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“La Traite Rochelaise” Jean-Michel Deveau Bring a Votive for Rob Andrews’ Performance at DEEP/SHALLOW on 4/29 @The Gowanus Studio Space: “Please bring objects to the opening that you are willing to sacrifice and leave in the space to attract spirits. From model naval vessels to fertility treatment syringes to traditional votive cards: there’s no formula for the sacred. Assist the transformation of spirits by transitioning an object of your own! ” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-voto * from wikipedia  An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or divinity. It is given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, “from the vow made”) or in gratitude or devotion. Ex-votos are placed in a church or chapel where the worshipper seeks grace or wishes to give thanks. The destinations of pilgrimages often include shrines decorated with ex-votos. Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. They are not only intended for the helping figure, but also as a testimony to later visitors of the received help. As such they may include texts explaining a miracle attributed to the helper, or symbols such as a painted or modelled reproduction of a miraculously healed body part, or a directly related item such as a crutch given by a person formerly lame. There are places where a very old tradition of depositing ex-votos existed, such as Abydos in ancient Egypt.[1]

“La Traite Rochelaise” Jean-Michel Deveau

Bring a Votive for Rob Andrews’ Performance at DEEP/SHALLOW on 4/29 @The Gowanus Studio Space:

“Please bring objects to the opening that you are willing to sacrifice and leave in the space to attract spirits. From model naval vessels to fertility treatment syringes to traditional votive cards: there’s no formula for the sacred. Assist the transformation of spirits by transitioning an object of your own! ” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-voto

* from wikipedia 

An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or divinity. It is given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, “from the vow made”) or in gratitude or devotion. Ex-votos are placed in a church or chapel where the worshipper seeks grace or wishes to give thanks. The destinations of pilgrimages often include shrines decorated with ex-votos.

Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. They are not only intended for the helping figure, but also as a testimony to later visitors of the received help. As such they may include texts explaining a miracle attributed to the helper, or symbols such as a painted or modelled reproduction of a miraculously healed body part, or a directly related item such as a crutch given by a person formerly lame. There are places where a very old tradition of depositing ex-votos existed, such as Abydos in ancient Egypt.[1]

Alternative Art Economies: A Primer April 30th, from 2-4 PM, at Momenta Gallery as part of Artists in Residence for the US Government (Self-Declared), A Project byMaureen Connor and the Institute for Wishful Thinking.      In the last decade, the art market has grown from a relatively narrow and restricted market to a recognized site of asset development. According to some figures, today’s art market is 20 times larger than it was in 1990. Instead of a pocket industry with a small number of consumers and producers, art has become not only a global industry, but a major financial tool for diversifying risk that performs unlike traditional asset classes.  Simultaneously, the idea of art has also undergone a substantial expansion.  Following Marcel Duchamp’s maxim that anything can be a work of art, artists have increasingly pushed the limits of art’s definition.  Beginning in the 1960’s, and especially today, many artists have sought hybrid practices that rely primarily on structures outside the art market for supporting and situating their work.   The two-part workshop Alternative Alternatives: Art and the Economy held at Trade School* on 3/12 and 4/3 examined the connection between these developments and also whether the growing demand for more sustainable models of resource management—from money, to energy, to food—has any role to play in the world of art. Imagining the possibility of an art economy based on mutual aid—the principle that an enterprise or association should be owned and controlled by the people it serves—versus one based on financial speculation, some of the questions that emerged included: How do economic policies and structures affect artistic production? What is the relationship between artists and non-art communities? Between artists and city policy? Between artists and global trade? Can artists use their class position to re-allocate resources from inside the art market to those outside of it? How do specific forms of behavior among cultural producers—hyper-visibility, egoism, and competitiveness—exacerbate the speculative nature of art?  What kind of economic structures could transform this behavior? Can different forms of behavior yield different economic possibilities?    In response, participants have compiled critical texts into a reader that will be available for free download and presented on April 30th, from 2-4 PM, at Momenta Gallery as part of Artists in Residence for the US Government (Self-Declared), A Project by Maureen Connor and the Institute for Wishful Thinking.  Workshop participants will be on hand to discuss the primer and future initiatives.   Momenta Art is located at 359 Bedford Avenue, ground floor, between South 4th and South 5th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. *Trade School is a non-traditional learning environment where students barter with teachers for instruction: http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/

Alternative Art Economies: A Primer

April 30th, from 2-4 PM, at Momenta Gallery as part of Artists in Residence for the US Government (Self-Declared), A Project byMaureen Connor and the Institute for Wishful Thinking.  


