Dear Douglas – Sorry I had wanted to email you sooner
– we have been doing a lot of work organizing, etc. I
will send you the press release tonight, and I would
still be so much obliged if you would help us
advertise for the project with the DKS list. We are
thrilled with how it is going – all of the artwork is
there, and it is going to be truly excessive in its
energy, and truly subversive in the artwork and
strategies we will employ. I wish you were going! Do
you think I could get your telephone number? Thank
you again, and I look forward to talking with you.
Mary


www.marymattingly.com





 
2005 BENEFIT AND SILENT AUCTION
ANNOUNCED

 

Event to take place Wednesday, June 8 from 7-10 pm

at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, New York City


(New York,NY,May 15, 2005) -New York Cityartists have joined together
to raise support for the Groundswell Community Mural Project, a
non-profit organization that uses public art to equip low-income
communities with tools for civic participation and social change.
The 2005 Groundswell Benefit and Silent Auction will take
place onWednesday, June 8, 2005from7-10 PMat Artists Space, inSoHo.  
All of the auction proceeds will be donated to Groundswell Community
Mural Project.



The Groundswell 2005 Benefit and Silent Auction will feature the work
of more than 70 contemporary artists as well as a raffle of items such
as dinner for two at the NY Culinary Institute, A Fresh Spa treatment,
and membership to MoMA. Tickets to The Groundswell 2005 Benefit
and Silent Auction
will be sold at the door on the evening of
the event for $30.


 


Since 1996, Groundswell Community Mural Project has created more than
50 murals throughoutNew York Cityin partnership with hundreds of
professional artists, grassroots organizations and low-income youth.
 Groundswell’s work inspires communities and artists to take active
ownership of their future and equips them with the tools necessary for
social change. This is the fifth annual event for the burgeoning
organization.  Groundswell has been featured in the New York
Times, The New Yorker, Time Out, the Daily News and on
NBC
. The organization has received recognition from the
National Endowment for the Arts, George Soros’ Open Society
Institute
andthe Pew Charitable Trusts. 


 


Over 70 distinguished artists have agreed to participate in this
benefit:



Maria Elena Alvarez, Paolo Arao, Louise Belcourt,Belle
Benfield,OritBen-Shitrit, Sandra Bermudez, Sanford Biggers, Amy
Borezo, Sarah Brenneman,, Bethany Bristow, Jonathan Burstein, Ken
Butler,Louis Cameron, Nicole Cherubini, Amanda Church, Brett Cook,
Pedro Cruz-Castro, Isaac Diggs, Brian Douglas, Michael Eade, Cara
Earl, Yvonne Estrada, Alessandra Exposito, Michael Ferris,
Jr.,Rosemarie Fiore, Gilbert Flores, Carla Gannis, Lajos Geenen,
Jeffrey Gibson, Susan Hamburger, Erica Harris, Leslie Hewitt,
Elizabeth Huey, Nene Humphrey, Julian Jackson, George Kimmerling,Jenny
Laden,Meghan LeBorious, Josh Levine, Joan Lindner, Omar Lopez Chahoud,
Rene Lynch, Max Carlos Martinez, Susan Mastrangelo, Diana
McClure,Conor McGrady, Amy Morken, Carrie Moyer, Bede Murphy,
Elizabeth Neel, Laura Nova, Rune Olsen, Judith Page, CarolannaParlato,
Gary Petersen, Lamar Peterson, Julia Randall, Ray Rapp,Bryony Romer,
Sheila Ross, Peter Schroth, Rachel Schuder. Fran Shalom, Shinique
Smith, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Greg Stewart,AdamStraus, Julianne
Swartz, Mauricio Trenard, Spencer Tunick, Josette Urso,Jorge Valdes,
Deborah Willis, Hank Willis Thomas, Charles Yuen.



