Llega la cuarta edición de MUTEK.AR muy especial, haciendo foco en brindar mayor visibilidad al enorme talento local que, apremiado por las circunstancias adversas de los últimos años, ha sentido gravemente la falta de escenarios y oportunidades.
Con la Dirección de Gonzalo Solimano @gsolimano y la Curaduría General de Marianella Baladán @manchusbaladan , una selección de artistas nacionales, en diálogo con artistas internacionales, dirán presente del 7 al 10 de septiembre, en el Centro Cultural Artlab @artlabpro , el Planetario @planetarioba y Palacio Alsina @palacioalsina.buenosaires mostrando lo mejor de la música electrónica, el arte sonoro y la creatividad digital, con Live Sets Audiovisuales, obras de arte NFT, realidad virtual e instalaciones inmersivas.
Asimismo, gracias al apoyo de Fundación Williams, MUTEK.AR tiene el honor de recibir a Alain Mongeau, creador y actual director de @mutekmontreal , quien junto a profesionales y agentes activos de la cultura acompañarán en todas actividades del festival y ofrecerán una charla abierta acerca de la gestión cultural en la creatividad digital.
Luego de una convocatoria abierta de adhesión multitudinaria, dos obras participantes serán seleccionadas para ser parte de la grilla y anunciadas el 22 de agosto por todos los canales de difusión del Festival.
En el Centro Cultural Artlab: actividades de Amplify D.A.I. + exposición de arte NFT
El 7 y 8 de septiembre, en el espacio del Centro Cultural Artlab celebraremos el fortalecimiento de Amplify D.A.I., el programa de desarrollo profesional para personas que se identifican como mujeres y disidencias, que trabajan con las artes electrónicas. Dos días enteros de programación, que incluirá talleres, workshops y charlas, performances en vivo e instalaciones inmersivas. Asimismo, presentaremos proyectos artísticos audiovisuales creados por artistas de Argentina, Canadá, UK y Brasil en el marco de la segunda edición del programa Artlab Residencias Artísticas x Amplify D.A.I. Cerrando la jornada, la emblemática curadora de MUTEK Montréal, Patti Schmidt, presentará su DJ Set, en colaboración con el dúo audiovisual PRIFMA (AR/CU).
Lanzado en 2018, AMPLIFY Digital Arts Initiative (Amplify D.A.I.) es una iniciativa conjunta del British Council en asociación con MUTEK Montréal, MUTEK.AR, Somerset House Studios, Artlab, Fundación Williams y Oi Futuro. El programa cuenta con el apoyo del Canada Council for the Arts.
El 9 de septiembre, Artlab desarrollará actividades durante toda la jornada. La mañana estará destinada a distintas charlas, a cargo de referentes locales e internacionales, con tópicos tan interesantes para la escena de las artes electrónicas como la web.3, las Daos y la gestión cultural en la creatividad digital. En el horario nocturno, continuaremos con una serie de con Live sets AV que tendrán entre otros protagonistas al dúo canadiense Flabbergast.
Estas actividades se completan con una exposición de la colección de arte NFT de Artlab, que será lanzada en el marco del Festival, con obras minteadas y disponibles a través de la plataforma argentina BAG. Esta exposición contará con trabajos de GCRLL, VXN, Federico Lamas, Laureano Solís, Joaquina Salgado, Qualia, Efrén Mur y Jonas Kopp.
Planetario y Palacio Alsina
El 8 de septiembre, de 20 a 21 hs, el Planetario servirá de contenedor espacial para dos obras fulldome. En primer lugar, Joaquina Salgado y Qoa, dos artistas argentinas del programa Amplify D.A.I., estarán presentando la obra de formato AV Hydrontes. A continuación, tendrá lugar Dynamics of Hiperespaces, una live performance AV del referente de sonido techno y ambient argentino Jonas Kopp junto al español con residencia en Berlín Efren Mur.
La última jornada, contará con una maratónica programación en Palacio Alsina con imponentes presentaciones que tendrán entre ellos al proyecto artístico argentino Forello, al reconocido artista multidisciplinario francés Maotik, y a NITTA, la artista española residente del club Tresor de Berlín.