  

In the last decade, the art market has grown from a relatively narrow and restricted market to a recognized site of asset development. According to some figures, today’s art market is 20 times larger than it was in 1990. Instead of a pocket industry with a small number of consumers and producers, art has become not only a global industry, but a major financial tool for diversifying risk that performs unlike traditional asset classes.  Simultaneously, the idea of art has also undergone a substantial expansion.  Following Marcel Duchamp’s maxim that anything can be a work of art, artists have increasingly pushed the limits of art’s definition.  Beginning in the 1960’s, and especially today, many artists have sought hybrid practices that rely primarily on structures outside the art market for supporting and situating their work.

 

The two-part workshop Alternative Alternatives: Art and the Economy held at Trade School* on 3/12 and 4/3 examined the connection between these developments and also whether the growing demand for more sustainable models of resource management—from money, to energy, to food—has any role to play in the world of art. Imagining the possibility of an art economy based on mutual aid—the principle that an enterprise or association should be owned and controlled by the people it serves—versus one based on financial speculation, some of the questions that emerged included: How do economic policies and structures affect artistic production? What is the relationship between artists and non-art communities? Between artists and city policy? Between artists and global trade? Can artists use their class position to re-allocate resources from inside the art market to those outside of it? How do specific forms of behavior among cultural producers—hyper-visibility, egoism, and competitiveness—exacerbate the speculative nature of art?  What kind of economic structures could transform this behavior? Can different forms of behavior yield different economic possibilities? 

 

In response, participants have compiled critical texts into a reader that will be available for free download and presented on April 30th, from 2-4 PM, at Momenta Gallery as part of Artists in Residence for the US Government (Self-Declared), A Project by Maureen Connor and the Institute for Wishful Thinking.  Workshop participants will be on hand to discuss the primer and future initiatives.

 

Momenta Art is located at 359 Bedford Avenue, ground floor, between South 4th and South 5th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

*Trade School is a non-traditional learning environment where students barter with teachers for instruction: http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/

quesofrito: LPV Magazine Edition of Time for Print Box Set. I asked some of my favorite curators to piece together five prints from my Time for Print series. They are for sale at Eyelevel Focus. Each custom embossed Time for Print box set comes wtih five 4”x5” giclée prints. Each individual print is limited to an edition of 10 and signed/numbered. $200.

quesofrito:

LPV Magazine Edition of Time for Print Box Set.

I asked some of my favorite curators to piece together five prints from my Time for Print series. They are for sale at Eyelevel Focus.

Each custom embossed Time for Print box set comes wtih five 4”x5” giclée prints. Each individual print is limited to an edition of 10 and signed/numbered. $200.

(Source: quesofrito)

About this talk

Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.”

About Mike Matas

While at Apple, Mike Matas helped write the user interface for the iPhone and iPad. Now with Push Pop Press, he’s helping to rewrite the electronic book.

