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Alistair Fate & Julie Tolentino in Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (Ela Troyano | 1994)

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Carmelita Tropicana (1996)

dir. Ela Troyano

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Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1951

Ethnicity: Cuban

Occupation: Actress, performance artist

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james bidgood, charles busch, jack halberstam, parker kit hill, carmelita tropicana, and zaldy discuss camp in the new york times

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#PSTheoryThursday incoming from B.A. Candidate Agnes Walsh! Agnes cites the NBA Finals Game 6 Bulls @ Jazz (1998) with Carmelita Tropicana in ‘Chicas 2000’: “The ‘chusma’ gene is found in Latin America with high concentration in the Caribbean, although the gene has crossed over to North America. U.S. citizens classified with the gene are: Shelly Winters, Dennis Rodman, Roseanne, Tonya Harding... Although the ‘chusma’ gene cannot be eradicated or its disease cured, it can be controlled. The government has stepped up its efforts to combat the ‘chusma’ gene and a disease called ‘chusmería’.”

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Day 3344 - Carmelita Tropicana https://www.instagram.com/p/CTOL076HxPV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Event | Artists as Innovators Exhibition at SUNY Cortland

Landmark traveling exhibition to open Thursday, March 8 at Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is commemorating three decades of NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships with the landmark traveling exhibition Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. The exhibition, which will travel to seven SUNY campuses between Fall 2017 and Spring 2020, will next be on view at Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland from March 5 - April 13, 2018.  The fellowship program has supported more than 4,000 artists in various fields in the visual arts, literature, and performing arts at critical stages throughout their careers. 

The artists in the exhibition are acclaimed and respected around the world, but what is less known is that they all received support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships at crucial points in their careers. Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and David C. Terry with the assistance of Madeline Scholl, Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships will feature work by more than 20 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows who have gone on to record significant achievements in their artistic careers. The works on display will show how the fellows have addressed pressing and often controversial issues through their art, including racism, gender equality, sexual orientation, immigration, and globalization.

Participating artists include: Elia Alba, Ida Applebroog, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Ross Bleckner, Wendell Castle, Tara Donovan, Carroll Dunham, Chitra Ganesh, The Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Kruger, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Lori Nix, Tony Oursler, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Shinique Smith, Carmelita Tropicana, and Fred Wilson.

Artists as Innovators will be celebrated with a public opening on March 8 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM at Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland. As part of the exhibition tour, regional partners will present a complementary exhibition and programming. NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recipients Peter Beasecker, Sharif Bey, Ariana Gerstein, Dusty Herbig, and Monteith McCollum will show their work in the Hallway and Under the Balcony Galleries at the Dowd Fine Arts Center. These artists represent a small cross-section of an active visual arts scene in Central New York. The artwork selected for the satellite exhibition complements the diverse display of media and artists and demonstrates that the region is a home to many talented artists excelling in their field.

Exhibition Opening

Title: Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Exhibition Dates: March 5 - April 13, 2018 Location: Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, 40 Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland, NY 13045 Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM; the gallery is closed when college is not in session

Related Programming 

Exhibition Program

All programs will be presented at SUNY Cortland, 40 Graham Ave., Cortland, NY 13045.

March 28, 2018, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Old Main Building, main Ceramics Studio: Master Workshop: Generating an Idea by Peter Beasecker April 3, 2018, 5:00 PM, Under the Balcony Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center: Performance (with Performance for Perfection) and Q&A with Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum April 5, 2018, 5:00 PM, Dowd Gallery, Fine Arts Center: Artist Talk: Dusty Herbig April 10, 2018, 5:00 PM, Dowd Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center: Artist Talk: Sharif Bey

Film Series

All films will be screened at Sperry Center, Room 104, 10 SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045.

March 20, 2018, 6:00 PM -7:00 PM: Peter Hutton - “At Sea” March 29, 2018, 6:00 PM -7:30 PM: Barbara Kopple - “Harlan County” April 4, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Alan Berliner - “Nobody's Business” April 11, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Ralph Arlyck - “Following Sean”

Exhibition Schedule - Upcoming

Fall 2018: Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, August 20 - December 10, 2018, Opening on September 7, 2018

Winter 2019: Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, January 22 - March 10, 2019, Opening TBD

Summer 2019: The Joseph C. and Joan T. Burke Gallery, SUNY Plattsburgh, May 24 - August 30, 2019, Opening TBD

Fall 2019: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, Dates TBD

Spring 2020: Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Dates TBD

Exhibition Schedule - Past

Fall 2017: Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, August 30 - November 12, 2017

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are administered with leadership support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Funding for Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with shipping support from Atelier 4.

Find out more about the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to individual artists living and working in the state of New York. Sign up for NYFA’s bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News, to receive announcements about future NYFA events and programs.

