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Saturday 31st October 2009 - Author: Adam

MUSEUM MAN ARCHIVES RECOVERED

The Museum MAN visual archive that had been stolen in Berlin March 2009 have in great part been recovered.
The lost archive spanning 2004/2006

All images are authored by Adam Nankervis,unless otherwise stipulataed on this website.

Saturday 31st October 2009 - Author: Adam

FEEDBACK Berlin

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Danielle de Picciotto has worked as an interdisciplinary artist in the fielding of art, music and film since 1987.
1987 Danielle moves from NYC to Berlin and has made the capital city her home ever since.
1989 She founded, together with her partner Dr. Motte, the Berliner Love Parade.
2007 Danielle gave a series of international Workshops and lectures about Berlin’s Creative Culture, commissioned by
the Goethe Institute, Germany.
2008 She was invited by the Foreign Office in Berlin to work as the Artistic Director on the VJ Project “Europa
Tanzt” (Europe Dances). Together with Foreign Minister Steinmeier, Danielle held the inaugural address at
Kesselhaus, Berlin.
2009 She was approached again by the Foreign Office to create an animated short film about the 20th Anniversary of the
fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful interaction between the new EU countries with her own animations.
In May of 2009, the collaborative works of Danielle de Picciotto and her husband, Alexander Hacke as well as Danielle’s
own art were featured in Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappelari’s documentary, “In Berlin,” shown internationally.
Art Fair Participation:
Zoo London (GB) 2008,
Berliner Liste (Germany)2009
Publications Featuring Danielle de Picciotto:
„Disorientation-Art on the margin of Contemporary“ by Travis Jeppesen 2008
„The Upset“ 2008; Publisher: Die Gestalten; Berlin
„All Allure” 2006 Publisher: Die Gestalten; Berlin
“40 Jahre“ Haus am Lützowplatz; 2003
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and has lived in London since 1986. She has developed her very own drawing
technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines. “It’s an insane way to draw,” she says, “but the
resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort.”
Tina Winkhaus’ photography is full of merciless kids, humorous animals and vessel of ambiguous content. She
endeavors to enrich the visual findings of the eye with great depth of feeling and implicate the eye into the very scene
that it seems to record.
Angie Mason visually explores the twisted combinations of opposites through the creation of slightly off characters
using them as a way to paint truths about being human. There is a balance of light and dark that intermingle in her work
creating a visual playground bringing to life quirky characters that are beautifully rendered yet with a painterly hand give
them an innocent raw touch.
Petra Wende is a full-time artist living between Berlin and Italy. Through the years she has worked in a variety of
media - sculpture, painting, printing and multimedia. Her sculptures made from bronze, aluminum and cement give off an
intense radiance. She has traveled and worked in the United States, India and Japan and has worked as an associate of
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
Claudia Drake’s collages are Victorian dreamscapes, Jungian travels, and digital hybrids. Each collage print is the
product of antique ephemera paired with new technology. Early 20th century engravings are scanned, digitized, then
interwoven in chance arrangements, which are then meticulously reworked to form a new whole. Her work is part of
several public and private collections across the globe.
Kai Teichert began his studies in art in 1985 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Three years later he was accepted to the prestigious Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste “Städelschule” in
Frankfurt am Main, where he received an MA in Visual Arts (Painting). Living in Berlin since 1993, he has taught painting
at the Universität der Künste from 2001 - 03 and has exhibited internationally.