Dear Friends,This is a friendly reminder for the Opening Reception taking place at The Gowanus Studio this Friday from 7-10 PM.  Deep/Shallow is the second part of a collaboration between Eyelevel BQE & Gowanus Studio. * The nucleus of these exhibitions is The Library launching at The Gowanus Studio.  http://thelibraryatgowanusstudio.tumblr.com/ We encourage you to contribute to the building of this Library, by donating a book that has visually influenced your work.  DEEP / SHALLOW Opening Friday, April 29th. 7:00pm to 10:00pmat The Gowanus Studio Space 166 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues Brooklyn, NYReference material is as often heavily researched as it is happened upon. Artworks in DEEP/SHALLOW were made in response to The Library’s collection of books and other printed materials donated from artists’ own reference libraries. The appropriation of these resources forces a contextual continuity (which normally occurs organically and over time) across disciplines, content and processes. DEEP/SHALLOW will be on view at The Gowanus Studio Space from April 29th through May 29th, 2011.FANNY ALLIÉ / GABRIELA ALVA CAL Y MAYOR / JILL AUCKENTHALER / NATALIA PORTER / BEN COHEN / NOAH BREUER / JONATHAN BUTT / ANGELA CONANT / HECTOR CANONGE / GRAYSON COX / KENDRA SULLIVAN / DYLAN GAUTHIER / EMILY ELSEN / BEKA GOEDDE / HALEY HUGHES / KATIE MERZ / RACHEL OSTROW / SARAH NICOLE PHILLIPS / FRANCESCO SIMETI / NICHOLE VAN BEEK / JOHN WHITLOCK8:30PM INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE BY ROB ANDREWSVotive Door (K) is a way station. A system that requires containers.We are a channel. Breath is a channel. No library without librarians!POSTER BY JOHN WHITLOCKBEER SPONSORED BY KELSO OF BROOKLYNWWW.GOWANUSSTUDIO.ORG


Dear Friends,
This is a friendly reminder for the Opening Reception taking place at The Gowanus Studio this Friday from 7-10 PM.  Deep/Shallow is the second part of a collaboration between Eyelevel BQE & Gowanus Studio.

* The nucleus of these exhibitions is The Library launching at The Gowanus Studio.  http://thelibraryatgowanusstudio.tumblr.com/

We encourage you to contribute to the building of this Library, by donating a book that has visually influenced your work. 

DEEP / SHALLOW 
Opening Friday, April 29th. 7:00pm to 10:00pm
at The Gowanus Studio Space
166 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues Brooklyn, NY

Reference material is as often heavily researched as it is happened upon. Artworks in DEEP/SHALLOW were made in response to The Library’s collection of books and other printed materials donated from artists’ own reference libraries. The appropriation of these resources forces a contextual continuity (which normally occurs organically and over time) across disciplines, content and processes. DEEP/SHALLOW will be on view at The Gowanus Studio Space from April 29th through May 29th, 2011.

FANNY ALLIÉ / GABRIELA ALVA CAL Y MAYOR / JILL AUCKENTHALER / NATALIA PORTER / BEN COHEN / NOAH BREUER / JONATHAN BUTT / ANGELA CONANT / HECTOR CANONGE / GRAYSON COX / KENDRA SULLIVAN / DYLAN GAUTHIER / EMILY ELSEN / BEKA GOEDDE / HALEY HUGHES / KATIE MERZ / RACHEL OSTROW / SARAH NICOLE PHILLIPS / FRANCESCO SIMETI / NICHOLE VAN BEEK / JOHN WHITLOCK

8:30PM
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE BY ROB ANDREWS
Votive Door (K) is a way station. A system that requires containers.
We are a channel. Breath is a channel. No library without librarians!



POSTER BY JOHN WHITLOCK
BEER SPONSORED BY KELSO OF BROOKLYN
WWW.GOWANUSSTUDIO.ORG

The “intercontinental caress” is a telematic performance between Paris and New York using the sense of touch. Thanks to a specific interface developed at the University of Technology of Compiègne (France) it is possible to touch the other through the optic fibers going across the ocean. The performance explores what is at stake when intimacy (skin, caress) is mixed with advanced technology (interfaces and wires, algorithms, …). Using a poetic performance language, the “intercontinental caress” aims at deconstructing the objective notions of time, space and body by introducing a wedge of desire and care. The performance will take place on the 7th of May : at 2:30pm in New York (Fabrice Métais) at the Old School, 233 Mott St (Soho), (as part of the New Museum’s festival of ideas ) and at 8:30pm in Paris (Annie Abrahams) at la tapisserie, 13 rue Pétion (75011) In New York, the performance is supported by the EYELEVEL BQE gallery.See the “Old Scool” program : Old Scool flyerand press release : School nite festival of ideas press releaseNotes [1] The MITT (“Module InterTact Tactos”) is a human/machine interface dedicated to tactile interactions with digital environements. Originally designed for blind people to offer them access to computer graphic applications, it also allows some tactile peer to peer relations. The MITT uses an FSR (Force Sensitive Resistor) matrix as an input sensor and some dynamic braille stimulators as an output. This device is developed in the CRED group (Cognitive Research and Enactive Design) which is part of theCosTECH laboratory (Connaissance, Organisation et Systemes TECHniques) at theUTC (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France). Among others, Charles Lenay (Costech’s director), Olivier Gapenne (CRED’s director) and Dominique Aubert (programmer) have been intensively involved in the design of the MITT.


