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CURRICULUM VITAE 2007

LATIMES in NYC (December 28 - January 4, 2007)
by Ben Greeley
with: LABTEST, TANK, SKILO, LOKUS, PUNCH, SINER, DUBR
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
LATIMES is an exhibition of new california landscapes by Peter Bill, graffiti art by well known Los Angeles writers such as TANK and LOKUS, and looping HDR video collaborations by LABTEST (www.thelab.us).
www.peterbill.us
www.thelab.us
www.vimeo.com/420750
lanternproductions.com/pbill/paintweb/pnt2.html
www.lanternproductions.com/latimes

peterbill's paint and video landscapes have shown in such diverse venues as The Kitchen (NYC), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), FILE Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), and other international venues. He continues in his Oil paintings and video work to weave the painterly with the digital, pixels and paint, indigo and 191970 blue.

Los Angeles graffiti writers have come under unprecedented pressure under police chief bratten, former police chief of NYC under giuliani. These artists have been equated with terrorists and treated as such. They continue to express themselves as american artists, unbowed and unrepentant in creative expression.

LABTEST is an international collaboration of artists currently based on three continents. This group has exhibited around the world and continues its subversive recombining of culture.
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The Dinner Rehearsal (December 19, 2007)
by Ben Greeley
Directed by Theresa Buchheister of Title:Point Productions
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street
A new pre(conception) staged reading featuring the performing talents of some of New York's most exciting downtown theatre talents: Jessica Jeliffe of Banana Bag and Bodice, Ryan Holsopple of 31 Radio Down, Jesica Avellone of Collaboration Town, Fil Vocasek of Hotel Savant and Title:Point Productions and Samara Naeymi of Title:Point Productions.

nice ass, Alice (December 2 - 22, 2007)
Created by FIFTHhorse partners in crime Laine Rettmer & Deena Selenow
Digital Choreography/ Video Editor, Chris Giarmo
at chashama performance window
266 West 37th Street

(Bet. 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.)

Created by FIFTHhorse partners in crime Laine Rettmer and Deena Selenow, nice ass, Alice. is a Storybook Diorama Peep Show. By masking the storefront window of chashama's 37th street art space and creating peepholes through which to look, FIFTHhorse encourages passerby to submit to their inner voyeur and dare to sneak a peek.

Inspired by the 1960's drag group The Cockettes, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the subversive sexuality present in Walt Disney Animated Films, Laine Rettmer and Deena Selenow intend to explore the line between curiosity and perversity; the leap between innocence and taboo through a diorama peep show retelling of Alice's infamous (mis)adventures. Iconic, comical and slightly naughty, each peephole in the window display will give way to a skewed view of Wonderland through various use of the interior of the space. Playing with distance, perspective and the thrill of the unexpected, FIFTHhorse would like to cordially invite its audience of pedestrians to submit to their inner voyeur and to sneak a peek through our looking glass.
about the show
In August of 2007, the performance art duo FIFTHhorse (Laine Rettmer and Deena Selenow) was commissioned by The Gene Frankel Theater to create and perform a devised theatre piece based on the 1960's drag group The Cockettes for NYC's Summer of Love Festival 07. Using a combination of original text and music, iconic phrases coined by the incomparable Cockettes, as well as text straight from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, FIFTHhorse and Friends created and performed their homage to psychedelics, hyper-sexuality, innocence and the gender bending 1960's through their staging of Cockettes in Wonderland. nice ass, Alice. is the continuation and visual manifestation of that performance. about FIFTHhorse
Deena Selenow is a New York-based multi disciplinary artist specializing in areas of theatrical direction, experimental theatre and the merging of visual art and performance. In 2006, along with collaborators Ryan Frank and Rory Sheridan, she co-founded the multi-arts collective Ad Nauseam Lyceum, an artist run organization dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging artists working in the realms of visual art, installation, new media and performance. Directing credits include: American Psyche, Chess'd!, 365 Plays/365 Days, Apocawhat?!, Rhinoceros, Virtual Reality, Witness, Request Stop, Special Offer . Assistant Directing credits include: The Bacchae (NYC and Warsaw), Drums on the Dam (U.S. premier), 7 Against Thebes (NYTW staged reading). Curation: PAGEANT!, VERNISSAGE!, EXPO! Deena was the recipient of a 2006 Baryshnikov Arts Center Multi Disciplinary Artist Fellowship and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University. nice Ass, Alice. is one of many collaborations between Deena Selenow and Laine Rettmer, the first being Cockettes in Wonderland presented at the Gene Frankel Theater in August 2007. Deena Selenow
Interested in creating work through many mediums, Laine's training and experience reflects the diversity of her passions. She recently graduated magnum cum laude from the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU. She is the recipient of the Corrine Miller Award, the Experimental Theater Wing's Award for Excellence, and a Trustee Scholarship. Her work is primarily performance-based though she has also had paintings shown at the Chicago Institute of the Arts, and at Ad Nauseam Lyceum's group showcase, VERNISSAGE!. Inclined to involvement in all aspects of her pieces, she typically conceives her shows, co-writes them, creates the music, and often performs in her original works. Directing credits include: Flashlights and Knives, her adaptation of Dennis Cooper's novel Period, (flashlightsandknives.com), Cockettes in Wonderland, which she was commissioned with Deena Selenow to create for the Gene Frankel Theater's Summer of Love Festival 07, 365 Plays/365 Days, Pieces from John Cage's Song Books, which was performed at the Kitchen for the John Cage Birthday Festival 07, the short film, The Wedding Party, which is currently in post production, and Tokyo Lolita, a multimedia web-based video project currently under development. Laine is also performing in Witness Relocation's spring show, Cathy Weis's spring show, and is a frequent collaborating artist with Avant Media (avantmedia.org). Laine Rettmer