Laurie Lipton wurde in New York geboren und lebt seit 1986 in London. Sie hat eine ganz eigene Zeichentechnik
entwickelt, bei der sie mit Hilfe von tausenden einander kreuzenden Linien eine bestimmte Art von Schattierung erzeugt.
“Es ist eine irrsinnige Art, zu zeichnen”, sagt sie, “aber die daraus resultierende Detailiertheit und Brillianz sind die große
Mühe wert”.
Tina Winkhaus’ Fotografie ist voll von grausamen Kindern, humorvollen Tieren und Gefäßen ungewissen Inhalts. Sie
bemüht sich, die visuellen Funde des Auges mit großer Gefühlstiefe anzureichern und das Auge Teil der Szenarien
werden zu lassen, die es wahrzunehmen scheint.
Angie Mason erschafft etwas abseitige Charaktere und untersucht in ihnen bildhaft ineinander verwobene
Gegensatzkombinationen. So malt sie Wahrheiten über das Menschsein. Sie arbeitet mit einer Balance aus Helligkeit und
Dunkelheit, die innerhalb ihres Werks eine Art visuellen Spielplatz erzeugt, auf dem sonderbare, aber zugleich schön
gestaltete Charaktere entstehen, denen die Hand der Malerin einen unschuldigen, rohen Touch verleiht.
Petra Wende ist freischaffender Künstlerin, die zwischen Berlin und Italien lebt. Im Laufe der Zeit hat sie mit einer
Vielzahl von Medien gearbeitet – Skulptur, Malerei, Druck und Multimedia. Ihre metaphysischen Plastiken aus Bronze,
Aluminium, Beton sind von intensiver psychischer Ausstrahlung. Sie hat die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Indien und
Japan bereist und als freier Mitarbeiterin des DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) gearbeitet.
Claudia Drake’s Collagen wurden run um den Globus gezeigt. Jeder Collagendruck ist das Produkt der vergangenen
Antike und neuer Technologie. Gravierungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts werden gescanned und digitalisiert, dann in
zufällige Arrangements verwoben die anschliessend wiederum akribisch genau umgearbeitet werden um ein Neues zu
schaffen. Ihre Arbeit ist Teil verschiedener öffentlicher und privater Sammlungen, national wie international.
Kai Teichert begann sein Kunststudium 1985 an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe,
Deutschland. Drei Jahre später wechselte er an die angesehene Hochschule für bildende Künste "Städelschule" in
Frankfurt am Main, wo er seinen Studienabschluss in Bildender Kunst (Malerei) gemacht hat. Seit 1993 lebt er in Berlin,
wo er zwischen 2001 und 03 an der Universität der Künste Malerei gelehrt hat. Ausstellungen im In- und Ausland.

Tuesday 27th October 2009 - Author: Adam

Franklin Furnace presents

Franklin Furnace presents

in association with Performa 09

THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE II

Friday November 6 and Saturday November 7, 2009

8 pm

at

Abrons Art Center / Henry Street Settlement

466 Grand Street

Manhattan

Tickets $20; $16 for members of Performa; free for Franklin Furnace members over $99. Please visit Theatermania, online at

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-history-of-the-future-ii_160847/

or by telephone at (212)-352-3101 or toll free at (866) 811-4111

Cold roast beef and frozen fish pie; brand new body parts and wackily-mutated worlds; Times Square the way it used to be; sublime subprimes; a 5’6” artist boxing the 6”5” world heavyweight champion, aboard the Staten Island Ferry – who else but Franklin Furnace could dare put all this together in two fast and furious evenings of visual art performance?

If you have not been following the development of “visual art performance” (this term was coined by RoseLee Goldberg, founding director of Performa, to link the antics of the Italian Futurist poets and painters, the cross-dressing experiments of Marcel Duchamp, the “Happenings” of Allan Kaprow and a multitude of other historical events to today’s live practice), The History of the Future II will provide you with an indispensable overview of artists and their concerns during the last 35 years. The program was curated by Martha Wilson, Founding Director of Franklin Furnace and a visual art performance practitioner in her own right, in consultation with two other visual art performance artists, Salley May, artist and long-time curator of P.S. 122’s Avant-Garde-Arama, and Tom Murrin a.k.a. Alien Comic, artist, playwright and contributor to PAPER magazine.

From Susan Mogul’s seminal (you’ll see why this term is so funny!) 1974 performance for the video camera, “Take Off,” to John Kelly’s recently reprised impersonation of Joni Mitchell, the historical videos will provide a “crash course” in the recent history of this field. Complemented by full-length and excerpted live visual art performance works by today’s brightest stars, The History of the Future II will aid the curious to understand the vocabulary of themes and approaches in the city-wide Performa 09 Biennial.

