WHITE BOX
329 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
212.714.2347
info@whiteboxny.org
Exhibition Hours:
Wednesday to Friday, 11am - 6pm
Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
Monday and Tuesday, closed
January 11-14, 2012 Opening Reception: January 12th 6-10 pm. Contributing Artists: Alex Arcadia, Charles Hardwick, Christophe Roberts, Curtis Kulig, Donald Gajadhar, Doug Landau, Dr. Dax,
Ghost, Hugh Gran, Ilene Byers, Jayson Atienza, Jesper Haynes, Joey Glover, John Perry, Josh Wallman, Juna Skenderi, Justin Carty,
Kinjal Mitra, Leyman Duky, Mare, Michael Alig, Michael Jarvis, Michelle Reyes, Minka Sicklinger, Mint and Serf, Nemo Librizzi,
Paul D. Edwards, Pork, Savior Elmundo, Senz, Shauna Figueroa, Spam, Strider, Tony Chan, Xaviera Simmons, 13thWitness Pablo Power,
Alfredo Martinez, Chinoand more... Curated by: Robert Aloia, Brent Bartley, Frankie Cedeno and Laksmi Hedemark Featuring screening of the documentary: Downtown Calling Featuring 'Art Wars' Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 7pm Hosted by Savior Elmundo and Voodoo Ray Hosted by: Dominic Chianese, John "Bloodclot" Joseph and Bill Spector Friday, January 12th 7pm screening of 'In The Cups' directed by Nemo Librizzi DJ's: Jazzy Nice, Jonny Santos, DJ Shakey (Julie Covello), Sal Principato, Shorty, Small Change, Steve Lewis and more… Event Photography by: Kenny Rodriguez Curated by Jee Won Kim and Juan Puntes November 1 – November 21, 2011 Opening Reception and Performances: Wednesday, November 9, 6:00 – 9:00 PM Sunday, November 20, 2011|3PM Co-curated by Ava Ansari and Molly Kleiman. Organized in collaboration with Aaran Gallery, Tehran; Sazmanab Project, Tehran; White Box, New York. November 11, 2011 November 12 , 2011 November 13, 2011 November 1 - November 5, 2011 White Box, New York Presence is our impromptu response to an invitation we received from White Box just as we were planning a trip to New York and scheduling meetings with certain professionals during Performa '11. On the occasion of our debut performance in the United States, we have decided to carry out our appointments in the presence of all gallery visitors during the operating hours of White Box's exhibition space. In Presence, we are transmitting the specific contexts that define our invitation in order to expose the cultural underpinnings and the specific logic that presuppose public access to our work. We would like to present ourselves in conversation with other professionals as one phase of our work, which makes explicit the context that conditioned our arrival. Performance Schedule: Tuesday, November the 1st 10.30 am: Sophie Claudel, Cultural Attaché, Head of the Arts Department, French Embassy Wednesday, November the 2nd 11am : Matthew Lyons, The Kitchen, Curator Thursday, November the 3rd 3.30pm : Yasmil Raymond, Curator in Chief, and Kelly Kivland, Dia Art Foundation Friday, November the 4th 12pm : Carla Peterson, Director, New York Live Arts Saturday, November the 5th 1pm : Aniko Erdodi, Gallery Broadway Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan) examine the norms that define dance and the live arts. By appearing in different frameworks that reveal the action of the body, or by adapting to them, they provoke the conditions for a new reflection on the different methods of representation, production and interpretation of performance. Their performances have been presented at: the Project Arts Centre, Dublin; the Tate Modern, London; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Kunsthalle, Basel; the VI Cali performance Festival; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; the Kunsthaus Graz-Museum, Joanneum; the Berlin Biennale for contemporary art, 2008 and 2010; the Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul; among other places… Exhibition partners: White Box, New York and Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York Since September 2008, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan) have been in residency at the CAC Brétigny (France) and receive the support of the General Council of Essonne - Support for the residency and the CAC Brétigny, equipment of the Val d'Orge Community.They were in residence from October 1 - 12, 2011 at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden and they will be in open residence during the year 2012 at the Baltic Art Center in Gotland, Sweden.j1 contact@lesgensduterpan.com "Oan Kim: One Second Diary Concert and Video Performance by Oan Kim Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 7:30 pm In participation of Performa '11, the most important performance biennial in NY, White Box will present 'Film Noir Machine' a concert and video performance by Oan Kim. It is a 30-minute audio-visual concert performance featuring original music and video by the artist. The viewer will be immersed in a unique