CHASHAMA / LA SUPERETTE ART SALE (December 1 - 22, 2007)
chashama Times Square, 112 West 44th Street Gallery
SEE ART. BUY ART. LOVE ART.
www.lasuperette.org

For the winter holiday season, chashama and La Superette combined to create CHA HOLIDAY, an alternative to the traditional commercial shopping season with CHA HOLIDAY -- an affordable holiday art sale at chashama's Times Square gallery. Showcasing original, homemade gifts (ranging from $1 - $100; most are between $20-$40), artwork included recycled accessories, homemade clothes, wall art, stocking stuffers & more. Throughout the event, we also hosted live performances and video screenings by some of New York's finest artists at our 44th St. gallery. about cha Holiday
HOURS: chashama: Thurs-Sun from 2PM – 8PM (closed on Mon, Tues & Wed)
La Superette: Thurs-Sun from 12PM – 7PM (closed on Mon, Tues & Wed)
PERFORMANCES:
December 13th at 8-11pm - Loud Objects, Benton Bainbridge + Matty Ostrowski
December 14th at 8-11pm - MV Carbon + Tony Conrad, Nautical Almanac
December 15th at 8-11pm - The And Group, Luke Dubois, James Rouvelle + John Roach
December 16th at 8-11pm - Dan Iglesia, Gerald Marks
December 21st at 2:30 pm - Ari Tabei
  at 5:30 pm - Erin Malley
  at 7:30 pm - Erin Malley
schedule
LA SUPERETTE is an annual art market where artists & craftsmen present & sell their creations to a wide range of visitors. This year will feature an installation by Patrick Meagher. In addition to the sale there will be a series of live video & film projections, as well as music & puppet performances for all ages. For more information email: lasuperette@gmail.com. La Superette

Memory Minister (November 30 - December 22, 2007)
curated by Tracy Candido
Special performance by international superstar PUPPETKABOB on Thursday, December 20th at 9pm.
Explosivo/chashama, 169 Avenue C
www.explosivoartshow.com
featuring: Derek Ayres, Susan Carnahan, Joelle Jensen, Michael Perrone, Andrew Prayzner and Kimi Weart.

"Memory Minister" includes artists that project an uncanny, dream-like, or strange reality by conjuring up personal and/or collective images from their memory. In the late 18th century, France had invented the Phantasmagoria, a precinema projection ghost show which was a modified type of magic lantern, used to project images on walls, smoke, or semi-transparent screens. This lantern- sorcery conjured up images of the dead and began to develop into a kind of art-form.

The artists in "Memory Minister" summon up fragmented memories of their past as they remember them, sometimes intermingling elements of the present to decipher what they may not understand. The works in "Memory Minister" are haunting and dream-like, and evoke notions of romantic poetry, engaging in an energetic imaginative commitment to the restorative powers of memory, especially of childhood and adolescence.
about the exhibit
Explosivo/chashama was a temporary platform for contemporary art which followed an interdisciplinary exhibition program curated by Tracy Candido in partnership with chashama. The Explosivo/chashama art space is donated to chashama by the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board. UHAB supports self-help housing and community building in low-income neighborhoods by training, organizing, developing and assisting resident-controlled limited-equity housing cooperatives. about 169 Ave C

Musings of a Man-Bird Recluse & The 24 Hour Performance Spectacular (November 12 - 16, 2007)
Performed by Andrew Gilchrist
Directed by Julie Rossman
with writing by Andrew Gilchrist and Ramsey Prather
chashama Window Performance Stage, 266 West 37th Street
www.ronaldpelican.com

Musings of a Man-Bird Recluse, will run nightly from Monday, November 12th through Thursday, November15th, culminating in a 24-HOUR Performance Spectacular on Friday, November 16th – Saturday, November 17th as part of the chashama Windows Program in the Garment District of NYC (266 West 37th Street).

From Monday through Thursday, Ronald will exhibit a new and different performance nightly; replete with dancing, singing, guessing games, short plays, poetry readings, psychic readings, magic, violent humility, inordinate suffering and comedy. Then, beginning on Friday at 9:00 pm, the window to Ronald’s antechamber will be opened for a complete 24 HOURS straight, during which Ronald will perform a one-hour show every three hours until the window closes once again, for an indefinite period of time, on Saturday, November 17th at 9:00 pm. Voyeurs may come and go to their liking, and bear witness to the antics of this bizarre hybrid-specimen, as he is forced to endlessly entertain, toiling in despair as he burns ad infinitum.
more about the show
Musings of a Man-Bird Recluse has previously been seen as The Exquisite Tale of Ronald Pelican at Ars Nova and Bard College in 2006, and at The Gene Frankel Underground in October of 2007. Additionally, Ronald emceed the 24-hour Play Festival at Bard College, the Sticky 10-minute play festival at Galapagos Art Space, was featured in the 2nd Annual New York City Binge Festival, and most recently appeared in the LMCC's One Million Forgotten Moments Festival curated by Yehuda Duenyas. The creative team includes Andrew Gilchrist (writer/performer), Ramsey Prather (writer) and Julie Rossman (director). Visit www.ronaldpelican.com for more information. previously

Phenomenal Growth (November 8 - 18, 2007)
photography, video and other works on paper by Christy Speakman
chashama Gallery Space, 461 West 126th Street
FREE and open to the public.
Opening Reception and Video Screening Thursday, November 8, 2007
For more information visit www.christyspeakman.com

Phenomenal Growth is a series of ink drawings where Speakman draws directly from video stills extracted from her short films. The resulting images function as compressed photographs, drawings of light and layered time. Also included in the exhibition are new photographs from Speakman's Eye-wall series, a body of work she began in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. Found on the streets of New York City after rainfall, the celestial stains form from oil dropped on pavement by cars in transit. Contradictory to visual resemblances to outer space or satellite imagery of storms approaching landfall, the photographs embrace the micro, momentary, and ephemeral- literally, the ground beneath your feet.

