Esther Neff is the co-Director of PPL, see her website at:
PF is a critical platform for performance and social arts practices.
This month, we explore self-diminutivation, a childlike wonder + outright kitsch and camp, advertising, plus everyone's favorite pastime.
Co-curated by Esther Neff and Hiroshi Shafer
Performances by: Hiroshi Shafer Fauyiza Ann Hirsch Matthew Silver
Erasure of thought-feeling divisions, closing the gap between the abstract and the representational, meaning is in the line and the gesture, form is simultaneously repetitive and singular, simple and complex, performance is linear AND expressive.
Sherry Aliberti and the Cocoon Project http://www.sherryaliberti.com/
Racquel de Loyola http://beyondpressure.org/
Birgit Larson http://birgitlarson.com/
Meghann Snow http://meghannsnow.com/
ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Sherry Aliberti (USA), is an architect and performance artist based in New York City. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture at Pratt Institute with honors in 2008. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA she grew up as a competitive gymnast and developed a dance and yoga practice upon moving to New York City. The Cocoon Project presents at exhibitions in New York City, most notably Project 59/SET Gallery, House of Yes, the Living Gallery, and alternative spaces like FIGMENT NYC and Art in Odd Places. Exhibitions include photo, video or collage installations to dance and theater performances. Further collaborations have expanded the project nationally and internationally. Documentation of the project has appeared at Mocada Museum and published in Sculpture Magazine, among many blogs and social media. The Cocoon Project creates interactive performance art and colorful temporary installations with the Cocoon.
Performers use gestures, poses and noises to express ideas about form, shape and movement in space and memory. Sound and video artists sculpt the final outcome of the piece. Utilizing sound, projections and fragrances, the experience is different every time. Influenced by Martha Graham and Ernesto Neto a fabric enclosure provides freedom for the performer/muse to become a morphing sculpture. Structurally, these postures represent a scale model of an architecture and materiality based on the forces of the body. This idea is explored further in Aliberti's collages, where Cocoon forms are spliced into cityscapes from her travels. These larger-scale, inhabitable places could be dance studios, museums, a bathhouse or healing center.
Racquel De Loyola (Philippines) is actively engaged in the international network neworldisorder and women artists group Kasibulan. She previously curated Authorized Extremist a live art component of 2008 tutoK-2talk Creative Convergence. In 2007 she was shortlisted to Ateneo Art Awards for her “Subsisting Sustenance” which was presented in 2006 in Toronto Canada for 7a*11d, as Ramon Lerma described, “Framing stillness and motion, the collision of space and intervention in Racquel de Loyola’s subsisting sustenance performance delivers a sensorial spectacle that leaves viewers shocked and awed. Haunting ululation presages the entry of the artist who, caked in talcum and garbed as the multi-breasted Bagobo goddess Mebuyan, weaves her own melodious yowling into a hair-raising bel canto-style duet”. She is now developing her new performative project “Satisfaction” which already presented in Manila, France, and Germany. With a growing reputation in the international cross-disciplinary art circuit she is frequently invited to various art events abroad. She was awarded the prestigious Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Awards in 2009.
Birgit Larson (USA) is a performance artist, based in New York. Has a BFA from Indiana University. Has exhibited and performed widely. Using humor, fear and science Larson tries to understand and recognize the most basic connections we have with each other.
Meghann J. Snow (USA) was born and raised from Cleveland, OH. She currently lives and works in Washington Heights in New York City. She graduated with her BFA from The University of Akron, Mary Myers School of Art in 2006, and graduated with her MFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 2008. Snow considers herself a multi-discipline artist works in various media's such as dance and painting and video. Her work is about choreographing physical movement while incorporating industrial materials. Her works have been performed and exhibited in Stockholm, Sweden, Paris, France, Antwerp, Belgium, and all over the USA.
#Curated by Esther Neff
Pisces sun sign is Feb 19-March 20, these artists call the dual fishes their own but their arts are anything but fishy, wear blue and come out for cake and music, dance, and performance art.
Valerie Kuehne Amber Lee Caitlin Marz Esther Neff Michael Newton Elinor Thompson The Illegal Dads The Tiptons Sax Quartet MORE TBA...
Double the Birthday, Grow a third Arm. JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE.
