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Man Burning w/
Keegan McHargue
September 11–24, 2010
Saturday, September 11: Glasser
Friday, September 17: Houston
Friday, September 24: Yemenwed
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DJ sets by Jon Santos
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Jonathan · 08/17/10 
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Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY
The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along the library’s shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, representing the oil boom and the Dubai bust, the Cold War and the hot pant; depicting Pan-Arabs and Black Muslims, revolutionaries and royals, Orientalism and its opposites.
For the opening night Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.
Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:
Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)
For information visit bidoun.com or newmuseum.org
Tiffany · 08/02/10 
Nao Bustamante, Deathbed (2010)
Performance art is enjoying an unusual visibility. Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective made headlines for the duration of the show. Last month, the Bravo television network launched a reality show designed to single out ‘the next great American artist’. The programme features Nao Bustamante, a well-established performance artist – who was eventually dismissed from the show for a mystifying installation and performance. Last month, in Los Angeles, the actor James Franco initiated a collaboration with the daytime melodrama General Hospital and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Franco claims his appearance on General Hospital playing a performance artist (in a role he created, and took up in November, 2009) is itself part of a performance project, the boundaries of which are still unclear. (The actor-cum-artist is currently enrolled as a graduate student in English at Yale.)
Bustamante describes her participation in the reality television show, The Work of Art: The Next Great American Artist, as a kind of ‘social sculpture’, exploring what happens when an artist like her ‘penetrates the television bubble’. If we take Bustamante at her word, we should treat her appearance on the game show, and her participation in the publicity surrounding the program as marking the (expanding) boundaries of a performance. Using The Work of Art as a platform, Bustamante is creating a site-specific, interactive work located and unfolding in a media space over which she has no ‘authorship’, at least as the term is traditionally defined. Considering her participation in the contest as a performance yields a series of interesting insights that telescope out from the programme to the larger issue of what constitutes a performance-based text, and furthermore suggest new directions of performance and new media work, in which artists participate in a broadcast culture as agents of interference.
Jonathan · 07/23/10 
In the spirit of the Exquisite Corpse, we are inviting you to contribute a drawing to create one-(plural)body-as-exhibition. All information here.
Tagbanger · 07/19/10 ARE WE HAVING FUN YET!?
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Opening June 10th at W/—, “APPLAUSE COPYRIGHT © 1966 BY BRUCE CONNOR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” is revisited by Stand Up Comedy. Focusing on one signal, the installation is a relic made to fit the confines of the project site. W/— as a place for entertainments and openings as recreation, or objects as performance. The audience will often define the space.
Sad to hear of the recent passing of New York designer Tobias Wong. I often referred students to his clever takes on everyday objects and conceptual approach to product design. A personal favorite was his a desktop pad of dollar bills glued on one edge.
An interview is here.
Mark · 06/02/10
Saturday, May 15, 2010
5:00pm-7:00pm
Printed Matter
195 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10011
In Four Over One, the Los Angeles based artist Phil Chang employs the format of an artists book to explore ideas of economy and obsolescence. In collaboration with designer Jonathan Maghen, Four Over One is structured around Chang’s interest in how new outcomes arise from an antagonism between perceived and actual forms of value. The photographs that appear in the book were created using expired photographic materials exposed by an archival book scanner. Through a sparse display of color, black and white, and half-tone photographs, in conjunction with a restrained typographic treatment, Four Over One employs an economy of scale in order to consider the roles of abstraction, methods of art production, and modes of distribution in our contemporary culture.
Published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department , in association with Textfield, Inc.
Distributed by RAM Publications
8 April–7 May 2010
70 Franklin St (between Church & Broadway)
New York, NY 10013
Tagbanger · 04/15/10
Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications
Sheets from Manders’ Traducing Ruddle form the central element of the artist’s Window with Fake Newspapers project, a site-specific public work on view through March 28th.
Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.
January 7 – February 13, 2010
525 West 21st St
New York, NY 10011
Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), is a time-based installation that takes the form of a one-act live theatrical play that repeats nine times over a period of three hours. This documentation is a sampling of all nine runs. Filmed during Performa 09 at X initiative on November 11th & 12th 2009. By Emily Mast.
Jonathan · 01/06/10 
Bidoun and Anthology Film Archives present an encore screening of Ben Hayeem’s unmissable, unfathomable wonder. Born and raised in Bombay, Hayeem (1933-2004) made a number of well-regarded films and was close with experimental film pioneers Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapich. Early in his career he joined the Living Theater group in New York and became the only Indian Jew to play a Chinese Priest with a Yiddish accent in a Brecht play. This comedic, cross-cultural experience must have set him down the path to the rather incredible and risque happenings in The Black Banana.
The original promotional notes inform us that, “In this zany, ribald Middle Eastern comedy, young Jews, Arabs and Texans revolt against the parental and conventional authority, represented by old-fashioned Jews, Arabs and Texans…Despite its message of peace and good will between Jew and Arab, The Black Banana has the distinction of being the only film ever banned in Israel because its mixture of nudity and religious satire offended the Israeli censorship board.”
The Black Banana will be preceeded by Ben Hayeem short films:
Papillote (1964, 10.5 minutes, 16mm)
Flora (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm)
Tuesday, December 22 at 8:00 PM
Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
(This movie absolutely blew my mind, I cannot recommend it enough. DO NOT MISS!)
Tiffany · 12/15/09 
Not Equal, 2009, Plywood, wood glue and enamel paint, 13.1 x 17.75 inches
Shannon Ebner
Invisible Language Workshop
30 October — 19 December 2009
Opening Reception: Friday 30 October, 6-8pm
Wallspace
—Shannon Ebner
Music Video for my brother’s band, Escort, All Through the Night, edited and synched to various Muppets shows by Irvin Coffee, 2007. Miss you Darius!
Jonathan · 11/19/09