NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden -Staten Island
May 5th, 2012, 6 - 8 pm

1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301

Participating Artists:
Maria Fernanda Alves da Silva
Cynthia Berkshire
Camila Cañeque
Ian Hatcher
Kanene Holder
Whitney V. Hunter
Sarah Kipp
Ioanna Neofytou & Spyros Charalambopoulos
Miles Pflanz
Negin Sharifzadeh

Directions:
Take 1 train to South Ferry or the 4/5 train to Bowling Green or the R train to Whitehall. Walk south to the Staten Island terminal to take FREE ferry. After landing in Staten Island take the S40 bus at Gate D to travel along Richmond Terrace. 10 min ride to Snug Hargor. To download directions Click Here.

My own little pocket terrorism / Meu pequeno terrorismo de bolso
Maria Fernanda Alves da Silva
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Maria Fernanda Alves da Silva, Mary Fê, graduated in Arts of Public Communication  from UFRJ in 2002 and has been working as a sound designer and editor for animated cartoons and internet games since then. She had open training on acting, singing and music producing. Mary performs and composes lyrics, soundscapes, arrangements for electronic instruments and electric guitar. From 2010 onward, started to research D.I.Y. open source projects, for sound, video streaming and live acts. The performances rely on her physical presence and interaction with the audiences. Sound tricks and pop references appear as powerful keys for constructing her imagery and narratives.-UP-

Iris Gets Ready for Her Date
Cynthia Berkshire
Interested in combining elements of reality with the haze and twists of the inner world, Cynthia Berkshire brings a background in dance, theatre and visual design to her projects. She came to New York to perform with choreographer Kei Takei, traveling with her family in the states and abroad; has an MA in dance from George Washington University; and has worked as a graphic designer at the ad agency DDB Worldwide, NYC. Cynthia currently studies ballet with Zvi Gotheiner, Sivananda yoga and has a brownbelt in Shorin Ryu Karate. Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of New York SITI Company and Professor of Directing at Columbia University, has said of her, “smart, adventurous, talented and innovative ... fully impressed.” -UP-

Our Dresses

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-

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-

400 Years of Rrrrrrrrrr
Kanene Holder is an educator and performance artist with grants from Franklin Furnace, Puffin Foundation, and others. She received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities focusing on Zora Neale Hurston, Bard College’s Difference and The Colin Powell Center for Policy Study focusing on education reform. An excerpt of her thesis “Funds of Knowledge: Urban Education and Parental Involvement” is published in an education advocacy book and her poems are published in various anthologies. Kanene performs and teaches her theatrical experiment Shock and Awe with a Political Aftertaste, highlighting the irony and lies of the media and the status quo. Interactive audiences and classrooms are galvanized into participants as cultural warriors. She has performed at Brooklyn Museum, La Mama ETC, Aaron Davis Hall, Symphony Space, University of Granada- Spain and elsewhere. Kanene is a proud Brooklynite, Howard University graduate and Harlem resident.. -UP-

Pious Act #1
Whitney V. Hunter is a Brooklyn-based performance and exhibition artist from Chicago, IL. He creates and curates work for the stage, gallery, and alternative spaces, and directs his Whitney Hunter[medium], a project-based performance collective. Whitney holds a BFA in Theatre Arts/Dance from Howard University, and an MFA in New Media Arts and Performance from Long Island University. He has received a Puffin Foundation Grant (2011), Harlem Stages - Fund for New Work Grant (’09), a new work(s) commission from Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (’08 & ’11), National Foundation for the Advancement In the Arts Astral Career Grant (’06), and a Career Transitions for Dancers Support Grant (‘03), and in 2007 he was featured as one of Trace Magazine’s “7 NYC Dancers on the Rise”. Past solo performance works include: Black-eyed Proclamation, Light. Dark. Action., How to Make Hot water Cornbread, Libacion por Guillermina, Da Travla, and Harvey Cotenhead, IV. Gallery-based works include: Legacy…Destiny, Self-Portrait: A Repository for Identity, Invisible #2, Invisible, and Traveling / Poto Mitan. As Assistant Director of The Invisible Dog Art Center (spring 2011), he created and is the present curator of Work/Space-the annual group exhibition and open studios series. -UP-

The Cave
Sarah Kipp
Queens born and based artist, Sarah Kipp, received her MFA from Queens College, City University of New York, and her BFA from Penn State University. She has had solo exhibitions at the Mooney Center Exhibit Hall (New Rochelle, NY); Paul Klapper Gallery, Queens College (Flushing); and The Patterson Gallery (University Park, PA). Her work has been included in group exhibitions and in performances at numerous venues including The Point of Contact Gallery (Syracuse, NY); Rockland Center for the Arts (West Nyack, NY); Artists Space, ABC No Rio, The Underscore and The Pussycat Lounge (New York, NY); and Meatspace Gallery and Flux Factory (Long Island City, NY). She was nominated for both the Joan Mitchell Grant and the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship. -UP-

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Ioanna Neofytou & Spyros Charalambopoulos
Greek artists who work together in the field of performing arts with a long record of presenting individual performances in major festivals around the world. As a collaborative team, Neofytou and Charalambopoulos explore subjects such as communication, body and social behavior. Last year they worked on a project about immigration involving the public and other artists. Graduated with honors from Athens School Fine Arts in 2011 and with studies in ASP Krakow (Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts) as an Erasmus student; Ioana Neofytou is a Cypriot artist. She paritcipated in many group expositions and she worked as stage designer in contemporary performances. Spyros Charalampopoulos graduated with honors, from Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A), and specialized in sculpture. He is also a graduated student of marble sculpture school of Tynos island. He received awards and honors and he participated in many group expositions in Greece. He had made two personal exhibitions. Their performance is inspired from the new social and political situation in Greece after the crisis. -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-

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-