The “intercontinental caress” is a telematic performance between Paris and New York using the sense of touch. Thanks to a specific interface developed at the University of Technology of Compiègne (France) it is possible to touch the other through the optic fibers going across the ocean. The performance explores what is at stake when intimacy (skin, caress) is mixed with advanced technology (interfaces and wires, algorithms, …). Using a poetic performance language, the “intercontinental caress” aims at deconstructing the objective notions of time, space and body by introducing a wedge of desire and care. 

The performance will take place on the 7th of May :

- at 2:30pm in New York (Fabrice Métais) at the Old School, 233 Mott St (Soho), (as part of the New Museum’s festival of ideas )

- and at 8:30pm in Paris (Annie Abrahams) at la tapisserie, 13 rue Pétion (75011) 

In New York, the performance is supported by the EYELEVEL BQE gallery.See the “Old Scool” program :

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Old Scool flyer

and press release :

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School nite festival of ideas press release

Notes

[1] The MITT (“Module InterTact Tactos”) is a human/machine interface dedicated to tactile interactions with digital environements. Originally designed for blind people to offer them access to computer graphic applications, it also allows some tactile peer to peer relations. The MITT uses an FSR (Force Sensitive Resistor) matrix as an input sensor and some dynamic braille stimulators as an output. This device is developed in the CRED group (Cognitive Research and Enactive Design) which is part of theCosTECH laboratory (Connaissance, Organisation et Systemes TECHniques) at theUTC (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France). Among others, Charles Lenay (Costech’s director), Olivier Gapenne (CRED’s director) and Dominique Aubert (programmer) have been intensively involved in the design of the MITT.

Festival of Ideas for the New City is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas that will shape it. The Festival will include a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The They Co. School Nite 233 Mott Street, between Prince & Spring Sts Restrictive allocation of city space foster partnerships between otherwise unrelated groups. Here, a vacant school is bequeathed to artists and cultural organizations for site-specific installations, performances, discussions and lectures implicating hopes, insights, and fears for a Future City.ProgramI Wonder What They Meant: a curatorial project by Amanda Schmitt Immersive, interactive performances and installations by Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Danny Durtsche & Kristof Wickman, Amanda Schmitt & Myla Dalbesio, and Oliver Warden will engage and surprise the viewers, as well as sculptural work by Justin Adian, Benjamin Dowell, and Weston Ulfig, and a video screening room featuring work by Jillian Peña, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Martha Colburn, Ronnie Bass, and Bryan Zanisnik.Visible Alternative: curated by Artist Accomplices An exploration and exploitation of established systems of artistic validation, specifically of contemporary night life and the social orientation, Visible Alternative encourages audience participation offering a new-age Cedar Tavern redux.BoyfriendGirlfriend Welcome to the future of doing every single thing with the person you’re closest too: an installation by the inseparable love cooperative.Chairs of Berlin Stephanie DeGooyer and Maegan Magathan present Chairs of Berlin, a slideshow exhibition tracing the shifting identity of Berlin through one of is most nomadic objects: the chair (featuring live, impromptu interviews with city planners, artists, and perhaps architect Bjarke Ingels).Collective Show Cruise, a showcase of artist groups from cultural capitals around the globe, including Reading Group No. 1 (New York), GIBS-MIR family (Zurich), Lima Zulu (London), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Delta Kame (Berlin), and Silvershed (New York/Los Angeles).Commons Choir Daria Fain and Robert Kocik will present a performance of the Commons Choir (fusion of choreography and prosody) and hold a Commoning Meeting (to discuss the current income inequity crisis).New York Tea Ceremony A custom-made tea party, imbued with gratitude for the metropolis with its continuous cycles of death and infinite possibilities of reinvention, is created by artist Daphane Park with sound compositions by Rachael Bell.Eyelevel BQE Two installations involving a telematic performance using the sense of touch between Paris and New York by artists Fabrice Metais & Annie Abrahams, and an interactive video painting created by Liubo Borissov by using a bespoke process of extracting motion and color from live video footage and using the outcome as a digital brush.The Gowanus Studio Space Boat Heterotopias: A weekend of water-related video art installations and discussion; and preview for this Summer’s marine festival: SeaWorthy. Co-organized by EFA Project Space, Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space, SeaWorthy is a series of Workshops, Public Voyages and an exhibition of art, watercrafts and projects around and about New York City’s waterways.Humble Arts Foundation An exhibition identifying variations on mapping and abstraction to reveal unconsidered spaces by Joy Drury Cox.Kinema Nippon: a curatorial project by Aily Nash and Nine Yamamoto-Masson Conceiving of filmmaking as ethnographic activity, and the cinematic experience as dialogue, Kinema Nippon’s Amoeba City reexamines the Japanese metropolis and conceptions of urbanism in this time of crisis, ambivalence and rebuilding.Nuit Blanche New York (tentative) SOFTlab light installation will be presented in the courtyard portico.PPOW Gallery An installation by Bill Smith using visual and technological interfaces to show the chaotic structures but also the linked relationships that all things in the natural world share.Skillshare An evening of workshops taught by experts and amateurs on almost anything and everything one would ever want to know. Also official Festival participant (see separate listings):Hendershot Gallery The Underground Library Our Other Location

