CLEA RSKY NYC CURATES VIDEO NIGHT @ SPRINGS PROJECTS
Sep 14 2024
6 - 8 PM
20 Jay Street, 311b Brooklyn
CLEA RSKY NYC CURATES VIDEO NIGHT @ SPRINGS PROJECTS
Sep 14 2024
6 - 8 PM
20 Jay Street, 311b Brooklyn
Stephanie Acosta
Hayley Bloomquest
Stephen Dean
Anne Delaporte
Glenn Goldberg
Jay Hamade
Tommy Hartung
Sarah Jordenö
Dante Lentz
Isaac Pool
The AUNTS BARCHIVE is a public facing community-centered hub for the collection, organization, and creation of an archive for AUNTS!
Past AUNTS artists, organizers and new visitors participate in the archive by contributing materials, images, oral histories, or by witnessing. Collectively assembling an archive at our triangular sports bar in the style of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” the BARCHIVE at LMCC’s Art Center on Governors Island will be open throughout June where visitors can visit the bar to view and participate in the archive-in-progress. Look at photos and videos from past events, attend live performances, talks, and join us for a drink at the bar.
RIVER TO RIVER Happy Hour events at the BARCHIVE
Sat 6.10 4-7pm OPENING A night of Toasts, Hosted by Stephanie Acosta
Sun 6.11 2-5pm SOUND at AUNTS, Hosted by Rena Anakwe
Tues 6.13 4-7pm MESSES at AUNTS, Hosted by Cara Francis
Thurs 6.15 4-7pm WRITING and GLOSSARY at AUNTS, Hosted by Mariana Valencia
Fri 6.16 4-7pm ROVING at AUNTS, Hosted by Leyya Mona Tawil
Sat 6.17 4-7pm REFLECTIONS from the Personal Archive, Hosted by jess pretty
Sun 6.18 2-5pm AUNTIE-INSTITUTIONAL, Hosted by Travis Chamberlain
Additional events June 20-27 to be announced soon!
AUNTS experimental archivist: Stephanie Acosta
Oral Histories project: Biba Bell
June 1, 2023 - June 30, 2023 All Day Event LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island 110 Andes Rd, New York, 10004, Free
STUDIO NEWS | Headed to Dumbo for Summer 2022
Shifting spaces in precarious times can be so wild and after two years I have left our beloved Treasure Town studio where I spent the pandemic surviving a crisis just in time to join the brilliants over at Triangle Arts in Dumbo for the summer. I’ll be working on new projects, hosting visits and small sharings, and hopefully you!
If you are a writer, curator, engager of the art thing, and would like to visit my work this summer please feel free to contact me and book a visit!
Jessie Young is back with her electric ensemble for one more showing of the remarkable TEETCH
I’ve been lucky to join Jessie on multiple stages of this work and research and watching this team ans specifically these magic movers build new vocabularies and shake floorboards has been a revelation. Shana Crawfords lights, Stevie May’s construction and Alexa Grae’s sonic offering really blows it out. Go catch this before it goes back into the cosmos!
Big love to these brilliant artists.
Dance+ is annual interdisciplinary dance event curated by A+J Founding Director and choreographer Amanda Hameline.
Dance+ Live Media will feature choreography by Jessie Young and Amanda Hameline. Both of their works employ media controlled live by the performers and explore the reciprocal relationship between the body and the built and natural environment. Rather than using technology to expand or polish the performance space, they instead involve elements of sound, light and projection in their choreography to reflect upon and highlight the absurd and grotesque sides of reality.
Featuring:
Teeth Choreography by Jessie Young with Lighting Design by Shana Crawford and Sound Design by ALEXA
Performers: Bree Breeden, Justin Faircloth, Nina Guevara, Mia Martelli, Ariana Speight, and Meghann Trago
Walking After Choreography and Sound Design by Amanda Hameline, created in collaboration with performers Anna Hull and Jace Weyant
image credit: Laurie Berg
Thrilled to have joined this wild bunch as dramaturg and hope you will go check out the way it is DONE! This work is sincerely dreamy, deeply absurd, and necessary for all. GO GO GO!
Notes on the show BELOW
Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.
The chameleon’s eyes move independently of one another, offering an almost 360 view of its surroundings. Even when both eyes focus on the same object, they do so independently, making the chameleon’s vision a naturally occurring diptych. This remarkable ocular duet is the basis for Berg’s new work FOMO:DIPTYCH. A densely layered performance installation to study the diptych: as a form, a way of viewing, listening, feeling, and consuming. A place where missing something is guaranteed (and ok).
