[MAY 2012] MAR PORTUGUES
Mar Português Performance
Lisbon | Terreiro do Paço | Sunday May 6th, 2012 at Sunrise
Directed by May Joseph.
Performed by Sofia Varino and May Joseph.
Mar Português is a performance of Vasco Da Gama’s feverish dreams, as he lay dying in Cochin, India, longing for Lisbon. Created as a hallucination on the Tagus River, this is a surreal staging of intertwined colonial histories and contemporary modernities. It collides historical memories and traces of the past with the languages, cultures and practices of the present. In Mar Portugues, Tanzanian born Joseph and Portuguese performer Varino haunt Lisbon’s shores with sounds and movements from Portuguese Africa and Lusophone India.
Lisbon | Terreiro do Paço | Sunday May 6th, 2012 at Sunrise
Directed by May Joseph.
Performed by Sofia Varino and May Joseph.
Mar Português is a performance of Vasco Da Gama’s feverish dreams, as he lay dying in Cochin, India, longing for Lisbon. Created as a hallucination on the Tagus River, this is a surreal staging of intertwined colonial histories and contemporary modernities. It collides historical memories and traces of the past with the languages, cultures and practices of the present. In Mar Portugues, Tanzanian born Joseph and Portuguese performer Varino haunt Lisbon’s shores with sounds and movements from Portuguese Africa and Lusophone India.
[APRIL 2012] HOWLING AT THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL
Whitney Biennial
Fantastic event for Joanna Malinowska's Fieldwork at the Whitney Biennial. We howled as a pack for 12 minutes straight. Marvelous stuff. Strongly recommended. Try this at home, in the street, alone, with friends, everywhere. Now. #becoming #animal #livingmachine
Joanna Malinowska’s sculptures, performances, and video-based projects are often inspired by her interest in cultural anthropology. She has said that she considered becoming an anthropologist, but “eventually decided that what interested [me] was not so much the research that aspires to scientific objectivity, but rather the sense of relativity of a cosmic order of one’s own culture in comparison to other possible systems.” Join Malinowska and the Hungry March Band as they stage a performance in which two marching bands converge. This program, inspired by composer Charles Ives, will re-imagine how rituals are charged with meaning in different contexts, from transcendentalism to the Native American Ghost Dance.
Fantastic event for Joanna Malinowska's Fieldwork at the Whitney Biennial. We howled as a pack for 12 minutes straight. Marvelous stuff. Strongly recommended. Try this at home, in the street, alone, with friends, everywhere. Now. #becoming #animal #livingmachine
Joanna Malinowska’s sculptures, performances, and video-based projects are often inspired by her interest in cultural anthropology. She has said that she considered becoming an anthropologist, but “eventually decided that what interested [me] was not so much the research that aspires to scientific objectivity, but rather the sense of relativity of a cosmic order of one’s own culture in comparison to other possible systems.” Join Malinowska and the Hungry March Band as they stage a performance in which two marching bands converge. This program, inspired by composer Charles Ives, will re-imagine how rituals are charged with meaning in different contexts, from transcendentalism to the Native American Ghost Dance.
[DEC 2011] CABO DE TORMENTOSO VIDEO
YouTube Cabo de Tormentoso Video
Video documentation of performance by Harmattan Theater at the Cape of Good Hope
Video documentation of performance by Harmattan Theater at the Cape of Good Hope
[OCTOBER 2011] HARMATTAN THEATER VIDEO
[OCTOBER 2011] GRIDLOCK ART SHOW
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Group Exhibition curated by Gillian Sneed and Sofia Varino presented in conjunction with the interdisciplinary conference of the same name, Gridlock is a group show featuring John David Lopez, Ana Belen Cantoni, Mauricio Herrero, Jonathan Frey and Anna Kell, Shannon Hayes, Joanna Malinowska, Nobuhu Nagasawa, and Jon Gourley.