The History of the Future II, Franklin Furnace’s second biennial presentation of today’s visual art performance artists, will honor Guy de Cointet (1934 – 1983), the French artist known for encryption drawings, theatrical productions, and readymade language. Twenty-six artists, all Franklin Furnace alumns, will be seen in this two-hour extravaganza. The History of the Future II will be presented on two evenings in lower Manhattan at the Abrons Art Center of The Henry Street Settlement.

Downtown impresario Carmelita Tropicana will emcee The History of the Future II, introducing the following live events in her inimitable style:

Nao Bustamante, “Silver and Gold”

Jibz Cameron, a.k.a. Dynasty Handbag, “Bags”

Deb Margolin, “Oh Yes I Will (I Will Remember the Spirit and Texture of This Conversation)”

Shelly Mars, “The Human Bonobo Project”

Neal Medlyn, “The Paris Hilton of Performance Art”

Adam Pendleton, “Two Scenes,” with Alicia Hall Moran, to take place outside Abrons Art Center

Cathy Weis, “A Lecture on Walking,” with Jennifer Miller

Historical video of visual art performance works will be presented chronologically and interspersed with the above live events, as follows:

Susan Mogul, “Take Off,” 1974

Linda Montano, “Mitchell’s Death,” 1977

Johanna Went, at Hollywood Central Theater, 1979

Matt Mullican, hypnosis performance at The Kitchen, 1981

Suzanne Lacy, “Crystal Quilt,” 1987

Fiona Templeton, “You the City,” 1988

Andrea Fraser, “Museum Highlights,” 1989

David Leslie, The Impact Addict, bout with Riddick Bowe, 1994

David Cale, at Dixon Place, 1995

Bobby Baker, “Drawing on a Mother’s Experience,” 1996

Diane Torr, “Drag King for a Day Workshop,” 1996

John Malpede, LAPD, 1997

Robbie McCauley, “Sally’s Rape,” 1998

Slaven Tolj, “Globalization,” 2001

Jennifer Miller, Circus Amok, “Subprime Sublime,” 2008

Rashaad Newsome, “Shade Compositions,” 2009

DANCENOISE, “Hoop Dance,” 2009

John Kelly, as Joni Mitchell singing “Down to You,” 2009

Guy de Cointet, “Two Drawings,” performed at Franklin Furnace in 1978 by Jane Zingale and Mary Ann Duganne, will be screened during the afterparty.

Bios and photos are available, and interviews with artists may be arranged by contacting Martha Wilson.

About Abrons Art Center / Henry Street Settlement

Founded in 1893 by social work pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social service and arts programming to more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year. The Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement brings innovative artistic excellence to Manhattan's Lower East Side through diverse, cutting-edge performances; exhibitions/artist residencies, classes and workshops for all ages; and arts-in-education programming at public schools. Some of the most adventurous artists of the past century have trained, taught, or performed at Henry Street, including John Cage, Aaron Copland, Dizzy Gillespie, Martha Graham, Alicia Keyes, Alwin Nikolais, Jackson Pollock, Denzel Washington, and Orson Welles.

About Performa 09

Performa 09 (November 1-22, 2009) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. www.performa-arts.org

About Franklin Furnace

Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 by artist Martha Wilson to champion ephemeral forms neglected by mainstream arts institutions. Franklin Furnace’s mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. We have developed a place in art history for artists’ books, temporary installation art, and visual art performance, and researched the history of the contemporary artists’ book. Most profoundly, Franklin Furnace has had an indelible impact upon art by launching the careers of artists whose work has influenced art and cultural discourse in this country; Franklin Furnace’s niche remains the bottom of the food chain, premiering artists in New York who later emerge as art world stars. The organization set upon a course of substantial change in 1993 when its collection of artists’ books published internationally after 1960, the largest in the United States, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During its 20th anniversary season, Franklin Furnace reinvented itself as a “virtual institution,” not identified with its real estate but rather with its resources, made accessible by electronic and other means. During its 30th anniversary season, Franklin Furnace received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and signed a collaboration agreement with ARTstor to digitize and publish on the web documentation of events it presented and produced, with the goal of embedding the value of ephemeral art practice in art and cultural history. In its trademark irreverence fused with serious scholarship, Franklin Furnace will soon publish The History of the Future: A Franklin Furnace View of Performance Art, curated in 2007 by C. Carr, RoseLee Goldberg and Martha Wilson, an electronic academic resource to be distributed to colleges and universities.

