Daily Awesome 1/27-2/2
Naomi Huth
Tino Sehgal please help me understand; if a space is completely empty how is that your art?
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 January 27th
ART: Companion @ EFA Project Space, Manhattan
ART: Visible Vagina @ Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, Manhattan
THEATER: Missed Connections NYC: From the Pages of Craigslist @ Ars Nova Theater, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Thursday January 28th
ART: Visible Vagina @ David Nolan Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Mirror/Window @ Louis v. E.S.P., Brooklyn
THEATER: Bosom Immortalization for NUTUREart @ 108 Roebling St, Brooklyn
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Friday January 29th
FUN: Wear Your Wig to Work Day @ Your Office
PERFORMANCE: Man Bartlett #Theseus @ 59th and Lexington to Times Square, Manhattan
MUSIC: ((audience)) @ NLE, 4th St at Broadway, Manhattan
LECTURE: Larry Harvey at Evolver Gift Spore @ Collective Hardware, Manhattan
PARTY: Dances of Vice present Kriminaltango @ Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: Champagne Riot @ Duane Park, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Saturday January 30th
SPORT: Idiotrod 2010 @ Secret NY Location
MUSIC: The Antagonist Movement @ NLE, 4th St at Broadway, Manhattan
LECTURE: The Storyteller @ Parsons, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE: Quiet Color's Sloppy Circus @ House of Yes, Brooklyn
MUSIC/FUNDRAISER: Gone Country for Coney @ Galapagos, Brooklyn
ART/PERFORMANCE: You Are My Carbon, And This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Mind the Arts Jam Panel @ Nuyorican Poets Café, Manhattan
MUSIC/FUNDRAISER: Global Music Fundraiser @ (Le) Poisson Rouge, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Sunday January 31st
ART: Silly Rabbit a gravestone and an urn @ Dispach, 127 Henry street, Manhattan
FOOD: Brooklyn Taco Experiment @ Bell House, Brooklyn
ART/PERFORMANCE: You Are My Carbon, And This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St, Brooklyn
LECTURE: Jack Kerouac Discussion @ Kingsland Homestead,Queens
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Monday February 1st
PERFORMANCE: Coney Island Circus Sideshow @ BBKings, Manhattan
Tuesday February 2nd
READING: Do Not Disturb @ The Woods, Brooklyn
******* Ongoing******
January 9th-Febuary 21st W-Sun 12:00-6:00pm
Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn
$2; The pair collaborates à la a game of Exquisite Corpse, aware of the other's involvement but blind to specific compositional details, building their installation in much the same way as strangers living in proximity build their cities in unknowing tandem. And it is precisely this unpredictable urban jumble of flesh and concrete that the pair both celebrates and transcends in PIXELVILLE. A combination of biota-based sculptural elements by Alroy mingle with digital projections by Shor to create a microcosm of the future city — no longer a physical location, the "city" has become a state of mind, a pattern of fluctuating energy that has taken on an increasingly metaphorical existence with the advent of digital media.
January 16th -February 13th Wednesday-Sunday 12:00-7:00pm
Group Show @ No Longer Empty, 14 E 4th Strett
Free; Invader, Joe Diebes, Josh Jordan, Kaz Oshiro, Meredyth Sparks, Naama Tsabar, Nayland Blake, Paul Villinski, R. Luke DuBois, Richard Garet, Ryan Brennan, Siebren Versteeg, Ted Riederer "Never Can Say Goodbye" curated by Asher Remy-Toledo, Manon Slome, Steven Evans. http://nolongerempty.com
******* Wednesday January 27th ******
January 27th 12:00-6:00pm
Companion @ EFA Project Space, 323 W 39th St, 2nd Fl
Free; Companion adds a dose of archive to a contemporary-art exhibition by pairing new works with the objects or images upon which they're based. The EFA Project Space group show is curated by Marisa Jahn for REV-, a new nonprofit collaborative aiming to shake up the contemporary arts scene. Jahn has brought together a diverse group of multimedia artists like Pablo Helguera, who remakes a 1950s television show for the YouTube generation, and Cui Fei, an installation artist whose hatch-marked assemblage demarcates the passage of time during the Sino-Japanese War.
January 27th 6:00-8:00pm
Visible Vagina @ Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 24 West 57th Street
As the title of the exhibition suggests, the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo―too private and intimate for public display. If shown at all, this part of a woman’s body is usually presented in an abject fashion, generally within the context of pornography, intended, in almost all cases, for the exclusive pleasure of men. The goal of this exhibition is to remove these prurient connotations, implicit even in works of art, ever since the pudendum was prudishly covered by a fig leaf. This gesture of false modesty, it should be noted, was devised and enforced entirely by men (not only in the case of classical sculpture, but also in the Bible, in which, immediately after their disobedience in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve cover their genitalia with fig leaves).