CONTACT:-    


Jenny Laden, 917 330 4346

jenny@jennyladen.com


Or Amy Sananman, Executive Director

Groundswell, 718 254 9782

director@groundswellmural.org


for more information on Groundswell, go to
www.groundswellmural.org

                                            

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Amy Sananman, Executive Director

Groundswell Community Mural Project

339 douglass st brooklyn ny 11217

718.254.9782/ fx 9783 

www.groundswellmural.org

director@groundswellmural.org

 





 

 

 

 

PROJECT IN THE PROJECTS is an affirmation of life in the moribund space society provides its poor.

 

Over the past three months, the Martinez Gallery team has been at work on a low-income apartment in New York, recreating and beautifying the all-too depressing space demarcated by the walls the city built. The finished project employs innovative use of materials, abundant art and use of a customizable system furnishing and design, and serves as a prototype for a system of low-cost refurbishing that could significantly improve the living spaces of countless thousands of people, not just in New York, but worldwide.

 

PROJECT IN THE PROJECTS serves as a reminder of the conditions of project life, ranging from depression to health and environmental risks to virtual invisibility before cold bureaucracies, and confronts those problems in a collective, inclusive manner. The message is that beauty and a good life do not have to end where the projects begin.

 

Symposium: Saturday, June 4, 6-8 PM at Bluestockings Bookstore at 172 Allen Street on the Lower East Side between Stanton and Rivington Streets. F train to Second Avenue. For more information: 212-619-2149.

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


PERFORMA ESTABLISHES A DEDICATED BIENNIAL FOR LIVE VISUAL ART
PERFORMANCE IN NEW YORK CITY

New York (June 1, 2005) -- PERFORMA -- a non-profit organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of high caliber performance by visual artists from around the world will present PERFORMA05, the first performance biennale in New York City. PERFORMA05 will offer a multidisciplinary program of month-long exhibitions, world premiers of exciting new performances, film series, and innovative symposia across multiple venues in New York City.

PERFORMA was established in April 2004 by renowned critic, curator and performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, whose definitive book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979 & 2000), pioneered the study of performance art.

“With its selection of highly accomplished work by both established and emerging artists, PERFORMA05 will encourage new directions in visual art performance,” said RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator of PERFORMA. “As more and more contemporary artists from around the world make live art and performance-related film and video, we had to respond to the need for a more focused curatorial approach to the material.”

PERFORMA05 will run from November 3, 2005 through November 20, 2005, and is being organized in collaboration with a consortium of leading arts presenters, independent curators, galleries and museums. The list of venues and artists is in formation and is available upon request. A full confirmed biennial schedule will be released after June 30, 2005.

PERFORMA
PERFORMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the research, development and presentation of international performance by visual artists. PERFORMA is committed to generating a new performance environment by establishing a dedicated biennial, building a dynamic community of artists and audiences, and providing a basis for educational initiatives.

PERFORMA FUNDING
PERFORMA receives general operating support from the Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Art for Arts Sake, Evelyn Sharp Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts, Salon 94, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and private individuals. PERFORMA is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

For more information or to added to the PERFORMA Press Preview list please contact:

M E D I A   C O N T A C T
Esa Nickle, Biennial Co-ordinator
PERFORMA
212.533.5720
press@performa-arts.org
www.performa-arts.org


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Who: Mio Shirai
What: New Kingdoms exhibit - with works involving the spectator in their creation
When: June 8th - 7pm to 9pm
Where: 217 E 42nd Street (between 2nd and 3rd ave)
 
 
We're opening up another exhibit space in July, and will soon have the schedule for the next few months over there (44th and 6th).
 
