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Locations & Dislocation, my work, other people's work
SESC Sao Paulo wrap up
11.20.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIn October, I had the honor of presenting Locations and Dislocation at SESC Mostra de Artes 2008, an art festival in Sao Paulo, Brasil. It was my first time in Brasil and it was amazing! I only wish I had more time to explore. I was at the festival for four days. The curator Cassio Quiterio of SESC invited me after finding the project on the CONFLUX website and Eva Bonfim, my translator, coordinated the project while I was there.
(Me, Eva & Aquino, our favorite driver)SESC is a country-wide institution in Brasil. It is a network of centers that function very much like the 92nd Street Y here in NYC, with public programming, arts spaces, cafes, courses, gyms and recreation. The organization is geared towards service workers, with the idea of providing health and cultural programming in the after work hours, though events are open to the general public.
At night we went to see other artists’ work. There were 80 artists from many different countries, including Noemi LeFranc, the choreographer who did AGORA in the McCarren Park Pool here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
(LeFranc’s piece MELT at Mostra de Artes in Sao Paulo)I did the project at two different locations. In both places, Eva would interview people in Portuguese and then they would work with me to map their moving history onto a projected map with vinyl tape.
(Eva interviewing)SESC 24 de Maio was a new center in downtown Sao Paulo near my hotel. We projected on a vertical white wall.
(Putting up the tape)
(The results)In this space, I showed across from Heather Arckroyd and Dan Harvey’s large scale photographs of Brazilian immigrants living in London. The negatives were projected on grass seeds, and the grass grew in different colors due the the different light, creating the image. Amazing!
(About 10 feet tall)At SESC-Itaquera — the second location, in a national park on the outskirts of Sao Paulo — I did the project in a community computer technology room, projected on the floor.
(Working on floor projections at SESC-Itaquera)
(The results)The two settings were different but both unique — at 24 de Maio, the crowd had come to see art and the scale of the wall was great.
(With volunteers Dilson & Caroline, Eva, and the tech specialist Roberto)At Itaquera, people were passing through to use the room for computer access and happened upon the project. The scale was smaller but the interactions were more intimate.
(The whole family got involved)Over 60 participants created their maps with me. I am now up to my ears with making postcards in Portuguese for them (sorry to people from [ ESC ] & CONFLUX who didn’t get theirs yet!). Many of the new postcards are quite beautiful and I will post some them as soon as I figure out a good way to photograph them. I have not been satisfied with my previous experiments with documentation; if anyone has any suggestions, send them my way.
Here are some jpgs of the raw files — in Portuguese! — as a preview:
You can see more pictures of my trip on flickr.
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events, music, other people's work
Daniel & Ethan at Pete’s Candy Store
My brother Daniel Wright & his friend and colleague Ethan Glazer will be playing an acoustic show at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an ideal spot to listen to this duo.
DANIEL WRIGHT & ETHAN GLAZER
Friday, Oct. 3 @ 10pm
PETE’S CANDY STORE
709 Lorimer Street – Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211You can check out their music on myspace: Daniel & Ethan. Daniel’s album is available on iTunes.
For those who are interested in the recording process, you should check out the blog for 1088 Boylston, where Mateo Lugo, Daniel & others are documenting their artistic process.
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events, other people's work
Positioning the City
I will be videotaping this talk put on by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, where I had my collaborative residency last spring. It should be quite great. Miriam Greenberg is also coincidentally my neighbor and I have heard only amazing things about her book. It should be especially interesting for artists, urban planners and people living in gentrifying neighborhoods. Be sure to RSVP & bring an ID.People and Buildings: Positioning the City
CUP is pleased to present an evening on New York City branding campaigns of past and present. Miriam Greenberg, author of Branding New York City: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World, will be interviewing Willy Wong, senior vice president and executive creative director at NYC & Company, the City of New York’s official marketing, tourism, and partnerships organization. They will look into the politics of urban representation and the role of branding in urban redevelopment.
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 7 pm
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School
240 Second Avenue (between 14th and 15th St.)
New York, NY
L to First or Third Avenue, N/Q/R/W/4/5/6 to Union SquareFree and open to the public. Seating is limited, RSVP to info (at) anothercupdevelopment.org
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events, EYEspeak, ima mfa, my work, other people's work
IMAterial success
05.05.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe IMAterial show turned out beautifully. It was really miraculous to see the way the Black Box, originally a gymnasium, transformed into a dynamic gallery. I was very happy with Havemeyer Street, the two-channel video installation I made with Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz & Uni Park about gentrification in Williamsburg. I’ll be uploading documentation in the coming weeks.
We had the honor of guest artist critiques with Mendi + Keith Obadike and Jennifer McCoy. I got some great feedback on my Comment Williamsburg site and got to see Colonial Glass projected on a giant screen. As usual, working with the gang was pretty amazing, especially considering we do the work of 30 people with just a few of us. Below are pictures from Laura Chipley, you can see more of hers here. More documentation forthcoming.
Havemeyer Street (our installation)
Wear and Tear (Suyin Looui, Samara Smith & AE Souzis)
Urban Homesteading Project (Francisca Caporali, Laura Chipley & Pilar Ortiz) and Varnish on (Mike Schuwerk & Cristina Gil Donaire)
IMAterial art
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IMAterial: May 1-3
I’ll be showing a large scale collaborative video installation & my video Colonial Glass & my website Comment Williamsburg at the 6th Annual Exhibit of the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program. Join us for a weekend of provocative new socially engaged interdisciplinary and media art.
IMAterial
May 1 –3, 2008 (opening May 1)
THU & FRI 6 –9 PM / SAT 1-5 PM
The Black Box Gallery
5th Floor, Room 544HN
Hunter North Building
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Enter on 69th Street between Park and Lexington
IMAterial
Noun, Adjective1: The 6th annual exhibit from Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program.