Festival of Ideas for the New City

is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas that will shape it. The Festival will include a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events.

The They Co.

School Nite

233 Mott Street, between Prince & Spring Sts

Restrictive allocation of city space foster partnerships between otherwise unrelated groups. Here, a vacant school is bequeathed to artists and cultural organizations for site-specific installations, performances, discussions and lectures implicating hopes, insights, and fears for a Future City.

Program

I Wonder What They Meant: a curatorial project by Amanda Schmitt
Immersive, interactive performances and installations by Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Danny Durtsche & Kristof Wickman, Amanda Schmitt & Myla Dalbesio, and Oliver Warden will engage and surprise the viewers, as well as sculptural work by Justin Adian, Benjamin Dowell, and Weston Ulfig, and a video screening room featuring work by Jillian Peña, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Martha Colburn, Ronnie Bass, and Bryan Zanisnik.

Visible Alternative: curated by Artist Accomplices
An exploration and exploitation of established systems of artistic validation, specifically of contemporary night life and the social orientation, Visible Alternative encourages audience participation offering a new-age Cedar Tavern redux.

BoyfriendGirlfriend
Welcome to the future of doing every single thing with the person you’re closest too: an installation by the inseparable love cooperative.

Chairs of Berlin
Stephanie DeGooyer and Maegan Magathan present Chairs of Berlin, a slideshow exhibition tracing the shifting identity of Berlin through one of is most nomadic objects: the chair (featuring live, impromptu interviews with city planners, artists, and perhaps architect Bjarke Ingels).

Collective Show
Cruise, a showcase of artist groups from cultural capitals around the globe, including Reading Group No. 1 (New York), GIBS-MIR family (Zurich), Lima Zulu (London), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Delta Kame (Berlin), and Silvershed (New York/Los Angeles).

Commons Choir
Daria Fain and Robert Kocik will present a performance of the Commons Choir (fusion of choreography and prosody) and hold a Commoning Meeting (to discuss the current income inequity crisis).

New York Tea Ceremony
A custom-made tea party, imbued with gratitude for the metropolis with its continuous cycles of death and infinite possibilities of reinvention, is created by artist Daphane Park with sound compositions by Rachael Bell.

Eyelevel BQE
Two installations involving a telematic performance using the sense of touch between Paris and New York by artists Fabrice Metais & Annie Abrahams, and an interactive video painting created by Liubo Borissov by using a bespoke process of extracting motion and color from live video footage and using the outcome as a digital brush.