Oil slicks and vapor trails act as contemporary symbols for displacement, not only in a literal sense of evacuation, but may also suggest our cultural displacement from nature itself. Liquid Land (2007), a single channel video installation, takes the viewer to a hardwood forest on the edge of the Mississippi River levee within the city limits of New Orleans. It focuses on the natural world as a fluid and interconnected entity, studying Katrina's effect on the native ecosystem. Fixed landscapes have dissolved into ephemera and groundlessness, suggesting land that is in a constant state of both disappearance and phenomenal growth.
about Phenomenal Growth
Christy Speakman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and now lives in New York City. Speakman holds a B.A. (2002) from the University of New Orleans and an M.F.A. in Photography (2005) from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Her recent work has been supported by artist residencies from A Studio in the Woods at Tulane University (2007), The Santa Fe Art Institute (2006), and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2005-2006). Speakman's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; she is the recipient of an Artist Restoration Grant from Tulane University, and a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. about Christy

Numyism / Survivors (November 5 - 26, 2007)
by Numyi Lee
chashama, 112 West 44th Street Gallery
FREE and open to the public.
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 9, 2007, 6-8 pm
numyil@yahoo.com

Numyism is all about survivors: survivors of people, the survival of the artist in her own style. Numyi started the survivors' story from her family-in-law in Iraq in 2007 and expanded her survivors' series to include herself and painting as survivor. She paints the power of survivors and the beauty of colors from nature in her own unique style. Each painting has its own sad story and her paining holds both sadness and beauty simultaneously. about the exhibit
Numyi was born and raised in South Korea. She got her MFA from Queens College in 2003 and a MFA from Pratt institute in 2005. She started the chashama residency program in 2006, and had a solo show "Between Black and White Colors".

9 of Numyi's pieces of drawings were featured in the American Gangster Movie (2007) which will open in theaters this fall. Her paintings and drawings will be also seen in: Phoebe in Wonderland (2009) and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008). Her works are in several private collections and the Museum of Friends (MOF) in downtown Walsenburg, Colorado.

Currently she is a chashama artist-in-residence program in the 57th Street Studios in Manhattan in New York City.
about Numyi

Underneath the Gauzy Netting (October 30 & 31, November 1, 3 & 4, 2007)
Performed & Created by Sari Nordman & Pauliina Silvennoinen
with live musical accompaniment by Corky Has a Band
chashama Window Performance Stage, 266 West 37th Street
FREE and open to the public.
www.myspace.com/sarinordman

This multi-disciplinary extravaganza explores the Kalevala. The Kalevala is a Finnish national epic, a series of poems passed down from an oral tradition, eventually compiled into one grand written volume. Underneath the Gauzy Netting will explore dominant themes and characters from the Kalevala with original choreography and live music incorporating instruments made from found objects by Corky Has a Band. The piece will attempt to link the ancient, mystical world of Kalevala to the modern day. Work by artists from other disciplines may be incorporated into some performances. For a detailed up-to-date performance schedule please go to www.myspace.com/sarinordman. about the show
Sari Nordman is a native of Finland. She came to the US in 1993 to study dance. After receiving her certificate in dance from Nikolais & Louis Dance Lab in 1995, she began presenting her choreography in concerts of her own production, as well as in festivals in the US and Finland. She has presented her own work at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Hurjaruuth, Dance Conversations, Forum Box-Gallery, Full Moon Dance Festival, Merce Cunningham Studio, New Steps, Zodiak, and The 92nd St. Y. Currently she is working with choreographers Naomi Goldberg Haas, Tymberly Harris and Melinda Ring, and with the Headless Whorse Dance Company. In the past she has worked with Beverly Blossom, Douglas Dunn, and Ann Reinking. She holds an M.F.A. degree in modern dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. She has received generous support from American-Scandinavian and Finlandia Foundations. about Sari Nordman
Pauliina Silvennoinen, originally from Finland, works as a dancer, choreographer and producer. A grant from American-Scandinavian Society has enabled her to continue her work in New York City. She is an artistic director and organizer for series of art events that started in June 26th, 2007. The first chapter "This Single Night of Summer" was a charming combination of bizarre dance, music and multimedia. As a dancer she has worked with David Appel, Philippa Kaye Company and Airelise Dance Company. She also creates her own work with other freelance artists. Pauliina graduated from Turku Art's Academy Dance department in 2005. She has also studied at the Fontys Dance Academy in the Netherlands. In Finland and Sweden, she has worked with AB Dance Theatre, Dance Art Productions and other freelance choreographers. about Pauliina Silvennoinen

Me & the Material Magic (October 26 - November 18, 2007)
curated by: Tracy Candido
chashama/Explosivo Gallery Space, 169 Avenue C
FREE and open to the public.
For more about upcoming exhibitions or Explosivo Art visit www.explosivoartshow.com.
featuring: Paul Butler, Happy Fun, Matthew Lusk.