and vibrant experience for the senses, through a vivid collage of colorized old movies, accompanied with music that uniquely combines sixties jazz a la Miles Davis with the raw energy and attitude of rock music. Through this presentation, the artist seeks to create a loose but palpable narrative exacerbating senses and emotions of fear, anger, ecstasy, and melancholy. Through the confusion of a bad dream unfolds an intense contemplation of memories and time. MA.P.S @ WHITE BOX presents: Friday, October 21st from 8:00-11:00pm The documentation of his 30-day 1.5 million dollar happening, or "millennial party": http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/internet/5418/ (re:)FORM ART in collaboration with White Box presents: Curated by Isaac Aden and Anna Harrah October 18 - 27, 2011 White Box is pleased to announce WALLmART, an exhibition in response to the public outcry occurring on Wall Street and around the world. According to David Brooks' editorial in The New York Times on October 18, 2011: "(The majority of Americans) are focused on the fundamentals. They say that repairing the economic moral fabric is the essential national task right now. They are suspicious of government action in general, saying that government often undermines this fabric. But they support specific federal policies that nurture industriousness, responsibility and delayed gratification, like spending on infrastructure, education and research. They distinguish between the deserving and undeserving rich." WALLmART addresses the sentiment expressed in Mr. Brooks' editorial, such as the loss of control of our economic structure and the rupture of our current value systems. The artwork seeks to formulate a more soulful mode of social exchange.
We invite all occupants and non-occupants to gather at White Box in solidarity with international efforts to redistribute resources and proclaim equal rights to all global citizens. White Box is a 501-C3 non-profit art space with a history of presenting a polemic program. The last exhibition was a presentation of the subversive Chinese dissident, Ai Wei Wei. (re:)FORM ART presents emerging artists and recently presented No Comment, an exhibition on Wall St. directly across New York Stock Exchange, as well as 99% ART! at the Chelsea Museum. Artists: Isaac Aden, Daniel De Paola, Christoph Draeger, Gianluca Fellini, Peter Fend, Rainer Ganahl, Jeffrey Hargrave, Josh Harris, Erik Hendrickson, Christian Hooker, Ray Kelley, Larry Litt, Igor Molochevsky, Mark Lombardi, Alfredo Martinez, Paola Ochoa, Max Nova, Nemanya Valjarevic and Marcos Zotes. For more information and details of the event please visit: www.whiteboxny.org or www.reformart.tumblr.com CHINA-ISM II: DEMOCRACY or ECONOMY? At the turn of the 21st century, China has galvanized a powerhouse economy, and its contemporary art has
had a resounding effect on the contemporary art world at large. When Andy Warhol transformed Mao into
a pop art icon through his larger than life portrait, Mao entered the international art scene and became a
timeless symbol of what New York-based artist Anton S. Kandinsky calls "China-ism." "China-ism" is an ironic artistic interpretation of contemporary China - its culture, politics and economy, as
coined by Kandinsky. It also serves as a way for the international art community to reflect on contemporary
China through the lens of art. The first China-ism exhibition was curated by David Rong and Alex Demko in
October of 2009. While China's economy has changed and grown dramatically over the last twenty years, the state of
democracy in the country has not changed at all. Merely an artist seeking and defending his freedom of
speech, Ai Weiwei was detained on April 3, 2011 and was held in an unknown location by the Chinese
government for 80 days. Just over a month into the artist's arrest, Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of
Asian art at the Guggenheim Museum, spoke at the opening of Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
in New York City (an opening the artist was formerly scheduled to attend) stating that if there is no freedom
of speech, there is no modern art and that the world is not challenging the Chinese government but that the
Chinese government is in fact challenging the world. The exhibition, China-ism II: Democracy or Economy? asks the question: "If China is already changing the
world, will the world change China?" The exhibition presents 13 oil paintings by Kandinsky as well as one
original photograph, Guard, Seven Frames (2009), and video work I'm walking on the road to the Dead
Land
(2010) by Ai Weiwei. If Wassily Kandinsky's works are representative of revolutionary change in the early twentieth century, Anton
S. Kandinsky has upheld the tradition begun by his forefather. Well known for his "Gemism" paintings, begun