FOMO:DIPTYCH asks if performance – as an inherently ephemeral experience – can help us recognize our capacity to hold multiple perspectives at once, and when considered collectively, reveals the cacophonous jumble of inputs we piece together to make meaning. Our eyes move independently of the eyes of our neighbor, each of our brains collecting only the objects we choose to let in. And where we sit affects what we encounter.
FOMO:DIPTYCH invites the audience to observe the performance from two distinct vantage points: a white box art gallery (with bubbles and conceptual canapes) or a seat at the sports bar (with cheap beer and celebrity bartenders) both within the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new raw space.
created by Laurie Berg in collaboration with Matt Romein (technical design); Madison Krekel and Omar Zubair (sound); Jodi Bender, Ayano Elson, Marion Spencer, Laurie Berg and more (performance); Charlie Welch (sports bar); jess pretty (creative consultant); Shana Crawford (lighting); Shomit Barua (technical associate); and Myssi Robinson (trainview designer).
Conceived + Performed by Mette Loulou von Kohl
Director | Stephanie Acosta
DP | James Tate
Produced by Intrinsic Grey Productions
Filmed at Treasure Town, Acosta's studio in Brooklyn, NY February 2022
Project Description by artist Mette Loulou von Kohl "not yet titled, explores the position and identity of the zionist entity as existing in a perpetual state of self-defense and moral exception. It asks how my body, as a Palestinian body, can reveal this claim as fantasy through sensuality, dominion and disgust."
Acosta + von Kohl have previously collaborated on the staged work 'No One Likes an Ugly Revolutionary' at Abrons Arts Center March 2020 prior to the Covid Pandemic.
Shut Up! Closing Event and Book Reading
Closing Event with Stephanie Acosta.
Closing Reception & Reading:
Tuesday, March 22, 5-7pm
NARS Project Space
Shut Up is a meditation on light and confinement. Drawing upon previous work with reflections, breath, trauma, and self-awareness, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks will redirect light from the Project Space window with mirrors and reflective surfaces. Patterns in the space, from mirrored pixels to rotating displays to sequined pillows, are based on pixelations of the surface of the sun. A meditation on time, celestial bodies, isolation and ecologies in the pandemic.
As a closing event for the exhibition, on March 22 at 5pm, Beitiks, joined by Stephanie Acosta, will read an excerpt from her book Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain , recently published with Routledge, in the space as the sun sets, and discuss it with visitors and friends.
Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. She was a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She exhibited her work at the I-Park Environmental Art Biennale, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the House of Artists in Moscow, and other locations in California, Chicago, Australia and the UK. She received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.meghanmoebeitiks.com
Funding support for this exhibition provided by University of Florida College of the Arts.
Overwhelmed by the thoughtful witnessing of this write up on The Latinx Project about our wild closed world of Good Day God Damn. Feeling huge gratitude! Go check it out and soak up all their great content!
BIG LOVE to Alex Santana for seeing and believing
Introducing Apocalypse Talks: a Dumpster-fireside Chat Series. Join us weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm as we get into the textures, sensations, emotions, landscapes, materials, aromas, by-products, aesthetics, and other messiness of living in a multi-crisis reality. With a range of guests we’ll talk about how we are dealing, and how our practices and processes refract life in the end times.
Next event: March 31, 2021 at 7pm, featuring imogen xtian smith (register here).
These are the core themes in Stephanie Acosta’s upcoming exhibition Good Day God Damn (opening May 2021 at the new Chocolate Factory space), where we will start our conversation, but where we go only the fire knows.
Sign in and drop questions, join this bit of cosmic chaos while Acosta chats with artists, makers, astronomers, and you!
Organized by Stephanie Acosta and Alexis Wilkinson.
Thrilled to be joining such a talented group of folks to talk about the complex topic of dramaturgy in contemporary dance. Humbled to be invited by the powerhouse Melanie George
Art + Action Talk : Dramaturgy in Dance
Feb 23 | 7p EST
with Stephanie Acosta, Pele Bauch, and Katherine Profeta, moderated by Melanie George.
Dramaturgy in Dance brings to together a group of artist-dramaturgs working in dance and dance theatre to discuss the methods and materials of dramaturgy in our field. The group represents a range of aesthetics and practices happening in the field today.
Melanie George – Artist Moderator
Melanie George is a dance educator, choreographer, scholar, and dramaturg. She is the founder and director of Jazz Is… Dance Project and an Associate Curator and Scholar-In-Residence at Jacob’s Pillow. As a dramaturg, she has contributed to projects by David Neumann & Marcella Murray (on the Obie Award winning Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed), Raja Feather Kelly, Ephrat Asherie, Susan Marshall & Company, Machine Dazzle, and Urban Bush Women among others. A highly sought after teacher and choreographer of the neo-jazz aesthetic, Melanie is a featured in the documentary UpRooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance. Melanie has presented her research on jazz improvisation and pedagogy throughout the U.S., in Canada and Scotland, and founded the global advocacy website jazzdancedirect.com. She is the former Dance Program Director at American University, and has guest lectured at Harvard University, the Yale School of Drama, and The Juilliard School, among others.