Thanks!
~ Janusz
(chashama's visual arts program director)


To: david.glackin@verizon.net
Subject: Fwd: NY Fashion Shows/Events/Parties Schedule for June



NY Fashion Industry Report <nyfashionlist@topica.email-publisher.com> wrote:To: hlatos@yahoo.com
From: NY Fashion Industry Report <nyfashionlist@topica.email-publisher.com>
Subject: NY Fashion Shows/Events/Parties Schedule for June
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:16:29 -0700





NY Fashion Schedule for June 2005
This schedule currently reaches 717 fashion editors, writers, retailers, designers and/or their publicists who are included in our press lists. If you want your event listed here you must be a paying subscriber to lookonline. Please email us the info at publisher@lookonline.com.
Denotes those New York fashion related events that Lookonline.com finds of particular interest or merit. All events are by invitation only unless otherwise noted. Do you find this schedule useful? If you have not already done so, please join us here as a paying subscriber.
Monday June 6th at 10AM: Showing of Fall II/Resort 2006 Collection by Ellen Tracy at 575 Seventh Avenue. Contact: LaForce + Stevens, fax: 367-9076.
Monday June 6th at 6:30PM: 2005 CFDA Fashion Awards by Council of Fashion Designers of America for cocktails, dinner and awards at The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street. By invitation.
Tuesday June 7th at 9AM: Fall/Winter 2006/2007 Color Symposium by Marget Publications with guest speakers from KBC Germany, Doneger, and Pantone. Tickets $150. Contact: 302-5137 or register online at http://www.mpnews.com
Tuesday June 7th at 3PM-5PM: Showing of Resort Collection by Oscar de la Renta at 550 Seventh Avenue. Contact: Alexandra Kimball fax: 282-0565.
Tuesday June 7th at 4PM-6PM: Presentation of Fall 2005 Fur Collections by FICA Fur Information Council of America at place to be announced. Contact: Goldstein Communications or seitu@goldsteincom.com.
Tuesday June 7th at 5-6:30PM: Preview of Resort Collection by BCBG Max Azria at 1450 Broadway, 16th floor. Contact: 888-200-9699.
Tuesday June 7th at 6-8PM: David Meister Showroom Opening Party byKellwood at 550 Seventh Avenue. Contact: Christina Cassar 329-8077 or christina.cassar@kellwood.com.
Tuesday June 8th at 3PM-6PM: Press Open House Showing Holiday & Resort Collection byTocca at 542 West 22nd Street. Contact: Rob Caldwell 929-7122 ext 210 or email rcaldwell@tocca.com
Wednesday June 8th at 6-8PM: Presentation of Resort Collection by Ruffian at Bumble & Bumble, 415 West 13th Street. Contact: LaForce + Stevens fax: 367-9076
Thursday June 9th at 6PM-8PM: "Milly Cabana Beach Party" Swimwear Launch/Resort Collection by Milly by Michelle Smith for informal show, cocktails & hors d'oeuvres at One Central Park Club, 25 Columbus Circle. Contact: Exposed PR 625-3350.
Tuesday June 14th at 10:30AM: Press Preview for "Fabulous Fashions of the 1940's" by the Museum at FIT for tour of new summer exhibition opening June 14th-July 30. Press rsvp contact: 212-217-3293.
Wednesday June 15th at 7:30PM-11:30PM: Viva Glam Casino Veneziano by DIFFA for cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, games benefiting DIFFA at Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway. Contact: Tickets $350/500/1000 call 727-3100 or email swilliams@diffa.org. Others Contact: Nadine Johnson 228-5555.
Thursday June 16th at 7-9PM: Celebration of Publication "Four Inches" by Cartier for cocktail reception and photographic auction. By invitation only.
Tuesday June 21st at 12Noon: Press Preview of First NY Store & New Diamond Collection byDe Beers at 703 Fifth Avenue. Contact Rubenstein Communications fax: 843-9200.
Tuesday June 21st at 5PM-8PM: Party Celebration Store Opening by Rebecca & Drew Manufacturing at 342 West 13th Street. Contact: Alison Brod Public Relations 230-1800.
Wednesday June 22nd at 9:30AM/11:30AM/1:30PM: "In Search of Style" with David Wolfe by Doneger Creative Services covering Paris, St. Tropez. London, Berlin, and Qtar at 463 Seventh Avenue-3rd floor. Tickets $50. Contact: 560-3736.
Wednesday June 22nd at 6:30PM-9PM: Store Opening Cocktail Party by De Beers at 703 Fifth Avenue. Contact: Tammie Rosen, Rubenstein Communications fax: 843-9200.
Wednesday June 22nd at 7PM-9PM: "Sound & Style" Benefit: Fashion Targets Breast Cancer byMarc Ecko & CFDA for party and live auction of custom designed IPod covers at 40 West 23rd Street. Contact: 917-262-1253.