in 2004, these works are composed of naturalistic images of gemstones intermingling with flags, ideograms,
political figures and celebrities as well as historical and social iconography from China, the former Soviet
Union as well as American pop culture. White Box, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, provides a unique site for curators and artists alike to present exhibitions and explore non-commercial, innovative ideas via projects that range from aesthetically exciting to provocative. VIP reception/press conference September 15, 2011
To view images of works see http://antonkandinsky.com/art-projects_china_ism_II.html Media Coverage of the show: MA.P.S Presents: "A Call" by Wafaa Bilal The Back Room presents a concurrent opening and dialogue between Tehran and NYC. This spring, Wafaa Bilal was invited to participate in "Requiem for Innocence" at Aaran Gallery, Tehran. With over eighty Iranian performers, an empty pool, and five cameras, he developed "A Call" as memorial to the dead, the living, and the forgotten of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).
As the Iranian government denied Bilal an artist's visa, he will be attending the exhibition remotely, from a parallel opening at White Box in New York City. A video of Aaran Gallery, the installation, and its visitors will stream live on White Box's walls, and attendees from both cities will be able to converse via the Internet. This mediated performance will enact the dislocations, delays, and ruptures that war breeds.
Co-curated by Ava Ansari and Molly Kleiman of The Back Room White Box Aaran Gallery BUSHWICK IN THE BOX August 26 - Sept 10, 2011 Curated by Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) in collaboration w/ MA.P.S at WHITE BOX Featuring video & installation by: Opening Reception: Friday August 26, 7-9pm w/ live performances Bushwick in the Box runs from August 26 to September 10, concurrently with the White Box exhibition How to Philosophize with a Hammer curated by Raul Zamudio. Opening night features performances by Jason Martin and his 'animals friends' followed by Jeff Donaldson's improvisation on his prepared Nintendo console. Closing night will feature a sound set by Lea Bertucci/TwistyCat, and more surprises! Bios: SENSORIUM SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA Members for the performance: The Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra formed in 2008 as NYC's first full-on saxophone orchestra. The following year, this 12-piece ensemble premiered Terry Riley's In C at Issue Project Room and Miller's Symphony of Suspicious Activity at Brooklyn Lyceum. As composer and conductor, Benjamin Miller's work is influenced by many genres and composers including Terry Riley, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Oliver Messiaen, and Glenn Branca to name a few. Miller's music explores both tonality and atonality without the common restrictions of either context. http://www.benmiller.info/SSO.html "...a haunting, dissonant swoon like that of battling church organs, or a swarm of bugs." Village Voice, Christopher Weingarten 2009 Miller's performance and recording credits include Sproton Layer (1969-71) with brothers Roger (Mission of Burma) and Laurence (Mr. Laurence Experience); The Fourth World Quartet (74-75) with hyperpianist Denman Maroney, Empool (76-78), Destroy All Monsters (77-78) with the late Ron Asheton (Stooges) and Michael Davis (MC5); GKW (82-94), Dirty Old Man River (97-2000), and Ben Miller/degeneration (solo multiphonic guitar, 2000-present). HOW TO PHILOSOPHIZE WITH A HAMMER Artists: How to Philosophize with a Hammer is an exhibition of international artists that work in video, painting, sculpture, works-on-paper, photography, installation, and performance. The title is taken from Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1889). How to Philosophize with a Hammer followed the Gay Science (1882) in which Nietzsche pronounced that "god is dead." After this deicide came other "deaths" in the late twentieth century including "the death of the author," "the end of history," and "the death of painting." As such, the works in the exhibition underscore the usurpation of authority but within a contemporary context. The artists address the exhibition's thematic framework in myriad ways where their philosophizing is articulated through diverse artistic genres. Some philosophers have viewed aesthetics and artistic practice as a form of philosophy, and the iconoclasm of these artists' works hammers against political, financial, social, and religious institutions. This iconoclasm signals the need to reinvent new modes of thinking and being while reflecting on the existential crisis that humanity finds itself marked by wars, ecological disaster, economic collapse, terrorism, and revolution. In short, it is the perfect end of the summer exhibitions.