Art + Action Talk, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, is Gibney’s online talk show for discerning fans of dance, the creative process and all the ways art plays a vital role in society.
Glad to be part of this charge forward. No rest until we have the world we deserve!
Protesters outside of MoMA in October of 2019 (photo by Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic)
Over 150 Artists Call for Leon Black’s Removal From MoMA’s Board Over Jeffrey Epstein Financial Ties
Our Statement :
Collective Statement Signed by 157 artists, curators, and art workers
We, as artists and art workers, support the removal of Leon Black from the board of MoMA for reasons that have already been stated by many others. However, this should be considered the bare minimum. Beyond his removal, we must think seriously about a collective exit from art’s imbrication in toxic philanthropy and structures of oppression, so that we don’t have to have the same conversations over and over, one board member at a time. This thinking can only catalyze action once we state plainly: We do not need this money. Museums and other arts institutions must pursue alternative models, cooperative structures, Land Back initiatives, reparations, and additional ideas that constitute an abolitionist approach toward the arts and arts patronage, so that they align with the egalitarian principles that drew us to art in the first place.
Aaron Hughes
Aaron Landsman
Abou Farman
Ahmed Isamaldin
Ahmad Salameh
Ajay Kurian
Alan Ruiz
Alberto Garcia Rodriguez
Alex Paik
Alex Zandi
Alexa Punnamkuzhyil
Ali Eyal
Ali Yass
Amanda Matles, Pratt Institute
Aminah Ibrahim
Ana Ratner
Anna Sew Hoy
Andrea Fraser
Andreas Amble
Andrew Ranville
Andrew Weiner, NYU
Ánima Correa
Anna Harsanyi
Ann Holder
Art and Labor Podcast
Art Handlers Alliance
Artists For Workers
Aru Apaza
Axe Binondo
Azikiwe Mohammed
Baseera Khan
Betty Roytburd
Blakey Bessire
Brett Wallace
Caitlin Cahill
Carlos Rosales-Silva
Chelsea Birenberg
Christina Chan
Christina Martinelli
Claire Mirocha
Clarinda Mac Low
Clark Filio
Claudia Hart
Collective Çukurcuma (Mine Kaplangı & Naz Cuguoğlu)
Dachil Sado
Dana Kopel
Danielle Dean
David Borgonjon
David Kramer
Denisse Andrade, Pratt Institute
Devin Kenny
Diwali Hasskan
Edi Friedlander
Emily Johnson
Emily Shanahan
Eric Golo Stone
Erin Murphy
Eriola Pira
Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
Francesca Altamura
Frank J. Stockton
Franklyn Cain
Gee Wesley
Gordon Hall
Greg Lindquist
Guerrilla Girls
Halieadorable211
Hallie McNeill
HOUSING Gallery
Hussein Adil
Ian Epps
Irkalla
Isabelle Brourman
Jake Davidson
Jared Brown
Jason Simon
Jeffrey Grunthaner
Jennifer M. Williams
Jenny Dubnau
Jessica Wilson
Jesus Benavente
Jihan El Tahri
Jo Shane
Johanne Swanson
Johnson Study Group
Jonathan González
Jorge Rojas
Joseph Lubitz
Josephine Heston
Julia Kwon
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Kai Matsumiya
Kat Zhao
Katherine Aungier
Katie Giritlian
Katie Grace McGowan, Detroit, MI.
Katy Bea
KJ Freeman
Kristan Kennedy
Lawrence Sanchez
lexi welch
Lia Gangitano, PARTICIPANT INC
Lilly Hern-Fondation
Lincoln Tobier, Los Angeles
Lissa Regnier
Liz Glynn
Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
Lorelei Ramirez
Lucas Baisch
Manolis D. Lemos
Marnie Briggs
María Verónica San Martín
Max Warsh
Megan Elevado
Michael Rakowitz
Michelle Rosenberg
Mikeeh Zwirner (Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems)
Mimi Bai
Minahil Khan
Mira Dayal
Moyra Davey
Nan Goldin
Nataša Prljević
Nia Nottage
Nicole Eisenman
Nick Wylie, Public Media Institute
Nikiesha Hamilton
Nikki Columbus
Noah Fischer
Paddy Johnson
Patrick Carlin Mohundro
Paul John
Paul McAdory
Peter Rostovsky, artist, writer, educator.