Tunes in the Terminal (October 22 - December 22, 2007)
a bi-weekly presentation of musical performance in the afternoon curated by Jaime Walden formerly of Arlene's Grocery.
Port Authority @675 8th Avenue
North terminal "Area X" or South terminal ticket platform
Music indoors Mondays & Thursdays
FREE and open to the public.

10/22 @ 5:30-6:15 - No Face Atlanta
10/25 @ 5:30-6:15 - Zack Glass
11/01 @ 5:30-6:15 - Left Me Bashful
11/05 @ 4:00-4:45 - Gabo and the Wastrels
11/08 @ 5:30-6:15 - Fiama
11/12 @ 5:30-6:15 - Chris Hughlett
11/15 @ 4:00-4:45 - Late Nite Access
11/19 @ 5:30-6:15 - Fiama
11/22 - no performances - Thanksgiving
11/26 @ 4:00-4:45 - No Skip Ransom (pop/indie quartet) - CANCELLED
11/29 @ 5:30-6:15 - WHR (jam/jazz quartet)
12/03 @ 4:30-5:15 - Marc Alter (vocals & guitar)
12/03 @ 5:30-6:15 - Chantilly (vocals & guitar)
12/06 @ 5:00-5:45 - Sakai (bossa nova)
12/10 @ 4:00-4:45 - Fiama (duo, vocals & guitar)
12/13 @ 4:00-4:45 - Catherine Sikora (saxophone) - CANCELLED
12/17 @ 4:00-4:45 - Allison Weiss (duo, vocals & guitar)
12/20 @ 4:00-4:45 - Jeffrey Young (violin + electric guitar + tuba)
12/20 @ 5:00-5:45 - Filet of Soul (jazz/blues)
schedule
The sound system for this series was generously provided by
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  With a focus on advanced performance, exceptional design and great value for the working musician, Samson's professional audio products are preferred by performers and recording artists all over the world.
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3rd annual Fashion District Arts Festival (October 20 & 21, 2007)
hosted by: The Fashion Center Business Improvement District
and featuring art installations by chashama artists: Sarah Anderson, Eve Biddle, Ixa Faolan (Eesha Faylin), The Relationship (Fiona Templeton), Odonata Dance Project, RETTOCAMME, and Victoria Farr.
at seven locations in the Fashion District in New York City

Sarah Anderson
"Culture Shift"
presenting at 209 West 35th Street

Eve Biddle
"Do you want to be here?"
presenting at 242 West 36th Street

Ixa Faolan (Eesha Faylin)
"Secret Garden: Self Portraits in Unlikely Places"
presenting at 307 West 36th Street

Dream Gathering
by The Relationship (Fiona Templeton)
presenting at 212 and 139 West 35th Streets

Odonata Dance Project
"Tethered"
presenting at 208 West 35th Street

RETTOCAMME
"Window Looming"
presenting at 247 West 37th Street

Victoria Farr
"Break Room"
presenting at 306-308 West 36th Street
HOVER for list of chashama installations or CLICK for more info.
The Fashion Center Business Improvement District is proud to host the 3rd annual Fashion District Arts Festival, showcasing the artists, crafters, galleries and theaters now making their homes alongside celebrated designers in the heart of America's fashion capital.
Catch a new off-Broadway show or a presentation of avant-garde performance art. See a gallery exhibition, visit artist studios, explore visual, performance, and light installations occurring in district loading bays, or learn more about pottery and printmaking. The Festival calendar features 175 events over the 7-day period (including more than 200 visual artists and 8 performances). Festival events are free, unless otherwise noted. about the festival
"The Fashion District is not only a global center of couture, but it also has emerged as a center of cultural and artistic life," said Barbara Blair Randall, executive director of the Fashion Center BID. "The week-long Festival, which attracts thousands of visitors to the area, celebrates the vibrancy and creativity of the neighborhood. It's an authentic New York experience and it's all right here!". from Barbara Blair Randall, executive director of the Fashion Center BID
For more information please visit their website www.fashioncenter.com/arts, contact festival coordinator Cheryl Hageman at chageman@fashioncenter.com, or pick up materials at the Fashion Center Information Kiosk at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 39th Street.
presented by chashama in association with The Fashion Center Business Improvement District.

EDEN (October 19 - 29, 2007)
A new play by: Marina Shron
Directed by: Leah Bonvissuto
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY
featuring: Kaitlin Bailey, Devin Delliquanti, Amy Ewing, & Roger Lirtsman.
Costumes: Cat(herine) Fisher
Lighting: Ryan Meltzer
supported by collectiveP.A.S.T. at chashama

R.I.P. (October 12 - 14, 2007)
by Reconstruct Art
chashama project exhibition space
159 West 119th Street
FREE and open to the public.
Services: Friday October 12, 7p
Viewing: Saturday October 13 & Sunday October 14, 12 - 4p
OFFILIATING CURATORS:
Patrick-Earl Barnes, Terrell Gillespie
ORDER OF SERVICE: Officiant's (ARTISTS)
Lawrence Joyner, Patrick-Earl Barnes, Terrell Gillespie, Phoenix, Jason R. Swaby, Lisa Lopez, Daren Chambers, Jeremiah Drake
"We are glad to inform you that your devious plan of infecting distrust and envy into the hearts and minds of African Slaves has come to an end. We, the people, stand together to bury WILLIE LYNCH..."

Dear Mr. Willie Lynch

We are Sad to inform you that your devious plan of infecting distrust and Envy into the hearts and minds of African Slaves has succeeded. It is the year two thousand eight and they have yet to unite as a people. These people have yet to figure out how to pull their resources together and reclaim their dignity let alone their human rights. They constantly capitalize on themselves to the point of murdering each other. The Entire Planet capitalizes on them because they are nothing more than consumers, feeding on our slop (the reign of selfishness ends).