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groundswell
        community mural project

cordially invites you to the



2005 annual benefit & silent auction

Wednesday, June 8, 2005

7 - 10 pm

at Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
(between Broome & Grand Streets)
New York City

Visit www.groundswellmural.org for details.
$30 at the door, tickets and donations available thru website, or that evening. cash, check or credit cards.

Groundswell Community Mural Project
brings professional artists, CBOs and communities in partnership to create high quality murals in under-represented neighborhoods so that youth, communities and artists are equipped  with the tools necessary for social change and are inspired to take active ownership of their future.

please visit www.groundswellmural.org for more information about the benefit and the organization.

Donating Artists:
Maria Elena Alvarez, Paolo Arao, Louise Belcourt, Orit  Ben-Shitrit, Belle Benfield, Sandra  Bermudez, Sanford Biggers, Amy Borezo, Sarah  Brenneman, Bethany Bristow, Jonathan Burstein, Ken  Butler, Louis Cameron, Nicole Cherubini, Amanda Church, Brett Cook, Pedro Cruz-Castro, Isaac Diggs, Michael Eade, Cara Earl,Yvonne Estrada, Alessandra Exposito, Michael Ferris, Jr., Rosemarie Fiore, Gilbert Flores, Carla Gannis, Lajos Geenen, Jeffrey Gibson, Susan Hamburger, Erica Harris, Leslie Hewitt, Elizabeth Huey, Nene Humphrey, Julian Jackson, George Kimmerling, Jenny Laden, Meghan LeBorious, Josh Levine, Joan Lindner, Rene Lynch,Max Carlos  Martinez,Susan  Mastrangelo, Conor McGrady,Amy Morken, Carrie Moyer, Bede Murphy, Elizabeth Neel, Laura Nova, Rune Olsen, Judith Page, Carolanna  Parlato, Gary Petersen, Lamar Peterson, Julia Randall, Ray Rapp, Bryony Romer, Sheila Ross, Peter Schroth, Rachel Schuder, Fran Shalom, Shinique Smith, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Greg Stewart, Adam Straus, Julianne Swartz, Mauricio Trenard, Spencer Tunick, Josette Urso, Jorge Valdes, Deborah Willis, Hank Willis Thomas, Charles Yuen

Benefit Commitee:
Camilo Alvarez
Jeff Bailey
Isolde Brielmaier
Nicole Cherubini
Cornell DeWitt
Margi Douglas
Rosemarie Fiore
Jeffrey Gibson
Ann Heatherington
Jenny Laden
Meredith McNeal
Joanne Nerenberg
Laura Nova
Susan Ochorn
Judith Page
Samantha Rhulen
Tanya Selvaratnam
Micheal Sellinger
Jennafer Tyrck

Groundswell Board of Directors:
Jenny Laden, President
Camilo Alvarez
Nicole Cherubini
Suzanne Dance
Derek Denckla
Rosemarie Fiore
David Goldstein
Rob Krulak
Jenny Laden
Eric Miles
Bryony Romer
Tanya Selveratnam

