FG.Ft: Three Part Project Series, A Tribute to Fad Gadget and Frank Tovey
FGFt
March 1st - April 8th
FGFt commemorates the late Frank Tovey's musical and artistic endeavours with a multi-part exhibition including an art exhibition, a screening of Morgan Tovey-Frost's 'Fad Gadget By Frank Tovey' and musical performances by Xeno and Oaklander and Ike Yard(amongst others). [ Read More → ]
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-makers’ Co-op at Microscope Gallery
2/11/12 to 3/5/12 Opening Reception Saturday 2/11, 7-9PM preceded by special 5PM screening of rare shorts by Jack Smith MICROSCOPE Gallery, 4 Charles Place, Bushwick We Are Cinema is a month-long exhibit and screening series celebrating 50 years of the Film-Makers’ Co-op in NYC. It was in January of 1962 that filmmaker Jonas Mekas called... [ Read More → ]
Happenings: New York, 1958-1963
2/10/2012-3/17/2012 Opening: Friday 2/10/2012 534 W 25th St, New York The first exhibition to document the origins and historical development of the transient, yet pivotal “Happenings” movement from its inception in 1958 through 1963 will be presented at the Pace Gallery this month. The experimental performances forever changed the definition of art and the possibilities... [ Read More → ]
Artist Book/ Not Artist Book
Boo-Hooray Gallery 265 Canal St. 6th Fl. 1/18/12-2/12/12 Opening Night: 1/18 6pm-9pm Boo-Hooray presents an exhibition featuring books that are, and/or, are not, artists’ books. The exhibition (entitled ARTISTS’ BOOK NOT ARTISTS’ BOOK) was conceptualized by Johan Kugelberg and Jeremy Sanders. ARTISTS’ BOOK NOT ARTISTS’ BOOK will incorporate work by Chris Burden, Ira Cohen, Richard... [ Read More → ]
Finissage and video screening with Boris Groys at e-flux
Boris Groys, Religion as Medium, 2006. Still from video. Boris Groys Religion and Medium and Iconoclastic Delight January 14, 2012, 4–6 PM e-flux 311 East Broadway 2nd Floor New York NY 10002 212 619 3356 Boris Groys will introduce a screening of his video essays Religion and Medium (2006) and Iconoclastic Delights (2002) this Saturday,... [ Read More → ]
Exhibitions 2011
Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames- Microscope Gallery Per-son-age-Famous Accountants Chris Kraus: Films- Real Fine Arts Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely- PS1MoMAB. Wurtz-Works 1971-2011- Metro Pictures Dara Birnbaum: Arabesque- Marian Goodman Irving Feller: Monochrome Drawings- Cleopatra’s Gary Hill: of surf, death, tropes & tableaux: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment-Gladstone Christian Marclay: The Clock- Paula Cooper Paul Sharits- Greene... [ Read More → ]
DanceR(equired)
Pina Bausch, founder of Tanztheater was not interested in how people moved, but rather, what moved them. Like Bausch, Friedman’s new 16mm film Dancer manifests dancers’ internal monologues through self-scripted movement. Dancer is the most recent film from a new body of work that focuses primarily on performance and public space. But there’s so... [ Read More → ]
Videobytes
Videobytes at Russ & Daughters: 179 East Houston Street With work that spans a fifty-year period, Videobytes features pieces by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers Robert Breer and Harry Smith, conceptual artists John Baldessari and Gordon Matta-Clark, and a younger generation of video and performance artists including Kate Gilmore, Hiraki Sawa and Susana Mendes Silva. The common... [ Read More → ]
Mono No Aware-2011 Program Lineup
Mono No Aware is an exhibition that will present an international program of expanded cinema performances. The program will present ephemeral works that emphasize the cinematic and phenomenological experience. Now that the internet, television, and cellphones have become an everyday vehicle for the moving image; audience experience and connectivity is significantly altered, and the basic... [ Read More → ]
Public Video: The High Line Channel