However, There Are a Few Who have seen the light and are awakening the minds of the people at a rapid pace. They are Reconstructing the minds and spirit of the people to the higher truths of love, unity and godliness. Through art, one focuses on creating rather destroying and the better they become at harnessing creative habits the easier it is to expose negative ones- and let go of them.
The Obituary

Reliefs, Drawings (October 11 - 28, 2007)
by Amanda Branson
chashama Gallery Space, 217 East 42nd Street
FREE and open to the public.

Amanda Branson: Reliefs Drawings includes two new bodies of work, focusing on new materials for the artist, as well as reliefs the artist has been exhibiting for more than two years. All of the abstract images and forms in Amanda's work are based on various species of trees native to the northwest corner of Connecticut. Amanda uses a combination of construction and fine art materials. One body of new work, entitled drawing Landscape, consists of ink drawings on painted MDF panels. Another new body of work on view, entitled drawing terrain, is drawings made with pharmaceutical grade beeswax on plexi glass. The reliefs are joint compound on wood panels with latex paint. Amanda graduated from Maine College of Art in 2002 and lives in Connecticut. about the exhibit

The Chrome Warrior (October 11 - 13, 2007)
Written by: Teddy Stevies
Directed by: Matthew Hancock
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY
myspace.com/thechromewarrior
presented by the Sum of Us Theater Company
Equity approved showcase

To Be Titled - An Interactive Playdate (October 6 - 25, 2007)
by Zhenesse
chashama Time Square @ 112 W.44th Street

To Be Titled is an interactive playdate created by Zhenesse with special guest hosts nightly at chashama's 112 West 44th Street gallery (between Sixth Avenue and Broadway), October 6th – 25th, 2007, Thursday – Monday, 9PM-1AM. Zhenesse plays the role of "Blandie," a living doll housed inside the "Blandie Mansion" – your playground to dress up and manipulate Blandie to your heart's desire. about "To Be Titled"
When Toys R Us closes for the night "Blandie," comes alive in her pink doll box and awaits your arrival. Once inside, the Blandie Mansion Manager will introduce you to your tools of play including the couture closet, prop box, and coiffure line. After you style your Blandie you take her to the fashion shoot photo studio and immortalize her image.

To Be Titled casts the audience in the role of image stylist, and presents a meditation on fashion, still image, personal identity, and role-play. The audience will enter individually or in a group of up to four people. Feel free to bring your own items to the Blandie Mansion to create your ideal image. All images created will be documented. A catalogue of images from the show with their creation documentation will be released in January 2008.

Furthering the growth of an interconnected community of New York City artists, guest hosts join To Be Titled from the worlds of burlesque, multi media arts, street art, music, drag, and more. The guest hosts fill the roles of Door Liaison & Mansion Management. Featured hosts scheduled for playdates are Julie Altas Muz, Tigger, Kate Valentine, Glenn Marla, Geo Wyeth, Sharon Husband, Logan Hardcore, Epiphany, Acid Betty, Grace Les, Edible Dazzle, Machine Dazzle, Neal Medlyn, C. Damage, Celso, Sujin Lee, Lukki, and others to be announced. Full schedule of hosts available by email at me@zhenesse.com.
more about the show
Devoted to creating Live Lobby Art environments for the public Zhenesse regularly brings a little bit of downtown to mid- and uptown's unsuspecting audiences. Her artwork blends an interest in the performance of everyday life, community interaction, and pop culture sociology into a form that is firmly rooted in the visual engagement of fine art styles while also physically provoking the audience with the stunning effect of liveness.

Zhenesse has presented interactive performance installations and Live Lobby Art at Galapagos, P.S. 122, The Slipper Room, New York University, CUNY, The Red Room, the Deitch Art Parade, Collective:Unconscious, the Scope Art Fair, and at a number of chashama's friendly venues. Zhenesse is currently the co-curator for the Midnight Art Series #2-Performance.
about Zhenesse
Funding for this project has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

The Third Annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour (October 6 & 7, 2007)
a weekend walking tour of artist studios and galleries in historic Harlem
featuring: Harlem HOAST OPEN STUDIOS & GALLERY461 GROUP EXHIBITION
chashama's gallery @ 461 West 126th Street
12PM - 5PM, FREE and open to the public.

Route 215 (October 3 - 14, 2007)
An interactive performance installation presented by Sang Bin Park
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
FREE and open to the public.
On view: Mon-Sun 10a - 5p; Inside view: Fri-Sun 10a-5p or by appointment
Artist reception: October 3rd, 6-9p
bin1002@gmail.com

The Attendants (October 1 - 6, 2007)
An interactive performance installation presented by T H E  N E R V E  T A N K, a division of LIVE Theater Company
chashama performance window, 217 E.42nd Street
FREE and open to the public.
www.LIVETheater.4t.com

chashama visual arts open studios (September 29 - 30, 2007)
featuring work by Artists-in-Residence at our 57th Street Studios:
820-838 12th Avenue
(between 57th and 58th Streets)
featuring: Kevin Auzenne * Brent Birnbaum * Bibi Calderaro * Kate O'Donovan Cook * Katherine Daniels * Ryan Frank * Jose Landoni * Numyi Lee * Danny Licul * Colin McMullan * Jasmine Murrell * Huong Ngoc Ngo * Linda Nicholas * Sang Bin Park * Alejandro Almanza Pereda * Lauren Portada * Michael Portnoy * Dean Radinovsky * Duke Riley * Christopher Rose * Carolyn Salas * Harriet Salmon * Mio Shirai * Adam Parker Smith * Celso Trevino
FREE and open to the public.
Funding for chashama's Visual Arts program has been made possible, in part, by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

META-MAJESTY (September 28 - October 21, 2007)
a group exhibit curated by Tracy Candido
at Explosivo/chashama, 169 Avenue C at 11th Street
www.explosivoartshow.com
featuring: Diane Barcelowsky, Dana Carlson, Kate Clark, Jennifer Coates, William Crump, Leslie Miller, Naomi Reis, Saviour Scraps, Jessie Rose Vala.
FREE
and open to the public.
A special event for META-MAJESTY is scheduled for Friday, October 12th at 8pm featuring a live music performance by FOREST FIRE.