OUTLAW Press Release
Shot by: Kevin Chung
Special Thanks to: Critical Massive"
ARAB SPRINGS, ATLANTIC WEALTH: A TRADING ROOM
As part of PERFORMA 11 Fluxus Weekend, WHITE BOX | MA.P.S presented:
The films and works of IRA COHEN
The films of JAN HENDERIKSE
Presence, an exhibition of Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan)
1pm : Brian Rogers, The Chocolate Factory, Artistic Director
4pm : Gianni Jetzer, the Swiss Institute, Director
4pm : Vallejo Gantner PS122, Artistic Director
6pm : Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Cisneros Foundation, Curator of Contemporary Art
5pm : Jovana Stokic, Location 1, curator of Abramovic Studio
7 pm : David Coggins, Journalist
3pm : Ana Janevski, Curator, MoMA
3 pm : Claire Bishop, Researcher, Teacher, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
5pm : Jonatham Durham, Artistic Director, Abrons Art Center
Exhibition support is provided by Regional Cultural Affairs Office of Ile-de-France — French Ministry of Culture and Communication
www.lesgensduterpan.com
October 22 - November 5, 2011"
WHITE BOX PROJECTS presents: Film Noir Machine
Screening of Josh Harris' QUIET*
WALLmART
CURATED BY DAVID RONG & ALEX DEMKO
SEPTEMBER 13 - OCTOBER 9,2011
OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 22, 6-8 PM
Artists: Anton S.Kandinsky & Ai Weiwei
Opening reception September 22, 2011
Panel discussion, "Democracy or Economy? China-ism in the Contemporary World" with academics, economists, and artists October 6, 6:30-8:30PM
Aaran Gallery, Tehran, and White Box, NYC
Free desktop streaming application by Ustream
Friday September 23, 11:30am to 1:30pm
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Lea Bertucci, Steve Cossman, Jeff Donaldson, Jason Martin, Rachael Morrison, Allison Somers, Stephanie Wuertz
Microscope Gallery takes over a floor of White Box with moving image installations by seven emerging Bushwick artists. The young artists are among the most innovative of those working with the light-based arts that we have encountered since opening our doors in the neighborhood last September. Many of the artists in the show have exhibited at Microscope or at one of our weekly screenings. Others appeared in our Bushwick Survey program as part of a film festival we curated for Bushwick Open Studios in June. The works on installation include altered Nintendo generated images, microscopic images, works originally shot on film, archival footage, shadow play, performance, and animation.