Benefit Sponsors:
ARTFORUM
Atlas Industries
Boehm Business Services
BrooklynDog House
Camilo Alvarez
Chris Thompson Designs
Christiania Vodka
Colgate Scaffolding
French Culinary Institute
Fresh Cosmetics
GothamGardens
Ici Restaurant
IndependenceCommunity Foundation
Izze's Soda
Lorenzutti Motors, Inc.
Mallin & Goldstein
Marble, Tile, Terrazzo & Granite Corp.
Nancy HardyInsurance
Neurolgoical Asscociates
Pomerantz, Haudek, Block, Grossman and Gross LLP
SohoWines
Susan Ochshorn & Marc Gross
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
C. Cornell DeWitt
Cornell DeWitt Projects
104 Cambridge Pl
Brooklyn, NY  11238
t: 917 902 9465
e: cornell@dewittprojects.com
w: http://www.dewittprojects.com

"Through photographing my mother I have realized that a "true" sense of self does not require the representation of my 
physical being, body or face. In fact my physical presence in the frame, is detrimental to the purpose of the work. It acts as a
barrier, a mask, a performance, and a role."

GFL is pleased to present a closing reception for Suzanne Mejean: A COLLABORATIVE SELF-PORTRAIT

When: Sunday, June 5th from 4 pm-8pm

Where: GFL Gallery, 327 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY (Williamsburg)

What: One last Hoorah celebrating Suzanne Mejean's photographic collaboration with her mother. Food and drink
provided, come hungry!

Directions to GFL: Take the L train to Lorimer. Make a left on Metropolitan Ave, walk under the BQE, then a left on Marcy
Ave and finally a right onto Grand Street.

For more info: 917.710.1265



http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5427823.html

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/31/the_i_word/

http://www.slate.com/id/2119512/


PLUS...........
A London newspaper rocked British elections when it leaked a top intelligence official's report that President Bush was intent on invading Iraq long before he sought Congress' approval. Bush called Iraq an urgent threat, but the memo says "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."1 British officials are not denying the memo's accuracy, and a former senior American official called it "an absolutely accurate description of what transpired."2

This revelation nearly cost Prime Minister Tony Blair his re-election, and it was all over the British press. But American newspapers barely mentioned this new evidence that Bush twisted the facts to justify war. The major newspapers ran one or two stories rehashing the British reports. Worse, TV network news shows haven't covered the memo at all.3

Readers of the New York Times recently demanded coverage of the British memo, and the newspaper finally wrote a full story.4 We can do the same for network news.

Please call or email the nightly news programs you watch, at:

ABC World News Tonight
Phone: 212-456-4040
PeterJennings@abcnews.com

CBS Evening News
Phone: 212-975-3691
evening@cbsnews.com

NBC Nightly News
Phone: 212-664-4971
nightly@nbc.com

PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Phone: 703-739-5000
newshour@pbs.org

Identify yourself as a viewer, then say something like:

"Please investigate and report on the British memo suggesting the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to support its plans to invade Iraq. We need to know what really happened. Thank you for your time."

It's important to track our impact. Please let us know you're calling at:

http://www.moveon.org/mediacorps/britishmemo.html?id=5614-1704458-ebXcHcx6xJ_446hx9B0zEg&t=1

The American media's failure to question the Bush administration led to an unnecessary war. Now the media's failure to cover the war is making it impossible for Americans to unite behind an exit plan. This won't get better until we demand more coverage of the war.

Thank you for all that you do,

–Noah, Wes, Micayla, Matt and the MoveOn.org Team
  Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Sources:
1. The Downing Street Memo website
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

2. "'Downing St. Memo' fizzling in U.S.," Seattle Times, May 18, 2005
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=733

3. "Network Viewers Still in the Dark on 'Smoking Gun Memo,'" FAIR, May 20, 2005
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2520

4. "New Public Editor Looks at 'Downing Street Memo' Coverage," New York Times, May 24, 2005
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=734



I am participating in the exhibition "Here Comes the Bogeyman" opening Thursday, June 2nd, 6-8 at the Chelsea Art Museum. It is in conjunction with Goya's Los Caprichos".