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.

80 Arts—The James E. Davis Arts Building

80 Hanson Place #301

Brooklyn, NY 11217-1506

718-398-7255/Fax 7256

mail@franklinfurnace.org

www.franklinfurnace.org

Wednesday 21st October 2009 - Author: Adam

Anna Bella Geiger: GlobaLocaL

Anna Bella Geiger: GlobaLocaL

Dagmar De Pooter Gallery is pleased to present Anna Bella Geiger: GlobaLocaL, curated by Daniella Géo. The exhibition introduces a brief but punctual overview of Anna Bella Geiger's oeuvre, including some of the Brazilian artist's most emblematic works, whose previous editions are in collections such as MoMa, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. GlobaLocaL features works dating from the 70's up to now, presenting a variety of researches and approaches undertaken by Geiger.

One of the most important Brazilian contemporary artists, Geiger is a pioneer of conceptual art in Brazil, being one of the first to introduce video art to the country. Alongside painting, sculpture, etching, drawing and photography, since the 70’s, she has also developed experimental productions, in which she makes use of photomontage, photocopies, postcards, Super-8, among other media. Geiger is renowned for her research into the concept of national territory, identity and culture, in which cartography plays a central role. Influenced by anthropology and geopolitics Geiger’s oeuvre points out transformation in the face of multiculturalism but not without questioning the notions of periphery, borders, citizenship, autochthon etc. The daughter of Polish immigrants, she deals with the problematics of adaptation, mimesis, exchange, and ubiquity, searching for what is global in the local and vice-versa.

In a joint initiative, the exhibition Anna Bella Geiger: Visceral, at Galeria Marcantônio Vilaça - Embassy of Brazil in Brussels, presents a selection of etchings from the series Viscerais. Developed in the 60's, these works are part of the Embassy's collection and are being shown for the first time to the general public.

Geiger (1933, Rio de Janeiro) has influenced generations of Brazilian artists, critics and curators as both artist and educator. A graduate in Language and Literature, she also studied Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the New York University (NYU). She has taught at Columbia University and various Brazilian art institutes. Her work is included in the collections of MoMA, New York, The Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as well as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Museu Serra Alves, Porto, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and others. Awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, she has exhibited in museums including MoMA, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. She has taken part in the Biennale di Venezia, Bienal de São Paulo, Bienal de la Habana. Geiger lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dagmar De Pooter Gallery
Pourbusstraat 14 B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Tel /Fax: 00 32(0)3 290 8574
info@dagmardepootergallery.com /
www.dagmardepootergallery.com

Galeria Marcantônio Villaça - Casa do Brasil
Embassy of Brazil in Brussels
Ave.Louise 350 Louizalaan B 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 00 32 (0) 2 640 2015
setcultural@brasbruxelas.be

