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Contemporary Performance
Highlights: Crossing The Line 2009 (NYC/France)
Crossing the Line 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009, from 6–9pm
Thursday–Saturday, October 1–3, 2009, from 12–3pm and 4–7pm
Luxe Gallery
Four days only! More than 60 amazing and astonishing products to choose from! Priced to sell! No budget too small! With both ingenuity and humor, store questions the consumption of art and our consumption of the consumption culture. It lets audiences/customers/viewers analyze their own roles as consumers of performance and as performers of consumption, as they purchase individualized performance products that they may consume on the spot, take away, or get delivered in the mail. There’s always a bargain in store!
Venue
Luxe Gallery
53 Stanton St (between Forsyth & Eldridge streets)
Hours
Wed, Sept 30, 6–9pm
Thu–Sat, Oct 1–3
12–3pm, 4–7pm
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Trajal Harrell
Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)
Thursday–Friday, October 1–2, 2009 at 7pm
New Museum Co-presented with Danspace Project
Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church is the collective and shared title of five dances in five sizes: Extra Small (XS), Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L), and Extra Large (XL), choreographed by Trajal Harrell. This new work explores the question, “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”
The (S) version, co-presented by the New Museum and Danspace Project in association with Crossing the Line, is a solo performance by Trajal Harrell featuring work by visual artist Franklin Evans.
Venue
New Museum
235 Bowery, at Prince Street between Stanton & Rivington
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Julia Mandle
Fabrication of Blindness
Saturday, September 19–Sunday, September 27, 2009
Cabinet, Brooklyn
Special Events
Exhibition Opening, Sat, Sept 19, 5–8pm
Julia Mandle Artist Talk, Mon, Sept 21, 7pm
Embroidery Circle, Sat & Sun, Sept 26 & 27, 1–5pm
Initiated in residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center and further developed for this special exhibition, Julia Mandle’s astonishing Fabrication of Blindness comes to Cabinet in Brooklyn.
Inspired by the work of French war photographer Jean-Marc Bouju, the centerpiece of the installation is a large dark cloud made out of black military sandbags. On the sandbags appear words from letters, stories, and poems written by political detainees, collected by Mandle, and embroidered during a series of sewing circles in NYC and DC.
Stunning in its emotional impact, Fabrication of Blindness highlights the ways in which art can play a powerful role in instigating change and community action. Special programs will accompany the installation, including new Brooklyn sewing circles.
Venue
Cabinet
300 Nevins Street
(at Union Street)
Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Steven Cohen
Knock ‘Em Dead
Wednesday–Thursday, September 16–17, 2009 at 7:30pm
CPR–Center for Performance Research
Steven Cohen culminates his research residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center and CPR–Center for Performance Research with a special presentation/performance as part of Crossing the Line.
Knock ‘Em Dead is an evening of film, images, and live performance that incorporates video fragments of some of Cohen’s public interventions and draws inspiration from the small cemeteries that survive in the “city that never sleeps”. It aims to look at the idea of “motionlessness” and silence in the noisy and actively congested Manhattan city space. In a city defined by neighborhoods, Manhattan’s cemeteries bridge racial, cultural, and religious boundaries—much like Cohen’s own body of work.
Venue
CPR–Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue,
Unit 1 (at Jackson Avenue),
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Full Schedule at FIAF.org