Group Exhibition curated by Gillian Sneed and Sofia Varino presented in conjunction with the interdisciplinary conference of the same name, Gridlock is a group show featuring John David Lopez, Ana Belen Cantoni, Mauricio Herrero, Jonathan Frey and Anna Kell, Shannon Hayes, Joanna Malinowska, Nobuhu Nagasawa, and Jon Gourley.
[OCTOBER 2011] GRIDLOCK
Conference and Art Show (October 13-15, 2011)
@ The AC Institute, Chelsea NY
GRIDLOCK is a 2-day graduate student conference and 3-day art exhibition (October 13-15) hosted by the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory (previously the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies) at Stony Brook University. This year, we have the amazing opportunity to host our conference in collaboration with the AC Institute, a premier gallery space in the Chelsea arts district of Manhattan. Our entire conference will take place on-site in the gallery location, surrounded by the works of emerging artists and graduate students.
Conference Website
@ The AC Institute, Chelsea NY
GRIDLOCK is a 2-day graduate student conference and 3-day art exhibition (October 13-15) hosted by the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory (previously the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies) at Stony Brook University. This year, we have the amazing opportunity to host our conference in collaboration with the AC Institute, a premier gallery space in the Chelsea arts district of Manhattan. Our entire conference will take place on-site in the gallery location, surrounded by the works of emerging artists and graduate students.
Conference Website
[JUNE 2, 2010] L MAGAZINE
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Inspiring Other "Artists"
by Benjamin Sutton
The Artist Is Absent alternative Abramovic exhibition: on Saturday a bunch of performance artists got together at 25CPW Gallery to perform some of Abramovic's works, including several that were not included in the MoMA show (too risque?), with a strong emphasis on "queer, transgender and BDSM/leather/kink" issues "whose connections to Abramović’s work are frequently alluded to but rarely made explicit." By underlining another blind spot in the blockbuster MoMA show, these artists emphasized the irrepressible and inherent plurality of performance art. Verdict: Artist Is Present!
L Magazine Art
by Benjamin Sutton
The Artist Is Absent alternative Abramovic exhibition: on Saturday a bunch of performance artists got together at 25CPW Gallery to perform some of Abramovic's works, including several that were not included in the MoMA show (too risque?), with a strong emphasis on "queer, transgender and BDSM/leather/kink" issues "whose connections to Abramović’s work are frequently alluded to but rarely made explicit." By underlining another blind spot in the blockbuster MoMA show, these artists emphasized the irrepressible and inherent plurality of performance art. Verdict: Artist Is Present!
L Magazine Art
[MAY 28, 2010] DAYLIGHT MAGAZINE
"The Artist is Absent" by Nathanael Turner
On the occasion of the closing weekend of Marina Abramović’s retrospective The Artist is Present, a group of NYC artists and performers will present reperformances of some of Abramović’s best-known works at 25CPW gallery under the title The Artist is Absent.
The show, curated by Ariel Speedwagon, Daniel Lang/Levitsky & Quito Ziegler, will give New Yorkers the opportunity to experience works by Abramović and Abramović/Ulay in a context closer to their original presentation.
The works included will center on the physically and emotionally intense performance pieces through which Abramović has been most influential, including “Imponderabilia,” “Freeing the Voice,” and “Rhythm 0.” The group of performers draws heavily from the queer, transgender and BDSM/leather/kink communities, whose connections to Abramović’s work are frequently alluded to but rarely made explicit.
The Artist is Absent presents an alternative approach to reperformance than the one displayed at the MoMA, performing her works sequentially rather than in crowded galleries; by performers with a more varied and contrasting group of bodies; placing the exchange between audience and performer at the heart of the work. The curators’ challenge to the MoMA’s retrospective aims to preseve the vitality and energy of Abramovic’s work and honor her achievements as a pioneer both of performance art and of re-performance.
Daylight Magazine
On the occasion of the closing weekend of Marina Abramović’s retrospective The Artist is Present, a group of NYC artists and performers will present reperformances of some of Abramović’s best-known works at 25CPW gallery under the title The Artist is Absent.
