate functions, theaters,
nightclubs, and television, while touring internationally with
productions and workshops. http://www.houseofyes.org
October 2nd-4th
9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival @ The Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn
Individual screenings $6; Saturday Screening Pass $15 includes all Saturday screenings (except The Warriors); Sunday Screening Pass $10 includes all Sunday screenings. www.coneyislandfilmfestival.com
September 10th-October 2nd 8:00pm doors/9:00pm performances-late
You
Are Here @ Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd Street, Brooklyn
$8
includes open bar Friday-Sunday 8-10p; You Are Here (the Maze) is a
performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at
Williamsburg's Death By Audio. Emphasizing the sprawling and
interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the
maze offers a peek inside NYC's DIY art and music scene. A meditation
on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents
beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and
genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are
frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end
as his or hers. Participating artists in the three-week festival
include Calvin Johnson, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, Zs,
Excepter, Mick Barr, The Coathangers, Knyfe Hyts 81, The Present,
Loud Objects, Grooms, Extra Life, Mike Pride, Dan Friel, Ninjasonik,
Vaz, Pygmy Shrews, Nine 11 Thesaurus, and many many others. You Are
Here subverts prefab expectations for both audiences and
performers—there is no prescribed order, start time or end time,
duration, location of performance, relation of audience to
performers, and so on. All of the participating artists have been
asked to create something site-specific since the performances will,
in fact, take place within the maze. Audiences will be asked only to
expect something unusual. myspace.com/youareheremaze
September 17th-October 9th 6:00-9:00pm opening
Recession Art Sale @ 679
3rd Ave
Free; In a 5,500 square foot gallery space, 30 artists and
30 out-of-work professionals will participate in Recession Art Sale,
an art and commerce event. The objective is to create income, comment
on current shifts in the market economy, and foster a sense of
community amongst artists, sellers, and buyers. Unemployed
individuals affected by the current economic recession will be
engaged as sellers to market the works on exhibit. Hosting the event
is Anita Durst's nonprofit arts organization, Chashama, which has
worked successfully with conceptual artist and Executive Producer of
Recession Art Sale, Elanit Kayne. A multi-channel outreach to sellers
was conducted through the use of print and online advertising, job
opportunity sites, and social media in order to attract an eclectic
group of qualified applicants. While some sellers have a background
in the arts (a former employee of the Whitney Museum, Art History
graduates), other qualified sellers include former IT workers and
teachers and will receive art consultation training.
recessionartsale.com; cultureinside.com
Every Friday & Saturday, 10:30 pm
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth Street
$10 plus the roll of a six sided die ($11-$16); Written by the New York Neo-Futurists; Our show is an ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes--an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The single unifying element of these plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty. We always appear as ourselves on stage, speaking directly from our personal experiences. Each short play is written by a performer, honed by the ensemble, and randomly collaged with twenty-nine other plays through high energy audience participation. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Each night of performance, we aim to create an unreproducable living newspaper of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental.
******* Wednesday September 30th ******
Sept 30th
10am-3:30pm
Paper Magic Group Sample Sale
@ 345 7th Ave, 6th flr
Children's Costumes $5.00; Adult Costumes
$10.00 - $20.00; Mask $3.00 and up; Decor $3.00 and up; Make-up &
Accessories 50 cents and up; Buy 5 Costumes Get 1 Costume and 1 Mask
FREE** (**restrictions apply); Cash Only, Limited Change, Bring Your
Own Bag
September 30th 6:30pm
Spencer Finch Discussion @ Highline's Chelsea Market Passage, 14th Street Passage
Free; Artist Spencer Finch will discuss his artwork on the High Line, The River That Flows Both Ways, as well as other recent works. RSVP recommended but not required. Walk-ins will be admitted until the program is full. http://www.thehighline.org/events/all/2009/9/art-programs-artist-spencer-finch-discusses-the-river-that-flows-both-ways-and-oth
September 30th 7:00pm
Gramazio & Kohler: Digital Maternity @ Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmar
Free; For many years, designers have relied on digital manufacturing processes such as CNC milling or 3D printing as a tool for formal research at model scale. Gramazio & Kohler's work, developed through their research at ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture, investigates the potential use on the building site of industrial robots typically employed to assemble automobiles and perform other high-precision tasks. The accuracy, strength and speed of these robots allow them to fabricate architectural forms of unprecedented complexity and intricacy. On 30 September, Storefront for Art and Architecture will inaugurate an exhibition on Gramazio & Kohler's ongoing research into digital fabrication in architecture at ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture. On Oct 5, construction will begin on the first architecture project in the US to be digitally fabricated on site.
