EXIT ART 475 Tenth Ave New York, NY!
Collective Synergy & Performance Actions
Tue April 3, Wed April 4, Thu April 5, Fri April 6
ACTION WORKSHOPS:
2:00 to 4:00 Non Grata Group
4:00 to 6:00 Graceful Exit Artists
SATURDAY, APRIL 7: Final Performance
5:45-9:00 Collective Synergy & Performance Actions +THE GRACEFUL EXIT+
ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTATION: 11:00 to 2:00 everyday
Grace Exhibition Space: Collective Synergy & Performance Actions Grace Exhibition Space explores new ideas in performance art!
COLLECTIVE / PERFORMATIVE at EXIT ART in Manhattan at 475 Tenth Ave NYC
This exhibition responds to the abundance of recent attention given to performance art, and specifically to the shifting terms used to define viewer engagement: "collaborative," "relational," "participatory," and "delegated" to name a few. From the Performa Biennial to Creative Times Living as Form to the increased offerings of academic degrees in performance art as well as degrees in curating performance, Collective/Performative: interrogates potential new performance structures and practices as investigated by artists and organizations. "
Exit Art is pleased to present Collective / Performative:, an exhibition and event series focusing on performance practices that require the participation of an audience. The exhibition will include new works by eight commissioned artists and organizations that will utilize Exit Art's space during gallery hours for a public project, as well as an "artist's history" of performance art told by seminal performance artists who have exhibited at Exit Art. A research exhibition that explores the history of collective practices, this exhibition also investigates the importance of the viewer/audience in achieving the work’s goals and the role that documentation and new technologies play in the formation of collective strategies.
WORKSHOPS APRIL 3-6, 2012
Tuesday, April 3
11 am - 6 pm GES Books, Videos, Archives
2 pm - 4 pm Non Grata Group: Anonymous Boh Workshop: Lecture & Discussions on “Collective Artwork”
4 pm - 6 pm Grace Presents Workshop with Jodi Lyn-Kee-Chow
6pm - 11 am video screening on window
Wednesday, April 4
11 am - 6 pm GES Books, Videos, Archives
2 pm - 4 pm Non Grata Workshop: 1 KA Workshop: Lecture, Sound Installation & Discussions on Sound & Performance
4 pm – 6 pm Grace Presents Workshop with Rafael Sanchez
6pm - 11 am video screening in window
Thursday, April 5
11 am - 6 pm GES Books, Videos, Archives
2 pm - 4 pm Non Grata Group & Grace Presents Workshop with Anya Liftig
4 pm - 6 pm Grace Presents Workshop with Hector Canonge
6pm - 11 am video screening in window
Friday, April 6
11 am - 4 pm GES Books, Videos, Archives
2 pm - 4 pm Non Grata Group: Anonymous Boh Workshop: Lecture & Discussions on Interactive Artwork
4 pm - 6 pm Grace Presents Workshop with Rob Andrews and Peter Dobill
6pm - 11 am video screening in window
Saturday, April 7
11 am - 3 pm GES Books, Video, Archives
2 pm - 4 pm Non Grata Group Presents: Myk Henry Workshop: Lecture & Discussions on Collective Artwork
5:45 - 9:00 pm FINAL PERFORMANCE: GES presents two separate performances for The Graceful Exit
5:45 - 8:00 pm8 pm Rob Andrews, Rafael Sanchez, Jodi Lyn-Kee-Chow, Peter Dobill, Anya Liftig, Elinor Thompson and Hector Canonge with participating members of the public
8:15 - 9:00 pm Non Grata Performance Group LIVE!
PARTICPATING ARTISTS
NON GRATA GROUP
NON For those whose art world starts at the point where the mainstream art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course which betrays us - it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical - it is the image of primitivism, un-personality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place accordingly to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by group members. Aesthetic and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn't work.