The show, curated by Ariel Speedwagon, Daniel Lang/Levitsky & Quito Ziegler, will give New Yorkers the opportunity to experience works by Abramović and Abramović/Ulay in a context closer to their original presentation.
The works included will center on the physically and emotionally intense performance pieces through which Abramović has been most influential, including “Imponderabilia,” “Freeing the Voice,” and “Rhythm 0.” The group of performers draws heavily from the queer, transgender and BDSM/leather/kink communities, whose connections to Abramović’s work are frequently alluded to but rarely made explicit.
The Artist is Absent presents an alternative approach to reperformance than the one displayed at the MoMA, performing her works sequentially rather than in crowded galleries; by performers with a more varied and contrasting group of bodies; placing the exchange between audience and performer at the heart of the work. The curators’ challenge to the MoMA’s retrospective aims to preseve the vitality and energy of Abramovic’s work and honor her achievements as a pioneer both of performance art and of re-performance.
Daylight Magazine
[May 27, 2010] ARTNET NEWS
ALTERNATIVE ABRAMOVIC RETROSPECITVE
Think the Museum of Modern Art’s current retrospective of Marina Abramovic(closing this weekend) is too tame by half to respect the wild spirit of the performer? Well, then check out "The Artist is Absent" this weekend, May 29, 2010, at Manhattan’s 25CPW Gallery. Curated by Daniel Lang/Levitsky,Ariel Speedwagon and Quito Ziegler, the spectacle promises an "alternative" restaging of Abramovic’s seminal performance art works, one rooted in the "queer, transgender and BDSM/leather/kink communities." The goal is to restore the original sense of "public vulnerability" encoded in the pieces -- though Ziegler notes that a planned "participatory" version of Imponderabilia (the piece that originally had art lovers squeeze through a doorway framed by the nude bodies of Abramovic and her lover Ulay) has been scratched. Reportedly, Abramovic is sending her film crew in order to capture the events.
Artnet News
Think the Museum of Modern Art’s current retrospective of Marina Abramovic(closing this weekend) is too tame by half to respect the wild spirit of the performer? Well, then check out "The Artist is Absent" this weekend, May 29, 2010, at Manhattan’s 25CPW Gallery. Curated by Daniel Lang/Levitsky,Ariel Speedwagon and Quito Ziegler, the spectacle promises an "alternative" restaging of Abramovic’s seminal performance art works, one rooted in the "queer, transgender and BDSM/leather/kink communities." The goal is to restore the original sense of "public vulnerability" encoded in the pieces -- though Ziegler notes that a planned "participatory" version of Imponderabilia (the piece that originally had art lovers squeeze through a doorway framed by the nude bodies of Abramovic and her lover Ulay) has been scratched. Reportedly, Abramovic is sending her film crew in order to capture the events.
Artnet News
[2010] THE HUNGRY HEARTS VIDEOS
The Hungry Hearts videos on Vimeo!
http://vimeo.com/5566731
http://vimeo.com/5566731
[SEPTEMBER, 24 2008] TIME OUT NY
"Swapping Spit" by Judy McGuire
A hilarious little gem of shameless self-promotion from the MySpace era, out just in time for my thirtieth bday - with extra special thanks to Stacy and Rob Holub.
Time Out NY Article
A hilarious little gem of shameless self-promotion from the MySpace era, out just in time for my thirtieth bday - with extra special thanks to Stacy and Rob Holub.
Time Out NY Article
[SEPTEMBER 2008] THE ARCHIVE JOURNAL
"I think of you when I" by Jennifer Edwards
The Archive Journal (Autumn 2008 issue)
Article about the special performance evening I think of you when I and the art show Pink & Bent at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery.
The Archive Journal
The Archive Journal (Autumn 2008 issue)
Article about the special performance evening I think of you when I and the art show Pink & Bent at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery.
