FLOOR 4 ART -Manhattan
April 28th, 2012, 7 - 10 pm
2136 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (8 Av) 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10025
Participating Artists:
BabySkinGlove
Camila Cañeque
Maria Hupfield
Marie Christine Katz
Christen Diane Clifford
Ian Hatcher
Stiven Luka
Diana Pettersen
Miles Pflanz
Anthony Romero (Performed by Marissa Perel)
Negin Sharifzadeh
Directions:
B,C,2,3 Subway Trains to 116 St. stop station. Located between 115th and 116th Streets (8 Av., 2nd Floor).
Ballerina Raphsody
BabySkinGlove -consisting of over fifteen artists, BabySkinGlove is a performance collective based out of Brooklyn directed by Bailey Nolan. Our productions are avant garde interpretations of historical events with an emphasis on contemporary issues including gender, feminism, sexual politics, spirituality, and the dawn of the world wide web. BabySkinGlove aims to remove the audience from their true location and transport them to a psychic place, leaving each voyeur with a different, unique, and decidedly inspirational experience. With over 40 performances over the past three years BabySkinGlove has covered a span of history ranging from the dinosaurs to the Recession. These reenactments have taken the form of classic stage shows, performance installations, guerilla performances, gallery exhibitions, private appearances, powerpoints, and most recently video. In the past year BabySkinGlove has collaborated with accomplished artists including Ryan Trecartin, Lizzie Fitch, Terrance Koh, Max Steele, Jude Law, Gelitin, Vanessa Beecroft, Amanda Lepore, James Franco, Jordon Fox, and the Kardashians. -UP-
Camila Cañeque was born in the city of Barcelona. After finishing her education in France, she began her professional career as a photographer and filmmaker, which led her to live in places like Buenos Aires, Alexandria and São Paulo. She progressively started to combine the visual arts knowledge with the embodiment of it. Her early performances such as Rojo, Rouge, Rosso, Rot, Piros, Rdeča, Roşu or Photo-Copy are already time-based and media-based pieces, a double face that characterizes all her works. Faced to the impossibility to change the status quo, Camila introduces herself in the frame of reality (through a very specific mise en scène) and alters the landscape, creating a fictional world around her. In her performances, Camila changes herself adopting personality traits of a fictional character of her own creation or even assuming behaviors of a particular concept. The metamorphosis/performance tend to be long term (24 hours a day for one or more months), decision due to the desire to understand and to assimilate her new identity, to turn into real what is fiction. During the transformation process she makes the recording in photography, film or video, modifying the ephemeral nature of it. After the long performance, she isolates herself. When she has recovered, she starts editing the footage and builds a text about the experience. -UP-
Occupancy
Maria Hupfield is based in Brooklyn, and she explores universal conditions locating the body as a site of resistance and agency through the use of actions, objects and images. Her work is currently on display in Beat Nation (Vancouver Art Gallery). In 2011, she participated in The Big Draw held at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian (New York), her work was featured in the winter edition of BlackFlash Magazine, and her upcoming collaborative artist project “From the Moon to the Belly” with Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathroy is featured in the North Edition of Fuse Magazine winter 2012. Maria has an upcoming residency at the Museum of Art and Design (New York) for the exhibition Changing Hands III in June 2012. A graduate of the MFA program at York University, She holds a BA Specialist in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. Maria is of Anishnaabe (Ojibway) heritage, and a member of Wasauksing First Nation, in Ontario Canada. -UP-
My Favorite Grandmother
Marie Christine Katz is a Swiss born contemporary multi-media artist, living in New York City. Her study and love of theatre and the art led her to creating works using various forms of expression and materials from paper, fabric, threads, metal wire, human hair, glass and wax to text, performance and participatory art, sound photography and video. Her work has been described as an intuitive and spontaneous gesture in reaction to a current event or a personal situation that is then further developed over time. Exhibitions include: Galerie Duque &Pirson in Brussels, Hunter College/Time Square Gallery, ExitArt, Wooloo’s Festival Berlin, Women Artists’ Biennale Korea, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA, the Kitchen in New York, NY, a performance during the La Nuit Blanche event in Paris, France and The Velada Santa Lucia in Maracaibo Venezuela. -UP-
Rape Tape
Christen Clifford often works with nonfiction text and performance. She has performed her work at PS 122, Joe’s Pub, Grace Exhibition Space, Galapagos, SITEfest, Crossing Arts Gallery, Oni Gallery, Dixon Place and she was an interpreter in Tino Seghal’s This Progress at The Guggenheim. She collaborates regularly with video/performance artist Alix Pearlstein. She is the winner of a Golden Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, an OOBR Award for Performance, a Visiting Scholar fellowship in Performance at NYU, the Nonfiction Prize from The New School MFA Writing Program and the Gregory Millard Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). She is a curator of Experiments and Disorders at Dixon Place and also works as an actor and writer. -UP-