January 27th 8:00pm
Missed Connections NYC: From the Pages of Craigslist @ Ars Nova Theater, 511 W 54th St
$15; Ripped straight from the online pages of Craigslist, this evening of theatre and music delves into those brief encounters with amusingly titled shorts like Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins' "You Were a Mexican with Friends," Zayd Dohrn's "It Was Wrong of Me: I Touched Your Butt on the L," and Janine Nabers' "I Might Be Supergirl, but..." Ars Nova has a great track record with new work — remember the hilariously debaucherous pirate-puppet extravaganza Jollyship the Whiz-Bang-giving us high hopes for an inventive outing. The evening also features a piece by Annie Baker, whose intricate character study Circle Mirror Transformation is easily one of the best plays of the season.
******* Thursday January 28th ******
January 28th 6:00-8:00pm
Visible Vagina @ David Nolan Gallery, 527 West 29th Street
As the title of the exhibition suggests, the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo―too private and intimate for public display. If shown at all, this part of a woman’s body is usually presented in an abject fashion, generally within the context of pornography, intended, in almost all cases, for the exclusive pleasure of men. The goal of this exhibition is to remove these prurient connotations, implicit even in works of art, ever since the pudendum was prudishly covered by a fig leaf. This gesture of false modesty, it should be noted, was devised and enforced entirely by men (not only in the case of classical sculpture, but also in the Bible, in which, immediately after their disobedience in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve cover their genitalia with fig leaves).
January 28th 7:30-10:30pm
Mirror/Window
@ Louis v. E.S.P., 140 Jackson Street, 4D, Brooklyn
Free BYOB;
Mirror/Window is the inaugural installment of a nomadic, integrative
video art salon. The salon takes form at Louis V. E.S.P., a new
exhibition space located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of
Brooklyn, New York, and scheduled to begin full programming this
year. Presented in a two-channel facing format and running on a
continuous loop, the videos are forced to both confront and
familiarize themselves with one another, sparking new and unexpected
dialogues framed by notions of place and indulged in by the
spontaneity of moving image. sodhiwoodwardgmail.com,
louisvesp.blogspot.com, odhiwoodward.tumblr.com
January 28th 7:30pm
Bosom Immortalization for NUTUREart @ 108 Roebling St, Brooklyn
$5; Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of erotica anthology Peep Show: Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists (Cleis Press), will let the plaster casters at SHAG capture her bosom forever at a public display in their studio-boutique. The Bussel bust casting will take place in front of event guests and press in SHAG'S performance space followed by a benefit auction of Bussel's plastered bust, where the proceeds will be donated to NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. First 60 people get a complimentary bottle of Karma champagne and delicious cupcakes from Baked by Melissa. A Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists book signing party will also take place upstairs from 9-10 in the retail showroom of SHAG.
******* Friday January 29th ******
January 29th All Day
Wear Your Wig to Work Day @ Your Office
Free; Dedicated to blurring the line between art and life, Mano/Damno uses projects like Wear Your Wig to Work Day to make the general public a participant rather than observer. Since the art takes the form of recognizable objects or happenings, the project is both familiar and inclusive. Wig Day is an art project that doubles as a ritualistic day of celebration and relaxation. Through Wig Day, Mano/Damno extends the traditional conception of “holiday,” thereby encouraging the public to think on their feet and actively engage with the artwork. www.manodamno.com
January 29th 9:00am
Man Bartlett #Theseus @ 59th and Lexington to Times Square
Starting this Friday, January 29th, at 9am, I will attempt to walk from 59th and Lexington to Times Square, and back. You are welcome to join at any point, and/or play online using #Theseus. The entire journey should take 20something hours, or only 10 if I’m not able to defeat the Invisible Minotaur (who awaits us on the red stairs). I am not sure if this can be completed. Thank you, Man. http://manbartlett.tumblr.com/post/352747831/theseus
January 29th
7:00pm
Larry Harvey at Evolver Gift Spore @ Collective
Hardware, 169 Bowery
$15; Evolver NYC (www.evolver. net/evolver_
nyc) and Burners Without Borders (www.burnerswithoutb orders.org)
invite you to “Give It Up” at our next Spore, where the topic of
the night is gifting – what it means, how it can manifest in
society, and possibilities for the future. Consider the potential of
a community whose economy is based on giving, rather than having –
and cooperating, rather than competing. Stick around for more music,
food and drinks, a raffle with some awesome prizes, and interactive
entertainment.