Madeleine

Please join us :

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005 from 6-8p.m.

for our upcoming opening at the Stux Gallery
for Anna Jóelsdóttir and Sabrina Raaf :


ANNA JÓELSDÓTTIR
space/time : New Paintings

Stux Gallery is pleased to present the first New York exhibition of paintings by Icelandic artist Anna Jóelsdottir. Jóelsdóttir's body of work investigates time and space, and how through abstract painting these concepts can be stretched, compressed, reordered, multiplied, and broken apart. Jóelsdóttir compares her artistic practice with that of a writer or composer who creates, rearranges, and imagines time and space with words and symbols, only her tools are color, line, and form on a flat surface. Jóelsdóttir´s concern with direction and thrust can also be seen in the various shapes and orientations of her canvases.

An international artist, Anna Jóelsdóttir most recently had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2004) and at the Hafnarborg Institute in Iceland. She has also exhibited at the Evanston Art Center in Illinois, the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík, and the West Bend Art Museum in Wisconsin. Born in Iceland, Jóelsdóttir studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her MFA. She currently resides and works in Chicago. This is Anna Jóelsdóttir's first one person show at Stux Gallery in New York City.

 

 

SABRINA RAAF
Float: A series of electronic, kinetic, and photographic works
INSTALLATIONS & PHOTO



Float is a series of electronic, kinetic, and photographic works in which Raaf addresses potential future relationships between people, (anti)gravity, and the architecture of their living and working spaces.

Raaf's work aligns with recent categories of New Media and Digital Photography. Within New Media her work falls under the categories of kinetic and interactive art. She creates immersive and responsive art experiences as a response to being "surrounded by products of computer systems,data directories, television networks, and other media machines".


Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist who works in both experimental sculptural media and photography. In 2004-5, her work will be shown at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, at the San Jose Museum, at the Oboro Art Center in Montreal (solo), at the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, and at ISEA (the International Symposium of Electronic Arts) as part of Wearable Experience amongst other exhibitions. She has also had solo exhibitions at Klein Art Gallery in Chicago and in the eShow exhibition at the Krannert Museum. She is the recipient of a 2002, Creative Capitol Grant in Emerging Fields and two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships (2005 and 2001). She received an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Sabrina is currently a tenure-track professor in the Photography Department of Columbia College in Chicago. This is Sabrina Raaf's first one person show at Stux gallery in New York City.


 

EXHIBITION DATES
EXHIBITION DATES
Thursday, JUNE 2- Saturday, JULY 9, 2005.

GALLERY HOURS GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday; 10am ~ 6pm




T: 212.352.1600
F: 212.352.0302
E: stux@stuxgallery.com
W: www.stuxgallery.com

 




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Thursday, June 02, 2005

The Beginning

For me, the seed of this project began in Miami with the "Lifeboat". Paul Middendorf, a curator from Portland OR, and I went to Miami in December during Art Basel, snuck our way into the Positions (the Basel galleries containers turned into exhibition-spaces), and used the space to build a boat. We organized artists - over 60 artists worldwide sent work to us that had to do with the environment, trade/borders, utopian concepts, and micronations.

In Miami, we met and engaged in a dialogue with many people, from beachgoers who were curious about the work, to refugees who shared stories of their personal experiences with us, as well as people attending the art fairs.

At one point we met and discussed with Renee Vara, a curator who runs varaart.com, about some of our many convening ideas. We came to learn quickly that we both felt that we wanted to do whatever we could to provide a platform for socially conscious art, that would activate communities with new ideas, take chances, be subversive, and grow as an alternative, a long-tail to the mainstream.

Renee became increasingly interested in doing something in Venice because of the current conditions there with rising tides (that are literally proof of global warming), and causing the entire city to sink. As she and I learned more about each other, we came together with the following concerns - our own government’s ignorant stance towards global warming and its ramifications, as well as many other current issues surrounding water, like privatization in less-powerful countries and pollution from industry. More to come…

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Castaways

"Castaways" is an overnight performance by Renée Vara that explores the social constructions of displacement as it affects societies of both humans and other species-specifically the relationship between the patterns of social constructions and species preservation.