The Score (September 18 - 29, 2007)
Choreography and installation by Sera-Kim Huenergard
at chashama performance window
266 West 37th Street
FREE and open to the public.

The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back (September 13 - 30, 2007)
Eleven Australian playwrights. One island nation.
chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street
(Equity Approved Showcase)

*Actors appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
+Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, a national independent labor union

Focus: The Art of Service (September 10 - 29, 2007)
an exhibition by the documentary photographer Nancy Konipol
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
Opening Reception: Monday September 10, 6-9pm
FREE and open to the public.
Focus: The Art of Service exhibits Konipol's photographs spanning the last five years which chronicle her work and relationships with New York City's social services community, from the city’s soup kitchens to Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn.

Simple Yet Complex (September 7-9 & 13-16, 2007)
mixed media paintings by Elaine R. Defibaugh
chashama, 461 West 126th Street
Opening Reception: September 7, 6-9PM
FREE and open to the public.
Past works & bio on the artists' website: www.elainedefibaugh.com

supported by collectiveP.A.S.T. and chashama, The 24Seven Lab presents:
Odile's Ordeal (September 7, 2007)
by Lucas Hnath, part of the reading series "The 25th Hour".
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Directed by Linsay Firman.
Featuring: Sean Dougherty, Edith Freni & Ralph Pochoda.
literary@24sevenlab.com
www.24sevenlab.com

supported by collectiveP.A.S.T. and chashama, The 24Seven Lab presents:
Latham Prince (September 6, 2007)
by Ashlin Halfnight, part of the reading series "The 25th Hour".
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Performances ongoing throughout the day between 1-6p, free and open to the public during any portion.
Directed by Rick DesRochers Featuring: Polly Adams, Brian Coffey, Maria Dizzia, Albert Jones, Robert LaVelle & Trevor Long.
literary@24sevenlab.com
www.24sevenlab.com

supported by collectiveP.A.S.T. at chashama
NEW ACQUISITION (September 6-8, 2007)
WHAT: FREE performances in conjunction with the launch of the first issue of New Acquisition.
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Performances ongoing throughout the day between 1-6p, free and open to the public during any portion.
Featuring Alexis Clements, writer and playwright; Dyana Kimball, director; Beth Royer, poet; Julia Vallera, artist and illustrator.
You can read more about the project at www.newacquisition.org
also at www.omfm.org
Funding for this project has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity. -Susan Sontag

New Acquisition is a series of free literary pamphlets—brief pamphlets filled with writing and art focused on a variety of themes. Design inspiration and themes for each issue are drawn from early and contemporary American religious and political pamphlets.

The theme for its first issue of New Acquisition is Your Own Personal Apocalypse. Inspired by perhaps the most enduring subject of American pamphlets, Your Own Personal Apocalypse considers the peculiar American pastime of worrying that the world as we know it is coming to an end very soon.

In conjunction with the launch of the first issue of New Acquisition the group is mounting a performance and installation from 1:00-6:00 pm from September 6-8 at the 217 East 42nd Street space of Chashama. In addition, excerpts of the performance of Your Own Personal Apocalypse will be featured in the One Million Forgotten Moments project, running twice every evening from September 11-15 at 38 park Row. For more information about this event visit www.omfm.org .

During the performances audience members and passers-by will enter the world of a pamphleteer and amateur chicken-farmer who hopes to prepare all those she meets for the coming of their own personal apocalypse. The performance will feature chickens, video, art, people, and propaganda galore. There will be plenty of opportunities for the audience to be entertained, perplexed and forewarned.
more about the event

T h e  O r w e l l  D o c t r i n e (September 5 - 13, 2007)
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
an installation by Darryl Hell
indoor exhibition open 8:52am to 7pm on Sept 11th
FREE and open to the public
S6K Media
www.s6k.com

Committing that Black on Black Crime Called BLACKFACE:
Shock and Awe with a Political Aftertaste
(August 16 - 31, 2007)
Performance by Kanene Holder
Direction by Aixa Kendrick
Multi-Media Montage by Ron Jackson
& Soundscapist Oja (Sunchild Productions/Earthdriver)
chashama performance window, 266 West 37th Street
SITCHAASSDOWN
www.sitchaassdown.com
http://myspace.com/blackfacecrime

Inside the Storefront (August 15 & 16, 2007)
an installation by Svetlana Rabey
chashama Project Exhibition Studio @ 159 West 119th Street
Open Studio: Wednesday August 15th 1-5pm; Thursday, August 16th, 2-7pm.