The Gowanus Studio Space
Boat Heterotopias: A weekend of water-related video art installations and discussion; and preview for this Summer’s marine festival: SeaWorthy. Co-organized by EFA Project Space, Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space, SeaWorthy is a series of Workshops, Public Voyages and an exhibition of art, watercrafts and projects around and about New York City’s waterways.

Humble Arts Foundation
An exhibition identifying variations on mapping and abstraction to reveal unconsidered spaces by Joy Drury Cox.

Kinema Nippon: a curatorial project by Aily Nash and Nine Yamamoto-Masson
Conceiving of filmmaking as ethnographic activity, and the cinematic experience as dialogue, Kinema Nippon’s Amoeba City reexamines the Japanese metropolis and conceptions of urbanism in this time of crisis, ambivalence and rebuilding.

Nuit Blanche New York (tentative)
SOFTlab light installation will be presented in the courtyard portico.

PPOW Gallery
An installation by Bill Smith using visual and technological interfaces to show the chaotic structures but also the linked relationships that all things in the natural world share.

Skillshare
An evening of workshops taught by experts and amateurs on almost anything and everything one would ever want to know.

Also official Festival participant (see separate listings):
Hendershot Gallery
The Underground Library
Our Other Location

Like the Spice Gallery“One and the Many,” an exhibition opening May 13th, 2011 by Jenny Morgan whose new body of work formulates a grounded state of hyper-sense while stripping each figure she paints to their spiritual core. In her second solo show at Like the Spice, Morgan locates a mystical familiarity in contemporary musicians and artists. The technical grace of her figurative representation merges with s…urreal imagination. Thoughtful manipulations bejewel her new work and reveal a renewed sense of reserve. Each full-frontal portrait blossoms out of scintillating colors and effects, revealing layers of the individual and insight into a parallel dimension.  Read more… >

Like the Spice Gallery
“One and the Many,” an exhibition opening May 13th, 2011 by Jenny Morgan whose new body of work formulates a grounded state of hyper-sense while stripping each figure she paints to their spiritual core. In her second solo show at Like the Spice, Morgan locates a mystical familiarity in contemporary musicians and artists. The technical grace of her figurative representation merges with s…urreal imagination. Thoughtful manipulations bejewel her new work and reveal a renewed sense of reserve. Each full-frontal portrait blossoms out of scintillating colors and effects, revealing layers of the individual and insight into a parallel dimension. 

Read more… >

quesofrito: Too Much Chocolate Edition of Time for Print Box Set. I asked some of my favorite curators to piece together five prints from my Time for Print series. They are for sale at Eyelevel Focus. Each custom embossed Time for Print box set comes wtih five 4”x5” giclée prints. Each individual print is limited to an edition of 10 and signed/numbered. $200.

quesofrito:

Too Much Chocolate Edition of Time for Print Box Set.

I asked some of my favorite curators to piece together five prints from my Time for Print series. They are for sale at Eyelevel Focus.

Each custom embossed Time for Print box set comes wtih five 4”x5” giclée prints. Each individual print is limited to an edition of 10 and signed/numbered. $200.

(Source: quesofrito)

http://matchboxdances.com Match Box Dances is a short, four-part dancefilm shot on the streets, sidewalks and loading docks of DUMBO, one of New York’s most quickly changing neighborhoods. The product of an inter-disciplinary collaboration, Match Box Dances is a snapshot of ongoing investigations of portraiture in dance on camera.  The project explores the intersection of public, private and personal gestures, while employing a creative and technical regard to immediacy similar to that of an instant Polaroid: The content, creation and production arise necessarily ‘of-the-moment’, and produce an artifact that functions as both document and art object. Still Photographs Photographer Michael Hart has compiled a collection of shots taken during the filming of Match Box Dances.  These photographs are now being offered for the first time as fine art prints for the casual collector and the serious appreciator. The photos were taken on a Leica M6 using 35mm film.  Proceeds from these sales help support the work of the artists involved in creating Match Box Dances.  Canary and the Coal Mine: This image was selected to celebrate the creation and release of Match Box Dances.  Prints are available in three sizes on Kodak Professional Endura Supra Matte paper. $5   … Canary and the Coal Mine (4” x 6”)$20 … Canary and the Coal Mine (8” x 10”)$50 … Canary and the Coal Mine (11” x 14”)

