chashama-news Mailing List: chashama in February 2008

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at 159

chashama, 159 West 119th Street, New York, NY
(corner of 119th & Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard; 2,3,C trains to 116th Street)

 

image created by Brent Birnbaum
BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX!
a collaborative installation project
by Ad Nauseam Lyceum
Saturday, Feb.23 & Sunday, Feb.24, 12 - 8PM
Reception, Saturday Feb.23 from 5 - 8 PM
Exhibition and all events FREE and open to the public.
www.adnaus.com

 

Ad Nauseam Lyceum has been granted a chashama residency for the month of February at a defunct storefront on 119th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. Instead of curating a traditional group show as we have done in the past, Ad Nauseam Lyceum will use this unique opportunity to explore new territory as an organization and to utilize the distinct talents and interests of our community of artists. BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX! is a collaborative art installation created by Brent Birnbaum, Matthew Broach, Celso and the Endless Love Crew, Ryan Frank, Scott Goodman, David Herman, Peter Lester, David Ort, Joan Pamboukes, Tara Parsons, Jake Scharbach, and Deena Selenow, Rory Sheridan, Adam Parker Smith, Christy Speakman, and Kyle Walters.

 

Ad Nauseam Lyceum will present a large scale collaborative installation that reflects the distinct connections and conflicts between various artistic mediums, styles, and processes in which artists are working today. By engaging with the space in alternative and experimental ways, Ad Nauseam Lyceum and its collaborators aim to explore and expose how different types of work can relate to each other through the context of the exhibition display. With some artists working independently and others in collaboration, this ambitious project will present work in a setting that resembles the sanctuary of the artist's studio and outside the confines of a commercial gallery. Created through the communal efforts of over fifteen artists, BIG WHITE INSTITUTIONALIZED BOX! will be an alternative to the traditional group exhibition and exist as an experimentation in curatorial practice.

 

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at 217

chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY
(1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle trains from Times Square)

 

Terrible Things
A Work-in-Progress by: Katie Pearl and Lisa D'Amour
ONE NIGHT ONLY / TWO SHOWINGS
Monday, Feb.25 at 7 & 8:30p
Text by Lisa and Katie
Directed by Lisa
Performed by Katie with:
Laryssa Husiak, Paige Collette, Olga Sasplugas, Kat Ross and Allison DeFrees
Choreography by Emily Johnson
SEATING IS FAIRLY LIMITED SO FEEL FREE TO RESERVE VIA THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW OR JUST SHOW UP
WE ASK FOR A $5-$10 SLIDING SCALE DONATION
THANK YOU
To make reservations: ljdamour [at] mac.com

 

"It's called TERRIBLE THINGS, and it will turn an empty theater into a low-tech IMAX movie that takes audiences on a trip into the molecules and memories of Katie Pearl so we can figure out why she is so terrible.   In the process, we will create a new universe where the line between wonderful and terrible doesn't exist.  Or where the line between you and the person sitting next to you doesn't exist.  Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience, shaped by Katie Pearl, 5 other performers, and 600 marshmallows........Won't you join us?

 

Please let us know, and WE'LL RESERVE YOU A SEAT as our guest."

 

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A BLESSED DAY!
Short Films and Live Performance
Original music by Jeff Layton
Friday, February 29, 2008, 8PM
"A Moment To Breathe" 13 min. /  Sara Colangelo
"Lawrence" 12 min. /  Gregory Mitnick
"Sin Salida" 12 min. /  A. Sayeeda Clarke
"4960"  14 min. /  Wing Yee Wu
LIVE PERFORMANCE OF "4960" SOUNDTRACK LED BY Vinny Iannelli
Admission is FREE.
Door opens at 7:45PM. Screening begins at 8PM.

 

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chashama performance window
266 West 37th Street
(Bet. 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.)

 

Recorded Berlin, November, 1937
Created by William Corwin
Mon ? Sat, 8AM ? 8PM, Feb.1 ? 29, 2008
FREE and open to the public.

 

"Recorded Berlin, November, 1937" is an archeological rendering of a monument to grandiose and easily forgotten human ambitions, and tragically, the frequent failure of art to redeem those who create it.  The title refers to a recording of the Magic Flute, made in Germany in 1937 at the height of Nazi power and the seeming contradictions of a production of Mozart's great ode to freedom and brotherhood by a regime based on conformity and persecution of difference.  In the rubble and decay of great monuments we often see the missed chances to save Humanity.  Corwin uses molded plaster panels to create surrogate surfaces and pseudo-architectural structures by piling, leaning and hanging the panels on available walls and floors. He then paints and draws on these surfaces, and incises, scrapes and smashes them as well.

 

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at 169

'chashama ABC' Exhibit Space at 169 Avenue C

(at 11th Street, M14C, M14D buses, F to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.)

 

Love, Lollipops & the Exquisite Corpse
an exhibition of collaborative art by more than 50 couples
Curated by Suckers & Biters
14 February - 1 March 2008
Thursday - Saturday, 1-7pm
Exhibition FREE and open to the public.
As Krista Madsen and Jeff White say on their website, www.suckersandbiters.com, "We're all familiar with the terms "love is for suckers" and "love bites" but thankfully, we wholeheartedly play on."

 

Since the summer of 2006, show organizers Krista Madsen and Jeff White have been creating their own twists on the "exquisite corpse", a collaborative drawing game popular with Surrealist artists of the 20s. Consistent with the original, one player conceals all but the last bit of body rendered before passing it to the other, who connects to where the former left off. In the end, the unveiling is as fun as the results are absurd. Madsen and White do a male/female couple, switching who starts with what gender each time, combining text and image to depict something relevant to their most recent experiences together. Using two pieces of paper divided into three sections, they pass back and forth, so that whoever did the "head" and "feet" on one will have done the middle on the other. 

After exhibiting their first creations at Williamsburg's Stain Bar in Fall 2006 and then hosting a group show of such pairs by 50 creative couples at Ad Hoc Gallery the following Valentine's Day, it's become an annual V-Day tradition. The title, Suckers and Biters, was born out of a discussion on lollipop psychology and reflects the sweetly monstrous results of the game and the messy, painful, sensual drama that love can be. Madsen and White ultimately envision a book showcasing selected works arising from this project.

 

 

 

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