Visual Art Exhibition (August 13 - 31, 2007)
Featuring the work of Rusty Zimmerman (who created the Ateh graphic for "Long Distance" see www.ateh.org) plus other artists to be named.
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Exhibit hours: Mon-Fri 1-3pm

Becca and Heidi (August 12-15, & 19-22nd, 2007 )
by Sharon Eberhardt
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
performed by Lindsay Anderson

Televised Confession (August 10 - 14, 2007)
Created and Performed by Stephanie Vella
chashama Performance Window, 266 West 37th Street
Video installation on view throughout.

Long Distance (August 9 - September 1, 2007)
presented The Ateh Theater Group
Based on three stories by Judy Budnitz
Adapted by Bridgette Dunlap
Directed by Bridgette Dunlap and Alexis Grausz
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street

DISCUSSIONS ON THE U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (August 9, 2007)
by Rebecca Sommer
Video clips of the Work-In-Progress awareness-raising film. (This is the version as it was screened May 14, 2007 - at the opening day of the 6th session of the PFII, at the United Nations Headquarters.)
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
To watch Quicktime Video Clips: http://www.rebeccasommer.org/

Displacement (August 7 - 23, 2007)
a group exhibit curated by John Bowman
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
Opening Reception: Saturday, Aug.11th 6-9PM

Orpheus and Eurydice (August 2 - 5, 2007)
directed by Kelly Hanson
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street

Bialystok/Brooklyn (July 24 - 26, 2007)
an installation and performance by Jonathan Zalben
chashama gallery @ 112 West 44th Street
www.jonathanzalben.com

"THE CHALK BOY" (July 18 - 29, 2007)
written and directed by Joshua Conkel
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Closing Reception Friday, July 20, 6-8pm
A presentation by collectiveP.A.S.T.@chashama 217 of The Management's premiere of a new play.
Featuring: Mallery Avidon, Mary Catherine Donnelly, Jennifer Harder, and Courtney Sale.
www.managementcompany.org

Empty Spot (July 17 - 27, 2007)
Choreography and direction by Rachel Bernsen
chashama Performance Window, 266 West 37th Street
Empty Spot combines elements of visual art and performance, as it presents different kinds of live action inside a consciously artificial landscape. The piece examines how the viewer's perception of time is affected by both long periods of stillness and also continual, sometimes methodical movement. In stillness, bodies create an alluring architecture, subtly shifting and relocating. In movement, the performers test the boundaries of their environment, creating obscure yet compelling narratives.

Rachel Bernsen is a dance artist originally from Minneapolis, now based in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown at Dance Theater Workshop, Issue Project Room, Dixon Place, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Aqui the Bushwick, The Brick Theater, and Deitch Projects. She was a 2005/06 Fresh Tracks Artist-in-Residence at Dance Theater Workshop and will be a 2007 Fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California. Bernsen has collaborated extensively with composer and performer Taylor Ho Bynum; they have performed regionally throughout New York and New England, and internationally in Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin and Cologne, Germany. Bernsen has also danced with RoseAnne Spradlin, Juliette Mapp, Risa Jaroslow, Urban Bush Women, Stephanie Tack, and Nancy Forshaw-Clapp, among others. From 2002-2006 she performed and toured nationally and internationally with the performance artists/electro-clash group Fischerspooner, and can be seen in their videos "Emerge", "Just Let Go", and "Never Win". In Minneapolis, Bernsen worked with some of the area's most noted choreographers, such as Morgan Thorson, Wynn Fricke, Baraka De Soleil, Djola Branner, and Leah Nelson, and for two years she performed in "Foxy Tann's Superior Lounge", a weekly theatre and cabaret show written and directed by Heather Wilson. She has an MFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in English Literature from Macalester College. She is currently in training to become an Alexander Teacher at the American Center for the Alexander Technique in NYC. about the artist

OASIS 2007 (July 16 - 27, 2007)
a free festival of movement and dance
chashama, 217 East 42nd Street
Monday - Friday at 12-1PM & 5:30-6:30PM
OASIS 2007 schedule

"Space Stories" (July 14 - July 20, 2007)
Curated by Hope Hilton
chashama gallery + project space, 112 West 44th Street
Closing Reception Friday, July 20, 6-8pm.
FREE and open to the public.

Limited Edition (July 12 - July 22, 2007)
by chashama artist-in-residence Tim Roda
at chashama Gallery: 461 West 126th Street (Harlem)
Opening Reception: Thursday July 12, 6-9pm
FREE and open to the public.
Show is Courtesy of Gasser & Grunert, New York. 212.807.9494
The Artist is also represented by Art Agents Gallery, www.artagents.de, Germany, and by Greg Kucera Gallery, www.gregkucera.com/roda.htm, Seattle, Washington.

Tim Roda creates gritty black and white images that are fraught with tension- between individuals and within their public lives and private selves. In his photographs, documentary and fictive impulses don't so much intersect as blur. Using himself and his wife and son as actors and subjects in his elaborately staged work, he positions the family unit–– its mythologies and iconography––as the root of community. It's a seemingly closed circuit with a ripple effect of public implications where private meanings freight all other interactions.

Roda has sited Roy DeCarava as an influence. The Harlem-born photographer lived there through many decades, befriended many of the prominent black artists, musicians and writers active at the time, and chronicled the lives of neighborhood residents. DeCarava began working as a painter and commercial illustrator, and many of his early photographs were meant only as reference for prints. He was drawn to photography by "the directness of the medium". Roda studied ceramics but was also drawn to photography, using clay and sculptural elements in the elaborate and encoded sets for his work. He was inspired by the multiplicity of photography––its directness and the bending of it into ambiguity.