http://matchboxdances.com

Match Box Dances is a short, four-part dancefilm shot on the streets, sidewalks and loading docks of DUMBO, one of New York’s most quickly changing neighborhoods. The product of an inter-disciplinary collaboration, Match Box Dances is a snapshot of ongoing investigations of portraiture in dance on camera.  The project explores the intersection of public, private and personal gestures, while employing a creative and technical regard to immediacy similar to that of an instant Polaroid: The content, creation and production arise necessarily ‘of-the-moment’, and produce an artifact that functions as both document and art object.

Still Photographs

Photographer Michael Hart has compiled a collection of shots taken during the filming of Match Box Dances.  These photographs are now being offered for the first time as fine art prints for the casual collector and the serious appreciator.

The photos were taken on a Leica M6 using 35mm film.  Proceeds from these sales help support the work of the artists involved in creating Match Box Dances. 

Canary and the Coal Mine:

Photo by Michael Hart. Click to view large version on Photoshelter.

This image was selected to celebrate the creation and release of Match Box Dances.  Prints are available in three sizes on Kodak Professional Endura Supra Matte paper.

$5   … Canary and the Coal Mine (4” x 6”)
$20 … Canary and the Coal Mine (8” x 10”)
$50 … Canary and the Coal Mine (11” x 14”)

MEET AND GREET | NORTHSIDE OPEN STUDIOS There is a Meet & Greet on April 26th 7:30pm at Brooklyn Brewery located at 79 North 11th Street and we will discuss registration, programming, and any questions you may have. It is very important that you join us in the meeting and get to know each other and learn about NOS over a complimentary free beer! Share the event on Facebook. Greenpoint Open Studios is excited to team up with L Magazine to bring you Northside Open Studios. In GOS’ third year running we are expanding our efforts to Williamsburg to bring the North Brooklyn creative community to the public, making open studios bigger and better than ever! Registration is now OPEN and we encourage artists working in all mediums to register online. A registration fee of $20 helps us cover operation and administrative expenses and we accept payment thru paypal. If you do not have a paypal account, create a new one or email northsideopenstudios@gmail.com to mail a check. Registration and fee is required by May 15th to be included in the brochure and website. You can volunteer in lieu of an artist fee and lend a hand throughout the four day event. We will have a listing available on the website for artists & curators looking for spaces and vice versa. There is no limit to what you can host as an exhibition, event or performance and we will help you find the space and promote the event throughout Northside Open Studios. Please help us spread the word, our goal is to reach 300 participating artists who can take advantage of the 10,000 brochure copies that will be widely printed and distributed throghout brooklyn, not to mention a vast opportunity for viewership and attendance. Like our Facebook page, and share the open call invite. Feel free to also post any announcements and listings on our page, whether it’s an upcoming show or an available studio down the hall. Please follow NORTHSIDE OPEN STUDIOS on twitter: @nsopenstudios

MEET AND GREET | NORTHSIDE OPEN STUDIOS

There is a Meet & Greet on April 26th 7:30pm at Brooklyn Brewery located at 79 North 11th Street and we will discuss registration, programming, and any questions you may have. It is very important that you join us in the meeting and get to know each other and learn about NOS over a complimentary free beer!

Share the event on Facebook.

Greenpoint Open Studios is excited to team up with L Magazine to bring you Northside Open Studios. In GOS’ third year running we are expanding our efforts to Williamsburg to bring the North Brooklyn creative community to the public, making open studios bigger and better than ever!

Registration is now OPEN and we encourage artists working in all mediums to register online. A registration fee of $20 helps us cover operation and administrative expenses and we accept payment thru paypal. If you do not have a paypal account, create a new one or email northsideopenstudios@gmail.com to mail a check. Registration and fee is required by May 15th to be included in the brochure and website. You can volunteer in lieu of an artist fee and lend a hand throughout the four day event.

