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From: Anita Durst (anita.durst chashama.info)
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| Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:52:37 -0700 (PDT) | |
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AT 112 Displacement showcases a group of artists who create work in a variety of media, from the more traditional areas of painting and sculpture to the growing disciplines of performance, video and virtual reality. Each artist deals with the issues of displacement from a unique standpoint, and fashions and individual response to the loss of a sense of place, and the attempt to locate common ground. These young artists, emerging from different backgrounds, and using varied means, grapple with shifting foundations and evolving identities, to find a recovered sense of place in a new world. They have been deported from the comforts of origin, and have become émigrés from the close and the comfortable. They forge new routes and trajectories, and new manners of association and allegiance. The loss of certainty and security is replaced by a growing habit of discovery and innovation. These refugees from the familiar have created, of necessity, a new creative community that has sustained and nurtured a nascent chorus of responses to the inchoate rhythms of modern culture. Within and between these works, a hybrid harmony begins to emerge. A common theme or thread is the infinite adaptability and mutability of their attitudes toward disciplines and forms. An eagerness to explore, adjust, and reformulate is a shared and valued tendency. John Bowman's paintings and drawings have been featured in many solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Among them were exhibitions at various venues in New York City, including the Holly Solomon Gallery, Lang O?Hara Gallery, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and the Winston Wachter Gallery. He participated in ?Contemporary Environment,? at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, ?The Silent Baroque,? at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, and ?The Road Show, The Automobile in Contemporary Art,? John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In 2002 Bowman participated in a site-specific collaborative exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, entitled ?Archipelago,? and participated in a public symposium concerning the issues in changing perceptions of the landscape. He exhibited erasure drawings in 2003 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. His most recent exhibition, ?More,? opened February 20th at the Winston Wachter Gallery in New York.
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AT 217
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street (between 2nd & 3rd
Avenues)
Video clips of the Work-In-Progress awareness-raising film:
"DISCUSSIONS ON THE U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" by Rebecca Sommer (This is the version as it was screened May 14, 2007 - at the opening day of the 6th session of the PFII, at the United Nations Headquarters.) August 9th: 1 to 3pm "DISCUSSIONS ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" is a one-hour work-in-progress on one of the most-discussed pieces of legislation in UN history. For over 20 years, governments and indigenous peoples have been discussing how to apply the universal declaration of Human Rights to the specific situations of indigenous peoples. This desperately needed Declaration, which articulated only the most basic of needs, was nonetheless rejected in November 2006. In this film, governmental and indigenous leaders present their issues of concern and the implications for the future. To watch Quicktime Video Clips: http://www.rebeccasommer.org/ --------------------- Ateh Theatre Group & CollectivePAST @chashama present:
"Long Distance"
Based on three stories by Judy Budnitz Adapted by Bridgette Dunlap Directed by Bridgette Dunlap and Alexis Grausz FOUR-WEEK LIMITED ENGAGEMENT August 9 - September 1, 2007 Thu-Sat at 8PM Get tickets at www.Smarttix.com, or call Smarttix at 212-868-4444. Tickets: $15.00 Starring: Diana Lynne Drew*, Kathryn Ekblad, Charley Layton, Madeleine Maby, Sara Montgomery, Elizabeth Neptune, HUGH SCULLY, Jake Thomas, Jesse Wilson. *performing courtesy of actors equity Long Distance consists of three short plays:
In Skin care, Amy's little sister went off to college and
caught leprosy; in Visitors, Meredith's parents won't ask for
directions and don't know a mass murderer when they see one; and in
Flush, Lisa's mom will get out of her mammogram even if she has
to break the laws of space and time to do it. These funny and frightening
plays ask us: how do you protect a loved one from a chaotic
universe?
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Presented by CollectivePAST @chashama:
a NY premiere for Becca and Heidi by Sharon Eberhardt performed by Lindsay Anderson August 12-15, & 19-22nd, 8:00pm Tickets: $18 at the box office Online ticketing available at www.Smarttix.com One-woman show about a smackdown with one's alter-ego was a Bay Area hit. Runs 75 minutes. "Becca and Heidi" by Sharon Eberhardt, performed by Lindsay Anderson, is an adventure-filled monodrama about a woman whose life is being usurped by her alter-ego. A quiet, mousy young nurse named Becca, whose life is otherwise unremarkable, awakens from a series of blackouts to find that she has rescued a mother and baby from a flaming car wreck, saved a hip operation at work, freed animals from a lab experiment and brazenly given a "peak sexual experience" to her best friend's boyfriend, a medical researcher. These deeds have all been the work of "Heidi," who has somehow taken over her body and run amok with her life--like a kinder, gentler Jekyll-and-Hyde. Shocked by her new guts, resourcefulness and sassiness, Becca struggles to take back her life, or at least adjust to her new-found personality. In doing so, she learns that what makes a person good or bad is more complex than she had thought. ____________________
AT 266
chashama
Performance Window, 266 West 37th Street
(Bet. 7th and 8th Avenues) Televised Confession Created and Performed by Stephanie Vella August 10 through 14, 2007 Performance Schedule: Friday, August 10 @ 1pm Saturday and Sunday, August 11 and 12 @ 8pm Monday and Tuesday, August 13 and 14 @ 1pm and 5pm Schedule subject to change. Video installation on view throughout. FREE and open to the public. How do power structures utilize the mass media to turn the intimate act of confessing into a tool of hegemony? Inspired by the use of televised confession by oppressive regimes throughout the world, Televised Confession will explore how the televised image changes our experience of guilt, accountability and social order. On stage, a performer confesses to a crime. Live-feed video and amplified sound carry her mediated image out to the sidewalk and the passerby. The spectator has a choice between the broadcast image and the real person. Utilizing texts and materials from diverse sources such as television transcripts, historical accounts, and religious doctrine, this piece will juxtapose period and medium in unexpected and revealing ways. ____________________
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Residency Show August 11 - October 6, 2007 Reception Saturday August 11, 5-7 pm Mountain Cow Cafe 2987 Church Street Pine Plains, New York 518-398-0500 mtcowcafe.com Featuring the works of: Malin Abrahamsson * Jeana Baumgardner * Glenn Fischer * Asha Ganpat * Kava Gorna * Lisa Kereszi * Emily Noelle Lambert * Suzanne Malitz * Mari Oshima * Cristian Pietrapiana * Suko Presseau * Carolyn Salas * Diana Schmertz ____________________ |
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