The Archive Journal
[JUNE 2008] FEMINIST ART PROJECT
Feminist Art Project
I think of you when I Jun 19, 2008 - Jun 19, 2008
Leslie/Lohman Gallery
26 Wooster St.
(between Grand & Canal Sts.)
New York, NY 10013
Time: Reception at 6:30 PMShow starts at 7 PM
Phone Number: 212-431-2609
Contact: Pilar Gallego
Website: http://www.leslielohman.org/
Description:
"I think of you when I" is a one-night-only program of diverse performances by, for, and about queer women from the disciplines of performance art, theater, dance, film and video. These short pieces span the breadth and explore the depth of queer experience in both subtle and overt ways. Some artists are drag kings, some are lesbian icons, some are superheroes, some are two-dimensional, some are not women. The night will be emceed by Murray Hill and Dred. Artists include: J. Bob Alotta, Lily Baldwin, Susana Cook, J. Dellecave, Dynasty Handbag, Erin Markey, Tara Mateik, Sofia Varino and The Hungry Hearts and Yalinidream. "I think of you when I" is a presented in conjunction with Pink & Bent: Art of Queer Women, a show of visual art currently on view at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. $8 suggested donation for the performers at the door (no one turned away).
I think of you when I Jun 19, 2008 - Jun 19, 2008
Leslie/Lohman Gallery
26 Wooster St.
(between Grand & Canal Sts.)
New York, NY 10013
Time: Reception at 6:30 PMShow starts at 7 PM
Phone Number: 212-431-2609
Contact: Pilar Gallego
Website: http://www.leslielohman.org/
Description:
"I think of you when I" is a one-night-only program of diverse performances by, for, and about queer women from the disciplines of performance art, theater, dance, film and video. These short pieces span the breadth and explore the depth of queer experience in both subtle and overt ways. Some artists are drag kings, some are lesbian icons, some are superheroes, some are two-dimensional, some are not women. The night will be emceed by Murray Hill and Dred. Artists include: J. Bob Alotta, Lily Baldwin, Susana Cook, J. Dellecave, Dynasty Handbag, Erin Markey, Tara Mateik, Sofia Varino and The Hungry Hearts and Yalinidream. "I think of you when I" is a presented in conjunction with Pink & Bent: Art of Queer Women, a show of visual art currently on view at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. $8 suggested donation for the performers at the door (no one turned away).
[JUNE 2008] I THINK OF YOU WHEN I
@ the Leslie/Lohman Gallery NYC
Performance Piece: "You Are Desire" (from The Red Show)
I think of you when I performance evening
Part of the PINK & BENT art show
Performance Piece: "You Are Desire" (from The Red Show)
I think of you when I performance evening
Part of the PINK & BENT art show
[JUNE 18, 2007] HOSPITAL OF LOVE -- SCREENING NYC
VARIATIONS ON A RAINBOW
@LE PETIT VERSAILLES
Artists included in the VARIATIONS ON A RAINBOW exhibition get their own special screening: Kalup Linzy, Tonje Gjevjon & Jan Steinum, plus surprise 16mm film Le Petit Voisin (The Boy Next Door).
Sofia Varino, the actress from Hospital of Love by Tonje Gjevjon will make a special appearance.
the lovemaking follows...
Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street. between avenue b + c.
F/V train to Second Ave. J/M - Delancey Street
http://lpvtv.blogspot.com/2007
@LE PETIT VERSAILLES
Artists included in the VARIATIONS ON A RAINBOW exhibition get their own special screening: Kalup Linzy, Tonje Gjevjon & Jan Steinum, plus surprise 16mm film Le Petit Voisin (The Boy Next Door).
Sofia Varino, the actress from Hospital of Love by Tonje Gjevjon will make a special appearance.
the lovemaking follows...
Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street. between avenue b + c.
F/V train to Second Ave. J/M - Delancey Street
http://lpvtv.blogspot.com/2007