Images, from top: (detail) Ross Bleckner, Dome, 2015, Courtesy of the artist, Photo Credit: Jeffrey Sturges; Ida Applebroog, Winnie’s Pooh, 1993, Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth; Dread Scott, Money to Burn, 2010, performance still, Courtesy of the artist

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Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire Kobena Mercer and David A. Bailey A evening lecture at Whitechapel Gallery. Discussing the curatorial ideas/ decisions behind the show.  - Artists: Lyle Ashton Harris, Sonia Boyce, Nina Edge, Ronald Fraser-Munro, Mario Gardner, Edward George and Trevor Mathieson, Renée Green, Isaac Julien, Keith Khan, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Marc Latamie, Susan Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Sarbjit Samra, Carmelita Tropicana Collaborative approach - all brought about through discussions and debates. Not a singular curator.  Brings about authorship of show? Sonia Boyce - Boyce's research interests explore art as a social practice and the critical and contextual debates that arise from this area of study. With an emphasis on collaborative work, Boyce has been working closely with other artists since 1990, often involving improvisation and spontaneous performative actions on the part of her collaborators. Boyce's work involves a variety of media, such as drawing, print, photography, video, and sound. Her art explores the interstices between sound and memory, the dynamics of space, and incorporating the spectator.  // ARCHIVE , MEMORY, TIME, COLLECTIONS “breaking the narrative” - a conversation between two photos.  The first interracial kiss on star trek - positioning of this. An intimate space, confronting large photo. The viewer is forced to engage with this intermit moment. 

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OPEN TODAY 12-7 PM. BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: "THE NEW FUCK YOU: ADVENTURES IN LESBIAN READING" edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (1995) Borrowing its name from the notorious ’60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Contributors: Tanya Barfield, Dodie Bellamy, Adele Bertei, Lisa Beskin, Rebecca Brown, Kelly Cogswell, Dominique Dibbell, Shannon Ebner, Laura Flanders, Eliza Galaher, Marilyn Hacker, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Joan Larkin, Myra Mniewski, Honor Moore, Cynthia Nelson, Madeline Olnek, Nancy Redwine, Julie Regan, Annie Reid, Danine Ricereto, Camille Roy, Sapphire Joan Schenkar, Kathy Lou Schultz, Lucy Sexton, Linda Smukler, Pamela Sneed, Christina Sunley, Carmelita Tropicana, Laurie Weeks, Debra Weinstein, Joe Westmoreland, Millie Wilson, Linda Yablonsky. Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine “the rock star of modern poetry,” is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation. Liz Kotz teaches in the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside. Available via our website and in the bookshop today. #worldfoodbooks #thenewfuckyou #semiotexte #eileenmyles #lizkotz #1995 (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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Carmelita Tropicana (1996)

dir. Ela Troyano

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The Bessies Are Coming- Meet The Nominees

The Bessies Are Coming- Meet The Nominees

By Walter Rutledge    The 31st New York Dance and Performance Awards, affectionately known as The Bessies, will be held on Monday, October 19, at 7:30pm, at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York City . Jock Soto (former New York City Ballet principal) and performance artist and playwright Carmelita Tropicana will host the event. This is the fifth year The Bessies will be held at the historic…

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Alina Troyana, performing as Carmelita Tropicana, “Milk of Amnesia” (1995)

“Highlighting the pressures in North America to leave the past behind and adapt to the new environment, Tropicana uses solo performances in acts of self-authorization, self-reproduction, and self-invention. Real and representation blur since the spectator can see her as Writer of her own scripts and also see her make her costume changes from male to female during the slide show of real autobiographical segments of her trip to Cuba and her childhood house [pictured above], while the audiotape runs. In “Milk of Amnesia” she plays a very femme Carmelita and a macho Pingalito Betancourt in man’s hat, chomping a cigar and scratching his crotch -- comic figures that interrogate constricting gender stereotypes. Calling himself the “Cuban Alistair Cooke,” Pingalito voices his construction by popular media. And, he brings out his “audio-visual aid Number One, a placemat I pick up in a Las Lilas restaurant of Miami, titled ‘Facts About Cuba’” (Tropicana, 1995, p.97). Tropicana provokes spectators to recognize the blurring of self and representation, and thus creates awareness of visible markers of gender. The exaggerated costume and makeup Carmelita wears, and her excessively feminine behavior, paradoxically parody appropriate feminine dress and ideal body shape. These strategies simultaneously suggest the complex negotiations necessarily made by a woman in a male-dominated culture and by a lesbian in a heteronormative world. Performance spaces and production techniques reflect or suggest the inextricability of self and other, and make visible not just the frames of social roles but the structure of culture itself, with the spectator interpellated as part of that socio-cultural complex. Tropicana works against received history and invites the spectator as witness to the history of her own body as well.”

Lynda Hall, “Lesbian Solo Performance Artists Perform Gender Binds: De(Con)Structing Patriarchal Classical Lines,” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies 5, no. 2 (2000): 156-158.

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Come to RECYCLING ATLANTIS, a live exhibition by Uzi Parnes, Carmelita Tropicana, and Ela Troyano in celebration of the artist, philosopher and educator Jack Smith.

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Performance Artist Carmelita Tropicana Presents 'Kunst Waffen' at the Michigan Theater

Alina Troyano (a.k.a. Carmelita Tropicana) straddles the world of performance art and theatre using irreverent humor and fantasy to rewrite history from the viewpoints of woman, man, child and assorted animals and insects.  As a bicultural artist, she uses both spoken language and a visual language that integrates live performance with multi-media, and costumes of fruit, faux fur, camouflage, saran wrap to provide social commentary. 

Go see her in action TODAY at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor.

Established with the generous support of UM School of Art and Design alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Penny Stamps Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities. 

Events in the Penny Stamps series are always free of charge and open to the public.