Household Tales - If Edward Hopper and Edward Gorey played a game of Scrabble and it turned into a lost child, they would name it Household Tales. With William Lea and David Redbranch on guitars/vocals, Sean Ali on bass, Tim Shortle on drums. https://www.facebook.com/householdtales
Theodore Robinson - aka Leland Wulff aka Suspensers, pusher of the finest acid-country tunes heard in an age, plus a damn fine performer to boot.
The Resident Artists of PPL (Brian McCorkle, Esther Neff, B.J. Dini, Simon Seapony, Valerie Kuehne - http://panoplylab.org/estherneff/ http://panoplylab.org/brianmccorkle/ http://vimeo.com/user4156514
Michael Durek - NYC's favorite theremin-toting-festival-organizing-cosmic-collaborator weaving a saucy blend of pulsitile, structured, yet free electronic music making use of synths, theremins, and sampled sounds recorded from Durek’s everyday life http://michaeldurek.com/wp/
Matt Dallow - outlaw accordionist busker extraordinaire, the heavens will rattle, and you may need another drink for this one. https://www.facebook.com/MattDallowMusic?ref=ts&fref=ts
Raymond Todd - Poetry
MORE TBA Streaming KITTEN VIDEOS all night LONG. donations collected for the show will go towards adopting a resident kitten at PPL!
Stitching in time, calculations and curtains, pattern-making and poles, needles, numbers, and know-how, levitations, investigations, castings and causation, the hoop is woven around four women performance artists as they practice durational craft and consider the relationships between hand-making and power, womanity and work, sciences of situation, and other tangled warps and wefts of the performance art. The sun sets and night falls... 4pm-9pm, Saturday, February 16.
+ the No Wave Performance Task Force at 9pm
BIOS/STATEMENTS Sindy Butz is a Visual and Performance Artist. She creates narratives, artifacts/wearables and installations with a centered thematic focus on mankind and human awareness. She explores a broad spectrum of interests such as Moral-/ Philosophy, Perspectivism, Romantic Crafts/Rituals/Traditions and Human Identity. In the process of creating, analytical and scientific Research plays a very important part for her body of work. Mainly during the formation of her Performances she processes her thirst for knowledge through conceptual; empiric but also emotional studies. She shares her philosophic explorations and questioning on a very personal, intimate and mental level. Sindy Butz was born in East Germany, grew up in the suburbs of East Berlin and now lives in New York.
She holds a B.F.A. in Sculpting/AKI- ARTez Netherlands, a M.F.A. in Art Science/ UdK Berlin and was international Scholar at ITP Tisch/ Interactive Telecommunications/ NYU/NYC. She has received the 2010 DAAD Artist- Research Grant on wearable ceramics for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. There she additionally focused on Fashioning Technology. Sindy has exhibited nationally and internationally including Culturefix Gallery/NY, Grace Exhibition Space/ NY, Microscope Gallery/NY, Dino Eli Gallery/ NY, Lambert Fine Arts Gallery/NY, English Kills Gallery/NY, Museum der Dinge/ Berlin, Yogiga Expression Gallery/ Seoul, South Korea as well as the Korean Experimental Performance Festival KEAF Seoul, Non Grata's Diverse Universe Tours Europe and USA Tours 2005-2013, the Performance Congress Sacramento/ SoToDo/ USA and Fountain Art Fair Miami 2012. Additionally she is Principal Dancer at the Butoh Dance Company, Vangeline Theater New York since 2010. The company has performed at Angel Orensaz Foundation, Triskelion Arts Brooklyn, Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, Dixon Place, CUNY/City University of New York and Asian American Art Alliance just to name a few. +++++
Ivy Castellanos is a danger of a performance. Crumbs and debris often remain from the actions while silence fills the audience during the final moments of a performative work. The constructed objects Ivy creates are blended extensions of self and abstractly resemble the body. The gestures and moves are often unpredictable and the narrative is left for the viewer to define. The small hints of flesh that is seen by the viewer amplifies the strain on the performer that accelerates throughout a work. Ivy can be called a 'violent sculpture' but the content is always an abstraction and any hint of information further complexes a definition or reason for a work. Powerful, lasting, and intense are the elements from Ivy's work that must be seen in person in order to feel the full energy of a performance. ++++
Amber Lee started her career working in the theatre. In addition to majoring in acting, she held technical positions at several professional theatres including Synetic Theatre in DC and The Neofuturists in Chicago. Amber started as a volunteer at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in February of 2012. She now serves as Director of Artist Hospitality along with her co-director, William Kendall. The co-directors also serve as partners in the developing performance group Dance Tone Q. Amber has done performances in Chicago, Berlin, Paris, and The Netherlands working with several different performance groups including a European tour with Non Grata.In addition to performing, Amber continues to work in theatre, photography, video, and writing. Work in other mediums can be found at sister website An Act of Whimsy andHitRECord. +++
Hilary Sand is an artist, writer, and theorist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Originally from San Diego, she received a B.A. with Honors in Art History, Theory, and Criticism as well as a minor in studio art when she graduated magna cum laude in 2010 from University of California, San Diego. While at UCSD, Ms. Sand concentrated on photographic and architectural theories and histories, and was among seven undergraduates invited to participate in the panel on visual culture at the 2010 Undergraduate Research Conference, where she presented her thesis, entitled “Scenery, Sculpture, Symbol, Subject: the Evolution and Depiction of Architecture in Photography.” She also curated the university-wide exhibition Subject Subject in 2010, which included about a hundred works by more than fifty student artists in a variety of media: drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, new media, an outdoor video garden, and ongoing performances throughout the opening.
