FROM JANUARY 8 Premiering at the DUMBO Arts Festival on September 23, 2011, The Dumpster Project is a work of transportable public art. The Dumpster Project is also a daily blog (www.thedumpsterproject.com). Fundamentally, though, The Dumpster Project is a physical taxonomy of one man’s existence. Mac Premo is a Brooklyn-based collage artist. His longtime Boerum [...]
January 13-29 TINY LIGHTS: Memory’s Storehouse/Infinite Miniature is a collaboration between writer/performers Lenora Champagne and Lizzie Olesker. Comprised of two solos and a movement coda, TINY LIGHTS is an intimate yet heightened look at the richness of story evoked by everyday objects and gestures. Worlds are wrought inside the space of mind, memory, language and the rooms we live in. TINY LIGHTS will take [...]
THURSDAY JANUARY 26 / 7.30PM / CINEMA – The Temptations of Dr. Antonio is easily one of the most entertaining offerings from his storied career. Fellini is at his most absurd and creative best here, utilizing wonderfully effective B-movie style effects that completely work since the film is very tongue-in-cheek Boccaccio ’70 is a 1962 [...]
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1 / 7PM / PERFORMANCE WHY I MAKE LIVE ART (WHEN I’M NOT MAKING THE OTHERS) will be an evening of current explanations by contemporary performance makers around the siren call of “liveness” in art practice. The diverse panel will include poet-playwrights, actors moving between the film and stage, conceptual artists and others [...]
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 / 6.30PM / MUSIC Fortnight Journal presents three Fortnight contributors in collaboration. Centered around the viol consort of Edition II contributor, Elizabeth Weinfield, the night will comprise of several Renaissance pieces, poetry, and song. Sonnambula will be joined by poet Adam Fitzgerald (Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUAY 4 / NOON TO 8PM / THEATER ‘American Realism’ is a one-day extreme endurance piece for eight actors, about contemporary labor, spoken through the voices of depression-era California migrant workers. Disassembling notions of realism and investigating the possibilities of reenactment without authenticity, this piece exposes the ennui of laborers, from dot-com start-up entrepreneurs to immigrant maintenance workers. The text [...]
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 / 8PM / PERFORMANCE The Invisible Dog will host the REHEARSAL series, a works-in-progress showing of various types of performance— this week the choreographer and dancer Tara Willis will be showing a short piece, followed by a discussion in which the audience is asked to articulate their responses. The series curator Sophia [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11 / 8PM CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event put on every two months or so, usually in Brooklyn, NY. Curated and hosted by Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie and brilliantly administered by Caleb Hammons. Animals, Michelle Boulé, Megan Byrne, The Debate Society, Daniel Fish, The Sasparilla Sisters, Brian [...]
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 / 7.30PM / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE G. Douglas Barrett presents the second installment of Worktreue, a series of music and performance events conflating the problems of historical authenticity in music, and labor in artistic and cultural production. G. Douglas Barrett is an artist, musician, and writer. His work considers music as part of [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18 / 7.30PM / MOVIE by Richard Garet and Asher Thal-Nir. The imagery of Melting Ground consists of an uninterrupted single handheld take, while flying in a helicopter over Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska in August 2005. Garet submitted the footage to rigorous processes of digital manipulation, altering the takes natural condition, light, [...]