Non Grata Group: www.nongrata.ee
Rob Andrews
Rob Andrews lives and works in Brooklyn. He has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, Grace Exhibition Space, and is represented by English Kills Art Gallery. He recently enacted mass group feet cleanings in Union Square as part of Art in Odd Places, and in Bitola, Macedonia as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Live Art Festival on 11.11.11. He is a 2010-11 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art recipient.
Rob Andrews: www.andrewsautomatic.com
Hector Canonge
Hector Canonge lives and works in New York City where he studied comparative literature, film and Integrated Media Arts. His work incorporates the use of various media, commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performative narratives. Canonge has been featured by the Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Jersey City Museum, Exit Art, NY Studio Gallery, Flux Factory, Gallery Aferro, Topaz Arts, Y Gallery, Art for Change, and other art spaces in the city and abroad. His work has been reviewed by the The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, Hispanic Magazine, El Diario, Timeout NY, by online publications such as NYRemezcla, Turbulence, ART CARDS Review, and by networks such as ABC, NBC, CNN, NY1, and UNIVISION among others.
Hector Canonge: www.hectorcanonge.net
Peter Dobill
Peter Dobill Born in New Zealand, Peter Dobill is a Brooklyn, NY based artist. He received his BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2004 in addition to receiving the 2008-2009 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Grant. Dobill co-founded and curates the annual Maximum Perception Performance Festival in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed and exhibited in galleries/venues including Exit Art, NY, NY; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, Meme Gallery, Cambridge, MA, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY; Open Realization Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China, and Rockefeller University, NY, NY.
Peter Dobill: www.peterdobillactionist.com/
Anya Liftig
Anya Liftig’s work, The Anxiety of Influence, was an intervention into Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present retrospective at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day.Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Heeb, Public Culture, Art Papers, X-tra, ArtNews, The L Magazine, The Other Journal, Jewcy, Mix Magazine, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Animal New York and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The Field, Vermont Studio Center, University of Antioquia, Casa Tres Patios-Medellin, Colombia, and Flux Projects, Atlanta.
Anya Liftig: www.anyaliftig.com
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (Born in Jamaica, West Indies 1975). She lives and works in Queens,Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow received a BFA at the New World School of the Arts, Miami in 1996. In 2005 she attained an MFA from Hunter College, New York City. She has exhibited her work at numerous venues including Exit Art (NYC), Rush Arts Gallery (NYC), SUNY Old Westbury College (NY), Scope Art Fair (FL), a featured artist in Queens International 4 at the Queens Museum of Art (NY) and the “Open International Performance Art Festival” at Open Contemporary Art Center in Beijing ,China.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow:www.jodielynkeechow.com/home.html
Rafael Sanchez
Rafael Sanchez (b.Newark, New Jersey, 1978) In his performances, Sanchez frequently subjects his body to extreme stress and pain to materialize ideas of memory, spirituality and endurance. . In an early work titled Back to Africa (2000), Sanchez wandered around New Jersey in white face. In a more recent work, Caliente/Frio (2007) the artist traced the migration process of two women from Cuba to America during the 1960s.
Rafael Sanchez Facebook:: Rafael-Sanchez-Performance-Artist/216067758507
Elinor Thompson
Elinor Thompson strives to create work that forces viewers to question the physical and social contours of their environment. She is currently working with Papo Colo and the Trickster Theater, which will be reprising several performances in Exit Art's closing show, Every Entrance is an Exit, in May. Ms Thompson is a devotee of The Grace Exhibition Space and has shown work at various exhibitions and galleries in New York City, including the Scope Art Fair, the Alice Chilton Gallery, the WagMag benefit, Fresh Ground Pepper, and Live Music Video's Bjorkball. She has also performed with the AABeir and Non Grata.
Elinor Thompson: www.grace-exhibitionspace.com/performance.php?event_id=107
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Grace, n. - simple elegance or refinement of movement
Grace Period - an extended period granted as a special favor
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Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006.
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