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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Anxiety on High
Let’s face it—the bulk of this week’s chatter in the art world isn’t going to be about Donald Trump’s Inauguration, but Marilyn Minter and Madonna’s talk Thursday evening at the Brooklyn Museum lamenting it. And that’s as it should be. Resistance to this new presidency is essential.
Friday, we’ll be participating in the #J20 Art Strike, so no content on our website will be available but for a livestream of Rachel Mason lip synching the inauguration as FutureClown. Those seeking to participate in the art protests can head to the Whitney where Occupy Museums will be hosting a “Speak Out”.
Other than that, we’re recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called “Infected Foot” at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week. Sorry to be depressing. Unfortunately, there’s no other honest way to paint the events.
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Orgy Park
237 Jefferson Street, 1B
Brooklyn, NY
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website
Boning of the Thrownes
What is this show? We’re not exactly sure… but I clicked on it because I thought it might involve an even more-sex-filled (or spookier) parody of Game of Thrones. No such luck, but the brief, cryptic description also sounds enticing: “Thrown’ Bones for the pot, soup’s on and we’re gone veggie.”
At any rate, the list of participating artists looks extremely promising:
Liz Ainslie, Andrea Arrubla, Katherine Aungier, Rory Baron, Joshua Bienko, Tess Bilhartz, Kate M. Blomquist, Lauren Collings Schwarz, Corydon Cowansage, Nicholas Cueva, Julie Curtiss, Emily Davidson, Sonya Derman, Rachel Fainter, Elise Ferguson, Angelina Gualdoni, Yuhi Hasegawa, Clinton King, Jenny Lee, Stuart Lorimer, Ioana Manolache, Anthony Miler, Patrick Carlin Mohundro, Dominic Musa, Steve Mykietyn, Dan Oglander, Maria Stabio, Adam Sipe, Tracy Thomason, Charles Tisa, Zuriel Waters, Lindsay Wraga
Tue
Greene Naftali Gallery
508 W 26th St
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
Infected Foot
Another contender for this week’s best “Mystery Exhibition with a Weird Name.” We’re not sure what the works in Infected Foot have in common, if anything at all, but Mathieu Malouf’s paintings are always a treat, just like this strange and lovely one above.
Artists: Monika Baer, Thomas Bayrle, Merlin Carpenter, Tony Conrad, Michaela Eichwald, Jana Euler, Genoveva Filipovic, Andrea Fourchy, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Mathieu Malouf, Laura Owens, Paul Sharits, Reena Spaulings, Josef Strau, Stefan Tcherepnin, Amelie von Wulffen
Wed
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road
Queens, NY
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Website
Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center
February 17th, 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the United States’ inconceivable decision to forcibly relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps during the second World War. Remarkably, Isamu Noguchi volunteered to leave New York (where Japanese-Americans weren’t subject to the order) and become interned in an Arizona desert camp.
This exhibition features work from the years immediately before, during, and after the sculptor’s internment, and traces the impact of that atrocity on his practice. It’s a timely exhibition not just because of the upcoming anniversary—it seems appropriate this show would just before the inauguration of Donald Trump, who proposed registering Muslim Americans and has plans for mass deportations.
Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York
126 Baxter St
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
Sadie Barnette: Do Not Destroy
Here’s another timely exhibition about the US government’s repression and bullying of minorities. Sadie Barnette has been mining a 500 page FBI document about her father—labelled “Historical Value/Do Not Destroy”—as source material for artworks. Her father, Rodney Barnette, founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968, and was of course the subject of an extensive surveillance program on the part of the state. The younger Barnette has reclaimed this invasive archive—bedazzling pages like a child’s family scrapbook and enlarging photos to fine-art scale. So good.
El Cortez
17 Ingraham St.
Brooklyn, NY
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website
Happy Anniversary Roe V Wade
Happy 44th Birthday, Roe v. Wade! We wish we had a better gift for you than a Supreme Court vacancy in the hands of sociopaths, but at least you’re getting a kick-ass party!
The evening is a fundraiser for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and features performances from artist Viva Ruiz (with special guest Bjorn Majestik, drag innovator Matty Horrorchata, comediennes Adrienne Truscott & Suni Reyes, and music from DJ Eli Escobar.