We will have a listing available on the website for artists & curators looking for spaces and vice versa. There is no limit to what you can host as an exhibition, event or performance and we will help you find the space and promote the event throughout Northside Open Studios.

Please help us spread the word, our goal is to reach 300 participating artists who can take advantage of the 10,000 brochure copies that will be widely printed and distributed throghout brooklyn, not to mention a vast opportunity for viewership and attendance.

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mossfull: Emiliano Granado chose me as one of 5 people to curate a modest box set of his recent work Time for Print. I decided on five that I felt differed quite distinctly and live somewhat on their own when put aside the other four.  Everyone who participated came out with some great selections. I personally quite love LPV’s choices. Check them all out here.

mossfull:

Emiliano Granado chose me as one of 5 people to curate a modest box set of his recent work Time for Print. I decided on five that I felt differed quite distinctly and live somewhat on their own when put aside the other four. 

Everyone who participated came out with some great selections. I personally quite love LPV’s choices. Check them all out here.

(via quesofrito)

https://twitter.com/#!/love_charlie Charlie is back on twitter, with a very 4/20 face

https://twitter.com/#!/love_charlie

Charlie is back on twitter, with a very 4/20 face

TIME FOR PRINT CURATED SERIES LAUNCHING AT EYELEVEL FOCUS: APRIL 20, 2010 on Flickr.www.eyelevelfocus.com www.projecttfp.com/ After a successful show at our exhibition space, Eyelevel Focus is proud to bring back to the internet, a curated selection box set from Time For Print: offering viewers an uncomfortable seat at a series of photo shoots with amateur models from the website “Model Mayhem”.

TIME FOR PRINT CURATED SERIES LAUNCHING AT EYELEVEL FOCUS: APRIL 20, 2010 on Flickr.

www.eyelevelfocus.com
www.projecttfp.com/

After a successful show at our exhibition space, Eyelevel Focus is proud to bring back to the internet, a curated selection box set from Time For Print: offering viewers an uncomfortable seat at a series of photo shoots with amateur models from the website “Model Mayhem”.

photo(3) on Flickr.www.emceecm.com/libraries.html The LEONARD & WITHERS CORNER LIBRARY was built by Emcee C.M., Master of None and is operated by all of the K.I.D.S. (Kindness and Imagination Development Society). It is a functional miniature library that lives on the sidewalk in a small weather-proofed shed. This library is meant to encourage us all to publish and share information about local resources, issues, events, and the many personal matters we care about deeply. Whoever wants to make use of it can do so. Please contact the librarian to get a library card and borrow or donate a book, newsletter, ‘zine, mixtape, broadside, pamphlet, score, dvd, list, recipe, drawing, or whatever information format you prefer. The current librarian of this library is Gabriela Alva, who works at Eyelevel BQE. The first Corner Library was part of an interactive community project going on at the Lot near the corner of Chapel and Orange, in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, in 2007. Currently, the K.I.D.S. is developing strategies, collaborators, and funding for a big push to install a whole bunch of libraries around New York City.

photo(3) on Flickr.

www.emceecm.com/libraries.html

The LEONARD & WITHERS CORNER LIBRARY was built by Emcee C.M., Master of None and is operated by all of the K.I.D.S. (Kindness and Imagination Development Society). It is a functional miniature library that lives on the sidewalk in a small weather-proofed shed. This library is meant to encourage us all to publish and share information about local resources, issues, events, and the many personal matters we care about deeply. Whoever wants to make use of it can do so. Please contact the librarian to get a library card and borrow or donate a book, newsletter, ‘zine, mixtape, broadside, pamphlet, score, dvd, list, recipe, drawing, or whatever information format you prefer.
The current librarian of this library is Gabriela Alva, who works at Eyelevel BQE. The first Corner Library was part of an interactive community project going on at the Lot near the corner of Chapel and Orange, in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, in 2007. Currently, the K.I.D.S. is developing strategies, collaborators, and funding for a big push to install a whole bunch of libraries around New York City.