January 29th 7:009:00pm
((audience)) @ NLE, 4th St at Broadway
$10 suggested donation; This is a traveling, biennial festival of 5.1 surround sound art works intended for presentation in movie theaters as "cinema in the dark." The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2 1/2 hour program of surround sound works by eight international artists: Jamie Allen, Simona Brinkmann, Loud Objects, Uli Schuster, Bryan Jacobs, Natasha Barrett, Cedric Maridet, and Emmanuel Madan / Anna Friz. Mudboy Fantasy noise by the Doctor of Experimental Organomics in collaboration with a special guest. Loud Objects Mens' Noise Choir has set the standard for performative live circuit bending. Wielding soldering irons over a ramshackle overhead projector, the New York City-based trio wire up live musical circuits in pursuit of lo-fi electronic noise. In this new performance experiment, Loud Objects play fluorescent light bulb guitars and are backed by a mens' noise choir.
January 29th 10:00pm
Dances of Vice present Kriminaltango @ Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, Brooklyn
$15/$20; Dances of Vice presents "Kriminaltango", a 1930-40s film-noir inspired evening of entertainment and debauched delights that promise to be at once oneiric, erotic, and cruel. Featuring: Raucous and sultry crime jazz performed by local goodfellas The Ja Ja Jas and the swingin' hoodlums of The Stumblebum Brass Band, Suspenseful dramatic performances by the sensual sophisticates of Company XIV - and lascivious burlesque by that deadly vixen The Flying Fox. Dress Code: Femme Fatales, Lonely Detectives, Dashing Desperadoes, Hollywood Starlets, Crooked Criminals, Gun-crazy Wiseguys, Restless Ruffians and Moonlighting Marauders.
January 29th 10:30pm
Champagne Riot @ Duane Park, 157 Duane St
Free; Hot jazz, scintillating burlesque, and vaudevillian frivolity come together in the beautiful Duane Park space this evening for The Champagne Riot. There will be spectacular performances by Musical Sensations Gelber and Manning, Vaudeville Personality The Minsky Sister, Resident Ecdysiast Jezebel Express, Captivating Contortionist Ekaterina and it’s all hosted by Dandy Wellington. Late night food menu and cocktails (a bit pricey so be forewarned) are available.
******* Saturday January 30th ******
January 30th 9:00am
Idiotrod 2010 @ Secret NY Location
Rumors and hearsay are flying around the Internet about this year's Idiotarod. At first it appeared that dominating team DangerZone (really, it wins some aspect of the race pretty much every year) was heading organization efforts; but it now seems that it's sold out its stake to the mysterious Corporation X, and may be competing again. That should up the ante considerably for you shopping-cart mushers. Get your teams together, and plan an elaborate theme and costumes (bribes and skullduggery along the route won't hurt, either). Finally, stay tuned to CartsofBrooklyn.com for updates on the starting point, and just what the hell DangerZone is up to.
January 30th 1:00-5:00pm
The Antagonist Movement @ NLE, 4th St at Broadway
$10 suggested donation;
12:00pm | Mystie Chamberlin, 12:45pm | TBD Writer, 1:00pm | 8-bit
artist Dapantz, 1:45pm | Lisa Jaeggi, 2:30pm | Richard Allen, 2:45pm
| Bradley Dean, 3:45pm | Brother Mike, 4:00pm | All Up in Arms,
5:00pm | TBA. The Antagonist Movement is a community of artists that
have banded together to promote art, music and writing and to create
a venue where emerging artists, as well as established artists, can
inspire and help each other while reaching a wider audience. There is
no standard form or medium for creativity, except the work should
provoke its audience.
January 30th 2:00-3:30pm
The Storyteller @ Parsons, 66 5th Ave
Free; On occasion of the exhibition The Storyteller at Parsons, this colloquium brings together the curators and select artists in the exhibition to hold an open conversation about artists’ uses of the story form to bear witness to events in the world, as well as their inspirations and collaborations on this project. Panelists include exhibition artist Steve Mumford and exhibition curators Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, and will be moderated by Kate Fowle, executive director of iCI (Independent Curators International), the organizers of the exhibition.
January 30th 3:00pm-9:30pm
Gone Country for Coney @ Galapagos, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
$15.00 for early birds (3:00-5:00pm)/$20.00 for slow pokes (5:00—9:00pm); Tickets include raffle entry. All proceeds go to Save Coney Island. Join Save Coney Island for a down home country/bluegrass jamboree and Wild West variety show featuring 5 hours of playin by the city’s best groups of pickers and plunkers. Chow down on some finger lickin' good grub from Jake's BBQ, and maybe wrangle yourself a prize or two while yer at it! Guaranteed to be a raucous good time. 3:00: Animal Pharm: Soulful Blues Folk, 4:00: Central Valley Wildfire: Toe Tappin' Roots Country, 5:00: Rob Hecht: 2009 Rockygrass Fiddle Champion, 6:00: Citigrass: High Energy Urban Bluegrass, 7:00: Pinataland: NY's Finest Weird Old World Orchestrette, 8:00: Dance Performance by the Prospect CowGirls, followed by Open Music Jam with all artists!, 10:00: free admission to burlesque show after-party. www.saveconeyisland.net
January 30th 6:00pm
You
Are My Carbon, And This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St,
Brooklyn
Arielle Bier and Adina Bier explore the boundaries and
freedoms of twinning and interconnectedness through live
installation/durational performances in the gallery. The sisters will
create an encapsulating lair using webbing and suspended pods of
sheet rope to perform in. Inspirations for this work include
ritualistic practices such as inuit throat singing, butoh dance and
nesting.