Phil Collins
Rachel Valinsky
Ramón Miranda Beltrán
Rebecca Naegele
Rena Anakwe
Rindon Johnson
Rory Murphy
Ryan Oskin
Ryan Scullin
Sam Korman
Sara Grace Powell
Sara Magenheimer
Sari Weisenberg
Shanjana Mahmud
Sherko Abbas
Sophia Friedman-Pappas
Stephanie Acosta
Stephen Sewell
Sunny Iyer
Taehee Whang (Hyperlink Press)
Teresa Ross Tellechea
the Dismantle NOMA collective
Todd Ayoung, Pratt Institute
Todd Gray
V. M. McEwen
Valerie Chang
Vanessa Thill
Vijay Masharani
Wes Larios
William Powhida
Winslow Smith
Xavier Danto
Xaviera Simmons
Zazu Swistel
Editor’s note 2/12/2021 11:57am EST: This list of signatories has been updated since its original publication.
Updated Video Link of the full event HERE
So excited to be sharing some writing and responses to the talented Mairead Case’s new book TINY. The incredible book on grief and magic and time and quiet. Catch me speaking in dreamland.
Eventbrite for RSVP
Published by Featherproof
TINY by Mairead Case
Tickets are going fast and there is limited seating so don't come cryin' to me later! This is the one, the one we've been workin on, churning on, evolving, this baby is it and she is HERE! If you saw other works in progress fear not THIS IS A WHOLE NEW WORK and you DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT!
Living in gratitude for this dark, absurdist, genius cabal of collaborators including Leslie Cuyjet, Miriam Gabriel, Angie Pittman, and Jessie Young, and joining us on stage, the operatic alien Alexa Grae is brining us sonic reaches and vocal gateways and light portals by Shana Crawford.
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[WORLD PREMIERE] THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER PRESENTS
Stephanie Acosta Good Day God Damn
March 19-28, 2020 ; Thursdays - Saturdays at 8pm
The Chocolate Factory Theater5-49 49th Avenue, LIC NY 11101
In a multi-frame assemblage of video projection, the cinematic lens, and the theatrical frame, the performers of Good Day God Damn - four dancers, an opera singer, and an ill fated screeching director - move as an organic sentient mass through multiple atmospheres and states, exploring ideas of the cinematic thriller and extraterrestrial hope in an attempt to disassemble, rebuild, and hold onto the very notion of survival in an absurd multi-crisis reality, asking: what does it mean to get through it? Dissonant sounds and images give way to choral moments in a darkly thrilling and dynamic disarray.Created and directed by Stephanie Acosta.
Performers: Leslie Cuyjet, Miriam Gabriel, Angie Pittman, and Jessie Young. Sound and vocals: Alexa Grae. Lighting Design: Shana Crawford. Projection Mapping: Ryan Holsopple.Good Day God Damn began its development as part of a Creative Residency at The Chocolate Factory Theater in September 2018, curated by Blaze Ferrer.
Image Credit : Amira Karaoud
It’s a TWO WORLD PREMIERE kind of month this March! Thrilled to have directed this gorgeous work with the deeply talented Mette Loulou von Kohl. Catch us at Abrons Art Center for 3 SHOWS ONLY!
Opening night reception co-hosted with Arab.AMP
An interdisciplinary solo performance created and performed by Mette Loulou von Kohl, No one likes an ugly revolutionary explores the artist’s relationship with the Palestinian resistance fighter Leila Khaled and the connections that shape armed resistance, terrorism, fetish, reverence, internalized orientalism, and diasporic longing.
Director: Stephanie Acosta
Video Collaborator: Bleue Liverpool
Sound Collaborators: Ashley Hefnawy and Saint Abdullah
Lighting Designer: Evan Spigleman
Stage Manager: Manny Rivera
FUNDING
No one likes an ugly revolutionary was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center through the Jerome Foundation AIRspace Residency Program, with additional support from AFAC (The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture) الصندوق العربي للثقافة والفنون.
The 2019-2020 Season at Abrons Arts Center is supported, in part, by generous grants from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, and other generous Henry Street Settlement funders. This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Credit Image Leslie Cuyjet in GDGD V1 work-in-progress showing as part of Choreographer In Residence 2017-2018 at Museum of Art and Design
Traveling through the fractured American landscape, looming vibrations push the ground up and the cosmos down as our community-turned-cabal explores terror, tectonic shifts, psychedelic self-harm and toxic monuments. Through the lens of a thriller, our cell flows through domestic borders, mingles with the extraterrestrial and unpacks landlocked limitations through discursive research, experiments in moving image, experiential installation, and absurd rigorous ensemble development.
Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater.
Performers: Leslie Cuyjet, Miriam Gabriel, Angie Pittman, Jessie Young.
Good Day God Damn began its development as part of a Creative Residency at The Chocolate Factory Theater in September 2018, curated by Blaze Ferrer.
