FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 6:00 PM

THE LAST STAND

with

ROMAN PRIMITIVO ALBEAR is a performance artist and theater director originally from Mexico

Interview with Roman: https://internationaltimes.it/the-roman-primitivo-albear-interview-ubu-roi/

My name is Roman Primitivo Albear and I was born February 18, 1969 and raised in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City, a melting pot of intellectual and political refugees from Argentina, BraziI, Chile, Columbia, and Uruguay; first generation refugees of the civil war in Spain. My first contact with art was my neighbor Jorge Alzaga whose daughter, Karla, is still my best friend.

I left Mexico in the early 90s, traveled to Europe and wound up in the squats on New York’s Lower East Side. It was here I became involved with the community and the struggles faced from gentrification and ethnic cleansing. I became part of the squat movement from 1990 to 2000 and was involved with the community gardens and had a show on Steal This Radio. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/27/arts/pirate-radio-in-touch-with-the-village-not-the-fcc.html.

In 2002 I joined migrant farm workers in a protest march organized by the Rural and Migrant Ministry. We walked 200 miles from New York to Albany to protest working conditions.

I am a self-taught artist who began by selling his work in the street, and my work is often featured in group shows at ABC No Rio, Zito Gallery, Jonathan Short Gallery, Le Jungle Gallery, and Theatre for the New City Gallery. My work is also held in private collections. I work in mixed media about socially conscious topics.

LINDA FEESEY [CANADA] ART HISTORIAN

Linda Feesey is from Toronto, she is a writer/art historian/filmmaker and presently she is employed as librarian at the Toronto Public Library. She has written about Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin's work at several occasion. In 2002 she curated a retrospective exhibition of Kantor/Cantsin's video and performance works. In 2003 she nominated Istvan for the prestigious Governor General Award of Canada which he successfully received in 2004. She was also the editor of a biographic book "Permanent Revolution" which sums up Istvan's life accomplishment through essays by several well known Canadian curators and artists. This book will be available at Grace Space.

Past:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 @ 6:00 PM

THE CALL OF THE WILD

with

CLAYTON PATTERSON is an artist/activist/archivist hisrorian, iconic personality of the Lower East Side.

BURNING BUDDHA is a visual artist/composer, collaborator of Clayton Patterson.

PERPETUA RODRIGUEZ is a performance artist from Chile, she explores challenging forms of body art.

ANGEL EYEDEALISM is a stratospheric coloratura and performance artist who brings a theatrical bent to her practical, down-to-earth advice.

BLATTELLA GERMANICA is a Neoist non-artist DJ and brainwash specialist

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 6:00 PM

ENDANGERED SPECIES

with

X-PITTS is a poet, street artist from the Lower East Side.

MELANIE TOMSKY is a multi-media performer/painter/singer

CAI QING is an internationally known curator and performance artist

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 6:00 PM

EXTINCT IN THE WILD

with

ORI CARINO is a New York based graffitti artist and painter, associated with the Rivington School

JULIUS KLEIN moved to NYC from Chicago, performance artist, painter, guitarist of the legendary Vacuum Bag

BORYANA ROSSA is known for her revolutionary explorations in body art and cyber art

MONTY CANTSIN // ISTVAN KANTOR

His main subjects are the decay of technology and the struggle of the individual in technological society. His work has been described by the media as intellectually rebellious, anti-authoritarian, as well as technically innovative and highly experimental. His radically changing creative ambitions are always related to his living environment and social situation. He has been arrested and jailed many times for his blood-x interventions in museums. Kantor was born in Budapest where he studied medical science. In 1976, at age 26, he defected to Paris and from there immigrated to Montreal. He also lived in Portland, New York, Berlin and presently is a resident of Toronto where his children, Jericho, Babylon and Nineveh were born in the 90’s. Besides his individual work he is bandleader/singer of the Red ArmBand, founder-member of MachineSexActionGroup and Kantor Family Circus.