Prosthesis
Ian Hatcher is a writer, vocalist, and programmer whose work investigates the imprinting of digital abstractions into the mind and physical body. His work has been performed at international conferences and festivals such as &NOW, E-Poetry, and Electronic Literature in Europe, and published by Web Conjunctions, The Claudius App, e·ratio, Anomalous Press, and others. He is the primary composer and accompanist for the contemporary dance company The Moving Architects. He studied at SAIC and Brown University, and now lives in NYC. -UP-
Big Rob’s Barbecue
Stiven Luka was born and raised in Albania. He lives and works in New York. As a writer/director he’s created various performances, including Heads (2010), Aw Keats, Keats Motherfucker (2010), The One, The Only, Jan Terri (2010), and The Little Chaos (2011). He also makes short films and smaller video pieces, including Fish Will Bite (2011) and Tight Pinch (2011). He holds a BFA from NYU in Drama and Creative Writing. -UP-
Starved Pray
Diana Pettersen is an emerging choreographer in New York City. As a recent graduate of Manhattanville College’s Dance & Theatre Department, she has had the opportunity to work with artists like Peter Pucci, Ara Fitzgerald, Claire Porter, Deborah Tacon, Elizabeth Higgins, Kathy Posin, Beth Soll and Andre Kisselev. During her time at Manhattanville College she showcased two works in departmental productions, served as Movement Director for Brian McManamon and choreographed a full length senior thesis. On May 2011, Pettersen graduated with the honor of Distinction in the Dance & Theatre Department and received a special award for '‘Excellent Academic Achievement and Notable Investigations as an Emerging Choreographer’'. Diana Pettersen was accepted and attended SUMAC Choreographer’s Workshop with the Susan Marshall Company this past July. Pettersen co-produced "Latitude 47.3, Longitude -78.9: Choreography Showing" in which she showcased her ‘works-in-progress’ repertoire. During December of 2011, Diana Pettersen had her Off-Broadway debut as a showcased dancer in PiPE DREAM Theatre's '3 Ghosts'. She is now currently choreographing for PiPE DREAM Theatre's future productions. Pettersen has received the title of Dance Instructor/Choreographer for Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School's Latin Dance and Ballet Performing Arts Groups. -UP-
Orgy For The Windowshoppers: Two Actions For Television Viewer
Miles Pflanz is a video and performance artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. BA from Bard College at Simon's Rock. Tenure in a couple of noise bands. Most notable performances outdoors and not related to any institution. Has had pieces shown at various DIY spaces, Grace Exhibition Space, and Low Lives! Festival amongst others. -UP-
Map of the Tracks of Yu
No Collective (You Nakai, et al.) makes music performances which explore and problematize both the conceptual and material infrastructures of music and performance. Since its inception in 2006, members of No Collective have varied both in quantity (from one to sixty) and quality (from reluctant music novices to professional instrumentalists) according to each works’ objective and situational conditions. After relocating to New York from Tokyo in late 2009, they have performed in venues such as The Kitchen, 92nd Street Y, Invisible Dog Art Center, Barbes and Reanimation Library (and a forthcoming show at The Incubator Art Projects at St. Mark's Church). Recent works include the book Concertos (published from Ugly Duckling Presse), which describes and prescribes, in the form of a playscript, a music concert performed several years ago; One Lines, where audiences are instructed to manipulate the volume controller of the sound source input to the performer’s headphones in order to listen to the leaking sounds; and Lullabye, in which the performer teaches himself how to play a lullaby on the piano without sleeping for the length of days it takes him to do so, and then performs the lullaby until he falls asleep on stage. -UP-
Days of Being Good to You, Always
Anthony Romero, (Performed by Marissa Perel)
Performance Artist and Writer, Anthony Romero received his BA in Art History from Texas State University in 2009. In 2011 he completed his MFA at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Most notably he has show at OK Mountain in Austin Texas and has performed at Links Hall and The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
Even Gray Feels Blue
Negin Sharifzadeh is a New York based artist born in Tehran, Iran. Growing up in one of the world’s most historically and socially complex regions in its wake, she is fascinated by the mechanisms and interplay of different natural, emotional, and political systems. Her work explores how these systems are composed; how information, energy and material are codified within them; and how bodies are impacted by and interact with them. She has explored these themes through multiple mediums including sculpture, performance, installations, and increasingly combining all of these mediums in stop-motion animation. She has shown work in New York at Gallery ELL’s transient landscape; performed in The Odyssey New York Project, performed in Chicago at DePaul University Museum as part of Iran Inside Out; performed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the Goat Island Performing Summer School and the Abandoned Practices Performance Workshop; shown at Berkeley University as part of the Iranian Women Artists group; shown in Tehran as part of the Contemporary Museum of Art’s Sculpture Biennial, the Art Auction at the Niavaran Art Center, the Haft-samar Art Gallery and the Tehran House of Artists. -UP-