The High Line park recently announced they will host a daily program of outdoor video art this winter. Called the “High Line Channel,” a curated series of art films, videos, recorded historic works, and new video pieces will be screened from dusk to 10pm on various buildings just east of the High Line at West... [ Read More → ]
Nunvember NYC
So, I recently re-formatted this site, and for whatever reason– I lost a significant amount of content. One of the missing posts listed the details about the Flying Nun 30th Events in NYC.So I will re-post the latest below. Here’s the latest: 11/8: Open Deck DJ Night at Daddy’s Bar, BK. Bring yr favorite... [ Read More → ]
![Parasite [discussion at Artists Space]](http://straighttovideo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/parasite_image-150x150.jpg "Parasite [discussion at Artists Space]")
Parasite [discussion at Artists Space]
October 12, 2011 7PM With Andrea Fraser, Silvia Kolbowski, Jason Simon and Sébastien Pluot, amongst others. As specified in the above document distributed in 1998, Parasite was “an artist-run organization formed to support, document, and present project-based art work. As a secondary (or para) site for projects undertaken at other locations, Parasite aim[ed]... [ Read More → ]
Cosey as Methodology
Phrased as a postscript to her practice that inhabited the porn industry of the late 70s and early 80s, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Confessions Projected reclaims her self-image through a 20-minute live, personal and critical reading, whilst washed with projected images of the magazine action Sexy Confessions of A Shop Assistant. Tate Britain presented Confessions Projected... [ Read More → ]
Information: No Theory- Christine Kozlov, 1970
re/decomposition? history is the product of an exercise in remembering and forgetting. the looped reel-to-reel of christine kozlov’s “Information: no theory” does the opposite, perpetually recording but never playing the ambient noise in the gallery, simply cueing it up for constant erasure beneath what is about to come. [ Read More → ]
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Sanja Iveković. Personal Cuts. 1982. Video (black and white and color, sound), 3:40 min. Courtesy the artist. © 2011 Sanja Iveković MoMA announced the first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja Iveković (b. 1949, Zagreb), which will cover four decades of the artist’s remarkable career. A feminist, activist, and video... [ Read More → ]
‘Peace, Love, and Rockets’ at Center for Book Arts
“Peace, Love, and Rockets” at Center for Book Arts 9/21/2011-12/3/2011 Opening: September 21, 2011 7-9PM 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001 Organized by Felipe Mujica, Independent Curator Peace, Love, and Rockets is a research project and exhibition specially conceived for The Center for Book Arts, in collaboration with Keegan Cooke, Andreas... [ Read More → ]
Museum Exhibition of Artist Museums
Marko Lulic, “Museum of Revolution,” 2010. Installation view 20er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, Steel, paint, 1100 x 400 x 300cm.* Museum Show Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA, U.K www.arnolfini.org.uk Museum Show: Part 1 24 September–19 November 2011 One of the most curious tendencies in modern and contemporary art has been that of museums created... [ Read More → ]
Manfred Mohr at bitforms
Manfred Mohr during the opening at ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. May 11, 1971. ‘Cluster Phobia’, 51 x 51 centimeters. “A quasi mystical fear of an incomprehensible technology is still omnipresent.” ‘Combinatorial Framework of the Ordinal 15′, 50×50 centimeters. Manfred Mohr at bitforms gallery nyc September 9–October 15, 2011... [ Read More → ]
Boo-Hooray and Johan Kugelberg’s Forthcoming Exhibition on Dial House/Crass Fanzines/Gee Vaucher
“IN ALL OUR DECADENCE PEOPLE DIE” AN EXHIBITION OF FANZINES PRESENTED TO CRASS BETWEEN 1976 AND 1984 PLUS ORIGINAL CRASS-ERA ARTWORKS BY GEE VAUCHER AND A NEW AUDIO INSTALLATION BY PENNY RIMBAUD CURATED BY JOHAN KUGELBERG 265 Canal Street 6th floor, NY 10013 Sept 30th – Oct 20th, 2011 Opening: Friday, September 30th, 6-9pm The... [ Read More → ]
Self Esteem Salon!