January 30th 7:00-10:00pm
Mind the Arts Jam Panel @ Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 E 3rd St
$5-7; The best and brightest young musicians, singers, rappers and writers of NYC come together for a no-songs-barred, everyone is everyone's backup band, drink/jam/improv session.
January 30th 8:00pm-3:00am
Quiet Color's Sloppy Circus @ House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Brooklyn
$10; This isn't your parents' Wintuk. This is Quiet Color's Sloppy Circus at the historic House Of Yes. Allow yourself an evening of enchanting fire breathers, mesmerizing aerial acrobats, captivating pole dancers, video art installations, and live performances. Prepare to ignite your senses and immerse your being in a sea of sound and color, an island of hope and confusion, and revel in this celebration of pure contemporary creatives. Enjoy free Two Boots Pizza (while supplies last) and frolic in the resurgent wave of Brooklyn Bohemia.
January 30th 11:00pm-4:00am
Global Music Fundraiser @ (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street
$12; Live performances by: Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar, Falu, Basya Schechter (Pharaoh's Daughter). Luqmon Brown (Funkface), Malika Zarra and Haale. DJ sets by: Bill Bragin & Amon. Musicans: Jamshied Sharifi, Damon Banks, Brahim Fribgane, Mark Copley, Rajeev Maddela, Harvey Wight, Gwen Laster, Benefo Benefo, Manu Koch, Ron McBee and very special guests.
******* Sunday January 31st ******
January 31st 1:00-5:00pm
Brooklyn Taco Experiment @ Bell House, 149 7th St, Brooklyn
$20; ormer rivals and full-time cookoff enthusiasts Theo Peck and Nick Suarez go head to head to pinpoint the tastiest and most creative interpretation of the taco. With multiple first-place prizes to their names, both men know what it takes to win; today, they enlist a talented team of judges from the culinary world, including acclaimed Cascabel Taqueria owner/chef Todd Mitgang and Iron Chef judge and Bon Appetit editor Andrew Knowlton.
January 31st 5:00-7:00pm
Silly
Rabbit a gravestone and an urn @ Dispach, 127 Henry street
Free;
The exhibition takes the form of a showroom for funeral monuments.
Comprised of two floor models, the show features a gravestone of
yellow cinder blocks and an inverted Trix® cereal box urn filled
with human remains. A selection of sketches and works on paper
depicting other available models and possibilities for funereal
monuments are available for review.
January 31st 1:00-6:00pm
You
Are My Carbon, And This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St,
Brooklyn
Arielle Bier and Adina Bier explore the boundaries and
freedoms of twinning and interconnectedness through live
installation/durational performances in the gallery. The sisters will
create an encapsulating lair using webbing and suspended pods of
sheet rope to perform in. Inspirations for this work include
ritualistic practices such as inuit throat singing, butoh dance and
nesting.
January 31st 2:30pm
Jack Kerouac Discussion @ Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37th Ave, Queens
Free with $3 admission; Jack Kerouac plotted On the Road in an Ozone Park walk-up in the 1940s. Find out how Queens greatly influenced the life of the famed Beat writer when historian Pat Fenton offers a lecture at the Kingsland Homestead. 718-939-0647
******* Monday February 1st ******
February 1st 8:00pm
Coney Island Circus Sideshow @ BBKings, 237 W 42nd St
$12/$10; The girls of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow come out of hibernation tonight for this special show at BB King's. The lineup features Angelica, whose list of special talents includes all things fire — i.e. the breathing, eating, and twirling of — as well as walking on glass and swallowing razor blades. Also on the bill are snake-charmer and contortionist Serpentina and Kryssy Kocktail, a self-described femme fatale and human blockhead who, by logical deduction, seductively pounds nails into her head.
******* Tuesday February 2nd ******
February 2nd 7:30-10:00pm
Do Not Disturb @ The Woods, 48 South 4th St, Brooklyn
Free; Do Not Disturb is a night of adult bedtime stories read by Maya Contreras from her novel The Him Book with the accompaniment of The Stacy Dillard Trio; followed by a performance by Erin Barra.