A TOAST BY DAVID MEDALLA

Dear Anna Bella Geiger,
Warm greetings!
Yesterday, Tuesday, 20 October 2009, in the cafe on the fourth floor of TATE Modern in London, German artist Claudia Wegener (in London for a short visit from Durban, South Africa), English art critic and curator Guy Brett, Argentinian writer and voyager Teodoro Maler, and I drank TWIN TOASTS TO YOU (in celebration of your exhibitions at the Dagmar de Pooter in Belgium) and TO THE MEMORY OF HELIO OITICICA. Artist Marko Stepanov took photos of the event which I will send to you in Brazil as soon as the photos are printed.
The day before yesterday I received an E mail from French artist Valerie Vivancos, telling me that a fire devastated the home of Helio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro and that his art works stored in the house were destroyed by the fire. Claudia Wegener and Guy Brett phoned me on the same evening to confirm the terrible news. I was and I am deeply saddened by the news of the destruction by fire of many of Helio Oiticica's art works. I had been planning to do a toast to celebrate your shows in Belgium. I decided to make a Twin Toast to you and Helio Oiticica, for you both belong to the brilliant constellation of carioca artists who have been illuminating the firmament of contemporary art.
Guy Brett has been a great promoter of Helio Oiticica's art since the time Guy curated Helio's solo show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in the early 1960s.
Valerie Vivancos and I participated in the LONDON BIENNALE "Pollinations": 'RIO TRAJETORIAS' at the start of the new millenium. We all had a great time in Rio de Janeiro and we share memories of the time we had meetings in the Espacio Oiticica there.
After the TWIN TOASTS TO YOU AND HELIO at TATE Modern yesterday, we were joined there by the Mexican friend of Teodoro Maler, by the young Italian poet Orso Sugo Tosco (whose play we will produce at new year's LONDON BIENNALE) and Man Sommerlinck who is the director of the Fordham Art Gallery. After TATE Modern closed for the day, several of us retired to a nearby pub and had invigorating conversations on a diversity of subjects. We recalled the great contribution to contemporary art of Helio Oiticica and by his compatriots and contemporaries Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel and Sergio de Camargo.
This morning, in Hackney, East London, I told Orso Sugo Tosco the beautiful art works you have done and continue to do. I will forward this message to various LONDON BIENNALE artists who live in Belgium, inviting them to see your shows.
I send you my best wishes!
David Medalla

Thursday 15th October 2009 - Author: Adam

TrAIN Open Events 19-22 October 2009

TrAIN Open Events 19-22 October 2009

All events are free and open to all

TrAIN Conversation | Roma Tearne | Timelines: Memories and Migrationl

Monday 19 October, Central Saint Martins RLS 712 (Southampton Row Entrance) 17:30-19:00

Sri Lankan born artist Roma Tearne will show one of her films followed by a Conversation with Professor Deborah Cherry. Roma Tearne is an artists and novelist who lives and works in Britian.She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. For nearly twenty five years her work as a painter, installation artist, and filmmaker has dealt with the traces of history and memory within public and private spaces. She became Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2002 and there, as a response to public interest, that she began to write. In 2006 she was awarded a three-year AHRC Fellowship, at Brookes University, Oxford where she worked on the relationship between narrative and memory in museums throughout Europe. Her third novel Brixton Beach is published by Harper Collins.

Artist Talk | Jaime Gili | Caracas Centrifugal

Wednesday 21 October, Lecture Theatre Chelsea College of Arts (Atterbury Street Entrance), 17:15-19:00

Jaime Gili will discuss the current context of the arts in Caracas, Venezuela. He will introduce the modernist legacy of artistic integration - epitomized by the city’s Central University - and the present political situation, the disappearance of museums and the growth of private initiatives. Points of focus will be spaces including Los Galpones art center, Jesus Fuenmayor, Oficina 1, Organización Nelson Garrido and La Carniceria; young art initiaves around the FIA art fair, including Desconfia and Jovenes con FIA; the work of individual arts in Venezuela including Suwon Lee, Luis Romero and Luis Salazar, and that of artists working abroad, including Alexander Apostol, Nayari Castillo, Hernandez Diez and Arturo Herrera.

Exhibition Histories | Paulo Herkenhoff on The XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo

Thursday 22 October, Lecture Theatre Royal College of Art (Kensington Gore), 6.30-8pm

Paulo Herkenhoff will discuss his curatorship of the XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo (1998). Herkenhoff used the influential twentieth century Brazilian cultural concept of Antropofagia (cannibalism) to set the parameters for this international exhibition - which is considered as a landmark in the history of biennales. Introduced by Teresa Gleadowe. TrAIN collaboration with Afterall and Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art.


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