September 30th 8:00pm
Free Jazz @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Charles Downs (Rashid Bakr) and his new group Centipede will perform two sets. Centipede featuring: Charles Downs- Drums / Ronnie Stokes- Percussion / Matt Lavelle-Trumpet, Bass Clarinet / Ras Moshe-Tenor Sax / Walden Wimberly-Keyboard / Joe Morris-Bass
******* Thursday October 1st ******
Oct 1st
10am-3:30pm
Paper Magic Group Sample Sale
@ 345 7th Ave, 6th flr
Children's Costumes $5.00; Adult Costumes
$10.00 - $20.00; Mask $3.00 and up; Decor $3.00 and up; Make-up &
Accessories 50 cents and up; Buy 5 Costumes Get 1 Costume and 1 Mask
FREE** (**restrictions apply); Cash Only, Limited Change, Bring Your
Own Bag
October 1st 4:00-8:00pm
Specials @ The Highline
Free; Specials is a collaboration between artists Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramírez Jonas, launched in June 2009. For this ongoing, roving art project, the artists have constructed a mobile unit composed of vendor carts and a 10 x 4 foot wall. On one side of the wall, they hang artwork by a wide range of artists; on the flip side, they serve homemade tacos, free of charge. Each time Specials is presented, the artwork and the type of taco change, in the manner of restaurants’ daily menu specials or art galleries’ changing exhibition schedules. Featuring artists who participated in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, including Janine Antoni, Byron Kim, Simon Leung, Glenn Ligon, Suzanne McClelland, Kiki Smith and Fred Wilson, and a squash, mushroom, and homemade hot sauce taco.
October 1st 9:00pm
POK presents: Grind My
Gears @ Pyramid Club, 101 Avenue
$5; The only 2009 appearance of
Soy Dracula, the worlds greatest vegetarian vampire punk rock opera.
They tell the story of Soy Dracula through songs, films, costumes and
corn. Joining Soy Dracula is Brooklyn's answer to what is hardcore
really, Pile of Kittens. And from North Jersey, Brock Murdoch. This
month will also feature Dracula, a short film by Adam Taylor.
Zomberlesque, mystery boxes, corn roast, best dressed zombie contest,
procrastinators photo show, drink specials, and more.
pileofkittens.com/gmg; thepyramidclub.com
October 1st 8:00pm
Warper Party @ The
Delancey, 168 Delancey St.
Free; Live Music from 8pm sharp 17+
electronic music performers, Projected Images, Workshops, and
Interactive Art.
******* Friday October 2nd ******
October 2nd 6:00-8:00pm
How To Enjoy Traffic Cones @ Chashama Performance Window, 266 W 37th St
Free; Jeffrey Chuang • Peter Emerick • Elise Engler • Jason Wilder Evans • judsoN • Alicia Kachmar • Zaun Lee • Erik Sanner • Nelson Santos • K Staelin • Tim Thyzel; Invariably unique, eye-catching and unpredictable, traffic cones are almost art. Like sculpture, their primary function is to be looked at. This group exhibition of painting, photography, drawing, video, sculpture, and new media answers the question, “Why bother to create art at all, instead of just looking at traffic cones?”
******* Saturday October 3rd ******
October 3rd Noon-9:00pm
The Drop: Urban Art Infill @ The Highline
Free; A spare and gorgeous sound installation by the do-all composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Glacier is just one of the many highlights at the Drop. Held beneath and surrounding the High Line, this all-day festival is a lodestone of art, music, and fashion with a simple mission: to open perspectives and foster collaboration. Several artists participate in a live-painting performance, while Art for Progress uses recycled materials and shouted input to create fashion. There's also a curated DJ sets, food trucks, $2 brews from Beerlao, and 2012+, a special exhibition that looks to and beyond that red-letter date of metamorphosis with work by Yoko Ono, DJ Spooky, Mamoru Oshii, and nearly 30 others. http://thedropnyc.org/
October 3rd 9:00pm-Late
Monduna: A Robot Masquerade @ Brooklyn Fireproof, 119 Ingraham St, Brooklyn
$5 gets you 4 bands, cheap drinks, and all the robot action your little gears can handle; You are cordially invited to the last and largest robot costume affair of 2009.
******* Sunday October 4th ******
October 4th 11:30am-4:30pm
9th Annual NYC International Pickle Day @ Essex and Broome
Free; Free samples of pickles from around the world and around the corner. Exhibitions! Demonstrations! Music! This year, come in costume! Set on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Pickle Day is a free outdoor fall festival with activities and exhibitions that pay tribute to this universal food tradition and the people who enjoy it.
October 4th 8:30pm
Alan Licht, Brian Chase,
and Okkyung Lee @ Roulette, 20 Greene St
$15; Students/Seniors/
Under 30s $10; A second-time meeting of three electrifying
improvisors/ composers who have worked extensively within downtown
rock and experimental music circles. Drummer Brian Chase, cellist
Okkyung Lee, and guitarist Alan Licht will each present a solo piece,
then perform a trio improvisation.
October 4th All Day
Apple Festival @ Queens Farm, 3-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens
The Queens County Farm Museum presents its own Apple Festival today, with flowing, fresh-pressed cider, a massive cobbler baked on site, and plenty of apples to haul home and whip into pies. www.queensfarm.org