The imagery in Roda's work stages working-class ethics, family traditions, and childhood memories as fragmented narratives. They are rife with mystery, melancholy, and possibility. Some are drawn from moments of personal significance, but all are enacted with universal implication. The rough-hewn and cluttered sets he creates are reflections of places from memory, like many photographs, but his overlay several memories onto one scenario. The multiples embody lineage and multitudes, of seeing different things in the same face and the same thing in different faces. - Nate Lippens – 2007
about the artist

Site-Specific Sundays (July 8 – July 29, 2007)
presented in association with Summer on the Hudson at Riverside Park South
at Red Shade Plaza, Riverside Park South
Closing Reception Friday, July 20, 6-8pm
Performances at 3pm & 5pm All Sundays
FREE and open to the public.

This is chashama's second year presenting Site-Specific Sundays as part of Summer on the Hudson, an annual outdoor festival of cultural and community events presented in Riverside Park South through the City of New York's Parks and Recreation Department (www.nycparks.gov).

Summer on the Hudson is a free summer-long arts festival that presents a diverse mix of music concerts, dance performances, movies under the stars, DJ dance parties, family programs, special events, and wellness activities.

Portraits (artists working uptown) (July 6 – July 8, 2007)
an installation by Megan Metcalf
at chashama Project Exhibition Studio
159 West 119th Street
(at Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard)
Open Studio: Friday July 6, 7-9PM, Saturday July 7, 1-4PM, Sunday July 8, 1-4PM
FREE and open to the public.
www.meganmetcalf.com

Meat Market (July 5 – July 12, 2007)
by Christina Massey
chashama, 112 West 44th Street
Opening Reception: Friday July 6th 6-8 PM

The Bubulinos' Best Bestows 2007 (June 27 – July 1, 2007)
(The BBB by Bubi)
A performance installation written & directed by Roi "Bubi" Escudero
chashama window space @chashama gallery, 112 West 44th Street
Performance daily at 7:30PM; Reception June 30, 7:00PM.
FREE and open to the public.
Bubi's retrospective installation brings together multidimensional poetic imagery using text, music, environmental sound and projections, joined by the theme of 'the ocean':
"The ocean, now and forever, binds each element of our world together. The ocean is a silent but devoted audience to both laugh and scream, embrace and struggle, an impartial eye to sorrow, joy, horror, ecstasy. The ocean is the tireless narrator to all that was, all that we see, and all that will be." - Andy Chmelko

Roi Escudero, known as "Bubi", is a conceptual-performance artist, dramatist, and director of new media theatre and performance art-cinema™, She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her French, Italian and Spanish background exposed her to different cultures. Bubi's work is based in multiculturalism, ethics, and aesthetics. Its objective is to provoke thought and to promote cultural and creative integration through the evolution of new media, performance-art, physical theatre and dynamic entertainment. In the USA Bubi conceived, designed and directed more than fifty performance-art pieces, media-theatre concepts and multimedia video installations for museums, art galleries, cultural events for patrons of the arts, educational institutions and theatre festivals, including her virtual-plays: Bubulinos' Dreams Series. Bubi's works appeared at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Los Angeles County Museum Gallery (LACMA), the Fringe-NYC and the MITF. Bubi's plays After Charlie, La Playa and what@trip! appeared at the New York Musical Theater Festival in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Currently, Bubi lives in NYC, and leads ETdC Projects' Performance Art-Cinema™ & New Media-Theatre Experimental Lab. The artist uses her unique method in guiding the performers during its process. The Lab is committed to developing a non-structured new media-art-theatre and video and supports a collaborative production-based learning environment focused on creating inventive, cutting-edge narrative projects. It addresses cultural, environmental, historical, and social issues and exposes the consequences of our behavior and actions in society. The lab projects are considered works-in-progress and are continually evolving with different guest artists and apprentices until presented as a comprehensive production. Bubi's Lab is a proud member of the New York Indie Theater movement. about "Bubi"

Art is Who You Know (June 25 – July 5, 2007)
by Christina Massey
chashama window space @266 W.37th Street
Opening Reception: Friday June 29th, 6-8PM
FREE and open to the public.
   Have you ever gotten a job, apartment, or been accepted into a program due to the recommendation of a friend? This interactive installation takes a bold move at defining Art as exactly that, simply who you know.

Music (June 18 - 29, 2007)
written and directed by Ben Wood
at chashama, 217 E.42nd St
Open workshop performances June 18th thru the 29th, noon - 6pm Mon thru Fri, (except of Wednesday the 27th).

readings of four new plays (June 18 - 27, 2007)
presented by The Sum Of Us Theatre Company
in association with collectiveP.A.S.T. @chashama
at chashama, 217 E.42nd St
alums by Jordan Lage / Monday, June 18
jem & i by Ron Fitzgerald / Tuesday, June 19
lunchtime by Greg Kotis* / Wednesday, June 20
page one romance by James C. Ferguson & Jason Dobin / Wednesday, June 27
*(author of Urinetown: The Musical!)

Dark of the Moon (June 15 - July 8, 2007)
written by Howard Richardson & William Berney
Directed by Ian Crawford
Supported by collectiveP.A.S.T. @chashama
chashama, 217 E.42nd St
www.thirstyturtle.org

Help / Hope / Word / Image (June 8 - 23, 2007)
by Jeanne Marie Wasilik
at 112 West 44th Street
Reception held on Thursday, June 14, 6 – 8 pm
jmw@accesshub.net

TRIFECTA: a festival of new work (June 7 - 10, 2007)
produced by Jennifer Shipp
@ chashama theater, 217 East 42nd Street
, free admission.
www.pl115.org
www.sponsoredbynobody.com
www.dramaofworks.com
made possible in part with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (www.nea.gov)

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