Lea Bertucci works with Photography, Sound, Video and Installation. She received her BA in Photography from Bard College in 2007. The emphasis of her work lies in exciting the liminal areas of perception. She uses tactics such as slide projection, stop motion video and lo-fi filtering of sound to engage with these ideas. She is one half of the experimental electroacoustic duo Twistycat and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Steve Cossman was born in Maywood, California. He received his BFA from Albright College, and went on to study animation in the Czech Republic at FAMU. He works primarily with 16mm film. Recent screenings include Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, VideoEx Zurich, and FlexFest 2011. . His work can be found in the collections of the University of Seattle, WA, University of Hartford Art School, and The Len Lye Foundation, New Zealand. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and runs Mono No Aware, an "Annual Exhibition of Expanded Cinema"
Jeff Donaldson began his noteNdo project in 2001 with the intent to create animation entirely with his own hardware modifications of 8bit NES and 16bit SEGA Genesis/Master Systems. There is no new code involved, only machine logic. Donaldson began playing guitar at the age of 12 and at the same time began shooting video of local skateboarders. Jeff studied jazz guitar and music composition at University from 2000-2001. Donaldson has performed and shown work at galleries worldwide including LABoral Gijon, Spain, iMAL Bruxelles, Belgium, and Museu de Arte Moderna Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He currently lives & works Bushwick.
Jason Martin is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician originally from Upstate NY. Over the years, Martin has exhibited videos internationally under his own name and as a member of groups, collectives, and under various aliases. Martin's artwork traverses multiple formats, pursuing mysteries. His love of species-queer, glamorous, paganistic animism surfaces in videos, music, installations, drawings, and performances. Topics include: power structures, species and gender hybridity, witchcraft, conflict, rock music, pre-history, analog electronics. As a musician, Martin continues to perform live and has toured, recorded, or performed with acts including J. Mascis, Suzanne Thorpe, His Name Is Alive, Devendra Banhart, Dan Deacon, Raphe Malik,The Bunnybrains, Lettuce Little, Denim and Diamonds, and many others. Recently received an MFA from NYU Steinhardt.
Rachael Morrison is an artist, curator, and librarian who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally at a variety of venues including Anthology Film Archives and Heist Gallery.
Allison Somers was born in Los Angeles and is now based in Brooklyn. She works primarily with photography and moving image and has previously exhibited at: Participant Inc., Emily Harvey Foundation, Front Room Gallery, 80WSE Gallery, Scaramouche Gallery among others. Somers received an MFA from New York University in 2010. Past April she had her first solo exhibition Black & Blue at Microscope Gallery.
Stephanie Wuertz is an audiovisual artist based in New York. She works in a wide range of media, using both appropriated and original material. Her work is concerned with uncovering the repressed in vision and by authoritative discourse to bring out the sensory qualities of images through the use of sound, texture, and scale. She has a BFA in Computer Arts from Memphis College of Art and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. She has screened and performed live projections of her work at such venues as Issue Project Room, Live with Animals, Monkeytown, The Schoolhouse, CoExist Gallery, Cherry Kino Lab and Anthology Film Archives. Her music videos have been featured on Pitchfork, Gorilla vs Bear, Altered Zones, and 20jazzfunkgreats. She currently works in film and video production at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 7:00 PM
Benjamin Miller: Conductor, Composer
Gerald Thomas: Tenor
A. J. Kluth: Tenor
Joe Wilson: Tenor
Kristin Olson: Baritone
Chris Diasparra: Baritone
Kyle: Baritone
Stefan Zenuik: Bass
David Tedeschi: Drum Kit
CURATED BY RAUL ZAMUDIO
Isaac Aden, Luis Alonzo-Barkigia, Marcela Astorga, Marc Bijl, Karlos Carcamo, Daniel Davidson, Wim Delvoye, Adolfo Doring, Martin Ferran, Kendell Geers, Fernando Martin Godoy, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Istvan Kantor, Ray Kelly, Dominic McGill, Teresa Margolles, Dennis Oppenheim, Damian Ontiveros, Ashery Oreet, Pasha Radetzki, Joaquin Segura, Celia Elsamieh Shomal, Susan Sontag, Javier Tellez, Mookie Tenebaum, Wojtek Ulrich, Abdul Vas, Ruben Verdu, Ai Weiwei, Zhou Wendou.