Schedule of Events

June 10-11th, 2005
1 PM - Vaporetto opens to the public
4 PM - 6 PM - Performance: Avelino Sala, "La Espera"
10 PM - 12 Midnight - Opening Reception
3 AM - Overnight Performance: Renée N. Vara, "Castaways - Sleepover"

Curators and Artists of WATERWAYs 2005

CURATORIAL COMMITTEE: Renée N. Vara, A. Faculty, NYU & Solomon Guggenheim Museum Lecturer; Eugenia Cherkasskaya, Vara Global Fine Arts; Ethan Cohen, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts; Mary Mattingly; Karen LaGatta; Irene Nikolai, independent curator.

ARTISTS: Art Hijack, Elena Bajo, Brandon Ballengée, John Breiner, Orly Cogan, Christoph Draeger, Peter Fend, Emmanuelle Gauthier, G-77, Jason Hackenworth, Tamar Hirschl, Susanne Kriemann, Michelle Vara Livsey, Pan Xing Lei, Eva Mantell, Elahe Massumi, Mary Mattingly, Jason Middlebrook, Zhu Ming, Naoto Nakagawa, Agata Oleksiak, Rune Olsen, Libia Perez & Olafur Ami Olafsson, Jim Peters & Vicky Tomayko, Aviva Rahmani, Avelino Sala, Lisa Marie Schilling, Dana Shea, Raphaele Shirley, Jeannie Wiessglass, Wu Shan Zhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir.

Press Release and Portfolio Info

Check out the WATERWAYs 2005 Press Release.
Want to make a monetary contribution to this project? Here is how you can turn "green" into green consciousness. You can own a unique porfolio made by exhibited artists exclusively for the support WATERWAYs.

What is WATERWAYs?

WATERWAYs -- Art as Action
June 10th, 12AM - June 11th, 6PM
Location: St. Elena Port

Curatorial Proposal

Waterways is a collective effort, action, ecovention and exhibition created and self-produced by 5 curators and 33 international artists to be installed on a public Vaporetto. The exhibition will take place alongside the Venice Biennale, at St. Elena, for the opening weekend - June 10th and June 11th.

The Waterways project organically developed amongst a group of artists and curators, who wanted to create socially conscious art and reassert a utopian role for art as an international communicator, which could shape, inform and transform the dialogue regarding specific global issues. The genesis of the project started with Renee Vara and Mary Mattingly, as an intentional response to the present "fair factor" dominating the presentation and exhibition of art. It has since grown into an international forum of academics in the arts and sciences, curators, artists, private patrons, art institutions, interested volunteers, and the general public. They have gathered public and private resources, skills, abilities, voices and efforts to construct and create a global call for attention and international cooperation regarding the preservation of our world's natural resources. Much like Joseph Beuys 7000 Oaks, which began at Documenta II, the project attempts to begin a series of self-produced interventions, which deal with environmental issues in a nonpolitical context.

Waterways is as much about the process as it is about the exhibition. The exhibition and the installation of 33 original works of art that deal with rising tides, species preservation, global warming and air pollution, suggests that there are multiple models in the display and exhibition of art, which do and can offer alternative means to voice aesthetic responses. More important, the locus of "meaning" of such exhibitions is not just bound by the material art objects that are installed, but are situated in the process, the collection and the organization of a "community" from disparate and unaffiliated individuals and institutions, which become connected through a shared value system.

Waterways has been completely self-produced, self-funded, and self-organized. It represents a "call" to people in both the art world and other communities, of how social activism and collective efforts can create "affects", "dialogues," "activities" and "communities" which are as informative to the construction of culture as material production is in our society. Its aim is in the processes of inclusion and pluralism, rather than the current dominant functions in the art world. The organizers of Waterways make no differentiation between a social demonstration and an art intervention, as they aim to maintain a vibrant expression for public art within our society.

Renee N. Vara, Curator
141 Wooster Street - Suite 4D
New York, NY 10012
212-475-4404