TICKET DETAILS:
Advance $15
At the door $20
VIP $50
VIP Admission includes: booth seating, free beverage sponsor drinks, $20 of raffle tickets & fun feminist swag
Thu
The FLAG Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before
Painter Cynthia Daignault collaborates with artists by asking them if she can paint one of their works. Specifically, she approaches artists whose own practices deal with issues of appropriation. The resulting images look a bit like images from a catalog of a show she’s curated about complicated notions of authorship. Yes, this is a pretty “fish-meets-barrel” conceit, but the paintings look pretty darn good. The works she’s depicted come from a pretty impressive list of artists:
Cory Arcangel, Sadie Barnette, Carol Bove, Sara Cwynar, Andy Coolquitt, Peter Dreher, Jessica Eaton, Awol Erizku, Roe Ethridge, Robert Gober, Josephine Halvorson, Anthea Hamilton, Peter Harkawik, Matthew Higgs, Jim Hodges, John Houck, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Margaret Lee, Allan McCollum, Josephine Meckseper, Jonathan Monk, Roula Partheniou, Richard Phillips, Charles Ray, Magali Reus, Jenna Rosenberg, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Erin Shirreff, Lorna Simpson, Julia Wachtel, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Fred Wilson, and Letha Wilson
Two other series on view, “MoMA, 2017” and “The Certainty of Others” similarly play with authorship. In the latter, she’s asked a series of representational painters to recreate one of her still lives, the original of which was destroyed. Those painters include Conor Backman, Jason Bereswill, Todd Bienvenu, Canyon Castator, TM Davy, Gregory Edwards, Matt Hansel, Daniel Heidkamp, Paul Jacobsen, Chason Matthams, Tristan Unrau, and Dylan Vandenhoeck
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website
Brooklyn Talks: Madonna X Marilyn Minter
Be still my heart! As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism, Marilyn Minter and Madonna (yes, really) will be talking shop on the eve of the inauguration. This is a no-brainer must-see, if you can find a way to get tickets to this thing. They’re sold out.
Fri
Whitney Museum
99 Gansevoort St
11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.Website
Occupy Museum Hosts A Speak Out on Inauguration Day
As concerned citizens we need to make it our job to speak out against the new Trump government. That job starts Friday so we need to show up in whatever capacity we can.
Occupy Museums is beginning by hosting a “speak out” at the Whitney, which will be followed by a day of assemblies and actions led by the #J20 Art Strike organizers and Sense of Emergency. Many of the details have not yet been released, but know that the speak out begins at 11:00 a.m. and runs through 2:00 p.m. and the days activities will culminate at Foley Park at 5:00 p.m. for a protest.
Confirmed: Martha Rosler, Kalup Linzy, Noah Fischer, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tracy Morris, Amy Sillman, Mira Schor, Paddy Johnson (yours truly) and more.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Art F City
6522 Hollywood Blvd
11:30 a.m. ESTWebsite
Rachel Mason, FutureClown
FutureClown, the Internet Avatar of Rachel Mason, will lip synch the swearing in ceremony of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. The performance will take place in real-time and will be streamed online via YouTube.
From our perspective, clowning the entire event is pretty much the only reaction a sane person could have to the inauguration. As a result, the content of our entire site will be inaccessible but for a popup of Mason’s live stream. It’s the only sensible thing to do.
Sat
Trestle Projects
400 3rd Ave
Brooklyn, NY
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website
Through a Honeycomb
The debut exhibition from Trestle Projects’ Curator-in-Residence for 2017, Jesse Bandler Firestone, Through a Honeycomb looks to be a great start to the year. The exhibition brings together artists, designers, and landscape architects to consider aspects of the built environment from agriculture and sustainability to surveillance and labor. It’s nice to see at least one event thinking utopian in these dark days.
Artists: Katie Torn, JaNae Contag, Juan Camilo Rodelo Vargas, Janne Höltermann, EcoAge (Emmaline Payette + Paula Pino), Laurencia Strauss, Sean Donovan, and Blue Planet Consulting
Sun
LUBOV
373 Broadway
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website
Hard Cry
Another timely show, this one about soul-crushing despair and anxiety.
Curator Gabriel H. Sanchez has brought together five artists from famously-neurotic NYC to “revel in the emotional sludge of contemporary living”. That includes social media fatigue, political horror, and so much more. Yay!
Artists: Ian Swanson, Cristina de Miguel, Tariku Shiferaw, Ryan Oskin, Kyle Haddad Welch