Sand relocated to New York to study Arts Politics at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2010, where, under the mentorship of Karen Finley, her work focused on gender and identity construction and she was awarded her M.A. in 2011. Her piece “It’s an Ideology in Here” appears in the limited edition anthology MANIFEST-O, a publication that accompanied the October 2010 inaugural exhibition of the same name at Concrete Utopia, an alternative space in Brooklyn. In New York, Sand's work has been shown at Dixon Place, the Affordable Arts Fair, Concrete Utopia, Grace Exhibition Space, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics, and on various streets throughout the city. “Wear-ee” will be her first performance with Panoply Performance Lab, and is part of an ongoing investigation into the material properties and social histories of textiles that Sand has been working on for the past five years in both performance and sculptural works. NWPTF is a flexible collective of feminists. Facebook event HERE (curated by Esther Neff)
Following the 3-Thursday exhibition, PPL hosts the second exhibition on FEBRUARY 14TH
The No Wave Performance Task Force is a flexible collective that enables performative social sculpture, practicing Feminist construction rather than reacting solely to existing conditions of patriarchy, gender, sexuality, and “Other” vs. “Us” dichotomies.
This event experiments with female partnership (platonic, romantic, collaborative, co-working, and otherwise), mutual respect, and authenticity of empathy between women by pairing performance-makers to create performances about and for one another. This event is open to the public, with a host of performances + drinks and snacks.
The performances will be documented on video and edited into a documentary-style "valentine" to women artists everywhere.
PERFORMANCY FORUM XXVI: WORKOUT
5 artists use the forms of workout tapes, classes, and exercises to lead 1 collective workout and perform 1 solo action or exercise.
Curated/organized by Esther Neff with Adjua Greaves
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC suggested donation $5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away
PPL is hosting the next Public meeting about the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF).
How are we doing all? Things coming along? Let's discuss. All are welcome.
More info, link to the livestream, visit the wiki and find this particular event on Facebook HERE.
Also, find the instigating, open-source letter HERE on Culturebot!
Amid all of the APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) festivals and conference elements, PERFORMANCY FORUM is nothing but an empty room in which 7 artists present their current work and then discuss their processes of practical transition including developing consistent ways of working as a mature artist, getting a sense of 'oeuvre' and core concerns, framing and explaining what the work deals with, production, marketing, and media structures, and of course, the daily work of making being a performance artist a feasible existence.
Sylva Dean + Me http://sylvadeanandme.com/
Joseph Keckler http://www.josephkeckler.com/
Valerie Kuehne http://www.soundcloud.com/zolaleverkuhn
Brian McCorkle and Esther Neff (PPL) http://www.panoplylab.org/
Anya Liftig http://www.anyaliftig.com/
Dave Ruder http://www.daveruder.com/
Elinor Thompson http://www.ellieevelyn.com/
6 performances and roundtable discussion free and open to the public, beer for a suggested donation Self-reflexive performativity comprises PERFORMANCY FORUM as a platform for performance work: part critical thinktank, part performance series, and part community gathering, this installment will take place in Brooklyn, NY at Panoply Performance Laboratory.