CHRIS VERENE: The Self-Esteem Salon Friday, Saturday & Sunday August 12, 13, & 14 12 noon until 8pm, Socrates Sculpture Park “The Self-Preservation Series” The Self-Esteem Salon with Jessica Grable Socrates Sculpure Park, New York City: AUGUST 12-14, 2011, LIVE Performance ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Appointments can be made via... [ Read More → ]
Portal: Perspectives on Video Performance
An Xiao, The Artist is Kinda Present, 2010. Portal is a cross-platform project inviting artists, writers and audiences interested in time-based art – video, new media, sound and performance – to engage in a series of exhibitions, performances and symposia, surveying the changing nature of art in the digital world. In recent years, we have... [ Read More → ]
Lights In Motion: Rarities from the Howard Wise Gallery at EAI
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Noon – 7 pm Program repeats hourly. On the 40th anniversary of EAI’s incorporation on August 17, 1971, EAI pays tribute to founder Howard Wise and the Howard Wise Gallery with a special screening of rare and never-before-screened archival materials, including films of kinetic art works, interviews, and documentation of the... [ Read More → ]
Per-son-age: Video exhibition at Famous Accountants
Per-son-age 6:00pm – 10:00pm Famous Accountants Gallery 1673 Gates Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385 Curated by Rico Gatson per-son-age/ persenij (noun) A person (often used to express their significance, importance, or elevated status) Per-son-age is an exhibition of videos in which the artist is the primary performer. Historically artists such as Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper,... [ Read More → ]
Straight to Video 1
I’ve been organizing an exhibition of music videos from Columbus, OH. The main impetus for the exhibition is to digitize previously un-transferred material that is at risk of entropy and/or deterioration. The digitized footage will then be gifted to a few archives after the exhibition for access and posterity. Some of the artists that I... [ Read More → ]
Fracking and NYC Water Supply
…The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed opening large portions of the state to fracking, a dangerous method of drilling for natural gas that threatens our water, health, and the environment. Fracking involves the injection of millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into shale rock. The pressurized mixture causes the... [ Read More → ]
NZ on Screen presents: Artists on Screen Series
For this showcase of NZ visual arts talent, critic Mark Amery selects his top documentaries profiling artists. From the icons (Hotere, McCahon, Lye ) to the unheralded (Edith Collier) to Takis the Greek, each portrait shines light on the person behind the proverbial canvas. Amery introduces the collection of Kiwi artists as framed onscreen, in... [ Read More → ]
E.S.P. TV at Silvershed
Sat. July 9, 8pm-12am SILVER SHED 119 West 25th Street, PH New York , NY 10001 Tel: 1-646-322-332 E.S.P. TV is coming to Silvershed this Saturday with a rooftop screening of highlights and outtakes from Episodes 1-4 and a sneak preview of Episode #5. If you’ve never seen the show this is a great chance... [ Read More → ]
Teens “Get” Ryan Trecartin
Posted by Daniela Stigh, Assistant Director, Communications, MoMA PS1 on the museum’s Inside/Out blog Ryan Trecartin. Roamie View: History Enhancement (Re’Search Wait’S). 2009–10. HD Video, 28:23 min. Image courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York I had the opportunity to meet with a group of teens in MoMA’s Museum Studies program to discuss what... [ Read More → ]
“The View From a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-1985″
Anthology Film Archives. Electronic Arts Intermix. White Columns. The Kitchen. What do all of these cultural meccas share in common in 2011? Each DIY space-cum- “institution” is celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year. In addition to lectures and performances, The Kitchen will present an exhibition about its early years in Soho, before the alternative arts... [ Read More → ]
Bring to Light NYC brings Nuit Blanche to Greenpoint, Calls for Artists
Early this spring, New Yorkers were treated to a unique and unprecedented spectacle, with “Let Us Eat Cake,” a program where projected images filled the facade of the New Museum on the Bowery. Following along this trajectory, the same collective will present a one night festival of ephemeral, site-specific, public projections and performances in Greenpoint... [ Read More → ]