2. Lacking a material body or form; the physical intangibility of new media and digital work.
3: The challenge of new media and interdisciplinary media artists to make their artistic and political work both relevant and of substance.
4. Incorporeal; metaphysical forces; the underlying spirit that drives the artistic production and practice of the students and faculty in the IMA/MFA program. -
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WWIII write up
Courtenay Morgan Redis did an extensive write-up of the WWIII show on her blog. Here’s the excerpt on my piece:
“Another artist hung a traditional wood medicine cabinet on the wall and on the rung below an army-green hand towel that reads look inside. Swinging the door open, which is lined on the inside with a mirror, shows a video projection of a green hill, the number 3009 on a large sign and row upon row of white crosses. Above the video stands a shelf filled with prescription pill bottles, face creams and toiletries. The common, everyday items we see and use juxtaposed with the death of soldiers that has become all too-common in our lives and the lives of people around the world. On the day in January when the film was shot in Lafayette, CA, 3009 Americans had lost their lives in Iraq. Today on public radio I heard that as we approach the five-year anniversary of this war we’ve lost over 3,700 American lives and anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 Iraqis.”
Thanks to all who came! It was a great show.
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events, my work, other people's work
WWIII Hours, Artist Talks & Closing
WWIII, the gallery show in Jersey City featuring LOOK INSIDE, a video installation I developed in the Wonder Women residency at _gaia studio, has two last events before the show closes. The show includes installations from all ten of the women who were in the residency, on the theme of how we understand war.
The gallery is open M-F, 10a-6p or by appt on evenings and weekends:
(800) 330-9659We are also having open hours next Saturday, April 5, from 12-5p. There will be a very special guest (my dad!) and all of the artists will be present.
…and the Closing Reception & Artist Talks, where you get to hear more about the artists and projects presentation style, will be the following Saturday:
April 12, 4-9p
@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
directionsHope to see you at the gallery! If neither the 5th nor 12th works for you & you would like to see the show, email me at sarahnw att gmail dott com.
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displacement in williamsburg
I will be showing my documentary short, FILLMORE PLACE, along with a selection from our work-in-progress on small businesses in South Williamsburg, as part of an event on displacement in Williamsburg tomorrow night. I invite NY-based folk to come to whatever portion they can make, especially if you have ever lived or worked in Williamsburg.
The films address all kinds of displacement. The panel will focus on artist displacement, and is part of the Displacement show at greenbelt. greenbelt is a new 8-unit green condo building in Williamsburg that will house Center for Performance Research, an affordable arts space. It should be a provocative and interesting evening on many levels.
Room For Creativity:
A Community Roundtable on Real Estate Strategies for the Arts
Thursday, March 27, 2008
6-9p (panel 6:30-8p, films 8-9p)
@ greenbelt 361 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (L to Graham)
Free drinks and snacks
Panel
John Jaspers & Jonah Bokaer (Center for Performance Research)
Caron Atlas (Fractured Atlas)
Elizabeth Grady (curator of Displacement)
Guy Buckles (Art Building)
Luis Garden Acosta (El Puente)
Deborah Masters (475 Kent Artist’s Lofts)
Brad Lander (Pratt Center for Community Development)Short Films
Fillmore Place (Sarah Nelson Wright)
Traverse the Fantasy (Not an Alternative)
Untitled (Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz, Uni Park,
& Sarah Nelson Wright)
Lofty Pursuits (the Center for Urban Pedagogy)
475 Kent (Channel 12)
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directions to Mana Fine Arts
(apologies to those not in NYC/NJ area)
Here are directions to WWIII at Mana Fine Arts. Looking forward to the opening!
WWIII
A Wonder Women Project presented by _gaia
Opening Reception
FRIDAY, March 14th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing– April 12th 4-9pm
Gallery Hours March 14 – April 12, 2008
M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
(800) 330-9659 for appointments & infoby public transportation from Manhattan
Take the Path Train* from Christopher St., 9th St., 14th St., 23rd St. or 33rd St. towards Journal Square** (JSQ)
OR from World Trade Center station towards Newark (NWK)
PATH map
Exit at the Grove St. Station
Newark Ave. terminates across from the station
Walk down Newark Avenue to Coles St. (about 5 blocks)
Right on Coles
Walk down Coles to 12 street (about 12 blocks)
Gallery entrance is under the overpass, on Coles, past 12th St., on your left
You walk under the overpass
*the Path costs $1.75 and you can use an NYC metrocard, but not unlimited
**on weekends (Sat/Sun), this train stops in Hoboken and is HOB/JSQ
map of walk from Grove St.:
View Larger Mapdriving from Manhattan
Go through the Holland Tunnel
Left on Jersey Ave.
Right on 10th St.
Pass Coles St.
(Coles is closed to cars)
Right on Monmouth
Monmouth ends at 13th St., you have to turn right
13th street ends at Coles St.
Turn right or left to park on Coles
Walk towards the overpass G
allery entrance is under the overpass, on your right
Map of drive from Holland Tunnel:
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other people's work
Mimi Smith
I had the incredible honor of being a studio assistant for Mimi Smith, one of the artists in P.S. 1′s WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. P.S. 1 asked _gaia, the studio where I am currently doing the Wonder Women residency, to provide support while various curators and the public visited the artists’ studios, which have been in SoHo since the 1970′s. I was so lucky to be paired with Mimi — she was extremely gracious about having people in her home and studio, and her work is inspiring, complex and beautiful.
Given that much of my recent work is computer dependent, I really enjoyed these paintings from the 80′s. She was working doing computer graphics for error messages (it was all just pixels then) and used them in her art. Imagine if we could see the poetry in the blue screen of death!
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